US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Dec. 30 for "Connector with nested spring members" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,616, 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 nested spring members" was invented by Seido Nishijima (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A second terminal (14) of a second connector is provided with a first spring member (23) including a pair of first spring pieces (26) facing each other, and a second spring member (24) including a pair of second spring pieces (41) for sandwiching the pair of first spring pieces (26). The pair of second spring pieces (41) apply pressing forces t...