US Patent Issued to MINEBEA ACCESSSOLUTIONS on Oct. 6 for "Vehicle door handle device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,631, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to MINEBEA ACCESSSOLUTIONS INC. (Miyazaki, Japan).

"Vehicle door handle device" was invented by Seiji Kawamura (Miyazaki, Japan) and Tadashi Saito (Miyazaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle door handle device includes a handle case including a hole, a cylinder lock unit disposed facing the hole and configured to switch a door lock device between a locked state and an unlocked state, a cover member pivotably supported by the handle case and configured to switch between a covered state of covering a keyhole of the cylinder lock unit and an exposed state of exposing the keyhole by pivoti...