ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,101, issued on May 12, was assigned to SUMITOMO WIRING SYSTEMS LTD. (Mie, Japan).
"Lever-type connector" was invented by Sho Saito (Mie, Japan) and Yuki Kondo (Mie, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lever-type connector 1 includes: a connector housing 10; a lever 30; a CPA holding portion 21 that is provided on one of the connector housing 10 and the lever 30 and has a first code arrangement surface 22S1; a CPA member 40 that is attached to the CPA holding portion 21, is displaceable from a standby position to a fitting assurance position when the lever 30 is at a fitting assurance position, and is arranged on the same plane as t...