Patents by Inventor Peter BRETZ

Peter BRETZ 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: 20250169011
    Abstract: A field device assembly for process and automation technology, including a housing and at least one first chamber and one second chamber arranged in the housing. At least one first module is arranged in the first chamber and at least one second module is arranged in the second chamber. The two chambers (are connected via at least one passage. The field device assembly also includes an electrical connecting element that is guided in at least one passage, the electrical connecting element being provided to establish an electrical connection between the first module and the second module. The electrical connecting element is made up, at least in part, of rigid sections and flexible sections and is provided with contact surfaces or contact elements for contacting the modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2024
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Applicant: WIKA Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Philipp MEDWED, Alexander KOCH, Peter BRETZ
  • Publication number: 20240103473
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a transmission unit for use in measurement technology, a field device, a method for calibration of and/or error detection in a transmission unit, a diagnostic measure and a display unit. The display unit may be or is detachably connected with the evaluation unit, in which at least one diagnostic measure, comprising at least one test of a functionality of the evaluation unit, may be triggered over the display unit and/or the evaluation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Peter Bretz, Markus Diener, Martin Kullmann
  • Patent number: 11009420
    Abstract: A housing for a measuring device for accommodating a transmission unit for transmitting data, and/or display unit for the readout of data, and a terminal unit provided for supplying electric power to the measuring device, having at least two housing compartments, wherein the transmission unit and/or the display unit and the terminal unit can each be arranged in different housing compartments, and axes of the housing compartments formed in each case by a surface normal of an outward facing housing opening of a housing compartment, or axes formed in each case by a surface normal of the cap closing the housing openings, cross one another. A measuring device is also provided that includes the housing, and a transmission and analysis system that includes such a measuring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: WIKA Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ulrich Demuth, Peter Bretz, Markus Diener, Thomas Rothenbach
  • Publication number: 20180328805
    Abstract: A housing for a measuring device for accommodating a transmission unit for transmitting data, and/or display unit for the readout of data, and a terminal unit provided for supplying electric power to the measuring device, having at least two housing compartments, wherein the transmission unit and/or the display unit and the terminal unit can each be arranged in different housing compartments, and axes of the housing compartments formed in each case by a surface normal of an outward facing housing opening of a housing compartment, or axes formed in each case by a surface normal of the cap closing the housing openings, cross one another. A measuring device is also provided that includes the housing, and a transmission and analysis system that includes such a measuring device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Applicant: WIKA Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ulrich DEMUTH, Peter BRETZ, Markus DIENER, Thomas ROTHENBACH
  • Patent number: D961673
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: WIKA Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ulrich Demuth, Peter Bretz, Sandra Hefner
  • Patent number: D1046635
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: Wika Alexander Wiegand SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Sebastian Binder, Peter Bretz, Ulrich Staab