Patents Assigned to Novotechnik KG Offterdinger & Co.
  • Movable wiper for potentiometers
    Patent number: 4237443
    Abstract: A wiper for a potentiometer or other device having a surface with which sliding electrical contact is to be made in which the wiper includes a plurality of spring fingers formed from resilient sheet material or wire are supported in cantilever fashion from ends thereof remote from the contact ends and are encased over a portion of the lengths thereof from the supported ends in a covering of an elastomer which damps vibration of the fingers to prevent resonant oscillations thereof thus increasing the possible speed of operation of the instrument as well as its useful life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1979
    Date of Patent: December 2, 1980
    Assignee: Novotechnik KG Offterdinger & Co.
    Inventor: Ernst Gass
  • Movable wiper for potentiometers
    Patent number: RE31431
    Abstract: A wiper for a potentiometer or other device having a surface with which sliding electrical contact is to be made in which the wiper includes a plurality of spring fingers formed from resilient sheet material or wire are supported in cantilever fashion from ends thereof remote from the contact ends and are encased over a portion of the lengths thereof from the supported ends in a covering of an elastomer which damps vibration of the fingers to prevent resonant oscillations thereof thus increasing the possible speed of operation of the instrument as well as its useful life.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1982
    Date of Patent: October 25, 1983
    Assignee: Novotechnik KG Offterdinger & Co.
    Inventor: Ernst Gass