US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Aug. 25 for "Board connector" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,188, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Board connector" was invented by Shinji Nozaki (Mie, Japan), Hideto Nakamura (Mie, Japan) and Daisuke Saito (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is aimed to enable a terminal fitting to be easily removed from a circuit board. A board connector (10) is provided with a terminal fitting (30) and a housing (20) in which the terminal fitting (30) is mounted, and fixed to a circuit board (12). The terminal fitting (30) includes a support receiving port...