Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Pade

Wolfgang Pade 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: 11398695
    Abstract: A plug connector system is described. The plug connector system includes: a plug connector; a housing on which the plug connector is installed; the housing having an opening having a first inner wall; the plug connector having a sheet-metal shield that projects at least in portions into the opening; a ring being disposed in the opening and, with an outer wall, electrically contacting the first inner wall of the opening; the sheet-metal shield electrically contacting, with a further outer wall of the sheet-metal shield, a second inner wall of the ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Vu Lam Nguyen, Thorsten Kremer, Wolfgang Pade
  • Publication number: 20210050684
    Abstract: A plug connector system is described. The plug connector system includes: a plug connector; a housing on which the plug connector is installed; the housing having an opening having a first inner wall; the plug connector having a sheet-metal shield that projects at least in portions into the opening; a ring being disposed in the opening and, with an outer wall, electrically contacting the first inner wall of the opening; the sheet-metal shield electrically contacting, with a further outer wall of the sheet-metal shield, a second inner wall of the ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2019
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: Vu Lam Nguyen, Thorsten Kremer, Wolfgang Pade
  • Patent number: 10033133
    Abstract: A wiring harness plug connector. The wiring harness plug connector encompasses a contact carrier and at least one electrical lead. The contact carrier has at least one passthrough conduit for the at least one electrical lead. The at least one electrical lead is passed through the passthrough conduit in an insertion direction. The contact carrier has, in front of the at least one passthrough conduit when viewed in the insertion direction, a partition that surrounds a sealing space. Provision is made that the sealing space is filled with a sealant in such a way, and that the sealant at least locally fills up the at least one passthrough conduit in such a way, that the at least one electrical lead is surrounded in fluid-tight fashion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Koeksal Zorlu, Ulrich Schmatz, Wolfgang Pade
  • Publication number: 20170373428
    Abstract: A wiring harness plug connector. The wiring harness plug connector encompasses a contact carrier and at least one electrical lead. The contact carrier has at least one passthrough conduit for the at least one electrical lead. The at least one electrical lead is passed through the passthrough conduit in an insertion direction. The contact carrier has, in front of the at least one passthrough conduit when viewed in the insertion direction, a partition that surrounds a sealing space. Provision is made that the sealing space is filled with a sealant in such a way, and that the sealant at least locally fills up the at least one passthrough conduit in such a way, that the at least one electrical lead is surrounded in fluid-tight fashion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Koeksal Zorlu, Ulrich Schmatz, Wolfgang Pade
  • Publication number: 20160372854
    Abstract: A plug connector assembly for establishing an electrical plug connection, the plug connector assembly including a contact carrier and a contact. The contact is insertable into the contact carrier in a plug-in direction and extends along a longitudinal axis. It has a contact section and a connecting neck section. The contact section including a contact latching element, which includes a protrusion transverse to the longitudinal axis and is, in particular, immovable in relation to the contact section. The contact carrier includes a contact carrier housing having a chamber for receiving the contact section of the contact. The chamber includes a first inner wall generally in parallel to the plug-in direction, a contact carrier latching element, provided adjacent to the first inner wall generally transverse to the plug-in direction, which includes a contact carrier latching surface, and a second inner wall opposite the first inner wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Publication date: December 22, 2016
    Inventors: Ulrich Schmatz, Martin Saur, Zhenyu Hu, Wolfgang Pade, Rolf Wittmann
  • Patent number: 9397443
    Abstract: A plug-in system is provided for a control unit of a vehicle, including a plug, such as a cable harness, and a plug module. The plug is designed to produce an electrical connection with the plug module. The plug has a plug body that accommodates a multiplicity of electrical contacts and that has a plug base that is designed to accommodate a shroud of the plug module. In addition, the plug has a plug lever that is designed to be moved from a start position to an end position, while pulling the plug in the direction of the plug module using a lever arm that engages in the plug module. The plug lever can be mounted on the plug body in two orientations, and in both the orientations the lever arm and the plug module engage in one another in such a way that the plug can be pulled in the direction of the plug module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Pade
  • Patent number: 9276344
