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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,947, 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).

"Connector" was invented by Tetsuya Miyamura (Mie, Japan) and Daisuke Saito (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector (A) is provided with a terminal fitting (10) and a housing (20) for holding the terminal fitting (10). The housing (20) includes a first function portion (30) made of a flexible synthetic resin material and a second function portion (32) made of a synthetic resin material having a smaller specific weight than the first functi...