US Patent Issued to J.S.T. on Aug. 25 for "Connector having a lock member for keeping a connector housing at a mated state with a mating connector" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 25 -- United States Patent no. 12,719,208, issued on Aug. 25, was assigned to J.S.T. MFG. Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Connector having a lock member for keeping a connector housing at a mated state with a mating connector" was invented by Hiroyuki Matsumoto (Yokohama, Japan), Yoshinori Hayakawa (Yokohama, Japan), Kazuya Izawa (Yokohama, Japan) and Hayato Chiba (Yokohama, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector includes at least one contact, a connector housing that holds the contact inside thereof and that includes a fixing slot in one of outer surfaces thereof and an introduction opening that communicates to the fixing slot on a rear side in a mating direction of the co...