Patents Assigned to Harting Electric GmbH & Co. KG
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Patent number: 11929565Abstract: An interface for electrically contacting a printed circuit board housed in a housing is formed as a double-sided and/or two-part interface by a first interface having at least one first contact element which is brought into electric contact with at least one terminal of the printed circuit board; a second interface having at least one second contact element corresponding to the first interface and arranged on an opening of the housing in a stationary manner such that the first and second contact elements are brought into contact with each other. The second contact element provides a terminal which can be contacted from outside the housing, wherein plug-in and/or pulling forces acting on the terminal are received by the second interface and/or the housing. The second interface is designed for connecting a plug connector on the housing exterior, and the first contact element is provided by a stamped bent contact.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2020Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: HARTING ELECTRIC GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Albert Ferderer, Christof Hermoni
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Patent number: 11913774Abstract: A method is provided for ensuring and/or checking the quality of a crimping using a crimping machine for crimping a cable with a contact sleeve and using a first optical sensor for detecting and/or recording first image data of the contact sleeve and using an evaluation electronics system. The method includes detecting the first image data of the contact sleeve by the first optical sensor; carrying out, via the evaluation electronics system, a first comparison of the first image data of the first optical sensor with first reference data of a predetermined contact sleeve; checking the first comparison for the presence of a predetermined first criterion; and, if the predetermined first criterion is satisfied, outputting a first signal. The detection of the first image data and the first comparison and the checking for the first criterion and the output of the first signal are carried out before the cable is crimped with the contact sleeve.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: HARTING ELECTRIC GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Marco Braun, Felix Loske
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Patent number: 11901688Abstract: An adapter housing is provided for receiving a contact carrier, wherein the adapter housing has on its outer wall two connecting structures or means, molded on opposite one another and complementing one another, for reversibly connecting to an adapter housing of the same type and/or to a top-hat rail fixing element and wherein the adapter housing has on the inserting side at least one locking device or means for reversibly locking the adapter housing to a further adapter housing. A system comprising of a first adapter housing, with a first contact carrier received therein, a second adapter housing, with a second contact carrier received therein, and a top-hat rail is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: HARTING ELECTRIC GMBH & CO. KGInventor: Peter Giesbrecht
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Patent number: 11881649Abstract: A high-current connector includes an insulating body which has at least one contact carrier having at least one contact chamber, which has at least two through-openings on the plug-in side, and at least two electrically conductive plug-in contacts which are arranged parallel to one another in the contact chamber and each have a cable connection region at a first end and a plug-in region opposite at a second end, the plug-in regions of the plug-in contacts being guided through one of the through-openings each of the contact chamber. The high-current plug connector also has an electrically conductive connection element which is inserted into the contact chamber and which has at least two contact receptacles, into each of which one of the plug-in contacts is inserted interlockingly and frictionally by its plug-in region, and the at least two plug-in contacts are electrically conductively connected to one another by the connection element.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 2022Date of Patent: January 23, 2024Assignee: HARTING Electric GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Wilhelm Kliever
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Patent number: 11817648Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of holding frames (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) for modules (9) and in particular of holding frames (1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7) for a plug connector for receiving similar and/or different modules (9).Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2018Date of Patent: November 14, 2023Assignee: HARTING Electric GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Andre Tiemann, Heiko Meier, Andre Beneke, Jörg Ziegenhahn
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Publication number: 20230335955Abstract: The invention relates to a data transmission module for use in a connector with a modularly configurable supporting frame, said data transmission module being designed for transmitting electrotechnical signals using at least one data cable. The data transmission module also comprises a housing and an insulating body which can be inserted into the housing, the insulating body accommodating at least two contact elements which are each connected to at least one wire of the data cable, and the insulating body accommodating at least one contact carrier which accommodates at least the two contact elements of the data cable.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2021Publication date: October 19, 2023Applicant: HARTING Electric GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Jana BÜTTEMEYER, Heiko MEIER, Finn TIMMERMANN
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Patent number: 11784435Abstract: A module element is provided for accommodating pluggable contact means and/or functional elements to provide an assembled plug connector module. The module element has a retaining contour arranged and designed in such a way that a first module element can be joined with a second module element in a transverse direction, and/or the module element has a fastening contour and at least one fastening element, which are arranged and designed correspondingly in such a way that a first module element can be joined with a second module element in the transverse direction to form the plug connector module. A plug connector module composed of at least two of the module elements described above is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2019Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: HARTING Electric GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Wilhelm Kliever, Irina Lötkemann, Heiko Meier, Bernard Schlegel
