US Patent Issued to Amphenol East Asia Ltd. (Hong Kong) on July 14 for "Electrical connector with a housing surrounded by a shell with surface protrusions" (Taiwanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,331, issued on July 14, was assigned to Amphenol East Asia Ltd. (Hong Kong) (Tsimshatsui, Hong Kong).

"Electrical connector with a housing surrounded by a shell with surface protrusions" was invented by Lo-Wen Lu (Taoyuan City, Taiwan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connector includes an insulative housing, metal terminals, and a shell. The metal terminals are being disposed in the housing such that contact portions of the terminals are exposed in openings of the housing and arranged to contact conductive portions of a mating connector when the electrical connector and the mating connector are mated. The shell surrounds ...