ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,266,886, issued on April 1, was assigned to JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Connector assembly and waterproof cap" was invented by Yuta Shimomaki (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector assembly includes a connector, a housing having an insertion port, and a waterproof cap detachably attached to the housing to close the insertion port, the waterproof cap having a cap body, a first protruding portion continuously surrounding an entire periphery of an outer peripheral surface of the cap body, and a second protruding portion disposed on a front end side of the cap body in a fitting direction from a position at w...