Patents Assigned to Hirschmann Automotive GmbH
  • Patent number: 7484448
    Abstract: A pyrotechnic release unit has a generally tubular casing having an open rear end and an open front end and adapted to be secured to one of a pair of separable vehicle parts, a pin releasably retained in the front end of the housing and adapted to be secured to the other of the pair of separable vehicle parts, a support plug fittable through the rear end into the housing and carrying a pyrotechnic charge turned toward the front end, and a latch element bearing rearward on the casing and forward on the support plug and sufficiently strong that on explosion of the charge the support plug remains fixed in the casing and the pin is blown out of the front end of the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2009
    Assignee: Hirschmann Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Günther Schmid, Novica Zelenovic
  • Patent number: 7384284
    Abstract: An electrical connector has a multiconductor plug strip and a multiconductor socket strip fittable complementarily and transversely with the plug strip. A pivot seat on one of the strips defines a pivot axis, and a lever formed with a pivot is fittable with the seat and pivotal on the one strip about the axis. An actuating formation on the lever offset from the axis and another actuating formation on the other strip are engageable with each other when the other strip is at least partially fitted to the one strip to disengage and engage the strips with each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: Hirschmann Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Denz, Thomas Burk
  • Patent number: 7370413
    Abstract: An electrical connector has a hard base part forming at least one rearwardly and forwardly open seat and formed with a transverse passage extending across the seat generally at the rear seat end, a respective contact in the seat having a front end and a rear end, a respective wire projecting into the rear end of the seat and connected there to the rear contact end, and a soft jacket encapsulating a rear end of the base part and front ends of the wires and extending at least partially into the rear seat ends. This connector is made by fitting a flow-blocking bar through the passage into a position blocking forward flow in the seat to the front contact end. The rear end of the part and the bar are then enclosed in a cavity of a mold to be filled with hardenable resin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: Hirschmann Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Marcel Perle, Martin Kopf
  • Patent number: 7344388
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for contacting an electrical conductor of a cable with a conductor trace (8) of a circuit board (2), characterized in that the device is made as a press-in contact (1) fittable in a hole of the circuit board (2) and securable there without solder and having a press-in part electrically contacting the conductor trace (8) and a contacting region (5) for securing and electrically contacting the end of the electrical conductor of the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2008
    Assignee: Hirschmann Automotive GmbH
    Inventor: Markus Kreuter
  • Patent number: 7338313
    Abstract: A wire having a conductive core surrounded by an insulation sheath is fitted to an electrical connector having a housing formed with a longitudinally extending passage and a contact part in the passage. The contact part has a front end having pair of sides adapted to flank a contact pin engaged in the passage and a rear end adapted to grip the wire with a stripped end of the conductive core extending in the front end between the sides thereof alongside the pin. An anchor lug on one of the sides engages an inner surface of the passage and retains the contact part therein. A biasing element braced between the conductive core and an opposite inner surface of the passage presses the conductive core transversely against the pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2008
    Assignee: Hirschmann Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Rudolf Fekonja, Michael Respondek, Arnold Federer, Kurt Ellensohn, Georg Geismayr
  • Patent number: 7285015
    Abstract: A connector has a longitudinally rearwardly open housing having a forwardly open contact chamber. A flat multiconductor cable projects longitudinally forward in the housing into the contact chamber and is connected there to respective contacts. A spacer extends longitudinally forward into the housing adjacent the ribbon cable and projects longitudinally rearward from the housing. This spacer is formed with at least one transversely extending recess open inside the housing toward the ribbon cable. A molded synthetic-resin mass engaged around the cable immediately rearward of the housing fills the recess and bears transversely outward against the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2007
    Assignee: Hirschmann Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Richard Helbok, Martin Kopf, Marcel Perle
  • Patent number: 7193183
    Abstract: A glow plug connector for a glow plug with built-in sensor, especially built-in pressure sensor, comprising a casing made of an electrically insulating material, which can be placed onto the glow plug. Provided centrally in the casing is a high-current connection which is connected to the high-current contact of the heating devices of the glow plug when the connector is placed thereon. Sensor contacts are provided on the casing insulated with respect to the high-current connection for contacting the sensor connections of the built-in sensor when the connector is placed thereon. For sealing an O-ring is provided on the outside of the casing whereas a locking mechanism serves to deliver the withdrawal force which must be overcome so that a coupling placed thereon can be removed from the glow plug connector. The connector is part of a system with a glow plug connector and glow plug.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2007
    Assignees: Beru AG, Hirschmann Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Haussner, Gerald List, Frank Pechhold, Hans Houben, Juergen Haefele, Werner Jaeger
  • Patent number: 7168984
    Abstract: An electrical connector has a hard base part forming a plurality of rearwardly and forwardly open seat, respective contacts in the seats each having a front end and a rear end, and respective wires projecting forwardly into the seats and connected in the seats to the rear contact ends. A guide spaced rearward from the base part is engaged at least partially around the wires and aligns the wires with the respective seats. A connector element carries the guide on the base part. A soft jacket encapsulates a rear end of the base part, the guide, the element, and front ends of the wires and extends at least partially into the rear seat ends.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2007
    Assignee: Hirschmann Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Marcel Perle, Martin Kopf
  • Patent number: 7165982
    Abstract: A plug-in connector for a diesel-engine glow plug has a housing centered on an axis and fittable with the glow plug and a plurality of contacts in the housing. A first latch on the housing is displaceable when the housing is fitted to the glow plug between an unlocked position permitting the housing to be installed on and removed from the glow plug and a locked position for fixing the housing to the glow plug. A second latch on the housing is displaceable between an unlocked position permitting the first latch to move between its locked and unlocked positions and a locked positions holding the first latch in its locked position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2007
    Assignee: Hirschmann Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Häfele, Werner Jäger
  • Publication number: 20050173395
    Abstract: A glow plug connector for a glow plug with built-in sensor, especially built-in pressure sensor, comprising a casing made of an electrically insulating material, which can be placed onto the glow plug. Provided centrally in the casing is a high-current connection which is connected to the high-current contact of the heating devices of the glow plug when the connector is placed thereon. Sensor contacts are provided on the casing insulated with respect to the high-current connection for contacting the sensor connections of the built-in sensor when the connector is placed thereon. For sealing an O-ring is provided on the outside of the casing whereas a locking mechanism serves to deliver the withdrawal force which must be overcome so that a coupling placed thereon can be removed from the glow plug connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2005
    Publication date: August 11, 2005
    Applicants: Beru AG, Hirschmann Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Haussner, Gerald List, Frank Pechhold, Hans Houben, Juergen Haefele, Werner Jaeger