US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS on May 6 for "Connector" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 10 -- United States Patent no. 12,294,182, issued on May 6, was assigned to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan).

"Connector" 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: "A connector includes a housing and an outer conductor. The outer conductor includes a first outer conductor and a second outer conductor. The housing includes a fitting hole into which the second outer conductor is fitted. The first outer conductor includes a first lock portion. In the state where the first outer conductor is located at a normal insertion position, the first lock portion...