US Patent Issued to TE Connectivity Germany on Jan. 20 for "Connection assembly and connector with rotatable position assurance" (German Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Jan. 20 -- United States Patent no. 12,531,375, issued on Jan. 20, was assigned to TE Connectivity Germany GmbH (Bensheim, Germany).

"Connection assembly and connector with rotatable position assurance" was invented by Jurek Reuter (Bensheim, Germany), Konrad Helmut Roth (Bensheim, Germany) and Markus Kressmann (Bensheim, Germany).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connection assembly of a connector comprises a connection housing, a locking element and a position assurance device. The connection housing is interconnectable with a counter connection housing along a connection axis. The locking element is movable between a locking position fixing the counter connection housing to ...