Patents by Inventor Michel Aeschbacher
Michel Aeschbacher 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: 7914309Abstract: The electrical connector includes an insulative housing having a rear skirt extending rearward with respect to the rear face of the insulative housing, a mat seal disposed in the rear skirt against the rear face, a rear grid, disposed in the rear skirt, against the mat seal. The electrical connector includes a mobile part, a guide rail that is transverse to the front-rear direction (XX?), for transversally guiding the mobile part, and a ramp system such that, when the mobile part is guided by the guide rail, the ramp system pushes the rear grid against the mat seal so as to compress the mat seal.Type: GrantFiled: March 20, 2007Date of Patent: March 29, 2011Assignee: FCIInventors: Frédéric Chazottes, Christian Campfort, Thierry Leguay, Michel Aeschbacher
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Patent number: 7905740Abstract: The invention proposes an assembly for an electrical connector including: —a resilient sealing mat seal having two main surfaces and a plurality of channels extending between said two main surfaces, each channel being intended to receive a respective electrical wire, and wherein a annular sealing lip is provided within each channel and extends from the channel wall towards a center axis of said channel; and —at least one sealing sleeve entirely surrounding a portion of an electrical wire to be introduced in one of said channels and tightly maintained on said wire; wherein the sealing sleeve has at least a portion with a smooth outer surface and an outer cross-section of said portion chosen such that said portion of the sealing sleeve and the channel lip are in tight engagement with each other when the wire provided with said sealing sleeve is positioned in its respective channel.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2006Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Assignee: FCIInventors: Frédéric Chazottes, Christian Campfort, Michel Aeschbacher
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Patent number: 7854628Abstract: This connector includes an insulative housing having a plurality of terminal accommodating chambers, a grommet formed with a plurality of cable passages, a grid having a plurality of passages in correspondence with the passages and a closing member mounted at the rear side of the grid for selectively closing the passage to a first predetermined group of chambers, said closing member including a plate, which is formed with through-holes in correspondence with a second predetermined group of chambers. The closing member further includes at least one plug projecting from the plate in correspondence with the first group of chambers, said plugs being provided to be inserted in the respective passages of the seal, and thus sealingly close said passages.Type: GrantFiled: March 22, 2006Date of Patent: December 21, 2010Assignee: FCIInventors: Frédéric Chazottes, Michel Aeschbacher
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Publication number: 20100075524Abstract: The electrical connector includes an insulative housing having a rear skirt extending rearward with respect to the rear face of the insulative housing, a mat seal disposed in the rear skirt against the rear face, a rear grid, disposed in the rear skirt, against the mat seal. The electrical connector includes a mobile part, a guide rail that is transverse to the front-rear direction (XX?), for transversally guiding the mobile part, and a ramp system such that, when the mobile part is guided by the guide rail, the ramp system pushes the rear grid against the mat seal so as to compress the mat seal.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2007Publication date: March 25, 2010Inventors: Frederic Chazottes, Christian Campfort, Thierry Leguay, Michel Aeschbacher
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Publication number: 20100041283Abstract: The subject of the invention is a contact element including a front contact part intended to cooperate with a complementary contact part of a complementary contact element, a part for holding the contact element in a connector case socket and a guiding boss, wherein the guiding boss consists of a tab folded from the front to the back of the electrical contact element and exhibiting a rounded nose.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2005Publication date: February 18, 2010Inventors: Stephane Hernandez, Michel Aeschbacher
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Publication number: 20090305539Abstract: The invention proposes an assembly for an electrical connector including:—a resilient sealing mat seal having two main surfaces and a plurality of channels extending between said two main surfaces, each channel being intended to receive a respective electrical wire, and wherein a annular sealing lip is provided within each channel and extends from the channel wall towards a center axis of said channel; and—at least one sealing sleeve entirely surrounding a portion of an electrical wire to be introduced in one of said channels and tightly maintained on said wire; wherein the sealing sleeve has at least a portion with a smooth outer surface and an outer cross-section of said portion chosen such that said portion of the sealing sleeve and the channel lip are in tight engagement with each other when the wire provided with said sealing sleeve is positioned in its respective channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2006Publication date: December 10, 2009Inventors: Frédéric Chazottes, Christian Campfort, Michel Aeschbacher
