US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on April 21 for "Connector with terminal-accommodating housing" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,481, issued on April 21, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Connector with terminal-accommodating housing" was invented by Chikara Saburi (Osaka, Japan), Yuka Koizumi (Osaka, Japan) and Keigo Takahashi (Osaka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is aimed to reduce a size in an arrangement direction of a plurality of terminal groups. A connector (10) is provided with an inner module (11) including a plurality of terminal groups (22) each having a pair of terminals (60) to be respectively connected to a pair o...