ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,255,427, issued on March 18, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Terminal connection within an electrical junction box" was invented by Isanori Shimizu (Makinohara, Japan) and Arata Yagi (Makinohara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical junction box includes: a first housing configured to hold a first terminal having a flat plate shape; a second terminal configured to allow the first terminal to be inserted thereinto such that the second terminal is conductively connected to the first terminal when the first terminal is inserted into the second terminal; and a second housing configured to be engaged with the first housi...