Patents by Inventor Michael Herbers

Michael Herbers 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: 5685428
    Abstract: A unitary package comprising a plurality of individual inner packages juxtaposed with each other at one or more interfaces. At least some inner packages are wrapped in a wrapper and are peripherally disposed along at least first and second outside walls of the unitary package, defining these first and second outside walls. A first sheet of material having at least one line of weakness is juxtaposed with the first outside wall and interconnects all peripherally disposed inner packages by engaging each of them. Preferably, a second sheet of material is juxtaposed with the second outside wall interconnecting all peripherally disposed inner packages. Preferably, both sheets of material have a self-registering pattern of a plurality of lines of weakness running in both mutually perpendicular directions and comparatively closely spaced such that there is a high probability that at least one of these lines is positioned at the interface of the individual inner packages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1997
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Dennis Michael Herbers, John Paul Erspamer, William Paul Dirksing
  • Patent number: 5044184
    Abstract: The profiled cylinder (38) seated in an insertion opening (87) of the lock housing (7) is guided by a retaining bracket (93) and fixed centrally by a detent pin (121) on the retaining bracket (93). The detent pin (121) is guided displaceably on a slide piece (103) and initially stressed by a spring (131) towards the profiled cylinder (38). The profiled cylinder (38) contains a reading device for en electronic key, which device is connected through a plug-in connection (89) with an electronic circuit of the lock. The plug-in connection (89) and the detent pin (121) are so adapted to one another that the detent pin (121) firstly fixes the profiled cylinder (38) on the pedestal (93) before the slide piece (103) guided in centered manner in relation to the pedestal (93) closes the plug-in connection (89). In this way defects of alignment of the plug-in connection (89) and damage to its contact elements (107, 109 ) are avoided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 1989
    Date of Patent: September 3, 1991
    Assignee: Aug. Winkhaus GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Herbers, Karl-Heinz Spahn, Anton Uekotter, Dieter Wienert
  • Patent number: D464485
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Deborah Taylor Sward, Gene Michael Altonen, Dennis Michael Herbers, James Edward McCay, Lee Frederick Griswold