US Patent Issued to Aptiv Technologies on Dec. 23 for "Connector position assurance device and connector assembly including same" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Dec. 23 -- United States Patent no. 12,506,298, issued on Dec. 23, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Connector position assurance device and connector assembly including same" was invented by Xiaoxian Tian (Shanghai) and Haifei Guan (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector position assurance (CPA) device includes a body and a primary lock which extends from the body in a first direction and has a primary locking mechanism at a distal end away from the body. The CPA device further includes two beam portions which are disposed on both sides of the body and extend in the first direction. At least a part of each of the two beam portio...