US Patent Issued to Aptiv Technologies on Feb. 10 for "Electrical connector with a secondary locking device" (Austrian, German, Indian Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 11 -- United States Patent no. 12,548,936, issued on Feb. 10, was assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Electrical connector with a secondary locking device" was invented by Franz Pacher (Roth, Germany), Prasanna Ramakrishnan (Chennai, India) and Reinhard Hinteregger (Bad Kleinkirchheim, Austria).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A electrical connector comprises a housing defining a receiving space, and a first opening in communication with the receiving space and configured for receiving a first electrical terminal. The housing includes a primary locking device configured to secure the first electrical terminal at a defined position within the rece...