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Publication number: 20090215298Abstract: This connector includes an insulative housing having a plurality of terminal accommodating chambers, a grommet formed with a plurality of cable passages, a grid having a plurality of passages in correspondence with the passages and a closing member mounted at the rear side of the grid for selectively closing the passage to a first predetermined group of chambers, said closing member including a plate, which is formed with through-holes in correspondence with a second predetermined group of chambers. The closing member further includes at least one plug projecting from the plate in correspondence with the first group of chambers, said plugs being provided to be inserted in the respective passages of the seal, and thus sealingly close said passages.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2006Publication date: August 27, 2009Inventors: Frederic Chazottes, Michel Aeschbacher
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Patent number: 7131861Abstract: The subject of the invention is a connection device for a flex circuit (12), comprising a support (16), means (18) for positioning flex circuit (12) relative to said support (16) and conformation means (20) for flex circuit (12), characterized in that conformation means (20) has at least one bent spring strip (24) comprising at least one bend (26) positioned between flex circuit (12) and a surface (28) so as to increase the elastic effect of said strip (24).Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2003Date of Patent: November 7, 2006Assignee: FCIInventor: Michel Aeschbacher
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Publication number: 20060099849Abstract: The subject of the invention is a connection device for a flex circuit (12), comprising a support (16), means (18) for positioning flex circuit (12) relative to said support (16) and conformation means (20) for flex circuit (12), characterized in that conformation means (20) has at least one bent spring strip (24) comprising at least one bend (26) positioned between flex circuit (12) and a surface (28) so as to increase the elastic effect of said strip (24).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2003Publication date: May 11, 2006Inventor: Michel Aeschbacher
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Patent number: 6572411Abstract: A modular jack for housing magnetic components includes a housing which has a plurality of ports each of which can receive an electrical connector. Extending into each of the ports are a plurality of contacts for connecting to contacts of an electrical connector. The ports may be arranged in a stacked configuration in which case the modular jack is a double deck jack. Attached to the housing may be one or more magnetic housing. Each magnetic housing can house at least one magnetic component, which can be a transformer. Preferably, there is a magnetic housing for every two ports, and the magnetic housing houses a magnetic component for each port. Shields an be installed into the housing between the magnetic components in order to provide isolation of the components. A printed wire board can be attached to the magnetic housing, and a contact carrier having a plurality of contacts can be attached to the printed wire board.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2001Date of Patent: June 3, 2003Assignee: FCI Americas Technology, Inc.Inventors: Michel Aeschbacher, Yakov Belopolsky, Brad Brubaker, Robert E. Marshall, John Spickler, Bonita L. Wheeler
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Publication number: 20030100225Abstract: A modular jack for housing magnetic components includes a housing which has a plurality of ports each of which can receive an electrical connector. Extending into each of the ports are a plurality of contacts for connecting to contacts of an electrical connector. The ports may be arranged in a stacked configuration in which case the modular jack is a double deck jack. Attached to the housing may be one or more magnetic housing. Each magnetic housing can house at least one magnetic component, which can be a transformer. Preferably, there is a magnetic housing for every two ports, and the magnetic housing houses a magnetic component for each port. Shields an be installed into the housing between the magnetic components in order to provide isolation of the components. A printed wire board can be attached to the magnetic housing, and a contact carrier having a plurality of contacts can be attached to the printed wire board.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2001Publication date: May 29, 2003Inventors: Michel Aeschbacher, Yakov Belopolsky, Brad Brubaker, Robert E. Marshall, John Spickler, Bonita L. Wheeler