Patents by Inventor Herbert Harder

Herbert Harder 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).

  • Circuit board with holding mechanism for holding wired electronic components method for manufacture of such a circuit board and their use in a soldering oven
    Patent number: 8631569
    Abstract: In order to secure wired components of large mass or non-uniform mass distribution safely on a circuit board, without the components needing, as currently usual, to be glued onto the circuit board or held on the circuit board with snap-in holders, integrated into a connection bore for receiving a connection wire, or pin, of an electronic component a holding mechanism for secured holding of the connection wire, or pin. The holding mechanism represents a narrowing in the connection bore to a diameter smaller than that of the connection wire, or pin. The holding mechanism can be implemented, for example, by a connection bore embodied in the form of a bore drilled from one side of the circuit board, not completely through the circuit board. In such case, edge remains as a narrowing, which securely seizes the connection pin of the relevant component and holds the component fixed to the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Endress + Hauser GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventors: Dietmer Birgel, Karl-Peter Hauptvogel, Paul Burger, Andreas Bensch, Herbert Harder, Andreas Kiefer, Klaus Peter Weinhold