US Patent Issued to PHOENIX CONTACT on Aug. 12 for "Connection arrangement employing a clamping spring and actuator" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Aug. 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,388,198, issued on Aug. 12, was assigned to PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & Co. KG (Blomberg, Germany).

"Connection arrangement employing a clamping spring and actuator" was invented by Martin Gebhardt (Lage, Germany) and Ralph Hoppmann (Bad Oeynhausen, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connection arrangement for connecting an electrical conductor includes: a housing; a busbar; a clamping spring including a clamping leg transferrable into a clamping position and into a release position; an actuator by which a compressive force is applicable to the clamping leg for transferring the clamping leg from the clamping position into the release po...