US Patent Issued to TE CONNECTIVITY JAPAN G.K. on Oct. 21 for "Electrical connector and electrical connector assembly" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,650, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to TE CONNECTIVITY JAPAN G.K. (Kawasaki, Japan).

"Electrical connector and electrical connector assembly" was invented by Kosuke Maeba (Tokyo) and Tomoha Goto (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connector (1) includes: a housing (60); at least one contact (20) that is housed in a housing hole (64) including the body (63) of the housing, and extends in a predetermined direction from the housing body (63); and a guide (65) that is disposed contiguously to the housing body (63), and extends from the housing in the predetermined direction. The size of a portion of the guide (65), exten...