Patents by Inventor Ulrich Merz
Ulrich Merz 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).
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Patent number: 12123440Abstract: An expansion connector connecting two furniture panels includes a bolt having a cylindrical bolt shaft with a bolt head opposite an expansion cone. A plastics expansion sleeve is mounted displaceably on the bolt having at least two expansion tabs, each of which has a radially outwardly protruding collar. The expansion sleeve can be transferred, by a displacement relative to the bolt, from a non-expanded starting position into an expanded end position where the expansion tabs are radially outwardly expanded. In the starting position, the expansion tabs bear against the bolt shaft by a guide portion and divides the expansion tabs into a first tab portion facing the bolt head and a second tab portion facing away from the bolt head. The first tab portions are radially spaced apart from the bolt shaft, and, in the end position, the expansion tabs are each pivoted about the edge of the guide portion.Type: GrantFiled: August 24, 2021Date of Patent: October 22, 2024Assignee: Häfele Berlin GmbH & Co KGInventor: Ulrich Merz
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Publication number: 20240122447Abstract: An intubation system includes an intubation instrument for capturing an image. The intubation instrument has a first interface for providing an image signal representing the captured image, a display device with a second interface for receiving the image signal, wherein the display device is provided and designed to display the image captured by the intubation instrument, and a cable with a third interface at a first end of the cable and with a fourth interface at a second end of the cable. The interfaces are designed such that the first interface at the intubation instrument is connectable directly to the second interface at the display device and is alternatively connectable directly to the third interface at the cable, and such that the second interface at the display device is connectable directly to the first interface at the intubation instrument and alternatively connectable directly to the fourth interface at the cable.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2023Publication date: April 18, 2024Applicant: KARL STORZ SE & Co. KGInventors: Ulrich Merz, Eugenia Fuhr, Toralf Popp, Urs Vogel
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Patent number: 11889978Abstract: An intubation system includes an intubation instrument for capturing an image, wherein the intubation instrument has a first interface for providing an image signal representing the captured image, a display device with a second interface for receiving the image signal, wherein the display device is provided and designed to display the image captured by the intubation instrument, and a cable with a third interface at a first end of the cable and with a fourth interface at a second end of the cable. The first, second, third, and fourth interfaces are designed such that the first interface at the intubation instrument is connectable directly to the second interface at the display device and is alternatively connectable directly to the third interface at the cable, and such that the second interface at the display device is connectable directly to the first interface at the intubation instrument and is alternatively connectable directly to the fourth interface at the cable.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2020Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: KARL STORZ SE & CO. KGInventors: Ulrich Merz, Eugenia Fuhr, Toralf Popp, Urs Vogel
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Publication number: 20230243373Abstract: A doubling-up fitting includes a clamp element with a clamp base and at least two clamp arms rising from the clamp base at its ends. The free clamp ends are angled inward and extend over the clamp base. A rotatably mounted spreading disc is arranged between the clamp base and the free clamp ends. A disc opening leads into a recess in the spreading disc where the diameter is greater than the disc opening diameter. A plurality of outer contour portions spread the free clamp ends radially outward less far in an initial rotational position of the spreading disc than in a final rotational position. An adjusting disc arranged in the recess of the spreading disc has a thread. The outer diameter of the adjusting disc is smaller than the diameter of the recess in the spreading disc and larger than the opening diameter of the disc opening.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2023Publication date: August 3, 2023Applicant: Häfele Berlin GmbH & Co KGInventors: Gerd Sawatzki, Ulrich Merz
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Publication number: 20230096589Abstract: A fitting for connecting two parts includes a cup-shaped housing for insertion into an open-edge bore in the one part. Two double-armed levers are connected in an articulated manner about an axis running, in the housing, parallel to the cup axis and which each have an inner lever arm which is arranged in the housing and an outer lever arm which projects outwards beyond the circumference of the housing and is intended for engaging in a surface-area bore in the other part. A handle can be moved from a starting position into an end position and has an actuating element for rotating the inner lever arms in relation to one another such that the two outer lever arms are spread further apart in the end position of the handle than in the starting position.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2022Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: Häfele Berlin GmbH & Co KGInventors: Lorenz Arnold, Ulrich Merz
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Publication number: 20220061530Abstract: A corner fitting includes a strip-like base member for a clamping connection between two furniture panels which are arranged substantially perpendicularly to each other. A lip protrudes from the corner fitting in an end region of the base member along at least a portion of the width. In the opposing end region of the base member a pin protrudes, wherein the lip and the pin protrude at the same side of the base member substantially in the same direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2021Publication date: March 3, 2022Applicant: Häfele Berlin GmbH & Co KGInventor: Ulrich Merz
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Publication number: 20210381538Abstract: An expansion connector connecting two furniture panels includes a bolt having a cylindrical bolt shaft with a bolt head opposite an expansion cone. A plastics expansion sleeve is mounted displaceably on the bolt having at least two expansion tabs, each of which has a radially outwardly protruding collar. The expansion sleeve can be transferred, by a displacement relative to the bolt, from a non-expanded starting position into an expanded end position where the expansion tabs are radially outwardly expanded. In the starting position, the expansion tabs bear against the bolt shaft by a guide portion and divides the expansion tabs into a first tab portion facing the bolt head and a second tab portion facing away from the bolt head. The first tab portions are radially spaced apart from the bolt shaft, and, in the end position, the expansion tabs are each pivoted about the edge of the guide portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2021Publication date: December 9, 2021Applicant: Häfele Berlin GmbH & Co KGInventor: Ulrich Merz
