US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS on June 3 for "Connector with improved shielding" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 4 -- United States Patent no. 12,322,913, issued on June 3, was assigned to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan).

"Connector with improved shielding" was invented by Masahiro Karita (Mie, Japan), Takahiro Chikusa (Mie, Japan), Yasuo Imai (Mie, Japan) and Ai Hirano (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Technology of the present invention improves the shielding performance of an outer conductor. A connector 10 includes an inner conductor 20 and an outer conductor 40 that surrounds the inner conductor 20. The outer conductor 40 includes a first outer conductor 41 and a second outer conductor 42 that can be electrically connected to each other. The first outer cond...