Patents by Inventor Ludwig Lange
Ludwig Lange 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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Publication number: 20220149559Abstract: A cable connector assembly includes lower and upper hood parts which are mated together to form a passageway therethrough in which a connector and a cable retaining assembly are mounted. The cable retaining includes a cable retaining body and a cable retainer attached thereto. The cable retaining body provides two exits and the cable retaining body can be positioned within the hood parts in a number of different orientations to change the exit path. Multiple cable retaining bodies and cable retainers can be interchangeably mounted within the hood parts.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2020Publication date: May 12, 2022Applicant: Molex, LLCInventors: Ludwig LANGE, Gabriele KRIMSHANDL, Matthijs VONWITTE, Jörg Henning MAIROSE, Mario URNER, Peter George ROCHE, Marco STEINBRÜECK
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Patent number: 9368916Abstract: An electrical connector module including a housing and an array of electrical contacts within the housing. The electrical contacts include a plurality of signal conductors and a plurality of ground conductors. Ground coupling bars are used with at least two contact portions for contacting ground conductors. The connector includes slots enabling insertion of the ground coupling bar in a longitudinal direction of the ground coupling bar.Type: GrantFiled: May 25, 2012Date of Patent: June 14, 2016Assignee: FCI Asia PTE, Ltd.Inventors: Winnie Heyvaert, Ludwig Lange, Thierry Goossens, Jeroen De Bruijn
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Patent number: 9312640Abstract: An assembly is disclosed herein, including a connector and a carrier for carrying the connector. The connector includes a plurality of terminals having terminal contacts, a first shield at least partially surrounding at least one first terminal and having a first shield contact and a second shield at least partially surrounding at least one second terminal and having a second shield contact. The carrier includes a plurality of signal conductors, e.g. being a circuit board or a connector body. The carrier also includes a plurality of, advantageously substantially identical, contact sites. The terminal contacts are contacted to a number of the contact sites of the carrier, and the first and second shield contacts are arranged adjacent each other so that they together fit and are contacted to one contact site of the carrier.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2011Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: FCIInventors: Ludwig Lange, Winnie Heyvaert, Thierry Goossens, Robert Van Den Heuvel
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Patent number: 9190774Abstract: The invention relates to a contact pin having longitudinal surfaces bulged to define opposite contact lines extending in longitudinal direction of the contact pin, wherein in cross section of the contact pin the plane through the two opposite contact lines is offset from the cross sectional center of the contact pin.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2011Date of Patent: November 17, 2015Assignee: FCIInventors: Jeroen De Bruijn, Gert Droesbeke, Winnie Heyvaert, Ludwig Lange, Stefaan Hendrik Jozef Sercu
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Patent number: 8851926Abstract: An electrical connector includes a first contact module and a second contact module adjacent the first contact module. Each contact module has a plurality of ground and signal contacts. Each ground contact and signal contact includes a mating portion, a mounting portion, and an intermediate portion extending between the mating portion and the mounting portion. In each contact module, the intermediate portions of the ground contacts are disposed in a first common plane and the intermediate portions of the signal contacts are disposed in a second common plane that is spaced from the first common plane. The first contact modules and the second contact modules are arranged such that two adjacent signal contacts of the first and second contact modules, respectively, define a differential signal pair such that the intermediate portions of the adjacent signal contacts are spaced more closely than the intermediate portions of two adjacent ground contacts of the first and second contact modules, respectively.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 2010Date of Patent: October 7, 2014Assignee: FCIInventors: Ludwig Lange, Paul Potters, Thierry Goossens, Winnie Heyvaert
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Patent number: 8834204Abstract: A connector assembly is provided which includes a housing and at least one conductor module. The conductor module comprises at least a first sub-module and a second sub-module attached together to form the conductor module. The conductor module is at least partially received in the housing. The housing and the first sub-module include cooperating positioning structures for positioning the at least one conductor module into the housing such that the position of the second sub-module with respect to the housing is determined by the position of the first sub-module with respect to the housing in at least a first direction (X; Z). A connector assembly is also provided in which at least one contact includes at least one contact beam of which a part is resiliently displaceable substantially parallel to a side wall of the housing from a preload position to a second position for receiving a mating contact.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 2010Date of Patent: September 16, 2014Assignee: FCIInventors: Jeroen De Bruijn, Paul Johannes Marinus Potters, Ludwig Lange, Winnie Heyvaert
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Publication number: 20140127919Abstract: An electrical connector module including a housing and an array of electrical contacts within the housing. The electrical contacts include a plurality of signal conductors and a plurality of ground conductors. Ground coupling bars are used with at least two contact portions for contacting ground conductors. The connector includes slots enabling insertion of the ground coupling bar in a longitudinal direction of the ground coupling bar.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 25, 2012Publication date: May 8, 2014Inventors: Winnie Heyvaert, Ludwig Lange, Thierry Goossens, Jeroen De Bruijn
