Patents Assigned to WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
  • Publication number: 20240030625
    Abstract: A connecting terminal for connecting at least two electric conductors to one another, wherein the connecting terminal has a housing in which at least a first conductor guide passage for guiding a first electric conductor and at least a second conductor guide passage for guiding a second electric conductor are formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Tobias DYCK, Hans-Josef KOELLMANN, Henning MEIER, Stefan GRAEFEN
  • Patent number: 11874648
    Abstract: A module for a technical facility includes a technical hardware for executing a technical sub-process, a controller for locally controlling the technical hardware wherein the controller is configured to control the technical hardware autonomously and an external interface of the controller, wherein the external interface comprises an OPC-UA server. The OPC-UA server has a fixedly predetermined information structure having static information and dynamic information wherein the static information describes the technical hardware and the controller, and the controller writes the dynamic information as real-time values of the technical hardware into the information structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Thomas Albers, Thomas Holm
  • Patent number: 11868302
    Abstract: A data bus subscriber connected to a local bus, particularly a ring bus. The data bus subscriber has a status signal input for receiving a first status signal value from a downstream data bus subscriber or a terminator, a status signal output for providing a second status signal value to an upstream data bus subscriber or to a local bus master, wherein the data bus subscriber is adapted to provide the second status signal value based on a logical link of a communication readiness of the data bus subscriber and the first status signal value. The invention further relates to a corresponding method and a local bus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2024
    Assignee: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Daniel Jerolm, Hans-Herbert Kirste, Frank Schadde, Gerald Huse
  • Patent number: 11843195
    Abstract: A conductor connection terminal with an insulating material housing having a conductor insertion opening for inserting an electrical conductor in a conductor insertion direction, with a busbar and a clamping spring, wherein the clamping spring has a clamping leg and wherein the clamping leg and the busbar form a clamping point for the electrical conductor to be clamped. The insulating material housing has a base side, wherein the base side is arranged adjacent to the side of the busbar facing away from the clamping point and wherein the base side has an opening, wherein on the side of the busbar facing away from the clamping point, two contact tabs protrude from the busbar, wherein the contact tabs are designed to contact a second electrical conductor between the contact tabs, wherein the second electrical conductor can be led through the opening of the base side between the contact tabs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventor: Michael Meyer
  • Patent number: 11837831
    Abstract: A spring-clamp terminal block for connecting an electrical conductor, with a bus bar, a clamping spring, a housing and a lever, wherein the lever has a bearing plate with a partially circular outer contour for mounting the lever in a counter bearing, and wherein the lever has a follower which is designed to move the clamping arm out of a closed position into an open position when the lever is actuated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventor: Thomas Witte
  • Patent number: 11822303
    Abstract: A power supply device for the electrical power supply of electrical components from a power source, wherein the power supply device has at least one communication unit by which the power supply device is designed for data communication with an external computer device, wherein the power supply device has connections for supplying the electrical power for the power supply of the electrical components, wherein the power supply device has at least one controllable digital or analog output connection and/or at least one digital or analog input connection as a further connection, wherein in the case of a controllable digital or analog output connection, this can be controlled by the external computer device via the communication unit and in the case of a digital or analog input connection an input value can be read from this input connection via the communication unit by the external computer device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Stefan Wagner, Philipp Neugebauer
  • Patent number: 11809169
    Abstract: An electronic device for an industrial electrical installation, having at least one electrical equipment and a communication module. The electrical equipment has control electronics with a memory and the memory of the control electronics comprises a parameter memory in which operating parameters of the electrical equipment are stored, and the communication module has a memory and is set up for data communication with the control electronics of the electrical equipment via a first communication link and for data communication with an external computer device via a second communication link. the memory of the control electronics of the electrical equipment stores a metadata record which contains access information and display information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Stefan Oroel, Christoph Meier
  • Publication number: 20230335924
    Abstract: A contact insert for a conductor connection terminal having a bus bar piece and a clamping spring having a clamping leg with a clamping edge for connecting an electrical conductor. The clamping edge of the clamping leg and the bus bar piece form a clamping point for the electrical conductor to be connected. At least two lateral webs are arranged on the clamping spring on mutually opposite sides of the clamping spring. The free ends of the lateral webs are connected to one another by a transverse web, and the lateral webs and the transverse web form a circumferentially closed aperture on the clamping spring. The bus bar piece extends between the lateral webs, at least when a clamping point is closed, and the bus bar piece passes through the circumferentially closed aperture at least twice.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2023
    Publication date: October 19, 2023
    Applicant: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Rudolf MASTEL, Marcel LIEBSCHER
  • Patent number: 11777233
    Abstract: A conductor connection terminal having an insulating material housing that includes a conductor insertion opening having a conductor insertion channel attached to the conductor insertion opening and a contact pin insertion opening having a contact pin insertion channel attached to the contact pin insertion opening. The conductor connection terminal also has a busbar and a clamping spring. The busbar includes a first contact portion and a second contact portion and the clamping spring has a first clamping limb having a first clamping edge oriented towards the first contact portion of the busbar, a first spring bow, a bearing limb, a second spring bow and a second clamping limb.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventor: Hans-Josef Koellmann
  • Patent number: 11764494
