ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,533, issued on March 31, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Terminal fixing method" was invented by Yuta Matsunaga (Shizuoka, Japan).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal fixing method, for fixing one or more terminals to a plurality of lands provided on a substrate by laser welding, includes: constructing the plurality of lands by one or more terminal installation lands on which the terminals are installed and one or more dummy lands each larger than each of the terminal installation lands; irradiating each of divided laser beams emitted from a laser oscillator toward a corresponding land of two or more lands in the pluralit...