US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Aug. 25 for "Connector with hooking portions" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,197, 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).

"Connector with hooking portions" was invented by Akihiro Nishitani (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is aimed to prevent the expansion of a connector housing sandwiching and holding a terminal fitting. A connector is provided with a terminal fitting (10) fixed to a wire (14) and a connector housing (20) for sandwiching and holding the terminal fitting (10) between an upper housing (30) and a lower housing (40). The upper housing (30) and the l...