US Patent Issued to FURUKAWA ELECTRIC, FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS on Feb. 3 for "Electrical contact material, and contact, terminal and connector made using this" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,222, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to FURUKAWA ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo) and FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC. (Inukami-gun, Japan).

"Electrical contact material, and contact, terminal and connector made using this" was invented by Yoshitane Torii (Tokyo), Shuichi Kitagawa (Tokyo) and Soki Kuzuhara (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical contact material includes an electroconductive substrate, and a silver-containing layer including silver provided to at least part of a surface of the electroconductive substrate. An average GOS value of the silver-containing layer is 1.00deg or less and a proportion of KAM value of 1.00de...