Patents Assigned to Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH
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Publication number: 20130323954Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical connector (100) for producing a plug-in connection with a mating connector (200). The electrical connector (100) has a housing (110), a seal (160) arranged on the housing (110), and a seal holder (170) arranged on the housing (110) and associated with the seal (160). The seal holder (170) is arranged movably on the housing (110), in order to be moved in the direction of the seal (160) upon the production of the plug-in connection with the mating connector (200) and to be pressed against the seal (160). The invention furthermore relates to a connector system comprising such an electrical connector (100) and a mating connector (200) which can be plugged with the electrical connector (100).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2012Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: Tyco Electronics AMP GMBHInventors: Markus Eckel, Ulf Hoeppner, Walter Saenger
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Patent number: 8579666Abstract: The invention relates to a spring element, to a plug-in connection and to a contact element with an electrically conductive spring element which is in contact with the contact element and which is provided to establish an electrical contact to a mating contact element. The spring element has the form of an open band which is at least partially rolled up along a longitudinal axis.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2010Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbHInventors: Zoltan Lampert, Thomas Schnurpfeil
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Publication number: 20130210260Abstract: 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 22 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 15 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: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2011Publication date: August 15, 2013Applicant: Tyco Electronics Amp GmbHInventors: Christian Otto Boemmel, Rolf Jetter
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Patent number: 8500486Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical plug connector, in particular to an electrical pin or socket connector, for a data transmission interface in the automotive field, having: a plug connector member (100) and a keyed mounting member (200) which can be mounted on the plug connector member (100) and which ensures correctly oriented insertion of an electrical counter plug connector on the electrical plug connector (1), the plug connector member (100) having a mounting projection (120) such that a wall (2) can be clamped between the mounting projection (120) and the keyed mounting member (200).Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2008Date of Patent: August 6, 2013Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbHInventors: Carsten Buck, Rolf Jetter, Torsten Sieler
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Patent number: 8487723Abstract: The present invention relates to a contact assembly for a relay for switching high load currents having at least one switch contact and a braid having at least one braid end, which are electrically conductively connected to each other by a connection element. Further, the invention relates to a relay for switching high load currents with a contact assembly. Finally, the invention relates to a method for mounting a relay for switching high load currents. For the simple, electrically conductive connection of the braid and the switch contact without the contact assembly produced requiring much space within the relay, it is provided in accordance with the invention that the connection element is equipped with a contact portion directly connected to the switch contact and with a connection strap connected to the braid end, wherein the connection strap is inclined relative to the contact portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2009Date of Patent: July 16, 2013Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbHInventors: Axel Schneider, Thomas Haehnel, Christian Maranke, Joerg Schultheiss, Albert Koetter
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Patent number: 8476539Abstract: A junction box for connecting a solar cell, having a housing; a diode; and a conductive foil strip electrical contact. The housing includes a base plate with a receiving passageway that extends along a slide direction. The receiving passageway opens along an upper side of the base plate through a receiving slot.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2010Date of Patent: July 2, 2013Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbHInventor: Lazar Ilchev
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Patent number: 8467155Abstract: The invention provides a switching device having a contact protection circuit for arcing suppression. The switching device comprises a main relay for interrupting a load path and a dual coil auxiliary having a high resistance coil and a low resistance coil that operate the switching of an auxiliary contact. The auxiliary contact is connected in series with a PTC device and the low resistance coil of the auxiliary relay in a series arrangement. The series arrangement is connected in parallel to the main contact. When the main relay opens, the auxiliary contact is maintained closed during a given time interval due to the magnetic flux generated by the low resistance coil. The given time interval depends on the transition of the PTC device to trip state. In another configuration, the dual coil relay is substituted by two auxiliary relays.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2011Date of Patent: June 18, 2013Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbHInventors: Matthias Kroeker, Joerg Einhorn, Gilles Gozlan
