Patents by Inventor Antonio Lehner
Antonio Lehner 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).
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Patent number: 10276959Abstract: A contact for an electrical plug connector comprises a plug portion and a contact spring. The plug portion has an opening receiving a pin contact in an insertion direction. The contact spring is connected by at least one spring arm base to the plug portion and extends from the at least one spring arm base toward the opening in a direction opposite the insertion direction. The contact spring exerts a contact force on the pin contact perpendicular to the insertion direction.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2017Date of Patent: April 30, 2019Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Antonio Lehner, Rolf Jetter, Erik Glombitza, Uwe Bluemmel, Marcel Baltes
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Patent number: 9825450Abstract: A method for attaching a contact element comprises steps for providing an electrical conductor with a conductive core and an insulating sheath, for detaching a sheath section of the sheath in an end region of the conductor for displacing the sheath section against the core in such a way that the sheath section protrudes beyond a longitudinal end of the core, and for crimping a contact element to the end region of the conductor in such a way that at least a part of the sheath section is being enclosed between the contact element and the core.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2013Date of Patent: November 21, 2017Assignees: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH, TE Connectivity CorporationInventors: Dominic Anthony Farole, Antonio Lehner
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Publication number: 20170324184Abstract: A contact for an electrical plug connector comprises a plug portion and a contact spring. The plug portion has an opening receiving a pin contact in an insertion direction. The contact spring is connected by at least one spring arm base to the plug portion and extends from the at least one spring arm base toward the opening in a direction opposite the insertion direction. The contact spring exerts a contact force on the pin contact perpendicular to the insertion direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2017Publication date: November 9, 2017Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Antonio Lehner, Rolf Jetter, Erik Glombitza, Uwe Bluemmel, Marcel Baltes
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Patent number: 9799976Abstract: A pin contact for an electrical connector is disclosed having a contact body and a pin. The contact body is formed from a metal sheet and has a mating end, a pin receiving space and an offset wall. The pin receiving space extends inward from the mating end. The offset wall has at least one welding region, and an outer surface facing away from the welding region and accessible from the outside. The pin is positioned in the pin receiving space and projects out of the mating end. The pin is welded to the welding region.Type: GrantFiled: November 19, 2014Date of Patent: October 24, 2017Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Antonio Lehner, Volker Seipel, Harald Kraenzlein
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Publication number: 20150140876Abstract: A pin contact for an electrical connector is disclosed having a contact body and a pin. The contact body is formed from a metal sheet and has a mating end, a pin receiving space and an offset wall. The pin receiving space extends inward from the mating end. The offset wall has at least one welding region, and an outer surface facing away from the welding region and accessible from the outside. The pin is positioned in the pin receiving space and projects out of the mating end. The pin is welded to the welding region.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 19, 2014Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicant: TYCO ELECTRONICS AMP GMBHInventors: Antonio Lehner, Volker Seipel, Harald Kraenzlein
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Publication number: 20150047899Abstract: A method for attaching a contact element comprises steps for providing an electrical conductor with a conductive core and an insulating sheath, for detaching a sheath section of the sheath in an end region of the conductor for displacing the sheath section against the core in such a way that the sheath section protrudes beyond a longitudinal end of the core, and for crimping a contact element to the end region of the conductor in such a way that at least a part of the sheath section is being enclosed between the contact element and the core.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 21, 2013Publication date: February 19, 2015Inventors: Dominic Anthony Farole, Antonio Lehner
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Publication number: 20080305671Abstract: An electrical plug connection includes a first plug member and a second plug member. The first plug member and the second plug member each have a plug recess module with a plug recess. At least one plug pin is arranged in the plug recesses of the plug recess modules that electrically connects the first plug member to the second plug member. The plug pin is fixed against removal from the plug recess of at least one of the plug recess modules.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2008Publication date: December 11, 2008Inventors: Antonio Lehner, Philipp Mueller, Waldemar Stabroth, Alexander Stokowski
