US Patent Issued to Schaeffler Technologies on Nov. 3 for "Electrical contacting element, and measuring assembly for measuring the voltage in a fuel cell system" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 3 -- United States Patent no. 12,782,462, issued on Nov. 3, was assigned to Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG (Herzogenaurach, Germany).

"Electrical contacting element, and measuring assembly for measuring the voltage in a fuel cell system" was invented by Sebastian Zwahr (Obermichelbach, Germany), Thomas Swoboda (Nuremberg, Germany) and Andreas Nendel (Hessdorf, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical contacting element for a bipolar plate is disclosed. The contacting element has the form of a folded sheet metal clamp, wherein a planar lower clamp part is integrally connected to a likewise planar upper clamp part by a connecting region that is linear when...