US Patent Issued to Aptiv Technologies on March 3 for "Secured high power connector assembly and process of assembly" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,567,710, issued on March 3, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Secured high power connector assembly and process of assembly" was invented by Frederic Menez (Hermeray, France) and Jean Fabre (Chartres, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connector assembly includes a connector, a counter-connector, and a dedicated tool for disassembling the connector and the counter-connector. The connector includes primary and secondary locking means, at least one of which being at least partially covered by a protecting wall configured so as to have an insertion opening, wherein a key portion of the dedi...