Patents by Inventor Werner Panis

Werner Panis 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).

  • Patent number: 6648687
    Abstract: A shielded connector comprises a housing of insulating material accommodating a plurality of contact elements, and a shielding plate comprising a front half and a back half. The front half has a plurality of contact portions and the back half has contact ends for connection to a printed circuit board. The housing is provided with at least one channel at a front end thereof, this at least one channel being open at its back end and closed at its front end for receiving the front end of the shielding plate. The shielding plate is provided with a bend near its front end for cooperation with back end of the channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: Framatome Connectors International
    Inventors: Nadia Otto, Marc Fret, Hubert Booghmans, Werner Panis
  • Publication number: 20010036769
    Abstract: A shielded connector comprises a housing of insulating material accommodating a plurality of contact elements, and a shielding plate comprising a front half and a back half. The front half has a plurality of contact portions and the back half has contact ends for connection to a printed circuit board. The housing is provided with at least one channel at a front end thereof, this at least one channel being open at its back end and closed at its front end for receiving the front end of the shielding plate. The shielding plate is provided with a bend near its front end for cooperation with back end of the channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2001
    Publication date: November 1, 2001
    Inventors: Nadia Otto, Marc Fret, Hubert Booghmans, Werner Panis
  • Patent number: 6036543
    Abstract: A connector assembly for connecting a shielded cable with a plurality of conductors and a common shielding to a printed circuit board comprises a first connector having a housing of insulating material with contacts connected with the conductors and a metal hood connected with the common shielding. The housing is accommodated in the hood and comprises an insertion part protruding out of the hood along its complete circumference. The connector assembly comprises a second connector with a shielding lying at a distance from the second connector, the second connector having a receiving space for receiving the insertion part of the housing. The second connector with the shielding is mounted on the printed circuit board and the shielding is connected to a corresponding connector of the printed circuit board. The hood is provided with at least one projecting flange connected to the shielding of the second connector when the insertion part of the housing is inserted into the receiving space of the second connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2000
    Assignee: Framatome Connectors International
    Inventors: Werner Panis, Gert Droesbeke, Eddy Kamiel Creele
  • Patent number: 5888077
    Abstract: A connector assembly comprises a first connector (1) and a second connector (2) adapted to be mated with the first connector. Each connector has two spaced rows of contact elements (4,10) arranged at a given pitch, each of the contact elements having a contact face (6). In the first connector (1) at least two adjacent contact elements (4) of one row of contact elements are made integral as one first power contact element (13) having two contact faces (6) at the given pitch. In the second connector (2) at least one contact element (10) of one row of contact elements can be made integral with an opposite contact element (10) of the other row of contact elements as one second power contact element (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 30, 1999
    Assignee: Framatome Connectors International
    Inventors: Patrick Champion, Danny Morlion, Werner Panis, Jacky Thenaisie, Jan Peter Karel Van Koetsem, Luc Jonckheere
  • Patent number: 5885093
    Abstract: A connector assembly comprises a first connector (1) and a second connector (2) adapted to be mated with the first connector. The first connector (1) comprises a first housing (3) having a bottom (4) and two longitudinal walls (5, 6) determining a receiving space (8), a row of male signal contacts (9) projecting from the bottom upwardly into the receiving space and a row of male ground contacts (10), wherein as seen in row direction a male ground contact is located at both sides of a corresponding male signal contact. The second connector (2) comprises a second housing (11) which can be substantially completely received within the receiving space, and a row of female signal contacts (12) adapted to be connected with the male signal contacts when the connectors are mated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1999
    Assignee: Framatome Connectors International
    Inventors: Patrick Champion, Danny Morlion, Werner Panis, Jacky Thenaisie, Jan Peter Karel Van Koetsem, Luc Jonckheere
  • Patent number: 5755597
    Abstract: A connector for a cable with a plurality of conductors and a common shielding comprises a housing of insulating material with contacts to be connected with the conductors, and a metal hood. The housing is at least partially accommodated in the hood. The shielding of the cable can be connected to the hood and the metal hood is provided with a wall with a passage for the cable. This wall of the hood comprises an upright collar joining the passage and having a conical outer wall. A ring with a correspondingly conical inner wall can be attached on this wall of the hood while clamping the shielding of the cable between the conical outer wall of the collar and the conical inner wall of the ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1998
    Assignee: Framatome Connectors International
    Inventors: Werner Panis, Eddy Kamiel Creele