Patents by Inventor Michael Sturm

Michael Sturm 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: 20080251341
    Abstract: The invention provides a carry-on wheeled luggage (1) for photographic equipment that has an interior compartment (80) deep enough to accommodate a large article of photographic equipment such as at least a 400 mm 2.8 f-stop aperture telephoto lens.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2006
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Inventors: Douglas Harland Murdoch, Michael Sturm
  • Publication number: 20080248678
    Abstract: A connector fastening arrangement locks a connector housing to a printed circuit board, thereby to effect engagement between a resilient contact on the housing and a corresponding electrical element on the adjacent top surface of the printed circuit board. A rotary locking member carried by the connector housing extends within a locking bore contained in the adjacent surface of the printed circuit board, the locking member being rotatable between locked and unlocked positions relative to the connector housing. In a preferred embodiment, the locking bore is a through bore, and the locking member extends completely through the locking bore. When the locking member is rotated toward the locked position, an eccentric locking device carried by the extremity of the locking member extends in locking engagement beneath the bottom surface of the printed circuit board. In a second embodiment, the locking device comprises a bayonet fitting arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2008
    Publication date: October 9, 2008
    Inventors: Dieter Tuerschmann, Michael Sturm, Dirk Hanke, Manfred Domrath
  • Patent number: 6550651
    Abstract: A backpack (10) suitable for use with wheels (200) at its base adjacent to a non body-contact side (40) has a U-shaped opening (22) proximate to a body-contact side (30) that is closed with a zipper (31). The body-contact side (30) is provided with two shoulder straps (34) and a hip belt (36). Side straps (130) and a top flap or strap (134) connect the body-contact side (30) to other parts of the backpack (10), such as the non body-contact side (40), to take a substantial part of the weight of the backpack (10) and its contents so that the zipper (31) is not stressed or tensioned when the backpack (10) is worn on the back of a user. The wheels (200) are removable and can be larger than is usual for use on rough ground. A frame (100) with a built-in extending handle system (120) is mounted inside and ajacent to the non body-contact side (40).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2003
    Assignee: Daymen Photo Marketing, Ltd.
    Inventors: Douglas H. Murdoch, Michael Sturm
  • Patent number: 6431920
    Abstract: A sectional mounting connector is provided for mounting a component on a printed circuit board, characterized that the sections of the component are arranged end to end in interlocking relation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2002
    Assignee: Weidmüller Interface GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Endres, Manfred Lange, Werner Radde, Michael Sturm, Ralf Wägner, Rudolf Kowollik
  • Publication number: 20020081911
    Abstract: A sectional mounting connector is provided for mounting a component on a printed circuit board, characterized that the sections of the component are arranged end to end in interlocking relation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2000
    Publication date: June 27, 2002
    Inventors: Klaus Endres, Manfred Lange, Werner Radde, Michael Sturm, Ralf Wagner, Rudolf Kowollik
  • Patent number: 5988468
    Abstract: A container for exposed film cartridges that permits swift, one-handed insertion of such cartridges while securely containing them after insertion is disclosed. A pouch with stiffened walls has a circular opening covered by overlapping flaps made of a flexible but resilient material through which cartridges may be inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 23, 1999
    Assignee: Daymen Photo Marketing Ltd
    Inventors: Douglas H. Murdoch, Lily Ewing, Michael Sturm
  • Patent number: 5686388
    Abstract: Concentrated, stable suspension of herbicidally active 1,3,5-triazines in a solution of pyridate in organic solvents or mixtures thereof, in which at 0.degree. C. pyridate is at least 10% by weight soluble and the 1,3,5-triazines are at most 1% by weight soluble, together with emulsifiers, as well as its use and a method for controlling weeds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 11, 1997
    Inventors: Rudolf Schneider, Harald Leitner, Hermann Tramberger, Michael Sturm, Engelbert Auer
  • Patent number: 4872311
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine exhaust system is connected to a controlled manifold for selectively varying the manifold output to an exhaust gas driven turbine which is connected by a clutch to the engine output shaft. The control of the manifold includes selective delivery to a muffler. The clutch is of the hydraulic type. The engine includes a variable speed transmission having a control which is connected to the control of the manifold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 10, 1989
