Patents Assigned to Bals Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co. KG
  • Patent number: 11336035
    Abstract: A clamping spring for a screwless connection terminal for clamping a conductor, has a clamping limb, a contact limb, and a tensioning limb, the tensioning limb being connected to the clamping limb and the contact limb, and the clamping limb and the contact limb being designed as intersecting limbs. In the clamping limb, a clamping opening is provided, through which the contact limb extends, such that the contact limb is in contact with an edge of the clamping opening remote from the tensioning limb in a pretensioned manner and an exposed wire end of a conductor can be clamped with the contact limb onto a contact surface of a contact element of a screwless connection terminal. Furthermore, the clamping limb has a clamping extension having a clamping surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: Bals Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Andreas Ramm
  • Patent number: 10554028
    Abstract: A housing construction kit that includes at least one plug device and/or one fuse. The kit contains a housing base body with numerous installation openings and numerous installation plates. A first coding means is formed on each opening and a second coding means is formed on each plate. Every first coding means of an opening has a unique first coding and every second coding means of a plate has a unique second coding. Every second coding means of a plate is designed to be complementary to at most one first coding means of an opening and every second coding means of a plate is designed to be complementary to a first coding means of another opening as every second coding means of a plate, which is designed to be suitable for assembly of at least one plug device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Bals Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Ramm, Mareike Bankstahl
  • Patent number: 9660358
    Abstract: A contact element for an electrical plug connecting device, having a molded first end section and a molded elongated receiving section which defines a longitudinal axis for mechanical and electrical coupling and/or receiving a mating contact element designed to be complementary to the contact element of a plug connecting device to be paired with the electrical plug connecting device, both of which are manufactured of an electrically conductive material. The elongated receiving section extends essentially cylindrically from the first end section. This end section as well as the elongated cylindrical receiving section are molded to be free of seams and butt joints by shaping the electrically conducting material by means of a force acting at least predominantly parallel to the longitudinal axis, and at least the receiving section molded by shaping the electrically conducting material forms a cylindrical interior sheathed by the molded electrically conducting material along the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Bals Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Ramm, Mareike Bankstahl
  • Patent number: 9595818
    Abstract: A housing construction kit that includes at least one plug device and/or one fuse. The kit contains a housing base body with numerous installation openings and numerous installation plates. A first coding means is formed on each opening and a second coding means is formed on each plate. Every first coding means of an opening has a unique first coding and every second coding means of a plate has a unique second coding. Every second coding means of a plate is designed to be complementary to at most one first coding means of an opening and every second coding means of a plate is designed to be complementary to a first coding means of another opening as every second coding means of a plate, which is designed to be suitable for assembly of at least one plug device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: Bals Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co KG
    Inventors: Andreas Ramm, Mareike Bankstahl
  • Patent number: 9407018
    Abstract: A contact element for an electrical plug connecting device, having a molded first end section and a molded elongated receiving section which defines a longitudinal axis for mechanical and electrical coupling and/or receiving a mating contact element designed to be complementary to the contact element of a plug connecting device to be paired with the electrical plug connecting device, both of which are manufactured of an electrically conductive material. The elongated receiving section extends essentially cylindrically from the first end section. This end section as well as the elongated cylindrical receiving section are molded to be free of seams and butt joints by shaping the electrically conducting material by means of a force acting at least predominantly parallel to the longitudinal axis, and at least the receiving section molded by shaping the electrically conducting material forms a cylindrical interior sheathed by the molded electrically conducting material along the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2016
    Assignee: Bals Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Ramm, Mareike Bankstahl
  • Publication number: 20140361674
    Abstract: A housing construction kit that includes at least one plug device and/or one fuse. The kit contains a housing base body with numerous installation openings and numerous installation plates. A first coding means is formed on each opening and a second coding means is formed on each plate. Every first coding means of an opening has a unique first coding and every second coding means of a plate has a unique second coding. Every second coding means of a plate is designed to be complementary to at most one first coding means of an opening and every second coding means of a plate is designed to be complementary to a first coding means of another opening as every second coding means of a plate, which is designed to be suitable for assembly of at least one plug device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2013
