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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,231, 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).

"Terminal unit and first terminal" was invented by Yuta Kanematsu (Mie, Japan), Sunghyun Byun (Mie, Japan) and Nobukazu Hirowaki (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal unit is provided with a first terminal including a columnar connecting portion and a resin cap having a maximum outer diameter larger than an outer diameter of the columnar connecting portion, and a second terminal including a tubular connecting portion. The columnar connectin...