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).

  • Patent number: 10276959
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Antonio Lehner, Rolf Jetter, Erik Glombitza, Uwe Bluemmel, Marcel Baltes
  • Patent number: 9825450
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignees: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH, TE Connectivity Corporation
    Inventors: Dominic Anthony Farole, Antonio Lehner
  • Publication number: 20170324184
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Antonio Lehner, Rolf Jetter, Erik Glombitza, Uwe Bluemmel, Marcel Baltes
  • Patent number: 9799976
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Antonio Lehner, Volker Seipel, Harald Kraenzlein
  • Publication number: 20150140876
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: TYCO ELECTRONICS AMP GMBH
    Inventors: Antonio Lehner, Volker Seipel, Harald Kraenzlein
  • Publication number: 20150047899
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2013
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Inventors: Dominic Anthony Farole, Antonio Lehner
  • Publication number: 20080305671
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2008
    Publication date: December 11, 2008
    Inventors: Antonio Lehner, Philipp Mueller, Waldemar Stabroth, Alexander Stokowski
  • Patent number: 6817893
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2004
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Schmid, Rolf Jetter, Antonio Lehner
  • Publication number: 20040192120
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2004
    Publication date: September 30, 2004
    Inventors: Alexander Schmid, Rolf Jetter, Antonio Lehner
  • Patent number: 6688920
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP GmbH
    Inventors: Antonio Lehner, Rolf Jetter
  • Publication number: 20020123273
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2002
    Publication date: September 5, 2002
    Inventors: Antonio Lehner, Rolf Jetter
  • Patent number: 6305981
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2001
    Assignee: The Whitaker Corporation
    Inventors: Rolf Jetter, Antonio Lehner
  • Patent number: 5954545
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 21, 1999
    Assignee: The Whitaker Corporation
    Inventor: Antonio Lehner
  • Patent number: 5800217
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Assignee: The Whitaker Corporation
    Inventor: Antonio Lehner
  • Patent number: 5711687
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1998
    Assignee: The Whitaker Corporation
    Inventors: David Bouwe Kuiper-Moore, Peter Donald Gaulton, Christian Otto Bommel, Rolf Jetter, Antonio Lehner