Patents by Inventor Herbert J. Thanner

Herbert J. Thanner 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: 8129884
    Abstract: A piezoelectric actuator unit includes a piezoactuator and a casting compound enclosing the piezoactuator. The casting compound is disposed in a sleeve that includes a hydrophobic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 6, 2012
    Assignee: EPCOS AG
    Inventors: Franz Rinner, Herbert J. Thanner, Siegfried Fellner
  • Publication number: 20110057548
    Abstract: A piezoelectric actuator unit includes a piezoactuator and a casting compound enclosing the piezoactuator. The casting compound is disposed in a sleeve that includes a hydrophobic material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2010
    Publication date: March 10, 2011
    Inventors: Franz Rinner, Herbert J. Thanner, Siegfried Fellner
  • Publication number: 20010033123
    Abstract: A piezoelectric resonator arrangement comprises a mount having at least two mounting elements on a base structure and at least one laminar piezoelectric resonator that is clamped between the mounting elements, of which at least one impinges on the resonator with a force. In order to obtain the oscillation and resonance characteristics in a manner as free as possible of influence from the mounting or, respectively, contacting, and over a large temperature range in order also to minimize the temperature-caused hysteresis of the resonance characteristics, the mounting elements abut immediately and directly on the resonator and fix this resonator in the arrangement without the use of adhesive, and the points of contact of the mounting elements with the resonator are located essentially in one plane that lies essentially parallel to the plane of the resonator, and, in addition, the mounting and contacting forces exerted by the mounting elements lie essentially parallel to the plane of the resonator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2001
    Publication date: October 25, 2001
    Inventor: Herbert J. Thanner