Patents by Inventor Bernd Gebhardt

Bernd Gebhardt 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: 7707706
    Abstract: A method is provided for producing a smart card comprising a chip module with at least one contacting area, the chip module arrangeable in a mounting location of a substrate, wherein one contacting loop is formed from a wire connector fed by a wire guiding unit for at least one of the contacting areas, respectively by attaching a first section of the wire conductor to a surface of the substrate outside the mounting location, wherein a second section of the wire conductor proximate to the first section is guided to form the contacting loop along with and protruding from the surface, wherein a subsequent third section of the wire conductor is attached to the surface outside the mounting location, wherein the chip module is inserted into the mounting location and wherein the second section is bent over and electrically contacted to the contacting area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2010
    Assignee: ruhlamat GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Koch, Bernd Gebhardt
  • Publication number: 20090000107
    Abstract: A method is provided for producing a smart card comprising a chip module with at least one contacting area, the chip module arrangeable in a mounting location of a substrate, wherein one contacting loop is formed from a wire connector fed by a wire guiding unit for at least one of the contacting areas, respectively by attaching a first section of the wire conductor to a surface of the substrate outside the mounting location, wherein a second section of the wire conductor proximate to the first section is guided to form the contacting loop along with and protruding from the surface, wherein a subsequent third section of the wire conductor is attached to the surface outside the mounting location, wherein the chip module is inserted into the mounting location and wherein the second section is bent over and electrically contacted to the contacting area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2007
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Inventors: Matthias KOCH, Bernd GEBHARDT
  • Patent number: 4906239
    Abstract: A hemorrhoid-treatment rod that is shaped like a cone in order to dilate the anus. The outside of the cone may have elevations and depressions. It also has lateral outlets, each of which extends from an interior supply channel to the outside, preferably into one of the depressions. Ointment is forced into the depression and can be massaged into the area to be treating by rotating the rod without being wiped off prematurely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 6, 1990
    Inventors: Wilhelm Bruhl, Bernd Gebhardt