Patents Assigned to Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co., KG
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Patent number: 12035509Abstract: An assembly of an electrical device includes: at least one electrical functional assembly which has a supporting element and electrical or electronic functional components arranged on the supporting element; a fastening device for fastening the electrical device to a higher-level assembly; a heat sink core element having at least one face wall; and an external element connectable to the heat sink core element. The heat sink core element forms a supporting structure of the electrical device on which supporting structure the fastening device is arranged. The external element is connectable to the heat sink core element such that the at least one electrical functional assembly is accommodated between the at least one face wall of the heat sink core element and the external element.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2021Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Frank Best, Fabio Welslau
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Patent number: 12021331Abstract: A plug system includes a plug connector part, which has a plug connector housing and a multiplicity of connection terminals, which are arranged on the plug connector housing and which each have a spring element forming a clamping leg, and a plug device, which has a multiplicity of electrically conductive plug elements. The plug elements of the plug device for electrically contacting the connection terminals of the plug connector part can each be connected in a plugging manner along a plugging direction to one of the connection terminals of the plug connector part and, in a connected position, are mechanically operatively connected to the clamping leg of the spring element of the respective connection terminal. At least some of the plug elements have a different height measured along the plugging direction.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 2020Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KGInventor: Peter Wille
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Patent number: 12011766Abstract: A cutting part (1) for a tool head (2) for a lathe (3) for machining a workpiece (4), having a cutting edge (5) for removing material from the workpiece (4) and having a rake face (6) for guiding away the removed material or cuttings. The problem of providing a cutting part (1) which can be realized in a simple manner and with which lead-free materials can also be machined is solved in that a flat structure (7) is formed in the rake face (6) of the cutting part (1) adjoining the cutting edge (5) for breaking the cuttings. A lathe (3) for machining a workpiece (4), having a tool head (2) is provided with at least one such cutting part (1).Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2019Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Benedikt Beermann, Daniel Schanz
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Patent number: 12015231Abstract: A connection terminal for connecting an electric conductor includes: a housing; a current bar arranged in the housing; a clamping spring arranged in the housing for clamping the conductor to be connected against the current bar; and an actuation element for transferring the clamping spring into a clamping position and into an open position. The actuation element has a rotation element mounted about a first axis of rotation and a lever element mounted about a second axis of rotation. The clamping spring is mounted on the rotation element and the clamping spring follows a rotational movement of the rotation element at least in regions. The rotation element engages with the lever element such that during a rotational movement of the lever element about the second axis of rotation, the rotation element rotates about the first axis of rotation arranged spaced apart from the second axis of rotation.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2020Date of Patent: June 18, 2024Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KGInventor: Christian Kloppenburg
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Patent number: 12008928Abstract: Labeling material for marking electrical installations, comprising a top layer, the top layer having a top surface which is designed for printing and a joining surface facing away from the top surface, comprising a foam layer, comprising at least one shaped element for form-fitting attachment to a receptacle, the foam layer comprising a foamed material, the foam layer being integrally bonded to the top layer in the region of the joining surface, and the shaped element being arranged at a spacing from the top layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2020Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Kilian Klages, Alexander Hofmann
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Patent number: 12005722Abstract: A printing system includes: a printer for outputting a printed product; and a device for providing a marking arranged or arrangeable in a closed circumferential manner around a prolate object. The device includes a mechanical interface and the printer includes a mechanical interface, which are positively and/or by force-locking connected in a mounted state and which release the positive and/or force-locked connection by a planar motion, a partial rotation, and/or a current change to a released state. The device further includes: a material interface for receiving printed material output by the printer in the mounted state of the device, and at least one actuator for arranging the marking on the prolate object in a circumferentially closed manner by the printed product output by the printer or for providing the marking for circumferentially closed arrangement in the mounted state of the device.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2020Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Kilian Klages, Alexander Hofmann, Benjamin Pradel, Juergen Gretscher, Michael Peter
