ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,893, issued on June 3, was assigned to Mitsubishi Electric Corp. (Tokyo).
"Connector" was invented by Hideki Shimauchi (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector includes: a housing portion in which a plurality of conductive terminals having an L-shape are covered by a resin; and a connector portion in which one end portions of the conductive terminals are exposed from the resin to serve as connector terminals. The plurality of conductive terminals are disposed so as to be arranged along a plane. When the plane is defined as a yz-plane and a direction in which the connector terminals are arranged is defined as a z-axis directio...