US Patent Issued to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS on June 9 for "Connector" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,651,868, issued on June 9, was assigned to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan).

"Connector" was invented by Tetsuo Nawa (Mie, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector includes a housing configured to mate with a mating housing in a mating direction and a detection member attached to the housing and configured to move between a temporary fastening position and a full fastening position after mating of the housing with the mating housing, the housing including an elastically deformable locking arm having a locking part that fastens onto a lock receiving part provided on the mating housing, the detection member including a posi...