US Patent Issued to YAZAKI, MAZDA MOTOR on Feb. 17 for "CPA-attached connector and wire harness" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 17 -- United States Patent no. 12,555,952, issued on Feb. 17, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo) and MAZDA MOTOR Corp. (Hiroshima, Japan).

"CPA-attached connector and wire harness" was invented by Koki Tokumoto (Makinohara, Japan), Yusuke Tsutagawa (Makinohara, Japan), Yasuhiro Otsuta (Makinohara, Japan), Yasuhiro Tanaka (Makinohara, Japan), Yoshio Nakamura (Hiroshima, Japan) and Yo Yamada (Hiroshima, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The CPA-attached connector 1a includes a connector body 11 and a CPA member 12. The connector body 11 includes a temporary latch portion 112 for the CPA member 12, a full latch portion 113 which, before the mating with a mating connect...