US Patent Issued to MITSUI KINZOKU ACT on June 2 for "Opening/closing device for vehicle sliding-window panel" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,643,377, issued on June 2, was assigned to MITSUI KINZOKU ACT Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Opening/closing device for vehicle sliding-window panel" was invented by Mohammad Numan Alam (Yokohama, Japan), Kyle Ellsworth (Yokohama, Japan) and Makoto Kaburaki (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An opening/closing device for a vehicle sliding-window panel, includes a sliding-window panel opening and closing an opening part provided in a vehicle body, upper and lower guide rails to support the sliding-window panel to slide, and a slide driving mechanism fixed to one guide rail either the upper or lower guide rail. The slide driving mec...