US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on May 19 for "Terminal unit, female terminal and male terminal" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,694, issued on May 19, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Terminal unit, female terminal and male terminal" was invented by Yusuke Yamada (Mie, Japan) and Katsuhiko Aizawa (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal unit is provided with a male terminal and a female terminal. The female terminal includes a first wall portion and a second wall portion. The first wall portion includes a first resilient contact portion and a first contact point portion provided on the first resilient contact portion and to ...