US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on June 23 for "Flexible cable connector" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,331, issued on June 23, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Flexible cable connector" was invented by Pipatthana Phatiwuttipat (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is aimed to simplify the shapes of housings. A flexible cable connector is provided with a first housing (27), a second housing (46) to be stacked on the first housing (27), a first flexible cable (40) to be connected to a first terminal fitting (39) mounted in the first housing (27), a second flexible cable (57) to be connected to a second ter...