US Patent Issued to Feinmetall on Sept. 22 for "Longitudinally shiftable electrically conductive contact device" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Sept. 24 -- United States Patent no. 12,742,813, issued on Sept. 22, was assigned to Feinmetall GmbH (Herrenberg, Germany).

"Longitudinally shiftable electrically conductive contact device" was invented by Lutz Benedix (Herrenberg, Germany), Lorenz GauB (Herrenberg, Germany), Hans-Albert Busse (Hachenburg, Germany) and Mark Daniel Flik (Herrenberg, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contact device (1) for electrically conductively contacting, in particular flat contact partners (34), with a contact head (42), which has two contact elements (7,8), which are mounted on a common carrier (2) so as to be longitudinally shiftable in a sliding direction for contacting the cont...