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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,627, 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).

"Shield connector" was invented by Hiroyoshi Maesoba (Osaka, Japan) and Toshifumi Ichio (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is aimed to prevent the rattling of a shield terminal in a housing. A shield connector is provided with a shield terminal (20) configured such that an inner conductor (21) and a dielectric (23) are surrounded by an outer conductor (24), and a housing (10) for accommodating the shield terminal (20). The housing (10) include...