US Patent Issued to MURATA MANUFACTURING on Sept. 1 for "Case and seal" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,727,103, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to MURATA MANUFACTURING Co. LTD. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Case and seal" was invented by Yasuhiro Shimizu (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Kiyoyuki Nakagawa (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 discharge the electronic components accommodated in the accommodation space, a shutter slidable relative to the case body to open and close the discharge port, a slider integral with the shutter to perform a slide operation of the shutter, and an operation opening in the case body to expose ...