US Patent Issued to Caterpillar Global Mining Europe on June 10 for "Electric terminal assembly of a drive unit for use in a mining machine" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 18 -- United States Patent no. 12,328,054, issued on June 10, was assigned to Caterpillar Global Mining Europe GmbH (Lunen, Germany).

"Electric terminal assembly of a drive unit for use in a mining machine" was invented by Michael Nafe (Holzwickede, Germany), Dennis Grimm (Nordkirchen, Germany) and Thomas Hoelken (Bergkamen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The present invention refers to an electric terminal assembly of a drive unit for use in a mining machine. The electric terminal assembly comprises a junction box configured to be mounted to the drive unit and a connecting element for communicatively connecting the junction box to a control device of the drive u...