ALEXANDRIA, Va., April 9 -- United States Patent no. 12,272,900, issued on April 8, was assigned to Tyco Electronics (Shanghai) Co. Ltd. (Shanghai) and TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH (Schaffhausen, Switzerland).
"Connector assembly device" was invented by An (Joshua) Yang (Shanghai), Lvhai (Samuel) Hu (Shanghai) and Roberto Francisco-Yi Lu (Bellevue, Wash.).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A connector assembly device includes a terminal clamping device clamping and fixing a terminal of a connector and an insertion module. The insertion module includes a housing clamping device clamping and fixing a housing of the connector, a terminal guide device having a conical guide hole guiding the terminal...