Patents Assigned to Kostal Kontakt Systeme GmbH
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Patent number: 9960528Abstract: An electrical device includes a housing, a retaining cap, and a sleeve. The housing has a cable port through which a cable is led into the housing. The retaining cap has a passage opening through which the cable is led through the retaining cap. The sleeve has a fixing section resting against a sheath of the cable and an annular face extending radially with respect to the cable. In an assembled state of the electrical device, the retaining cap is joined to the sleeve and fixes the sleeve to the cable port with the passage opening of the retaining cap engaging over the fixing section of the sleeve and an edge surface of the passage opening pressing the fixing section against the sheath of the cable. Further in the assembled state, the retaining cap and the cable port may be connected to one another by a bayonet connector.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2017Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: Kostal Kontakt Systeme GmbHInventors: Thomas Drescher, Jiri Keclik, Petr Spunar, Teodor Knobloch
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Publication number: 20170358888Abstract: An electrical plug-type connector part includes a contact carrier, a protective housing, and a clamping bracket. The contact carrier has chambers for receiving contact elements connected to electrical connection lines. The protective housing is engaged over the contact carrier and has passage openings receiving the electrical connection lines. The clamping bracket is attachable to the protective housing and has elastic spring arms corresponding to the passage openings in the protective housing. When the clamping bracket is attached to the protective housing the spring arms extend into the passage openings and resiliently press the electrical connection lines received in the passage openings against an inner wall of the protective housing for the clamping bracket to thereby fix the electrical connection lines to the protective housing in a clamping manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2017Publication date: December 14, 2017Applicant: Kostal Kontakt Systeme GmbHInventors: Daniel Reimann, Volker Thurau
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Patent number: 9825445Abstract: An electric device includes a housing and a clamp. The housing has a port through which a cable is led. The clamp has inter-connectable first and second clamping bodies. Each clamping body has clamping ribs. The clamping bodies are interconnected to one another causing the clamping ribs to interlock with one another around the cable to thereby fix the clamp to the cable. The clamp is situated at an opening of the port with the clamping bodies being within the port and the clamp is fastened to the housing.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2016Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignee: Kostal Kontakt Systeme GmbHInventors: Markus Metzler, Michael Schricker
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Patent number: 9787026Abstract: An electrical connector includes first and second connector parts and an electrical connection detector. The electrical connection detector includes a contact spring with a spring contact on the first connector part and a contact strip on the second connector part. The electric connection detector establishes an electrical connection between the contact spring and the contact strip when the connector parts are joined together. The second connector part includes an electrically insulating protrusion which forms a guide bevel that rises in a joining direction of the first connector part toward the second connector part. The spring contact is guided over the guide bevel, rests behind the protrusion, and physically contacts the contact strip when the connector parts are joined together to thereby establish an electrical connection between the contact spring and the contact strip.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2017Date of Patent: October 10, 2017Assignee: Kostal Kontakt Systeme GmbHInventors: Thomas Scherer, Petr Spunar, Vojtech Leopold, Rainer Buethe, Jiri Keclik
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Patent number: 9725002Abstract: A charging system for charging an electric vehicle at a charging station includes a charge module at the charging station and a charge module at the vehicle. The charge modules include electric contact elements which can be interconnected together. The charging system includes an automatic positioning device configured to move the charging station charge module relative to the vehicle charge module to align and join the charge modules together. The charging system includes an automatic feed device configured to enable the contact elements of the charging station charge module to connect to the contact elements of the vehicle charge module when the charge modules are joined together. The contact elements of the charge modules are configured such that the contact elements can connect to each other without overriding a contact force.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2015Date of Patent: August 8, 2017Assignee: Kostal Kontakt Systeme GmbHInventors: Siegfried Hauptenbuchner, Thomas Scherer, Georg Schroeder, Matthias Schubert, Joerg Welschholz, Roland Drees
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Patent number: 9692146Abstract: A contact element for connecting to a cable having a braided shield includes a spring contact sleeve and a crimp sleeve. The spring contact sleeve has an annular ring and spring contacts arranged circumferentially on one end of the annular ring. The spring contact sleeve and the crimp sleeve form an enclosed hollow cavity between one another when the crimp sleeve is joined to the annular ring. The hollow cavity is configured to fully receive therein an exposed portion of the braided shield provided for connection of the contact element to the cable.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2015Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Kostal Kontakt Systeme GmbHInventors: Joern Justi, Hans-Juergen Krach, Georg Schroeder, Uwe Pitzul, Wilfried Heringhaus