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Publication number: 20210085154Abstract: An intubation system includes an intubation instrument for capturing an image, wherein the intubation instrument has a first interface for providing an image signal representing the captured image, a display device with a second interface for receiving the image signal, wherein the display device is provided and designed to display the image captured by the intubation instrument, and a cable with a third interface at a first end of the cable and with a fourth interface at a second end of the cable. The first, second, third, and fourth interfaces are designed such that the first interface at the intubation instrument is connectable directly to the second interface at the display device and is alternatively connectable directly to the third interface at the cable, and such that the second interface at the display device is connectable directly to the first interface at the intubation instrument and is alternatively connectable directly to the fourth interface at the cable.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Inventors: Ulrich Merz, Eugenia Fuhr, Toralf Popp, Urs Vogel
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Patent number: 10888213Abstract: An intubation system includes an intubation instrument for capturing an image, wherein the intubation instrument has a first interface for providing an image signal representing the captured image, a display device with a second interface for receiving the image signal, wherein the display device is provided and designed to display the image captured by the intubation instrument, and a cable with a third interface at a first end of the cable and with a fourth interface at a second end of the cable. The first, second, third, and fourth interfaces are designed such that the first interface at the intubation instrument is connectable directly to the second interface at the display device and is alternatively connectable directly to the third interface at the cable, and such that the second interface at the display device is connectable directly to the first interface at the intubation instrument and is alternatively connectable directly to the fourth interface at the cable.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2017Date of Patent: January 12, 2021Assignee: Karl Storz SE & Co. KGInventors: Ulrich Merz, Eugenia Fuhr, Toralf Popp, Urs Vogel
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Patent number: 10729317Abstract: An intubation instrument includes a proximal end and a distal end, a handle positioned at the proximal end, a control interface disposed on or proximate to the handle, the control interface being configured to receive user input and to control a function of the instrument based on said user input, the control interface having a light source disposed within the control interface to illuminate at least a portion of the control interface, the light source alternately emitting light in different colors, each color indicating a different state of the function of the instrument. The instrument includes an imaging system for generating image data, and a monitor for displaying the image data and a graphical interface. A section of the graphical interface includes information about the state of the instrument and is displayed in a color corresponding to the color of light emitted by the light source of the control interface.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2017Date of Patent: August 4, 2020Assignee: Karl Storz SE & Co. KGInventors: Armin Eggli, Cyrill Künzle, Dieter Hüls, Ulrich Merz
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Patent number: 10646112Abstract: An adaptive blade for a laryngoscope includes a proximal end, which is mechanically connectable or connected to a handle in order to form an adaptive laryngoscope, a first flexible bar, which extends from the proximal end of the adaptive blade to the distal end thereof, and a second flexible bar, which extends from the proximal end of the adaptive blade to the distal end thereof. At the distal end of the adaptive blade, the flexible bars are connected to each other mechanically rigidly or in an articulated manner. In the proximal direction from the distal end of the adaptive blade, the flexible bars are mechanically connected to each other in such a way that they are movable relative to each other substantially in their longitudinal directions.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Karl Storz SE & Co. KGInventors: Vincent Nettelroth, Roland Hagen, Christopher Deppisch, Marcus Brechtold, Ulrich Merz, Eugenia Fuhr, Petra Kupferschmid, Andreas Efinger, Ralf Staud
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Patent number: D858763Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2017Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: KARL STORZ GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Fabian Zimmerli, Dieter Huels, Christian Huber, Juerg Attinger, Thomas Breinlinger, Irina Kolokolov, Ulrich Merz
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Patent number: D858764Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2017Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: KARL STORZ SE & Co. KGInventors: Fabian Zimmerli, Dieter Huels, Michael Mueri, Juerg Attinger, Thomas Breinlinger, Irina Kolokolov, Ulrich Merz
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Patent number: D859655Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2017Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: KARL STORZ SE & Co. KGInventors: Fabian Zimmerli, Dieter Huels, Christian Huber, Juerg Attinger, Thomas Breinlinger, Irina Kolokolov, Ulrich Merz
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Patent number: D859656Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2017Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: KARL STORZ SE & Co. KGInventors: Fabian Zimmerli, Dieter Huels, Christian Huber, Juerg Attinger, Thomas Breinlinger, Irina Kolokolov, Ulrich Merz
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Patent number: D865169Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 2017Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: KARL STORZ SE & Co. KGInventors: Fabian Zimmerli, Dieter Huels, Michael Mueri, Juerg Attinger, Thomas Breinlinger, Irina Kolokolov, Ulrich Merz
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Patent number: D865959Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2016Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: KARL STORZ SE & Co. KGInventors: Dieter Huels, Christian Huber, Fabian Zimmerli, Ulrich Merz, Eugenia Fuhr
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Patent number: D868964Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2016Date of Patent: December 3, 2019Assignee: KARL STORZ SE & Co. KGInventors: Dieter Huels, Christian Huber, Fabian Zimmerli, Ulrich Merz, Eugenia Fuhr
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Patent number: D870884Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2017Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: KARL STORZ SE & Co. KGInventors: Dieter Huels, Christian Huber, Fabian Zimmerli, Ulrich Merz, Eugenia Fuhr
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Patent number: D877331Type: GrantFiled: January 26, 2018Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: KARL STORZ SE & Co. KGInventors: Dieter Huels, Christian Huber, Fabian Zimmerli, Ulrich Merz, Eugenia Fuhr