US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, TOYOTA JIDOSHA on Dec. 16 for "Shielded electrical connector for mounting on a circuit board with an inner conductor and an outer conductor" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,382, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan).

"Shielded electrical connector for mounting on a circuit board with an inner conductor and an outer conductor" was invented by Kazuya Kobayashi (Yokkaichi, Japan), Norihito Hashimoto (Yokkaichi, Japan), Kazuya Takeuchi (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Shinobu Wakahara (Toyota, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A shield conductor includes a first outer conductor and a second outer conductor that are assembled to each other. At least one of the first outer conductor and the second outer conductor includes a protrusion por...