Patents by Inventor Dieter Klubenspies

Dieter Klubenspies 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: 6335864
    Abstract: An indicator module, suitable for a vehicle, has a holder engaging over an indicator element for fastening the indicator element to a carrier board such as a printed circuit board. The holder is connected by one leg to the carrier board by a catching of the leg into a recess of the carrier board. The recess of the carrier board has a projecting tongue, and the leg of the holder has a recess engaging over the tongue to accomplish a simplified mounting which retains the indicator element upon the carrier board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2002
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventor: Dieter Klübenspies
  • Patent number: 6312773
    Abstract: A combination instrument (1) has a front frame (2) having a cover (7) which has a plurality of recesses (4, 5) for indicating instruments or other displays. The cover (7) is covered with a decorative element which is formed as a molding (3) and around which a section (8), which is designed as an undercut, of the front frame (2) grips. To this end, the front frame (2) is produced in an injection molding process, the molding (3) being placed into the injection mold. The connection of the molding (3) to the front frame (2) can take place such that it is invisible to someone looking at it, thereby enabling an attractive, visual appearance and simultaneously reliable way of fixing it to be achieved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2001
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventors: Manfred Zeiss, Dieter Klübenspies, Thomas Ritter
  • Patent number: 6162090
    Abstract: A printed circuit board, in particular for a display instrument in a motor vehicle, having a coupling element of a plug-in device and having one or more clearances and one or more terminal contacts of the coupling element which pass through the clearances, the coupling element having a base connected to the printed circuit board and the terminal contact or contacts on the side of the printed circuit board which is facing away from a coupling region of the coupling element being electrically connected to said printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2000
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventors: Dieter Klubenspies, Manfred Zeiss