Patents by Inventor Wilhelm Schweikert

Wilhelm Schweikert 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: 6919506
    Abstract: A device for fastening an electrical component to a mounting board includes a sleeve that at least partially surrounds the electrical component, and a tensioning device that is separate from the sleeve and that holds the electrical component in the sleeve. The tensioning device is positioned around a circumference of the sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2005
    Assignee: EPCOS AG
    Inventor: Wilhelm Schweikert
  • Patent number: 6855885
    Abstract: A housing for an electrical component includes an electrically conductive cup which includes a wall, a floor, and a cover having electrical terminals. The housing also includes an electrically insulating coating applied to an outside of the floor and adjoining regions of the wall, and an electrically insulating covering which covers the wall at least partially and which overlaps the electrically insulating coating. The electrically insulating covering is on the electrically insulating coating and does not coat the floor. A mounting plate is also included on which the floor is positioned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignee: Epcos AG
    Inventor: Wilhelm Schweikert
  • Publication number: 20040246652
    Abstract: A capacitor with better resistance to vibration, and a method for its production, are proposed. For this purpose, a capacitor winding (10) is introduced into a housing (5), such that it is partially interlocked with the housing. After this, the capacitor winding is impregnated, during which process it expands and additional pressure forces occur between the winding and the cover wall, which fix the capacitor in the horizontal direction. In a final method step, the capacitor is then fixed vertically between a cover (15) and the base of the cup-shaped housing, by pinching.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 25, 2004
    Publication date: December 9, 2004
    Inventors: Norbert Will, Rainer Hebel, Wilhelm Schweikert, Klaus Danzer, Rudolf Wittmann
  • Publication number: 20040185711
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for fastening and fixing an electrical component (1) on a board (5), the electrical component being at least partially enclosed by a deformable sleeve (10) that is fastened on the board (5). The electrical component (1) is fixed inside the sleeve (10) by means of a tensioning device (15) and periphery of the sleeve and the component contained therein is enclosed by the tensioning device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 5, 2004
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Inventor: Wilhelm Schweikert
  • Patent number: 6768056
    Abstract: A capacitor housing includes an electrically conductive cup having a wall and a bottom, and an electrically insulating envelope which substantially covers an exterior of the cup and which includes an opening at a bottom of the cup. The opening is smaller than the bottom of the cup. The capacitor housing also includes a fill element which is substantially heat-conductive and disposed inside the opening and a cover element which is substantially electrically insulating, that covers at least part of the bottom of the cup and overlaps at least part of the envelope.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2004
    Assignee: Epcos AG
    Inventors: Edmund Fischer, Rainer Hebel, Thomas Kopp, Wilhelm Schweikert
  • Publication number: 20040080898
    Abstract: The invention relates to a housing (1) comprising an electrically conductive cup (2), which comprises a wall (3) and a bottom (4), and an electrically insulating envelope (5), which covers the exterior of the cup (2) and features an opening (6) on the bottom side that is smaller than the bottom (4) of the cup (2), and a fill element (7), which is effectively heat-conductive and is disposed within the opening (6), and a cover element (8), which is electrically insulating and covers the bottom (4) of the cup (2) and overlaps the envelope (5). Furthermore, the invention relates to an electrolytic capacitor comprising a rounded coil (10) and the housing (1), as well as a housing structure and a structure comprising an electrolytic capacitor. Through the use of a flat cup bottom in connection with a fill element (7) and a cover element (8), improved heat dissipation from the housing (1) can be achieved, as well as a reduction in the cost of manufacturing the cup (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2003
    Publication date: April 29, 2004
    Inventors: Edmund Fischer, Rainer Hebel, Thomas Kopp, Wilhelm Schweikert
  • Patent number: 6587331
    Abstract: An aluminum electrolyte capacitor with reduced inductivity is installed in a metal housing that is closed by a cover disk provided with metallic lead-throughs. Electrically conductive bodies are arranged at the cover disk at a region of high magnetic fields when current flows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2003
    Assignee: EPCOS Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wilhelm Schweikert, Norbert Will
