US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on April 1 for "Terminal and wire with terminal" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,897, issued on April 1, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Terminal and wire with terminal" was invented by Shunya Takeuchi (Mie, Japan) and Hajime Kawase (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal to be connected to a front end part of a wire in an extending direction is provided with a terminal body for sandwiching the wire, and a slide member slidable with respect to the terminal body along the extending direction of the wire. The terminal body is formed by a worked metal plate material and includes...