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: Bals Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Ramm, Mareike Bankstahl
  • Publication number: 20140141659
    Abstract: A contact element for an electrical plug connecting device, having a molded first end section and a molded elongated receiving section which defines a longitudinal axis for mechanical and electrical coupling and/or receiving a mating contact element designed to be complementary to the contact element of a plug connecting device to be paired with the electrical plug connecting device, both of which are manufactured of an electrically conductive material. The elongated receiving section extends essentially cylindrically from the first end section. This end section as well as the elongated cylindrical receiving section are molded to be free of seams and butt joints by shaping the electrically conducting material by means of a force acting at least predominantly parallel to the longitudinal axis, and at least the receiving section molded by shaping the electrically conducting material forms a cylindrical interior sheathed by the molded electrically conducting material along the longitudinal axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Publication date: May 22, 2014
    Applicant: Bals Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Ramm, Mareike Bankstahl
  • Patent number: 8328588
    Abstract: A screwless connection terminal with a contact element to which a conductor is to be electrically connected, the contact element comprising a connecting section and a contact surface, with a clamp spring by means of which the conductor is to be clamped to the contact surface of the contact element, wherein the clamp spring has a clamping leg, an abutting leg and a tensioning leg, wherein a clamp opening is formed in the clamping leg, through which clamp opening, the conductor is to be led, wherein the abutting leg of the clamp spring abuts on the contact element, and the tensioning leg of the clamp spring connects the abutting leg to the clamping leg, wherein the clamping leg further comprises a conductor clamp extension with a clamping face which is aligned substantially parallel to the contact surface of the contact element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Bals Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Ramm, Walter Schepe
  • Publication number: 20120088415
    Abstract: A screwless connection terminal with a contact element to which a conductor is to be electrically connected, the contact element comprising a connecting section and a contact surface, with a clamp spring by means of which the conductor is to be clamped to the contact surface of the contact element, wherein the clamp spring has a clamping leg, an abutting leg and a tensioning leg, wherein a clamp opening is formed in the clamping leg, through which clamp opening, the conductor is to be led, wherein the abutting leg of the clamp spring abuts on the contact element, and the tensioning leg of the clamp spring connects the abutting leg to the clamping leg, wherein the clamping leg further comprises a conductor clamp extension with a clamping face which is aligned substantially parallel to the contact surface of the contact element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2011
    Publication date: April 12, 2012
    Applicant: BALS ELEKTROTECHNIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Ramm, Walter Schepe
  • Patent number: 7249963
    Abstract: The invention relates to a screwless connection terminal having a contact part having a connection section to which a conductor can be electrically connected, a clamping spring, a metallic frame which surrounds the clamping spring and is designed to be inserted into insulating housing means of an electrical apparatus, and an actuating element for the clamping spring, the frame also at least partially accommodating the connection section, and the clamping spring in accordance with one embodiment having a leg for the purpose of moving the frame in relation to and transverse to the connection section in order to clamp the conductor to be connected between the frame and the connection section, a blocking device in a blocking position holding the frame in a position in which the clamping spring is prestressed, and the actuating element being in the form of a release device, which is capable of releasing the blocking position for the frame in order to bring the leg into action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2007
    Assignee: Bals Elektrotechnik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Andreas Ramm
  • Publication number: 20070006558
    Abstract: The invention relates to a screwless connection terminal having a contact part having a connection section to which a conductor can be electrically connected, a clamping spring, a metallic frame which surrounds the clamping spring and is designed to be inserted into insulating housing means of an electrical apparatus, and an actuating element for the clamping spring, the frame also at least partially accommodating the connection section, and the clamping spring in accordance with one embodiment having a leg for the purpose of moving the frame in relation to and transverse to the connection section in order to clamp the conductor to be connected between the frame and the connection section, a blocking device in a blocking position holding the frame in a position in which the clamping spring is prestressed, and the actuating element being in the form of a release device, which is capable of releasing the blocking position for the frame in order to bring the leg into action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2006
    Publication date: January 11, 2007
    Applicant: BALS ELEKTROTECHNIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Andreas Ramm