Patents Assigned to Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH
  • Patent number: 9004946
    Abstract: Electrical plug-and-socket connector, electrical mating connector, electrical plug-in connection and made-up electric cable. The disclosure relates to an electrical plug-and-socket connector, in particular electrical pin socket, with a plug-and-socket connector body and electromagnetic shielding provided on the plug-and-socket connector body, the plug-and-socket connector body and the shielding having coding means which correspond to each other, by means of which the shielding is provided in a certain orientation on the plug-and-socket connector body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH
    Inventor: Ulf Hoeppner
  • Publication number: 20150099397
    Abstract: A shield sleeve is disclosed having a sleeve member. The sleeve member has a first end, and at least one radially protruding contact finger. Each contact finger has a cantilevered end connected to the first end, and at least one contacting protrusion positioned proximate to an opposite free end and protruding outward in a radial direction with respect to the sleeve member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Publication date: April 9, 2015
    Applicant: TYCO ELECTRONICS AMP GMBH
    Inventors: Martin Listing, Gerzson Toth, Andre Martin Dressel, Frank Kaehny
  • Patent number: 8992269
    Abstract: The invention relates to a connection device for a solar module, comprising a housing, at least one contact rail which is arranged in the housing, and at least one contacting device for contacting an electrical conductor, the contacting device being able to be fitted to the contact rail and being able to be moved at least between an initial position (AS) and an end position (ES).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2015
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH
    Inventors: Kristopher Salzmann, Norbert Geister, Andreas Woeber
  • Publication number: 20150087190
    Abstract: An electrical connector is provided and includes a contact cavity, a contact receiving passageway, and a contact lock. The contact cavity includes a cavity body with a base plate provided at a longitudinal end of the cavity body and a lock receiving space provided on an opposite surface of the base plate. The contact receiving passageway extends through the cavity body and into an aperture of the base plate. The contact lock is fittable with the lock receiving space and includes a contact securing element and a lug provided on a side of the contact lock.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2014
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Applicant: TYCO ELECTRONICS AMP GMBH
    Inventor: Ralf Schwan
  • Patent number: 8986037
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a plug element (1, 1?, 1?, 1??, 1??) with a plugging section (2) which is configured to be able to be brought together in a direction of plugging (Z) of the plug element (1, 1?, 1?, 1??, 1??) with a mating plug element (100) and has at least one receptacle (5) for an electrical plug-in contact, and with a contact lock member (8) which, at least in its securing position (S), projects, at least in sections, into the receptacle (5). In order, with the smallest possible external dimensions of the plug element (1, 1?, 1?, 1??, 1??), to be able simply to feel that the securing position (S) has been reached, provision is made according to the invention for the contact lock member (8) in the securing position (S) to release a test path (P) along which a test member (3, 200) can be moved past a test stop (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Otto Boemmel, Rolf Jetter
  • Publication number: 20150079421
    Abstract: An electrical component includes an interior layer that includes an exterior surface. The electrical component includes an intermediate layer that includes at least one platinum group metal (PGM). The intermediate layer extends on the exterior surface of the interior layer. The intermediate layer has an exterior PGM surface. The electrical component includes a silver layer that includes silver. The silver layer extends on the exterior PGM surface such that the intermediate layer extends between the interior layer and the silver layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicants: TYCO ELECTRONICS AMP GMBH, TYCO ELECTRONICS CORPORATION
    Inventors: Marjorie Myers, Helge Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20150074990
    Abstract: Crimp tooling for crimping a crimp barrel of an electrical terminal to a wire includes an insulation crimper having an insulation crimp profile for crimping an insulation barrel segment of the crimp barrel to insulation of the wire, a wire crimper having a wire crimp profile for crimping a wire barrel segment of the crimp barrel to a conductor of the wire, and a transition crimper between the wire crimper and the insulation crimper. The transition crimper has a blended profile segueing from the wire crimp profile to the insulation crimp profile. The blended profile is used for crimping a transition segment of the crimp barrel between the insulation barrel segment and the wire barrel segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH, Tyco Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Uwe Bluemmel, Michael Morris, David Alan College
