US Patent Issued to FUJIFILM on June 23 for "External connection terminal" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,666,529, issued on June 23, was assigned to FUJIFILM Corp. (Tokyo).

"External connection terminal" was invented by Katsuyuki Nukui (Kanagawa, Japan) and Kazuhiro Hasegawa (Kanagawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An external connection terminal capable of suppressing spark failure. The external connection terminal includes: a conduction portion that is electrically connected to an electronic circuit; and a non-conduction portion that is electrically insulated from the electronic circuit, in which the conduction portion and the non-conduction portion consist of a material including metal, and a ratio x of an occupied area of the non...