Patents by Inventor Robert Fuerst

Robert Fuerst 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: 20130319963
    Abstract: The invention provides a packaging and display box that can be bundled and transported in an unassembled, compact blank. The packaging and display box can be quickly, easily, and conveniently assembled into a structurally and functionally stable display and deployed for commercial use. The packaging and display box can contain and display a variety of merchandise, including, but not limited to, packaged food products, consumer products, and the like. The packaging and display box provides modularity so that several assembled boxes can be stacked into a multi-box display that is also structurally and functionally stable. The invention also provides methods and systems for using the packaging and display box.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2012
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: Tri-State Container Corporation
    Inventors: Matthew Coon, Walter Spade, IV, Robert Fuerst, Daniel Forster, Michael Macchi, Allen Friedman
  • Patent number: 7476906
    Abstract: The invention relates to a photodiode array comprising a photodiode and a submount, via which the photodiode is contacted, said photodiode and said submount being interlinked by eutectic bonding. The invention further relates to a method for establishing a link between a first semiconductor element and a second semiconductor element which have different outer contours, the two elements being interlinked by eutectic bonding when already being present as a wafer composite. The two interlinked wafers are subdivided one by one and independently of each other in accordance with the desired outer contour.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2009
    Assignee: Osram Opto Semiconductors GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Fürst, Mathias Kämpf, Melanie Ring, Frank Singer
  • Patent number: 7371431
    Abstract: In the method of producing smaller, sheet glass plates having a predetermined geometry and lateral dimensions in the millimeter range from a larger sheet glass plate, a joining material is imprinted on one side of the larger sheet glass plate in accordance with a joining zone geometry of the smaller, sheet glass plates. Dividing lines along which the smaller, sheet glass plates are separated are specified on the larger sheet glass plate. Then the smaller, sheet glass plates are separated along the dividing lines together with the imprinted joining material into individual sheet glass plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Christian Dietz, Robert Fuerst, Christoph Hermanns, Heinrich Ostendarp, Dietrich Mund
  • Patent number: 7361055
    Abstract: A modular filter connector (10) includes an outer housing (12) having a cavity. A plurality of inner housing modules (16) are positionable in the cavity in a side-by-side array. At least one terminal (28) is mounted in each housing module to define at least one row of terminals along the cavity. A filter (34) is mounted in each housing module electrically coupled to each terminal to define at least one row of filters. A common shorting bar (36) spans the plurality of housing modules and is electrically coupled to the plurality of filters of the modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2008
    Assignee: Molex Incorporated
    Inventor: Robert Fuerst
  • Publication number: 20080020645
    Abstract: A filter connector such as one suitable for suppressing electromagnetic interference, radio frequency interference or both is provided according to an assembly approach that reduces cost. Included is a unitary spring plate that overlies the plug portion of the filter connector and biases the filter components up against the terminals of the connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2007
    Publication date: January 24, 2008
    Inventors: Robert Fuerst, Duane Fencl, Russel Mackowiak
  • Publication number: 20060160425
    Abstract: A filter connector includes a dielectric housing having a mounting face. At least one row of terminal-receiving passages are formed in the housing through the mounting face. A row of filter-receiving pockets are formed in the housing through the mounting face respectively in alignment with the passages, and with one side of each pocket communicating with its respective passage. A slot is formed in the mounting face of the housing and extends along the row of pockets in communication with opposite sides thereof. A plurality of terminals are mounted into the passages. A plurality of filters are inserted into the pockets through the mounting face, with one side of the filters respectively engageable with the terminals. A single shorting bar is inserted into the slot in the housing through the mounting face and into engagement with opposite sides of the filters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2005
    Publication date: July 20, 2006
    Inventor: Robert Fuerst
  • Publication number: 20060157401
    Abstract: A modular filter connector (10) includes an outer housing (12) having a cavity. A plurality of inner housing modules (16) are positionable in the cavity in a side-by-side array. At least one terminal (28) is mounted in each housing module to define at least one row of terminals along the cavity. A filter (34) is mounted in each housing module electrically coupled to each terminal to define at least one row of filters. A common shorting bar (36) spans the plurality of housing modules and is electrically coupled to the plurality of filters of the modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2005
    Publication date: July 20, 2006
    Inventor: Robert Fuerst
  • Publication number: 20050153595
    Abstract: A connector assembly is provided for removably interconnecting first conductors of a flat flexible circuit to a plurality of second conductors without the use of conductive terminals. The assembly includes a male connector having a relatively rigid male body member with an edge about which the flexible circuit is wrapped, and with the first conductors of the circuit facing away from the body member at the edge thereof. An adapter or other female connecting device includes a first receptacle for receiving the male connector inserted edge-first into the first receptacle. A second receptacle receives the second conductors in position for engaging the first conductors of the flexible circuit at the edge of the male body member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2004
    Publication date: July 14, 2005
    Inventors: Robert Fuerst, Yves LePottier
  • Publication number: 20040134976
    Abstract: A system and method are disclosed for providing a solder joint between a pair of electrical devices which have juxtapositionable solderable portions. A solder material is provided between the solderable portions at the solder joint. A spacer material is suspended in the solder material to maintain the electrical devices spaced a predetermined distance from each other at the solder joint. The spacer material has a melting point higher than that of the solder material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2003
    Publication date: July 15, 2004
    Inventors: Frank Keyser, Robert Fuerst
  • Publication number: 20030148057
    Abstract: Small sheet glass plates (2) of this type with a predetermined geometrical structure are conventionally produced by being cut out of a larger sheet glass plate (1). The small sheet glass plates (2) that have been separated in this way, together with a jointing cement, in particular a solder frame (3) consisting of glass solder are then attached to other components, for example to be used in “electronic packaging”. In order to improve handling during the production and the jointing of the small sheet glass plates (2), the invention provides a larger sheet glass plate (2) which is patterned on both sides using a screen-printing or stencil-printing process and preferably using laser beam treatment along desired predetermined breaking points (5). Said larger glass plate can then be separated into smaller, patterned plates, i.e. the small sheet glass plates (2), whose shape is geometrically determined, by a simple preferably mechanical breaking process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2003
    Publication date: August 7, 2003
    Inventors: Christian Dietz, Robert Fuerst, Christoph Hermanns, Heinrich Ostendarp, Dietrich Mund