Patents by Inventor Holger Steinhage

Holger Steinhage 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: 10424864
    Abstract: A patchboard having multiple honeycomb components, each honeycomb component having a box-shaped housing with two end surfaces and four lateral surfaces which extend between the end surfaces. Each of the end surfaces has at least one connection region, and each of the lateral surfaces has at least one connection element for connecting to another honeycomb component. Individual honeycomb components can be removed from the patchboard in that at least one respective elastic latching arm with a latching hook is arranged on at least two mutually adjacent lateral surfaces of the honeycomb components. Each of the latching arms extends in the direction of the length of each lateral surface, and at least one recess is formed at least on the lateral surfaces on which at least one latching arm is formed, the recess being used to access the latching hook of a latching arm from an end face using a tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Ralph Hoppmann, Marcel Willems, Henning Vieregge, Holger Steinhage, Oliver Pethig
  • Patent number: 10044119
    Abstract: A terminal device includes: a housing having at least one contact cavity; a contact part which is arranged in the at least one contact cavity and into which at least one electrical line can be plugged in order to make electrical contact with the contact part; and at least one busbar which is arranged on the housing, is electrically connected to the contact part, and a busbar portion of which extends along a height line. An end portion adjoins the busbar portion, which end portion extends in an oblique direction at an oblique angle to the height line and can be moved along the height line relative to the contact part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2018
    Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Wjatscheslaw Janzen, Holger Steinhage, Andrea Goetze, Oliver Pethig
  • Patent number: 9461373
    Abstract: A terminal clamp is described. The terminal clamp includes a housing, a clamp pocket arranged in the housing into which a conductor to be clamped can be inserted, the clamp pocket having a base wall, and two side walls which are opposite each other, which extend away from the base wall, and which form a conductor guide channel, the conductor guide channel having, at least in regions in the longitudinal direction thereof, a cross-section which continually narrows towards the base wall, and at least one clamping spring protruding into the clamp pocket for clamping the inserted conductor in the clamp pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Ralph Hoppmann, Martin Gebhardt, Detlef Toeberich, Holger Steinhage
  • Patent number: 8858269
    Abstract: The invention relates to a spring-cage terminal block, having a bus bar and a leg spring for connecting a stripped conductor end piece of an electrical conductor, wherein the conductor end piece is inserted into a material passage of the bus bar and is clamped by means of the leg spring. According to the invention, the contact surface on the metal collar inner wall surface of the material passage has contact ribs extending along the insertion direction in order to form a linear contact pattern which extends in the insertion direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 14, 2014
    Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Juergen Brand, Manuel Camino, Ralph Hoppmann, Holger Steinhage
  • Publication number: 20120264339
    Abstract: The invention relates to a spring-cage terminal block, having a bus bar and a leg spring for connecting a stripped conductor end piece of an electrical conductor, wherein the conductor end piece is inserted into a material passage of the bus bar and is clamped by means of the leg spring. According to the invention, the contact surface on the metal collar inner wall surface of the material passage has contact ribs extending along the insertion direction in order to form a linear contact pattern which extends in the insertion direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2010
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Juergen Brand, Manuel Camino, Ralph Hoppmann, Holger Steinhage
  • Patent number: D737205
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Ralph Hoppmann, Martin Gebhardt, Detlef Toeberich, Holger Steinhage
  • Patent number: D752514
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: PHOENIX CONTACT GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Ralph Hoppmann, Martin Gebhardt, Detlef Toeberich, Holger Steinhage