US Patent Issued to TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS on Aug. 4 for "Connector with connector position assurance" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,700,697, issued on Aug. 4, was assigned to TE CONNECTIVITY SOLUTIONS GMBH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Connector with connector position assurance" was invented by Carsten Buck (Bensheim, Germany) and Maximilian Veihl (Bensheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector for connecting to a mating connector includes a transmission element which extends along a mating direction and is mounted movably with respect to the housing of the connector between a mated position, in which the connector and the mating connector are connected, and a disconnected position, in which the connector and the mating connector are disconnected. In th...