US Patent Issued to KOITO MANUFACTURING on Sept. 22 for "Actuator and on-vehicle device using same" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,741,584, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to KOITO MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Actuator and on-vehicle device using same" was invented by Takahiro Totsuka (Shizuoka, Japan), Yuichi Watano (Shizuoka, Japan) and Takashi Terayama (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An actuator includes an input member, a first output member, a second output member, and a power transmission switching unit. The power transmission switching unit establishes a first connection state in which the first output member rotates forward/backward in line with forward/backward rotation of the input member in a first state, establishes a second connect...