US Patent Issued to YAZAKI on Aug. 5 for "Electrical connector with terminal connected to wire conductor in sealed housing" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 6 -- United States Patent no. 12,381,366, issued on Aug. 5, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electrical connector with terminal connected to wire conductor in sealed housing" was invented by Hiromitsu Takagi (Shizuoka, Japan) and Hiroshi Hirata (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector includes a coated electric wire, a connector terminal, a connector housing, and a holder. The connector housing includes an insertion portion having an insertion hole in which the coated electric wire is inserted, a housing portion that surrounds a periphery of the terminal portion of the coated electric wire inserted in the insertion hole, and an electric wire cove...