Patent application number | Description | Published |
20080253090 | Ic Component Comprising a Cooling Arrangement - An IC component has a cooling arrangement that is embodied as an electronic housing provided with a cooling body. The IC component is directly disposed on the cooling body in the electronic housing. The invention advantageously provides a cooling arrangement for IC components that enables the IC component to be efficiently and directly cooled and assembled in a simple manner, without requiring additional components. It is especially suitable for applications in electronic housings in the automotive field. | 10-16-2008 |
20090002959 | Control Apparatus, in Particular a Mechatronic Transmission Control Device or Engine Control Device - A control device permits a number of individual partially flexible printed circuit boards to be arranged in a manner that makes it possible to optimally disentangle signal and current paths while simultaneously reducing the investment in expensive flexible surfaces to a minimum. The improvement helps in saving on flexible surfaces and to design flexible component parts in order to make an optimal utilization possible and so no waste results. The individual partially flexible printed circuit boards are preferably laminated on an aluminum base plate. The edge areas of the partially flexible printed circuit board are formed by appropriate measures whereby obtaining a reliable sealing by means of a molded seal. The device is suited for mechatronic control units, particularly for control devices for mounting in a transmission or engine of a motor vehicle. | 01-01-2009 |
20090016034 | Control Device and Method for Producing a Control Device - A control device has a base plate, a cover plate coupled to the base plate, a cavity formed between the base plate and the cover plate, a circuit carrier disposed in the cavity, and a conducting track carrier electrically coupled to the circuit carrier. The base plate has a continuous recess that is configured and arranged for feeding a casting compound into the cavity between the base plate and the cover plate. The casting compound is embodied to at least partly enclose the circuit carrier and/or the conducting track carrier in a vibration-damping manner. | 01-15-2009 |
20090053943 | Bringing a cable into contact with a flexible strip conductor - The invention relates to a cable for bringing into contact with a contact point of a flexible strip conductor, to a contact strip for one or more cables of this type, and to a system for bringing control electronics, which are situated on a flexible printed circuit board, into contact with at least one electrical and/or electronic component. The component is, particularly, a mechatronic transmission or engine controller of a motor vehicle. A special contact with a welding boss is placed at the end of a cable. A bundle of cables of this type is fixed in a defined position by way of a contact strip. The invention enables, for the first time, one or more cables to be directly brought into contact with the contact point(s) of a flexible strip conductor. This advantageously eliminates additional contact points and parts such as mating connectors, etc. whereby leading to a distinct improvement in quality and reduction in costs. The invention is particularly suited for use in contacting systems in mechatronic transmission or engine controllers, etc. of a motor vehicle. | 02-26-2009 |
20090239401 | Conductor Track Carrier - A conductor track carrier is intended to contact-connect electrical components. The carrier has a flexible base film, a conductor track on the base film, and a contact-connection eye arranged in a contact-connection section of the conductor track carrier and electrically coupled to the conductor track. The conductor track carrier has a respective recess on two opposite sides of the contact-connection section, and web elements formed between the recesses in such a manner that the contact-connection section is pivotably mounted. | 09-24-2009 |
20100002403 | STANDARDIZED ELECTRONICS HOUSING HAVING MODULAR CONTACT PARTNERS - A housing for an electronic control unit has at least two housing parts which include at least a housing base, a housing cover and an electronic connection between components which are disposed inside the housing and components which are outside the housing. The connection is fixed to the housing base. The electronic connection has open conductor track regions outside the housing cover. The regions are at least partially covered by one or more contact partners. In this case, the contact partners simultaneously have at least one direct contact-connection to one or more of the open conductor track regions. | 01-07-2010 |
20100012355 | METHOD FOR PRODUCING A FLEXIBLE CONDUCTOR CARRIER AND ARRANGEMENT COMPRISING THE FLEXIBLE CONDUCTOR CARRIER - A method for producing a first flexible conductor carrier includes applying at least one conductor track to a base insulating film. A covering layer is applied to the conductor track and the base insulating film in such a way that, in at least one conduction region of the first flexible conductor carrier, the conductor track is completely enclosed by the covering layer and the base insulating film. The base insulating film is free of the conductor track and the covering layer in at least one insulating region. The conductor track is free of the covering layer in at least one contact region of the first flexible conductor carrier. | 01-21-2010 |
20100014224 | Housing for Receiving an Electronic Assembly - A housing for receiving an electronic assembly includes a housing body having two openings opposite to each other, and two housing covers for closing the openings. At least one U-shaped clamp spring has a base and two legs. The clamp spring can be placed onto the housing in such a way that the legs exert forces onto the housing cover that are opposite to one another and interact which each other, with which the housing covers are fixed to the housing body. The clamp spring, which is placed on from the exterior, encompassing the housing body and thereby fixing the housing covers to the housing body in a force-locking manner, can be easily mounted and dismounted any number of times and ensures an installation of the housing covers onto the housing body that is resistant to vibrations. | 01-21-2010 |
