Patents by Inventor Rudolf Miller

Rudolf Miller 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: 20020095902
    Abstract: In a wall element (1, 2) for a mobile dividing wall with a wall member (3) and a border profile (4), the said profile comprises a base member (G), which is firmly joined to the wall member (3), and a revolving element (10, 10′) mounted therein to turn around its axis (15). The base member (G) comprises two lips (18) bearing substantially against the revolving element (10, 10′). The revolving element (10, 10′) is coated on part of its surface with burr material (16) and is otherwise provided with at least one further surface structure. Depending on the angular position of the revolving element, the burr material (16) or alternatively the different surface structure or one of the different surface structures is exposed externally between the two lips (18).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2001
    Publication date: July 25, 2002
    Inventors: Rudolf Miller, Karl-Heinz Auer
  • Patent number: 4795355
    Abstract: A movable panel member incorporating an integrated electrical current distributing busbar which, for the electrification of work stations in particular, forms a screen, partition, table top, table frame, shelf, cupboard, or the like. Adapters are detachably insertable in the current distributing busbar for the supply and distribution of current. The panel member comprises at least along one edge, a channel member forming a current duct in which there is inserted a current distributing busbar, and a communication duct, separated from the current duct by means of a partition for the accommodation of communication cables. The inlet ends of both ducts are open in opposite directions on opposite sides of the panel, and they are adapted to be closed off by means of detachable covers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 3, 1989
    Assignee: E C O GmbH Elektric Concept for Offices Produktion + Marketing
    Inventors: Uwe Dorn, Horst Meyer, Hans-Georg Piorek, Rudolf Miller