ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,603,454, issued on April 14, was assigned to JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Connector and wire harness" was invented by Tsubasa Hashiguchi (Tokyo) and Kazuki Kugo (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector includes: a contact in which an annular groove is formed on a middle portion; a sleeve that includes a cylindrical portion that allows the contact to be inserted therethrough, tongue pieces that are extended from the cylindrical portion, and are arranged in a circumferential direction of the cylindrical portion, and a claw portion that is protruded inward in a radial direction on each front end of the tongue...