US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS on July 22 for "Connector having CPA member for partly covering a code" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,368,269, issued on July 22, was assigned to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan).

"Connector having CPA member for partly covering a code" was invented by Shota Kanbara (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector 1 includes: a connector housing 10 that includes a housing main body 10A that can be fitted to a mating connector 60, and a CPA holding portion 21 that is disposed on an outer surface of the housing main body 10A; a CPA member 40 that is attached to the CPA holding portion 21, and that can be moved from a standby position to a fitting assurance position when the housing main body 10A is in a fitting complete posi...