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Patent number: 8432241Abstract: The present invention relates to a contact arrangement for a relay for switching high load currents. Furthermore, the invention relates to a relay for switching high load currents having a contact arrangement. Finally, the invention relates to a method for assembling a relay. In order to be able to assemble the contact arrangement in the relay in an at least partially automated manner, without additional retention devices being required for a cord, there is provision according to theinvention for the cord to be retained in an inherently stable manner owning to its shape as a self-supporting structure and for the method to have a method step in which the cord is shaped to form a self-supporting structure with a bent shape.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2009Date of Patent: April 30, 2013Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbHInventors: Axel Schneider, Thomas Haehnel, Christian Maranke, Joerg Schultheiss, Albert Koetter
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Patent number: 8366483Abstract: A connector assembly includes a center contact configured to be terminated to a center conductor of a cable. A dielectric holds the center contact. A stamped and formed outer contact surrounds the dielectric and the center contact. The outer contact is configured to be terminated to a braid of the cable. A stamped and formed outer ferrule surrounds at least a portion of the outer contact such that the braid is sandwiched between the outer ferrule and the outer contact.Type: GrantFiled: February 4, 2011Date of Patent: February 5, 2013Assignees: Tyco Electronics Corporation, Tyco Electronics AMP GmbHInventors: Douglas John Hardy, John Wesley Hall, Sean Patrick McCarthy, Olivier Irene Maurice De Cloet, Stefan Konrad Nagel
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Patent number: 8337240Abstract: The present invention relates to high-current plug-in connectors, in particular to unipolar high-current plug-in connectors for wind turbine generator systems, which can be arranged beside one another in a space-saving manner and can also meet high requirements on the current-carrying capacity. According to the invention, this is achieved in that cross-sections of which the longitudinal extent exceeds the transverse extent are selected for the plug-in and coupling contact. This means that the dimension in the transverse direction can be restricted and simultaneously the cable cross-section and the contact surface required from an electrical point of view are provided by the increased longitudinal extent. Moreover, the plug and the coupling comprise a visible mechanical coding, which prevents accidental reversal of the polarity of adjacently arranged cables.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2009Date of Patent: December 25, 2012Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbHInventors: Guenter Feldmeier, Horst Braun, Zoltan Lampert, Thomas Schnurpfeil
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Patent number: 8333625Abstract: The present invention relates to high-current plug connectors, in particular to electrical contact elements for plug connectors of this type, which are distinguished by low heating even at high currents, and to a corresponding method for manufacturing contact elements of this type. According to the invention, for this purpose, the contact element is made in one piece by internal high-pressure forming from a tubular blank. As a result, the contact element has at each point substantially the same line cross section, so that no local electrical or thermal load peaks can occur.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2010Date of Patent: December 18, 2012Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbHInventors: Guenter Feldmeier, Horst Braun, Zoltan Lampert, Thomas Schnurpfeil
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Publication number: 20120315790Abstract: The invention relates to a contact means (100) for attaching an end of a cable (110). The contact means (100) has a casing (300) with an inner chamber (320) for receiving a section of the cable (110) in the region of the cable end, and a pull relief element (200, 201, 202, 203) which can be fastened to the casing (300) in the inner chamber (320), with a pull relief section (220, 221, 222, 223) and at least one contacting section (240, 241). The pull relief section (220, 221, 222, 223) is formed to fix a cable sheath (120) of the cable (110). The contacting section (240, 241) is formed to contact a shield (130) of the cable (110).Type: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2011Publication date: December 13, 2012Applicant: Tyco Electronics AMP GMBHInventors: Stefan Hein, Martin Szelag, Karl-Heinz Hess, Martin Schmitt, Dennis Feldmann, Hermann Schenk, Achim Pfeffer, Thomas Gerlach, Niranjan Thirunavukkarasu
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Patent number: 8317551Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical contact arrangement for high pulsed currents and for connection with a polygonal socket. The electrical contact arrangement includes first contact, arm, a second contact arm, an intermediate space provided between the first and second contact arms, and a third contact arm. The second contact arm positioned apart from the first contact arm in a deflection direction extending perpendicularly to the plug-in direction. The first contact arm and second contact arm extend substantially in a plug-in direction, and one of the first contact arm or second contact arm resiliently deflectable relative to the other contact arm in the deflection direction. The third contact arm extends in the plug-in direction and is positioned apart from the first contact arm and the second contact arm in a transverse direction extending perpendicularly to the plug-in and deflection directions. The third contact arm movable in the deflection direction and into the intermediate space.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2011Date of Patent: November 27, 2012Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbHInventors: Mohamed Aboulkassem, Bert Bergner, Rudolf Kraemer, Luis Javier Puras Trueba, Thomas Scharf, Christian Schrettlinger
