Patents by Inventor Martin Strahm

Martin Strahm 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).

  • Publication number: 20150047553
    Abstract: An indicator module for a dashboard, including an electric motor, a mechanical motion-reduction unit, an output shaft, a housing, and a light source. The electric motor is mechanically and electrically connected to a first surface of a printed circuit and drives a visual indicator about an axis of rotation via the reduction unit and the output shaft through the printed circuit such that the indicator provides visual information beyond a second surface of said printed circuit. The light source is positioned on the first or second surface of the printed circuit sending a light flow toward the axis of rotation. The housing has a light case, which extends beyond the second surface of the printed circuit and which is formed around the axis of rotation of the visual indicator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Publication date: February 19, 2015
    Applicant: SONCEBOZ AUTOMOTIVE SA
    Inventors: SĂ©bastien Heinrich, Martin Strahm
  • Patent number: 8294561
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dashboard indicator module comprising, in a casing, a rotary motor, an output shaft, mechanical reduction device associated with the motor, at least one electrical supply coil, electrical connection tabs linked to the coils leaving the casing and electrical contact elements, characterized in that the electrical contact elements can be fitted on the connection tabs in order to produce solderless connectors on the printed circuit or even removed from the connection tabs in order to allow the connection tabs of the motor to be soldered directly to the printed circuit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Sonceboz Automative SA
    Inventors: Martin Strahm, Michael Geiser, Pierre Gandel, Guillaume Loussert
  • Publication number: 20110043345
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dashboard indicator module comprising, in a casing, a rotary motor, an output shaft, mechanical reduction means associated with the motor, at least one electrical supply coil, electrical connection tabs linked to the coils leaving said casing and electrical contact elements, characterised in that said electrical contact elements can be fitted on the connection tabs in order to produce solderless connectors on the printed circuit or even removed from the connection tabs in order to allow the connection tabs of the motor to be soldered directly to the printed circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Publication date: February 24, 2011
    Applicant: SONCEBOZ AUTOMATIVE SA
    Inventors: Martin Strahm, Michael Geiser, Pierre Gandel, Guillaume Loussert
  • Patent number: 7782718
    Abstract: The invention concerns an electronic watch including analogue display means formed of at least one hand (10) driven by a stepping motor (12), at least one time base (24, 26) for providing time data (h. m) to means (16) for controlling and driving said stepping motor, a main power source (20), means (22) for detecting a lack of sufficient power from said main power source, non-volatile storage means (32) powered by an additional power source (28), for containing said time data when a lack of sufficient power is detected, and characterized in that said non-volatile storage means are further provided for containing the stepping motor position data (?pas) when said lack of sufficient power is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 24, 2010
    Assignee: ETA SA Manufacture Horlogère Suisse
    Inventors: Laurent Gallet, Martin Strahm, Xavier Tinguely
  • Publication number: 20070268786
    Abstract: The invention concerns an electronic watch including analogue display means formed of at least one hand (10) driven by a stepping motor (12), at least one time base (24, 26) for providing time data (h. m) to means (16) for controlling and driving said stepping motor, a main power source (20), means (22) for detecting a lack of sufficient power from said main power source, non-volatile storage means (32) powered by an additional power source (28), for containing said time data when a lack of sufficient power is detected, and characterized in that said non-volatile storage means are further provided for containing the stepping motor position data (?pas) when said lack of sufficient power is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2007
    Publication date: November 22, 2007
    Applicant: MICROCOMPONENTS AG
    Inventors: Laurent Gallet, Martin Strahm, Xavier Tinguely
  • Patent number: 6069427
    Abstract: The invention concerns a device for securing at least one part onto the bottom of a case including at least one stud which projects from said bottom, said part having at least one substantially flat portion provided with an orifice having an axis substantially perpendicular to said bottom and into which said stud is introduced. The case further includes a cover provided, on the face thereof which is directed towards the bottom of said case, complementary means to said stud for, in a closed position of the cover, applying and holding said flat portion onto a support surface provided in the region of said bottom, and means for blocking the cover onto said case. Said complementary means are shaped for generating deformation of said distal portion outwards so that said deformed distal portion of said stud is inserted between said flat portion and said complementary means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2000
    Assignee: Eta Sa Fabriques D'ebauches
    Inventors: Martin Strahm, Norbert Gasser, Markus Straumann, Jean-Christophe Rothen
  • Patent number: 5130594
    Abstract: This invention concerns an electromagnetic motor. Such motor includes: a rotor (1) comprises a bipolar permanent magnet, a stator (2) provided with a peripheral stator portion (14) forming a low reluctance magnetic circuit (CM) and an interior or central stator portion (12) on which are arranged n branches including first ends forming polar expansions and second or free ends, and windings (22, 24, 26) adapted to generate a magnetic flux, such motor being characterized in that the windings (22, 24, 26) are mounted on and are respectively anchored at least to the second or free ends of the branches. Such motor is applied for example to operation in a three-phase energization mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1992
    Assignee: ETA SA Fabriques d'Ebauches
    Inventors: Daho Taghezout, Martin Strahm