Patents by Inventor Reinhard Pusch
Reinhard Pusch 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: 9013319Abstract: A vehicle inlet is disclosed for use in charging a battery of an electric vehicle or a hybrid-electric vehicle. The vehicle inlet includes a housing, a luminance engine having at least one light emitting diode, and a luminance member configured for attachment to the housing and for cooperation with the luminance engine. The luminance member is adapted for illumination by the at least one light emitting diode of the luminance engine based on an ambient light level having a value less than a threshold for a predetermined time period.Type: GrantFiled: August 14, 2012Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Lear CorporationInventors: Reinhard Pusch, Keith R. Kwasny, John F. Nathan
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Patent number: 9011180Abstract: An electrical connector includes a connector body and at least two electric terminals. A fuse is supported on the connector body and at least one of the electric terminals is supported by the fuse.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2013Date of Patent: April 21, 2015Assignee: Lear CorporationInventors: Nadir Sharaf, Aric Anglin, Reinhard Pusch, Slobodan Pavlovic, Michael Hardy
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Publication number: 20150036294Abstract: A housing or other enclosure used to facilitate fluid cooling of a circuitry of a battery charger, such as but not limited to a battery charger of the type used to facilitate charging a high voltage vehicle battery with AC energy provided from a utility power grid. The housing may include a groove and seal arrangement operable to seal a fluid coolant chamber used to cool the circuitry from leaking fluid during use.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2014Publication date: February 5, 2015Inventors: Nadir Sharaf, John M. Van Dyke, Richard J. Hampo, Slobodan Pavlovic, Rutunj D. Rai, Reinhard Pusch
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Patent number: 8897013Abstract: A housing or other enclosure used to facilitate fluid cooling of a circuitry of a battery charger, such as but not limited to a battery charger of the type used to facilitate charging a high voltage vehicle battery with AC energy provided from a utility power grid. The housing may include a groove and seal arrangement operable to seal a fluid coolant chamber used to cool the circuitry from leaking fluid during use.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2011Date of Patent: November 25, 2014Assignee: Lear CorporationInventors: Nadir Sharaf, John M. Van Dyke, Richard J. Hampo, Slobodan Pavlovic, Rutunj Rai, Reinhard Pusch
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Publication number: 20140273645Abstract: An energy transfer system includes an adapter having a power terminal port with a plurality of power terminals and an intermediate adapter terminal port with a plurality of intermediate adapter terminals. Each of the plurality of intermediate adapter terminals is in direct electrical communication with one of the plurality of adapter terminals. The energy transfer system also includes an intermediate complementary port that is configured to mate with the intermediate adapter terminal port to establish electrical communication between the plurality of intermediate adapter terminals and a plurality of complementary intermediate terminals. The adapter terminal port is configured not to mate with the intermediate terminal port and not to mate with the intermediate complementary terminal port.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2014Publication date: September 18, 2014Applicant: Lear CorporationInventors: Michael Glick, Slobodan Pavlovic, Reinhard Pusch
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Patent number: 8721374Abstract: An electrical connector includes an electrical terminal and a housing having a front end and a back end with an opening configured to receive the electrical terminal. The housing includes a first lock system configured to allow insertion of the electrical terminal into the housing and prohibit removal of the electrical terminal from the housing. It also includes a tapered surface and for guiding the electrical terminal to a desired position when the electrical terminal is inserted into the housing. A second lock system cooperates with the housing in a lock position for prohibiting removal of the electrical terminal from the housing. It also cooperates with the housing in a pre-lock position wherein a tapered surface of the second lock system is configured to cooperate with the tapered surface of the housing for guiding the electrical terminal to the desired position when the electrical terminal is inserted into the housing.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2012Date of Patent: May 13, 2014Assignee: Lear CorporationInventors: Michael Glick, Reinhard Pusch, David Menzies, Reshma Rathod, Slobodan Pavlovic, Sheikh Habibur Rahman
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Patent number: 8408944Abstract: A high voltage connector system includes a first header for connection to a first electronic device, a first connector that connects to the first header, a second header that connects to a second electronic device, a second connector that connects to the second header, and a plurality of wires connecting the first connector and the second connector. The first header includes a first plurality of header terminals that are electrically connected together such that a high voltage electric current is divided into a plurality of sub-currents. The second header has a second plurality of header terminals that are electrically connected together such that the plurality of sub-currents are joined together to reform the first high voltage electric current.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2011Date of Patent: April 2, 2013Assignee: Lear CorporationInventors: Slobodan Pavlovic, David Menzies, Reinhard Pusch, Michael Hardy
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Publication number: 20130049972Abstract: A vehicle inlet is disclosed for use in charging a battery of an electric vehicle or a hybrid-electric vehicle. The vehicle inlet includes a housing, a luminance engine having at least one light emitting diode, and a luminance member configured for attachment to the housing and for cooperation with the luminance engine. The luminance member is adapted for illumination by the at least one light emitting diode of the luminance engine based on an ambient light level having a value less than a threshold for a predetermined time period.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 14, 2012Publication date: February 28, 2013Applicant: LEAR CORPORATIONInventors: Reinhard Pusch, Keith R. Kwasny, John F. Nathan
