US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS on Oct. 14 for "Shielded terminal and shielded connector" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,887, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan).

"Shielded terminal and shielded connector" was invented by Shohei Mitsui (Mie, Japan), Norihito Hashimoto (Mie, Japan), Motoki Kubota (Mie, Japan), Keisuke Kanemura (Mie, Japan), Wataru Yamanaka (Mie, Japan), Yusuke Ito (Mie, Japan) and Kazuya Kobayashi (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided are a shielded terminal and a shielded connector that can prevent a short circuit between a connection portion for an electric component and an outer conductor. A shielded terminal includes an outer conductor, a connection portion for an electric compo...