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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,218, 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).

"Combination terminal" was invented by Tetsuya Miyamura (Mie, Japan), Hideto Nakamura (Mie, Japan) and Daisuke Saito (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Terminals can be fixed by only one type of bolt even if the number of the terminals to be stacked is different. A combination terminal (1) is provided with a first terminal (10B) to be fixed to a fixed member (40) using a bolt (30) and a second terminal (10C) to be assembled with the first terminal ...