ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 26 -- United States Patent no. 12,237,597, issued on Feb. 25, was assigned to JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Connector" was invented by Seiya Matsuo (Tokyo), Tetsuya Komoto (Tokyo) and Akira Kimura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector includes a contact connected to a flexible conductor, a housing that is attached to a flexible substrate and retains the contact, and a protection sheet that is constituted of an insulating film having a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer formed on one surface thereof and is disposed between the housing and the flexible substrate such that the pressure-sensitive adhesive layer faces the flexible substrate, th...