Patents by Inventor Petra Kuntze

Petra Kuntze 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).

  • Illumination apparatus
    Patent number: 8382346
    Abstract: The invention provides an illumination device, preferably a reading lamp, which, on the one hand, has a compact design and, on the other hand, ensures a flexible illumination of objects, for which, in order to ensure an adequately high illuminance, high-power light sources can be used and which includes preferably a light source and a light-guiding element that can be pivoted and/or tilted around a pivoting/tilting point, which has at least one light-guiding axis and at least one light in-coupling surface as well as one light out-coupling surface, with the light-guiding element being arranged preferably in an axially displaceable manner in such a way that a free beam area can exist between the light source and the light in-coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Bernd Schultheis, Petra Kuntze, Oliver Keiper, Sigurd Dressler, Andreas Hatzenbuehler, Walter Bleuel, Klaus Engelmann, Paul Bou Saleh, Armin Plichta
  • THERMOELECTRIC DEVICE BASED REFRIGERANT SUBCOOLING
    Publication number: 20100002443
    Abstract: The invention provides an illumination device, preferably a reading lamp, which, on the one hand, has a compact design and, on the other hand, ensures a flexible illumination of objects, for which, in order to ensure an adequately high illuminance, high-power light sources can be used and which includes preferably a light source and a light-guiding element that can be pivoted and/or tilted around a pivoting/tilting point, which has at least one light-guiding axis and at least one light in-coupling surface as well as one light out-coupling surface, with the light-guiding element being arranged preferably in an axially displaceable manner in such a way that a free beam area can exist between the light source and the light in-coupling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Inventors: Bernd Schultheis, Petra Kuntze, Oliver Keiper, Sigurd Dressler, Andreas Hatzenbuehler, Walter Bleuel, Klaus Engelmann, Paul Bou Saleh, Armin Plichta