US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on July 15 for "Connection structure for flexible printed board and method for manufacturing flexible printed board unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,362,525, issued on July 15, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Connection structure for flexible printed board and method for manufacturing flexible printed board unit" was invented by Shinji Nozaki (Mie, Japan) and Kenji Makino (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is aimed to provide a connection structure for flexible printed board and a method for manufacturing a flexible printed board unit, which are hardly affected by dimensional tolerances between adjacent contacts and capable of preventing a size incr...