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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 27, 2016
Filed:
Mar. 23, 2015
Applicant:
Ford Global Technologies, Llc, Dearborn, MI (US);
Inventors:
Mahmoud Yousef Ghannam, Canton, MI (US);
Swadad A. Carremm, Canton, MI (US);
Joel Allen Pittenger, Rochester Hills, MI (US);
Aed M. Dudar, Canton, MI (US);
Assignee:
Ford Global Technologies, LLC, Dearborn, MI (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R 13/52 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H01R 13/5202 (2013.01);
Abstract
A connector assembly includes a housing, a plurality of pins disposed on the housing, a pin chamber disposed on the housing, and a cap disposed on the chamber. The cap has a plurality of holes for receiving the pins. The pins are aligned with the holes when the cap is in an operating position and the pins are offset from the holes when the cap is in a storage position.