Patents by Inventor Dieter Wustenberg

Dieter Wustenberg 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: 5680796
    Abstract: A manual controller including a control lever having a lower end; a housing having a bottom; a bearing held in the housing and supporting the control lever for pivotable deflection in two orthogonal axes around a fixed point from a zero position to a maximum pivot angle relative to the zero position while the lower end of the control lever moves over a path lying in a spherical surface having a radius R; and converter devices which translate pivotal movement of the control lever from its zero position into an electrical signal. The bearing is an elastomer joint having a transition part extending between a rim and an inner part for imposing on the control lever an elastic restoring force from all deflection positions toward the zero position of the control lever while simultaneously maintaining the spatial position of the fixed point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 28, 1997
    Assignee: NBB Nachrichtentechnik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Dieter Wustenberg, Raymond Mohrbach, Wolfgang Bredow, Thomas Burchard, Rolf Fazler, Thomas Haug, Fabian Elsasser