US Patent Issued to KYOCERA, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Jan. 27 for "First connector and connector module" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,537,346, issued on Jan. 27, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"First connector and connector module" was invented by Fumihito Ikegami (Funabashi, Japan), Masayoshi Kakino (Yokohama, Japan), Tatsuo Matsuda (Osaka, Japan) and Chiaki Kojima (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A first connector 10 configured to be attached to a connection object 40 that includes a plurality of contact lines 42 exposed at a tip of the connection object 40 and a ground portion 43 covering part of the plurality of contact lines 42, comprises: a first insulator 20 including a holding porti...