US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Oct. 21 for "Connector device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,652, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Connector device" was invented by Shinji Tanaka (Mie, Japan) and Yutaka Kobayashi (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is aimed for miniaturization. A connector device is provided with a first connector (10), a second connector (40) provided to face the first connector (10), an adapter (20) for connecting the first and second connectors (10, 40), resilient holding portions (14) formed in the first connector (10), having a shape retention force ca...