ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,394,931, issued on Aug. 19, was assigned to JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Connector" was invented by Tetsuya Komoto (Tokyo) and Osamu Hashiguchi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The connector includes an inner contact formed of a plate member inserted into a recess of a plug contact, the plate member having a first constituent portion including an elastically displaceable contact portion and a second constituent portion including a pressing portion that is elastically displaceable independently of elastic displacement of the contact portion, part of a sheet-like connection target in which a flexible conductor is...