Patents by Inventor Achim Hoch

Achim Hoch has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Patent number: 8969742
    Abstract: A cable gland including a screw sleeve which can be inserted into a wall or a pipe coupling is provided. A union nut interacts with the screw sleeve, and a clamping insert is acted on by the union nut and is adapted to be pressed against a cable which is to be retained by tightening the union nut. The cable has a reinforcement and a clamping device for clamping a portion of the reinforcement is provided in the cable gland. The clamping device partially engages in the screw sleeve in an axial direction in a use position and is acted on by the union nut outside the screw sleeve. A portion of the clamping device engages in the screw sleeve and acts in an interlocking manner on an inner face of the screw sleeve in the rotation direction in the use position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Hummel AG
    Inventors: Mario Bartholoma, Fritz Zugel, Volker Gotz, Achim Hoch
  • Publication number: 20140127933
    Abstract: The invention relates to a plug-in connector (1) having a receiving sleeve (2) which encloses an insulation for the contacts (4), and a plug-in portion (3) which can be assembled with said sleeve and which also encloses an insulation (5) for counter contacts (6), wherein said plug-in connector can be coupled and attached in the inserted position without requiring a threading having a counter threading or having a counter nut. For this purpose, the outer side of the plug-in portion (3) and the inner side of the receiving sleeve (2) each have a non-round cross section in some regions on a rotating sleeve (7) which is rotatable relative to the receiving sleeve (2). Said non-round cross sections of the plug regions that can be inserted into one another fit together in a form-fit manner in the peripheral direction, and thus enable assembly in the position of use thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2012
    Publication date: May 8, 2014
    Applicant: Hummel AG
    Inventors: Thomas Franke, Fritz Zügel, Sven Rissler, Achim Hoch
  • Patent number: 8690599
    Abstract: A cable gland (1) for a shielded cable (2), including a threaded sleeve (9), a clamping insert (4) that engages therein, and a union nut (7) or pressure screw in the usual manner. The union nut or pressure screw act axially and radially upon an area of the clamping insert (4) protruding beyond the threaded sleeve (9) and radially deforms the clamping area or the clamping finger (6) of the clamping insert. The threaded sleeve (9) contains a contact device (10) having one or more contact fingers (11), which lie against the shielding of the cable (2) in a contacting manner in the working position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Hummel AG
    Inventors: Mario Bartholomä, Fritz Zügel, Volker Götz, Achim Hoch
  • Publication number: 20130020124
    Abstract: A cable gland (1) has a screw sleeve (2) which can be inserted into a wall or a pipe coupling and has an external thread, and has a union nut (3) which interacts with the external thread of the screw sleeve (2). The union nut (3) can be used, by virtue of being tightened, to press a clamping insert (5) against a cable (4) which is to be retained, wherein the cable (4) has a reinforcement means (7) which is exposed at least at points or is free within the cable gland (1). A clamping device (8) for clamping a portion of this reinforcement means (7) is provided in the cable gland (1), the clamping device (8) partially engaging in the inner opening in the screw sleeve (2) in the axial direction in the use position and being directly or indirectly acted on by the union nut (3) outside the screw sleeve (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2011
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicant: HUMMEL AG
    Inventors: Mario Bartholoma, Fritz Zugel, Volker Gotz, Achim Hoch
  • Publication number: 20120252259
    Abstract: A cable gland (1) for a shielded cable (2), including a threaded sleeve (9), a clamping insert (4) that engages therein, and a union nut (7) or pressure screw in the usual manner. The union nut or pressure screw act axially and radially upon an area of the clamping insert (4) protruding beyond the threaded sleeve (9) and radially deforms the clamping area or the clamping finger (6) of the clamping insert. The threaded sleeve (9) contains a contact device (10) having one or more contact fingers (11), which lie against the shielding of the cable (2) in a contacting manner in the working position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2010
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Applicant: HUMMEL AG
    Inventors: Mario Bartholomä, Fritz Zügel, Volker Götz, Achim Hoch
  • Patent number: 8172595
