US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Nov. 18 for "High-voltage connector" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,476,404, issued on Nov. 18, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"High-voltage connector" was invented by Yuta Kanematsu (Mie, Japan), Junichi Mukuno (Mie, Japan) and Yusuke Yamada (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A high-voltage connector of a novel structure is disclosed which achieves an improvement in electrical conductivity, a reduced amount of heat generation and the like while realizing stable connection to a mating terminal by a simple structure having a small number of components. A high-voltage connec...