MUMBAI, India, June 26 -- Intellectual Property India has published a patent application (202544126834 A) filed by Cummins Inc. on December 15, 2025, for Fuel Line Connector.

Inventor includes Dominic Robert-Dillon Brown.

The application for the patent was published on June 19, 2026, under issue no. 25/2026.

Abstract: A fuel line connector includes female and male couplings and rear sealing nut assembly. The female coupling includes a sliding sleeve assembled to a cam lock. The male coupling includes a cam body having a ball bearing detent groove. Double seal redundancy prevents fuel leakage at connections between female and male couplings, rear sealing nut assembly, and fuel lines. The sliding sleeve includes a sliding sleeve body having a plurality of ball detent sliding sleeve housing latch bars. The cam lock includes a cam lock body having a cam lock portion sized to receive the plurality of ball detent sliding sleeve housing latch bars between pairs of latch bar stubs to couple the sliding sleeve with the cam lock. Detent balls assembled with the ball bearing detent groove in the cam body, detent openings in the cam lock, and the ball bearing detent groove in the sliding sleeve. Fig. 1

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