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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5658162 | Electric plug and socket connector For an electric plug and socket connection with one or two locking shackles, which can be pivoted about bearing studs of the one half of the plug and socket connection, locking elements, disposed on the side parts of the plug and socket connection, overla... | 08/19/1997 |
| 5639251 | Electrical connector For an electrical plug-in connector, particularly a multi-pole knife-type connector having a collar surrounding the plug-in ends of the contact elements, further contact elements are incorporated into the sides of the collar, the contact elements being ac... | 06/17/1997 |
| 5577935 | Coaxial, angular connector for installation on a printed circuit board For a coaxial angular connector with at least two coaxial contacts for installation on a printed circuit board, with a housing block assembled from two subshells, in the interior of which the neutral wires of the coaxial contacts are taken from a plug con... | 11/26/1996 |
| 5564948 | Shielded, printed circuit board, plug-in connection A shielded printed circuit board plug-in connection and particularly a multipole socket plug-in connection includes a mating connector having a basic body provided with a conducting coating all around with the exception of the plug-in region and the regio... | 10/15/1996 |
| 5509823 | Electrical mating connector An electrical mating connector has a basic body of an insulating material with a collar surrounding the plug-in region of the contact elements, the basic body being provided with a conductive coating for the purpose of shielding and that an interposed, el... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5408852 | System of magnets for a selection block in textile machines Apparatus for operating needles of a textile machine includes magnetically operated control flaps for operating the needles, and magnetic controls operable to actuate the control flaps. The control flaps include a flap structure and an armature disposed o... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5318457 | Electrical plug and socket connection with housing halves that can be locked For an electrical plug and socket connection with housing halves that can be locked together, for which a sleeve, which can be shifted in the longitudinal direction of the housing halves, is provided for cancelling the locking, it is proposed that the loc... | 06/07/1994 |
| 5277616 | Electrical connector For an electrical connector for connecting insulated electrical conductors, preferably an electrical plug and socket connector, with contact elements disposed in chambers of a carrying base with cutting and insulation displacement connections for connecti... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5276962 | Method and apparatus for pressing contact elements of multipolar plug-in connectors into printed circuit board For pressing the contact elements of multipolar plug-in connectors into boreholes on printed circuit boards, the contact elements are pressed-in in several steps, so that only some contact elements are pressed in during each step, while the remaining cont... | 01/11/1994 |
| 5196816 | Polarized reversible magnet A polarized, reversible magnet with an essentially U-shaped yoke includes an upper coil former flange constructed like a frame and which fronts on yoke legs provided with tab-like integral moldings which in turn engage recesses of the upper coil former fl... | 03/23/1993 |
| 5022866 | Electrical plug and socket connector with U-shaped locking hoop An electrical plug and socket connector with a U-shaped locking hoop has cylindrical rollers provided at the side parts and the overlapping parts of the locking hoop. The rollers are provided with a central slot and an axle and are snapped into the side p... | 06/11/1991 |
| 4955819 | Plug connector having bent contact posts for insertion into printed circuit board holes A plug connector with bent contact posts for insertion into printed circuit board holes includes a comb-shaped supplemental part having crosspieces with bearing shoulders for the contact posts disposed between the contact posts. The contact posts are mutu... | 09/11/1990 |
| 4942980 | Vending machine For a vending machine for dispensing parallelepiped products, which are arranged in horizontal product stacks, a dispensing device is provided, which separates the first product package to be dispensed by tipping the package away from the product stack, w... | 07/24/1990 |
| 4867710 | Pin-shaped contact element that can be fixed in printed circuit board boreholes A pin-shaped contact element that can be fixed in printed circuit board boreholes, preferably in metallized printed circuit board boreholes, has a fastening section with two parallel side parts that can move elastically towards one another and a gradually... | 09/19/1989 |
| 4762498 | Pin-shaped contact element to be connected in conductor plate bores A pin-shaped contact element to be connected or fastened in a metallized conductor plate bore has a fastening portion with two sidepieces which are movable towards each other and which are connected to each other by a resilient, undulating connecting brid... | 08/09/1988 |
| 4634206 | Apparatus for inserting a flat cable The invention refers to an apparatus for inserting a flat cable into a housing, which ensures safeguarding the cable or the cable connections on the inside of the housing against tensile stress. The apparatus is to a large extent adapted to the measuremen... | 01/06/1987 |
| 4572216 | Apparatus for filling cigarette papers with tobacco Apparatus for manufacturing cigarettes includes a tobacco hopper having a lower aperture, a dispensing device receiving tobacco from the aperture and dispensing the tobacco, a tobacco supply chamber disposed below the hopper to receive tobacco from the di... | 02/25/1986 |