US Patent Issued to NISSAN MOTOR, HI-LEX ACT on June 30 for "Door latch device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,669,001, issued on June 30, was assigned to NISSAN MOTOR Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan) and HI-LEX ACT Corp. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Door latch device" was invented by Kazunori Takahashi (Kanagawa, Japan), Katsuhiko Taniguchi (Kanagawa, Japan), Tsuyoshi Matsunaga (Kanagawa, Japan) and Takuya Shinohara (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door latch device includes an open link and a ratchet lever. The open link includes: a lever body; an inertia lever; and a release biasing member. Further, the inertia lever is capable of transmitting an operating force to the ratchet lever only when the door handle is opened when the lever body is ...