Patents Assigned to Wago Verwaltungsgesellschaft
  • Publication number: 20200185852
    Abstract: A conductor terminal is provided that includes at least one insulating housing, at least one contact insert, which is arranged at least predominantly within the insulating housing and which has at least one clamping spring, at least one actuating lever, by means of which the clamping spring can be deflected, wherein the actuating lever is pivotable at least from an open to a closed position and vice versa, wherein the insulating housing has as separate components at least a main housing part and a cover part, which can be positively fixed to the main housing part by means of at least a positive locking element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Applicant: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Thomas WITTE, Muhammet Ali TUERKEKOELE, Joerg TUMOSEIT
  • Publication number: 20200176897
    Abstract: A spring terminal for connection of an electrical conductor including a bus bar, a clamping spring; a housing; and a lever. The bus bar and the clamping spring and the lever are accommodated at least partially in the housing. The lever has a first support disk with a first partially circular outer contour for supporting the lever in a first bearing shell. The lever has a second support disk with a second partially circular outer contour for supporting the lever in a second bearing shell. The second support disk is spaced apart from the first support disk. The lever has an operating handle that is connected to the first support disk and to the second support disk. The clamping spring has a clamping leg that forms a clamping point with the bus bar for clamping the electrical conductor to the bus bar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventor: Philipp Ober-Woerder
  • Patent number: 10665965
    Abstract: A conductor terminal having at least one insulating material housing; at least one contact insert arranged at least partially in the housing and having at least one contact piece and at least one clamping spring. The contact piece, together with the clamping spring, forms at least one conductor clamping point for an electrical conductor to be contacted via the conductor terminal, which electrical conductor can be acted upon by a spring force of the clamping spring. At least one actuating lever is pivotably supported in the housing for actuating the clamping spring. The actuating lever can be pivoted from a closed position to an open position and vice versa in relation to the housing and/or the contact piece and an electrical conductor inserted into the conductor terminal is not acted upon by the spring force of the clamping spring at the conductor clamping point at least in the open position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2020
    Assignee: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Markus Lorenschat, Rudolf Mastel, Maria Glammeier
  • Publication number: 20200153125
    Abstract: A conductor terminal having at least one insulating material housing; at least one contact insert arranged at least partially in the housing and having at least one contact piece and at least one clamping spring. The contact piece, together with the clamping spring, forms at least one conductor clamping point for an electrical conductor to be contacted via the conductor terminal, which electrical conductor can be acted upon by a spring force of the clamping spring. At least one actuating lever is pivotably supported in the housing for actuating the clamping spring. The actuating lever can be pivoted from a closed position to an open position and vice versa in relation to the housing and/or the contact piece and an electrical conductor inserted into the conductor terminal is not acted upon by the spring force of the clamping spring at the conductor clamping point at least in the open position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft
    Inventors: Markus LORENSCHAT, Rudolf MASTEL, Maria GLAMMEIER
  • Publication number: 20200144736
    Abstract: A conductor terminal with at least one spring-loaded terminal connection, which includes at least one clip spring, wherein the at least one clip spring has a contact leg, a clip spring arc adjoining the contact leg and a clamping leg adjoining the clip spring arc, wherein the contact leg is arranged in the conductor terminal for fixing the clip spring and the clamping leg is arranged for clamping an electrical conductor at a clamping point, wherein in an arcuate portion comprising the clip spring arc and areas of the contact leg and the clamping leg adjacent to the clip spring arc, the clip spring includes a spring insert having a force effect which spreads the clamping leg apart from the contact leg, wherein the spring insert has a first and a second leg and a spring insert arc that connects the first leg with the second leg.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Michael MEYER, Alexander VOLKMANN
  • Patent number: 10644448
    Abstract: An electrical device, having a receiving shaft for releasably receiving an electrical and/or electronic component, in particular a relay module or an electrical circuit, wherein the electrical device has an ejection device for ejecting the component, wherein the ejection device has a pivotable ejector lever. In an ejection operation, the component can be at least partially pushed from the receiving shaft by manually operating the ejector lever by a pressure force exerted on the component by the ejector lever, wherein the ejector lever is pivotably supported on the electric device without a fixed pivot axis and in an ejection operation, is configured to execute a pivoting movement of which the pivot axis is displaceable during the course of the ejection operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventor: Viktor Mickmann
