US Patent Issued to ALPS ALPINE on Sept. 15 for "Electrical connector and switching device" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,680, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to ALPS ALPINE Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Electrical connector and switching device" was invented by Hideyuki Gomyo (Miyagi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connector includes: a metallic terminal member that is positioned inside a housing and that includes a pair of a first terminal part and a second terminal part, the first and second terminal parts facing each other and configured to sandwich an external terminal inserted into the housing from outside; and a block-shaped auxiliary member that is positioned to surround the first and second terminal parts inside the housing, and that...