US Patent Issued to ABB E-Mobility on Nov. 11 for "Contact element for an EV connector with capillary fluid cooling" (Swiss, Dutch Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,470,009, issued on Nov. 11, was assigned to ABB E-Mobility B.V. (Delft, Netherlands).

"Contact element for an EV connector with capillary fluid cooling" was invented by Francisco Garcia-Ferre (Baden, Switzerland), Lilian Kaufmann (Birmenstorf, Switzerland), Pedram Kheiri (Hausen, Switzerland), Stefan Raaijmakers (Delft, Netherlands) and Wiebe Zoon (Delft, Netherlands).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A contact element for an electric vehicle (EV) connector that is configured to connect a charging wire to a connector interface on a vehicle side includes a front part and at least one base. The front part comprises walls having an inner and an...