Patents by Inventor Thomas Fuhrmann

Thomas Fuhrmann 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).

  • Patent number: 6487397
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic device having a housing, which has a housing wall with openings for control elements and/or display elements. An external wall element, which at least partially covers the housing wall, is detachably connected to the housing. The external wall element has openings which are aligned with the openings in the housing wall. As a result, by using different external wall elements the external appearance of the electronic device can be easily modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2002
    Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones Ltd.
    Inventors: Thomas Fuhrmann, Annett Wilke, Dirk Umbach
  • Publication number: 20020080353
    Abstract: In an optical spectrum analyzer, the respective wavelength bandwidths of the optical spectrum analyzer are determined at the wavelengths of the reference lines and used as calibration data for determining measurement tolerances by means of reference lines of known wavelength and known wavelength bandwidths from the known wavelength bandwidths of the reference lines and from the wavelength bandwidths of the reference lines measured with the optical spectrum analyzer
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 1, 2001
    Publication date: June 27, 2002
    Inventors: Thomas Fuhrmann, Klaus Steininger
  • Publication number: 20020057792
    Abstract: An electronic radiotelephone comprising: a first housing; a second housing releasably attachable to the first housing to meet with the first housing around the periphery of the radiotelephone; and retaining means comprising a cover for holding the electronic components of the radiotelephone to the first housing when the second housing is released from attachment with the first housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 1998
    Publication date: May 16, 2002
    Inventors: THOMAS FUHRMANN, ANNETT ORTSCHEID, DIRK UMBACH, RICKY WILLIAM BARNETT, TERENCE JOHNSON, MARK ROBERT MASON, BRUCE SAMUELS, TONY HORNE
  • Publication number: 20020030698
    Abstract: Electronic organiser (10) with a calendar (11) in which appointments at least according to date, time and an individual description, for example a person to be visited, are variable. If the organiser (10) is provided with an interface (22) which can exchange data in respect of the appointments with an interface (22) existing on another device (21), the data recorded in the calendar (11) can be used to run the other device or the electronic organiser (10) can be controlled by the other device. Thus for example data recorded in the calendar (11) can be used by a navigation system for faster input of the destination, or for example departure appointments can be changed by the other device according to the traffic or other situations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2001
    Publication date: March 14, 2002
    Inventors: Reinhold Baur, Tero Valtonen, Turkka Keinonen, Anne Koppinen, Anne Kirjavainen, Maximiliano Roque-Cerna, Karsten Lehn, Markus Pazina, Wolfgang Theimer, Klaus Kespohl, Peter Buth, Cordula Conrady, Stephan Rastuttis, Thomas Fuhrmann, Minna Asikainen
  • Patent number: 6347218
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic device having a housing (1) which has a housing wall (5) with openings (7) for control elements (8) and/or display elements (9, 10). Attachment device (11) for detachably connecting to the housing (1) an external wall element (14) which at least partially covers the housing wall (5) being present on the housing (1), the external wall element (14) having openings (7′) which are aligned with the openings (7) in the housing wall (5). As a result, by using different external wall elements (14) the external appearance of the electronic device can be easily modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2002
    Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones Limited
    Inventors: Thomas Fuhrmann, Annett Wilke, Dirk Umbach
  • Publication number: 20010033711
    Abstract: In a light waveguide, the one end of which comprises a flat entering area for the light to be coupled into the core of the light waveguide, the entering area is narrower than the core diameter of the light waveguide and, around the entering area, the end of the light waveguide is laterally sloped up to the entering surface. Only the light which impinges on this entering area passes into the core and is guided therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2001
    Publication date: October 25, 2001
    Inventor: Thomas Fuhrmann
  • Patent number: 6300939
    Abstract: The present invention discloses an input device for providing data input comprising a moveable element, the moveable element is capable of rotating about an axis of rotation and displacement orthogonal to the direction of rotational movement, means for detecting said rotation and means for detecting said orthogonal displacement and means for translating said rotation and said orthogonal displacement into signals indicative of respective data inputs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2001
    Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones Ltd.
    Inventors: Peter Decker, Thomas Fuhrmann
  • Publication number: 20010024947
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic device having a housing (1) which has a housing wall (5) with openings (7) for control elements (8) and/or display elements (9, 10). Attachment means (11) for detachably connecting to the housing (1) an external wall element (14) which at least partially covers the housing wall (5) being present on the housing (1), the external wall element (14) having openings (7′) which are aligned with the openings (7) in the housing wall (5). As a result, by using different external wall elements (14) the external appearance of the electronic device can be easily modified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2001
    Publication date: September 27, 2001
    Inventors: Thomas Fuhrmann, Annett Wilke, Dirk umbach
  • Patent number: 6051780
    Abstract: Screening device against electromagnetic radiation, having a thin structural unit (2) which extends in a plane and is provided with walls (3) running essentially perpendicular to the plane, whereas the walls (3) themselves, at least in partial regions, are elastically deformable in the direction of the structural unit (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2000
    Assignee: Nokia Mobiles Phones Ltd.
    Inventors: Thomas Fuhrmann, Jurgen Matthies