ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,418,133, issued on Sept. 16, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Connector" was invented by Yusuke Aoki (Kakegawa, Japan), Takashi Tsukamoto (Kakegawa, Japan), Naoto Ikeya (Kakegawa, Japan), Hidetaka Hondo (Sagamihara, Japan) and Miyu Komura (Sagamihara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector includes a housing having a first connection portion and a second connection portion adjacent to the first connection portion, a first cap and a second cap pivotally supported by the housing respectively to be displaceable between an open position where the first and second connection portions are exposed to outside and a closed positi...