Patents Assigned to Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH
  • Patent number: 7053738
    Abstract: A relay and a process for producing a relay are described, three contact pins being provided for the relay. The three contact pins are preferably manufactured from a stamping and are fixed together as a contact stamping with respect to a yoke through insertion into a base. As a result of the use of a contact stamping with the three contact pins connected rigidly to one another, adjustment and handling of the three contact pins during production of the relay is relatively simple.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Hoffmann, Thomas Haehnel, Ralf Gollee, Joerg Schultheiss, Olaf Abel
  • Patent number: 7044744
    Abstract: An electrical plug connection system includes a vehicle door handle having a plug connection member. A bearing shell for positioning in a vehicle door has a passageway and an opening. The opening communicates with the passageway and receives the plug connection member. A holder is arranged in the bearing shell to the opening. A plug connector is attached to the holder in a pre-assembly position. The plug connector is releasable from the holder when the plug connection member engages the plug connector. The plug connector is pivotable into the passageway by the plug connection member after the plug connector is released to a final position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH
    Inventor: Kai Sellien
  • Patent number: 7044811
    Abstract: A plug contact is provided which comprises a first pin connected to two contact plates arranged parallel to one another. The contact plates are also connected to two further pins which are arranged on a side of the contact plates opposed to the first pin. The three pins are arranged parallel to one another. The two contact plates are connected by connecting elements to the two further pins which are arranged in the region of the connection of the first pin and are guided via a 180° bend to the two further pins. The two contact plates comprise reciprocally associated notches between which a contact region is formed for contacting a contact pin. Owing to the selected geometry it is possible to introduce a contact pin from different directions into the contact region and retain the contact pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH
    Inventors: Gunther Chritz, Gerhard Fischer
  • Patent number: 7025508
    Abstract: The invention provides an optical short-circuit insert for accommodation in a plug housing, with a plug region with two mutually parallel optical fiber ends of an optical fiber portion. A curved region of the optical fiber portion, intermediate optical fiber ends, is guided in an arc of 180 degrees. The optical fiber portion has a curved portion of a fiber consisting of multi-component glass with cladding or of a multi-conductor glass fiber with cladding, which is enveloped in a plastic carrier. An optical short-circuit plug with a plug housing enveloping a plug and a short-circuit insert capable of being pushed into it is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignees: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH, Schott AG
    Inventors: Pia Kopf, Joachim Hahn, Rudolf Kunstmann, Miquel Seidenfaden
  • Patent number: 7025610
    Abstract: An electrical connector arrangement having a first connector which is arranged in a housing and may be brought into an electrical connection with a mating connector by the actuation of an actuation lever arranged movably on the first connector. The actuation lever being movable between a free position in which the two connectors are not fully mated and a coupled position in which the two connectors are fully mated. A portion of the actuation lever is disposed between the first connector and the housing with a clamping projection on the lever that is in engagement with a mating clamping projection on the housing when the actuation lever is in the coupled position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2006
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH
    Inventor: Ulrich Demuth
  • Patent number: 7008251
    Abstract: A plug connector has a housing having a contact element extending therefrom. The contact element has a connecting region arranged outside of the housing for electrically connecting the contact element to an electrical lead. A sealing element surrounds the connecting region. The sealing element is axially slideable along the connecting region into engagement with the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2006
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH
    Inventors: Hartmut Ripper, Mile Trajkov
  • Patent number: 7004791
    Abstract: A connector housing and a process for making same, in which the connector housing comprises a base part and a pivoting part, attached to the base part and made in one piece with the base part. The pivoting part has at least one surface delimiting an insertion opening in the connector housing through which a pin contact may be inserted into a socket contact in the connector housing. The connector housing being injection molded, with the pivoting part located in an open position, providing sufficient space for the molds for shaping a latching hook. After the mold has been removed, the pivoting part is moved into a closed position in which the delimiting surface of the pivoting part is moved towards the insertion opening. The connector housing cures with the pivoting part in the closed position. The socket contact is held in a contact chamber by a latching hook.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2006
