US Patent Issued to YAZAKI on Oct. 14 for "Connection direction conversion connector and wire harness" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,444,877, issued on Oct. 14, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Connection direction conversion connector and wire harness" was invented by Daisuke Sugiyama (Makinohara, Japan), Masanobu Higashitani (Makinohara, Japan), Tomoaki Hayakawa (Makinohara, Japan) and Yasukazu Chikamatsu (Makinohara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An attachment member 12 of a connection direction converting connector 1a includes a frame-shaped second seal member 124 configured to seal between: a frame-shaped housing-side opposing surface 122a-6 of the attachment housing 122 that surrounds the accommodation portion that contains a connection portion betw...