US Patent Issued to HIROSE ELECTRIC on Sept. 15 for "Electrical connector assembly" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,738,685, issued on Sept. 15, was assigned to HIROSE ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Electrical connector assembly" was invented by Xingyu Cheng (Yokohama, Japan), Shota Yamada (Yokohama, Japan), Takafumi Sugawara (Yokohama, Japan) and Nobuhiro Tamai (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The first board connector 2, at the opposite ends in the connector width direction, has fittings 80 that extend in the connector length direction perpendicular to both the connector width direction and the vertical direction; the fittings 80 have resilient pieces 83 that extend upwardly and are resiliently deformable in the connector widt...