Patents by Inventor Charles W. Reinhart

Charles W. Reinhart 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: 4691080
    Abstract: The connector device comprises a male plug of stainless steel or the like having a housing containing a number of spaced passageways within which wire-bearing electrical conduits are hermetically secured. The device also includes a female receptacle of stainless steel or the like having an annular rim defining a central space within which the front end of the male plug is hermetically sealed. The female receptacle has a central passageway within which a multi-wire electrical conduit is hermetically secured. A dielectric wire spreader of polytetrafluoroethylene or the like is disposed in the central space with a frusto-conical front thereof abutting a dielectric spacer positioned against the conduit sealed in the female receptacle central passageway and with the rear end thereof abutting the front of the male plug. Passageways in the spacer and male plug rear end conduct conduit wires to the spreader where they are disposed in parallel surface grooves and interconnected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1985
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1987
    Assignee: Whittaker Corporation
    Inventors: Charles W. Reinhart, Robert H. Mauldin