US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on March 25 for "Connector including closed portion formed by space" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,261,387, issued on March 25, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Connector including closed portion formed by space" was invented by Kazuki Hiramatsu (Mie, Japan), Taiga Kadoyama (Mie, Japan), Hidekazu Matsuda (Mie, Japan), Toshikazu Suzuki (Osaka, Japan) and Toshifumi Ichio (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector is provided with a terminal, a die-cast member for surrounding an outer periphery of the terminal, a dielectric to be arranged between the terminal and the die-cast member, and a housing in...