US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES on Sept. 8 for "Board connector and device" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,731,926, issued on Sept. 8, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO ELECTRIC INDUSTRIES LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Board connector and device" was invented by Toshikazu Suzuki (Osaka, Japan), Toshifumi Ichio (Osaka, Japan), Daisuke Ito (Osaka, Japan), Kazuki Hiramatsu (Mie, Japan) and Taiga Kadoyama (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A board connector 10 of the present disclosure is to be mounted on a circuit board 50 and provided with a housing 11 including a receptacle 15 open forward and a rear wall 30 provided on a side opposite to a front end part where t...