US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on July 8 for "Connector and connector manufacturing method" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,177, issued on July 8, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Connector and connector manufacturing method" was invented by Shunya Takeuchi (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector 10 is provided with a terminal 12 to be connected to a core wire 13 located on an end part of a wire 11 including the core wire 13, and a housing 30 including an accommodating portion 29 for accommodating the terminal 13. The terminal 12 includes a terminal body 15 having a sandwiching portion 18 and a slide portion 16 for san...