Patents by Inventor Martin Schmutzer

Martin Schmutzer 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).

  • ELECTRICAL DEVICE, CIRCUIT BOARD, AND METHOD OF IDENTIFYING A TYPE OF A HOUSING OF AN ELECTRICAL DEVICE
    Publication number: 20190235588
    Abstract: An electrical device includes a housing, a circuit board including at least one fastening means, at least one fastening element configured to fix the circuit board on the housing by the at least one fastening means, and a microcontroller arranged on the circuit board, wherein an electrical contact electrically connected to the microcontroller is arranged on the circuit board to be spaced apart from the fastening means by a specified spacing, the fastening element has a housing-specific diameter at an end facing the circuit board, and the microcontroller is configured to determine a type of the housing on the basis of whether the fastening element contacts the at least one electrical contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Inventors: Diana Langner, Bernhard Kannler, Martin Schmutzer, Andreas Maier, Georg Ahn