ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,220, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to J.S.T. MFG. Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Connector" was invented by Hiroyuki Matsumoto (Yokohama, Japan), Shinya Masada (Yokohama, Japan) and Hayato Chiba (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector includes: a connector body including a lever arm having a first lock portion locked to a to-be-locked member of a mating connector when the connector body is fitted to the mating connector; and a second lock portion provided on the connector body so as to be slidable in a width direction orthogonal to a fitting direction to the mating connector. When the connector body is fitted to the mating ...