ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,745, issued on April 7, was assigned to MITSUMI ELECTRIC Co. LTD. (Tokyo).
"Electrical connector" was invented by Kazuma Endo (Tokyo), Yuta Takano (Tokyo) and Hiroyuki Sadohara (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connector includes at least one contact pin, and at least one insulating housing for containing the at least one contact pin therein. The at least one contact pin includes a horizontally extending portion, at least one protruding portion extending from a side portion of the horizontally extending portion in the at least one housing in a width direction perpendicular to the insertion and extraction direction o...