Patents by Inventor Dietmar Frank
Dietmar Frank 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).
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Publication number: 20230368989Abstract: A high-voltage device has an encapsulation housing and at least one bushing for at least one conductor, through which a current flows, into the encapsulation housing and/or out of the encapsulation housing. At least one electrode at free potential is surrounded by the bushing. The at least one electrode at free potential increases the dielectric strength in the high-voltage device, especially in the region of the bushing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2021Publication date: November 16, 2023Inventors: Thomas Heinz, Dietmar Frank, Armin Grund, Alexander Hartung, Martin Krehnke, Volker Lehmann
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Publication number: 20210171198Abstract: An unmanned vehicle (UV) is provided. The UV comprises an aircraft component, an interposer component electrically and mechanically coupled to the aircraft component, and a payload component electrically and mechanically coupled to the interposer component. The interposer component comprising a processor and a memory storing instructions which when executed by the processor configured the processor to receive a communication from one of the aircraft component or the payload component, and sent the communication to the other of the aircraft component or the payload component.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2020Publication date: June 10, 2021Inventors: Steven Andrew Prsa, Albert Pegg, Dietmar Frank Wennemer
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Patent number: 9694520Abstract: A method of manufacturing a portion of a portable electronic device includes forming a fibrous laminate sheet to provide a laminate body, and connecting a rim with the body. The rim includes a connector for coupling with a complementary part.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2012Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Simon Coulson, Steven Andrew Prsa, William Stephen Steinoff, Dietmar Frank Wennemer
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Patent number: 9615484Abstract: Method, system and apparatus for cooling a mobile device is provided. The device comprises: a housing comprising one or more apertures; a heat producing device; a cooling apparatus adjacent the heat producing device, the cooling apparatus comprising: an inlet; an outlet; and, a thermal pump configured to: draw air from the inlet to the heat producing device to form heated air, and exhaust the heated air from the outlet; and, one or more carbon nanotubes, a respective entrance of each of the one or more carbon nanotubes located at the outlet of the cooling apparatus, and a respective exit of each of the one or more carbon nanotubes terminating at a respective aperture of the one or more apertures, so that the heated air is vented through the one or more apertures.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2014Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: BLACKBERRY LIMITEDInventors: Peter Mankowski, Ryan Alexander Geris, Dietmar Frank Wennemer
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Publication number: 20170068164Abstract: Lithographic printing plates are formed by imagewise exposing a single-layer or dual-layer positive-working lithographic printing plate precursor. The precursor has an outermost ink receptive layer containing a phenolic resin. The exposed precursor can be processed using a silicate-free developer composition having a pH of at least 12.5. This composition also includes an alkali metal hydroxide; a coating protecting agent that is a quaternary ammonium salt or phosphonium salt, or a mixture thereof, and a moderator for the coating protecting agent that is represented by the following general formula (I): wherein m is at an integer of at least 1 and up to and including 10 and M represents one or more counterions sufficient to balance the negatively-charged sulfonate groups.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2015Publication date: March 9, 2017Inventors: Jianbing Huang, Gerhard Hauck, Celin Savariar-Hauck, Andrea Pauls, Dietmar Frank, Oliver Piestert
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Patent number: 9588429Abstract: Lithographic printing plates are formed by imagewise exposing a single-layer or dual-layer positive-working lithographic printing plate precursor. The precursor has an outermost ink receptive layer containing a phenolic resin. The exposed precursor can be processed using a silicate-free developer composition having a pH of at least 12.5. This composition also includes an alkali metal hydroxide; a coating protecting agent that is a quaternary ammonium salt or phosphonium salt, or a mixture thereof, and a moderator for the coating protecting agent that is represented by the following general formula (I): wherein m is at an integer of at least 1 and up to and including 10 and M represents one or more counterions sufficient to balance the negatively-charged sulfonate groups.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2015Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANYInventors: Jianbing Huang, Gerhard Hauck, Celin Savariar-Hauck, Andrea Pauls, Dietmar Frank, Oliver Piestert
