US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on July 22 for "Connector device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,254, issued on July 22, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Connector device" was invented by Yasunori Asano (Mie, Japan) and Yutaka Kobayashi (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is aimed to provide a connector device excellent in the reliability of a connecting operation. A connector device is provided with a first housing (11) to be mounted on a first circuit board (Pa), a plurality of mounting terminals (13) to be mounted into the first housing (11) and connected to the first circuit board (Pa), a plu...