US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on June 2 for "Connection structure for connecting flat cable and terminal fitting" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,871, issued on June 2, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Connection structure for connecting flat cable and terminal fitting" was invented by Pipatthana Phatiwuttipat (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is aimed to provide a connection structure for connecting a flat cable and a terminal fitting, the connection structure suppressing a reduction in connection reliability. A terminal fitting (10) is connected to a flat cable (60). The flat cable (60) includes a first connecting portion (64) located in a f...