Patents by Inventor Juergen Obermeier

Juergen Obermeier 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: 7628501
    Abstract: The invention relates to a jukebox or vending machine provided with a lighting system. In order to provide an improved lighting system for generating lighting effects, the lighting system comprises a screen, the screen having a colored design, a circuit board with at least a first lighting device and a second lighting device, wherein the first lighting device is configured to radiate a first light cone and the second lighting device is configured to radiate a second light cone and wherein the first light cone and the second light cone intersect on the screen, and a controller for modifying the first light cone independently of the second light cone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2009
    Assignee: Deutsche Wurlitzer GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Obermeier, Norbert Wolf
  • Patent number: 6390328
    Abstract: A modular article dispensing unit for an automatic vending machine includes an article compartment for accommodating articles with a rotatably mounted rotary body at the dispensing opening of the article compartment for the removal and discharge of individual articles from the article compartment. The rotary body has at least one recess which in a removal position is filled with an article from the article compartment and delivers the article after a predetermined rotary movement in a dispensing position. Arranged in the interior of the article compartment is at least one motion member which is set in motion prior to and/or during each rotary movement of the rotary body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2002
    Assignee: Deutsche Wurlitzer GmbH
    Inventors: Juergen Obermeier, Horst Schmidt, Bernhard Rath