US Patent Issued to APTIV TECHNOLOGIES on Oct. 7 for "Busbar portion with integral connection and retention means" (Polish Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,438,297, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to APTIV TECHNOLOGIES AG (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).

"Busbar portion with integral connection and retention means" was invented by Grzegorz Porebski (Podleze, Poland), Jakub Walkowski (Rzezawa, Poland) and Piotr Grodzki (Rzezawa, Poland).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A busbar portion includes a busbar conductor and a busbar end which is integrally formed with the busbar conductor. The busbar end has a connection portion. The connection portion is configured for being plugged to a mating connector to establish an electrical connection. The busbar end further incorporates a retention means which is c...