US Patent Issued to HIROSE ELECTRIC on Feb. 3 for "Intermediate electrical connector" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,542,384, issued on Feb. 3, was assigned to HIROSE ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).

"Intermediate electrical connector" was invented by Xingyu Cheng (Kanagawa, Japan), Shota Yamada (Kanagawa, Japan), Takafumi Sugawara (Kanagawa, Japan) and Nobuhiro Tamai (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The supported portions of the substrate are positioned offset from the center of the substrate in the vertical direction; adjacent intermediate bodies are provided in orientations vertically inverted relative to each other and every two supported portions are positioned so as to differ by a predetermined dimension P in the vertical direct...