US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Feb. 25 for "Connector" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,638, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Connector" was invented by Yorikazu Murabayashi (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Suguru Yamagishi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Resonance between outer conductors is prevented. A connector includes: a plurality of shield terminals each having an inner conductor surrounded by an outer conductor; and a resonance restriction member that restricts resonance between the shield terminals by connecting the outer conductors to each other and holding the oute...