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Publication number: 20230275375Abstract: A round plug connector for releasably connecting lines has at least one housing element for receiving at least one insulating body and at least one locking element for releasably connecting to a mating plug connector. The housing element receives at least one circumferential spring element, and the spring element is made of an electrically conductive material in order to attach to an electromagnetic shielding, wherein the spring element is held in a circumferential recess of the housing element and has at least two bulges facing radially outwards.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2021Publication date: August 31, 2023Applicant: HARTING Electric GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Marian BENZIN
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Patent number: 11658437Abstract: A holding frame is provided, into which plug connector modules can be inserted, wherein the holder frame comprises or consists of two halves which can be connected to each other, a first half and a second half, wherein the halves each have a lateral surface and a cover surface, wherein the holding frame has at least one first blocking element, via which the halves can be fixed in a closed position, and wherein the at least one blocking element is movably held on the first half or on the second half. The blocking element is held on the first half or on the second half in a displaceable or rotatable or pivotable manner.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2016Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Assignee: HARTING ELECTRIC GMBH & CO. KGInventor: Alexander Schönfeld
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Patent number: 11552425Abstract: Holding frames for modules are provided and in particular holding frames for a plug connector for receiving similar and/or different modules and fixedly securing the modules within the holding frames.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2021Date of Patent: January 10, 2023Assignee: HARTING Electric GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Andre Tiemann, Heiko Meier, Andre Beneke, Jörg Ziegenhahn
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Patent number: 11509081Abstract: A printed circuit board plug-in connection is provided for transmitting the highest possible currents between a printed circuit board and an electrical cable, the printed circuit board plug-in connection being manufactured as simply and economically as possible. For this purpose, a plug-in connection having a slotted pin contact is proposed. Said pin contact is arranged in an insulating body and can be inserted directly into a passage contact opening of a printed circuit board in order to establish electrical contact. The insulating body has detent arms, which releasably engage in detent openings of the printed circuit board in a locking manner at the same time. By means of dovetail connections, several insulating bodies can be fastened to each other, i.e., can be cascaded with each other. A strain relief element can also be fastened to an insulating body by means of the dovetail connection in order to provide strain relief for individual conductors of the cable.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignee: HARTING Electric GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Wilhelm Kliever
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Patent number: 11482819Abstract: An add-on housing for a plug-in connection is provided and includes a frame-like basic form, wherein fastening devices for fastening the add-on housing to a wall aperture are integrally formed within the frame-like basic form, wherein the add-on housing has at least one clamping element which can be captively clamped within the frame-like basic form, and wherein a holding frame or a contact insert can be fixed to the at least one clamping element. A method for fastening an add-on housing to a wall aperture is also provided, wherein: a frame-like basic form is fixed to the wall aperture by internal fastening devices; then, at least one clamping element, but preferably two clamping elements, is/are fixed within the frame-like basic form without tools; and a holding frame which is fitted with plug-in connector modules or a contact insert is then mounted onto the clamping elements and fixed thereto.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2018Date of Patent: October 25, 2022Assignee: HARTING Electric GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Wilhelm Kliever
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Publication number: 20220239031Abstract: A contact carrier receives and fixes at least one crimp contact. The contact carrier includes an insulating body and a holding plate that can be mounted on the insulating body on a connection side. The insulating body has a detent element which, in the non-mounted state, can assume both a position in which the crimp contact is latched and a position in which the crimp contact is unlatched. The holding plate has a locking element which, in the mounted state, fixes the at least one detent element in its position in which the crimp contact is latched. It thereby prevents the crimp contact from moving from the latching position to the unlatching position. The detent element is designed as a detent arm which points towards the connection side and has a detent molding for latching in a latching groove of the crimp contact.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 6, 2020Publication date: July 28, 2022Applicant: HARTING Electric GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Wilhelm KLIEVER
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Patent number: 11392524Abstract: An interface module for coupling data buses to first signal line ports, to which signal lines of at least one first data bus are connectable, and second signal line ports, to which signal lines of at least one second data bus are connectable, has at least one connecting device for making at least one connection between one of the first signal line ports and one of the second signal line ports. In this case, the first signal line port connected to the second signal line port is alternately connectable to at least one other second signal line port and/or the second signal line port connected to the first signal line port is alternately connectable to at least one other first signal line port. A related system has at least one such interface module and at least one apparatus that has the at least one first data bus and/or at the least one second data bus.Type: GrantFiled: June 8, 2017Date of Patent: July 19, 2022Assignee: Harting Electric GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Markus Friesen, Lutz Tröger
