US Patent Issued to YAZAKI, ShinMaywa Industries on Oct. 27 for "Vehicle charging system" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 27 -- United States Patent no. 12,773,916, issued on Oct. 27, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo) and ShinMaywa Industries Ltd. (Hyogo, Japan).

"Vehicle charging system" was invented by Yukinari Naganishi (Susono, Japan), Koji Ikegaya (Susono, Japan), Takashi Shiroki (Susono, Japan), Hajime Ojiro (Takarazuka, Japan) and Masahiro Namba (Takarazuka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A vehicle charging system includes a main body fixed to a floor part of a vehicle stop space, a slide body slidable in a first direction relative to the main body, a connector unit including arms and a connector to be connected to the vehicle to charge, a first cover that covers the arms fr...