ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,944, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to HIROSE ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Electric connector" was invented by Yuta Takagi (Kanagawa, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Provided is an electric connector which includes: a terminal; and a housing, in which the terminal has a bottom portion, a first leg portion, and a second leg portion, the housing has a first side wall, the first leg portion extends in a fitting direction of fitting to a partner connector from a first direction side of the bottom portion, and is elastically deformable in a first direction, the second leg portion extends in the fitting direction from a seco...