ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,218,469, issued on Feb. 4, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Crimping terminal" was invented by Naoki Ito (Shizuoka, Japan), Kazuma Watanabe (Shizuoka, Japan) and Michihiro Mori (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crimping terminal includes a conductor crimping portion, the conductor crimping portion including: a bottom plate on which a conductor of an electric wire is disposed; and a pair of conductor tightening pieces extending from both side edges of the bottom plate, the conductor crimping portion configured to be crimped and connected to the conductor by tightening the conductor in a state where the conductor is co...