US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Feb. 10 for "Terminal unit, female terminal and male terminal" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,933, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Terminal unit, female terminal and male terminal" was invented by Yusuke Yamada (Mie, Japan) and Katsuhiko Aizawa (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a terminal unit, a second contact portion of a female terminal includes a push-up protrusion projecting toward a first contact portion and a pair of first projecting contact point portions, to be respectively brought into contact with a pair of inclined portions, of a male terminal. The male termin...