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Patent number: 8308504Abstract: A connecting device for connection to an electrical connection system of a solar module comprises a connector housing for arranging on an outer face of the solar module and current-carrying components arranged in the connector housing, which components comprise at least one contact for connection to a conductor of the electrical connection system of the solar module, which conductor leads out from the solar module. A connection device, which may be arranged inside the connector housing, for positioning the conductor which leads out from the solar module is also provided, it being possible for the connection device and the contact to be arranged relative to one another in such a way that the contact is initially guided contactlessly along the conductor which leads out, so as to contact said conductor which leads out, and contacts the conductor which leads out in an end position. Reliable contact is thus possible without displacing the conductor which leads out.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2009Date of Patent: November 13, 2012Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbHInventors: Gerhard Ackermann, Manfred Schaarschmidt
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Patent number: 8287297Abstract: The invention relates to a clearance compensation unit for a plug connection, in particular an electrical RJ plug connection, comprising a plug connector and a counter connector, the clearance compensation unit comprising a clearance compensation spring which has at least two spring portions in such a way that clearance between the plug connector and the counter connector can be compensated in at least two dimensions by means of the spring portions, it being possible to push the plug connector against another spring portion of the clearance compensation spring or against a limit stop of the counter connector. The invention further relates to a plug connector; a counter connector; in particular a plug, a built-in plug, a coupling or a socket; a housing therefor; or a support collar; preferably for an electrical RJ plug connection, comprising a clearance compensation unit according to the invention.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2011Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbHInventors: Ralf Schmidt, Werner Boeck
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Publication number: 20120238123Abstract: The invention relates to a plug (1), with a first plug-and-socket connector (5) and at least a second plug-and-socket connector (4) in which the first plug-and-socket connector (5) can be received, and with a surrounding housing (6) in which the second plug-and-socket connector (4) can be received non-displaceably in at least one securing direction (A). Furthermore, the invention relates to a mating plug (2) with a first mating connector (7) and at least a second mating connector (2a), in which the first mating connector (7) can be received.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2010Publication date: September 20, 2012Applicant: Tyco Electronics AMP GMBHInventors: Christian Otto Boemmel, Rolf Jetter
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Publication number: 20120220172Abstract: 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, wherein the slider may be provided in a plurality of positions in relation to the casing. 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: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2012Publication date: August 30, 2012Applicants: Tyco Electronics Svenska Holdings AB, Tyco Electronics AMP GmbHInventors: Markus Ofenloch, Peter Kraemer, Joergen Lundberg
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Patent number: 8246396Abstract: A protective cover for an electrical connector for contacting a circuit carrier is disclosed, wherein the electrical connector includes an electrically insulating housing and at least one contact having a contact portion for contacting a mating contact and a connecting portion for contacting a plated through hole of the circuit carrier via an electrically conductive press-in connection. The protective cover has at least one opening through which the connecting portion of the at least one contact enters in the assembled state and is configured in such a way that, in cooperation with the contact and/or the electrically insulating housing, the protective cover covers an intake region of the plated through hole toward the outside.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2009Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbHInventors: Matthias Lechner, Heiko Urban, Michael Schall, Helge Schmidt, Michael Spielvogel, Marcus Schulte
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Patent number: 8215977Abstract: In a plug-and-socket connector with a locking means having an unlocking ring, it is proposed according to the invention that the first connector element be provided in its end section with an external circumambient groove, in which the unlocking ring is rotatably guided, which ring has pockets distributed across its periphery for the catch projections of catch hooks fixed in the second connector element. The second connector element has a window-like cut-out through which the unlocking ring is accessible and can be turned in the locked state.Type: GrantFiled: January 8, 2010Date of Patent: July 10, 2012Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbHInventor: Joachim Zapf
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Patent number: 8210884Abstract: An electrical terminal is provided for terminating a wire. The electrical terminal includes an electrical contact and a crimp barrel extending from the electrical contact. The crimp barrel is configured to be crimped around an end of the wire. The crimp barrel includes a base and opposing side walls that extend from the base. The base and the side walls define an opening of the crimp barrel that is configured to receive the end of the wire therein. The side walls extend outwardly from the base to ends. The side walls include base segments that extend from the base and end segments that extend from the base segments and include the ends. A sealing wing extends from the end of at least one of the side walls. The side walls are configured to be folded over when crimped over the end of the wire such that a gap is defined between the end segment and the base segment of at least one of the side walls.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2010Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignees: Tyco Electronics Corporation, Tyco Electronics AMP GmbHInventors: Ned Corman, Uwe Blümmel, Helge Schmidt, Charles D. Copper, Raymond Dennis Boyer, David B. Weaver, John Wesley Hall, John M. Myer