US Patent Issued to YAZAKI on Oct. 20 for "Crimp terminal" (Japanese Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,049, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).

"Crimp terminal" was invented by Kazuma Watanabe (Makinohara, Japan).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A crimp terminal includes a conductor crimp portion that includes a bottom plate on which a conductor of an electric wire being disposed, and a pair of conductor swage pieces extending from both side edges of the bottom plate, the conductor crimp portion being crimped and connected to the conductor, by covering the conductor with the pair of conductor swage pieces and swaging the conductor. The conductor crimp portion includes a serration that extends in a groove shape over t...