Patents by Inventor Bart Kerckhof

Bart Kerckhof 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: 5810626
    Abstract: A plug connector has a housing of insulating material with at least one row of contact chambers into which contact elements can be inserted. The inserted contact elements can be secured with a securing slide which can be inserted orthogonally to a plugging direction of the plug connector into a gap of the housing. The securing slide has a primary detent edge orthogonally to the plugging direction of the plug connector, extending along two long sides of the securing slide and a segmented detent edge extending below the primary edge for secondary securing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1998
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans-Jost Heimueller, Michael Gib, Martin Straeb, Joris Dobbelaere, Rony Van Houdenhove, Bart Kerckhof
  • Patent number: 5775954
    Abstract: An electrical plug-in connector includes an encompassing enclosure having side walls defining an interior and having guides in the interior. Modular multipole contact enclosures for insertion in the interior, each have one-piece contact chambers being disposed next to each other in a row and being connected with each other and having integrated locking devices. Contact elements are to be inserted and locked in the contact chambers for connecting and combining one of the contact enclosures with at least one other of the contact enclosures to form a subassembly for insertion in the encompassing enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1998
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bart Kerckhof, Artur Wohlfart, Joris Dobbelaere
  • Patent number: 5722843
    Abstract: A plug connector housing assembly includes an outer housing and an inner housing to be nested together in a plug-in direction. The housings include sides having approximately parallel opposed side walls with inner and outer surfaces. The side walls of the outer housing define an insertion opening with a peripheral region. A locking mechanism in the form of a rack extends in the plug-in direction on one of the side walls. A lever is associated with another of the side walls. A shaft is perpendicular to the plug-in direction and associated with the lever. A gear wheel segment meshes with the rack, is firmly connected to the lever on the other of the side walls and is rotatably supported on the other of the side walls about the shaft. The rack and the gear wheel segment are disposed at least at one of the sides, between the inner wall surface of the outer housing and the opposite outer wall surface of the inner housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 3, 1998
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bart Kerckhof, Artur Wohlfart, Joris Dobbelaere, Josef Dirmeyer, Rony Van Houdenhove
  • Patent number: 5716246
    Abstract: A contact device for electric plug connections includes a stamped and bent part having an intermediate region with a U-shaped cross section, two side walls and a base wall joining the side walls. A line connection element is disposed at one end of the contact device. A contact prong defines a contact side and has a base protruding from the intermediate region at another end of the contact device. The contact prong is thicker than remaining regions of the contact device. The base wall and/or side walls of the U-shaped intermediate region have connecting elements, such as extensions and/or attachments on the contact side being form-lockingly joined to the contact prong by form stamping and/or bending in the vicinity of the base of the contact prong.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1998
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bart Kerckhof, Artur Wohlfart