Patents by Inventor Engelbert Woerle
Engelbert Woerle 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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Patent number: 8885353Abstract: An electrical assembly for a motor vehicle is configured to contact a connector. Contact surfaces are provided on a circuit board of the assembly. The connector has contact elements for contacting the contact surfaces. A housing of the assembly has an inner chamber and a contacting chamber directed toward the connector area, with the inner wall therebetween to separate the chambers. The circuit board including the electrical components is arranged in the inner chamber and only a contacting area with the contact surfaces protrudes through the inner wall into the contacting chamber.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2011Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbHInventors: Markus Christoph, Christian Plankl, Engelbert Woerle, Joachim Baumgartner
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Publication number: 20130100620Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical assembly for a motor vehicle, suitable for contacting with a connector, and to a method for making electrical contact between an electrical assembly for a motor vehicle and at least one connector, wherein the first contact elements on the assembly are designed as contact surfaces (3.1.1) in a contact area (3.1) of the circuit board and conducting tracks to said contact surfaces (3.1.1) are provided on the circuit board and the connector (4) has corresponding contact elements (4.2) for contacting the contact surfaces (3.1.1). The housing of the assembly has an inner chamber (1.5) and a contacting chamber (1.3) that is directed toward the connector area, wherein at least one inner wall (1.2, 2.1) is provided between the inner chamber (1.5) and the contacting chamber (1.3) in order to separate said chambers and the circuit board (3) including the electrical components (3.2) is arranged in the inner chamber (1.5) and only the contacting area (3.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 22, 2011Publication date: April 25, 2013Applicant: Continental Automotive GmbHInventors: Markus Christoph, Christian Plankl, Engelbert Woerle, Joachim Baumgartner
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Publication number: 20050169725Abstract: The invention relates to a fastening device (23, 60, 30, 70) for the fastening of a housing (20) on a carrier plate (10), whereby the fastening device consists of a fastening means (23, 30) and a means (60, 70) for the expanding or spreading-open of the fastening means, the housing, the carrier plate, and the fastening means respectively comprise an opening (21, 13, 27, 34), the means for the spreading-open is introduced into the opening of the fastening means and remains there, and the fastening means grips behind the carrier plate in the opening thereof, and whereby the introducing of the fastening means and of the means for the spreading-open into the opening of the carrier plate occurs from the same side of the carrier plate, and the turning of the means for the spreading-open effectuates the fixing of the housing in radial and axial direction on the carrier plate.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2003Publication date: August 4, 2005Applicant: Conti Temic Microelectronic GmbHInventors: Marcus Asmuth, Josef Baerenweiler, Guenter Fendt, Engelbert Woerle
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Patent number: 6445568Abstract: A housing for an assembly of electronic components mounted on a circuit board is predominantly made of plastic, and includes a plastic housing cover and a housing floor. Metal surfaces are provided in the housing to preferentially condense moisture from the air in the housing upon cooling, to avoid condensation on the circuit board or the electronic components. The metal surfaces may be a metal casing around an electronic component, a metallized layer deposited on an inner surface of the housing, a metal insert in the housing, a metal housing floor, or an additional metal floor plate adjacent to a plastic housing floor. A hydrophobic film enforces condensate droplet formation, and channels and drain holes drain the condensate droplets out of the housing. An encapsulating film is unnecessary on the electronic components, because condensation on these components is avoided.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2000Date of Patent: September 3, 2002Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Richard Baur, Guenter Fendt, Alfons Woehrl, Engelbert Woerle
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Patent number: 6366465Abstract: In order to secure a circuit board or the like in a housing, the board is provided with a through-hole, and the housing is provided with a mounting stud that protrudes into the housing from an outer wall thereof. A securing pin simultaneously passes through the through-hole of the board and into a hollow space or bore of the mounting stud. The securing pin is preferably conically tapered so that it exerts a wedging and spreading force radially outwardly against the inner surface of the hollow bore of the securing stud, and directly or indirectly against the inner surface of the through-hole of the board. Thereby, the board is securely fastened to the stud, and the pin is secured in the stud, by the wedging effect. An end portion of the stud may also be received in the through-hole of the board, and the pin may be integrally formed as a protrusion of a lid for the housing.Type: GrantFiled: January 14, 2000Date of Patent: April 2, 2002Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Richard Baur, Guenter Fendt, Alfons Woehrl, Engelbert Woerle
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Patent number: 6193198Abstract: An assembly is mounted and secured on a support by at least one securing bolt that is pre-installed in the assembly and engages a keyhole-shaped opening provided in the support. The head of the bolt is inserted through the larger portion of the keyhole opening and then slidingly displaced so the bolt shaft is engaged in the narrower portion of the keyhole opening and the bolt head is secured behind the support. A safety cap is initially mounted on the bolt to cover the tool engagement surfaces of the bolt, and the cap is inserted in the opening together with the bolt. As the assembly is slidingly displaced relative to the support, the safety cap is pushed off the bolt to expose the tool engagement surfaces, by contact of stop surfaces of the safety cap with stop surfaces of the support. The safety cap thereby prevents engagement of a tightening tool with the bolt, until the bolt has surely reached its proper securing position.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 1999Date of Patent: February 27, 2001Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Richard Baur, Engelbert Woerle
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Patent number: 6180875Abstract: The invention relates to a housing for an electric or an electronic component, in particular a motor vehicle control unit, for which the housing parts or housing connections are designed such that the electric or electronic components are sealed watertight and airtight. Such housings, which are composed if only in part of a thermoplastic synthetic material, are provided with a pressure compensation feature. As a result, the pressure inside the housing is constantly adapted to the outside pressure. With this type of pressure adaptation, it is not possible for gases, particularly water vapor, to permeate the synthetic housing under pressure and reach the electric or electronic components. As a result, damage caused by humidity is greatly reduced and the service life is increased.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 1999Date of Patent: January 30, 2001Assignee: Temic Telefunken microelectronic GmbHInventors: Richard Baur, G{umlaut over (u)}nter Fendt, Engelbert Wörle
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Patent number: 6163460Abstract: An arrangement of electronic components in a housing includes a housing, at least one circuit board arranged in the housing with electronic components of a first type (such as SMDs) mounted thereon, at least one electronic component of a second type (such as a non-SMD coil or capacitor) that is not arranged on the circuit board but rather is mounted on a mounting surface in the housing, and an electrical connection established between the second electronic component and the circuit board. The electrical connection may be established by a connector member having two connecting shanks connected to the wires of the second component and two mounting shanks that are press-fit into contact holes of the circuit board. Alternatively, the electrical connection may be established by respective contact clips electrically and mechanically clamped onto the wires of the second component, whereby the contact clips have contact pins that plug into contact holes in the circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: October 9, 1998Date of Patent: December 19, 2000Assignee: Temic Telefunken microelectronic GmbHInventors: Richard Baur, Guenter Fendt, Engelbert Woerle, Juergen Ryll