    Abstract: A connector (1) impermeable to liquids, having two matching connector parts (3) and (5), which is sealed in a connected position by at least one peripherally extending circumferential sealing ring (6) provided between the connector pats (3) and (5). The plug-in position is secured by a rotatable, axially fixed threaded bushing (8), which is fixed in the axial direction, but rotatably supported on one of the connector parts, and the internal thread (9) of which is mated to the holding thread (10) on the other connector part. A further thread or projection or threaded part (12) mating with the interior thread (9) is provided in a loosening direction at a distance from the holding thread (10) interacting with the threaded bushing (8), and a distance A from the end of the holding thread (10) to that of the further thread (12) is greater than a plug-in depth of the connecting pins (2) into the bushings (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2012
    Assignee: Hummel AG
    Inventors: Mario Bartholoma, Fritz Zugel, Volker Gotz, Achim Hoch, Gunter Reich
  • Publication number: 20100304593
    Abstract: A connector (1) impermeable to liquids, having two matching connector parts (3) and (5), which is sealed in a connected position by at least one peripherally extending circumferential sealing ring (6) provided between the connector pats (3) and (5). The plug-in position is secured by a rotatable, axially fixed threaded bushing (8), which is fixed in the axial direction, but rotatably supported on one of the connector parts, and the internal thread (9) of which is mated to the holding thread (10) on the other connector part. A further thread or projection or threaded part (12) mating with the interior thread (9) is provided in a loosening direction at a distance from the holding thread (10) interacting with the threaded bushing (8), and a distance A from the end of the holding thread (10) to that of the further thread (12) is greater than a plug-in depth of the connecting pins (2) into the bushings (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Applicant: HUMMEL AG
    Inventors: Mario Bartholoma, Fritz Zugel, Volker Gotz, Achim Hoch, Gunter Reich
  • Patent number: 7537466
    Abstract: A plug (1) with a housing in the form of a sleeve (2) and an insulating body (3) arranged therein is provided, which retains extended contacts (4), which includes an electrically conductive retainer spring (9) for a ground contact (5) having a sleeve-like plug-in piece (10) for the ground contact (5) arranged in a hole or perforation (6) of the insulating body (3), which has a free passage in an axial direction, the plug-in piece (10) accommodating the retainer spring (9) via a lateral opening (8) in the insulating body (3), and the hole or perforation (6) forms with the lateral opening (8) a back-cut for the somewhat elastically compressible plug-in piece (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2009
    Assignee: Anton Hummel Verwaltungs GmbH
    Inventors: Mario Bartholoma, Fritz Zugel, Achim Hoch
  • Publication number: 20080214028
    Abstract: A plug (1) with a housing in the form of a sleeve (2) and an insulating body (3) arranged therein is provided, which retains extended contacts (4), which includes an electrically conductive retainer spring (9) for a ground contact (5) having a sleeve-like plug-in piece (10) for the ground contact (5) arranged in a hole or perforation (6) of the insulating body (3), which has a free passage in an axial direction, the plug-in piece (10) accommodating the retainer spring (9) via a lateral opening (8) in the insulating body (3), and the hole or perforation (6) forms with the lateral opening (8) a back-cut for the somewhat elastically compressible plug-in piece (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2006
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Applicant: ANTON HUMMEL VERWALTUNGS GMBH
    Inventors: Mario Bartholoma, Fritz Zugel, Achim Hoch
  • Patent number: 7033211
    Abstract: An electrical angular pin-and-socket connector (1) is provided which includes two individual, separate angle legs (2) and (5). The second angle leg (5) includes a receiving opening (8) which opens perpendicularly to the profile of the angle leg, and in which a plug-in section (9) of the first angle leg (2) can be plugged and fitted, the two angle legs (2) and (5) being intermated in a functional position. In order to mutually lock the two angle legs in the functional position, an opening (10) extending perpendicularly to the axial extension of the first angle leg (2) is created through the second angle leg (5), in the cover or contact region inside the receiving opening (8), and part of the cross-section of the opening is respectively present in the contact region of the two angle legs, in such a way that a fixing screw (6) passing through the opening (10) or borehole positively grips the two angle legs and mutually locks the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2006
    Assignee: Anton Hummel Verwaltungs GmbH
    Inventors: Mario Bartholomä, Achim Hoch, Frank Köhler, Manfred Stratz, Günter Reich
  • Patent number: 6935886
