Patents by Inventor Gerard Mulot
Gerard Mulot 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: 20150333434Abstract: The present invention relates to an electrical connector device comprising a terminal carrier including at least one contact cavity having a front stop, a multi-contact rear body having at least one back support , a terminal incorporated in the contact cavity of the terminal carrier and assembled to an electrical wire, and -a sealing member provided in the contact cavity of the terminal carrier. The sealing member extends from the front stop of the contact cavity to the back support of the multi-contact rear body.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 18, 2012Publication date: November 19, 2015Inventors: ARNAUD DUQUESNE, GERARD MULOT
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Patent number: 8944860Abstract: An electrical female terminal, manufactured from a single metal sheet, comprising a crimping portion and a contact portion adapted to mate with a corresponding male terminal to be inserted therein, the contact portion comprising an outer frame having a top wall, a bottom wall parallel and opposed to the top wall, and two side walls, an inner frame encased in the outer frame, a first elastic contact member extending from the inner frame, and bearing on an inner portion of the bottom wall, a second elastic contact member extending from the inner frame and bearing on an inner portion of the top wall. The first and second elastic contact members have a convex shape oriented toward one another.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2011Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Delphi International Operations Luxembourg, S.A.R.L.Inventors: Gerard Mulot, Arnaud Duquesne, Dominique Rozet
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Patent number: 8597062Abstract: The electrical contact includes a wire crimping portion receiving an electrical wire, a cylindrical power contact portion for connection with a complementary contact. The power contact portion comprises includes a body mechanically retained on the wire crimping portion and spring legs depending from the body and to be contacted with the complementary contact. The electrical contact further includes an electrically insulating cover covering the spring legs. The cover additionally includes fool proof features to prevent incorrect assembly of the cover into passages of the housing.Type: GrantFiled: September 10, 2008Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Delphi International Operations Luxembourg, S.A.R.L.Inventors: Claude Casses, Patrice Cappe, Jean-Paul David, Gerard Mulot
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Publication number: 20130225016Abstract: An electrical female terminal, manufactured from a single metal sheet, comprising a crimping portion and a contact portion adapted to mate with a corresponding male terminal to be inserted therein, the contact portion comprising an outer frame having a top wall, a bottom wall parallel and opposed to the top wall, and two side walls, an inner frame encased in the outer frame, a first elastic contact member extending from the inner frame, and bearing on an inner portion of the bottom wall, a second elastic contact member extending from the inner frame and bearing on an inner portion of the top wall. The first and second elastic contact members have a convex shape oriented toward one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2011Publication date: August 29, 2013Applicant: FCI AUTOMOTIVE HOLDINGInventors: Gerard Mulot, Arnaud Duquesne, Dominique Rozet
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Patent number: 8241052Abstract: The present relates to an electrical connector system which includes a first connector assembly having a first connector and a second connector to be coupled one to the other; a second connector assembly having a third connector and a housing contiguous to the first connector, the housing having an open connecting face for receiving within a complementary part of the third connector so as to perform a coupling one to the other. This connector system may include a movable element which is movable between two positions, i.e.: a “first position” in which it masks at least partially the open connecting face, so that it makes impossible the coupling with the third connector; a “second position” in which it does not mask the front open connecting face, so that it makes possible the coupling with the third connector; the movable element being able to be moved into the “second position” only when said first and second connectors are fully coupled together.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2008Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: FCI Automotive HoldingInventors: Gérard Mulot, Claude Casses
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Publication number: 20110177722Abstract: The electrical contact includes a wire crimping portion receiving an electrical wire, a circumferential power contact portion for connection with a complementary contact. The power contact portion includes a body mechanically retained on the wire crimping portion and spring legs extending from the body and to be contacted with the complementary contact. The electrical contact further includes an electrically insulating cover covering said spring legs.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 10, 2008Publication date: July 21, 2011Inventors: Claude Casses, Patrice Cappe, Jean-Paul David, Gerard Mulot
