US Patent Issued to YAZAKI on July 14 for "Sealing member, wire harness provided with sealing member, connector provided with sealing member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,321, issued on July 14, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Sealing member, wire harness provided with sealing member, connector provided with sealing member" was invented by Ryosuke Nishi (Shizuoka, Japan), Masafumi Nakayasu (Shizuoka, Japan) and Hiroki Gotou (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A sealing member includes at least one sealing material made from an elastic material, and a high rigidity material provided as a single body with the at least one sealing material and having a rigidity higher than a rigidity of the at least one sealing material."

The patent was filed on Nov. 15, 2023, under Application No. 18...