US Patent Issued to KYOCERA on Dec. 2 for "Connector and electronic device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,235, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to KYOCERA Corp. (Kyoto, Japan).

"Connector and electronic device" was invented by Yousuke Manba (Yokohama, Japan), Yoshiharu Fujii (Saitama, Japan) and Nobuyuki Nakajima (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector (10), into and from which a connection object (70) is insertable and removable, includes an insulator (20) including an insertion portion (23) in which a connection object (70) can be inserted and a first contact (30) mounted on the insulator (20). The first contact (30) includes a contact piece (34) and a resiliently deformable resilient portion (33). The contact piece (34) include...