US Patent Issued to YAMAICHI ELECTRONICS on Dec. 16 for "Plug connector and receptacle connector, and method of extracting plug connector" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,500,378, issued on Dec. 16, was assigned to YAMAICHI ELECTRONICS Co. LTD. (Tokyo).

"Plug connector and receptacle connector, and method of extracting plug connector" was invented by Toshiyasu Ito (Tokyo).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A plug connector inserted in or extracted from a receptacle connector includes a casing and a lever member attached to the casing. The lever member has a fulcrum part supported pivotably to the casing, an engaging part that is located closer to the receptacle connector than the fulcrum part in an insertion-extraction direction and that can engage with an engaged part of the receptacle connector, and an opera...