ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 5 -- United States Patent no. 12,240,342, issued on March 4, was assigned to PHOENIX CONTACT E-MOBILITY GMBH (Schieder-Schwalenberg, Germany).
"Plug connector having insulation monitoring" was invented by Thomas Fuehrer (Blomberg, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "The invention relates to a plug connector part (1) for electrical connection to a mating plug connector part (3), comprising a housing (10), at least two load contacts (11A, 11B), a protective conductor contact (12) and a grounding element (13) which is arranged in the housing (10) and is electrically connected to the protective conductor contact (12), wherein the grounding element (13) extends, in an ele...