US Patent Issued to YAZAKI on Feb. 24 for "Waterproof terminal block" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,562,523, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Waterproof terminal block" was invented by Yasuhiro Tanaka (Shizuoka, Japan), Yasuhiro Otsuta (Shizuoka, Japan), Masatoshi Yamada (Shizuoka, Japan), Shogo Furui (Shizuoka, Japan), Yusuke Tsutagawa (Shizuoka, Japan) and Jun Sugioka (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A waterproof terminal block includes a housing, a plurality of terminals configured to be inserted into and attached to the plurality of terminal insertion holes of the housing, a packing, and a holder fitted into a holder configured to be assembled to the housing and hold the packing. The housing ...