Patents Assigned to Wago Verwaltungsgesellschaft
  • 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
  • Publication number: 20230178905
    Abstract: A conductor connection terminal with a contact insert that has a bus bar and a clamping spring, and with a housing that has a first housing part and a second housing part and that at least partially encloses the contact insert, wherein the first housing part has a first housing wall with a receiving structure for receiving the contact insert, and the second housing part has multiple additional housing walls for covering the contact insert received by the first housing part. A conductor connection terminal is also provided with a contact insert that has a bus bar and a clamping spring, and with a housing that has a first housing part and a second housing part and that at least partially encloses the contact insert. The first housing part has a first conductor insertion channel section and the second housing part has a second conductor insertion channel section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventor: Henry STOLZE
  • Patent number: 11664613
    Abstract: A conductor connection terminal, having an insulating material housing, a busbar, a clamping spring and an operating lever which is pivotably received in the insulating material housing over a pivoting range and can be pivoted between an open position and a closed position, wherein the clamping spring has an operating arm which is deflected via a spring driver of the operating lever at least in the open position, characterized in that the operating lever is supported in the open position at a first and a second support point spaced from the first, and that the operating lever is pulled against the first and the second support point by a tensile force of the clamping spring acting on the spring driver from the operating arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventor: Frank Hartmann
  • Patent number: 11664609
    Abstract: A conductor terminal, including an insulating housing, the insulating housing having a conductor insertion opening for inserting an electrical conductor in a conductor insertion direction, including a busbar and including a clamping spring, the clamping spring having a contact leg for contact with a part of the conductor terminal, the contact leg transitioning into a spring bend, and the spring bend transitioning into a clamping leg, the clamping leg forming a clamping point with the busbar for the electrical conductor, and including an actuating element, the actuating element being configured to open the clamping point, the actuating element being able to be transferred from an initial position into an actuating position, and the clamping point being opened in the actuating position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Muhammet Ali Tuerkekoele, Joerg Ahldag
  • Patent number: 11658430
    Abstract: A connecting terminal having a plurality of conductor connection modules, wherein the conductor connection modules each have an insulating material housing with a conductor insertion opening for receiving an electrical conductor. In each case two conductor connection modules arranged next to one another are connected via a web, wherein the web is designed flexibly in such a way that the conductor connection modules can be arranged from an initial position into an arrangement different from the initial position, and vice versa.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventor: Henry Stolze
  • Publication number: 20230155306
    Abstract: A conductor connection terminal for connecting an electrical conductor by means of an insulation displacement connection, wherein the conductor connection terminal has at least one insulation displacement connection, a pressure piece that can be pressurized by means of a manually generated actuating force, a stamp acting on the electrical conductor and a compression spring arranged between the pressure piece and the stamp, wherein the insulation displacement connection has an insulation displacement contact with two contact edges arranged next to each other, wherein between opposite sides of the contact edges a cutting slot is formed, wherein the force of the compression spring is effective in the longitudinal direction of the cutting slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Sascha KULAS, Niko RETHEMEIER
  • Publication number: 20230139414
    Abstract: A device for coupling a fieldbus to a local bus for connection to at least one data bus subscriber, the device comprising a first unit that is connectable to the fieldbus and is adapted for sending and receiving data via the fieldbus; a second unit that is connectable to the local bus and is adapted for sending and receiving data via the local bus in at least one data packet; a data management unit that is connected to the first unit and the second unit, wherein the data management unit is adapted for transferring first symbols from data received via said first unit to said second unit in a sequence-dependent manner; and wherein the second unit is adapted to send at least one data packet including the first symbols on the local bus. In addition, a corresponding method for transferring data is described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2023
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Applicant: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Frank QUAKERNACK, Hans-Herbert KIRSTE
  • Publication number: 20230114055
    Abstract: A method for controlling a switched-mode power supply having a current limiting control for limiting output current of the switched-mode power supply to a predetermined maximum limiting current value, and having a current boost control for setting the predetermined maximum limiting current value to a predetermined overcurrent value for a predetermined boost time. The output current is passed through a measuring resistor and the measuring voltage, dropping across the measuring resistor, is compared with a first comparison voltage as a measured value proportional to the output current. The first comparison voltage is set to a nominal comparison voltage, correlating with the maximum current value, or to a boost comparison voltage, higher than the nominal comparison voltage and correlating with the higher overcurrent value and the comparison result serves as a control signal limiting the output current to the maximum current value or the overcurrent value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventor: Bernhard PEECK
  • Publication number: 20230093913
    Abstract: An apparatus for locally recognizing an instruction of a given set of instructions. The apparatus includes an acoustic sensor configured to convert acoustic signals into electric signals and includes an electronic circuit configured to switch from a first state to a second state based on first acoustic signals that are converted into electric signals and configured to ignore second acoustic signals that are converted into electric signals when the electronic circuit is in the first state and to assign the second acoustic signals to the instruction when the electronic circuit is in the second state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Marco HENKEL, Jannik RATHERT, Dominik HENKEL
  • Patent number: 11605910
    Abstract: A set formed of a conductor connection element and a fastening element for fastening the conductor connection element to another component, wherein the conductor connection element has an insulating housing with a conductor insertion opening for inserting an electrical conductor in a direction of conductor insertion, and wherein the fastening element has a connecting arrangement by means of which the fastening element can be fastened to the conductor connection element in a positive-locking manner. The connecting arrangement is configured to allow a fastening of the fastening element to the conductor connection element in multiple different discrete spatial orientations relative to the direction of conductor insertion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Henning Meier, Rudolf Mastel
  • Patent number: 11605907
    Abstract: A conductor connection terminal, having an insulating material housing, a busbar, a clamping spring and an operating lever which is pivotably received in the insulating material housing over a pivoting range and can be pivoted between an open position and a closed position, wherein the clamping spring has an operating arm which is deflected via a spring driver of the operating lever at least in the open position, characterized in that the operating lever is supported in the open position at a first and a second support point spaced from the first, and that the operating lever is pulled against the first and the second support point by a tensile force of the clamping spring acting on the spring driver from the operating arm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventor: Frank Hartmann
  • Publication number: 20230073870
    Abstract: A rail-mounted device for automation systems having at least one local bus interface for connecting the rail-mounted device to a local bus of an automation system, and a power supply unit that has at least one input and at least one output through which the power supply unit is connectable to at least one electronic control unit of the automation system. The power supply unit of the rail-mounted device is equipped to detect a voltage drop or a loss of voltage at the input of the power supply unit and to provide a supply voltage at a minimum of one output of the power supply unit over a limited period by means of the electrical energy stored in the energy storage device. The rail-mounted device has at least one signal output for indicating a voltage drop or voltage loss detected at the input of the power supply unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 4, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Applicant: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Falk WERNER, Marius HELLMEIER, Patrick ENNS
  • Patent number: D987572
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: WAGO Verwaltungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventor: Hans-Josef Koellmann