H01R 4/4852
Means for improving the contact with the conductor
Official title: {Means for improving the contact with the conductor, e.g. uneven wire-receiving surface}
H01R4/4852 (Means for improving the contact with the conductor) appears on 116 US grants and 104 published applications in this corpus.
Search patents in H01R- Granted patents
- 116
- Published applications
- 104
- Assignees
- 55
- Inventors
- 166
- Latest grant
- 30 Jun 2026
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By publication year. Applications have been published since 2001. 2026 runs to 8 Oct.
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