US Patent Issued to YAZAKI on Oct. 6 for "Fixing structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,753,784, issued on Oct. 6, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Fixing structure" was invented by Yoshimichi Yamao (Toyota, Japan), Satoshi Yokoyama (Toyota, Japan) and Masayoshi Ogawa (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing structure includes: a main body through which a stud bolt is inserted from one side toward the other side in an axial direction; a pair of first locking pieces locked to a bolt groove of the stud bolt inserted through the main body; a pair of second locking pieces locked to the bolt groove of the stud bolt inserted through the main body; and a pair of deflection amount regulators contactable with the ...