Patents by Inventor Claus Steiner

Claus 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).

  • Photographic recording or reproducing device and film cartridge having movable sealing member for sealing film entrance opening thereof
    Patent number: 5963747
    Abstract: The invention relates to a photographic recording or reproducing device, preferably a camera, with a transportation device for the frame-by-frame transportation of a film along a film transportation path and with a film measuring device with an engagement member rotatable about an axis for engaging in perforation holes of a peripheral perforation of the film, the film transportation device being locked when the film reaches a position during its transportation which is provided for the recording or reproduction of an image, and the engagement member comprising an advancing engagement element in relation to its rotational movement and a trailing support element and being adjustable transversely to the film transportation path as a function of the abutment of the support element upon a surface extending parallel to the film transportation path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1999
    Assignee: AGFA Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rolf Schroder, Claus Steiner
  • Photographic recording or reproducing device with frame-by-frame film transport
    Patent number: 5899590
    Abstract: The invention relates to a photographic recording or reproducing device, preferably a camera, with a transportation device for the frame-by-frame transportation of a film along a film transportation path and with a film measuring device with an engagement member rotatable about an axis for engaging in perforation holes of a peripheral perforation of the film, the film transportation device being locked when the film reaches a position during its transportation which is provided for the recording or reproduction of an image, and the engagement member comprising an advancing engagement element in relation to its rotational movement and a trailing support element and being adjustable transversely to the film transportation path as a function of the abutment of the support element upon a surface extending parallel to the film transportation path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 4, 1999
    Assignee: AGFA Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rolf Schroder, Claus Steiner
  • Modular camera with cassette chamber accessible through outerbody
    Patent number: 5784652
    Abstract: A camera for roll film which can be wound into a film cassette has a central subassembly forming a light-tight inner body in which a film cassette chamber which receives the film cassette is contained and in which a film guidance device is contained, and has an outer body which surrounds the central subassembly, wherein the film cassette chamber of the central subassembly can be closed by a removable cassette chamber cover which is accessible through an opening in the outer body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1998
    Assignee: AGFA Gevaert Aktiengesellschatt
    Inventors: Rolf Schroder, Peter Lermann, Dieter Engelsmann, Claus Steiner, Jorg Heidrich, Hermann Luhrig, Paul Kopf, Julian Schlagheck