Patents Assigned to TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
  • Publication number: 20250112406
    Abstract: An electrical contact includes a cantilever beam extending from a beam connected end connected to a body of the electrical contact to a beam free end along an insertion direction, and a protection tab extending from a tab connected end connected to the body of the electrical contact to a tab free end in a direction opposite to the insertion direction. The tab free end is positioned between the beam free end and the beam connected end along the direction opposite to the insertion direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2024
    Publication date: April 3, 2025
    Applicants: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH, TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH
    Inventors: Nathan William Swanger, Nicholas Lee Evans, Neil Franklin Schroll, Guenther Mumper, John Wesley Hall, Jochen Brandt
  • Patent number: 12266875
    Abstract: Shown is an assembly or securing a printed circuit board to a plug body, having a contact element with a holding face facing against a plugging direction of the contact element, and a securing member, that can be transferred into a securing position, in which the printed circuit board is secured by the securing member in a positive fit manner against the plug direction at the holding face. Further shown is a method of securing a printed circuit board at the plug body, wherein a holding face of a contact element facing against a plug direction is inserted through an opening in the printed circuit board and subsequently a securing member is transferred to a securing position, in which the printed circuit board is secured by the securing member in a positive fit manner against the plug direction at the holding face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventor: Ralf Schwan
  • Patent number: 12261389
    Abstract: An electrical plug-type connection comprises a first connector including a connector housing and at least one electrical terminal arranged therein, and a mating connector for coupling to the first connector. The mating connector includes at least one mating electrical terminal extending in an axial direction, and a mating terminal touch protection device movable from an initial position into a final position by the connector housing as the first connector and the mating connector are coupled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventor: Gregor Panitz
  • Patent number: 12255423
    Abstract: A contact arrangement for a connector includes a plurality of contact elements each extending from a first connection side to a second connection side. A plurality of first end sections of a first subset of the contact elements contact a plurality of external elements in a first plane at the first connection side and a plurality of first end sections of a second subset of the contact elements contact a plurality of external elements in a second plane at the first connection side. The second plane is parallel to and spaced from the first plane in a height direction. A plurality of intermediate sections of at least some of the contact elements lie in a single common plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2025
    Assignees: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH, TE Connectivity Nederland BV
    Inventors: Jeroen Jozef Maria De Bruijn, Wijnand Van Gils, Martin Szelag, Peter Dirk Jaeger, Ulrich Buchmann, Franz Mueller, Nick Ottenbros
  • Patent number: 12244913
    Abstract: A connection device for an appliance with an appliance housing includes a main body having an appliance-side end, a connection-side end facing away from the appliance-side end, and a conduit extending from the appliance-side end to the connection-side end, a securing element securing the main body to a wall section of the appliance housing, and a conductor leading through the main body from the connection-side end to the appliance-side end. The main body has a first abutment surface facing the appliance-side end. The securing element has a second abutment surface facing the first abutment surface. The first abutment surface and the second abutment surface enclose therebetween a receiving region for clamping reception of the wall section of the appliance housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Gregor Karrasch, Anne Weiss
  • Patent number: 12244111
    Abstract: A fabric-contact device includes a first contact section having a first contact face on a first upper side, a second contact section having a second contact face on an underside facing the first contact section, and a retaining device. The first contact face faces the second contact section and the first contact section is connected to the second contact section on a first side of the first contact section. The retaining device has a first retaining element connected to a second side of the first contact section at a first fixed end. The first retaining element is guided laterally past the second contact section by a first section of the first retaining element bordering the first fixed end. A second section of the first retaining element bordering the first section on a side opposite the first fixed end engages behind the second contact section and affixes the second contact section to the first contact section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Christopher Muth, Uwe Bluemmel, Marcel Baltes
  • Patent number: 12233491
    Abstract: A welding method includes providing a first connector having a first end, providing a second connector having a second end for being welded to the first end, overlapping the first end and the second end, applying a contactless heating to a central section of the first end and melting an end section of the first end facing the second connector, and cooling the first end and the second end to form a weld connecting the first connector and the second connector. The first connector and the second connector extend in opposite directions from the weld.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Karlheinz Glaser, Walter Weinerth, Wenting Yan
  • Patent number: 12218473
    Abstract: A method for configuring an electrical contact zone of a terminal includes providing the terminal having a contact portion extending in a longitudinal direction of the terminal, forming a contact dome having a radius in the contact portion of the terminal, and forming a contact zone in the terminal at the contact dome. The contact zone is formed subsequent to a start of the step of forming the contact dome.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Jochen Brandt, Isabell Buresch, Thomas Steinacker, Ruediger Meier, Christian Bergmann
  • Patent number: 12212093
    Abstract: An electrically insulating touch protection device for an electrical conductor includes an insulating tube and a housing receiving an end of the electrical conductor. The housing has an end section pointing toward the insulating tube. The end section has a first segment and a second segment. The first segment is inserted into the insulating tube and the second segment is placed on the insulating tube.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2025
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Bjoern Hoffmann, Alexander Weber, Frank Kaehny, Chris Buechling, Marcus Wolf, Manuel Eheim, Patrick Distler
  • Patent number: 12206214
    Abstract: A crimp contact includes a crimp barrel having a crimp base, a pair of crimp shoulders, a crimp region, and an impedance matching region. The crimp shoulders in the crimp region form a longitudinal seam when bent around an electrical conductor. An outer surface of the crimp barrel in the impedance matching region has a gradual expansion along a direction of the longitudinal seam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Olivier De Cloet, Uwe Bluemmel, Daniel Volkmann, Turgay Yilmaz, Michael Delp, Erik Glombitza, Karl Zhung-Wei Choi
