US Patent Issued to Molex on April 21 for "Connector having terminals providing improved shielding effect" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,609,489, issued on April 21, was assigned to Molex LLC (Lisle, Ill.).

"Connector having terminals providing improved shielding effect" was invented by Makoto Shinyama (Yamato, Japan) and Nobuyuki Kondo (Yamato, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present disclosure includes: a connector body; and a terminal attached to the connector body, the connector being mated with a counterpart connector, wherein the connector body includes a recessed groove part and a pair of side walls extending in a longitudinal direction of the connector body, arranged in parallel demarcating both sides of the recessed groove part, the terminals are arrang...