Patents by Inventor Maximilian Veihl
Maximilian Veihl 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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Patent number: 12322897Abstract: A cable sealing plug includes a cable pass through opening extending through the cable sealing plug in an axial direction, a compression seal extending around the cable pass through opening, and a locking part having a locking system. The compression seal is transferable to a compressed state in which an inner diameter of the compression seal is smaller than a predetermined cable diameter of an electric cable extending through the cable pass through opening. The locking part and the compression seal are formed as a unitary component.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2021Date of Patent: June 3, 2025Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Carsten Fischer, Roman Hildmann, Maximilian Veihl, Markus Eckel
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Publication number: 20250079764Abstract: A connector housing assembly includes a connector housing for receiving at least one electrical terminal; a lever for mating the connector housing with a mating connector along a mating direction, wherein the lever, depending on its position, is pivotable and/or displaceable in relation to the connector housing. For improved operational safety, the lever is first displaceable from an initial position to a rotation start position before it is pivotable. The connector housing assembly furthermore comprises a displacement start blocking structure which is configured to block displacement from the initial position to the rotation start position and which is releasable when the connector housing is mated with the mating connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2024Publication date: March 6, 2025Inventors: Carsten BUCK, Maximilian VEIHL
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Publication number: 20250079763Abstract: A connector housing assembly includes a connector housing for receiving at least one electrical terminal; a pivotable lever for mating the connector housing with a mating connector along a mating direction, wherein the lever is pivotable about a pivot axis of the connector housing between an initial position and an end position; and an anti-rotation structure which is configured to prevent rotation in the initial position of the lever. The lever comprises a deformation section which, when paired with the mating connector, is deformable such that the lever is rotatable in particular from the initial position. The connector housing assembly further includes a deformation maintenance structure which is configured to maintain the deformed state of the deformation section until the end position of the lever.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 28, 2024Publication date: March 6, 2025Inventors: Maximilian VEIHL, Florin SPATARU, Maximilian SAMSTAG
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Patent number: 12136788Abstract: A shielding spring contact includes a flat base portion having a top side and a cutout, and a shielding portion having a wall connected to the flat base portion and encircling the cutout. The wall has an outer side, an inner side, an upper side, and a lower side. The lower side of the wall is arranged on the top side of the flat base portion with the lower side of the wall laterally surrounding the cutout. The top side of the flat base portion bears against a bottom side of an assembly housing portion of a first plug-in connector and the shielding portion projects through a first passage opening in the assembly housing portion. The shielding portion projects through a second passage opening in a shielding housing wall and into a shielding housing of a second plug-in connector, bearing against the shielding housing wall.Type: GrantFiled: February 2, 2022Date of Patent: November 5, 2024Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Jochen Fertig, Maximilian Veihl, Martin Listing, Christoph Kosmalski, Uemit Bulduk, Eike Luellich, Kevin Scheer, Ivan Ivanov
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Publication number: 20240297460Abstract: A plug arrangement is shown, comprising a housing part for a plug which can be plugged together with a mating plug along a plugging direction, and a pivoting lever which can be attached to the housing part and, in the attached state, can be pivoted from an initial position into an end position, the arrangement having a blocking element which can be transferred from a blocking position into a release position, which, in the blocking position, blocks pivoting of the pivoting lever out of the initial position and, in the release position, releases pivoting of the pivoting lever, the blocking element having a driving element which can be actuated by the mating plug and with which the blocking element is transferred by the mating plug into the blocking positionType: ApplicationFiled: February 29, 2024Publication date: September 5, 2024Applicant: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbHInventors: Carsten BUCK, Maximilian VEIHL
