ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,891, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan).
"Terminal fitting and 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 is a terminal fitting and a connector with which the amount of insertion of the terminal fitting into a housing can be easily controlled. A terminal fitting includes: a tubular connection portion (41); a locking protrusion (51) that is provided so as to protrude...