ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,586,970, issued on March 24, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Terminal fitting and terminal-equipped electric wire" was invented by Syunsuke Yaoita (Makinohara, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal fitting includes an ultrasonic bonding part that is ultrasonically bonded to a conductor part, and an electric connection part that is formed integrally with the ultrasonic bonding part and is electrically connected to a counterpart member. The ultrasonic bonding part includes a bottom wall extending along an axial direction of the electric wire, and a pair of side walls protruding from the bottom wall along a height directio...