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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,617, 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 with correcting portion for lock arm" was invented by Tetsuya Miyamura (Mie, Japan), Shinji Nozaki (Mie, Japan), Daisuke Saito (Mie, Japan) and Hideto Nakamura (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is aimed to satisfactorily correct the position of a lock arm. A connector (1) is provided with a first housing (10), female terminal fittings (27) to be inserted into the first housing (10) from behind, a second housing (50) to be connected t...