US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Sept. 16 for "Female terminal" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,126, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Female terminal" was invented by Seido Nishijima (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A female terminal includes a tubular connecting portion including a first peripheral wall portion and a second peripheral wall portion and to be conductively connected to a columnar connecting portion, a pair of tip side plate portions projecting from circumferential end parts while being separated from each other, a resilient member for biasing the pair of tip s...