US Patent Issued to JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on March 18 for "Board mounted connector with terminals arranged by length" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,413, issued on March 18, was assigned to JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY Ltd. (Tokyo) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Board mounted connector with terminals arranged by length" was invented by Shigeyasu Kitamura (Tokyo), Toshihiro Oka (Tokyo) and Youichi Suzuki (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a connector having a housing and a plurality of terminals, the plurality of terminals is configured as surface mount terminals, and each surface mount terminal includes a terminal portion arranged inside the housing, a fixed portion fixed to the housing, and a mount portion soldered to a mount surface of a board. ...