Patents by Inventor Dirk Oberhokamp

Dirk Oberhokamp 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: 6347956
    Abstract: A connector is provided for connecting a cable by insulation-piercing connecting devices when insert elements are pushed together. For connecting a shielded cable, the insert element are provided on a contact element made of conducting material, and the latter are inserted with contact into a shielded housing. The braided shield of the cable is connected with the housing. The insulation-piercing connecting devices are located in insulating bodies that are accommodated in chambers of the housing that are open to the outside. The housing is connected with the contact element by a screw that extends in the plugging direction and operates to make contact.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2002
    Assignees: Albert Ackermann GmbH & Co. KG, Harting KgaA
    Inventors: Gabriel Bogdan, Britta Straesser, Dietmar Harting, Achim Brenner, Dirk Oberhokamp, Stephan Schreier
  • Publication number: 20010044231
    Abstract: A connector is provided for connecting a cable by insulation-piercing connecting devices when clips are pushed together. For connecting a shielded cable, the clips are provided on a contact element made of conducting material, and the latter are inserted with contact into a shielded housing. The braided shield of the cable is connected with the housing. The insulation-piercing connecting devices are located in insulating bodies that are accommodated in chambers of the housing that are open to the outside. The housing is connected with the contact element by a screw that extends in the plugging direction and operates to make contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 1999
    Publication date: November 22, 2001
    Applicant: Albert Ackermann GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: GABRIEL BOGDAN, BRITTA STRAESSER, DIETMAR HARTING, ACHIM BRENNER, DIRK OBERHOKAMP, STEPHAN SCHREIER
  • Patent number: 6113420
    Abstract: A tension-relieving assembly for electrical and/or optical conductors of a cable, wherein the conductors, which are guided in parallel in the cable, are held in a cable-guiding part and are inserted in conductor-guiding ducts in a conductor-guiding part, and wherein the axes of the conductors in the cable-guiding part and in the conductor-guiding part are offset relative to one another. The conductor-guiding part is provided, at the lead-in end for the conductors, with an annular collar, and a central peg is disposed in the annular collar. The cable-guiding part is constructed, at the conductor exit end, with a stepped recess, such that when the cable-guiding part and conductor-guiding part are joined together, the central peg is pressed between the conductors and forces the conductors outwards against the inner contour of the stepped recess in the cable-guiding part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: Harting KGaA
    Inventors: Dietmar Harting, Achim Brenner, Heinz Lambrecht, Dirk Oberhokamp, Stephan Schreier, Horst Nowacki, Ralf Bokamper
  • Patent number: 5937119
    Abstract: For a line branching device for branching a conductor string it is proposed that an approximately T-shaped housing be provided and the conductor string be guided uninterruptedly through the upper crosspiece of the T-shaped. At the base of the T there is provided a plug terminal whose contacts are permanently connected to the conductors of the conductor string and via which a consumer can be connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignee: Harting KGaA
    Inventors: Dietmar Harting, Ralf Bokamper, Frank Ostsieker, Dirk Oberhokamp
  • Patent number: 5746619
    Abstract: A coaxial plug-and-socket connection comprising a socket part and a pin part with releasable interlocking of the two parts, wherein during the insertion process a spring element on one of the two connection parts, which is independent of the interlocking element, exerts an axial resistance and repels the other connection part so long as the interlocking device is not effectively latched, it is proposed to provide the parts of the plug-and-socket connection with sleeves which are insertable one into the other, outwardly directed spring detent hooks being provided on the sleeve of the pin part, and to provide an interlock deactivating sleeve which acts upon the detent hooks and enables an intentional deactivation of the interlock of the plug-and-socket connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1998
    Assignee: Harting KGAA
    Inventors: Dietmar Harting, Dirk Oberhokamp, Ralf Bokamper, Horst Blomenkamp, Stephan Schreier
  • Patent number: 5277616
    Abstract: For an electrical connector for connecting insulated electrical conductors, preferably an electrical plug and socket connector, with contact elements disposed in chambers of a carrying base with cutting and insulation displacement connections for connection to the conductor, the conductors being introduced into the connector in the axial direction, relative to the contact elements, it is proposed that the conductors be pressed by means of a conductor guiding element, which is constructed as a pressure part, into the cutting and insulation displacement connections. At the same time, the conductors are pushed through a guiding borehole, in which they are deflected in such a manner, that they are guided obliquely through a recess in the conductor guiding element. When the carrying base and the conductor guiding element are joined together, the cutting and insulation displacement connections dip into these recesses and, in so doing, are connected with the conductors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 1993
    Date of Patent: January 11, 1994
    Assignee: Harting Elektronik GmbH
    Inventors: Dietmar Harting, Ralf Bokamper, Achim Brenner, Dirk Oberhokamp