Patents by Inventor Christoph Steidl

Christoph Steidl 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: 10741946
    Abstract: A tube used for producing an electrically conductive connection between an electrical conducting element and a printed circuit board of a light fixture. The use of the tube in the printed circuit board makes it possible, due to a corresponding configuration and a region which widens in relation to the longitudinal direction, that the tube can be connected to the printed circuit board or is held thereby and can be soldered. Additionally, the configuration or widened portion prevents soldering agent from penetrating into the tube, so that a wire for voltage supply can then be introduced into the tube and can be connected thereto by deformation. As a result, an automatic and reliable method is made possible, so that a cost saving is produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2020
    Assignee: LEDVANCE GMBH
    Inventors: Anton Joerg, Matthias Kellner, Thomas Klafta, Wolfgang Seitz, Christoph Steidl, Marcel Vuc
  • Patent number: 10584846
    Abstract: A lighting device and the method of creating the lighting device having a lighting module and a lens mechanically connected to that lighting module. The lens has one or more connecting pins. The light module has one or more receiving openings for receiving the connecting pins. The free ends of the connecting pins are deformed by thermal deformation so that the light module is held on the lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: LEDVANCE GMBH
    Inventors: Anton Joerg, Thomas Klafta, Wolfgang Seitz, Christoph Steidl, Marcel Vuc
  • Publication number: 20190036249
    Abstract: A tube used for producing an electrically conductive connection between an electrical conducting element and a printed circuit board of a light fixture. The use of the tube in the printed circuit board makes it possible, due to a corresponding configuration and a region which widens in relation to the longitudinal direction, that the tube can be connected to the printed circuit board or is held thereby and can be soldered. Additionally, the configuration or widened portion prevents soldering agent from penetrating into the tube, so that a wire for voltage supply can then be introduced into the tube and can be connected thereto by deformation. As a result, an automatic and reliable method is made possible, so that a cost saving is produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Anton Joerg, Matthias Kellner, Thomas Klafta, Wolfgang Seitz, Christoph Steidl, Marcel Vuc
  • Publication number: 20190032887
    Abstract: A lighting device and the method of creating the lighting device having a lighting module and a lens mechanically connected to that said lighting module. The lens has one or more connecting pins. The light module has one or more receiving openings for receiving the connecting pins. The free ends of the connecting pins are deformed by thermal deformation so that the light module is held on the lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Anton Joerg, Thomas Klafta, Wolfgang Seitz, Christoph Steidl, Marcel Vuc
  • Publication number: 20120184173
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a method for producing high-pressure discharge lamp including discharge vessel sealed off on two sides, discharge vessel having two ends with an electrode system with foil, an electrode with shaft and an outer current lead-in, by: providing a quartz glass discharge vessel having two still open, tubular ends; introducing an electrode system into the open first end and, if necessary also into the second open end; optionally flushing the discharge vessel; heating first open end at the level of the shaft, at no less than two selected points lying on a circumference and enabling centering; provisional fixing in place of the shaft by means of a bossing process, wherein fingers made of quartz glass are formed at tubular first end and extend toward shaft; heating and fuse-sealing the sealing-in region, comprising the foil and the fingers, at the first end, thereby sealing off first end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Applicant: OSRAM AG
    Inventors: Lambert Frye, Claus Pfaller, Christoph Steidl