US Patent Issued to YAZAKI on Jan. 20 for "Connector mating structure" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,374, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Connector mating structure" was invented by Motoyoshi Suzuki (Makinohara, Japan), Tomoyoshi Fukaya (Makinohara, Japan) and Masatoshi Nakamura (Makinohara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector mating structure includes a male connector and a female connector mated with each other. The female connector includes a mating securing member. In a state where the male connector and the female connector of the connector mating structure are in a mating state and the mating securing member is positioned in a mating securing position, a forward end of a female locking se...