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Publication number: 20140057492Abstract: An assembly is disclosed herein, including a connector and a carrier for carrying the connector. The connector includes a plurality of terminals having terminal contacts, a first shield at least partially surrounding at least one first terminal and having a first shield contact and a second shield at least partially surrounding at least one second terminal and having a second shield contact. The carrier includes a plurality of signal conductors, e.g. being a circuit board or a connector body. The carrier also includes a plurality of, advantageously substantially identical, contact sites. The terminal contacts are contacted to a number of the contact sites of the carrier, and the first and second shield contacts are arranged adjacent each other so that they together fit and are contacted to one contact site of the carrier.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2011Publication date: February 27, 2014Applicant: FCIInventors: Ludwig Lange, Winnie Heyvaert, Thierry Goossens, Robert Van Den Heuvel
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Publication number: 20130344743Abstract: The invention relates to a contact pin having longitudinal surfaces bulged to define opposite contact lines extending in longitudinal direction of the contact pin, wherein in cross section of the contact pin the plane through the two opposite contact lines is offset from the cross sectional centre of the contact pin.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2011Publication date: December 26, 2013Inventors: Jeroen De Bruijn, Gert Droesbeke, Winnie Heyvaert, Ludwig Lange, Stefaan Hendrik Jozef Sercu
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Patent number: 8550852Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical connector that includes an insulating connector housing containing a plurality of slots arranged in a matrix of rows and columns. A plurality of single ended contacts is received in the slots. In particular, the single ended contacts are arranged in pairs in said slots of said matrix, such that, in a first row, a first pair of said contacts accommodates slots in a first column and a second column of said matrix and, in a second row adjacent to said first row, a second pair of said contacts accommodates slots in said second column and a third column of said matrix, wherein positions corresponding respectively to the first row and the third column, and to the first column and the second row are free of contact.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2007Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: FCIInventors: Thierry Goossens, Bernardus Paagman, Stefaan Hendrik Jozef Sercu, Ludwig Lange
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Patent number: 8435062Abstract: Latch assembly for latching two mating connectors. The latch assembly includes a main body and a resilient latch finger extending from the main body. The latch finger includes a locking section, such as a locking cam. A release member, e.g., a slider, is moveable between a locking position and a release position. The release member a pressure surface profiled to flex the latch finger away when the release member is moved to the release position. The pressure surface is positioned between the locking section and the connected end of the latch finger, when the release member is in the locking position. The main body can, e.g., include a surface with a sunk section, the latch finger forming an extension of the sunk section, while the release member is a slider slideable in the sunk section.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2008Date of Patent: May 7, 2013Assignee: FCIInventors: Ludwig Lange, Ben Paagman
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Publication number: 20120135643Abstract: An electrical connector includes a first contact module and a second contact module adjacent the first contact module. Each contact module has a plurality of ground and signal contacts. Each ground contact and signal contact includes a mating portion, a mounting portion, and an intermediate portion extending between the mating portion and the mounting portion. In each contact module, the intermediate portions of the ground contacts are disposed in a first common plane and the intermediate portions of the signal contacts are disposed in a second common plane that is spaced from the first common plane. The first contact modules and the second contact modules are arranged such that two adjacent signal contacts of the first and second contact modules, respectively, define a differential signal pair such that the intermediate portions of the adjacent signal contacts are spaced more closely than the intermediate portions of two adjacent ground contacts of the first and second contact modules, respectively.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 3, 2010Publication date: May 31, 2012Inventors: Ludwig Lange, Paul Potters, Winnie Heyvaert
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Publication number: 20120129399Abstract: A connector assembly is provided which includes a housing and at least one conductor module. The conductor module comprises at least a first sub-module and a second sub-module attached together to form the conductor module. The conductor module is at least partially received in the housing. The housing and the first sub-module include cooperating positioning structures for positioning the at least one conductor module into the housing such that the position of the second sub-module with respect to the housing is determined by the position of the first sub-module with respect to the housing in at least a first direction (X; Z). A connector assembly is also provided in which at least one contact includes at least one contact beam of which a part is resiliently displaceable substantially parallel to a side wall of the housing from a preload position to a second position for receiving a mating contact.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2010Publication date: May 24, 2012Applicant: FCIInventors: Jeroen De Bruijn, Paul Johannes Marinus Potters, Ludwig Lange, Winnie Heyvaert
