US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Aug. 26 for "Connector including shield member and lock portion" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,401,162, issued on Aug. 26, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Connector including shield member and lock portion" was invented by Kazuki Hiramatsu (Mie, Japan), Taiga Kadoyama (Mie, Japan), Hidekazu Matsuda (Mie, Japan) and Masanao Yamashita (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector 10 is provided with an outer conductor 20, a plurality of dielectrics 19 to be accommodated into the outer conductor 20, inner conductors 18 to be mounted into the respective dielectrics 19, a shield member 25 to be arrang...