US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Sept. 16 for "Connection module" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,078, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan), SUMITOMO ELECTRIC PRINTED CIRCUITS INC. (Shiga, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Aichi, Japan).

"Connection module" was invented by Hideo Takahashi (Mie, Japan), Shinichi Takase (Mie, Japan), Hiroki Shimoda (Mie, Japan), Kouichi Nagamine (Toyota, Japan), Masayuki Ueda (Toyota, Japan), Yoshifumi Uchita (Shiga-ken, Japan) and Takayuki Tsumagari (Koka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connection module includes a FPC, bus bars connected to the FPC and con...