US Patent Issued to NHK Spring on Feb. 24 for "Method of manufacturing contact probe and contact probe" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,560,629, issued on Feb. 24, was assigned to NHK Spring Co. Ltd. (Yokohama, Japan).

"Method of manufacturing contact probe and contact probe" was invented by Yoshio Yamada (Tokyo), Shuji Takahashi (Tokyo) and Jun Kinoshita (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A method of manufacturing a contact probe includes: forming external shapes of a plurality of main body part base materials on a plate material, each of the plurality of main body part base materials being connected to a base part via a connection part and used for forming a main body part of a pipe member; forming a plurality of protrusions on each of the plurality of main body par...