Patents Assigned to Phoenix Contact GmbH
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Publication number: 20190027910Abstract: A cable-guiding element for guiding electrical conductors having at least two cable channel elements, wherein the cable channel elements are pivotably connected to one another. For the cable-guiding element, the insertion and removal of conductors into the cable-guiding element is thus possible in a very easy way, such that the first cable channel element has an articulated head at a first end and the second cable channel element has a corresponding articulated socket on a first end, such that the first end of the first cable channel element and the first end of the second cable channel element form a joint, via which the cable channel elements are connected to one another, such that the joint has a channel for passing the conductors through, and such that a recess is formed in the joint and extends across the entire length of the joint.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2016Publication date: January 24, 2019Applicant: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Heinz Reibke, Kevin Berghahn
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Publication number: 20190027070Abstract: A method for the attachment of marking labels to a plurality of electrical devices that can be arranged on a support rail, each having a marking field to which a marking label that can be inscribed can be secured, the electrical devices being arranged side by side in a row along a longitudinal direction to provide an assembly, such that the marking fields of the electrical devices connect to one another along the longitudinal direction, and form a continuous row extended along the longitudinal direction, includes: attaching a marking strip, having a plurality of marking labels which are associated with the marking fields of the electrical devices and which can be inscribed using a laser inscription device, along the row of electrical devices; and separating the marking labels, such that at least one marking label is arranged on the marking field of each electrical device.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2017Publication date: January 24, 2019Applicant: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Kilian Klages, Nicole Probach, Christian Grossmann, Bernd Naguschewski
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Patent number: 10186821Abstract: A modular bus system including a support rail having a base and a longitudinal axis; at least one base module, mountable on the support rail, for electrical connection to at least one input/output functional module having a backplane printed circuit board with at least one group of at least two first electrical connectors connected thereto, for electrical connection to an electrical connector of an input/output functional module, the first electrical connectors of the group arranged one after the other along an imaginary line that extends perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the support rail and lie in a plane in which the base of the support rail is located or which is parallel to the base; at least one input/output functional module having an electrical connector and an electronic device for communication with the modular bus system, the electrical connector of the input/output functional module configured for electrical connection to one of the electrical connectors of the base module.Type: GrantFiled: March 23, 2016Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Frank Müller, Peter Wermter
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Patent number: 10181789Abstract: Provided is a signal isolator with reduced power loss. The signal isolating circuit comprises an input stage and an output circuit that is connected downstream thereof and which includes a linear regulator. The linear regulator comprises an operational amplifier and a switching regulator, wherein an input of the switching regulator is connected to an output of the operational amplifier and an output of the switching regulator is fed back to a first input of the operational amplifier. The operational amplifier regulates the switching regulator such that the switching regulator provides at its output an output measuring signal for a load that corresponds to the input measuring signal.Type: GrantFiled: January 22, 2015Date of Patent: January 15, 2019Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Heinz-Wilhelm Meier
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Patent number: 10173308Abstract: A tool for crimping, pressing or deforming a workpiece includes a first grip element having a first grip portion; a second grip element having a second grip portion; a mechanism housing, which is arranged on the first grip element and has an end surface facing away from the first grip portion; a tool mechanism, which is enclosed by the mechanism housing and can be actuated to crimp, press or deform the workpiece by adjusting the first and second grip elements relative to one another; and an impact protection element, which is arranged on the first grip demerit and has two limbs and an end face portion, which interconnects the limbs. The mechanism housing is arranged between the limbs, and the end face portion extends beyond the end surface of the mechanism housing.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 2016Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Jens Frischemeier, Danny Siriboe
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Patent number: 10178795Abstract: An installation for equipping DIN rails, according to an order, with components, including at least one of terminal blocks, electrical devices, and end holders, that are intended to be subsequently installed in switch cabinets, includes at least one main cell. The at least one main cell includes at least one supply unit for supplying the components to be fitted; at least one supply unit for supplying DIN rails, the DIN rail being equipped with the components in the main cell; and a writing, device designed to wirelessly transmit data, in order for said data to be saved, to a memory unit that is arranged on each DIN rail equipped with components and has an integrated wireless communications interface, the data containing order-specific information.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2015Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Frank Possel-Doelken, Joerg Oblotzki
