US Patent Issued to YAZAKI on May 20 for "Lever type electrical connector with inner and outer housings" (Japanese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 16 -- United States Patent no. 12,308,569, issued on May 20, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Lever type electrical connector with inner and outer housings" was invented by Naoto Takashima (Makinohara, Japan) and Koutaro Tobino (Fujieda, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector housing includes: a housing body configured to accommodate a connector terminal; and a lever axially supported on the housing body so as to be rotatable around a rotation axis, the lever being configured to rotate around the rotation axis from a temporary lock position to a final lock position to finally lock a mating connector to the housing body by pulling the mating connector havi...