Filter base for electronic connection to mating filter housing assembly

US11273397B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• ELECTROLUX HOME PRODUCTS, INC. · BE

Inventors

• William Thomas Anniss, III · Simpsonville, US
• Willard Grant · Williamston, US
• Raony Barrios · Anderson, US
• William L. Small · New York, US
• Marcello Correa Machado · Anderson, US
• Thomas W. McCollough · Anderson, US
• Christopher Stephan Rousey · Anderson, US
• Robert Astle · Middlefield, US
• George Nicholas Lauri, III · Windsor, US
• Chong Hun Yi · Mechanicsburg, US
• Brian Keith Weaver · Middletown, US
• William James Moyer, II · Middletown, US
• Ronald Skovira · Carlisle, US
• Gary Altemose · Harrisburg, US
• Richard Benjamin Emenheiser · Mount Joy, US
• Ramesh Subramanian · Charlotte, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 18, 2019
• Grant date: Mar 15, 2022
• Expiry date: Nov 18, 2039

Classification

• Technology area (CPC C): Chemistry; Metallurgy
• CPC primary: C02F2307/12
• WIPO field: Chemical engineering
• WIPO sector: Chemistry

Abstract

A filter base for receiving a complementary mating filter housing assembly. The filter base includes a base platform having fluid ingress and egress stanchions, and a wire harness assembly including a connector housing integral with or connected to the base platform for establishing an electrical connection between the filter base and the filter housing assembly. The wire harness assembly includes conductors extending between first and second connectors, with one or more resilient contacts provided on the second connector. The connector housing has an upper surface and an oppositely facing lower surface and is dimensioned to receive a first end portion of the one or more contacts. The contacts are flexible from a first position to a second position when a mating portion of the one or more contacts engages a mating connection surface of the filter housing assembly. The mating connection surface may be a circuit pad of a printed circuit board, wherein the contact mating portions are configured to be positioned in mechanical and electrical engagement with the circuit pads when the filter housing assembly is received within the filter base.