US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on April 7 for "Connector including terminal locking portion" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,728, issued on April 7, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Connector including terminal locking portion" was invented by Tetsuya Miyamura (Mie, Japan) and Daisuke Saito (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is aimed to provide a connector capable of improving a force for holding a terminal fitting by a locking lance. A connector (10) is provided with a housing (20), a terminal locking portion (50) defining a cavity (70) together with the housing (20), and a terminal fitting (90) to be arranged in the cavi...