ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,691, issued on March 3, was assigned to JAPAN AVIATION ELECTRONICS INDUSTRY Ltd. (Tokyo).
"Connector" was invented by Akira Kimura (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector includes an inner contact inserted in a recessed portion of a plug contact and composed of a bent wire spring, the inner contact having an elastically displaceable contact portion contacting the plug contact and an elastically displaceable pressing portion, part of a connection object having a flexible conductor exposed on at least one surface thereof being sandwiched between the pressing portion and an inner surface of the recessed portion, the inner surf...