US Patent Issued to HI-LEX on July 14 for "Reciprocal movement device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,680,351, issued on July 14, was assigned to HI-LEX Corp. (Takarazuka, Japan).

"Reciprocal movement device" was invented by Sho Yoshida (Hyogo, Japan) and Shohei Tanaka (Hyogo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A forward/backward movement device includes: a case; a forward/backward member; a biasing member that biases the forward/backward member; a moving member that is housed in the case and moves between a first position where the forward/backward member is capable of moving forward by a biasing force generated by the biasing member and a second position where the forward movement of the forward/backward member is stopped; and a rest...