ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,538, 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).
"PCB terminal, connector, wiring harness with connector and board unit" was invented by Michitake Kamamoto (Mie, Japan), Kingo Furukawa (Mie, Japan), Yoshifumi Saka (Mie, Japan) and Hajime Watanabe (Mie, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A PCB terminal is provided with a rod-like base material and a plating layer covering a predetermined region of the base material. A constituent material of the base material is a copper alloy containing 20% by mass or m...