US Patent Issued to MAZDA MOTOR on June 2 for "Connection structure of wire harness" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,492, issued on June 2, was assigned to MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"Connection structure of wire harness" was invented by Ikuo Usami (Aki-gun, Japan) and Akihiro Furukawa (Aki-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connection structure of a wire harness enables the wire harness to be severed in the event of a vehicle collision. End portions of electric wires are respectively provided with connection end portions in which conductors of the end portions have been subjected to fusing processing, the connection end portion has an extension portion and a protruding portion, the protruding portion is at least partially provid...