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH
    Inventors: Guenther Mumper, Konrad Helmut Roth
  • Patent number: 7001207
    Abstract: A connector for a ribbon cable is described having two part plates which are preferably connected to one another via a connection piece. The part plates are therefore preferably integral in design. In the region of the connection piece there are contact slots made in the part plates. Preferably the part plates can be produced in the form of continuous plates and cut as required into the desired width from the continuous ribbon. For assembling the connector a ribbon cable is inserted between the part plates and subsequently the part plates are folded on to one another by means of a simple folding operation and preferably permanently connected to one another by fastening elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2006
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Otto Boemmel, Rolf Jetter
  • Patent number: 6979224
    Abstract: A connector for a ribbon cable includes a housing having a ribbon cable receiving region extending between a front surface and a back surface of the housing. A ribbon cable disposed in the ribbon cable receiving region. The ribbon cable has contact sections arranged at the back surface of the housing. Retention clips arranged on the back surface of the housing that receive a portion of the ribbon cable. The retention clips are arranged at a fixed spacing such that the contact sections of the ribbon cable are accessible between each of the retention clips for receiving contact elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Otto Boemmel, Rolf Jetter
  • Patent number: 6979234
    Abstract: A plug connection device comprises a contact pin and a receiving element. The contact pin has an outer surface. The receiving element has openings. Each of the openings has an inner surface that contacts the outer surface of the contact pin when the contact pin is received therein. The plug connection device has grooves extending in a radial direction. A distance between adjacent grooves is smaller than a distance between adjacent openings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2005
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Bleicher
  • Patent number: 6963131
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an integrated circuit system with at least one integrated circuit, a cooling body to dissipate the heat generated by the integrated circuit and a latent heat storage module having a latent heat storage medium. The latent heat storage module is thermally connected to the cooling body in order to temporarily store the heat generated by the integrated circuit and to convey it to the cooling body. The integrated circuit has at least one semiconductor component which is assembled on a substrate and the substrate is in direct thermal contact with the latent heat storage module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Frisch, Ralf Ehler
  • Patent number: 6960090
    Abstract: A plug connector arrangement has a socket housing with receptacle contacts and a plug housing with pluggable contacts. To make an electrical connection between the receptacle contacts and the pluggable contacts, at least one of the housings is movable so that it can be pushed together with the other housing. At least one actuation slide means is mounted on the movable housing and is displaceable in a direction transverse to a direction of movement of the moveable housing. The actuation slide means has at least one control element that co-operates with at least one control means arranged on the other housing such that the movable housing is actuated toward the other housing when the actuation slide means is displaced. The actuation slide means has at least one latching device that co-operates with at least one corresponding latching element on the fixed housing to hold the moveable housing in position relative to the fixed housing before actuation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2005
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH
    Inventors: Susanne Denter, Konrad Roth, Georg Puckel
  • Patent number: 6943653
    Abstract: The invention relates to a bi-stable electric switch comprising a spring (101) that is configured as a bi-stable snap-action spring and carries contact elements (114, 116) on the carrier strip (104) of the spring and comprising at least one drive element made from shape memory material per switch state for actuating the spring, the spring having a plate (110) that is rigidly fixed at one end (102) and that is subjected to a pressure in the direction of its linear extension and evades this by bulging towards one side into one of two stable final states, the regions of the spring in the stable final states taking up different lateral positions and the drive elements (118, 119) acting upon the free end of the plate and as a result of the tilting of free end (104) cause it to snap into the second stable final state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2005
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics Amp GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Hanke, Matthias Kroeker, Thomas Haehnel, Joerg Schultheiss
  • Patent number: 6935885
