ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,413,002, issued on Sept. 9, was assigned to Japan Aviation Electronics Industry Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Electric connector and board assembly" was invented by Junji Oosaka (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "When an upper contact part is not in contact with a signal pad, a lower contact part is not in contact with a short-circuiting pad, and when the upper contact part comes into contact with the signal pad and an elastic deformation part is elastically deformed, the lower contact part comes into contact with the short-circuiting pad. The current path length from the upper contact part to the lower contact part is shorter than the current path...