US 12,170,420 B2
Electrical connector for automotive applications and method of assembling thereof
Gert Droesbeke, Erkrath (DE); Paul Pigmans, Tilburg (NL); and Manoharan Srinivasan, Chennai (IN)
Assigned to Aptiv Technologies AG, Schaffhausen (CH)
Filed by Aptiv Technologies AG, Schaffhausen (CH)
Filed on Apr. 13, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/719,739.
Claims priority of application No. 21168031 (EP), filed on Apr. 13, 2021.
Prior Publication US 2022/0328998 A1, Oct. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. H01R 13/50 (2006.01); H01R 13/24 (2006.01); H01R 13/504 (2006.01); H01R 13/627 (2006.01); H01R 13/6591 (2011.01); H01R 43/24 (2006.01)
CPC H01R 13/5045 (2013.01) [H01R 13/2464 (2013.01); H01R 13/6271 (2013.01); H01R 13/65915 (2020.08); H01R 43/24 (2013.01); H01R 2201/26 (2013.01)] 12 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electrical connector configured for automotive applications, comprising:
a signal contact having a contact portion selected from a list consisting of a generally cylindrical elongated male pin formed by a coining process and a female tuning fork shape formed by the coining process, wherein the signal contact comprises a twisted section that is twisted around a longitudinal axis by at least 35 degrees and wherein the twisted section of the signal contact is covered by a molded part that is manufactured by overmolding the twisted section of the signal contact.