US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on May 20 for "Assembly parts for connector device and connector device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,539, issued on May 20, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Assembly parts for connector device and connector device" was invented by Satoshi Suzuki (Yokkaichi, Japan), Shigeru Ogihara (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Shigeki Shimada (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Assembly parts for connector device including: substrate having through hole; press-fit terminal that is rod shape member to be press-fitted into through hole, wherein press-fit terminal includes leading end, press-fit, and base end portions, press-fi...