Patents by Inventor Ernst E. Ruch

Ernst E. Ruch 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: 6156407
    Abstract: The card-shaped plastic carrier 2 of a cleaning card for magnetic track and chip card writing/reading devices is partially layered with a codable material as well as with soft cleaning material. The cleaning material consists of a fiber flock with individual fibers extending essentially perpendicularly from the carrier and tightly packed and adhesively attached to the carrier and having predetermined lengths and predetermined diameters. The codable material is in the form of a pigmented screen printed color printed in several screen printing processes; then on at least side of the card pre-given surface areas for the cleaning material is layered by screen printing processes with a two-component adhesive 8; then the individual fibers are set into the adhesive beds of the individual surface areas essentially perpendicularly; the flat plastic carrier 2 with the layers is subjected to a drying process; and then the nonbonded fibers are washed away.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignees: Wincor Nixdorf GmbH & Co. KG, ECS AG
    Inventors: Lutz Neubauer, Gerhard Hupe, Ernst E. Ruch