ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,030, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to SoftBank Corp. (Tokyo).
"Rotary connector" was invented by Noritomo Yanagimoto (Tokyo), Hideyuki Yagihashi (Kanagawa, Japan) and Tomoya Watanabe (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a rotary connector including: a case; and a rotor, in which the rotor has a plurality of conductive ring portions, each of which includes a core wire ring, a first GND ring, a second GND ring, a first core wire barrier, and a second core wire barrier, and a plurality of channel barriers arranged respectively between the plurality of conductive ring portions, the case has a plurality of connector p...