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Publication number: 20110256762Abstract: The present invention provides a connector assembly including a first connector and a corresponding second connector adapted to be mated with the first connector along a mating direction to a mating position. The first connector includes at least a first terminal arranged within the first insulating housing and a first contact member protruding from a shield in the mating direction and being arranged on an external side of the first mating portion. The second connector includes a second terminal arranged within a second insulating housing and a second contact member arranged at least partially within the second mating portion for making contact with the first contact member of the first connector. The first and second contact members establish a first make, last break contact.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 6, 2008Publication date: October 20, 2011Inventors: Ludwig Lange, Thierry Goossens
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Publication number: 20110223794Abstract: Latch assembly for latching two mating connectors. The latch assembly includes a main body and a resilient latch finger extending from the main body. The latch finger includes a locking section, such as a locking cam. A release member, e.g., a slider, is moveable between a locking position and a release position. The release member a pressure surface profiled to flex the latch finger away when the release member is moved to the release position. The pressure surface is positioned between the locking section and the connected end of the latch finger, when the release member is in the locking position. The main body can, e.g., include a surface with a sunk section, the latch finger forming an extension of the sunk section, while the release member is a slider slideable in the sunk section.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2008Publication date: September 15, 2011Inventors: Ludwig Lange, Ben Paagman
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Publication number: 20100203765Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical connector that includes an insulating connector housing containing a plurality of slots arranged in a matrix of rows and columns. A plurality of single ended contacts is received in the slots. In particular, the single ended contacts are arranged in pairs in said slots of said matrix, such that, in a first row, a first pair of said contacts accommodates slots in a first column and a second column of said matrix and, in a second row adjacent to said first row, a second pair of said contacts accommodates slots in said second column and a third column of said matrix, wherein positions corresponding respectively to the first row and the third column, and to the first column and the second row are free of contact.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2007Publication date: August 12, 2010Inventors: Thierry Goossens, Bernardus Paagman, Stefaan Hendrik Josef Sercu, Ludwig Lange
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Publication number: 20100184340Abstract: A connector contact assembly is provided, which includes a contact part for establishing electrical contact between a conductor of a cable or wire and a mating counter contact. The contact part includes a mating section and a crimping section, the crimping section includes a plurality of contact beams extending from the mating section and being arranged for engaging the conductor of the cable or the wire. The assembly further includes a crimping ferrule being adapted to be crimped onto at least a portion of the contact beams for fixing the contact part to the conductor.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2007Publication date: July 22, 2010Inventors: Bernardus Paagman, Ludwig Lange
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Patent number: 5080881Abstract: Methods for the preparation of lower sodium polysulfides such as sodium disulfide from higher sodium polysulfides and sodium. To this end, either molten sodium polysulfide placed in a receiver is reacted with sodium in a stoichiometric ratio corresponding to the desired product under vigorous agitation and under protective gas or the higher polysulfide and the sodium are dosed into a polysulfide melt in a receiver under the same conditions either alternatively or simultaneously. In all instances, the dosing of the sodium is set so that the reaction mixture remains capable of being agitated and the agitation is continued until the desired product composition has been achieved.Type: GrantFiled: September 11, 1989Date of Patent: January 14, 1992Assignee: Degussa AktiengesellschaftInventors: Friedrich Bittner, Walter Hinrichs, Herbert Hovestadt, deceased, Ludwig Lange, Erich Splett
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Patent number: 5075098Abstract: A method of preparing sodium monosulfide by means of reacting a sodium polysulfide with sodium under protective gas, the sodium polysulfide is placed in a first stage in a finely distributed, solid state in a receiver, preheated to temperatures of 100.degree.-150.degree. C., liquid sodium is gradually added in the required amount to the material in the receiver under intensive mixing, whereby the temperature of the reaction mixture is maintained at 120.degree.-250.degree. C. and in a second stage the formed initial product is allowed to continue to react, or postreact under continuation of the mixing at 250.degree.-480.degree. C., until a Na.sub.2 S content of at least 95% by weight has been attained.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 1990Date of Patent: December 24, 1991Assignee: Degussa AktiengesellschaftInventors: Friedrich Bittner, Walter Hinrichs, Lutz Hippe, Ludwig Lange, Erich Splett
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Patent number: 5039505Abstract: A method of preparing sodium monosulfide by means of reacting sodium and sulfur under protective gas, wherein sodium monosulfide is placed in a first stage in a receiver in a finely distributed, solid state, the initial material is preheated to 120.degree.-150.degree. C. and sulfur and sodium are alternately added in the required amount ratio under intensive mixing, whereby the temperature of the reation mixture is maintained at 120.degree.-250.degree. C., and in a second stage the formed initial product is allowed to continue to react or postreact under continuation of the mixing at 250.degree.-480.degree. C., until a Na.sub.2 S content of at least 95% by weight has been attained.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 1990Date of Patent: August 13, 1991Assignee: Degussa AktiengesellschaftInventors: Friedrich Bittner, Walter Hinrichs, Lutz Hippe, Ludwig Lange, Erich Splett