US Patent Issued to JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY on July 8 for "Contact member, connector, composition, and method for producing contact member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,172, issued on July 8, was assigned to JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Contact member, connector, composition, and method for producing contact member" was invented by Kazuhiko Yamada (Tokyo), Akiko Suzuki (Tokyo) and Akinobu Sato (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention provides a contact member that strikes a balance between low electrical resistance and sliding durability. A contact member of the invention has a metal base and a coating disposed on at least part of the metal base. The coating contains fluorinated oil having a polar group, and metal particles surface-treated with a fluorine-base...