Patents by Inventor Manfred Fuchtenkort

Manfred Fuchtenkort 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).

  • Keyboard for typewriters, printers or the like
    Patent number: 5061094
    Abstract: In a keyboard for typewriters, printers or the like, where a contact bearing film is disposed underneath the keys, there is provided for achieving a cost-efficient arrangement, while avoiding the use of separate restoring springs, that the contact bearing film (10) has U-shaped cut-outs (11) in the area of the keys (1), the film tongues (12) are bent by 180.degree. and are acted upon by the key tappet (3) of the keys (1), the contacts (14, 15) formed between the base of the film, the underside of the film tongue (12), and the film tongue (12) act at the same time as a restoring spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 29, 1991
    Assignee: Ta Triumph-Alder AG
    Inventors: Gunter Buttner, Friedrich Forschner, Manfred Fuchtenkort, Rudolf Schmeykal, Alfred Wieland