Patents by Inventor Markus Kater

Markus Kater 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: 9737451
    Abstract: A heat therapy appliance for treatment of neonates has a lying surface on a platform bordered by side walls, a hood movable between a closed incubator position, bearing on the side walls and covering the lying surface, and an open nursing care position, a radiant heater secured on the appliance structure and directed at the lying surface, lifting devices acting on the platform, and a control device actuating the lifting devices to adjustably set an angle of inclination of the platform with respect to the horizontal. The platform is mounted so as to be adjustable in height. The control device also actuates the lifting devices in the same direction, to adjust the vertical position of the platform with respect to the side walls between a first position and a second position higher than the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Markus Hampe, Markus Kater, Claudia Kohnke
  • Patent number: 9539159
    Abstract: A thermotherapy device includes a therapy unit (2) with housing having sidewalls surrounding a lying surface, a support device (8) that supports the therapy unit (2) and a heating device (7) for heating an area of the surrounded lying surface. The housing of the therapy unit (2) is open at the bottom. The support device (8) has a base wall arrangement (10) fixedly connected thereto which completes and locks the housing open at the bottom of the therapy unit to form a housing closed off at the bottom in the closed position of the therapy unit. The therapy unit (2) is mounted pivotably on one side in relation the base wall arrangement (10). The therapy unit (2) is pivotable between the closed position with the housing closed and an open position remote from the base wall arrangement, in which position the components in an interior of the housing are accessible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Drägerwerk AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Robert Lischinski, Markus Kater
  • Publication number: 20150164723
    Abstract: A thermotherapy device includes a therapy unit (2) with housing having sidewalls surrounding a lying surface, a support device (8) that supports the therapy unit (2) and a heating device (7) for heating an area of the surrounded lying surface. The housing of the therapy unit (2) is open at the bottom. The support device (8) has a base wall arrangement (10) fixedly connected thereto which completes and locks the housing open at the bottom of the therapy unit to form a housing closed off at the bottom in the closed position of the therapy unit. The therapy unit (2) is mounted pivotably on one side in relation the base wall arrangement (10). The therapy unit (2) is pivotable between the closed position with the housing closed and an open position remote from the base wall arrangement, in which position the components in an interior of the housing are accessible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Robert Lischinski, Markus Kater
  • Publication number: 20150038773
    Abstract: A heat therapy appliance (2) for treatment of neonates has a lying surface on a platform (4) bordered by side walls (8), a hood (10a, 10b) movable between a closed incubator position, bearing on the side walls and covering the lying surface, and an open nursing care position, a radiant heater (14) secured on the appliance structure and directed at the lying surface, lifting devices (6a, 6b) acting on the platform, and a control device actuating the lifting devices to adjustably set an angle of inclination of the platform with respect to the horizontal. The platform (4) is mounted so as to be adjustable in height. The control device also actuates the lifting devices (6a, 6b) in the same direction, to adjust the vertical position of the platform with respect to the side walls between a first position and a second position higher than the first position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventors: Markus Hampe, Markus Kater, Claudia Kohnke
  • Publication number: 20030200969
    Abstract: A gas mask (1) is provided with a sealing element (5) of a special shape. The sealing element is easy to handle for use with a plug-in breathing filter (4). The sealing element also provides good sealing against gases from the environment. The sealing element (5) of the gas mask (4) seals the outlet (3) for the breathing filter (4) all around and has a cross section that is limited axially by two parallel, flat, peripheral surfaces (51, 52), whose radial inner limiting surface (53) is concave, and whose radial outer limiting surface (54) extends axially from the outside to the inside first concavely and passes over in the middle area into an elevation (55) tapering outwardly in the radial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2003
    Publication date: October 30, 2003
    Inventors: Hartmut Kintzel, Ralf Drews, Markus Kater