ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,651, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TE CONNECTIVITY JAPAN G.K. (Kawasaki, Japan).
"Connector" was invented by Kazuhiro Mizukami (Kawasaki, Japan) and Tadashi Kumamoto (Kawasaki, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector includes a back housing, a front shell having a barrel portion and a grounding portion continuous with a rear portion of the barrel portion, and a cover shell. The cover shell has a contacting portion contacting a rear end upper portion of the front shell, a catching portion catching on the grounding portion, and a spring portion elastically deformed by catching of the catching portion. The elastic deformat...