US Patent Issued to APTIV TECHNOLOGIES on Oct. 21 for "Electrical connector having a ferrule with clinched arms for shielded functionality" (Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,451,623, issued on Oct. 21, was assigned to APTIV TECHNOLOGIES AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Electrical connector having a ferrule with clinched arms for shielded functionality" was invented by Michal Wojtula (Cracow, Poland), Dominik Wrzesien (Konskie, Poland), Pawel Kruczek (Cracow, Poland) and Maciej Sikora (Liszki, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connector includes a ferrule configured to receive a portion of a first conductive wire of a high voltage electrical cable. The ferrule is configured to fasten to a cable shield which electrically shields the first conductive wire and to electrically connect the cable ...