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Publication number: 20240275106Abstract: A connector for connecting to a mating connector includes a transmission element which extends along a mating direction and is mounted movably with respect to the housing of the connector between a mated position, in which the connector and the mating connector are connected, and a disconnected position, in which the connector and the mating connector are disconnected. In the disconnected position of the transmission element, an unlocking element prevents a CPA from being movable into the locked position. In a mated position of the transmission element, the unlocking element allows the CPA to be movable into the locked position.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 12, 2024Publication date: August 15, 2024Inventors: Carsten BUCK, Maximilian VEIHL
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Publication number: 20240106165Abstract: 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: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2023Publication date: March 28, 2024Inventors: Gregor Panitz, Harald Ulrich, Christoph Kosmalski, Kevin Scheer, Maximilian Veihl
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Patent number: 11916339Abstract: A contact carrier includes a carrier body receiving a plurality of contacts and a fastening element fastening the carrier body to a carrier element. The fastening element includes a first clamping element connected to the carrier body, a second clamping element formed on the carrier body in a shiftable manner and opposite the first clamping element, and a locking device locking the second clamping element in a position relative to the first clamping element. A distance between the first clamping element and the second clamping element can be varied by a relative movement of the second clamping element in relation to the first clamping element. The first clamping element and the second clamping element, by the locking device, exert a clamping force onto the carrier element arranged between the first clamping element and the second clamping element to hold the carrier element.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2020Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Carsten Buck, Maximilian Veihl
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Publication number: 20240039212Abstract: An electrical connector assembly includes an electrical plug connector and a mating plug connector. The electrical plug connector includes a connector housing, and a housing interlock element movable relative to the connector housing between a pre-latched position and a final latched position. The housing interlock element includes a switching element. The mating plug connector is securable to the connector housing via the housing interlock element, and includes a receiving element adapted to receive the housing interlock element. The receiving element comprises two electrical contacts of an electrical interlock circuit. The switching element is adapted to electrically connect the two electrical contacts when the housing interlock element is moved into the final latched position.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 27, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Christoph Kosmalski, Maximilian Veihl, Florin Spataru, Markus Eckel
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Patent number: 11837805Abstract: An electrical conductor assembly includes a line section having a plurality of conductor wires formed of a first electrically conductive material, a contact section in which the conductor wires are compacted to form a contact unit, and a layer formed of a second electrically conductive material. The layer is disposed on a contact surface of the contact unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2022Date of Patent: December 5, 2023Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Maximilian Veihl, Chris Buechling, Manuel Eheim, Frank Kaehny, Marcus Wolf, Harald Ulrich, Kevin Scheer, Florian Lueck, Christoph Kosmalski, Rolf Maurus
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Patent number: 11784439Abstract: A connector includes a housing and a shielding contact. A gap running in a circumferential direction extends between the housing and the shielding contact. A mating housing of a mating connector is adapted to be inserted into the gap in a plugging direction. The gap opens in the plugging direction into a sealing section in which a sealing ring is retained axially between the shielding contact and the housing.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Martin Listing, Christoph Kosmalski, Maximilian Veihl, Monika Stein
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Patent number: 11710932Abstract: A shielding spring shell has a contact tab with a pair of spring sections adjoining a fillet. One of the spring sections is an at least radially resilient radial spring and another of the spring sections is an at least axially resilient axial spring.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2021Date of Patent: July 25, 2023Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Martin Listing, Bernd Leonhardt, Maximilian Veihl, Christoph Kosmalski, Jürgen Sauer, Soenke Sachs, Jochen Fertig, Ivan Ivanov, Marco Wolf
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Patent number: 11626687Abstract: A connector housing for an electrical plug connector includes a cable duct and an oscillation suppressor pivotable about a pivot axis into the cable duct. The cable duct receives an electrical cable of a predefined outer diameter along a plug-in direction. The cable duct in a cross section perpendicular to the plug-in direction has a clear dimension in a pivoted state of the oscillation suppressor in the cable duct equal to or less than the predefined outer diameter of the electrical cable.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2021Date of Patent: April 11, 2023Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Martin Listing, Christoph Kosmalski, Maximilian Veihl, Sabine Schelhorn
