US Patent Issued to FURUKAWA ELECTRIC, FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS on Oct. 20 for "Female terminal, connector, terminal-attached electric wire, connector-attached electric wire, and wire harness" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,048, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to FURUKAWA ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo) and FURUKAWA AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS INC. (Inukami-gun, Japan).

"Female terminal, connector, terminal-attached electric wire, connector-attached electric wire, and wire harness" was invented by Takuro Yamada (Inukami-gun, Japan), Takeshi Watanabe (Inukami-gun, Japan), Tomoaki Tanigawa (Inukami-gun, Japan), Mitsuko Adachi (Tokyo) and Ryosuke Nishii (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A female terminal, a female connector, a terminal-attached electric wire, a connector-attached electric wire, and a wire harness can prevent a welded portion from being damaged when a...