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

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,946, 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 with reduced height" was invented by Akihiro Nishitani (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector is provided with a terminal fitting (10) fixed to a wire (14) and a connector housing (20) configured by assembling an outer housing (36) with an inner housing (25). The inner housing (25) is formed with a terminal accommodation chamber (21) capable of accommodating the terminal fitting (10) from a direction intersecting an arrangement...