Patents by Inventor Norbert Krauss

Norbert Krauss 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: 9569939
    Abstract: A compact battery-free event detector having a switching element, which can be remagnetized in a bistable manner by a magnet in a sensor coil which then provides an event pulse and supplies a non-volatile memory circuit with a downstream non-volatile display, is designed to detect recurring movements by virtue of the switching element being able to be moved back and forth relative to the magnet between the activation and regeneration fields of its two poles. The manual operation of an inhalation or injection piston in a medicament dispenser can therefore be detected, in particular, and a dose of medicament, for instance, can be monitored thereby. The display is preferably created using e-paper or e-ink technology which, like the memory circuit which is operated only sporadically, obtains its energy needed to change the indication from the event pulse from the sensor coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2017
    Assignee: OECHSLER AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Juergen Heinz, Norbert Krauss
  • Publication number: 20140097938
    Abstract: A compact battery-free event detector having a switching element, which can be remagnetized in a bistable manner by a magnet in a sensor coil which then provides an event pulse and supplies a non-volatile memory circuit with a downstream non-volatile display, is designed to detect recurring movements by virtue of the switching element being able to be moved back and forth relative to the magnet between the activation and regeneration fields of its two poles. The manual operation of an inhalation or injection piston in a medicament dispenser can therefore be detected, in particular, and a dose of medicament, for instance, can be monitored thereby. The display is preferably created using e-paper or e-ink technology which, like the memory circuit which is operated only sporadically, obtains its energy needed to change the indication from the event pulse from the sensor coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Publication date: April 10, 2014
    Applicant: OECHSLER AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Juergen HEINZ, Norbert Krauss
  • Publication number: 20050273139
    Abstract: Tissue can be clamped via an endorobot in a simple manner, and at the same time with a high degree of safety, by using a device which is received by the endorobot and which includes a clip, a drive unit and a control unit, as part of the endorobot for example. The clip is able to be advanced out of and retracted into a guide part of the endorobot independently by use of the drive unit, and of the control unit connected to the latter, without complicated mechanical connections to the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2005
    Publication date: December 8, 2005
    Inventors: Norbert Krauss, Rainer Kuth, Johannes Reinschke