ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,064, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to YAZAKI Corp. (Tokyo).
"Lever type connector" was invented by Yoshinori Ishikawa (Makinohara, Japan) and Yuki Nakayama (Tokyo).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A lever member includes an operation portion disposed at an end portion of a moment arm at a position farthest from a rotation shaft, and an insertion/extraction support structure that rotates a housing in one direction from a first lever position in a fittable state and an extractable state to a second lever position in a completely fitted state to apply a connector fitting force, and rotates the housing in the other direction from the seco...