US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Nov. 25 for "Connector" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,978, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Connector" was invented by Tetsuya Miyamura (Mie, Japan) and Daisuke Saito (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is aimed to achieve a height reduction. A connector (F) is provided with a female terminal fitting (30) and a housing (10). The female terminal fitting (30) includes a tab inserting portion (35), into which a tab (53) of a male terminal fitting (52) is inserted, and a first resilient contact piece (37) exposed on an outer surface of the...