US Patent Issued to YAZAKI on July 28 for "Connector" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,236, issued on July 28, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Connector" was invented by Katsuya Nakano (Makinohara, Japan), Yusuke Tsutagawa (Makinohara, Japan) and Koki Tokumoto (Makinohara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector includes a housing fitted to a mating connector, and a spring unit that is provided in the housing and generates a biasing force along a connection direction with the mating connector, in which the spring unit includes a spring formed along the connection direction and accommodated in an accommodation chamber with an inlet opened and a back side closed, a spring cover that has a cylindrical shap...