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Patent number: 9310679Abstract: A thermally-sensitive, positive-working lithographic printing plate precursor can be used to prepare lithographic printing plates using high pH, silicate-free processing solutions. The precursor has a grained an anodized aluminum-containing substrate including a poly(vinyl phosphonic acid) interlayer. A first ink receptive layer, and optionally a second ink receptive layer, is disposed directly on the poly(vinyl phosphonic acid) interlayer. This first ink receptive layer comprises an aromatic acid dye that comprises at least two aromatic groups in an amount of least 0.5 weight %. In addition, the precursor comprises an infrared radiation absorber in one of the layers.Type: GrantFiled: June 5, 2014Date of Patent: April 12, 2016Assignee: EASTMAN KODAK COMPANYInventors: Gerhard Hauck, Dietmar Frank, Celin Savariar-Hauck
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Patent number: 9257775Abstract: A device having an electrical plug, such as a charger device, includes a locking member coupled to a carriage that is movable into a housing. Prongs of the device are movable between a retracted position and an extended position along two different travel paths by actuating the prongs or by actuating the carriage.Type: GrantFiled: December 17, 2013Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Firmansyah Kuncoko Sulem, Felipe Oliveira Simoes, Dietmar Frank Wennemer
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Patent number: 9208970Abstract: A key assembly for an electronic device having a one-piece keycap and an electronic device having such a keycap are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, there is provided a key assembly for use in an electronic device, comprising: a keycap having a plurality of rigid key portions separated by mechanically deforming portions; and a flexible member having opposed first and second sides, the first side having a plurality of key stems which are attached to the plurality of key portions, the second side having a plurality of actuators for actuating dome switches of the electronic device.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2014Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Chao Chen, Dietmar Frank Wennemer, Jana Lynn Papke
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Patent number: 9182853Abstract: A function of an electronic device is selected by detecting a resonant frequency generated by a tapping on a selection region of a device housing. The function of the device is selected based on the detected resonant frequency.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2013Date of Patent: November 10, 2015Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Dietmar Frank Wennemer, Peter Mankowski, Wael Jendli, Timothy Kyowski, Chris Forrester
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Patent number: 9159509Abstract: Hybrid keypad apparatus are disclosed herein. An example dome sheet carrier apparatus disclosed herein includes a first carrier portion having a first plurality of domes and a second carrier portion adjacent the first carrier portion. The second carrier portion has a second plurality of domes different than the first plurality of domes, where each of the second plurality of domes has a conductive material adjacent an apex of the second plurality of domes.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2014Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Paul John Kudrna, Dietmar Frank Wennemer
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Publication number: 20150277384Abstract: An electronic watch is provided in which multiple features of the watch with each other in at least one other display thereof such that the features are integrated with the module, band, and/or clasp.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 27, 2015Publication date: October 1, 2015Inventors: Peter Mankowski, Ryan Alexander Geris, Dietmar Frank Wennemer, Aaron Robert Allen, Timothy Herbert Kyowski
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Publication number: 20150264833Abstract: Method, system and apparatus for cooling a mobile device is provided. The device comprises: a housing comprising one or more apertures; a heat producing device; a cooling apparatus adjacent the heat producing device, the cooling apparatus comprising: an inlet; an outlet; and, a thermal pump configured to: draw air from the inlet to the heat producing device to form heated air, and exhaust the heated air from the outlet; and, one or more carbon nanotubes, a respective entrance of each of the one or more carbon nanotubes located at the outlet of the cooling apparatus, and a respective exit of each of the one or more carbon nanotubes terminating at a respective aperture of the one or more apertures, so that the heated air is vented through the one or more apertures.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2014Publication date: September 17, 2015Applicant: BLACKBERRY LIMITEDInventors: Peter Mankowski, Ryan Alexander Geris, Dietmar Frank Wennemer
