US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on June 23 for "Case and method of using case" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,661,697, issued on June 23, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Case and method of using case" was invented by Kiyoyuki Nakagawa (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Mitsuru Ikeda (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A case includes a case body including an accommodation space to accommodate electronic components and a discharge port to accommodate in and discharge the electronic components from the accommodation space, and a shutter slidable in the case body to open and close the discharge port. The case body includes an inner rear wall portion defining the accommodation space. The inner rear wall portion incl...