Patents by Inventor Christoph Kosmalski
Christoph Kosmalski 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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Publication number: 20240106165Abstract: The present invention relates to a housing assembly for an electrical connector which is pluggable with a mating connector, comprising a manually movable operating element for connecting the electrical connector to the mating connector, a connector housing at which the operating element is arranged to be movable between an initial position and a final position, a securing element which is movable between a release position and a secured position, and a trigger mechanism which holds the securing element in the release position pre-stressed in the direction of the secured position, where the trigger mechanism is activated in the final position of the operating element, and the securing element is movable to the secured position, whereby the operating element is securable in the final position.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Gregor Panitz, Harald Ulrich, Christoph Kosmalski, Kevin Scheer, Maximilian Veihl
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Publication number: 20240039212Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes an electrical plug connector and a mating plug connector. The electrical plug connector includes a connector housing, and a housing interlock element movable relative to the connector housing between a pre-latched position and a final latched position. The housing interlock element includes a switching element. The mating plug connector is securable to the connector housing via the housing interlock element, and includes a receiving element adapted to receive the housing interlock element. The receiving element comprises two electrical contacts of an electrical interlock circuit. The switching element is adapted to electrically connect the two electrical contacts when the housing interlock element is moved into the final latched position.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Christoph Kosmalski, Maximilian Veihl, Florin Spataru, Markus Eckel
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Patent number: 11837805Abstract: An electrical conductor assembly includes a line section having a plurality of conductor wires formed of a first electrically conductive material, a contact section in which the conductor wires are compacted to form a contact unit, and a layer formed of a second electrically conductive material. The layer is disposed on a contact surface of the contact unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Maximilian Veihl, Chris Buechling, Manuel Eheim, Frank Kaehny, Marcus Wolf, Harald Ulrich, Kevin Scheer, Florian Lueck, Christoph Kosmalski, Rolf Maurus
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Patent number: 11784439Abstract: A connector includes a housing and a shielding contact. A gap running in a circumferential direction extends between the housing and the shielding contact. A mating housing of a mating connector is adapted to be inserted into the gap in a plugging direction. The gap opens in the plugging direction into a sealing section in which a sealing ring is retained axially between the shielding contact and the housing.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Martin Listing, Christoph Kosmalski, Maximilian Veihl, Monika Stein
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Patent number: 11710932Abstract: A shielding spring shell has a contact tab with a pair of spring sections adjoining a fillet. One of the spring sections is an at least radially resilient radial spring and another of the spring sections is an at least axially resilient axial spring.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Martin Listing, Bernd Leonhardt, Maximilian Veihl, Christoph Kosmalski, Jürgen Sauer, Soenke Sachs, Jochen Fertig, Ivan Ivanov, Marco Wolf
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Patent number: 11626687Abstract: A connector housing for an electrical plug connector includes a cable duct and an oscillation suppressor pivotable about a pivot axis into the cable duct. The cable duct receives an electrical cable of a predefined outer diameter along a plug-in direction. The cable duct in a cross section perpendicular to the plug-in direction has a clear dimension in a pivoted state of the oscillation suppressor in the cable duct equal to or less than the predefined outer diameter of the electrical cable.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Martin Listing, Christoph Kosmalski, Maximilian Veihl, Sabine Schelhorn
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Patent number: 11545774Abstract: A ribbon cable connector for attachment to an end of a ribbon cable comprises a plurality of contact element receptacles adapted to receive a plurality of contact elements. A pair of adjacent contact element receptacles is separated from one another.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Maximilian Veihl, Christoph Kosmalski, Michael Schall, Robert Stab, Zoran Stjepanovic, Marcel Baltes, Willi Dietrich
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Patent number: 11515680Abstract: A contact system comprises a ground cylinder, a shielding cylinder press-fit with the ground cylinder, and a contact ring disposed between the ground cylinder and the shielding cylinder. The contact ring includes a strip of electrically conductive material defining a plurality of projections on at least one longitudinal side. The projections electrically contact the ground cylinder and the shielding cylinder for establishing an electrically conductive connection therebetween.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2021Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Ivan Ivanov, Michael Burghard, Helge Schmidt, Hubert Pollok, Sönke Sachs, Marco Wolf, Christoph Kosmalski, Martin Listing, Uemit Bulduk, Jochen Fertig, Willi Dietrich
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Publication number: 20220336974Abstract: An electrical conductor assembly includes a line section having a plurality of conductor wires formed of a first electrically conductive material, a contact section in which the conductor wires are compacted to form a contact unit, and a layer formed of a second electrically conductive material. The layer is disposed on a contact surface of the contact unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2022Publication date: October 20, 2022Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Maximilian Veihl, Chris Buechling, Manuel Eheim, Frank Kaehny, Marcus Wolf, Harald Ulrich, Kevin Scheer, Florian Lueck, Christoph Kosmalski, Rolf Maurus
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Patent number: 11462848Abstract: A conical contact spring sleeve includes a radial concavity that projects radially inwards beyond an inner peripheral surface of the conical contact spring sleeve and/or a radial convexity that projects radially outwards beyond an outer peripheral surface of the conical contact spring sleeve.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2021Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Martin Listing, Bernd Leonhardt, Maximilian Veihl, Christoph Kosmalski, Harald Ulrich, Stefan Masak, Rajesh Kumar, Kevin Scheer