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Patent number: 10178790Abstract: A terminal block for an electronic device, which block can be attached to an electronics housing of the electronic device, includes at least one base strip comprising a plurality of connector sockets; and a plurality of connector modules that can be attached to the connector sockets of the at least one base strip in at least one insertion direction, are held on the connector sockets in an inserted position, and can be released from the connector sockets to be removed from the at least one base strip; and a locking device. The locking device includes: an actuating part that can be moved relative to the at least one base strip in an actuation direction; and a plurality of locking elements that are engaged in a locking manner in mating elements of the connector modules in a locked position.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2015Date of Patent: January 8, 2019Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Eduard Unger, Frank Best, Joerg Soefker, Detlev Falk, Christian Funke
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Patent number: 10165085Abstract: An electrical interface module (IM) has a memory device MEM) for storing data and an integrated interface (IO) that provides data to an external reading device (RW). The electrical interface module (IM) contains a carrier (2) on which the memory device (MEM) and the integrated interface (IO) are arranged, the electrical interface module (IM) can exchange data and/or power with other electrical interface modules (IM) in the vicinity via the integrated interface, and adjacent electrical interface modules (IM) form a logical data bus via the integrated NFC interfaces, which can be addressed and/or controlled by at least one head module or a master module with a higher control and/or monitoring device.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2014Date of Patent: December 25, 2018Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KGInventor: Karsten Meyer-Graefe
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Publication number: 20180367334Abstract: A coupling device that couples a first bus system to a second bus system configured to provide bidirectional communication between the first bus system and the second bus system comprising data transfer means for transmitting forward-directed data from the first bus system to the second bus system and for transmitting backward-directed data from the second bus system to the first bus system, data manipulation means for manipulating forward-directed data and/or backward-directed, and an instruction memory for storing manipulation instructions relating to the manipulation of data by the data manipulation means.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2016Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Michael HOFFMANN
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Publication number: 20180365423Abstract: For simplifying and/or improving the updating of firmware of a control device, in particular of a safety controller, the invention provides a method and a system for updating firmware, in which a device-specific authorization check for performing a firmware update is performed by the manufacturer, and in case of a successful authorization check a device-specific activation code for performing the firmware update is provided, and for this purpose an enabling device is provided on the manufacturer's side and an updating device connectable to a control device on the user's side. The improvement is that the safe and secure firmware update proceeds under the control and long-term archiving of the manufacturer. The invention furthermore relates to a digital storage medium having instructions stored thereon for use when performing the method according to the invention.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2016Publication date: December 20, 2018Applicant: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Joachim POPPE
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Publication number: 20180350517Abstract: An inductive current transformer for transforming a primary current into a secondary current, the inductive current transformer having: a secondary winding with two terminals; an electronic device adapted to transmit information to an external measuring device; a first inductive coupling device connected to the secondary winding; a power supply device which is coupled to the secondary winding via the first inductive coupling device and which is adapted to generate a supply voltage for the electronic device from the secondary electric current of the secondary winding.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2016Publication date: December 6, 2018Applicant: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Martin JANKOWSKI
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Publication number: 20180351271Abstract: A plug contact for electrically contacting a circuit board by insertion of the plug contact into a contact hole of the circuit board, the plug contact having two resilient contact legs, a terminal region, and a connecting region which connects the two contact legs to one another and to the terminal region, wherein the plug contact is punched out of a metallic flat material in one piece. As a result, the plug contact only has a small overall height, and the two contact arms each have a first region and a second region which are arranged at an angle ? relative to one another, such that the two contact legs are bent approximately in an L shape, and wherein the two first regions adjoin the connection region and the ends of the two second regions form the free ends of the contact legs.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2016Publication date: December 6, 2018Applicant: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Ralf Geske
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Patent number: 10143102Abstract: The invention concerns a function component upper part (500) for placing on a function component lower part (401) of a function component (400), having a first interface for electrically connecting the function component lower part (401) of the function component (400), and a second interface for electrically 409 connecting a housing upper part (403) of the function component (400).Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2014Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Joachim Bury, Thomas Salomon
