US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Aug. 12 for "Press-fit terminal and connector device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,203, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Press-fit terminal and connector device" was invented by Takuya Yamanaka (Yokkaichi, Japan), Tetsuya Ito (Yokkaichi, Japan), Toshikazu Sakurai (Yokkaichi, Japan), Takashi Tonosaki (Yokkaichi, Japan), Tetsuya Shinozaki (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Shigeki Shimada (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A press-fit terminal includes a press-fit portion including two contact pieces facing each other with an eyehole interposed therebetween, where each of the t...