US Patent Issued to MORIROKU on Oct. 6 for "Storage device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,752,689, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to MORIROKU Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Storage device" was invented by Takafumi Wakabayashi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A storage device includes a support shaft for supporting the lid to the container such that the lid can open and close relative to the container, a torsion spring for biasing the lid in a direction to open the lid, and a cylindrical cover that surrounds an outer peripheral surface of a coil of the torsion spring. The torsion spring includes a first arm and a second arm. The second arm can be engaged with the container when the container, the lid and the support shaft are in the a...