US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on March 31 for "Terminal block unit" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,501, issued on March 31, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Terminal block unit" was invented by Yuta Hosoya (Yokkaichi, Japan), Daisuke Hashimoto (Yokkaichi, Japan), Kentaro Tachi (Yokkaichi, Japan) and Yoshitomo Tsujii (Yokkaichi, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal block unit including: a terminal block; a case having the terminal block disposed thereinside, wherein: the terminal block includes a bus bar, a connection terminal that is separate from the bus bar, and a main body that holds the bus b...