Patents by Inventor Gerd Sturm

Gerd Sturm 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: 4989122
    Abstract: A light box particularly adapted to back-light posters which includes a housing having a back wall, a peripheral wall and an opening opposite the back wall; a diffuser panel spanning the opening, an elongated lamp within the housing adjacent the peripheral wall for emitting radiation from the lamp peripherally inward toward the back wall and the diffuser panel, and first and second reflector surfaces respectively adjacent and more remote from the lamp with the first reflector surface having reflecting capabilities which are less then the reflecting capabilities of the second reflector surface. The lamp has material contiguous thereto for preventing emitted radiation directed from the lamp directly toward the diffuser panel from impinging upon the diffuser panel whereby bright spots on the back-lit poster are eliminated and the poster is back-lit uniformly over its area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 1989
    Date of Patent: January 29, 1991
    Assignee: Marketing-Displays
    Inventors: Heinz A. Allekotte, Gerd Sturm
  • Patent number: 4388745
    Abstract: A wide-angle hinge assembly includes a frame hinge section and a door leaf inge section connected to one another by a linkage arrangement. The linkage arrangement includes two double-armed link members and an intermediate link. The double-armed link members are pivotable about a common pivot point, and one of the link members pivotally engages one end of the intermediate link having its other end pivotally connected to the leaf hinge section. The linkage arrangement further includes a spring mechanism that is effective to provide a closing pressure during closing and maintaining the closed position for securing the door leaf. The spring mechanism is arranged on the intermediate link and coacts with a cam component included as a part of the leaf hinge section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1980
    Date of Patent: June 21, 1983
    Assignee: Prameta Prazisionsmetall-und Kunststofferzeugnisse G. Baumann & Co.
    Inventors: Eberhard Schneider, Theodor Vitt, Gerd Sturm