ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,636, 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 device capable of suppressing increase in projection area of board-side connector" was invented by Shinji Tanaka (Mie, Japan) and Yutaka Kobayashi (Mie, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is aimed to reduce a projection area of a board-side connector on a mounting surface of a circuit board. A connector device (A) is provided with a board-side connector (10), a mating connector (30) facing the board-side connector (10), an adapter (40) rock...