Patents by Inventor Gunther Pucher

Gunther Pucher 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: 6368478
    Abstract: An electrochemical measuring device comprises an essentially planar sensor substrate with at least one electrochemical sensor, and a cover part in which a tunnel-shaped measuring channel is formed. At least one guiding groove is provided in parallel with the measuring channel. A sealing element which is positioned between the sensor substrate and the cover part to seal the measuring channel is provided with guiding bodies along its length, at least one of which guiding bodies projects into the guiding groove of the cover part. The sealing element is provided with narrow sealing lips bounding the measuring channel. Each short side of the sealing element has a guiding body projecting into recesses in the sensor substrate. The guiding bodies are disposed on that side of a sealing plane defined by the sealing lips, which faces away from the cover part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2002
    Assignee: F. Hoffmann La Roche AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Huber, Wolf-Dietrich Steinböck, Günther Pucher, Bernhard Schaffar, Christoph Ritter
  • Patent number: 5474276
    Abstract: In order to avoid dead volumes in a valve for control of a branch line departing from the main line in a valve chamber located in a valve housing, the valve chamber contains an elastomer part provided with a main channel and a branch channel departing from it, and the two ends of the main channel are sealingly connected with the main lines. The free end of the branch channel is sealingly connected with the branch line, and further that a valve lifter be provided in the valve housing, which acts on the branch channel in the branch-off area directly adjacent to the main channel of the elastomer part, thus reducing the cross-section of the branch channel, which is held in place by a counterpiece in the valve housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 1994
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1995
    Assignee: AVL Medical Instruments AG
    Inventors: Wolf-Dietrich Steinbock, Gunther Pucher, Horst Ruther, Helmut Zach