    Abstract: A plug connector has, in a housing, an insulating member, which in a known manner receives contact elements, for example, contact pins and/or contact sockets, which are connected to individual wires or strands of an electrical cable. The plug connector also includes a clamping member or clamping insert in order to also fix the electrical cable relative to the housing, which takes place by a clamping nut, preferably by a union nut. In order to easily assemble these parts and to maintain a given spacing in the axial direction, the insulating member and the clamping member are connected by at least one, and preferably a plurality of spacers, with a radially open interspace remaining free laterally of the spacers, and between insulating member and clamping member. The insulating member and the clamping member are preferably separate parts, which can be reciprocally connected by the spacers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2005
    Assignee: Anton Hummel Verwaltungs GmbH
    Inventors: Achim Hoch, Frank Köhler, Günter Reich, Manfred Stratz, Mario Bartholomä
  • Publication number: 20050085117
    Abstract: An electrical angular pin-and-socket connector (1) is provided which includes two individual, separate angle legs (2) and (5). The second angle leg (5) includes a receiving opening (8) which opens perpendicularly to the profile of the angle leg, and in which a plug-in section (9) of the first angle leg (2) can be plugged and fitted, the two angle legs (2) and (5) being intermated in a functional position. In order to mutually lock the two angle legs in the functional position, an opening (10) extending perpendicularly to the axial extension of the first angle leg (2) is created through the second angle leg (5), in the cover or contact region inside the receiving opening (8), and part of the cross-section of the opening is respectively present in the contact region of the two angle legs, in such a way that a fixing screw (6) passing through the opening (10) or borehole positively grips the two angle legs and mutually locks the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2003
    Publication date: April 21, 2005
    Applicant: Anton Hummel Verwaltungs GmBH
    Inventors: Mario Bartholoma, Achim Hoch, Frank Kohler, Manfred Stratz, Gunter Reich
  • Publication number: 20050032414
    Abstract: A plug connector has, in a housing, an insulating member, which in a known manner receives contact elements, for example, contact pins and/or contact sockets, which are connected to individual wires or strands of an electrical cable. The plug connector also includes a clamping member or clamping insert in order to also fix the electrical cable relative to the housing, which takes place by a clamping nut, preferably by a union nut. In order to easily assemble these parts and to maintain a given spacing in the axial direction, the insulating member and the clamping member are connected by at least one, and preferably a plurality of spacers, with a radially open interspace remaining free laterally of the spacers, and between insulating member and clamping member. The insulating member and the clamping member are preferably separate parts, which can be reciprocally connected by the spacers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2003
    Publication date: February 10, 2005
    Inventors: Achim Hoch, Frank Kohler, Gunter Reich, Manfred Stratz, Mario Bartholoma
  • Patent number: 6780068
    Abstract: A plug-in connector has an insulating body which holds electrical contacts, for example contact pins or contact tubes, in bores which extend in the axial direction. On its outside, the insulating body has a groove which opens outwardly and which intersects the holes or bores for the contacts over part of their radial extension. A retaining ring fits into the groove and in the working position, simultaneously engages in groove-like recesses provided on the contacts, thereby fixing the contacts in an axial direction. The retaining ring can also support at least one retaining tongue protruding preferably radially inwardly in the plane of the retaining ring. The retaining tongue extends into the area of a further bore for a middle contact through a channel or opening in the insulating body and in the working position, engages in the recess thereof so that this middle contact is also axially fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2004
    Assignee: Anton Hummel Verwaltungs GmbH
    Inventors: Mario Bartholoma, Achim Hoch, Herbert Bohusch
  • Publication number: 20040038596
    Abstract: A plug-in connector has an insulating body which holds electrical contacts, for example contact pins or contact tubes, in bores which extend in the axial direction. On its outside, the insulating body has a groove which opens outwardly and which intersects the holes or bores for the contacts over part of their radial extension. A retaining ring fits into the groove and in the working position, simultaneously engages in groove-like recesses provided on the contacts, thereby fixing the contacts in an axial direction. The retaining ring can also support at least one retaining tongue protruding preferably radially inwardly in the plane of the retaining ring. The retaining tongue extends into the area of a further bore for a middle contact through a channel or opening in the insulating body and in the working position, engages in the recess thereof so that this middle contact is also axially fixed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2002
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventors: Mario Bartholoma, Achim Hoch, Herbert Bohusch