ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,706,419, issued on Aug. 11, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Fixing structure" was invented by Yasuhiro Sasaki (Makinohara, Japan), Jun Ishikawa (Tokyo) and Yuki Noro (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A fixing structure of a connector 1 includes a housing 13 and a front holder 15. The front holder 15 includes a detection portion 151, a latching lock 152, and a restriction protrusion 153. The housing 13 includes an accommodation portion 1314, a restriction recessed portion 1315, and a latching portion 1316a. A restriction surface 1533 extending to cross a height direction Z is provided on the restriction protrusion 153, and a co...