Patents by Inventor Dirk Erdloff

Dirk Erdloff 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: 10727011
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a switch assembly for a motor vehicle component, including: an electronic basic body for arranging a contact member; an actuating member for actuating the contact member; a web associated with the actuating member, including a web portion with a web stop; a flexible switching mat having a basic portion for arranging the actuating member and the web; an operating member having an operating portion with an operating stop and an operating counter-stop disposed opposite to the web stop; a support member connected to the basic body or the switching mat having a support portion with a support counter-stop that contacts the operating stop in a non-actuated state of the switch assembly; wherein the web provided on the basic portion is arranged to be spaced apart from the actuating member provided on the basic portion, wherein the web encloses the actuating member at least partially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: PREH GMBH
    Inventors: Dirk Erdloff, Sebastian Schäfer, Henry Hinterholzinger
  • Publication number: 20190318889
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a switch assembly for a motor vehicle component, including: an electronic basic body for arranging a contact member; an actuating member for actuating the contact member; a web associated with the actuating member, including a web portion with a web stop; a flexible switching mat having a basic portion for arranging the actuating member and the web; an operating member having an operating portion with an operating stop and an operating counter-stop disposed opposite to the web stop; a support member connected to the basic body or the switching mat having a support portion with a support counter-stop that contacts the operating stop in a non-actuated state of the switch assembly; wherein the web provided on the basic portion is arranged to be spaced apart from the actuating member provided on the basic portion, wherein the web encloses the actuating member at least partially.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2019
    Publication date: October 17, 2019
    Applicant: PREH GMBH
    Inventors: Dirk ERDLOFF, Sebastian SCHÄFER, Henry HINTERHOLZINGER
  • Patent number: 7404344
    Abstract: A ratchet device for an electrical component that can be adjusted by rotation, such as a rotary switch or a rotary potentiometer, is provided. The ratchet device includes a leaf spring, resting against a ratchet contour by means of spring pressure, whereby the ratchet contour is applied on an outer side of a symmetrical ratchet disc. The leaf spring substantially encloses the ratchet disc, rests diametrically on the ratchet disc, and the ends of the leaf spring have an essentially radial embodiment, the leaf spring being otherwise free to move.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: Preh GmbH
    Inventor: Dirk Erdloff
  • Publication number: 20070205348
    Abstract: A retaining frame for a support element of a sensor in a motor vehicle is disclosed. The retaining frame has a flat underside that can be adhered to a window of a motor vehicle, and having an opening with at least one contact surface for the support element in which opening the support element can be positioned flat on the window and against the contact surface, and has a spring element by which a force can be applied to the support element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2006
    Publication date: September 6, 2007
    Inventors: Hans-Michael Schmitt, Juergen Bach, Thomas Polzer, Dirk Erdloff, Rudolf Hartmann, Jochen Gans, Andrejus Afanasjevas
  • Patent number: 6912796
    Abstract: An assembly aid in which a self-adhesive component can be placed and with which the component is precisely positioned on or relative to a surface for adhesion. The assembly aid having a template-like structure. Thus, the assembly aid has an opening that is matched to the component, wherein the component itself is held within the opening and is thus fixed exactly in place in the template. The assembly template has an outside contour by which precise positioning for attachment of the component to the adhesion surface is accomplished. Not until it has been definitively positioned is the component, which can be freely moved with the template over the surface, pressed out of the template against the adhesion surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2005
    Assignee: Preh-Werke GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Dirk Erdloff
  • Publication number: 20050139033
    Abstract: A ratchet device for an electrical component that can be adjusted by rotation, such as a rotary switch or a rotary potentiometer, is provided. The ratchet device includes a leaf spring, resting against a ratchet contour by means of spring pressure, whereby the ratchet contour is applied on an outer side of a symmetrical ratchet disc. The leaf spring substantially encloses the ratchet disc, rests diametrically on the ratchet disc, and the ends of the leaf spring have an essentially radial embodiment, the leaf spring being otherwise free to move.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2005
    Publication date: June 30, 2005
    Inventor: Dirk Erdloff
  • Publication number: 20030230001
    Abstract: An assembly aid in which a self-adhesive component can be placed and with which the component is precisely positioned on or relative to a surface for adhesion. The assembly aid having a template-like structure. Thus, the assembly aid has an opening that is matched to the component, wherein the component itself is held within the opening and is thus fixed exactly in place in the template. The assembly template has an outside contour by which precise positioning for attachment of the component to the adhesion surface is accomplished. Not until it has been definitively positioned is the component, which can be freely moved with the template over the surface, pressed out of the template against the adhesion surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2003
    Publication date: December 18, 2003
    Inventor: Dirk Erdloff