Patents by Inventor Thomas Wildermuth

Thomas Wildermuth 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).

  • Pliable heating device
    Patent number: 9844098
    Abstract: A pliable heating device having a flexible electrical heating apparatus, which is operated by a control device and which has at least one flexible heating element that is connected to a flexible support and that has a heating conductor, which is situated in a heating circuit, and a flexible sensor conductor, which is separated from the heating conductor by an intermediate insulation, having a dampable oscillator, which is contained in the control device and is connected to the sensor conductor and whose output signal can be varied as a function of various functional states of the heating apparatus, which functional states are detected by the sensor conductor, and having an evaluation device by which fault states can be detected from the output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Beurer GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Köhler, Ernst Merk, Thomas Wildermuth
  • PLIABLE HEATING DEVICE
    Publication number: 20150014303
    Abstract: A pliable heating device having a flexible electrical heating apparatus, which is operated by a control device and which has at least one flexible heating element that is connected to a flexible support and that has a heating conductor, which is situated in a heating circuit, and a flexible sensor conductor, which is separated from the heating conductor by an intermediate insulation, having a dampable oscillator, which is contained in the control device and is connected to the sensor conductor and whose output signal can be varied as a function of various functional states of the heating apparatus, which functional states are detected by the sensor conductor, and having an evaluation device by which fault states can be detected from the output signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2012
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Ralf Köhler, Ernst Merk, Thomas Wildermuth