US Patent Issued to TE Connectivity Germany on April 7 for "Connection arrangement for fastening an electrical contact element to an electrical conductor" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 7 -- United States Patent no. 12,597,719, issued on April 7, was assigned to TE Connectivity Germany GmbH (Bensheim, Germany).

"Connection arrangement for fastening an electrical contact element to an electrical conductor" was invented by Gregor Panitz (Bensheim, Germany) and Holger Starke (Bensheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connection arrangement includes an expansion ferrule insertable in a slidable manner into a central opening of an electrical contact element and an expansion element inserted into the expansion ferrule. The expansion ferrule is expanded when the expansion element is fully inserted into the expansion ferrule to clamp the electrical co...