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Patent number: 10134555Abstract: A fuse has a first contact and a second contact, with the second contact being used to electrically contact the device to be protected. The fuse has a fuse element that connects the first contact to the second contact. The fuse also has an additional contact being arranged so as to be insulated from the first contact and insulated from the second contact and, in an untripped state, is contactless with respect to the fuse element, with the first contact being directly connected to the first potential during operation and with the device to be protected being directly connected to the second potential during operation, with the additional contact also being directly connected to the second potential during operation. A fourth contact makes external triggering available, with triggering resulting in an electric arc that causes the fuse element to fuse.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2015Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KGInventor: Rainer Durth
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Publication number: 20180331447Abstract: A plug contact for electrically contacting a circuit board by inserting the plug contact into a via hole in the circuit board, the plug contact having two flat contact arms that are resilient relative to each other, and a connecting region, from which the two contact arms extend in the plug-in direction of the plug contact, the plug contact being punched as a single piece from a flat metallic material. In the connection region, adjacent to the two contact arms, a recess is formed in the plug contact, the distance between the two contact arms increases from the recess towards the free ends of the contact arms, the two contact arms being spread apart relative to each other and the two contact arms together having a width which is the same as or only slightly smaller than the diameter of the corresponding via hole in the circuit board.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 10, 2016Publication date: November 15, 2018Applicant: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Ralf Geske
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Publication number: 20180326749Abstract: A method for securing a printing process of a printer having a housing with a printing chamber, a printing device, a holding device for an exchangeable magazine for holding an object to be printed on, a control and evaluation unit, and a memory, the method having the following steps: inserting a magazine having the object to be printed into the holding device; moving the holding device into the printing chamber, using an optical sensor in the housing to sense a marking on the magazine; performing a comparison of the marking on the inserted magazine sensed by the sensor with a marking stored in memory in the control and evaluation unit for a magazine permissible for the print object to be printed on; outputting an error indication if the marking of the inserted magazine sensed by the sensor does not match the marking stored in the memory for a permissible magazine.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2016Publication date: November 15, 2018Applicant: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Sandra Klocke, Albrecht Schierholz, Kilian Klages
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Publication number: 20180326753Abstract: A method for inputting print data for printing on a print object with a printer having a housing, a printing device, a holding device for an exchangeable magazine which holds the print object to be printed on, a control and evaluation unit, a memory and an input and display apparatus. Inputting print data is facilitated by the following steps of the method: inserting a magazine having the print object into the holding device outside of the printing chamber; moving the holding device into the printing chamber, optically sensing a marking arranged on the print object and/or on the magazine; selecting an input screen, from a plurality of input screens stored in the memory on the basis of the marking of the inserted print object sensed and/or on the magazine sensed by the sensor; and displaying the selected input screen or screens on the input display apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2016Publication date: November 15, 2018Applicant: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Peter Isaak, Albrecht Schierholz
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Publication number: 20180321885Abstract: A method for inputting print data for printing on a print object with a printer, having the following steps: displaying a printer selection window on an input and display device and evaluating a performed selection of a printer, selecting a print-object selection window by means of a control and evaluation unit on the basis of the evaluated selection of the printer, displaying the selected print-object selection window having at least one print object that can be printed on by the selected printer, and evaluating a performed selection of the print object, selecting and displaying an input screen by means of the control and evaluation unit on the basis of the evaluated selection of the print object, transferring print data that are input into the input screen to the printing device of the printer or, by means of a data communication interface of the printer, to an external printer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2016Publication date: November 8, 2018Applicant: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Peter Isaak, Albrecht Schierholz
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Patent number: D835186Type: GrantFiled: February 18, 2016Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Rainer Mueller, Dirk Juergens
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Patent number: D838564Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2017Date of Patent: January 22, 2019Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KGInventor: Gerwin Mueller