ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,580,327, issued on March 17, was assigned to HIROSE ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Kanagawa, Japan).
"Crimp terminal, terminal coupled body and connector" was invented by Shinnosuke Miwa (Yokohama, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crimp terminal includes a crimped part crimped to a cable; and a terminal connection part provided to be bent with respect to the crimped part. The cramped part includes: a base part on which the cable extending in a first axial direction is placed; and a barrel piece protruding from the base part in one direction of a second axial direction orthogonal to the first axial direction, and caulked to be crimped to the c...