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Publication number: 20100317214Abstract: The present relates to an electrical connector system which includes a first connector assembly having a first connector and a second connector to be coupled one to the other; a second connector assembly having a third connector and a housing contiguous to the first connector, the housing having an open connecting face for receiving within a complementary part of the third connector so as to perform a coupling one to the other. This connector system may include a movable element which is movable between two positions, i.e.: a “first position” in which it masks at least partially the open connecting face, so that it makes impossible the coupling with the third connector; a “second position” in which it does not mask the front open connecting face, so that it makes possible the coupling with the third connector; the movable element being able to be moved into the “second position” only when said first and second connectors are fully coupled together.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2008Publication date: December 16, 2010Inventors: Gérard Mulot, Claude Casses
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Patent number: 7794257Abstract: Electrical contact having a longitudinal axis along which a first central body and at least one first blade are produced, characterized in that this electrical contact is intended to be mated with a complementary electrical contact which itself has a second central body and at least one second blade, extending generally in the longitudinal direction of the second contact, so that when the contact and the complementary contact are mated the first blade is in electrical contact with the second central body and the second blade is in electrical contact with the first central body.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2007Date of Patent: September 14, 2010Assignee: FCIInventors: Dominique Rozet, Claude Casses, Gerard Mulot
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Patent number: 7744411Abstract: This connector part includes an insulating housing provided with a plurality of sockets for receiving a contact, which have a rear contact insertion end; a joint, which is provided with a plurality of cable passages corresponding to the sockets and which is placed in said housing behind the sockets; and a cable-guiding grid, which is fixed in the housing behind the joint, supporting the latter, said grid being provided with a plurality of cable passages corresponding to the sockets. It also includes a member for blocking the passages of the grid, which is fixed on said grid and is designed for being pierced selectively for the insertion of contacts into a predetermined group of sockets. The invention also relates to a piercing tool, which is designed for being used with one such connector part, and to a corresponding wiring method.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2005Date of Patent: June 29, 2010Assignee: FCIInventors: Claude Casses, Gérard Mulot, Thierry Colinmaire, Jean-François Clerc
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Publication number: 20090311898Abstract: Electrical contact having a longitudinal axis along which a first central body and at least one first blade are produced, characterized in that this electrical contact is intended to be mated with a complementary electrical contact which itself has a second central body and at least one second blade extending generally in the longitudinal direction of the second contact, so that when the contact and the complementary contact are mated the first blade is in electrical contact with the second central body and the second blade is in electrical contact with the first central body.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2007Publication date: December 17, 2009Inventors: Dominique Rozet, Claude Casses, Gerard Mulot
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Publication number: 20080280497Abstract: This connector part includes an insulating housing provided with a plurality of sockets for receiving a contact, which have a rear contact insertion end; a joint, which is provided with a plurality of cable passages corresponding to the sockets and which is placed in said housing behind the sockets; and a cable-guiding grid, which is fixed in the housing behind the joint, supporting the latter, said grid being provided with a plurality of cable passages corresponding to the sockets. It also includes a member for blocking the passages of the grid, which is fixed on said grid and is designed for being pierced selectively for the insertion of contacts into a predetermined group of sockets. The invention also relates to a piercing tool, which is designed for being used with one such connector part, and to a corresponding wiring method.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2005Publication date: November 13, 2008Applicant: FCIInventors: Claude Casses, Gerard Mulot, Thierry Colinmaire, Jean-Francois Clerc
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Patent number: 7338319Abstract: The invention concerns a sealing system for a multiterminal electrical connector (1) comprising a multiterminal seal (10) with several through-holes (11) passing right through the seal and each one designed to receive an electrical connection wire (5) and a tubular single-unit seal (20) partly enclosing the connection wire and inserted, at least partly, in one of the through-holes of the multiterminal seal.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2003Date of Patent: March 4, 2008Assignee: FCIInventors: Claude Casses, Gérard Mulot
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Patent number: 7252556Abstract: A front end 7 of a locking arm 4 provided on a rear holder 1 is inserted into a hole portion 25 formed in a main housing 21, and the locking arm 4 is supported like as a bridge. The main housing 21 is inserted into a hood portion 44 of a cooperating housing 41 and connecting terminals are connected to each other to establish the electrical connection. A locking claw 5 formed on the locking arm 4 is once resiliently moved downward to pass through a locking claw 43 of the cooperating housing 41 and is then restored into an original posture to engage the locking claw 5 with the locking claw 43. Once the main housing 21 is engaged with the cooperating housing 41, these housings could not be released accidentally.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2004Date of Patent: August 7, 2007Assignees: FCI, Mitsubishi Cable Industries, Ltd.Inventors: Tsugio Anbo, Yoshikazu Tanaka, Tetsu Hirose, Gerard Mulot, Claude Casses
