ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,293, issued on June 24, was assigned to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan).
"Lever-type connector" was invented by Daisuke Kataoka (Mie, Japan) and Kazuo Nakai (Mie, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The lever-type connector includes: a housing; a slider having a plurality of rack teeth arranged in a first direction, the slider being movable in the first direction relative to the housing; a wire cover installed on the housing and covering a wire draw-out surface of the housing; and a lever configured to move the slider, the lever being rotatably installed on the wire cover and having a gear meshing with the rack teeth, wher...