Patents by Inventor Karl Jautz

Karl Jautz 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: 6604838
    Abstract: The invention relates to a display lamp with lamp sections, which are releasably arranged one above the other and wherein each comprises a transparent housing section with an insertion unit. The insertion unit has electrical conductors, which are connected via electrical connecting structure with the conductors of the respective insertion units arranged below or on the base of the display lamp. Furthermore the insertion units provide receiving devices for the display lamps, which are connected with the conductors. The connecting structure comprise pins and sockets extending in the axial direction. One lamp section can be axially plugged into the lamp section or base respectively arranged below it in such a way that the pins and sockets connect the conductors of the insertion unit with the conductors, arranged respectively below, of the insertion unit located below, wherein the lamp sections are connected via snap-in connections with the lamp section or base respectively located below it.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2003
    Assignee: Karl Jautz Elektrotechnische Spezialfabrik KG
    Inventor: Karl Jautz
  • Publication number: 20020172040
    Abstract: The invention relates to a display lamp with lamp sections, which are releasably arranged one above the other and wherein each comprises a transparent housing section with an insertion unit, wherein the insertion unit has electrical conductors, which are in connection via electrical connecting means with the conductors of the respective insertion units arranged below or on the base of the display lamp, and wherein furthermore the insertion units provide receiving devices for the display lamps, which are connected with the conductors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2002
    Publication date: November 21, 2002
    Inventor: Karl Jautz
  • Patent number: 5641226
    Abstract: A signal light column including a plurality of transparent light sections arranged one above another, and a plurality of inserts situated with one insert in a corresponding light section. The inserts each have a base plate, a socket mounted to the base plate for receiving a lamp, and at least one vertically arranged printed circuit board having at least one electrical strip conductor thereon connected to the base plate and the printed circuit board of the insert situated adjacent its corresponding insert. The light sections are joined together to form a unit as are the inserts. The unit formed of the inserts can be removed as a unit from the unit formed of the light sections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 24, 1997
    Inventor: Karl Jautz, Jr.