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Patent number: 12008927Abstract: Marking profile for identifying electrical installations, comprising a marking region which has a cover surface to be labeled, comprising a support region which adjoins the marking region on the opposite side of the cover surface, comprising at least one shaped element for interlockingly securing to a receiving section, wherein the marking profile has an extruded plastic profile or consists of an extruded plastic profile and wherein the plastic profile has a constant cross-section when viewed along its longitudinal extension.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2020Date of Patent: June 11, 2024Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Sandra Klocke, Kilian Klages, Thomas Pölker, Manuela Paus, Nicole Probach
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Patent number: 11996651Abstract: A plug connector part for electrical connection to a mating plug connector part is provided. The plug connector part includes a housing and a contact carrier that is movable in relation to the housing. The contact carrier includes at least one electrical contact for the mating plug connector part and a slider that is movable in relation to the housing and to the contact carrier. The plug connector part for includes an elastic element that is supported on the slider and on the contact carrier in such a way that the elastic element is tensioned by a displacement of the slider in relation to the contact carrier.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2020Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Marc Klimpel, Andreas Wendt
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Patent number: 11996648Abstract: A plug connector part for electrical connection to a counter plug connector part includes: a housing; and a plurality of contacts arranged on the housing such that the plurality of contacts are electrically contactable from different plugging directions by counter contacts of the counter plug connector part. An angular location of the contacts relative to the housing is fixed.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2019Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Fredrik Brand, Bernd Behling
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Patent number: 11978365Abstract: Labeling material includes a labeling region to be printed using a printing device and/or for handwritten labeling. The labeling material includes a carrier layer that is at least partially transparent and can be folded over onto the labeling region to cover or seal the labeling region and can be bonded thereto in portions or over the entire surface. One or more adhesive regions, such as an adhesive layer, adhesive dots, adhesive strips, etc., bond the at least partially transparent carrier layer to the labeling region in portions or over the entire surface. The adhesive region and the labeling region are arranged on the same side of the at least partially transparent carrier layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2019Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Patrick Oster, Alexander Hofmann
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Patent number: 11978994Abstract: An electrical terminal block with simplified switching operations, which can be produced in a cost-effective and time-saving manner.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2019Date of Patent: May 7, 2024Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Wjatscheslaw Janzen
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Patent number: 11965932Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for predicting the failure of an elementary relay having a switch for switching a load contact of a load circuit and an excitation coil for actuating the switch. The method may include exciting the excitation coil in order to switch on the load contact; detecting a time characteristic of a contact voltage at the load contact when switching on the load contact; extracting a characteristic feature from the time characteristic of the contact voltage; and monitoring the characteristic feature during operation of the elementary relay.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2020Date of Patent: April 23, 2024Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Sebastian Heinrich
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Patent number: 11960872Abstract: A system including a safety-oriented device and an electronic storage device which is separate therefrom and in which exactly one piece of data content for the device is stored. The exactly one piece of data content is either an operating software update or an address. The electronic storage device has a first connection unit for mechanical and electrical coupling to the device, the first connection unit comprising a first mechanical coding means. The device has a storage unit in which an operating system is stored, a microcontroller and a second connection unit for mechanical and electrical coupling to the electronic storage device, the second connection unit having a second mechanical coding means.Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2020Date of Patent: April 16, 2024Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Lutz Rahlves, Dominik Kerscher
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Publication number: 20240120669Abstract: An electronic device for mounting on a support rail, has a housing, an electronic unit arranged in the housing, and an elastic contact element that serves in the electrically-conductive connection between the electronic unit and the support rail. The contact element has two contact legs, a connecting area connecting the contact legs to one another, and a contacting section connected to the connecting area for making contact with the electronic unit, and wherein when the electronic device is in the mounted state, the contact legs of the contact element make contact in a clamping manner with a leg of the support rail in-between. The contact element arranged ensures, with small size, good electrical and mechanical contacting of the support rail. The sides of the two contact legs facing one another form a short contact area. The first contact area on is sharp-edged, and the second contact area forms a swivel.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2023Publication date: April 11, 2024Applicant: PHOENIX CONTACT GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Steffen Pförtner, Peter Berg