    Abstract: A connecting terminal for connecting at least one first electrical conductor to a second electrical conductor, the connecting terminal including a housing with a first conductor insertion opening for inserting the first electrical conductor and with a second conductor insertion opening for inserting the second electrical conductor, the first and the second conductor insertion openings being arranged on opposite sides of the housing, the connecting terminal including a contact insert, which includes a first clamping spring, a second clamping spring and a busbar, the first and the second clamping springs being fastened in end areas of the busbar facing away from each other, and a free space being present between the first and the second clamping springs, the connecting terminal including an inner piece as a further separate component, which is arranged at least with a middle section predominantly in the free space between the first and second clamping springs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventor: Henry Stolze
  • Publication number: 20230291144
    Abstract: A housing of an electrical plug connector, which has the following features: at least one plug chamber, accessible from a plug face of the plug connector, into which a mating plug connector designed as the mating piece for the plug connector may be inserted; four circumferential walls, which surround at least the plug chamber on the circumferential side and extend in parallel to an insertion direction, in which the mating plug connector may be inserted into the plug chamber; at least one elastically resilient locking tab is formed on at least one circumferential wall for the purpose of locking the mating plug connector on the plug connector; the at least one locking tab is designed as a material tongue separated from the material of the circumferential wall by cutaway sections on both sides. An electrical plug connector is also provided, which includes the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Torben OBERHOMMERT, Rudolf MASTEL
  • Publication number: 20230280713
    Abstract: A method for configuring an industrial control apparatus, the method including: starting a detection mode; selecting a stock control apparatus; opening a stock configuration of the stock control apparatus; selecting and buffer-storing at least one feature of the stock configuration; starting a transfer mode; selecting at least one target control apparatus; and transferring the at least one selected and buffer-stored feature of the stock configuration to the target control apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 12, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Applicant: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Klaus HUEBSCHLE, Achim FECKE, Sven KREFT
  • Patent number: 11736318
    Abstract: A method for operating a data bus subscriber of a local bus, particularly of a ring bus, the method including the steps of: receiving a first data packet over the local bus, wherein the first data packet has an address of the data bus subscriber to which it is directed and at least one instructions list, having a set of instructions for processing process data, receiving a second data packet over the local bus, wherein the second data packet has process data; and executing instructions of the at least one instructions list for processing the received process data. A corresponding data bus subscriber and a local bus master is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventor: Daniel Jerolm
  • Publication number: 20230232534
    Abstract: A system for the assembly of circuit boards is shown. The system includes an assembly device and a circuit board. The assembly device comprises a substantially planar base plate and guide members. The circuit board includes multiple rigid portions connected by flexible members. The guide members extend into a space partially or completely enclosed in the horizontal direction by the circuit board, and determine the position and orientation of the rigid portions relative to the base plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2023
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Applicant: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Gerald SCHAUER, Eugen MEISTER
  • Publication number: 20230224366
    Abstract: A method for adjusting the data transmission from an industrial control device to a cloud system, the method comprising steps carried out by a cloud application, the steps comprising: determining usage behavior by means of machine learning, by the cloud system or an associated computer system connected thereto, of data, more particularly process data, transmitted from the industrial control device; and sending at least one command to the industrial control device in order to adjust the data transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Applicant: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Michael HELLER, Raphael GOJ, Josha DITTGEN
  • Patent number: 11686629
    Abstract: A device, which includes an input, configured to read in an analog signal, an analog/digital converter, configured to convert the analog signal into a digital value, and a processor, configured to determine a digital measured value. The processor is further configured to derive a calibrated digital value from the digital value with the aid of a linear calibration function and to derive the digital measured value from the calibrated digital value with the aid of a nonlinear measurement function. The processor modifies the linear calibration function in response to a calibration signal, based on an algorithm, which is based on the nonlinear measurement function, and a number of predefined comparison measured values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Matthias Kruehler, Thorsten Lindner
  • Publication number: 20230198200
    Abstract: A housing for accommodating one or more conductor terminals which are designed as through connectors. The invention also relates to a set of such a housing and one or more conductor terminals which are designed as through connectors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Stephan HOCHGESCHURZ, Frank HARTMANN
  • Patent number: 11677170
    Abstract: A spring-clamp terminal block for connecting an electrical conductor, with a busbar, a clamping spring, a housing and a lever, wherein the busbar and the clamping spring and the lever are accommodated at least partially in the housing, wherein the lever has a first bearing plate with a first partially circular outer contour for mounting the lever in a first counter bearing, wherein the lever has a second bearing plate with a second partially circular outer contour for mounting the lever in a second counter bearing, wherein the second bearing plate is spaced apart from the first bearing plate, wherein the lever has an actuation handle which is connected to the first bearing plate and to the second bearing plate, wherein the clamping spring has a clamping arm, wherein the clamping arm together with the busbar forms a clamping point for clamping the electrical conductor on the busbar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventor: Thomas Witte
  • Patent number: 11675717
    Abstract: Illustrated is an I/O module which is configured for cyclically transmitting and receiving telegrams, wherein an area in which a data record can be transmitted in its entirety is provided in the telegrams, as well as an area capable of containing only a part of a data record, so that said data record is transmitted, distributed over several telegrams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Alexander Buelow, Markus Weidner, Michael Langreder
  • Patent number: D1012040
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventor: Frank Hartmann