US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS on May 19 for "Grommet and grommet-equipped wire harnesses" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,434, issued on May 19, was assigned to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan).

"Grommet and grommet-equipped wire harnesses" was invented by Kanji Zamami (Yokkaichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A grommet including: a tube into which an electric wire can be inserted, wherein: a corrugated tube covers the electric wire, the tube extends so as to have a length in an axial direction thereof, the tube includes: a fastener provided in a portion of the tube in the axial direction and to which a binding band is fastened from an outer periphery of the fastener with the corrugated tube being inserted thereinto; and protrusions that ...