Patents by Inventor Kevin Schulz
Kevin Schulz 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).
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Patent number: 12653988Abstract: An Albarran deflector can be cleaned or reconditioned particularly thoroughly. This is achieved in that at least one flushing port is arranged on a drive body of the Albarran deflector. During cleaning or reconditioning, a flushing line can be connected to this flushing port. This defined access to the interior of the drive body or gear space allows targeted introduction of the flushing fluid.Type: GrantFiled: March 2, 2023Date of Patent: June 16, 2026Assignee: OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBHInventors: Kevin Schulz, Irina Schmuck, Bastian Schroeder, Andreas Ruehs
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Patent number: 12629140Abstract: A main body for a manual surgical instrument and a manual surgical instrument, in which tools or access articles can be guided in a straightforward way through a channel, and by means of which at the same time a sufficiently large irrigation flow can be delivered through the channel. This is achieved in that two irrigation bores, which extend through a wall of a main body of a manual surgical instrument, are directed onto an upper region of a cross section of a channel running axially through the main body. In this case, the bores are arranged transversely with respect to the channel.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2023Date of Patent: May 19, 2026Assignee: OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBHInventors: Kevin Schulz, Irina Schmuck, Bastian Schroeder, Andreas Ruehs
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Patent number: 12605052Abstract: An Albarran and a pull wire carrier are particularly efficiently usable as well as producible and reconditionable. The pull wire carrier for an Albarran includes a through-bore for a tubular shaft. This pull wire carrier can be mounted in a drive body of the Albarran, pull wires for the actuation of a lever of the Albarran being braceable on the pull wire carrier. This pull wire carrier is characterized by a receptacle into which a cover element can be placed, the cover element being releasably connectable to the pull wire carrier. The at least one pull wire is fixable between the pull wire carrier and the cover element.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2022Date of Patent: April 21, 2026Assignee: OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBHInventors: Kevin Schulz, Irina Schmuck, Bastian Schroeder, Andreas Ruehs
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Patent number: 12533013Abstract: A shaft and a handheld surgical device with which an optical unit and an access article may be positioned in a simple and reliable way in the shaft. This is achieved in that at least one web, through which an optical unit is directed from the proximal end of the shaft into a bore of a shaft tip, is arranged on an inner wall of a shaft. The at least one web is configured in such a way that the distal tip of the optical unit is guided into the bore when the optical unit is inserted into the shaft, specifically regardless of the shape of the cross section of the shaft.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2023Date of Patent: January 27, 2026Assignee: OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBHInventors: Kevin Schulz, Irina Schmuck, Bastian Schroeder, Andreas Ruehs
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Publication number: 20240188809Abstract: An Albarran and a pull wire carrier are particularly efficiently usable as well as producible and reconditionable. The pull wire carrier for an Albarran includes a through-bore for a tubular shaft. This pull wire carrier can be mounted in a drive body of the Albarran, pull wires for the actuation of a lever of the Albarran being braceable on the pull wire carrier. This pull wire carrier is characterized by a receptacle into which a cover element can be placed, the cover element being releasably connectable to the pull wire carrier. The at least one pull wire is fixable between the pull wire carrier and the cover element.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 9, 2022Publication date: June 13, 2024Applicant: OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBHInventors: Kevin SCHULZ, Irina SCHMUCK, Bastian SCHROEDER, Andreas RUEHS
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Publication number: 20230309798Abstract: A shaft and a handheld surgical device with which an optical unit and an access article may be positioned in a simple and reliable way in the shaft. This is achieved in that at least one web, through which an optical unit is directed from the proximal end of the shaft into a bore of a shaft tip, is arranged on an inner wall of a shaft. The at least one web is configured in such a way that the distal tip of the optical unit is guided into the bore when the optical unit is inserted into the shaft, specifically regardless of the shape of the cross section of the shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBHInventors: Kevin SCHULZ, Irina SCHMUCK, Bastian SCHROEDER, Andreas RUEHS
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Publication number: 20230309794Abstract: A shaft and an Albarran, which can be produced in a particularly simple way and can be cleaned particularly easily and time-efficiently. This is achieved by a shaft, or an optical guide tube, and at least one pull wire tube guide being formed in one piece. Owing to this one-piece configuration of the shaft, the long closed pull wire tubes can be eliminated by design. Because of the open construction of the shaft, the shaft can be cleaned particularly easily and time-efficiently. Furthermore, the production of the shaft is particularly straightforward.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Applicant: OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBHInventors: Kevin SCHULZ, Irina SCHMUCK, Bastian SCHROEDER, Andreas RUEHS
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Publication number: 20230293161Abstract: A main body for a manual surgical instrument and a manual surgical instrument, in which tools or access articles can be guided in a straightforward way through a channel, and by means of which at the same time a sufficiently large irrigation flow can be delivered through the channel. This is achieved in that two irrigation bores, which extend through a wall of a main body of a manual surgical instrument, are directed onto an upper region of a cross section of a channel running axially through the main body. In this case, the bores are arranged transversely with respect to the channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Applicant: OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBHInventors: Kevin SCHULZ, Irina SCHMUCK, Bastian SCHROEDER, Andreas RUEHS
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Publication number: 20230277050Abstract: An Albarran deflector can be cleaned or reconditioned particularly thoroughly. This is achieved in that at least one flushing port is arranged on a drive body of the Albarran deflector. During cleaning or reconditioning, a flushing line can be connected to this flushing port. This defined access to the interior of the drive body or gear space allows targeted introduction of the flushing fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 2, 2023Publication date: September 7, 2023Applicant: OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBHInventors: Kevin SCHULZ, Irina SCHMUCK, Bastian SCHROEDER, Andreas RUEHS
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Patent number: 6927951Abstract: A head gimbal assembly that includes a bleed resistor applied over a specified area of the reader, writer and ground leads in order to protect from ESD damage is disclosed. The present invention address the need for an ESD protection system that includes a consistent and secure connection with leads, that does not contaminate the drive environment and applies a consistent resistivity to both the reader and writer element by providing a head gimbal assembly with strategically placed bleed resistors that will protect the read element from transient charge produced any time during the fabrication, assembly, testing and shipment of the disc drive.Type: GrantFiled: April 2, 2002Date of Patent: August 9, 2005Assignee: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Marsha Huha, Kevin Schulz, Werner Weidemann
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Publication number: 20050135015Abstract: The present invention pertains to a suspension assembly having a load beam and a flexible circuit. The flexible circuit is positioned on the load beam and includes an electrically conductive element and a dielectric liquid crystal substrate laminated to the conductive element.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2005Publication date: June 23, 2005Applicant: Seagate Technology LLCInventors: Kevin Schulz, Adam Himes
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Patent number: D1094713Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2022Date of Patent: September 23, 2025Inventors: Roland Hopp, Oliver Hahn, Thomas Märzke, Irina Schmuck, Kevin Schulz, Andreas Rühs, Bastian Schröder