US Patent Issued to KOSTAL Kontakt Systeme on March 31 for "Electrical connection unit having spring-loaded press-on contacts" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 31 -- United States Patent no. 12,592,509, issued on March 31, was assigned to KOSTAL Kontakt Systeme Gmbh & Co. KG (Luedenscheid, Germany).

"Electrical connection unit having spring-loaded press-on contacts" was invented by Dennis Gazke (Breckerfeld, Germany), Holger Botzen (Luedenscheid, Germany), Andreas Scheib (Schwerte, Germany) and Sebastian Vogt (Luedenscheid, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connection unit includes an insulating mounting frame and multiple resilient press-on contacts situated on the mounting frame. Each press-on contact includes a helical pressure spring that can exert an elastic force on a metal contact body. The contact body is connec...