US Patent Issued to J.S.T. on June 24 for "Connector having a regular fitting detecting member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,295, issued on June 24, was assigned to J.S.T. MFG. Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Connector having a regular fitting detecting member" was invented by Hiroshi Yamada (Miyoshi, Japan) and Tomoya Nakagawa (Miyoshi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector includes a housing which allows for insertion and fitting into a mating connector in an insertion direction perpendicular to a height direction and to a width direction, and a regular fitting detecting member. The regular fitting detecting member is supported on an outer wall surface of the housing so as to be slidable in the insertion direction to a non-detection position and a detectio...