ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,442,233, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Open-and-close structure for cap and charging connector" was invented by Tomokazu Iwami (Kakegawa, Japan) and Yoshinobu Furuya (Kakegawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An open-and-close structure 1A for a cap includes a housing 2, a cap 3 rotatably supported on the housing 2, and a biasing member 43 configured to apply a biasing force near a rotation shaft 42 of the cap 3, wherein open position-maintaining means configured to maintain the cap 3 at an open position by a biasing force of the biasing member 43 and reaction force application means configured to apply a...