US Patent Issued to JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY on May 13 for "Connector and connecting method" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,919, issued on May 13, was assigned to JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY Ltd. (Tokyo).

"Connector and connecting method" was invented by Tetsuya Komoto (Tokyo), Akira Kimura (Tokyo) and Keisuke Nakamura (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector includes a contact retained in a housing selectively in one of a first posture and a second posture inverted 180 degrees around a fitting direction, the contact including a contact portion to be contacted with a contact of a counter connector and a connection portion to be connected to a flexible conductor of a connection object, between a case where the contact is retained in the ho...