  • Patent number: 12198174
    Abstract: A connector configurator includes a connector configuration system and a customer connected to the connector configuration system. The connector configuration system has a configuration processor and a configurator module executable by the configuration processor. The customer has a display. The customer accesses the configurator module to receive a plurality of interface data displayed on the display. The customer transmits selections of the interface data to the connector configuration system to create a configured connector using the configurator module. The configurator module displays the configured connector on the display based on the transmitted selections of the interface data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Anne Nentwig, Rolf Jetter, Hans-Juergen Brueck, Matthias Lechner, Zoran Stjepanovic
  • Patent number: 12199392
    Abstract: A component pack including a carrier strip extending in a longitudinal direction and a plurality of technical components formed initially separately from the carrier strip and each fastened on the carrier strip. The technical components project from the carrier strip laterally in a transverse direction of the carrier strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Raab, Harald Kraenzlein, Martin Bleicher, Jochen Fertig, Gerhard Goegelein
  • Patent number: 12184016
    Abstract: A contact device includes a first contact element extending along a straight line and a second contact element inclined with respect to the first contact element. The first contact element has a connecting body extending along the straight line, a first contact portion, and a flap. The first contact portion has a first contact socket. The flap is connected to a first fixed end at a first side of the connecting body. The first contact portion is connected to the connecting body. The flap extends along the first straight line to the first contact portion and a free end of the flap is arranged at a distance from the first contact portion. The second contact element has a second contact portion engaging the first contact socket and electrically contacting the first contact portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Mandel, Samir Aboulkassem, Christian Schrettlinger
  • Patent number: 12170424
    Abstract: A contact includes a cantilever beam and a protection tab. The cantilever beam extends from a beam connected end to a beam free end along an insertion direction. The protection tab extends from a tab connected end to a tab free end in a direction opposite to the insertion direction. The tab free end is positioned adjacent to the beam free end.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2024
    Assignees: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH, TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH
    Inventors: Nathan William Swanger, Nicholas Lee Evans, Neil Franklin Schroll, Guenther Mumper, John Wesley Hall, Jochen Brandt
  • Patent number: 12166312
    Abstract: A housing for an electrical connector includes a housing body having an opening receiving a cable in an insertion direction and a pair of cable covers hinged to the housing body at a proximal end of each cable cover of the pair of cable covers. The pair of cable covers extend away from the opening. Each of the cable covers is pivoted away from the other cable cover in a cable mounting position and each cable cover is pivoted toward the other cable cover to form a cable support sleeve supporting the cable in an operating position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignees: TE Connectivity Nederland BV, TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Szelag, Ole Wiborg, Jeroen De Bruijn, Franz Mueller
  • Patent number: 12151571
    Abstract: An adapter system for the electrical connection of a connector of a cabling to different contact arrangements of different charging sockets along a connection axis includes an adapter housing and a fastening element attaching the adapter housing to one of the charging sockets. The adapter housing has a contact surface extending perpendicularly to the connection axis and a plurality of contact openings extending along the connection axis. The contact surface is disposed at an end of the adapter housing on a socket side. An end of the adapter housing on a cable side has a cabling interface connecting to the connector. The end of the adapter housing on the socket side is attachable to each of the charging sockets by the fastening element with the contact surface in a predetermined rotational position relative to the connection axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk Weyrauch, Philipp Kowarsch, Dominik Heiss
  • Patent number: 12155145
    Abstract: An electrical connector includes a base body, a sealing mat arranged on a first surface of the base body, and a contact element. The contact element has a first contact region, a holding region, and a second contact region adjoining the holding region. The second contact region is inserted through the sealing mat into a receiving opening of the base body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Heller, Martin Bleicher, Martin Huber, Steffen Spegel
  • Patent number: 12155162
    Abstract: A busbar contact includes a contact ring and a fastening element. The contact ring has a contact surface at a distal end and a press-in flange projecting radially. The press-in flange has a cylindrical contact surface pointing radially outward.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Chris Buechling, Frank Kaehny, Manuel Eheim, Marcus Wolf, Bjoern Hoffmann, Alexander Weber, Patrick Distler
  • Patent number: 12149018
    Abstract: A contact device includes a contact housing and a contact element. The contact housing defines a contact receptacle and a latching receptacle opening into the contact receptacle. The contact element includes a contact body arranged within the contact receptacle and extending in a longitudinal direction and adapted to contact a mating contact of a mating contact device, and a latching spring connected to the contact body on a first end and extending along a spring axis into the latching receptacle. The latching spring has a stop inclining obliquely with respect to the spring axis and abutting a face of the latching receptacle and a recess formed through the latching spring at first distance from the stop face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2024
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Harald Kraenzlein, Daniel Leiminger, Andreas Oettle, Stefan Raab, Thomas Liebl, Marina Hertlein
  • Patent number: 12142885
    Abstract: A plug insert comprises a plug insert body including at least one contact member accessible from outside the plug insert, at least one insulation displacement contact electrically connected to the contact member, and a guiding assembly. At least one wire manager module includes at least one cable receptacle for receiving and holding a cable or wire. The guiding assembly guides the wire manager module relative to the plug insert body from a pre-assembly position, to an assembly position in which the insulation displacement contact extends into the cable receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignees: TE Connectivity Nederland BV, TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Jeroen De Bruijn, Martin Szelag, Wijnand Van Gils, Franz Mueller, Ulrich Buchmann, Mike Laub