US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Oct. 7 for "Connector device with locking mechanism" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,306, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Connector device with locking mechanism" was invented by Kenichi Kitaoka (Yokkaichi, Japan), Junichi Mukuno (Yokkaichi, Japan), Hiroaki Saito (Osaka, Japan), Tatsuya Ankyu (Osaka, Japan), Takayoshi Bando (Osaka, Japan) and Tomohiro Yoshino (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The connector device is configured so that a first connector part and a second connector part are detachable. The connector device has a first lock part constituting a lock par...