Patents by Inventor Andreas Götze

Andreas Götze 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: 10044119
    Abstract: A terminal device includes: a housing having at least one contact cavity; a contact part which is arranged in the at least one contact cavity and into which at least one electrical line can be plugged in order to make electrical contact with the contact part; and at least one busbar which is arranged on the housing, is electrically connected to the contact part, and a busbar portion of which extends along a height line. An end portion adjoins the busbar portion, which end portion extends in an oblique direction at an oblique angle to the height line and can be moved along the height line relative to the contact part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Wjatscheslaw Janzen, Holger Steinhage, Andrea Goetze, Oliver Pethig
  • Patent number: 9806440
    Abstract: A terminal block has an insulator housing, at least two busbars and at least four connection elements, there being at least two connection levels in the insulator housing arranged one over the other. Each connection level has a busbar receptacle chamber for receiving a busbar and two mutually opposite conductor connection chambers on ends of chamber for receiving a respective connection element, the chambers being open on an insulator housing first side for busbar assembly in the chambers and wherein the conductor connection chambers are open on a second side of the insulator housing for assembly of the connection elements in the conductor connection chambers. The insulator housing first side is designed at a right angle to the insulator housing second side to give an busbar assembly insertion direction into a chamber at a right angle to a connection element assembly insertion direction into a conductor connection chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Ralph Hoppmann, Andrea Goetze, Wjatscheslaw Janzen
  • Publication number: 20170244181
    Abstract: A terminal device includes: a housing having at least one contact cavity; a contact part which is arranged in the at least one contact cavity and into which at least one electrical line can be plugged in order to make electrical contact with the contact part; and at least one busbar which is arranged on the housing, is electrically connected to the contact part, and a busbar portion of which extends along a height line. An end portion adjoins the busbar portion, which end portion extends in art oblique direction at an oblique angle to the height line and can be moved along the height line relative to the contact part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Wjatscheslaw JANZEN, Holger STEINHAGE, Andrea GOETZE, Oliver PETHIG
  • Publication number: 20160315402
    Abstract: A terminal block has an insulator housing, at least two busbars and at least four connection elements, there being at least two connection levels in the insulator housing arranged one over the other. Each connection level has a busbar receptacle chamber for receiving a busbar and two mutually opposite conductor connection chambers on ends of chamber for receiving a respective connection element, the chambers being open on an insulator housing first side for busbar assembly in the chambers and wherein the conductor connection chambers are open on a second side of the insulator housing for assembly of the connection elements in the conductor connection chambers. The insulator housing first side is designed at a right angle to the insulator housing second side to give an busbar assembly insertion direction into a chamber at a right angle to a connection element assembly insertion direction into a conductor connection chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2014
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Applicant: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventors: Ralph HOPPMANN, Andrea GOETZE, Wjatscheslaw JANZEN
  • Patent number: 8084903
    Abstract: A connector arrangement is provided for supplying electric power to a three-phase motor to produce motor operation in either a delta mode or a star mode, use being made of modular units that are removably mounted within a chamber contained in an outer frame that is secured to the motor housing. A power supply module arranged within the chamber includes a main receptacle containing a stack of terminal blocks having bus bars that transmit to the motor windings three-phase power that is supplied either by external power supply lines that extend into the chamber though openings contained in the side walls of the outer frame, or from an inverter arranged externally of the outer frame. Auxiliary receptacles are removably connected with the external surface of the main receptacle for monitoring the operating condition of the motor, or for controlling a motor operation, such as braking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignee: Woidmueller Interface GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andrea Goetze, Jens Oesterhaus, Stefan Aporius, Thorsten Beck, Wolfgang Schild
  • Publication number: 20090230792
    Abstract: A connector arrangement is provided for supplying electric power to a three-phase motor to produce motor operation in either a delta mode or a star mode, use being made of modular units that are removably mounted within a chamber contained in an outer frame that is secured to the motor housing. A power supply module arranged within the chamber includes a main receptacle containing a stack of terminal blocks having bus bars that transmit to the motor windings three-phase power that is supplied either by external power supply lines that extend into the chamber though openings contained in the side walls of the outer frame, or from an inverter arranged externally of the outer frame. Auxiliary receptacles are removably connected with the external surface of the main receptacle for monitoring the operating condition of the motor, or for controlling a motor operation, such as braking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2009
    Publication date: September 17, 2009
    Inventors: Andrea Goetze, Jens Oesterhaus, Stefan Aporius, Thorsten Beck, Wolfgang Schild
  • Patent number: 7563122
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a quick-fastening locking arrangement for locking together a plug member and a socket member, including a locking peg connected with one of the plug and socket members, and a cylindrical locking cam connected with the other member, which locking cam is pivotable through a relatively small angle between locked and unlocked positions relative to the locking peg. The cylindrical locking cam is mounted at one end of the plug member adjacent the socket member for rotation about a transverse axis relative to the collinear axis of the plug and socket members. In one embodiment, the socket member is mounted in an opening contained in a mounting wall to which the locking peg is fastened. In a second embodiment, the locking peg is fastened directly to the socket member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2009
    Assignee: Weidmüller Interface GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andrea Goetze, Klaus-Dieter Endres, Klaus Steinmetz
  • Publication number: 20080166922
    Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes a quick-fastening locking arrangement for locking together a plug member and a socket member, including a locking peg connected with one of the plug and socket members, and a cylindrical locking cam connected with the other member, which locking cam is pivotable through a relatively small angle between locked and unlocked positions relative to the locking peg. The cylindrical locking cam is mounted at one end of the plug member adjacent the socket member for rotation about a transverse axis relative to the collinear axis of the plug and socket members. In one embodiment, the socket member is mounted in an opening contained in a mounting wall to which the locking peg is fastened. In a second embodiment, the locking peg is fastened directly to the socket member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Publication date: July 10, 2008
    Inventors: Andrea Goetze, Klaus-Dieter Endres, Klaus Steinmetz
  • Patent number: 7222964
    Abstract: A method and device for optically stimulating the visual system during static perimetry and for objectively evaluating adequate stimulus-related electrophysiological and/or magnetophysiological quantities. Light stimuli with defined parameters derived from a predetermined correlation function and from the known intensity dependence of the excitation response amplitude are presented to the observer. The excitation responses contained in the ERG and/or in the EEG/MEG are detected and processed. These excitation responses are used to determine and topographically evaluate the local sensitivity of the visual system. In one embodiment, the light sources are fixed inside a perimeter, and the excitation responses are amplified and digitized by a device, which preferably comprises an ERG/EEG measuring system and an A/D converter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2007
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Meditec AG
    Inventors: Andreas Götze, Günter Henning, Peter Husar, Sebastian Berkes, Klaus Schellhorn, Falk Schlegelmilch