US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS on July 8 for "Fitting device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,355,181, issued on July 8, was assigned to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan).

"Fitting device" was invented by Kohei Ikeya (Mie, Japan) and Takuya Uemura (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fitting device includes a connection terminal, a tubular housing that covers an outer circumference of the connection terminal, a rubber ring attached to an outer circumferential surface of the housing, and a retainer that prevents the rubber ring from being dislodged. The retainer includes a tubular main body portion, and a plurality of arm portions extending from the main body portion in a front-rear direction. Each arm portion inclu...