US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Nov. 25 for "Press-fit terminal and connector device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,963, 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).

"Press-fit terminal and connector device" was invented by Takuya Yamanaka (Mie, Japan), Tetsuya Ito (Mie, Japan), Mitsugu Furutani (Mie, Japan), Tetsuya Shinozaki (Mie, Japan), Takashi Tonosaki (Mie, Japan) and Hiroyuki Tanaka (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A press-fit terminal is provided with a press-fit portion including two contact pieces facing each other across an eye hole. Each of the two contact pieces includes a parallel portion in par...