US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Feb. 4 for "Board connecting connector" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,448, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Board connecting connector" was invented by Tetsuya Miyamura (Mie, Japan), Daisuke Saito (Mie, Japan), Yutaka Kobayashi (Mie, Japan) and Masanori Moriyasu (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector is provided with a connecting member including a contact point portion, a housing for holding the connecting member and a protecting member displaceable with respect to the connecting member to a protection position for protecting the contact point po...