ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,341,287, issued on June 24, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Connector" was invented by Katsuya Nakano (Makinohara, Japan) and Takashi Sone (Makinohara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector includes a casing, a shield shell that accommodates the casing, a wire arranged in the casing, a connector terminal connected to the wire, a blocking member that blocks current by overcurrent flowing in the wire, stud bolts and nuts for connecting the blocking member and the wire, and heat conductive members. The casing includes casing concave parts, which are recessed toward a casing space part and have filling space parts to be fil...