Patents by Inventor Gregor Panitz

Gregor Panitz 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: 12597719
    Abstract: A connection arrangement includes an expansion ferrule insertable in a slidable manner into a central opening of an electrical contact element and an expansion element inserted into the expansion ferrule. The expansion ferrule is expanded when the expansion element is fully inserted into the expansion ferrule to clamp the electrical contact element and fasten the electrical contact element to an electrical conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 7, 2026
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Gregor Panitz, Holger Starke
  • Patent number: 12519269
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2026
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Gregor Panitz, Harald Ulrich, Christoph Kosmalski, Kevin Scheer, Maximilian Veihl
  • Patent number: 12503079
    Abstract: An angled plug connection includes a connector adapted to be plugged along a first plug-in direction and a mating connector adapted to be plugged along a second plug-in direction extending at an angle or perpendicularly to the first plug-in direction. The connector is connected to the mating connector by a link guide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2025
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventor: Gregor Panitz
  • Patent number: 12495196
    Abstract: A camera adapter for connecting a camera having an optical axis. The camera adapter comprises an adapter cover for connecting to a camera housing of the camera, the adapter cover and the camera housing form a chamber for a sensor board of the camera. The camera adapter has a connector for connecting the camera adapter to a control unit outside the chamber, a waveguide for transmitting signals from the sensor board to the connector, the waveguide being guided inside the chamber; and a contact surface disposed on the waveguide for contacting the waveguide with the sensor board in the chamber, the waveguide is arranged with the contact surface on a side wall of the camera adapter extending in the direction of the optical axis in order to contact an edge of the sensor board in a contact direction which is perpendicular to the optical axis of the camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2024
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2025
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH
    Inventors: Gregor Panitz, Bert Bergner, Matthew Steven Houser
  • Patent number: 12261389
    Abstract: An electrical plug-type connection comprises a first connector including a connector housing and at least one electrical terminal arranged therein, and a mating connector for coupling to the first connector. The mating connector includes at least one mating electrical terminal extending in an axial direction, and a mating terminal touch protection device movable from an initial position into a final position by the connector housing as the first connector and the mating connector are coupled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventor: Gregor Panitz
  • Publication number: 20250008206
    Abstract: A camera adapter for connecting a camera having an optical axis. The camera adapter comprises an adapter cover for connecting to a camera housing of the camera, the adapter cover and the camera housing form a chamber for a sensor board of the camera. The camera adapter has a connector for connecting the camera adapter to a control unit outside the chamber, a waveguide for transmitting signals from the sensor board to the connector, the waveguide being guided inside the chamber; and a contact surface disposed on the waveguide for contacting the waveguide with the sensor board in the chamber, the waveguide is arranged with the contact surface on a side wall of the camera adapter extending in the direction of the optical axis in order to contact an edge of the sensor board in a contact direction which is perpendicular to the optical axis of the camera.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2024
    Publication date: January 2, 2025
    Applicant: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH
    Inventors: Gregor PANITZ, Bert BERGNER, Matthew Steven HOUSER
  • Publication number: 20240275111
    Abstract: A contact pin for a plug connector includes a contact wire and an impedance adaptation element from a residual piece of a bandoleer strip, wherein the impedance adaptation element is arranged between the two ends of the contact wire. A plug connector includes the contact pin and a shielding receiving the contact pin as an inner conductor, wherein the shielding has a cross-sectional jump between the two ends of the contact pin along a longitudinal direction of the shielding, wherein the impedance adaptation element of the contact pin is arranged in a longitudinal direction of the contact wire at a level of the cross-sectional jump of the shielding. Manufacturing methods are provided for such a contact pint and plug connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Gregor PANITZ, Hartmut PAULUS, Michael REIBER, Carsten BICHELS, Marc REINHARDT, Christian RUSCH, Bert BERGNER, Uwe LUTZ
  • Publication number: 20240243517
    Abstract: An electrical high-voltage tab terminal for a high-voltage connector, preferably for a vehicle, in particular a vehicle with an electric traction motor, includes an electrical high-voltage tab contact means extending in the longitudinal direction and an electrically insulating touch protection means provided on a free longitudinal end portion of the high-voltage tab contact means, wherein the high-voltage tab contact means has, in its free longitudinal end portion, at least one stud-like plug base arranged in the width direction of the high-voltage tab contact means, and the touch protection means has at least one plug socket which is at least partially complementary thereto, the at least one plug base being plugged together with the at least one plug socket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2024
    Publication date: July 18, 2024
    Inventors: Gregor PANITZ, Dirk DUENKEL, Joachim UHRLE, Jochen BRANDT, Pierre LEPRIVEY, Xavier ROUILLARD, Imad SMIRANI, Alexis METTAVANT, Jingwen YANG
  • Publication number: 20240215179
