US Patent Issued to FURUKAWA ELECTRIC, FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS on May 5 for "Female terminal, connector, busbar, terminal-equipped electric wire, connector-equipped electric wire, and wire harness" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,620,741, issued on May 5, was assigned to FURUKAWA ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo) and FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC. (Inukami-gun, Japan).

"Female terminal, connector, busbar, terminal-equipped electric wire, connector-equipped electric wire, and wire harness" was invented by Tomoaki Tanigawa (Inukami-gun, Japan), Takeshi Watanabe (Inukami-gun, Japan), Yukihiro Kawamura (Inukami-gun, Japan), Junya Takeshita (Tokyo) and Takahiro Imamura (Inukami-gun, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is a female terminal. The female terminal includes a spring member and a terminal main body. The spring member is electrically connected to a male ter...