Patents by Inventor Leonard A. Krantz
Leonard A. Krantz 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).
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Patent number: 7270575Abstract: An interconnect device and electrical signal filtering connector is disclosed that does not require soldering. The interconnect device is an electrical contact that has a proximate or forward end with a cavity for receiving an electrical conductor of a first plug, and a distal or rear end, also called a tail, formed with a circumferentially-arranged undercut that engages the ends of one or more electrically conducting flanges that extend radially inward in a contact receptacle of a printed circuit board. The connector can be a male plug or female receptacle, including a receptacle with front and rear shells and an insert slidably engaged inside the shells, the receptacle adaptable for receiving a round, 14-conductor plug. The printed circuit board assembly includes a printed circuit board with one or more contact receptacles.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 2003Date of Patent: September 18, 2007Assignee: Amphenol CorporationInventors: Leonard A. Krantz, Jr., Joseph D. Magnan
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Publication number: 20040157500Abstract: An interconnect device and electrical signal filtering connector is disclosed that does not require soldering. The interconnect device is an electrical contact that has a proximate or forward end with a cavity for receiving an electrical conductor of a first plug, and a distal or rear end, also called a tail, formed with a circumferentially-arranged undercut that engages the ends of one or more electrically conducting flanges that extend radially inward in a contact receptacle of a printed circuit board. The connector can be a male plug or female receptacle, including a receptacle with front and rear shells and an insert slidably engaged inside the shells, the receptacle adaptable for receiving a round, 14-conductor plug. The printed circuit board assembly includes a printed circuit board with one or more contact receptacles.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2003Publication date: August 12, 2004Inventors: Leonard A. Krantz, Joseph D. Magnan
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Patent number: 5730623Abstract: A triax cable contact provides improved high frequency performance by terminating the outer screen of the cable to an outer contact arranged to engage a ground clip in the connector and thereby ground the outer screen to the shell of the connector rather than directly to a corresponding outer contact of a mating triax contact. This permits the distance between the inner and intermediate contacts to be increased without increasing the outer diameter of the contact.Type: GrantFiled: November 1, 1995Date of Patent: March 24, 1998Assignee: Amphenol CorporationInventors: Leonard A. Krantz, Lloyd G. Ratchford
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Patent number: 5498180Abstract: An electrical connector filter or transient suppression component structure includes a component body, a first lead adapted to electrically contact a feedthrough contact pin in an electrical connector and a second lead adapted to engage a ground plate. The first lead may be cylindrical to extend all the way around the contact pin, the second lead including a cylindrical termination section which electrically connects the component to the ground plate by engaging an aperture provided in the ground plate. The components are housed in a dielectric insert assembly which, in one embodiment includes pairs of circular openings at one end and rectangular/circular opening pairs at the other end, the component body being inserted into a rectangular opening and the contacts and termination section extending through the circular openings.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 1992Date of Patent: March 12, 1996Assignee: Amphenol CorporationInventors: Leonard A. Krantz, Joseph D. Magnan, Stephen Punako
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Patent number: 5198958Abstract: A transient suppression component includes a lead assembly adapted to permit in-line installation in a connector contact. One lead surrounds the other and is cylindrical for connection to the aperture tines of a connector ground plate. The other lead carries electrical signals between mating portions of the connector contact assembly. A transient suppression component body is connected between the feedthrough lead and the cylindrical ground lead.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 1991Date of Patent: March 30, 1993Assignee: Amphenol CorporationInventor: Leonard A. Krantz, Jr.