    Abstract: A housing element for an electronic circuit includes a housing element body made from an insulating material with a through opening passing from a first side of the housing element body to a second side of the housing element body. An electrical contact passes through the opening. The electrical contact has a first contact element and a second contact element, wherein the first contact element is connected to the second contact element. The first contact element has a first direction of extent and the second contact element has a second direction of extent, wherein the first direction of extent and the second direction of extent have an angle of at least 45 degrees and no more than 135 degrees relative to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: June 27, 2024
    Inventors: Dirk DUENKEL, Gregor PANITZ
  • Publication number: 20240195122
    Abstract: A connector includes a grommet housing and a connector insert received in the grommet housing. The grommet housing includes a conductor receiving opening for passing an electrical or optical conductor from an outer region of the grommet housing into an inner region of the grommet housing. The grommet housing includes an insertion opening for plugging the connector insert together with a mating connector. The grommet housing includes a sealing surface which encircles the insertion opening at least in sections for sealing the inner region. The grommet housing is made of rubber-elastic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventors: Dimitrios MECHTERIDIS, Gregor PANITZ
  • Publication number: 20240106165
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Gregor Panitz, Harald Ulrich, Christoph Kosmalski, Kevin Scheer, Maximilian Veihl
  • Publication number: 20240030656
    Abstract: A shield contact element for shielding a plug connection includes a housing shell and a contact lamella. The housing shell has a cylindrical shape and extends in an axial direction for receiving a plug connector, the plug connector connecting to a plug contact element to form the plug connection. The contact lamella extends in the axial direction and creates an electrical connection between the housing shell and a shield for shielding the plug contact element. The contact lamella has a contact foot disposed in a recess formed in the housing shell to electrically contact the housing shell with the shield in the recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Gregor Panitz, Holger Starke, Marco Wolf, Kevin Keil, Luca Boehm
  • Patent number: 11707998
    Abstract: An electrical plug connector includes a connector housing receiving an electrical terminal. The connector housing has an outer cooling gas connection cooling an electrical plug-in connection of the plug connector with a mating plug connector. A cooling gas is brought into the plug connector by the outer cooling gas connection through a cooling gas channel of the connector housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2023
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk Duenkel, Gregor Panitz
  • Patent number: 11641077
    Abstract: A housing part includes a base section having a pair of oppositely disposed flat sides, a pair of housing sections each extending away from one of the pair of oppositely disposed flat sides, and a plurality of fibers disposed in the base section and the housing sections. A main fiber orientation of the fibers in each of the housing sections is oriented away from the base section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventor: Gregor Panitz
  • Publication number: 20230114900
    Abstract: A connection arrangement includes an expansion ferrule insertable in a slidable manner into a central opening of an electrical contact element and an expansion element inserted into the expansion ferrule. The expansion ferrule is expanded when the expansion element is fully inserted into the expansion ferrule to clamp the electrical contact element and fasten the electrical contact element to an electrical conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Gregor Panitz, Holger Starke
  • Publication number: 20220029340
    Abstract: An electrical plug-type connection comprises a first connector including a connector housing and at least one electrical terminal arranged therein, and a mating connector for coupling to the first connector. The mating connector includes at least one mating electrical terminal extending in an axial direction, and a mating terminal touch protection device movable from an initial position into a final position by the connector housing as the first connector and the mating connector are coupled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2021
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventor: Gregor Panitz
  • Publication number: 20210408717
    Abstract: A housing part includes a base section having a pair of oppositely disposed flat sides, a pair of housing sections each extending away from one of the pair of oppositely disposed flat sides, and a plurality of fibers disposed in the base section and the housing sections. A main fiber orientation of the fibers in each of the housing sections is oriented away from the base section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventor: Gregor Panitz
  • Publication number: 20210265778
    Abstract: An angled plug connection includes a connector adapted to be plugged along a first plug-in direction and a mating connector adapted to be plugged along a second plug-in direction extending at an angle or perpendicularly to the first plug-in direction. The connector is connected to the mating connector by a link guide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventor: Gregor Panitz
  • Patent number: 11069996
    Abstract: A contact pin for a plug connector includes a base body having a longitudinal axis and a surface, a first end adapted to be plugged into an opening of a pin strip of the plug connector, and at least four retaining elements molded on the base body. A first pair of retaining elements are arranged successively spaced apart along the longitudinal axis and a second pair of retaining elements are arranged oppositely at a same point along the longitudinal axis in a circumferential direction. The first pair of retaining elements are arranged in the circumferential direction at a first angle offset from one another. The first angle is smaller than 90°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Philipp Beese, Dirk Duenkel, Jochen Brandt, Gregor Panitz
  • Publication number: 20200353830
    Abstract: An electrical plug connector includes a connector housing receiving an electrical terminal. The connector housing has an outer cooling gas connection cooling an electrical plug-in connection of the plug connector with a mating plug connector. A cooling gas is brought into the plug connector by the outer cooling gas connection through a cooling gas channel of the connector housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk Duenkel, Gregor Panitz