US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on June 17 for "Connector device having individually rockable terminal units" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,678, issued on June 17, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Connector device having individually rockable terminal units" was invented by Yasunori Asano (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 (A) is provided with a second housing (21) to be mounted on a second circuit board (C), a plurality of fixed terminal units (28) to be mounted in the second housing (21) and connected to the second circuit ...