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Patent number: 5195014Abstract: A transient suppression component includes a lead assembly adapted to permit in-line installation in a connector contact. One lead surrounds the other and is cylindrical for connection to the aperture tines of a connector ground plate. The other lead carries electrical signals between mating portions of the connector contact assembly. A transient suppression component body is connected between the feedthrough lead and the cylindrical ground lead. The feedthrough lead can be made from a single stamped piece of metal formed to include a component mounting section which substantially encloses the component.Type: GrantFiled: February 12, 1992Date of Patent: March 16, 1993Assignee: Amphenol CorporationInventors: Leonard A. Krantz, Jr., Gary C. Toombs, Douglas M. Johnescu
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Patent number: 5164873Abstract: A transient suppression connector includes a plurality of contacts each of which carries both a negatively and a positively biased diode. The connector also includes negative and positive bias voltage input pins and a grounding arrangement including a respective common diode for the negatively and the positively biased contact diodes.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 1991Date of Patent: November 17, 1992Assignee: Amphenol CorporationInventors: Leonard A. Krantz, Gary C. Toombs, Douglas M. Johnescu
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Patent number: 4768977Abstract: An electrical connector assembly having means for protecting its contacts from adverse voltage surges includes protectively terminating one terminal of a silicon diode within a notch formed in the contact and the other terminal with a conductive sleeve encircling the contact body but spaced therefrom. The conductive sleeve is in releasable engagement with a plurality of conductive spring fingers which are integral with a conductive grounding plate whereby a ground path is established between the connector shell and the contact without stressing the diode or its terminations.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 1986Date of Patent: September 6, 1988Assignee: Amphenol CorporationInventors: Edward R. Gliha, Jr., Leonard A. Krantz, Jr.
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Patent number: 4746310Abstract: An electrical connector has a removable dielectric insert sized to fit within the forward opening of the connector shell with internal threads in the shell being threadably engaged by an external threads on a locking nut threadably inserted into the shell to abut the insert. A retaining ring is snapped into an annular recess of the insert to captivate the nut on the insert and provide a surface to aid in retraction of the insert. The terminals are two piece with a rearward portion being nonremovably retained within the shell and the forward portion having a circuit component thereon which can be replaced when the insert is removed.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 1986Date of Patent: May 24, 1988Assignee: Amphenol CorporationInventors: Ronald W. Morse, Leonard A. Krantz, Jr., Richard L. Paul
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Patent number: 4707048Abstract: An electrical connector having means for protecting its terminals from transient voltages includes a selectively plated cavity endwall in a substrate being laterally offset from its respective terminal receiving passage, a silicon diode being mounted in the cavity and connected to a conductive spring, and ground paths completing a conductive circuit between the terminal, the endwall and the connector shell, the spring completing an electrical ground path through the diode for overvoltages to be diverted from the terminal to the shell ground.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 1986Date of Patent: November 17, 1987Assignee: Amphenol CorporationInventors: Edward R. Gliha, Leonard A. Krantz, Jr.
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Patent number: 4639076Abstract: This invention is a lens type fiber optic connector that has a lens holder assembly (70) releasably mounted (54, 78) within the bore of an insert (55). This arrangement provides for quick and easy installation, repair or replacement of a lens (10) or defective optical fiber (81) without the need to replace or disassemble the entire connector.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 1983Date of Patent: January 27, 1987Assignee: Allied CorporationInventors: John H. Mikolaicyk, Leonard A. Krantz, Jr.
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Patent number: 4431251Abstract: An electrical connector (10) having built-in rapid response solid state circuit protection devices (42) for the absorption of electromagnetic pulses and the like associated with the connector contacts (16) by grounding to the connector shell (22), the circuit protection devices (42) mounted between a ground plate (44) and an insert disc (52) which carries an electrical connection to the respective contact (16). In some embodiments leads (48, 50) of the device (42) are connected into the connector (10), while in the other embodiments the diodes (156) are directly mounted to the ground plate (150) and disc (152). All connections are soldered to minimize the inductance created by the connections to minimize the response time and accurately control the voltage level triggering the devices. (FIG.Type: GrantFiled: October 13, 1981Date of Patent: February 14, 1984Assignee: The Bendix CorporationInventor: Leonard A. Krantz
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Patent number: 4275945Abstract: A filter connector is disclosed having a compound filter with two filter elements (20,22) connected in cascade in the filter contact (14). Separate ground plates (40,50) are provided for each of the filter elements (20,22). Each filter element, such as a pi section filter, is provided with an electrode arrangement which facilitates connection of filter elements in cascade and minimizes susceptibility to flash-over between electrodes. The filter element comprises a center conductor (74) with a dielectric sleeve (100) coaxially thereof. A ground electrode (80) is disposed on the external surface of the sleeve, one active electrode (78) extends from the internal surface to the external surface of the sleeve over one end surface thereof and another active electrode (82) extends from the internal surface to the external surface of the sleeve over the other end surface thereof.Type: GrantFiled: August 31, 1979Date of Patent: June 30, 1981Assignee: The Bendix CorporationInventors: Leonard A. Krantz, Edward P. Hogan