  • Patent number: 8979601
    Abstract: An electric connecting terminal for connecting to an electrical conductor structure is described, with a serration arrangement, comprising a plurality of serration structures, for cutting into the electrical conductor structure being provided in a conductor-side section of the electric connecting terminal. In this case the serration arrangement has a gradient-shaped sharpness profile formed by heapings of material produced in an embossing process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH
    Inventors: Helge Schmidt, Uwe Bluemmel, Jochen Brandt
  • Patent number: 8979563
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric contact module, particularly electric test module, for an electric unit, preferably an electric distribution unit such as an electric voltage or power distribution unit or an installation of an electrical substation of an urban electrical power system, having a casing having first electrical contact means electrically connectable by/to a first electric unit, and a slider having second electrical contact means electrically connectable by/to a second electric unit. The slider may be provided in a plurality of positions in relation to the casing. Locking recesses 132 and locking protrusions 232 may be used to set the positions of the slider. Furthermore, an electric contact box is disclosed having one or a plurality of electric contact modules according to the invention, wherein the electric contact box preferably comprises two, three or five electric contact modules or an integer multiple thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignees: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH, Tyco Electronics Svenska Holdings AB
    Inventors: Markus Ofenloch, Peter Kraemer, Joergen Lundberg
  • Publication number: 20150072551
    Abstract: The invention relates to an IDC (Insulation Displacement Connector) contact for an electrical plug. The IDC contact includes a wire contact section and a secondary contact section. The wire contact section includes a cable receiving opening at a proximal end thereof and extending into a slotted cable receiving section. The secondary contact section includes a contact spring extending from and positioned adjacent to the wire contact section and a contact arm extending from the contact spring and extending to a contact point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2014
    Publication date: March 12, 2015
    Applicant: TYCO ELECTRONICS AMP GMBH
    Inventors: Ralf Schmidt, Martin Szelag
  • Publication number: 20150060416
    Abstract: A method for producing an electrical component is provided. The method includes steps of providing a continuous strip material and separating a section from the continuous strip material using an electron beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Applicant: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH
    Inventors: Helge Schmidt, Eva Henschel, Soenke Sachs
  • Publication number: 20150056836
    Abstract: An arrangement for a connector and a mating connector is provided. The arrangement includes a housing, an actuator, a connector receiving chamber, and an action mechanism. The is positioned along a surface of the housing. The connector receiving chamber is surrounded by the housing and the actuator. The action mechanism includes a drive connected to the actuator to move the actuator along the surface of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2014
    Publication date: February 26, 2015
    Applicant: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH
    Inventors: Georg Puckel, Konrad Helmut Roth, Guenther Mumper
  • Patent number: 8956192
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrical plug-in connector (1) in particular for high-voltage connections, comprising an outer body (2) having a plug opening (5) for receiving a mating plug-in connector (101), a terminal housing (8, 8?, 8?, 13, 13?, 13?, 13??) for fastening an electrical contact (36), and a finger protection member (25) projecting into the plug-in direction (X) towards the plug opening (5). Further, the present invention relates to a finger protection member (25) for an electrical high-voltage plug-in connector (1), with a bar-shaped body having a protection end (56), and to a construction kit for a high-voltage electrical plug-in connector (1), comprising an outer body (2) with a plug opening (5) for receiving a mating plug-in connector (101), and at least one terminal housing (8, 8?, 8?, 13, 13?, 13?, 13??) for fastening an electrical contact (36).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignees: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH, Tyco Electronics AMP Italia SRL
    Inventors: Markus Eckel, Adriano Plazio, Fulvio Amerio
  • Publication number: 20150046117
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for contactlessly measuring a relative position of a magnetic field source (102) which produces a magnetic field and a magnetic field sensor (100) in relation to each other. The present invention further also relates to a corresponding displacement sensor. The invention describes an operating principle of a sensor which is based on the Hall effect and which achieves an increase in the sensor output range with a magnet which is simultaneously reduced in size by storing the earlier value when control by the magnetic field is lost.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Applicant: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH
