US Patent Issued to Aptiv Technologies on May 12 for "Electrical connector with coating piercing electrical contact" (Ohio Inventor)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,627,081, issued on May 12, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Electrical connector with coating piercing electrical contact" was invented by Michael L. Mellott (Youngstown, Ohio).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connector assembly includes a generally planar metallic substrate having a surface with an electrically nonconductive coating and an electrical connector having a contact tab extending therefrom that is in mechanical and electrical contact with the metallic substrate. The contact tab defines two sharp points that are formed by two triangular portions of the contact tab that pierce the el...