US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Oct. 20 for "Connector with cantilever lock arm having collision surfaces for producing connection sound" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,071, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Connector with cantilever lock arm having collision surfaces for producing connection sound" was invented by Akihiro Nishitani (Mie, Japan) and Kenji Makino (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector is provided with a male housing including a receptacle, a female housing and a resiliently deformable lock arm formed on the female housing. The lock arm includes a pair of lock portions arranged in a width direction. The lock arm is resiliently d...