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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,233, 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).

"Female connector" 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: "The structure of a female terminal fitting can be simplified. A female connector (1) is provided with a housing (10) and a female terminal fitting (20) to be accommodated into the housing (10). The female terminal fitting (20) includes a spring member (50) having a pair of resilient pieces (52, 53) and ...