  • Patent number: 10642238
    Abstract: Module 1 for a technical facility 90 comprising a technical hardware 10 for the execution of a technical sub-process, a control 20 for a local control of the technical hardware 10, wherein the control 20 is adapted to control the technical hardware 10 autarkical, and an external interface 22 of the control 20, wherein the external interface 22 comprises an administration shell 23, wherein the administration shell 23 publishes at least one service relating to an output product 140 of the module 1 via a network 62, and wherein the external interface 22 is adapted to request at least one service relating to an input product 130 of the module 1 via the network 62. Furthermore, a corresponding system for the execution of a process by means of a technical facility 90 as well as a corresponding method for the execution of a technical process by means of a technical facility 90 is claimed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Thomas Albers, Thomas Holm
  • Publication number: 20200116785
    Abstract: A safety circuit for the multi-channel processing of an input signal. The safety circuit includes an analog-to-digital conversion device having a first analog input and a second analog input and at least one digital output for processing the input signal. Furthermore, the safety circuit has a test device which is set up to apply a test signal at the first and/or second input of the A/D conversion device in such a way that the test signal superposes the input signal such that the test signal dominates the input signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Applicant: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Alexander BUELOW, Christian VOSS, Torsten MEYER
  • Patent number: 10615519
    Abstract: A connecting terminal having an insulating housing, a conductor insertion channel extending toward a conductor insertion axis with an at least partially circumferential conductor channel wall arranged coaxially to the conductor insertion axis, and an actuation channel disposed adjacent to the conductor insertion channel. A leg spring bent in a U-shape has a contact leg, a clamping leg and a spring bow. A push button is adapted to be received in the actuation channel in a longitudinally displaceable manner. The contact leg is mounted on the bus bar, and a clamping edge of the clamping leg forms a spring clamp connection with a contact region of the bus bar for clamping an electrical conductor inserted in the conductor insertion channel. An actuation axis defined by a displacement direction of the push button and the conductor insertion axis are aligned with each other at an angle of 5° to 30°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2020
    Assignee: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Hans-Josef Koellmann, Frank Hartmann
  • Patent number: 10608377
    Abstract: An electrical plug connection having a plug connector and an associated counterpart mating plug connector. The plug connector can be plugged together in a plug direction with the mating plug connector for producing an electrical plug connection. The plug connector has a first locking mechanism and the mating plug connector has a second locking mechanism. The plug connector is fixable on the mating plug connector by a positive connection of the first locking mechanism with the second locking mechanism, and in an unlocking operation, this fixation can be disengaged by manual actuation of an unlocking element movably mounted on the plug connector or on the mating plug connector, in that the unlocking element mechanically acts on the first and/or the second locking mechanism when operated manually.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventor: Hans-Josef Koellmann
  • Publication number: 20200089501
    Abstract: A method and a data bus subscriber are described for processing process data in a local bus, in particular a ring bus, the method including receiving a first symbol during a first number of working cycles, with the first symbol comprising first process data; loading at least one first instruction from an instruction list during the first number of working cycles, receiving a second symbol during a second number of working cycles, with the second symbol comprising second process data, processing the first process data contained in the first symbol with the at least one loaded first instruction during the second number of working cycles, and loading at least one second instruction for processing the second process data of the second symbol during the second number of working cycles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventor: Daniel JEROLM
  • Publication number: 20200092136
    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: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventor: Daniel JEROLM
  • Publication number: 20200092134
    Abstract: A method is described for identifying communication-ready data bus subscribers connected to a local bus. The method comprises receiving, at a local bus master, at least one data packet transmitted via the local bus, wherein the at least one data packet received at the local bus master comprises an address of a communication-ready data bus subscriber among a plurality of communication-ready data bus subscribers in the local bus, wherein the communication-ready data bus subscriber is in a sequence of communication-ready data bus subscribers, and mapping of the received address by the local bus master to a relative position of the communication-ready data bus subscriber in the sequence of communication-ready data bus subscribers in the local bus. In addition, a local bus master of the local bus is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventor: Daniel JEROLM
  • Publication number: 20200092130