20100067202 | ELECTRONICS HOUSING WITH STANDARD INTERFACE - A housing for an electronic control device includes at least two housing parts, at least one housing base, a housing lid and an electronic connection between components disposed inside the housing and components disposed outside the housing. The connection is fixed to the base of the housing. The electronic connection is either constructed as a single-component flexible printed circuit board or as at least one partial flexible printed circuit board including at least one uniform open area of a copper conductor track outside an area covered by the housing lid. The width of the uniform region is oriented to a predefined contacting type of peripheral components and is longer than necessary for the contacting type. The invention therefore provides for a variable adaptation of generic electronics housings, thereby not necessarily requiring a novel structure of the housing with corresponding expensive individual packaging. | 03-18-2010 |
20100110644 | ELECTRONIC COMPONENT - An electronic component for an integrated mechatronic system has at least two housing parts with at least one housing base, a housing cover, and an electrical connection between the components disposed in the interior of the housing and components located outside the housing. The electrical connection is fixed on the housing base. The housing cover is glued directly to the electrical connection and/or the housing base and, in this manner, enables lasting hermetically sealed protection for the sensitive electronic components. | 05-06-2010 |
20100122837 | Circuit Board and Method of Producing a Circuit Board - A rigid circuit board is provided which contains at least one integral limb shaped to provide predetermined movement at a free end of the limb in at least two mutually perpendicular planes. The rigid circuit board provides a rewiring structure at a low cost and is adaptable for use in a wide range of applications. | 05-20-2010 |
20100128459 | STANDARDIZED SUPPORT ELEMENT WITH INTEGRATED INTERFACE - A support element for an electronic control device includes receivers for peripheral electronic components and at least one path region for guiding electrical connections. The electrical connections lead to an integrated standardized interface for connection to central control electronics. | 05-27-2010 |
20100133001 | Electronic Housing - An electronic housing, which includes at least two housing parts, has at least one housing base, a housing cover, and at least one electronic connection in the form of a printed circuit board between electronic substrates disposed in the housing interior and components positioned outside the housing, with the electronic connection being fixed on the housing base. The housing cover has a filling port for a casting compound, and the filling port is closed by a label. A method for the production of such an electronic housing and the use thereof for transmission control of a motor vehicle, are also provided. | 06-03-2010 |
20100226098 | Use of an Electronic Module for an Integrated Mechatronic Transmission Control of Simplified Design - An electronic module for an integrated mecatronic transmission control includes a housing cover and at least one multi-layer circuit board as an electrical connection between an interior of the housing and components located outside the housing. The multi-layer circuit board is a circuit carrier for electronic components of central control electronics and at the same time is a thermal connection to a base plate. | 09-09-2010 |
20100271791 | Module for Integrated Control Electronics Having Simplified Design - A housing concept for integrated control electronics, comprising a housing bottom, a circuit carrier populated with electronic components of the central control electronics, and a signal and current distribution component as the electric connection between the central control electronics and peripheral components. The housing bottom is configured in the shape of a basin, the circuit carrier for the electronic components of the central control electronics being disposed therein such that the same can be electrically connected on at least one upwardly curved edge region to the signal and current distribution component disposed above the same via contact points, and wherein the housing bottom may also be connected circumferentially to the signal and current distribution component. | 10-28-2010 |
20110036627 | Method for Contacting a Rigid Printed Circuit Board to a Contact Partner and Arrangement of a Rigid Printed Circuit Board and Contact Partner - A method for producing an electrical connection between a rigid printed circuit board and a metallic contact partner, includes preparing the rigid printed circuit board having at least one copper layer and at least one prepreg layer, bringing the metallic contact partner and the printed circuit board together in such a way that the metallic contact partner is brought into contact with a contact pad on the copper layer of the printed circuit board, forming a cutout in the printed circuit board by removing the prepreg layer in at least one partial region of the contact pad, and irradiating with laser light to form a weld connection between the contact partner and the contact pad. A configuration of a rigid printed circuit board, a metallic contact partner and an electrical connection point, as well as a module having such a configuration, are also provided. | 02-17-2011 |
20110303689 | Fluid Container for a Motor Vehicle - A collection device with a collection container and a plurality of conducting elements guided on the collection container is disposed in a fluid container for a motor vehicle. The conducting elements are preferably of one-piece construction together with a collection plate surrounding the collection container. Fluid that sloshes around in the fluid container is fed through the conducting elements and the collection plate to the collection container. This allows the minimum amount of fluid in the fluid container required for the proper operation of the motor vehicle to be kept particularly low. | 12-15-2011 |
20120055568 | Extractor Device For An Aqueous Fluid In A Motor Vehicle - The invention relates to an extractor device for an aqueous fluid from a storage container of a motor vehicle wherein a lengthwise-extended heating element is arranged next to a venting tube. The venting tube connects a catch container to a chamber arranged above the fluid level in the storage container. In case of icing, a connection is created early from the catch container to the chamber. A pump can thus convey the fluid out of the catch container early. | 03-08-2012 |