    Inventor: Michael Sturm
  • Patent number: 4685641
    Abstract: A transient air and surface contact vehicle for transporting a person has a fuselage structure for carrying a person. A vehicle support extends from the structure and abuts a surface and thereby supports the vehicle at a predetermined distance above the surface. A buoyancy control device mounted on the structure and on the vehicle support provides for the buoyancy required to keep the vehicle afloat while stationary and at low speeds. At high speed the dynamic pressures generated at the bottom of the struts provide the supporting forces. A power source is mounted on the structure for moving the vehicle along the surface at the predetermined distance above the surface. A position control mounted on the structure produces a positive pitching moment to cause the vehicle to become airborne, a negative pitching moment to maintain the vehicle in surface-following contact with the surface and both moments to control the altitude of the vehicle when it is airborne.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 1985
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1987
    Assignee: Grumman Aerospace Corporation
    Inventors: Jerome Kirsch, M. Alan Kopsco, Edward Markow, Michael Sturm
  • Patent number: 4505442
    Abstract: A transient surface contact vehicle for transporting a load from a surface starting point to a surface end point has a structure for carrying the load from the starting point to the end point. A vehicle support extends from the structure. A buoyancy control device mounted in the structure is coupled to the vehicle support for selectively making the support buoyant and non-buoyant whereby when the support is buoyant it abuts the surface of a body of water thereby supporting the vehicle at a predetermined distance above the surface of the body of water. An acquisition sensor mounted on the structure initiates water surface operations. A sensor is mounted on the structure and cooperates with the acquisition sensor to energize upon tracking of the target and to move the vehicle along the water surface to impact with the target at the end point. A position control mounted on the vehicle produces a negative pitching moment to maintain the structure in surface-following contact with the body of water.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1985
    Assignee: Grumman Aerospace Corporation
    Inventors: Jerome Kirsch, M. Alan Kopsco, Edward Markow, Michael Sturm
  • Patent number: 4505441
    Abstract: A terrain-following transient surface contact vehicle for transporting a load from a surface starting point to a surface end point has a structure for carrying the load from the starting point to the end point. A vehicle support extends from the structure and abuts the surface and thereby supports the vehicle at a predetermined distance above the surface. An acquisition sensor mounted on the structure initiates surface operations. A sensor is mounted on the structure and cooperates with the acquisition sensor to sense and track a target at the end point upon initiation of surface operations. A power source is mounted on the structure and cooperates with the sensor to energize upon tracking of the target and to move the vehicle along the surface to impact with the target at the end point. A position control mounted on the vehicle produces a negative pitching moment to maintain the structure in terrain-following contact with the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 1983
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1985
    Assignee: Grumman Aerospace Corporation
    Inventors: Jerome Kirsch, M. Alan Kopsco, Edward Markow, Michael Sturm
  • Patent number: 4082183
    Abstract: A wrist watch is held on a display stand including a base, laterally spaced legs depending from the base for supporting the display stand on a support surface, an arcuate lower member extending upwardly from the rear portion of the base, and a flexible, generally, inverted J-shaped cuff member extending upwardly from the front portion of the base and terminating in a free end spaced from the upper edge of the arcuate lower member. The back of the watch is received in a pocket defined by a pair of arcuate segments located on the front portion of the cuff member with one portion of the wristband extending beneath the base and over the lower member and the other portion extending around the upper portion of the cuff member. The cuff member has sufficient built-in flexibility to accommodate continuous wristbands of different sizes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1976
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1978
    Assignee: Display Corporation International
    Inventor: Michael Sturm