ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,689,145, issued on July 21, was assigned to HIROSE ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).
"Electrical connector with terminals having partial plating by weighting thickness" was invented by Takuya Morishita (Yokohama, Japan) and Namiki Toyosu (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connector includes a housing and a fitting, each terminal of the fitting includes a mounting portion, a first wall, a second wall, and a third wall and is configured to come into contact with a counterpart terminal by at least two contact points including a first contact point and a second contact point, a first wall surface of the first wa...