US Patent Issued to Lear on May 19 for "Contact assembly for an electrical pass-through" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., May 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,633,702, issued on May 19, was assigned to Lear Corp. (Southfield, Mich.).

"Contact assembly for an electrical pass-through" was invented by Chao Fang (Shanghai) and Jianwei Guo (Shanghai).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contact assembly includes a ferrule and a shield contact. The ferrule has a cable contact that is adapted to be connected to a shield of a coaxial cable. The shield contact has a plurality of contact arms that are adapted to engage an enclosure. The shield contact also has a ring portion that extends inside a portion of the ferrule. The contact assembly includes a plurality of retaining features that provide a press-fit b...