US Patent Issued to I-PEX on June 10 for "Connector and connection unit for use in an electrical device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,942, issued on June 10, was assigned to I-PEX Inc. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Connector and connection unit for use in an electrical device" was invented by Takao Yamauchi (Machida, Japan), Sho Suzuki (Machida, Japan) and Kenta Tanaka (Machida, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector (10) includes a set of type 1 contacts (4A) disposed in a type 1 holding area, the type 1 contacts (4A) being disposed facing each other, and a type 2 contact (4B) disposed in each of two type 2 holding areas sandwiching the type 1 holding area. When viewed from above, at least a portion of the type 2 contact (4B) is disposed in a range obtained by extend...