ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,213, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to Yazaki Corp. (Tokyo).
"Joint connector" was invented by Kozo Oishi (Makinohara, Japan), Tomoyoshi Fukaya (Makinohara, Japan) and Jun Ishikawa (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "There is provided a joint connector including: a ground terminal member integrally formed by a plate-shaped fixing portion fixed to a ground portion, a body horizontal plate portion extending from the plate-shaped fixing portion, a body rising plate portion formed by bending in a rising direction, a terminal connection portion provided formed with a plurality of terminal connecting portions electrically connectable wi...