US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Jan. 20 for "Connector with sliding circumferentially rotating inner housing" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,364, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Connector with sliding circumferentially rotating inner housing" was invented by Shinji Nozaki (Mie, Japan) and Daisuke Saito (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is aimed to provide a connector capable of reducing cost. A connector (10) is provided with an outer housing (20), an inner housing (60) arranged movably in an advance/retreat direction with respect to the outer housing (20), a terminal (80) held in the inner housing (60), a tip part of...