Patents by Inventor Lothar Merz

Lothar Merz 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: 11295911
    Abstract: A safety switching device for controlling a load having at least one input for receiving an input signal and one output for outputting an output signal, and having an electrical circuit which provides the output signal as a function of the input signal. The electrical circuit is arranged on a printed circuit board and is coupled to at least one setting component for setting an operating parameter of the safety switching device. The surface of the printed circuit board defines a mounting plane, and the at least one setting component has an adjusting element in a housing and is arranged recessed on the printed circuit board so that the housing of the adjusting element intersects the mounting plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: Pilz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christoph Zinser, Lothar Merz
  • Publication number: 20190393005
    Abstract: A safety switching device for controlling a load having at least one input for receiving an input signal and one output for outputting an output signal, and having an electrical circuit which provides the output signal as a function of the input signal. The electrical circuit is arranged on a printed circuit board and is coupled to at least one setting component for setting an operating parameter of the safety switching device. The surface of the printed circuit board defines a mounting plane, and the at least one setting component has an adjusting element in a housing and is arranged recessed on the printed circuit board so that the housing of the adjusting element intersects the mounting plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: Christoph ZINSER, Lothar MERZ
  • Patent number: 10483725
    Abstract: A carrier rail housing comprises: a carrier rail receiving opening into which the holding legs of a carrier rail are insertable; a locking mechanism to secure the holding legs in a desired mounting position and comprising locking slides to interlock with the carrier rail housing in a locking position; a plug-in contact element arranged inside the carrier rail housing to face the carrier rail receiving opening; and a bus connector into which plug-in contacts of the plug-in contact element are insertable, the bus connector being connectable to a plug-in contact element of at least one additional carrier rail housing, wherein each of the locking slides comprises a first end that comprises a holding section that extends in sections into the carrier rail receiving opening in the locking position, so that the bus connector is secured between the holding sections of the locking slides and the plug-in contact element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Pilz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Lothar Merz
  • Publication number: 20190123521
    Abstract: A carrier rail housing comprises: a carrier rail receiving opening into which the holding legs of a carrier rail are insertable; a locking mechanism to secure the holding legs in a desired mounting position and comprising locking slides to interlock with the carrier rail housing in a locking position; a plug-in contact element arranged inside the carrier rail housing to face the carrier rail receiving opening; and a bus connector into which plug-in contacts of the plug-in contact element are insertable, the bus connector being connectable to a plug-in contact element of at least one additional carrier rail housing, wherein each of the locking slides comprises a first end that comprises a holding section that extends in sections into the carrier rail receiving opening in the locking position, so that the bus connector is secured between the holding sections of the locking slides and the plug-in contact element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventor: Lothar MERZ
  • Patent number: 5098942
    Abstract: A binder composition for injection moulding or extrusion of metallic or cmic powders in sintering technology comprised 30 to 90% by weight PVA with an average molecular weight of 35,000 to 1,000,000 and 10 to 70% by weight PEG with an average molecular weight of 500 to 50,000 as the melt softener and processing plasticizer. The PEG can be wholly or partly replaced by prepolymeric, aliphatic polyesters of adipic acid and PEG with an average molecular weight of 2,000 to 20,000 or by hydroxy-terminated copolymers of ethylene and propylene oxide with the same average molecular weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 24, 1992
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der andewandten Forschung e.v.
    Inventors: Klaus Menke, Lothar Merz, Mathias Helfrich
  • Patent number: D971284
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: PILZ GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Christoph Zell, Daniel Schurr, Juergen Fleiner, Peter Schuster, Lydia Wegerer, Lothar Merz, Georg Kunz, Hannah Katzler
  • Patent number: D975656
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: PILZ GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Lothar Merz, Klaus Baumgartner, Harald Cramer, Joscha Schuberth