ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 21 -- United States Patent no. 12,771,117, issued on Oct. 20, was assigned to Littelfuse Inc. (Rosemont, Ill.).
"Terminal designs for adjusting harness protection time" was invented by Yan Fang (Chicago), Jianhua Chen (Chicago) and Jun Gang Wang (Chicago).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A terminal assembly, arranged for an automobile harness, comprising: a substrate; a modified terminal, arranged as a plate structure that is arranged on the substrate and extends perpendicularly with respect to a plane of the substrate; and a resettable fuse component, the resettable fuse component comprising a polymer positive temperature coefficient (PPTC) material, and coupled in series ...