ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 2 -- United States Patent no. 12,646,864, issued on June 2, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Crimp terminal and terminal-fitted electric wire" was invented by Naoki Ito (Makinohara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crimp terminal includes a core wire crimping portion, an electrical connection portion, and a coupling portion, in which the coupling portion has a bottom wall portion and side wall portions, the side wall portions have straight portions extending from the core wire crimping portion along a longitudinal direction and wide portions connecting between the straight portions and the electrical connection portion, respectively, each of the straight port...