US Patent Issued to Yazaki on June 23 for "Electrical connector with sliding fitting detection member" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 15 -- United States Patent no. 12,665,343, issued on June 23, was assigned to Yazaki Corp. (Tokyo).

"Electrical connector with sliding fitting detection member" was invented by Tetsuya Watanabe (Shizuoka, Japan) and Nobuyuki Mukoujima (Shizuoka, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector includes a housing configured to be fitted to a counterpart housing and having a terminal accommodating chamber configured to accommodate a terminal, and a fitting detection member slidably attached to the housing and configured to detect fitting between the housing and the counterpart housing. The fitting detection member includes a locking protrusion to be locked to a locked prot...