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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,614, 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).

"Surface mount connector" was invented by Hiroki Kobayashi (Mie, Japan) and Shinji Nozaki (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A surface mount connector 10 is to be mounted on a circuit board 5 having a vertical direction set as a plate thickness direction, and provided with a plurality of terminals 20 and a housing 30 for accommodating the plurality of terminals 20 in parallel. Leads 23 to be connected to the circuit board 5 are provided in lower en...