US Patent Issued to TE CONNECTIVITY JAPAN G.K. on Nov. 25 for "Contact assembly" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,482,977, issued on Nov. 25, was assigned to TE CONNECTIVITY JAPAN G.K. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Contact assembly" was invented by Yuki Tsutsui (Kawasaki, Japan) and Junto Hoshiba (Kawasaki, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contact assembly includes a plurality of contacts serving as a socket in a laminated state and a spring. The contacts each have a mating portion forming the socket and a caught portion caught on a caught portion of another one of the contacts in a lamination direction of the contacts. At least two of the contacts adjacent to each other in the lamination direction have electrical continuity with each other via the spri...