    Abstract: A connector element includes: at least two contact elements; and at least one latching element which has two diametrically opposed detents, which latching element is situated between the at least two contact elements. The at least one latching element is configured to be pivotable or bendable, and the two contact elements each have a recess for establishing a form-fit connection to one of the detents of the latching element. The recess is further configured to enable the latching element to be pivoted or bent in the direction of one of the two contact elements, so that the form-fit connection between the other contact element and the associated detent is able to be released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Ulrich Schmatz, Wolfgang Pade
  • Patent number: 9257781
    Abstract: A plug is provided for producing an electrical connection with a plug module, such as a wiring harness plug for creating an electrical connection with a control device in a motor vehicle. The plug includes a plug body that has a multiplicity of channels for accommodating electrical lines; a mat seal that has a multiplicity of channels for guiding electrical lines accommodated in the channels of the plug body and that is situated on the at least one laterally circumferential radial seal in order to seal the plug; and a pressure plate that has a multiplicity of channels for guiding electrical lines accommodated in the channels of the plug body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Pade
  • Patent number: 9112294
    Abstract: A plug for establishing an electrical connection to a plug module includes: a plug body having a contact carrier upper part which includes multiple first channels to accommodate electrical lines, and a plug base accommodating a collar of the plug module; a contact carrier lower part which includes multiple second channels to accommodate the electrical lines; and a locking element insertable into the plug from the outside and configured to fix the electrical lines in the channels. The first channels terminate in the second channels to form continuous channels accommodating the electrical lines. The contact carrier lower part is enclosed by the collar of the plug module and accommodates multiple electrical contacts of the plug module in order to establish electrical connections between the multiple electrical lines in the plug and the multiple electrical contacts of the plug module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Pade
  • Publication number: 20150200487
    Abstract: A plug-in system is provided for a control unit of a vehicle, including a plug, such as a cable harness, and a plug module. The plug is designed to produce an electrical connection with the plug module. The plug has a plug body that accommodates a multiplicity of electrical contacts and that has a plug base that is designed to accommodate a shroud of the plug module. In addition, the plug has a plug lever that is designed to be moved from a start position to an end position, while pulling the plug in the direction of the plug module using a lever arm that engages in the plug module. The plug lever can be mounted on the plug body in two orientations, and in both the orientations the lever arm and the plug module engage in one another in such a way that the plug can be pulled in the direction of the plug module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2013
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Pade
  • Publication number: 20140378006
    Abstract: A plug for establishing an electrical connection to a plug module includes: a plug body having a contact carrier upper part which includes multiple first channels to accommodate electrical lines, and a plug base accommodating a collar of the plug module; a contact carrier lower part which includes multiple second channels to accommodate the electrical lines; and a locking element insertable into the plug from the outside and configured to fix the electrical lines in the channels. The first channels terminate in the second channels to form continuous channels accommodating the electrical lines. The contact carrier lower part is enclosed by the collar of the plug module and accommodates multiple electrical contacts of the plug module in order to establish electrical connections between the multiple electrical lines in the plug and the multiple electrical contacts of the plug module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 12, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Wolfgang PADE
  • Publication number: 20140377974
    Abstract: A plug is provided for producing an electrical connection with a plug module, such as a wiring harness plug for creating an electrical connection with a control device in a motor vehicle. The plug includes a plug body that has a multiplicity of channels for accommodating electrical lines; a mat seal that has a multiplicity of channels for guiding electrical lines accommodated in the channels of the plug body and that is situated on the at least one laterally circumferential radial seal in order to seal the plug; and a pressure plate that has a multiplicity of channels for guiding electrical lines accommodated in the channels of the plug body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Wolfgang PADE
  • Publication number: 20140308856
    Abstract: A connector element includes: at least two contact elements; and at least one latching element which has two diametrically opposed detents, which latching element is situated between the at least two contact elements. The at least one latching element is configured to be pivotable or bendable, and the two contact elements each have a recess for establishing a form-fit connection to one of the detents of the latching element. The recess is further configured to enable the latching element to be pivoted or bent in the direction of one of the two contact elements, so that the form-fit connection between the other contact element and the associated detent is able to be released.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Ulrich SCHMATZ, Wolfgang PADE
