ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,351, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to Molex LLC (Lisle, Ill.).
"Connector, connector assembly, and retainer" was invented by Risa Tanaka (Yamato, Japan) and Teruki Nagase (Yamato, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "To provide a connector capable of appropriately attaching a retainer to a housing while reliably arranging a cable terminal at an appropriate position even when a clearance between members is reduced in order to reduce the size of the connector. A cable terminal 20 has a first stopped part 24a. A retainer 40 has a positioning post 41 positioned in a rearward direction from the first stopped part 24a of the cable terminal...