Patents by Inventor Franz Knoop

Franz Knoop 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).

  • Publication number: 20070144993
    Abstract: An aseismic (earthquake-secure) server rack is fastened to an earthquake frame in order to increase rigidity and is fixed to the floor at least via the earthquake frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2006
    Publication date: June 28, 2007
    Inventor: Franz Knoop
  • Patent number: 5470042
    Abstract: A supporting device for a machine (2) standing on standing feet (4) at a distance from a floor surface of a floor. The supporting device has at least one supporting element (12), which has a holding part (44), which reaches, in an operating position, beneath the machine (2) and is detachably connected to a standing foot (4), and a supporting bracket (46) disposed thereon. The holding section (44) is configured as an essentially U-shaped bow having two arms (22, 24) which bear, in the fitted position, laterally against a standing foot (4). On the holding section (44) there are provided, perpendicular to the floor surface, stop faces (42), interacting with counter-faces of the standing foot (4), for fixing the holding section (44) to the standing foot (4). The arms (22, 24) are respectively provided, at their ends, with devices (25, 28) for coupling the said arms to the arms (24', 22') of a second supporting element (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 28, 1995
    Assignee: Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ralf-Peter Fietz, Franz Knoop
  • Patent number: 5118307
    Abstract: The invention relates to contact strip (16) for slipping over the edge (22) of a wall unit (14), whereby a longitudinal edge (20) of the contact strip is designed cliplike and the contact strip has contact areas (24) bent out of the plane of the strip. The contact areas are formed by a single row, spaced apart from each other, contact tongues (24), stamped and bent out of the plane of the contact strip and by the cliplike longitudinal edge formed with a row of individual clip elements (20) distributed over length of the strip and spaced apart from each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: June 2, 1992
    Assignee: Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG
    Inventors: Franz Knoop, Franz Werner