US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Sept. 22 for "Terminal fitting and chain terminal" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,744,342, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Terminal fitting and chain terminal" was invented by Shinji Nozaki (Mie, Japan), Hideto Nakamura (Mie, Japan) and Daisuke Saito (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is aimed to provide a terminal fitting and a chain terminal capable of maintaining connection reliability to a mating terminal. A terminal fitting (45) is provided with a box portion 46, into which a mating terminal 18 is inserted from front, a base portion (47) fixed in the box por...