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Publication number: 20150222981Abstract: A communication device that has an integrated wireless headset. When not in use, the wireless headset can be stored in a recess of the housing of the communication device. This allows the user of the communication device to easily find the wireless headset when needed. The wireless headset has a headphones connector for connecting headphones to the headset. The headphones connector allows the user to place the wireless headset, to which the headphones are connected, in his or her pocket or purse and enjoy music through the headphones, which typically provide better sound quality than the wireless headset.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2014Publication date: August 6, 2015Applicant: BLACKBERRY LIMITEDInventors: Albert Murray PEGG, Dietmar Frank WENNEMER, Joseph Claude, Milton, John TAMBLYN
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Publication number: 20150062090Abstract: A function of an electronic device is selected by detecting a resonant frequency generated by a tapping on a selection region of a device housing. The function of the device is selected based on the detected resonant frequency.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2013Publication date: March 5, 2015Applicant: BLACKBERRY LIMITEDInventors: Dietmar Frank Wennemar, Peter Mankowski, Wael Jendli, Timothy Kyowski, Chris Forrester
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Patent number: 8936899Abstract: A thermally-sensitive, positive-working lithographic printing plate precursor can be used to prepare lithographic printing plates using high pH, silicate-free processing solutions. The precursor has a grained an anodized aluminum-containing substrate including a poly(vinyl phosphonic acid) interlayer. A first ink receptive layer, and optionally a second ink receptive layer, is disposed directly on the poly(vinyl phosphonic acid) interlayer. This first ink receptive layer comprises an aromatic acid dye that comprises at least two aromatic groups in an amount of least 0.5 weight %. In addition, the precursor comprises an infrared radiation absorber in one of the layers.Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2012Date of Patent: January 20, 2015Assignee: Eastman Kodak CompanyInventors: Gerhard Hauck, Dietmar Frank, Celin Savariar-Hauck
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Publication number: 20150008112Abstract: Hybrid keypad apparatus are disclosed herein. An example dome sheet carrier apparatus disclosed herein includes a first carrier portion having a first plurality of domes and a second carrier portion adjacent the first carrier portion. The second carrier portion has a second plurality of domes different than the first plurality of domes, where each of the second plurality of domes has a conductive material adjacent an apex of the second plurality of domes.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2014Publication date: January 8, 2015Inventors: Paul John Kudrna, Dietmar Frank Wennemer
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Patent number: 8847092Abstract: Hybrid keypad apparatus are disclosed herein. An example hybrid keypad apparatus includes a dome-switch assembly having a first plurality of domes composed of a first material and a second plurality of domes composed of a second material different from the first material. A carrier couples the first and second plurality of domes.Type: GrantFiled: July 30, 2012Date of Patent: September 30, 2014Assignee: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: John Paul Kudrna, Dietmar Frank Wennemer
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Publication number: 20140283703Abstract: A thermally-sensitive, positive-working lithographic printing plate precursor can be used to prepare lithographic printing plates using high pH, silicate-free processing solutions. The precursor has a grained an anodized aluminum-containing substrate including a poly(vinyl phosphonic acid) interlayer. A first ink receptive layer, and optionally a second ink receptive layer, is disposed directly on the poly(vinyl phosphonic acid) interlayer. This first ink receptive layer comprises an aromatic acid dye that comprises at least two aromatic groups in an amount of least 0.5 weight %. In addition, the precursor comprises an infrared radiation absorber in one of the layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 5, 2014Publication date: September 25, 2014Inventors: Gerhard Hauck, Dietmar Frank, Celin Savariar-Hauck
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Publication number: 20140202839Abstract: A key assembly for an electronic device having a one-piece keycap and an electronic device having such a keycap are provided. In accordance with one embodiment, there is provided a key assembly for use in an electronic device, comprising: a keycap having a plurality of rigid key portions separated by mechanically deforming portions; and a flexible member having opposed first and second sides, the first side having a plurality of key stems which are attached to the plurality of key portions, the second side having a plurality of actuators for actuating dome switches of the electronic device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2014Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: BlackBerry LimitedInventors: Chao CHEN, Dietmar Frank WENNEMER, Jana Lynn PAPKE