Patents by Inventor Gunter Mertens

Gunter Mertens 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: 5264669
    Abstract: A multiple switch, particularly for a motor vehicle, has a switch base, an input fixed contact arranged on the switch base, a plurality of output fixed contacts which can be connected with the input fixed contact, a ramp, contact bridges controlled by the ramp and bringing the output fixed contacts in contact with the input fixed contact, a driver movable relative to the switch base and individually supporting and guiding the bridges, springs providing a required contact pressure between the contact bridges and the input fixed contact and the contact bridges and the output fixed contacts. Each of the contact bridges have axle which is freely rotatable relative to the driver and carries a contact roller. Each of the contact bridges or the contact roller is provided with a control part which comes into contact with the ramp has a peripheral surface which produces a rubbing friction for turning the contact bridge or the contact roller about its longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1993
    Assignee: Merit-Elektrik GmbH
    Inventor: Gunter Merten
  • Patent number: 5217384
    Abstract: A mechanical locking on a plug connection between an electrical switch forming one part and a connecting plug forming another part, comprises a pin-shaped extension provided on one of the parts, a matching depression on another of the parts in which the extension engages, the depression having a side wall extending parallel to a longitudinal axis of the plug connection and provided with an inwardly extending blocking lug, a blocking spring having a pin-shaped extension engageable with the blocking lug and having a blocking extension extending outwardly toward the blocking lug and an inwardly directed blocking extension engageable in a recess which can be brought in alignment with a depression of the pin-shaped extension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 1992
    Date of Patent: June 8, 1993
    Assignee: Merit-Elektrik GmbH
    Inventors: Gunter Merten, Pierre Micallef
  • Patent number: 5153400
    Abstract: A multiple switch, particularly for switching-on, switching-off and/or switching-over of motor vehicles and the like has at least one roller-shaped contact roller with a generated contact surface liftable from and bringable in contact with at least two rectilinear contact faces located near one another. The contact roller is arranged in a springy deflectable manner in a guiding part displaceable rectilinearly transversely to an axis of the contact roller and parallel to the contact surfaces. The contact roller is provided with bearing pins extending at its end sides outwardly beyond the roller surface, and is linearly displaceable by the bearing pins running over at least one control path with the ramp device so that during a displacement of the guiding part the roller is lifted at its one side from one of the contact faces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1992
    Assignee: Merit-Elektrik GmbH
    Inventor: Gunter Merten
  • Patent number: 4306998
    Abstract: A process is provided for preparing storage stable, aqueous dispersions of oligourethanes or polyurethanes in admixture with auxiliary agents and additives which are not soluble nor dispersible in water. The oligourethanes or polyurethanes are rendered dispersible in water by incorporating ionic and/or non-ionic hydrophilic groups. In order that the final product remains storage stable, the auxiliary agents or additives are added to the oligourethanes or polyurethanes before they are dispersed in water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 22, 1981
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Wenzel, Gunter Mertens, Dieter Dieterich