US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on July 28 for "Board connector" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,222, issued on July 28, 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 Teruo Hara (Mie, Japan), Takashi Natsume (Mie, Japan), Yicheng Chen (Mie, Japan), Shinji Nozaki (Mie, Japan), Hiroki Kobayashi (Mie, Japan), Sohei Moroki (Mie, Japan) and Takumi Watanabe (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A board connector 1 to be mounted on a circuit board is provided with a connector housing 11, to which a mating connector is connected from a direction parallel to a board surface of the circuit b...