Patents by Inventor Reinhard Fassel

Reinhard Fassel 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).

  • Publication number: 20080003892
    Abstract: A printed circuit board having a plurality of press-fit sockets for accommodating press-fit pins, which are insertable from the direction of a broadside of the printed circuit board with press-fit into through holes of the press-fit sockets. The method includes applying, on a section of the broadside of the printed circuit board, of an insulating protective layer, which has passage holes for the press-fit pins situated above the through holes of the press-fit sockets.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2007
    Publication date: January 3, 2008
    Inventors: Reinhard Fassel, Thomas Goettel, Harald Hejna
  • Patent number: 6600666
    Abstract: A holding device for a cable harness is designed in such a way that the cable harness, which is attached on one side to a printed circuit board, remains undamaged during transportation of the printed circuit board to a final assembly location. A plug connector attached to the printed circuit board has dome-shaped latching elements, and a unit plug attached to a free other end of the cable harness has corresponding counter latching elements as direct parts of the holding device. By snapping the counter latching elements onto the latching elements, the unit plug is attached to the plug connector, and the holding device for the cable harness is closed. At the final assembly location, the counter latching elements are nondestructively detached from the latching elements by pulling the unit plug off of the plug connector, and the holding device is reopened from the secured transport position for the cable harness. The holding device is preferably intended for use in the automobile industry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2003
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Lott, Reinhard Fassel, Robert Schleicher
  • Publication number: 20020176241
    Abstract: A holding device for a cable harness is designed in such a way that the cable harness, which is attached on one side to a printed circuit board, remains undamaged during transportation of the printed circuit board to a final assembly location. A plug connector attached to the printed circuit board has dome-shaped latching elements, and a unit plug attached to a free other end of the cable harness has corresponding counter latching elements as direct parts of the holding device. By snapping the counter latching elements onto the latching elements, the unit plug is attached to the plug connector, and the holding device for the cable harness is closed. At the final assembly location, the counter latching elements are nondestructively detached from the latching elements by pulling the unit plug off of the plug connector, and the holding device is reopened from the secured transport position for the cable harness. The holding device is preferably intended for use in the automobile industry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2002
    Publication date: November 28, 2002
    Inventors: Thomas Lott, Reinhard Fassel, Robert Schleicher
  • Patent number: 6094349
    Abstract: An electrical device has a printed-circuit board secured to a cover of the electrical-device housing, as well as a heat-dissipation mat arranged on a housing wall. The cover secured to the housing, as well as guideways of the housing, in which guideways the printed-circuit board is received, exert a tension force on the printed-circuit board, because of which electronic components arranged on the printed-circuit board, under conditions of intimate contact with the heat-dissipation mat, are embedded into the heat-dissipation mat. This is achieved by introducing the printed-circuit board in inclined position into the housing and, shortly before it reaches its final position, swivelling the printed-circuit board toward the wall of the housing having the heat-dissipation mat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Reinhard Fassel, Hartmut Zoebl
  • Patent number: 5520546
    Abstract: A valve block unit comprising a valve block and a valve block lid is proposed, which to facilitate installation and to protect electrical contact pins against bending or damage is equipped with an intermediate plate that has guide openings. In a dismounted state of the valve block and valve block lid, this intermediate plate protectively receives the contact pins. The intermediate plate is subject to the force of compression springs, which are compressed when the valve block and the valve block lid are brought together for installation. The contact pins then protrude from the protective intermediate plate and enter the contact bushes intended for them. This assures safe electrical connections, designed for ease of manufacture, within the valve block unit. The valve block unit is intended for use in motor vehicle brake pressure modulation systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 1994
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1996
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Klinger, Hartmut Zoebl, Reinhard Fassel
  • Patent number: 5394301
    Abstract: An arrangement for dissipating heat from power components assembled on a printed-circuit board dissipates heat generated in the power components to the side of the printed-circuit board that is removed from the components. The printed-circuit board may have heat-transfer bore holes, and a heat-conducting material applied in the area of the power components, the heat-transfer bore holes, and the side of the printed-circuit board facing away from the power components. The side of the printed-circuit board that is removed from the power components may be coated with an insulating enamel and with a flexible heat-conducting enamel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: February 28, 1995
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Reinhard Fassel, Herbert Klinger, Hartmut Zoebl
  • Patent number: 5286920
    Abstract: An electrical switching device has a housing composed of an electrically conductive material, at least one conductor plate having a region of an electrically conductive material and arranged in the housing, plug connection means extending from the housing in a sealed manner, and an element for electrically conductive connection of the conductor plate with the housing. The element for electrically conductive connection includes a mechanically prestressed spring element. The spring element has one end abutting against the conductor plate in the region of an electrically conductive material and another end fixedly connected with the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1992
    Date of Patent: February 15, 1994
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Reinhard Fassel, Hartmut Zoebl, Werner Hofmeister, Olaf Zinke
  • Patent number: 4803590
    Abstract: An electrical switching device includes a hermetically sealed housing enclosing at least one power switching component mounted on a cooling plate and a plurality of connector parts which are guided out of the housing. In order to eliminate heat generated by the switching component, portions of the connector parts within the housing are embedded in a heat conducting, electrically insulating material which is in contact with the cooling plate such that the heat is abducted via the cooling plate, the heat conducting material and the connector parts by a heat conducting and electrically insulating foil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: February 7, 1989
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Reinhard Fassel, Georg Haubner, Hartmut Zobl
  • Patent number: 4514670
    Abstract: A commutator-type d-c motor has its line current connected through a sensing resistor (18) or transformer (18'), the pulses of which, upon energization, are counted in a counter (C) and also passed to a speed sensing circuit (S) in a control circuit (30), energization of the motor being disconnected if the frequency of undulations or waviness of the motor current drops, thus indicating that the positioned element, for example an antenna, window, or sliding roof of an automobile has reached a limiting position. The counter can be used to establish intermediate positions, upon suitable control by a selector switch (27) or a reference count number stage (C-Ref) controlled, for example, by a potentiometer (P) or from the selector switch (27). A timing circuit (T) prevents short-circuit through the motor upon manual sudden reversal of command of direction of rotation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1983
    Date of Patent: April 30, 1985
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Reinhard Fassel, Werner Meier, Hans Rauch, Jurgen Wesemeyer, Hans-Joachim Raddant
  • Patent number: 4491026
    Abstract: To measure a wide range of flow rates, and particularly such low flow rates as 0.5 liters per hour, while being able to accurately also measure rates of about 100 liters per hour, fluid is introduced axially into a rotor (14, 36, 40) which has outlet openings (24, 36, 45) positioned at their circumference, the rotor being rotated by reaction on the rotor upon fluid flow from the outlet openings. The rotor operates within a fluid flow chamber (15) from which is conducted outwardly through a duct positioned thereabove. Inflow of fluid may be guided for linear flow by guide ribs (13). The rotor may be a hollow disk-like structure (FIGS. 1-3) with spiral guide vanes therebetween, or a T-shaped tubular structure (FIGS. 4-6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1982
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1985
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Rolf Brautigam, Lothar Haas, Jurgen Wesemeyer, Heinz-Dieter Hellmann, Peter Hergt, Reinhard Fassel