  • Patent number: 6366446
    Abstract: An aluminum electrolytic capacitor assembly for use on a mounting plate includes an aluminum electrolytic capacitor fitted in a metallic housing which in places has insulation composed of shrink sleeving. The aluminum electrolytic capacitor assembly is intended for use on a mounting plate. The shrink sleeving extends into the vicinity of the cup base, and a plastic cap is arranged on the cup base for insulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: Epcos AG
    Inventors: Wilhelm Schweikert, Rainer Hebel
  • Patent number: 6297944
    Abstract: A capacitor assembly includes an aluminum electrolytic capacitor installed in a casing which is closed by a cover disc. Two metallic connecting elements, which are solid, are disposed in the cover disc. The connecting elements are connected to external connections through the use of a radially acting clamping connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2001
    Assignee: EPCOS AG
    Inventor: Wilhelm Schweikert
  • Patent number: 6265661
    Abstract: An aluminum-electrolyte capacitor assembly is provided which includes a capacitor disposed in a metallic housing. The housing is accommodated and held by a ring clamp. The ring clamp is attached to a mounting plate, preferably by screw fasteners. The mounting plate includes a bore for accommodating at least part of the housing. The ring clamp includes a conically shaped extension that extends downward and mateably engages the bore. The assembly may also include a protective ring disposed in the bore and sandwiched between the conically shaped extension of the ring clamp and the mounting plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Assignee: Epcos AG
    Inventors: Wilhelm Schweikert, Rainer Hebel
  • Patent number: 6259595
    Abstract: An electrical component is installed in a metallic housing having a planar housing floor, in which the housing is pressed against a heat dissipation plate by means of screwable tension elements that are situated adjacent the housing wall. The tension elements have peaks at a portion that faces the housing wall. The housing has an indentation in the clamping region of the tension elements which serves as an aid to assembly, and the center line of the indentation is arranged higher prior to the fixing of the housing by means of the peak of the tension elements than subsequent thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens Matsushita Components GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rainer Hebel, Wilhelm Schweikert
  • Patent number: 5706166
    Abstract: A terminal element for compensating length tolerances of electrical capacitors, particularly electrolyte capacitors, that are secured to busbars in capacitor batteries is fashioned as a straddling dowel. The terminal element is attached as a length-compensating element in a blind hole located in the capacitor terminal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 6, 1998
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wilhelm Schweikert, Rainer Hebel
  • Patent number: 5021927
    Abstract: A cooling system for an electrical wound electrolyte capacitor wherein the capacitor winding 4 is mounted in a metallic cylindrical-shape housing 5 and the winding 4 has electric foils 7 and 9 which project from both ends with one of the foils being in thermic contact with the floor of the housing 6 and the other foil 9 being in thermal contact with a metallic plate 16. The heat bridges thus formed by faster and greater heat removal for high alternating currents because the temperature within the capacitor is reduced by the two separate bridges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 1990
    Date of Patent: June 4, 1991
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellscaft
    Inventors: Wilhelm Schweikert, Norbert Will
  • Patent number: 4920457
    Abstract: An aluminum electrolyte capacitor is provided composed of two aluminum foils between which spacers saturated with the operating electrolyte are arranged. Terminal elements are riveted and/or welded to the foils. The anode foil provided with the dielectrically acting oxide layer may potentially be produced from a larger, formed foil web. The non-formed cut edges of the aluminum foil as well as the terminal elements are covered with a fine-grained, electrolyte-compatible material. As a result thereof, the maximum operating voltage U.sub.max of traditional operating electrolytes is boosted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 1988
    Date of Patent: April 24, 1990
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wilhelm Schweikert, Norbert Will, Wilhelm Lauer
  • Patent number: 4893217
    Abstract: An aluminum electrolyte capacitor having a liquid operating electrolyte that contains combustible constituents is integrated in a housing. An absorbent mass that is pourable and only partially fills the empty volume of the housing is contained in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 9, 1990
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wilhelm Schweikert, Wilhelm Lauer