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Patent number: 11545774Abstract: A ribbon cable connector for attachment to an end of a ribbon cable comprises a plurality of contact element receptacles adapted to receive a plurality of contact elements. A pair of adjacent contact element receptacles is separated from one another.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2020Date of Patent: January 3, 2023Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Maximilian Veihl, Christoph Kosmalski, Michael Schall, Robert Stab, Zoran Stjepanovic, Marcel Baltes, Willi Dietrich
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Publication number: 20220336974Abstract: An electrical conductor assembly includes a line section having a plurality of conductor wires formed of a first electrically conductive material, a contact section in which the conductor wires are compacted to form a contact unit, and a layer formed of a second electrically conductive material. The layer is disposed on a contact surface of the contact unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2022Publication date: October 20, 2022Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Maximilian Veihl, Chris Buechling, Manuel Eheim, Frank Kaehny, Marcus Wolf, Harald Ulrich, Kevin Scheer, Florian Lueck, Christoph Kosmalski, Rolf Maurus
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Patent number: 11462848Abstract: A conical contact spring sleeve includes a radial concavity that projects radially inwards beyond an inner peripheral surface of the conical contact spring sleeve and/or a radial convexity that projects radially outwards beyond an outer peripheral surface of the conical contact spring sleeve.Type: GrantFiled: March 1, 2021Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Martin Listing, Bernd Leonhardt, Maximilian Veihl, Christoph Kosmalski, Harald Ulrich, Stefan Masak, Rajesh Kumar, Kevin Scheer
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Patent number: 11462863Abstract: A plug-in connector element includes an electrically conductive contact element, a housing, a contact protection element, and a temperature sensor accommodated at least in part within the contact protection element. The contact protection element is disposed so that, between the housing and the contact protection element, access to the electrically conductive contact element is prevented for an object having a diameter above a defined value. The temperature sensor measures a temperature of the electrically conductive contact element.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2021Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Christoph Kosmalski, Bernd Leonhardt, Maximilian Veihl, Martin Listing
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Publication number: 20220255267Abstract: A shielding spring contact includes a flat base portion having a top side and a cutout, and a shielding portion having a wall connected to the flat base portion and encircling the cutout. The wall has an outer side, an inner side, an upper side, and a lower side. The lower side of the wall is arranged on the top side of the flat base portion with the lower side of the wall laterally surrounding the cutout. The top side of the flat base portion bears against a bottom side of an assembly housing portion of a first plug-in connector and the shielding portion projects through a first passage opening in the assembly housing portion. The shielding portion projects through a second passage opening in a shielding housing wall and into a shielding housing of a second plug-in connector, bearing against the shielding housing wall.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2022Publication date: August 11, 2022Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Jochen Fertig, Maximilian Veihl, Martin Listing, Christoph Kosmalski, Uemit Bulduk, Eike Luellich, Kevin Scheer, Ivan Ivanov
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Publication number: 20220190510Abstract: A cable sealing plug includes a cable pass through opening extending through the cable sealing plug in an axial direction, a compression seal extending around the cable pass through opening, and a locking part having a locking system. The compression seal is transferable to a compressed state in which an inner diameter of the compression seal is smaller than a predetermined cable diameter of an electric cable extending through the cable pass through opening. The locking part and the compression seal are formed as a unitary component.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2021Publication date: June 16, 2022Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Carsten Fischer, Roman Hildmann, Maximilian Veihl, Markus Eckel
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Publication number: 20210328386Abstract: A connector includes a housing and a shielding contact. A gap running in a circumferential direction extends between the housing and the shielding contact. A mating housing of a mating connector is adapted to be inserted into the gap in a plugging direction. The gap opens in the plugging direction into a sealing section in which a sealing ring is retained axially between the shielding contact and the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2021Publication date: October 21, 2021Applicant: TE Connectivity Germany GmbHInventors: Martin Listing, Christoph Kosmalski, Maximilian Veihl, Monika Stein