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Patent number: 6817893Abstract: The invention relates to a plug connector for making an electrical connection with a battery terminal. The plug connector comprises a housing formed by joining an upper shell and a lower shell with a contact lying within the housing. The contact has a helical spring contact and a contact strip bent to form a cylindrical region. The upper shell and the lower shell each have a holding element extending within the cylindrical region formed by the contact strip, in order to form a recess for holding the helical spring contact.Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2004Date of Patent: November 16, 2004Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbHInventors: Alexander Schmid, Rolf Jetter, Antonio Lehner
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Publication number: 20040192120Abstract: The invention relates to a plug connector for making an electrical connection with a battery terminal. The plug connector comprises a housing formed by joining an upper shell and a lower shell with a contact lying within the housing. The contact has a helical spring contact and a contact strip bent to form a cylindrical region. The upper shell and the lower shell each have a holding element extending within the cylindrical region formed by the contact strip, in order to form a recess for holding the helical spring contact.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 16, 2004Publication date: September 30, 2004Inventors: Alexander Schmid, Rolf Jetter, Antonio Lehner
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Patent number: 6688920Abstract: A connector assembly has at least one base housing accommodating a number of pin-type contacts and one pressure plate housing, which may be mounted on a connecting end of the base housing and which may be latched together therewith at least in the mounted position. Each contact is inserted releasably into a longitudinal chamber in the base housing and comprises an insulation displacement end, a contact end opposite thereto and a central zone arranged between said ends.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbHInventors: Antonio Lehner, Rolf Jetter
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Publication number: 20020123273Abstract: A connector assembly has at least one base housing accommodating a number of pin-type contacts and one pressure plate housing, which may be mounted on a connecting end of the base housing and which may be latched together therewith at least in the mounted position. Each contact is inserted releasably into a longitudinal chamber in the base housing and comprises an insulation displacement end, a contact end opposite thereto and a central zone arranged between said ends.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2002Publication date: September 5, 2002Inventors: Antonio Lehner, Rolf Jetter
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Patent number: 6305981Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical connector with a housing with a plurality of contact chambers arranged in at least one row, with contacts arranged in the contact chambers for making contact with a mating contact and with a hinged flap comprising projections which engage in the contact chambers in an end locking position of the flap and secure the contacts therein, wherein the flap can be introduced into an shaft bearing with a shaft perpendicular to the plug-in direction and is rotatably mounted there.Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2000Date of Patent: October 23, 2001Assignee: The Whitaker CorporationInventors: Rolf Jetter, Antonio Lehner
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Patent number: 5954545Abstract: An electrical contact for an electrical connector assembly having a detached is specified latching tongue for latching in a chamber, the latching tongue originating from a base of the contact, a supporting tongue being provided on it, in order to provide additional kinking protection for the latching tongue, the free end of the supporting tongue resting on the base and running against a stop.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 1997Date of Patent: September 21, 1999Assignee: The Whitaker CorporationInventor: Antonio Lehner
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Patent number: 5800217Abstract: An arrangement for contact securing in an electrical connector includes a securing insert, which, with tabs, that constrict the clear width of the chambers by extending through an opening. The securing insert comprises four walls which form a rectangle. One securing insert surrounds a plurality of chambers. The first wall of the securing insert, which has the tabs is displaced by the deformation of the second wall prpendicularly to the plugging direction and thus frees the clear width of the chambers for the contacts by moving the tabs out of the chambers. Upon release of the second wall the elastic nature of the securing insert naturally biases the tabs into the chambers.Type: GrantFiled: February 25, 1997Date of Patent: September 1, 1998Assignee: The Whitaker CorporationInventor: Antonio Lehner
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Patent number: 5711687Abstract: A tab terminal comprises an inner contact body and an outer spring body having a locking lance. The outer body is mounted over the inner body in a vertical direction, whereby inwardly bent tabs of the inner contact body receive a side wall of the outer body, the other side wall of the outer body having a clinching tab that engages in a cutout of the inner contact body. The latter enables a very simple assembly procedure that reduces assembly time, tool complication, and therefore production costs.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 1996Date of Patent: January 27, 1998Assignee: The Whitaker CorporationInventors: David Bouwe Kuiper-Moore, Peter Donald Gaulton, Christian Otto Bommel, Rolf Jetter, Antonio Lehner