Patents by Inventor Lothar Andreas Post

Lothar Andreas Post 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: 6394840
    Abstract: An electrical connector for coaxial cable having at least one contact with a contact region for connection to a mating contact and a connection region for connection to a coaxial cable, wherein the contact includes a peripheral groove; a contact-securing sleeve can be pushed onto the contact from an end face that has at least one latching arm which latches in the groove and at least one further latching element; and a casing with at least one receiving chamber for receiving the contact with the contact-securing sleeve, wherein the latching element of the contact-securing sleeve latches with a mating latching element of the casing and the receiving chamber holds the latching arm in the latched position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2002
    Assignee: The Whitaker Corporation
    Inventors: Uwe Gassauer, Lothar Andreas Post, Horst Neumeuer, Dieter Lietz
  • Patent number: 5833484
    Abstract: A connector assembly comprises a gear member having a pinion engageable with the rack of a complementary connector. The gear member comprises a lever arm for actuating the pinion. The gear member is latched in the fully coupled position by a resilient latching member of the connector housing. A secondary locking slide member can be shifted from a pre-locked position to a locked position such that an end portion is positioned below the resilient latching arm to prevent biasing thereof. Safe and reliable locking of the complementary connectors is thus achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 10, 1998
    Assignee: The Whitaker Corporation
    Inventors: Lothar Andreas Post, Jorg Kunze
  • Patent number: 5785558
    Abstract: A connector assembly having a trough-shaped accommodating part and a plug part which can be plugged into the latter where the plug part has an essentially rectangular cross-section and in the vicinity of the two end edges, a safety rib extends in the plugging direction outward therefrom in such a way that the width the respectively opposite safety ribs is greater than the width of the basic plug part and the accommodating part has a plug channel with safety grooves for accommodating the safety ribs in the longitudinal side walls such that the plug part is receivable therein, the plug part having a surrounding housing and a socket housing that can be telescopically pushed into the surrounding housing through an insertion opening on a transverse side surface and complementary latching structure is provided on the surrounding housing and on the socket housing, for the purpose of latching the socket housing in the surrounding housing where the safety ribs are fitted to the socket housing or the surrounding housin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 28, 1998
    Assignee: The Whitaker Corporation
    Inventors: Lothar Andreas Post, Dieter Lietz, Jorg Kunze, Lukas Pniak-Pawlik, Jean-Pierre Picaud, Thierry Mezin
  • Patent number: 5704806
    Abstract: An electrical connector housing fixable within an opening of a wall comprising an inner housing and an outer housing, characterized in that in response to relative movement between the housings resilient members which have passed through the opening are expanded outward preventing the housing from backing out of the wall, where the outer and inner housings may also include portions that define the receiving region wherein the mating connector halve must be received to be locked thereto that are only properly orientated when the housing is retained to the panel, thereby providing a through-wall housing that is easily inserted and affixed to a wall from one side thereof and preventing mating with the complementary connector half until the first connector half is locked to the panel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1998
    Assignee: The Whitaker Corporation
    Inventors: Lothar Andreas Post, Harald Schmitt