Patents by Inventor Ralf Olbertz

Ralf Olbertz 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).

  • Spring contact element
    Patent number: 7587244
    Abstract: A contact arrangement for connecting an electrode line to an implantable device, comprises an electrical connecting socket with a socket longitudinal axis and at least one opening for the insertion of a plug along the socket longitudinal axis. The arrangement includes at least one electrically conductive spring contact element, arranged and adapted to deflect resiliently elastically outwardly upon insertion of a plug, by compression in a spring deflection direction extending transversely with respect to the socket longitudinal axis and providing a spring force acting in opposition to the compression. The arrangement has a spring contact element with an integral metallic spring contact tongue, with spring contact tongue portions which extend transversely with respect to the spring deflection direction and which are connected together by turn portions. The turn portions occurring in immediate succession in the spring deflection direction are turned towards each other with respectively opposite turn directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2005
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2009
    Assignee: Biotronik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Ralf Olbertz
  • Spring contact element
    Publication number: 20060004419
    Abstract: A contact arrangement for connecting an electrode line to an implantable device, comprises an electrical connecting socket with a socket longitudinal axis and at least one opening for the insertion of a plug along the socket longitudinal axis. The arrangement includes at least one electrically conductive spring contact element, arranged and adapted to deflect resiliently elastically outwardly upon insertion of a plug, by compression in a spring deflection direction extending transversely with respect to the socket longitudinal axis and providing a spring force acting in opposition to the compression. The arrangement has a spring contact element with an integral metallic spring contact tongue, with spring contact tongue portions which extend transversely with respect to the spring deflection direction and which are connected together by turn portions. The turn portions occurring in immediate succession in the spring deflection direction are turned towards each other with respectively opposite turn directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2005
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Inventor: Ralf Olbertz