ALEXANDRIA, Va., Oct. 28 -- United States Patent no. 12,454,041, issued on Oct. 28, was assigned to Weidmuller Interface GmbH & Co. KG (Germany).
"Manually operable pressing tool" was invented by Christian Heggemann (Detmold, Germany), Siegfried Storm (Schlangen, Germany), Detlev Hetland (Detmold, Germany) and Jan Kaup (Detmold, Germany).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A manually operated pressing tool has a first manual lever, a second manual lever, a node element pivotably connecting the two manual levers to one another via a first pivot axis and a second pivot axis and a crimping unit arranged on a head portion of the pressing tool. The crimping unit includes a crimping die and a die recepta...