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Patent number: 9692179Abstract: A connector assembly includes a first plug connector housing in which a first plug contact is arranged, a second plug connector housing, and a seal. The second connector housing includes a protective enclosure, a contact carrier insert in which a second plug contact is fixedly arranged, and a lever. The protective enclosure and the contact carrier insert are movable relative to one another. While the contact carrier insert is connected to the first connector housing with the first and second plug contacts being joined together the protective enclosure moves relative to the contact carrier insert in a direction toward the first connector housing during an actuation of the force-amplifying means to compress the seal between the protective enclosure, the contact carrier insert, and the first connector housing.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2016Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: Kostal Kontakt Systeme GmbHInventor: Christian Jaworek
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Publication number: 20170179647Abstract: An electrical connector includes first and second connector parts and an electrical connection detector. The electrical connection detector includes a contact spring with a spring contact on the first connector part and a contact strip on the second connector part. The electric connection detector establishes an electrical connection between the contact spring and the contact strip when the connector parts are joined together. The second connector part includes an electrically insulating protrusion which forms a guide bevel that rises in a joining direction of the first connector part toward the second connector part. The spring contact is guided over the guide bevel, rests behind the protrusion, and physically contacts the contact strip when the connector parts are joined together to thereby establish an electrical connection between the contact spring and the contact strip.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 8, 2017Publication date: June 22, 2017Applicant: Kostal Kontakt Systeme GmbHInventors: Thomas Scherer, Petr Spunar, Vojtech Leopold, Rainer Buethe, Jiri Keclik
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Publication number: 20170141512Abstract: An electrical device includes a housing, a retaining cap, and a sleeve. The housing has a cable port through which a cable is led into the housing. The retaining cap has a passage opening through which the cable is led through the retaining cap. The sleeve has a fixing section resting against a sheath of the cable and an annular face extending radially with respect to the cable. In an assembled state of the electrical device, the retaining cap is joined to the sleeve and fixes the sleeve to the cable port with the passage opening of the retaining cap engaging over the fixing section of the sleeve and an edge surface of the passage opening pressing the fixing section against the sheath of the cable. Further in the assembled state, the retaining cap and the cable port may be connected to one another by a bayonet connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2017Publication date: May 18, 2017Applicant: Kostal Kontakt Systeme GmbHInventors: Thomas Drescher, Jiri Keclik, Petr Spunar, Teodor Knobloch
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Patent number: 9647371Abstract: A multipole electrical plug-in connector part includes a connector housing, a protective cap, and a clamping body. The protective cap is lockable to the connector housing and has an inlet opening. The protective cap further has a fixing section. The fixing section and the connector housing are connected together. The clamping body has elastically resilient clamping surfaces and is connected to the fixing section. Electrical connecting lines extending through the inlet opening toward the fixing section are mechanically fixed in a force-fit manner between the clamping surfaces of the clamping body and inner wall sections of the connector housing.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2016Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Kostal Kontakt Systeme GmbHInventors: Volker Thurau, Daniel Reimann, Rene Reissmann
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Publication number: 20170077688Abstract: An electric device includes a housing and a clamp. The housing has a port through which a cable is led. The clamp has inter-connectable first and second clamping bodies. Each clamping body has clamping ribs. The clamping bodies are interconnected to one another causing the clamping ribs to interlock with one another around the cable to thereby fix the clamp to the cable. The clamp is situated at an opening of the port with the clamping bodies being within the port and the clamp is fastened to the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2016Publication date: March 16, 2017Applicant: Kostal Kontakt Systeme GmbHInventors: Markus Metzler, Michael Schricker
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Patent number: 9595783Abstract: A fluid-tight via includes a plastic body, a flat contact, and a permanently elastic sealant. The plastic body is composed of a non-shrinking, duroplastic material. The flat contact has an intermediate region encapsulated by the plastic body. The intermediate region of the flat contact has a cross-sectional width which varies along an axial direction of the flat contact. The permanently elastic sealant fills cracks in interfaces between the plastic body and the flat contact.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2015Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: Kostal Kontakt Systeme GmbHInventor: Uwe Pitzul
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Patent number: 9337569Abstract: A fluid-tight contact implementation includes a plastic body and a flat contact(s). The plastic of the plastic body is composed of a non-shrinking, duroplastic material. The flat contact has a region encapsulated by the plastic body. The encapsulated region of the flat contact has a cross-sectional width which varies along an axial direction of the flat contact. Longitudinal edges of the encapsulated region of the flat contact along the axial direction are rounded.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2014Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Kostal Kontakt Systeme GmbHInventors: Gerd Kindermann, Uwe Pitzul, Uwe Raschke, Marek Ciezarek
