ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,327,939, issued on June 10, was assigned to J.S.T. MFG. Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Connector" was invented by Satoru Shindo (Yokohama, Japan), Hiroshi Kitamura (Yokohama, Japan) and Teppei Uetsuji (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector of the present invention includes a fixed housing, a movable housing, a plurality of terminals, and a metal movement restricting member to be attached to the fixed housing. The movable housing includes a main body portion for insertion in a loose fit state into an insertion hole of the fixed housing, and a protrusion portion projecting from the main body portion. In the state where the main bo...