Patents by Inventor Christian Otto Bommel

Christian Otto Bommel has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 6102752
    Abstract: A two-part electrical socket contact for insertion into a cavity of a housing the cavity having a flexible contact securing element, said contact being provided with a contact body comprising a contact making section for making contact with a complementary contact pin or contact blade, and a connecting section for making connection with an electrical conductor, the contact making section being provided with at least two facing contact springs, and an outer cantilever spring enveloping the contact making section of the contact body, the outer cantilever spring being basically of a box-shaped design comprising a top, a bottom and two sides, the top of the outer cantilever spring consisting of a lower and an upper layer with the upper layer running parallel but spaced apart from the lower layer, and being provided with an opening to accommodate the contact securing element and the edges of the upper layer being bent over at right angles towards the lower layer and with the upper layer being narrower in its width
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2000
    Assignee: The Whitaker Corporation
    Inventors: Christian Otto Bommel, Rolf Jetter
  • Patent number: 5711687
    Abstract: A tab terminal comprises an inner contact body and an outer spring body having a locking lance. The outer body is mounted over the inner body in a vertical direction, whereby inwardly bent tabs of the inner contact body receive a side wall of the outer body, the other side wall of the outer body having a clinching tab that engages in a cutout of the inner contact body. The latter enables a very simple assembly procedure that reduces assembly time, tool complication, and therefore production costs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1998
    Assignee: The Whitaker Corporation
    Inventors: David Bouwe Kuiper-Moore, Peter Donald Gaulton, Christian Otto Bommel, Rolf Jetter, Antonio Lehner