ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,424,796, issued on Sept. 23, was assigned to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan).
"Shielded terminal" was invented by Shohei Mitsui (Mie, Japan), Norihito Hashimoto (Mie, Japan), Motoki Kubota (Mie, Japan), Wataru Yamanaka (Mie, Japan), Keisuke Kanemura (Mie, Japan), Kazuya Kobayashi (Mie, Japan) and Yusuke Ito (Mie, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention prevents a cover from being incorrectly installed with respect to an external conductor. This shielded terminal is provided with: an external conductor (20) that has a connection space (28) which is between a pair of side walls (26), and which is open to the o...