ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,283,765, issued on April 22, was assigned to JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Electrical connector wherein the distance between terminals on a strip is small" was invented by Osamu Hashiguchi (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector is disposed on a board in a first direction and includes a housing, a contact, and a movable. The housing is provided with a bottom surface facing the board and a through hole formed along the first direction. The contact is held in the through hole and has its end portion on a board side exposed at the bottom surface via the through hole. The movable terminal is formed as a separate...