US Patent Issued to U-SHIN on Sept. 8 for "Door latch device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,729,569, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to U-SHIN LTD. (Nagano, Japan).

"Door latch device" was invented by Munehiro Yoshimoto (Hiroshima, Japan) and Yuki Higashibata (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A door latch device includes a base having an insertion groove, a fork pivotally supported by a fork shaft on one side of the insertion groove 14d, a claw pivotally supported by a claw shaft on the other side of the insertion groove, an opening lever disposed in a manner spaced apart from the claw in an axial direction of the claw shaft, and a driving mechanism for rotating the opening lever. After the opening lever is rotat...