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Patent number: 9287647Abstract: An electrical zero-force plug connector includes a socket housing holding sleeve contacts movable between opened and closed positions and an assembly connector having connector pins. A bolt is movable against the socket housing from an unlocked position into a locked position after the socket housing and the assembly connector are joined. A slider is connected to the bolt and the sleeve contacts such that as the bolt moves the slider moves through a seal of the socket housing and moves the sleeve contacts. While the socket housing and the assembly connector are joined and the bolt is unlocked, the sleeve contacts are opened and the connector pins are inserted into the sleeve contacts. While the socket housing and the assembly connector are joined and the bolt is locked, the sleeve contacts are closed and the connector pins inserted into the sleeve contacts are held therein.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2015Date of Patent: March 15, 2016Assignee: Kostal Kontakt Systeme GmbHInventor: Artur Swoboda
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Patent number: 9209553Abstract: A plug-in connector includes a plug-in connector housing having first and second housing parts. The first housing part has electrical components and a blade-like part. The second housing part is connectable to the first housing part and has a recess through which an electrical line can pass to connect with the electrical components. The blade-like part covers a portion of the recess and constricts the recess to a relatively smaller feed-through region when the housing parts are connected together.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2014Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: Kostal Kontakt Systeme GmbHInventor: Kersten Rimke
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Patent number: 9160082Abstract: A sleeve contact includes a base body, a clamping sleeve, and a spring. The base body includes a receiving region. The clamping sleeve displaceable against the base body. The spring has first and second S-curve sections and is mounted at one end to the base body to thereby form a lever having a short lever arm from the end to the first S-curve section and a long lever arm from the end to the second S-curve section. The clamping sleeve acts on the spring as the contact sleeve displaces to produce a contact force towards the receiving region such that the long lever arm is pressed by the clamping sleeve towards the receiving region to thereby cause the short lever arm to bear against a plug contact inserted into the receiving region.Type: GrantFiled: July 17, 2014Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: Kostal Kontakt Systeme GmbHInventors: Wilfried Heringhaus, Herbert Plate, Patrick Heinemann
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Publication number: 20140256167Abstract: A fluid-tight contact implementation includes a plastic body and a flat contact(s). The plastic of the plastic body is composed of a non-shrinking, duroplastic material. The flat contact has a region encapsulated by the plastic body. The encapsulated region of the flat contact has a cross-sectional width which varies along an axial direction of the flat contact. Longitudinal edges of the encapsulated region of the flat contact along the axial direction are rounded.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 16, 2014Publication date: September 11, 2014Applicant: Kostal Kontakt Systeme GmbHInventors: Gerd Kindermann, Uwe Pitzul, Uwe Raschke, Marek Ciezarek
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Patent number: 8323055Abstract: A cable assembly includes a coaxial cable and a plug-in connector. The cable has inner and outer conductors and an insulation layer between the conductors. The connector has first and second tubular components. The first tubular component is inserted between the insulation layer and the outer conductor at a free end section of the cable and the second tubular component is connected to the first tubular component and encloses the outer conductor whereby the plug-in connector is connected to the cable. The second tubular component forms a sleeve that opens toward the free end section of the cable.Type: GrantFiled: October 3, 2011Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: Kostal Kontakt Systeme GmbHInventors: Herbert Plate, Brantley Natter
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Patent number: 8246368Abstract: An electrical plug-type connector includes a carrier, a sleeve contact having a movable tensioning sleeve, a housing movable relative to the carrier, a mating component having a pin configured to make contact with the sleeve contact, and a lever having first and second lever arms. Joining of the mating component with the carrier causes an anti-displacement element between the housing and the carrier to be released and, as a result of a displacement of the housing relative to the carrier, the tensioning sleeve moves and presses the sleeve contact against the pin and the first lever arm displaces and connects with the mating component and the displacement of the first lever arm builds spring tension that is applied in the second lever arm such that the second lever arm latches on the housing with a latching sound when the housing reaches an end position relative to the carrier.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2012Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Kostal Kontakt Systeme GmbHInventors: Rainer Buethe, Hartmut Soennecken, Wilfried Heringhaus
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Patent number: 8206178Abstract: An electrical appliance includes a housing having a holding chamber and an insert slot, an insulation displacement connector (IDC), and an electrical component such as a battery inserted into the holding chamber. The component has an electric connector extending through the holding chamber into the insert slot. Upon insertion of the IDC into the insert slot, the IDC contacts the electric connector of the component and contacts a printed circuit board (PCB) mounted to the housing whereby the electrical component and the PCB are electrically connected via the electric connector of the component and the IDC. The holding chamber completely surrounds, at least in sections, the component within the holding chamber. The holding chamber includes a radially-pivotable latching clip which axially fixes in place the component within the holding chamber.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2011Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: Kostal Kontakt Systeme GmbHInventors: Klaus Hinteresch, Ruediger Knobloch, Werner Koster