Patents by Inventor Torsten Körting

Torsten Körting 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).

  • Circuit board test device comprising contact needles which are driven in diagonally protruding manner
    Patent number: 7336087
    Abstract: The invention relates to printed circuit board test devices (1) comprising a support (4) receiving a circuit board (5) by said board's edges, said board being designed to be fitted as needed with electrical or electronic components (20), said devices further comprising at least one needle (15) which is connected to an electrical test device (17) and which shall electrically contact contact areas (21) on the board (5), the needle (15) being obliquely displaceable by a needle drive (13) in the needle direction, the needle drive being adjustable—by at least one holding-fixture drive (8)—in a adjustment plane (7) which is parallel to the circuit board (5), the drives (8, 13) being actuated by a needle control (10) to spatially position the needle tip (18) at a predetermined spatial coordinate, said devices (1) being characterized in that it includes a distance measuring device (25, 13?) designed to measure the distance between the adjustment plane (7) and the circuit board (5, 5?) at least at one site and to tran
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2008
    Assignee: Scorpion Technologies AG
    Inventors: Torsten Körting, Clayton Depue, Thomas Lück