US Patent Issued to TE Connectivity Solutions on May 13 for "Electrical connector assembly machine" (Pennsylvania, Washington Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., June 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,300,956, issued on May 13, was assigned to TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH (Switzerland).

"Electrical connector assembly machine" was invented by Swapnilsinh Solanki (Harrisburg, Pa.), Scott Thomas Schlegel (Middletown, Pa.), Jiankun Zhou (Mechanicsburg, Pa.) and Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu (Bellevue, Wash.).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "An electrical connector assembly machine includes a pin support mechanism having first and second pin support forks. The first pin support fork includes a first connecting bar and first tines defining first gaps configured to receive connecting pins of contacts. The second pin support fork includes a second c...