US Patent Issued to YAZAKI on July 14 for "Connector" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 14 -- United States Patent no. 12,683,299, issued on July 14, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Connector" was invented by Yasuhiro Yamaguchi (Kakegawa, Japan) and Naoki Mamashita (Kakegawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The connector is attached to the vehicle body of an electric vehicle, a hybrid vehicle, and the like, and mates with a charging plug provided on a charging station to charge the battery on the vehicle. The connector includes a terminal crimped to an end of an electric wire, a heat storage member surrounding an electric wire-crimped portion of the terminal, a housing, and a heat transfer member in a sheet shape. The electric wire-crimped porti...