US Patent Issued to YAZAKI on July 7 for "Terminal cover and covered terminal" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,676,430, issued on July 7, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Terminal cover and covered terminal" was invented by Yutaro Okazaki (Kakegawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal cover includes a base member, a lid member, a center-side locking mechanism, a tip-side locking mechanism, and a guide mechanism. In the tip-side locking mechanism, in a case where a tip-side hook part is displaced with respect to a tip-side claw part in an axial direction when the base member and the lid member are rotated along a rotation direction to be combined, the tip-side hook part interferes with the guide mechanism. The center-side locking ...