US Patent Issued to TYCO ELECTRONICS-SIMEL on Oct. 7 for "Break-off bolt with torque-limiting section" (French Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 8 -- United States Patent no. 12,435,747, issued on Oct. 7, was assigned to TYCO ELECTRONICS-SIMEL (Gevrey-Chambertin, France).

"Break-off bolt with torque-limiting section" was invented by Julien Dossmann (Gevrey-Chambertin, France), Bruno Peltier (Gevrey-Chambertin, France) and Laurent Petrignet (Gevrey-Chambertin, France).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A break-off bolt for securing a conductor within a connector includes a first thread section, a second thread section and a torque-limiting section arranged between the first thread section and the second thread section. The first thread section and the second thread section comprise the same external thread having a min...