Patents by Inventor Christof Steiner

Christof Steiner 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).

  • Publication number: 20220296453
    Abstract: A finger motion rail, and a therapeutic device with a finger motion rail for carrying out a continuous, passive and/or actively assisted movement of a finger and/or thumb. A multi-joint hinge, arranged laterally alongside a finger and/or thumb, for flexion of a metacarpophalangeal joint. The multi-joint hinge is operatively connected via a first connection lever, at least one second connection lever and at least one connection joint, to a mechanism also arranged laterally alongside the respective finger and/or thumb, for flexion of a proximal interphalangeal joint and/or a distal interphalangeal joint. The finger motion rail and therapeutic device is configured as robust against the effect of compressive, tensile and torsional forces, with respect to a longitudinal axis of the finger motion rail, and it permits precise and interference-free execution of an anatomically natural, automated finger movement, for increased chance of successful therapy and the service life of the device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Pascal Lindemann, Christof Steiner
  • Publication number: 20100289312
    Abstract: A vehicle seat is provided, in particular a commercial vehicle seat, having a scissor-type stand (3) that can vibrate and comprises a bottom frame (5), a top frame (7), two first rocker arms (8a) and two second rocker arms (8b) that intersect in pairs at a scissor axis (10) extending in a transverse seat direction (y). At least one first rocker arm (8a) is supported at one end by at least one bearing mechanism (20) on the top frame (7) or on the bottom frame (5) so as to be able to rotate and vibrate in the longitudinal seat direction (x). The at least one bearing mechanism (20) has at least one damping spring (26), which elastically absorbs and dampens vibrations in the longitudinal seat direction (x).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2009
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Inventors: Michael Burr, Christof Steiner, Thomas Jung, RĂ¼diger Nissen, Thomas Weber
  • Patent number: 6518564
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for reading out radiation image information stored on an image medium (12). A scanning unit (10) has a laser (16) for scanning the image medium (12) with a readout light beam (22). The read/processing device (14) functions with two channels so that the luminescent light emitted by the image medium (12) during scanning and also the reflected read-out light are synchronously detected, evaluated and correlated. The digital luminescent light image values are corrected according to the digital reflection light values in order to better obtain the radiation image information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 11, 2003
    Inventors: Christof Steiner, Rainer Ochs