US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Dec. 30 for "Connector" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,620, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Connector" was invented by Tomoyuki Nagai (Mie, Japan) and Akihiro Nishitani (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is aimed to prevent a resilient displacement of a lock arm from being hindered while achieving a height reduction. A connector (A) is provided with a connector housing (20) and a lock arm (25) extending rearward along an outer surface of the connector housing (20). A deflection allowance space (30) for enabling the lock arm (25) to be...