Patents by Inventor Uwe Urban

Uwe Urban 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).

  • Multimedia communication terminal
    Patent number: 6606384
    Abstract: A channel (20) for accommodating a fully or partially cylindrical body (22) is formed above a visual display unit (16) in a multimedia communications terminal (10) having a console-like housing (12). This body (22) comprises a central body element (26) in which a video camera is installed, and at least one projection (28; 30) on which a rest (42) for a telephone handset (44) is integrally formed, or a card reader for telephone calls is also installed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2003
    Assignee: Wincor Nixdorf GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Bernd Kruse, Bernhard Lutz, Udo Tewes, Uwe Urban
  • Mail handling process and device
    Patent number: 6169978
    Abstract: A process and device for automaticaly posting virtually and item of mail wherein the item of mail is deposited on a handling surface and images of the item of are processed by an electronic camera.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernhard Lutz, Udo Tewes, Uwe Urban, Holger Kremer, Hans Walter Fl{umlaut over (u)}ckiger, Stefan Sieber
  • Device for preparing and applying labels and a method of operation thereof
    Patent number: 6080250
    Abstract: A device for preparing and applying labels and a method of operating said device is provided. The device includes three parts: a roller transport track, a label dispenser and a label manipulator. The latter can pick up a label deposited by the label dispenser on the roller transport track and stick it at a predetermined point onto an object arranged in any desired way in a three-dimensional space.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2000
    Assignee: Siemens Nixdorf Informationssysteme AG
    Inventors: Uwe Urban, Bernhard Lutz, Udo Tewes, Thomas Luthi, Heinz Strohdiek
  • Road sweeping machine
    Patent number: 5901409
    Abstract: In order that a road-sweeping machine with a chassis, with unsteered rear wheels and steered front wheels, with an engine which is disposed substantially above the rear wheels and drives them, with a seat near the engine and with a sweeping roller disposed on the underside of the chassis between the front and rear wheels at right angles to the direction of travel, and with a dirt collector, may be constructed in such a way that it has a compact construction of simple design and has a good sweeping effect whilst producing little dust, it is proposed that the dirt collector is disposed between the front and rear wheels adjacent to the sweeping roller and is connected by way of a suction line to a suction unit, and that the engine is disposed with the output shaft directed substantially vertically, the output shaft projecting upwards and downwards out of the engine, wherein the upwardly projecting portion thereof drives the suction unit and the downwardly projecting portion drives the rear wheels and the sweepin
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1999
    Assignee: Alfred Karcher GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Roland Schick, Uwe Urban, Eberhard Veit