US Patent Issued to ABB E-MOBILITY on Sept. 29 for "Charging connector for an electric vehicle" (Swiss, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 30 -- United States Patent no. 12,746,837, issued on Sept. 29, was assigned to ABB E-MOBILITY B.V. (Delft, Netherlands).

"Charging connector for an electric vehicle" was invented by Francisco Garcia-Ferre (Baden, Switzerland), Lilian Kaufmann (Birmenstorf, Switzerland), Pedram Kheiri (Hausen, Switzerland), Stefan Raaijmakers (Delft, Netherlands) and Wiebe Zoon (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electric vehicle charging connector includes contact elements that are electrically connected to a cable. The contact elements comprise a block portion and at least one contact finger extending from the block portion, and a cooling tube for forced cooling that ...