US Patent Issued to YAZAKI on Sept. 1 for "Fusible link unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 1 -- United States Patent no. 12,725,749, issued on Sept. 1, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Fusible link unit" was invented by Tatsuya Mochizuki (Makinohara, Japan) and Kenichi Tanuma (Makinohara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fusible link unit includes: a lower cover being latched to a battery to be movable in a long side direction and being attached to the battery; a fusible link including a fusible portion that fuses when a current supplied from the battery is an overcurrent, that is latched to the lower cover to be movable in a short side direction intersecting the long side direction, and that is attached to the lower cover; and a battery terminal ...