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Publication number: 20060281373Abstract: A front end 7 of a locking arm 4 provided on a rear holder 1 is inserted into a hole portion 25 formed in a main housing 21, and the locking arm 4 is supported like as a bridge. The main housing 21 is inserted into a hood portion 44 of a cooperating housing 41 and connecting terminals are connected to each other to establish the electrical connection. A locking claw 5 formed on the locking arm 4 is once resiliently moved downward to pass through a locking claw 43 of the cooperating housing 41 and is then restored into an original posture to engage the locking claw 5 with the locking claw 43. Once the main housing 21 is engaged with the cooperating housing 41, these housings could not be released accidentally.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2004Publication date: December 14, 2006Inventors: Tsugio Anbo, Yoshikazu Tanaka, Tetsu Hirose, Gerard Mulot, Claude Casses
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Patent number: 7140915Abstract: The invention relates to a retaining device for maintaining an electric contact (24) in the connector socket (22) of a connection box (20). The inventive device comprises a bearing surface (50) interacting with a shoulder (52) which is arranged on the level of said contact (24) and is characterised in that the bearing surface and the shoulder (52) are provided with supplementary nonplanar profiles in such a way that the thus obtained contact plane has a larger contact surface than the contact planes having the equal size across the width thereof.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2003Date of Patent: November 28, 2006Assignee: FCIInventors: Claude Casses, Gérard Mulot
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Patent number: 7137854Abstract: The invention relates to a female electrical contact terminal obtained from a single plate of electrically conductive metal including a rear part making possible a crimped connection with an electrical wire, a front part including a cage 4a consisting of a bottom, a top, two sides, at least one strip ensuring a contact with a complementary male contact terminal, a transition part linking the front part with the rear part, an extension leg at least traversing the transition zone.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2003Date of Patent: November 21, 2006Assignee: FCIInventors: Claude Casses, Gérard Mulot
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Publication number: 20060141873Abstract: The invention relates to a female electrical contact terminal obtained from a single plate of electrically conductive metal: including a rear part making possible a crimped connection with an electrical wire, a front part including a cage 4a consisting of a bottom, a top, two sides, at least one strip ensuring a contact with a complementary male contact terminal, a transition part linking the front part with the rear part, an extension leg at least traversing the transition zone.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2003Publication date: June 29, 2006Inventors: Claude Casses, Gerard Mulot
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Publication number: 20060128234Abstract: The invention concerns a sealing system for a multiterminal electrical connector (1) comprising a multiterminal seal (10) with several through-holes (11) passing right through the seal and each one designed to receive an electrical connection wire (5) and a tubular single-unit seal (20) partly enclosing the connection wire and inserted, at least partly, in one of the through-holes of the multiterminal seal.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2003Publication date: June 15, 2006Inventors: Claude Casses, Gerard Mulot
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Patent number: 7059921Abstract: The invention relates to a one-piece female electrical contact (1) which is cut and folded and which comprises, longitudinally, a rear area for connecting to an electrical conductor, a protective cage, which consists of a floor (4), two lateral walls (5, 6) and at least one ceiling element, and, on the front, a termination which is in contact with a complementary male contact. Said contact termination consists of at least one elastic contact blade (8, 9) comprising a blade which is connected to the rear of at least one ceiling element (22) and which extends towards the rear before folding.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2002Date of Patent: June 13, 2006Assignee: FCIInventor: Gerard Mulot
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Publication number: 20060035519Abstract: The invention relates to a retaining device for maintaining an electric contact (24) in the connector socket (22) of a connection box (20). The inventive device comprises a bearing surface (50) interacting with a shoulder (52) which is arranged on the level of said contact (24) and is characterised in that the bearing surface and the shoulder (52) are provided with supplementary nonplanar profiles in such a way that the thus obtained contact plane has a larger contact surface than the contact planes having the equal size across the width thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2003Publication date: February 16, 2006Inventors: Claude Casses, Gerard Mulot