US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Dec. 16 for "Connector-equipped wire and connector housing" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,365, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Connector-equipped wire and connector housing" was invented by Yoshitaka Ikeda (Mie, Japan), Kosuke Sone (Mie, Japan), Tomoyuki Kondo (Mie, Japan), Naomichi Kawashima (Mie, Japan) and Yutaro Yoshida (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The connector-equipped wire includes: a terminal-equipped wire that includes a coated wire and a terminal component provided at an end portion of the coated wire; and a connector housing that includes a main body compo...