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Patent number: 11462863Abstract: A plug-in connector element includes an electrically conductive contact element, a housing, a contact protection element, and a temperature sensor accommodated at least in part within the contact protection element. The contact protection element is disposed so that, between the housing and the contact protection element, access to the electrically conductive contact element is prevented for an object having a diameter above a defined value. The temperature sensor measures a temperature of the electrically conductive contact element.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2021Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Christoph Kosmalski, Bernd Leonhardt, Maximilian Veihl, Martin Listing
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Publication number: 20220255267Abstract: A shielding spring contact includes a flat base portion having a top side and a cutout, and a shielding portion having a wall connected to the flat base portion and encircling the cutout. The wall has an outer side, an inner side, an upper side, and a lower side. The lower side of the wall is arranged on the top side of the flat base portion with the lower side of the wall laterally surrounding the cutout. The top side of the flat base portion bears against a bottom side of an assembly housing portion of a first plug-in connector and the shielding portion projects through a first passage opening in the assembly housing portion. The shielding portion projects through a second passage opening in a shielding housing wall and into a shielding housing of a second plug-in connector, bearing against the shielding housing wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2022Publication date: August 11, 2022Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Jochen Fertig, Maximilian Veihl, Martin Listing, Christoph Kosmalski, Uemit Bulduk, Eike Luellich, Kevin Scheer, Ivan Ivanov
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Publication number: 20220115808Abstract: A fixation device for fixing a contact element within a connector. The device includes a housing defining a contact element receptacle for receiving a contact element and a support face defining a deflection surface for supporting the contact element within the housing, and a clamping device for clamping the contact element in the contact element receptacle with a clamping force directed in a clamping direction. The deflection surface is oriented at an angle relative to the clamping direction such that it deflects a component or portion of the clamping force acting upon the contact element in a direction transverse to the clamping direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2021Publication date: April 14, 2022Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Thomas Schmitt, Jens Nickel, Walter Saenger, Christian Gregor, Martin Listing, Rolf Jetter, Christoph Kosmalski, Wolfgang Balles
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Publication number: 20210344153Abstract: A contact system comprises a ground cylinder, a shielding cylinder press-fit with the ground cylinder, and a contact ring disposed between the ground cylinder and the shielding cylinder. The contact ring includes a strip of electrically conductive material defining a plurality of projections on at least one longitudinal side. The projections electrically contact the ground cylinder and the shielding cylinder for establishing an electrically conductive connection therebetween.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 30, 2021Publication date: November 4, 2021Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Ivan Ivanov, Michael Burghard, Helge Schmidt, Hubert Pollok, Sönke Sachs, Marco Wolf, Christoph Kosmalski, Martin Listing, Uemit Bulduk, Jochen Fertig, Willi Dietrich
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Publication number: 20210328386Abstract: A connector includes a housing and a shielding contact. A gap running in a circumferential direction extends between the housing and the shielding contact. A mating housing of a mating connector is adapted to be inserted into the gap in a plugging direction. The gap opens in the plugging direction into a sealing section in which a sealing ring is retained axially between the shielding contact and the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Martin Listing, Christoph Kosmalski, Maximilian Veihl, Monika Stein
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Publication number: 20210273364Abstract: A conical contact spring sleeve includes a radial concavity that projects radially inwards beyond an inner peripheral surface of the conical contact spring sleeve and/or a radial convexity that projects radially outwards beyond an outer peripheral surface of the conical contact spring sleeve.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 1, 2021Publication date: September 2, 2021Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Martin Listing, Bernd Leonhardt, Maximilian Veihl, Christoph Kosmalski, Harald Ulrich, Stefan Masak, Rajesh Kumar, Kevin Scheer
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Publication number: 20210265773Abstract: A connector housing for an electrical plug connector includes a cable duct and an oscillation suppressor pivotable about a pivot axis into the cable duct. The cable duct receives an electrical cable of a predefined outer diameter along a plug-in direction. The cable duct in a cross section perpendicular to the plug-in direction has a clear dimension in a pivoted state of the oscillation suppressor in the cable duct equal to or less than the predefined outer diameter of the electrical cable.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2021Publication date: August 26, 2021Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Martin Listing, Christoph Kosmalski, Maximilian Veihl, Sabine Schelhorn
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Publication number: 20210242636Abstract: A plug-in connector element includes an electrically conductive contact element, a housing, a contact protection element, and a temperature sensor accommodated at least in part within the contact protection element. The contact protection element is disposed so that, between the housing and the contact protection element, access to the electrically conductive contact element is prevented for an object having a diameter above a defined value. The temperature sensor measures a temperature of the electrically conductive contact element.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2021Publication date: August 5, 2021Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Christoph Kosmalski, Bernd Leonhardt, Maximilian Veihl, Martin Listing
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Publication number: 20210234312Abstract: A shielding spring shell has a contact tab with a pair of spring sections adjoining a fillet. One of the spring sections is an at least radially resilient radial spring and another of the spring sections is an at least axially resilient axial spring.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2021Publication date: July 29, 2021Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Martin Listing, Bernd Leonhardt, Maximilian Veihl, Christoph Kosmalski, Jürgen Sauer, Soenke Sachs, Jochen Fertig, Ivan Ivanov, Marco Wolf
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Patent number: 10950963Abstract: A ribbon cable connector for attachment to an end of a ribbon cable comprises a plurality of contact element receptacles adapted to receive a plurality of contact elements. A pair of adjacent contact element receptacles is separated from one another.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2019Date of Patent: March 16, 2021Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Maximilian Veihl, Christoph Kosmalski, Michael Schall, Robert Stab, Zoran Stjepanovic, Marcel Baltes, Willi Dietrich