    Inventor: Oliver Schaaf
  • Patent number: 8946580
    Abstract: The present invention relates to contactors for unidirectional DC operation with permanent magnetic arc extinguishing. In addition to the blow magnets, the contactors are equipped with compensatory permanent magnets for compensating the magnetic field in the vicinity of the contact bridge in order to prevent contact levitation, i.e., an uncontrolled opening of the contacts that is due to a magnetic force generated by a strong current flowing through the contact bridge. To this end, the compensatory permanent magnets are arranged in the vicinity of the contact bridge and polarized in the opposite direction of the blow magnets. The magnetic field of the compensatory magnets and the current flowing through the contact bridge are generating a magnetic force that acts on the contact bridge and tends to keep the electrical contacts closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Hoffmann, Matthias Kroeker
  • Patent number: 8927342
    Abstract: The present invention specifies a leadframe for electronic components and a corresponding manufacturing process, in which the bonding islands are formed by welding individual, prefabricated segments of a bonding-capable material onto a stamped leadframe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Goesele, Friedrich Seger, Josef Sinder, Joachim Stifter, Oliver Werner
  • Publication number: 20140317922
    Abstract: A method is provided for crimping an electrical terminal to an electrical wire having electrical conductors. The method includes positioning the electrical wire and the electrical terminal between opposing crimp tooling members of a crimp tool. The method also includes pressing a crimp barrel of the electrical terminal against the electrical conductors of the electrical wire using the crimp tooling members such that the electrical conductors are mechanically and electrically connected to the crimp barrel. The crimp barrel is pressed against the electrical conductors such that at least some contact portions of metallic surfaces of at least some of the electrical conductors melt and form hot weld bonds with one or more contact portions of the metallic surface of one or more adjacent electrical conductors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Applicants: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH, Tyco Electronics Corporation
    Inventors: Helge Schmidt, Marjorie Kay Myers, Christopher J. Karrasch
  • Publication number: 20140306693
    Abstract: The invention relates to an improved contactless position sensor and a system incorporating same. Such a contactless position sensor comprises at least two sensor coils each comprising a magnetic permeable core and windings defining a coil axis. The at least two sensor coils are arranged with the coil axes essentially in parallel to each other. An electrical circuit of the sensor drives a predetermined alternating current within each of the at least two sensor coils and determines a high frequency voltage component of a voltage across each of the at least two sensor coils. The predetermined alternating current includes a low frequency current component, and a high frequency current component. The electrical circuit detects the position of a ferromagnetic target by subtracting from each other amplitude levels of the high frequency voltage components of two of the determined voltages and by comparing the subtraction result to a pre-determined reference pattern.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH
    Inventors: Marco WOLF, Martin RIEDER
  • Patent number: 8858258
    Abstract: The invention relates to a plug element (2) for a sealed high-voltage plug-and-socket connector (1), by means of which, in particular in an automobile, an electrical conductor (11) can be connected in electrically conductive manner to a mating contact element (46) of a mating plug element (3), with a housing body (7) which has a plug section (4) which can be fitted together with the mating plug element (3) in a direction of insertion (S) and a conductor receptacle section (6) remote from the plug section (4) with at least one conductor entry opening (10), and with at least one contact element (33) which has an insertion member (35) which is arranged spaced apart from the at least one conductor entry opening (10) in the plug section (4) and can be fitted together with the mating contact element (46), and a conductor fastening section (36) for connecting the at least one electrical conductor (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Stokowski, Christoph Kosmalski, Rolf Jetter
  • Publication number: 20140291012
    Abstract: An electronic device is disclosed having a housing with a single opening, and an inner space accessible solely through the opening. A covering plate is positioned within the opening. An electrically conductive contact pin extends through the covering plate and into the inner space.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Publication date: October 2, 2014
    Applicant: TYCO ELECTRONICS AMP GMBH
    Inventors: Alex Bormuth, Joachim Zapf