US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on March 24 for "Card edge connector" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,942, issued on March 24, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Card edge connector" was invented by Pengfei Lang (Mie, Japan), Daisuke Saito (Mie, Japan) and Tetsuya Miyamura (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is aimed to provide a card edge connector capable of improving electrical conduction between a terminal and a board. A card edge connector (1) is provided with a housing (12) and a terminal fitting (13) including a base portion (13A) to be fixed to the housing (12), a contact portion (13D) to be br...