US Patent Issued to Murata Manufacturing on Nov. 4 for "Compact receptacle connector with improved connection reliability" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,463,360, issued on Nov. 4, was assigned to Murata Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (Kyoto-fu, Japan).

"Compact receptacle connector with improved connection reliability" was invented by Yuuto Morita (Nagaokakyo, Japan) and Yuma Amemori (Nagaokakyo, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "In a connector, a contact part is exposed from a resin body member at a surface facing in a rearward direction of the resin body member. The contact part is displaced in a forward direction when the contact part is pushed in the forward direction to cause the spring part to elastically deform. There is no other terminal between the contact part and an inclined surface...