US Patent Issued to Molex on June 17 for "Connector" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,334,661, issued on June 17, was assigned to Molex LLC (Lisle, Ill.).

"Connector" was invented by Daiki Tanaka (Yamato, Japan), Kosuke Hariu (Yamato, Japan), Takuro Akatsuka (Yamato, Japan) and Manabu Yamanaka (Yamato, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Providing a housing including an insulating material and a terminal integrated with the housing and including a conductive material, wherein the housing includes a protrusion extending in the longitudinal direction of the connector, the terminal includes a plate portion that extends in the vertical direction, the surface thereof exposed to one side surface of the protrusion; an opposing ...