US Patent Issued to Aptiv Manufacturing Management Services on July 28 for "Automated wire kitting systems" (Ohio Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., July 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,695,260, issued on July 28, was assigned to Aptiv Manufacturing Management Services GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Automated wire kitting systems" was invented by Sean Krompegel (Canfield, Ohio), David A. Myers (Hubbard, Ohio), Jeffrey M. Handel (Canfield, Ohio) and Keith B. Adkins (Warren, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An automated wire kitting system for assembling wire leads for a wired connector comprises a terminal delivery system configured to obtain a target terminal from a plurality of different types of terminals for wire leads and a crimp press comprising a plurality of dies and being configured to obtain a wire havin...