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Publication number: 20130023163Abstract: An electrical connector includes an electrical terminal and a housing having a front end and a back end with an opening configured to receive the electrical terminal. The housing includes a first lock system configured to allow insertion of the electrical terminal into the housing and prohibit removal of the electrical terminal from the housing. It also includes a tapered surface and for guiding the electrical terminal to a desired position when the electrical terminal is inserted into the housing. A second lock system cooperates with the housing in a lock position for prohibiting removal of the electrical terminal from the housing. It also cooperates with the housing in a pre-lock position wherein a tapered surface of the second lock system is configured to cooperate with the tapered surface of the housing for guiding the electrical terminal to the desired position when the electrical terminal is inserted into the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2012Publication date: January 24, 2013Applicant: LEAR CORPORATIONInventors: Michael Glick, Reinhard Pusch, David Menzies, Reshma Rathod, Slobodan Pavlovic, Sheikh Habibur Rahman
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Publication number: 20120212175Abstract: A housing or other enclosure used to facilitate fluid cooling of a circuitry of a battery charger, such as but not limited to a battery charger of the type used to facilitate charging a high voltage vehicle battery with AC energy provided from a utility power grid. The housing may include a groove and seal arrangement operable to seal a fluid coolant chamber used to cool the circuitry from leaking fluid during use.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2011Publication date: August 23, 2012Applicant: LEAR CORPORATIONInventors: Nadir Sharaf, John M. Van Dyke, Richard J. Hampo, Slobodan Pavlovic, Rutunj Rai, Reinhard Pusch
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Patent number: 7175488Abstract: An electrical connector system having one or more electrical connector assemblies. The electrical connector assembly includes a blade and a spring clip. The spring clip is positioned around the blade and includes first and second portions. The first and second portions cooperate to exert a biasing force toward the blade. The first portion cooperates with the blade to define an insertion opening for receiving an electrical device.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2005Date of Patent: February 13, 2007Assignee: Lear CorporationInventors: Slobadan Pavlovic, Reinhard Pusch, Mohamad Zeidan
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Publication number: 20060223385Abstract: An electrical connector system having one or more electrical connector assemblies. The electrical connector assembly includes a blade and a spring clip. The spring clip is positioned around the blade and includes first and second portions. The first and second portions cooperate to exert a biasing force toward the blade. The first portion cooperates with the blade to define an insertion opening for receiving an electrical device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2005Publication date: October 5, 2006Applicant: LEAR CORPORATIONInventors: Slobadan Pavlovic, Reinhard Pusch, Mohamad Zeidan
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Patent number: 5685743Abstract: A connector housing for an air bag connector and a method for contacting an air bag connector. A connector housing having at least two sections is provided with locking elements for a pre-lock-in position and a final lock-in position. In the pre-lock-in position, both sections of the housing are arranged apart from one another and the pre-lock-in position is localized by means of a spacer to maintain the pre-lock-in position maintain at a predetermined distance so that electric conductors can be introduced into the connector housing. The spacer ensures that the connector housing is not inadvertently pressed from the pre-lock-in position to the final lock-in position. The connector housing can be pressed together for an insulation-piercing contact in the connector housing, and locked in the final lock-in position. The connector housing is furthermore provided with a belt arrangement, with the spacer being of a one-piece design with one of the elements of the belt arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: November 6, 1995Date of Patent: November 11, 1997Assignee: Grote & Hartmann GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Karsten Schmidt, Werner Moritz, Reinhard Pusch
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Patent number: 5211009Abstract: A method for regeneration of a particulate filter in which the attainment of a stable idling operating condition of the diesel engine is waited for, at least within a specifiable time period after the starting of the diesel engine, rotation-speed signals of the diesel engine being registered in the specifiable time period, before a control device registers and evaluates further operating values and outputs control commands to devices of the particulate-filter system in order to insure reliable burning off of soot particles deposited in the particulate filter and prevent damage to the particulate filter due to incorrect control actions.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 1991Date of Patent: May 18, 1993Assignee: Kloeckner-Humboldt-Deutz AGInventors: Hans Houben, Heinrich Berendes, Reinhard Pusch, Axel Rodemeister
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Patent number: 5186638Abstract: For the purposes of connecting and joining conductive traces on printed circuit boards, the stripped ends of a flexible multi-conductor flat cable are inserted into metallized openings in the printed circuit boards. The cables are cut to length and their ends are stripped of insulation and supported in an injection molded bar member. Those ends are desirably not to be bent in storage and transportation. In order to protect them, a U-shaped device is pushed onto the bar member over the cable ends. The bottom plate portion of the device has holes of a conical configuration. In a transportation position the ends are disposed within the walls of those holes and are held therein. The device latches in the transportation position. For the ends to be inserted into the holes in the printed circuit board the device is pushed further onto the cable ends in an operative position. As such, the ends pass in a guided fashion through the holes in the bottom plate portion and into the holes in the printed circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 1991Date of Patent: February 16, 1993Assignee: Thomas & Betts CorporationInventor: Reinhard Pusch