Patents by Inventor Matt J. Clifford

Matt J. Clifford 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).

  • Crimping device with seal depressor
    Patent number: 9800009
    Abstract: A terminal crimping device includes crimp tooling and a seal depressor fixed to the crimp tooling. The crimp tooling and the seal depressor move with a movable ram along a crimp stroke towards and away from a base that receives a wire assembly and a terminal thereon. The crimp tooling crimps the terminal to both a wire and a compression seal of the wire assembly during the crimp stroke. The seal depressor has a contact tab that engages and at least partially depresses the compression seal of the wire assembly during the crimp stroke to hold the compression seal in place as the crimp tooling crimps the terminal to the wire assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2017
    Assignees: TE CONNECTIVITY CORPORATION, TE CONNECTIVITY GERMANY GMBH, TYCO ELECTRONICS UK, LTD.
    Inventors: David Michael Stull, Matt J. Clifford, Guenter Sowa
  • CRIMPING DEVICE WITH SEAL DEPRESSOR
    Publication number: 20160226208
    Abstract: A terminal crimping device includes crimp tooling and a seal depressor fixed to the crimp tooling. The crimp tooling and the seal depressor move with a movable ram along a crimp stroke towards and away from a base that receives a wire assembly and a terminal thereon. The crimp tooling crimps the terminal to both a wire and a compression seal of the wire assembly during the crimp stroke. The seal depressor has a contact tab that engages and at least partially depresses the compression seal of the wire assembly during the crimp stroke to hold the compression seal in place as the crimp tooling crimps the terminal to the wire assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: David Michael Stull, Matt J. Clifford, Guenter Sowa