US Patent Issued to YAZAKI on June 23 for "Connector and wire harness" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,340, issued on June 23, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Connector and wire harness" was invented by Tsuyoshi Hamai (Makinohara, Japan), Takatoshi Suzuki (Makinohara, Japan), Masakazu Nagaoka (Makinohara, Japan) and Takuya Ohashi (Kakegawa, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A housing is provided which accommodates a plurality of terminal-equipped electric wires side by side in an arrangement direction, in which a first terminal fitting causes a first coupling portion to protrude from a first electric wire connection portion to a side opposite to a drawing direction of an electric wire and causes a first terminal connection p...