US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS on Dec. 30 for "Connector with a terminal that is biased to one side by an elastic member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,512,618, issued on Dec. 30, was assigned to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan).

"Connector with a terminal that is biased to one side by an elastic member" was invented by Yosuke Morinaga (Mie, Japan) and Takayuki Uchiyama (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector 10 includes a terminal module 14 and a connector housing 16. The terminal module 14 includes a case 20, an elastic member 18 accommodated in the case 20, a first terminal that is supported by the case 20 while being biased toward one side by the elastic member 18 and is pressed by a partner connector, a second terminal 42 located on another side relative to ...