  • Patent number: 8777677
    Abstract: In an electrical contact for plug-in connections, in particular for the direct contacting of contact surfaces of a circuit board, the contact having a contact housing which includes an inwardly deflectable primary lance, which outwardly projects beyond the contact housing, counter to the insertion direction, for retaining the contact inserted into a contact chamber of a mating plug, the primary lance has a free end which is offset inwardly relative to its outwardly projecting lance section and extends counter to the insertion direction, which free lance end is outwardly overlapped by a housing stop of the contact housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Pade, Peter Rehbein
  • Patent number: 8636530
    Abstract: A contacting plug for contacting a contact carrier, in particular a circuit board, having two clamping claws able to be pivoted relative to each other, transversely to a plug-in direction, at least one of which is implemented as contact holder carrying at least one flexible contact element, which contact holder is implemented with a contact force for resting on the contact carrier, and a spring arrangement for generating a clamping force that is independent of the contact force. According to the invention, the spring arrangement is designed for bracing exclusively on the contacting plug for generating the clamping force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Schoenfeld, Wolfgang Pade, Hartmut Buschle, Michael Fleig, Achim Puettner
  • Patent number: 8398423
    Abstract: A contacting plug for contacting a contract carrier, in particular a circuit board, includes two clamping claws able to be swiveled relative to each other, transversely to a plug-in direction, at least one of the clamping claws being implemented as contact holder carrying at least one flexible contact element, which contact holder is designed to rest on the contact carrier with a contact force and has spring devices for generating a clamping force which is independent of the contact force. The clamping claws have at least one stop face in each case, which rest against each other in the non-contacting state of the contacting plug and thereby prevent plastic deformation of the contact element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Simmel, Wolfgang Pade, Michael Schoenfeld, Michael Fleig
  • Publication number: 20130040506
    Abstract: In an electrical contact for plug-in connections, in particular for the direct contacting of contact surfaces of a circuit board, the contact having a contact housing which includes an inwardly deflectable primary lance, which outwardly projects beyond the contact housing, counter to the insertion direction, for retaining the contact inserted into a contact chamber of a mating plug, the primary lance has a free end which is offset inwardly relative to its outwardly projecting lance section and extends counter to the insertion direction, which free lance end is outwardly overlapped by a housing stop of the contact housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2010
    Publication date: February 14, 2013
    Inventors: Wolfgang Pade, Peter Rehbein
  • Publication number: 20120015529
    Abstract: A contacting plug for contacting a contact carrier, in particular a circuit board, having two clamping claws able to be pivoted relative to each other, transversely to a plug-in direction, at least one of which is implemented as contact holder carrying at least one flexible contact element, which contact holder is implemented with a contact force for resting on the contact carrier, and a spring arrangement for generating a clamping force that is independent of the contact force. According to the invention, the spring arrangement is designed for bracing exclusively on the contacting plug for generating the clamping force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2009
    Publication date: January 19, 2012
    Inventors: Michael Schoenfeld, Wolfgang Pade, Hartmut Buschle, Michael Fleig, Achim Puettner
  • Publication number: 20110281456
    Abstract: A contacting plug for contacting a contract carrier, in particular a circuit board, includes two clamping claws able to be swiveled relative to each other, transversely to a plug-in direction, at least one of the clamping claws being implemented as contact holder carrying at least one flexible contact element, which contact holder is designed to rest on the contact carrier with a contact force and has spring devices for generating a clamping force which is independent of the contact force. The clamping claws have at least one stop face in each case, which rest against each other in the non-contacting state of the contacting plug and thereby prevent plastic deformation of the contact element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2009
    Publication date: November 17, 2011
    Inventors: Andreas Simmel, Wolfgang Pade, Michael Schoenfeld, Michael Fleig
  • Patent number: 7749023
    Abstract: A plug connector for an electrical plug connection including a contact chamber housing, having a plurality of contact chambers for receiving a contact body each, which is introducible into the contact chamber and is primarily engaged in the contact chamber housing in its end position, and having a secondary locking element which is guided displaceably across the direction of introduction of the contact bodies and which, in its locking position, respectively protrudes laterally into the contact chambers with a locking projection for secondarily locking the contact bodies primarily engaged there.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Simmel, Wolfgang Pade