    Abstract: A method for operating a local bus, in particular a ring bus, including data bus participants, as well as a local bus master are described. The method comprises transmitting a first identifier of a cycle frame, the first identifier defining the beginning of the cycle frame; transmitting process data and management data over the local bus, the process data and management data being transmitted within the cycle frame, at least one isochronous data packet containing the process data being transmitted in a first time interval for the first identifier, and, if management data is transmitted within the cycle frame, this management data is transmitted separately from the process data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventor: Daniel JEROLM
  • Publication number: 20200091931
    Abstract: A method and a device for generating a data packet to be transmitted comprising data and at least one value for a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) value, are described, wherein the CRC value is generated using at least one previously determined polynomial on the basis of at least some of the data and the method comprises initializing a counter value, counting units of data, wherein the counter value changes for each unit of data, and adding a CRC value into the data packet, when the counter value reaches a reference value or all units of data in the data packet have already been counted, wherein the CRC value is generated over the units of data which have been counted since the counter value last reached the reference value or since the counter value was initialized. Furthermore, a method and a device for checking a corresponding received data packet are described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Frank QUAKERNACK, Daniel JEROLM
  • Publication number: 20200089644
    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: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: WAGO VERWALTUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH
    Inventors: Daniel JEROLM, Hans-Herbert KIRSTE, Frank SCHADDE, Gerald HUSE
  • Publication number: 20200089631
    Abstract: A data bus subscriber and a method for processing data, wherein the data bus subscriber can be connected to a local bus, particularly a ring bus, and the data bus subscriber has an input interface, which can be connected to the local bus, for receiving first local bus data, an output interface, which can be connected to the local bus, for transmitting second local bus data, a processing component for synchronous processing of the first local bus data and/or data stored in a memory and for output of at least one control signal, a logic unit, which is adapted in order to modify a quantity of received first local bus data based on the control signal in order to generate the second local bus data to be transmitted, wherein the logic unit is further adapted for synchronous, delayed transmitting of the second local bus data via the output interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Daniel JEROLM, Frank QUAKERNACK, Hans-Herbert KIRSTE
  • Publication number: 20200092137
    Abstract: A method for processing process data by means of data bus subscribers of a local bus, the method including: receiving at least one instruction list at a data bus subscriber, the instruction list having a set of instructions for processing process data, storing the at least one instruction list in a memory, receiving an instruction list index, ILI, at the data bus subscriber, selecting one of the at least one stored instruction list on the basis of the received ILI if the ILI is associated with the stored instruction list, and executing the set of instructions of the selected instruction list in order to process the process data by means of the data bus subscriber. The local bus is designed as a ring bus, for example. Each output of a data bus subscriber is connected, for example, to an actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventor: Daniel JEROLM
  • Publication number: 20200092131
    Abstract: A method is described for communicating with data bus subscribers connected to a local bus, in particular a ring bus, with a local bus master, the method comprising sending a first data packet from the local bus master to all data bus subscribers for counting communication-ready data bus subscribers in a sequence, wherein the first data packet has a first counter value that is read out from each of the communication-ready data bus subscribers is changed in order; and sending a plurality of second data packets from the local bus master to all data bus subscribers, wherein the number of second data packets is based on the first counter value and wherein each of the second data packets is assigned to one of the communication-ready data bus subscribers based on the respective relative position of the communication-ready data bus subscribers in the sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventor: Daniel JEROLM
  • Publication number: 20200092132
    Abstract: A module unit for connecting a data bus participant to a local bus. The module unit has a first input interface and a first output interface which can be connected to the local bus, a first data connection interface which can be connected to the data bus participant, and a first switch which is adapted so as to assume a first or a second switch state depending on a control input from the data bus participant, connect the first input interface to the first output interface in the first switch state, and connect the first data connection interface to the first output interface in the second switch state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: March 19, 2020
    Applicant: WAGO VERWALTUNGSGESELLSCHAFT MBH
    Inventors: Daniel JEROLM, Hans-Herbert KIRSTE, Anton LISCHEWSKI, Frank SCHADDE