    Abstract: The present invention provides a connector for contacting the conductors of a cable. The connector includes a receptacle for receiving the cable and a contacting device which may be placed on the receptacle and which comprises at least one piercing contact for contacting a conductor of the cable. The contacting device is adapted to be placed on the receptacle such that the piercing contact comes to lie in a freely selectable position in the receptacle, in order to contact the conductor of the cable received in the receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH
    Inventors: Heinz Scherer, Markus Strelow, Elke Werner, Andreas Woeber, Guenter Feldmeier
  • Patent number: 6930879
    Abstract: An electronic module has a semiconductor arranged on a substrate. The semiconductor has an electrically conductive contact face on a side remote from the substrate. A contacting unit is configured to be at least partially elastically yielding. A support element is configured to press the contacting unit toward the substrate to make electrical contact. The contacting unit contacts the substrate and/or the contact face.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Frisch, Ralf Ehler
  • Patent number: 6913393
    Abstract: A plug for a connector arrangement consisting of a plug and an associated mating plug, has a housing which has at least one axial receiver for an optical fiber and a protective device movably mounted in the housing for protecting the optical fiber. The protective device according to the invention is designed as a slide which can be moved axially to the receiver and the slide has a aperture for the optical fiber and/or the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2005
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH
    Inventors: Carsten Buck, Michael Ferstl, Stefan Loeffelholz, Dirk Reifel
  • Patent number: 6897404
    Abstract: A method and device for welding pin contacts and socket contacts to an optical waveguide, the welding device has a contact loading station, a contact transport carriage, a laser welding device, and an electrical control unit. The contact loading station has a socket contact transfer device and a pin contact transfer device. The contact transport carriage has a pin contact holder and a socket contact holder. The contact transport carriage is displaceable between the contact loading station and the laser welding station. The electrical control unit controls the combination and number of socket contacts and pin contacts transferred from the socket contact transfer device to the socket contact holder and from the pin contact transfer device to the pin contact holder without having to re-tool the welding device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2005
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH
    Inventors: Lothar Bauer, Robert Germann, Michael Gerst, Helmut Kreuzer, Gerd Stegmayer
  • Patent number: 6893291
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a coaxial plug connector having an electrically conductive shield housing and having an center conductor and an outer conductor. The outer conductor includes a first half shell and a second half shell which can be joined together in a direction substantially transverse with respect to the longitudinal axis of the cable. Furthermore, the invention relates to a coaxial angled plug connector in which the center conductor is angled such that the contact region and the connection region substantially form a right angle with one another. Finally, the invention relates to a process for making plug connectors of this type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2005
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH
    Inventors: Hannes Jahn Wendling, Olivier De Cloet
  • Patent number: 6887094
    Abstract: A shielded connection arrangement is provided for electrically connecting at least one multiple-conductor shielded electrical wire to a circuit carrier or the like, in particular for connecting an Ethernet line to an electrical device. The connection arrangement includes an electrically insulating housing 101 having a securable cover 102 and, located therein, insulation displacement contacts 103 for making contact with wire conductors 141 of the at least one electrical wire 14. Within the insulating housing 101 and/or below the cover 102 there is an electrically conductive shield plate 121 for shielding 12 the interior of the housing in a manner which is largely closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP, GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Boeck, Franz Mueller, Martin Szelag, Ralf Schmidt
  • Patent number: 6877907
    Abstract: An arrangement of several ferrules for optical waveguides having at least one connection section, two ferrules respectively mutually connected by way of a connection section or mutually connected by way of a belt. In an advantageous embodiment, the ferrules are connected in one piece with the belt. In a process for producing a belt having plastic ferrules, the following process steps are implemented: Injection-molding a first plastic ferrule, conveying the finished plastic ferrule by a defined distance, and injection-molding a second plastic ferrule, so that it is connected with the first plastic ferrule. The process may further include belt segments which are injection-molded with the plastic ferrules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2005
    Assignees: Bayerische Motoren Werke AG, TYCO Electronics AMP GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Schuhbaeck, Patrick Weigert, Jürgen Bauer