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Patent number: 11938744Abstract: A device for providing a marking arranged or arrangeable around an object includes: a mechanical interface for releasably or irreversibly mounting the device to a printer; a material interface for receiving a print medium, which is printed by the printer using a print head, as a printed product in a longitudinal direction; at least one eccentric supported at the material interface to be pivotable about a pivot axis; and at least one print head actuator for moving the at least one eccentric to a first pivot position and to a second pivot position different from the first pivot position to provide the marking originating from the printed product. The eccentric, in a state of the device mounted to the printer using the mechanical interface, moves the print head and the print medium towards each other into a printing position for printing the print medium when the eccentric moves.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2020Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KGInventor: Kilian Klages
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Patent number: 11940474Abstract: The disclosure relates to a measuring device for measuring a physical variable. The measuring device has a converter, which is designed to convert an input variable present at a measurement input, into a measurement signal and to provide the same as an output variable. The measuring device comprises a processing unit, which is configured to process the output variable of the converter, and a signal generator, which is designed to generate a test signal on the basis of a specification which test signal corresponds to an output variable of the converter to an input variable of the converter corresponding to the specification. The processing unit can be connected via a switching element either to an output of the converter or to an output of the signal generator. The disclosure further relates to a method for testing a measuring device.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2019Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Martin Jankowski
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Patent number: 11914351Abstract: A system and method includes integrating a plurality of installation modules each having at least one process-technical unit which, besides hardware, also houses control technology, to form a modularly constructed overall installation. The installation modules are arranged three-dimensionally and, according to the description of the overall installation, are connected mechanically and electrically to one another. Between the installation modules, at least one coupling for data exchange is formed via one or more communication protocols. A configuration of the overall installation is assembled and stored on a central server unit having a data link to the installation modules. Each installation module is allocated at least one access path to the configuration.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Jörg Jeschin, Claus Vothknecht
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Patent number: 11907006Abstract: A device for correcting a time parameter in a first node in accordance with a second node is provided. The device includes a clock pulse generator unit configured to provide periodic clock pulses in the first node. The device further includes a peripheral unit configured to decode symbols of an asynchronously transmitted telegram from the second node and to measure a number of clock pulses during the transmission of a symbol sequence of consecutive symbols of the telegram. The device also includes a correction unit configured to correct the time parameter as a function of a ratio of the measured number of clock pulses and the number of consecutive symbols in the symbol sequence.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2020Date of Patent: February 20, 2024Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Martin Striewe, Vjaceslav Magazinik
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Patent number: 11901731Abstract: A line connector for transmitting electrical signals includes a housing, a first electric connection configured to transmit a first electrical signal, a second electrical connection configured to transmit a second electrical signal, and a diagnostic device. The diagnostic device is configured to monitor the first electrical signal and detect a first status of the first electric connection, and to monitor the second electrical signal and detect a second status of the second electrical connection. The housing has a housing wall with a first optical indicator and a second optical indicator. The first optical indicator is configured to generate a first optical signal representing the first status, and the second optical indicator is configured to generate a second optical signal representing the second status.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2019Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Daniel Klein
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Patent number: 11885833Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a current measuring transducer for measuring an electric current in an electrical conductor that can be arranged so as to extend through the current measuring transducer, comprising a housing base portion and a housing mating portion coupled to one another, wherein the electrical conductor can be arranged in a central through opening between the housing base portion and the housing mating portion, wherein the housing base portion comprises a first part of a probe ring and the housing mating portion comprises a second part thereof, and comprises at least two sensors for simultaneously measuring the electric current in the electrical conductor, and further comprises an evaluation device in the current measuring transducer for simultaneously evaluating sensor signals and for outputting a corrected output signal.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Tobias Stadtfelder