ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,489,252, issued on Dec. 2, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Erroneous fitting prevention connector" was invented by Tetsuya Sekino (Makinohara, Japan) and Yoshinobu Iwasaki (Fujieda, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An erroneous fitting prevention connector includes: a connector housing having a guide projection; and a mating connector housing having a rectangular tubular hood portion and a guide groove provided to be recessed on an inner wall surface of one side wall of the hood portion and extending along a fitting direction. At a front end portion of the other side wall parallel to the one side wall of the hood portion, an in...