US Patent Issued to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS, SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS on June 23 for "Connector including retainer with separation restricting structure" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,341, issued on June 23, was assigned to AUTONETWORKS TECHNOLOGIES LTD. (Mie, Japan), SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan) and SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Osaka, Japan).

"Connector including retainer with separation restricting structure" was invented by Akihiro Nishitani (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "It is aimed to improve the reliability of a retaining function by a retainer. A connector is provided with a housing (10) including a plurality of terminal accommodation chambers (11) arranged in a width direction, terminal fittings (30) to be inserted into the terminal accommodation chambers (11), and a retainer (40)...