US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on March 3 for "Connector with contact pressure applying component" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,692, issued on March 3, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Connector with contact pressure applying component" was invented by Yuta Kanematsu (Mie, Japan), Junichi Mukuno (Mie, Japan) and Sunghyun Byun (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector is disclosed which can improve a contact pressure between terminals while suppressing terminal wear at the time of inserting and withdrawing the connector. A connector is provided with a housing having a mating terminal insertion region, a terminal accommodated...