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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,219, 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 with first terminal locked to second terminal" was invented by Tetsuya Miyamura (Mie, Japan), Hideto Nakamura (Mie, Japan), Shinji Nozaki (Mie, Japan) and Daisuke Saito (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is aimed to enable manual assembly. A combination terminal is provided with a first terminal fitting including a first base plate portion and a second terminal fitting including a second base plate portion to be stacked on ...