US Patent Issued to Amphenol East Asia Ltd. (Hong Kong) on Dec. 16 for "Electrical connector with segments having different widths" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,379, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to Amphenol East Asia Ltd. (Hong Kong) (Kowloon, Hong Kong).

"Electrical connector with segments having different widths" was invented by Lo-Wen (Joan) Lu (Taoyuan, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, metal terminals, and a shell surrounding the housing. Contact portions of the metal terminals are exposed in openings of the housing and are arranged to contact conductive portions of a mating connector when the electrical connector and the mating connector are mated. The shell includes a first portion having a first length and a first width, ...