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Publication number: 20220224042Abstract: A circuit board plug connector (1) has at least a first housing part (2) and a second housing part (3), which can be joined together to form a connector housing. The circuit board plug connector (1) has at least two similar and/or different connector modules (4, 4?). The connector modules (4, 4?) are held by the joined housing parts (2, 3) in the connector housing for plug-in connection.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 27, 2020Publication date: July 14, 2022Applicant: HARTING Electric GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Sergej ZIER
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Patent number: 11387591Abstract: A plug connector module is provided for a modular industrial plug connector, wherein the plug connector module is formed from at least two independent functional units. In order to fit a holding frame with a plug connector module, a first functional unit is first of all combined with at least one second functional unit so as to form a plug connector module, and the plug connector module is then inserted into the holding frame.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2019Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: Harting Electric GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Irina Lötkemann, Bernard Schlegel, Heiko Meier, Wilhelm Kliever
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Publication number: 20220190499Abstract: A plug connector provides an electrical connection to a conductor track connection of a printed circuit board. The plug connector has a first printed circuit board with a conductor track connection and a plugging region for plugging the printed circuit board into the plug connector. The plugging region extends parallel to the first printed circuit board. A contact element and/or a spring element is provided in the plug connector. The plugging region and the contact element and/or the spring element are arranged in such a way that, in a plugged state of the plug connector, the printed circuit board which is plugged into the plugging region is arranged parallel to the printed circuit board and the conductor track connection is arranged opposite the conductor track connection. An electrical connection of the conductor track connection to the conductor track connection is provided by the contact element and/or the spring element.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 16, 2020Publication date: June 16, 2022Applicant: HARTING Electric GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Markus FRIESEN, Till RIECHMANN, Felix LOSKE, Inga HEILE, Christian VOLLMER
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Publication number: 20220190525Abstract: In order to receive eight electrical crimp contacts, namely four electrical signal contacts and four electrical power contacts, and a Y-shaped shielding element in a hybrid electrical plug connector, according to the invention a contact carrier is designed in multiple parts, in particular three parts, wherein the signal contact receivers are located in the first contact carrier part. The central contact can be positioned on the first or second contact carrier part. When fastening these two contact carrier parts to one another, the central contact can thus be fixed between the two contact carrier parts. Furthermore, the Y-shaped shielding element is held on a holder of the first contact carrier part. This assembly is jointly inserted into the sleeve-shaped third contact carrier part so that the central contact is positioned with its plug-in region substantially centrally in the plug-in face of the plug connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2020Publication date: June 16, 2022Applicant: HARTING Electric GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Sergej HÄMMERLING
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Patent number: 11355886Abstract: A contact carrier retains a crimp contact inserted therein at a central collar of the crimp contact in a particularly stable manner and at the same time absorb the highest possible plugging forces. The contact carrier has an insulating body and a retaining plate, which can be mounted thereon on the connection side. Furthermore, the contact carrier has at least one detent element, which, in the unassembled state, can assumed both a position locking the plug contact and a position releasing the plug contact. The detent element is part of the insulating body. The retaining plate also has at least one blocking element, which, in the assembled state, fixes the detent element in the position thereof locking the plug contact and thus prevents the transition of the detent element from the locking position into the releasing position.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2019Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: HARTING Electric GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Wilhelm Kliever
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Patent number: 11336047Abstract: A high-current connector is provided, comprising an insulating body which has at least one contact carrier having at least one contact chamber, which has at least two through-openings on the plug-in side, and at least two electrically conductive plug-in contacts which are arranged parallel to one another in the contact chamber and each have a cable connection region at a first end and a plug-in region opposite at a second end, the plug-in regions of the plug-in contacts being guided through one of the through-openings each of the contact chamber. The high-current plug connector also has an electrically conductive connection element which is inserted into the contact chamber and which has at least two contact receptacles, into each of which one of the plug-in contacts is inserted interlockingly and frictionally by its plug-in region, and the at least two plug-in contacts are electrically conductively connected to one another by the connection element.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2019Date of Patent: May 17, 2022Assignee: Harting Electric GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Wilhelm Kliever