US Patent Issued to TOYOTA JIDOSHA, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS on Dec. 16 for "Connection device using connector" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,370, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to TOYOTA JIDOSHA K.K. (Toyota, Japan) and SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Yokkaichi, Japan).

"Connection device using connector" was invented by Eiji Yanagida (Okazaki, Japan), Takahisa Yashiro (Nagoya, Japan), Takashi Imakawa (Okazaki, Japan), Keita Fukata (Kariya, Japan) and Soichiro Inukai (Yokkaichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connection device includes a connector provided with wire insertion holes receiving end portions of electrical wires and terminal fittings connected to the end portions. The electrical wires include a lead wire and a dummy wire. One end of the lead wire is ins...