US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on May 13 for "Connector device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,946, issued on May 13, 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 improve workability at the time of assembling. A connector device is provided with a pair of connectors including terminal units and to be individually mounted on a pair of circuit boards facing each other, and an adaptor including a pair of connecting end parts swingably connectable to the terminal units. The connect...