Patents by Inventor Walter Furrer

Walter Furrer 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).

  • Guide roller having magnets and bushings to stabilize a roller barrel for a tape medium
    Patent number: 11994169
    Abstract: Provided are a tape guide roller and tape drive having a guide roller having magnets and bushings to stabilize a roller barrel for a tape medium. The tape guide roller has a roller barrel extending around a vertical axis. The tape medium passes across the roller barrel to guide the tape medium on a tape path. A plurality of magnets positioned with respect to the vertical axis provide an axial force to stabilize the tape guide roller axially.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kevin Bruce Judd, Walter Haeberle, Simeon Furrer, Mark Alfred Lantz, Armando Argumedo
  • Housing with a sealing body, a sealing body for the housing and a method for producing the sealing body
    Patent number: 10530139
    Abstract: A housing for measuring instruments has a sealing element with conductor guides for guiding insulated conductors therethrough. The sealing element is prefabricated. The conductor ends of the conductors are at least partly stripped. A transition point between the insulated conductor and the partly stripped conductor end is located in the conductor guide within the sealing element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: GWF Messsysteme AG
    Inventors: Jörg Wyss, Ralph Kayser, Samuel Hubacher, Walter Furrer, Thomas Frey
  • HOUSING WITH A SEALING BODY, A SEALING BODY FOR THE HOUSING AND A METHOD FOR PRODUCING THE SEALING BODY
    Publication number: 20170214233
    Abstract: A housing for measuring instruments has a sealing element with conductor guides for guiding insulated conductors therethrough. The sealing element is prefabricated. The conductor ends of the conductors are at least partly stripped. A transition point between the insulated conductor and the partly stripped conductor end is located in the conductor guide within the sealing element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2015
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventors: Jörg Wyss, Ralph Kayser, Samuel Hubacher, Walter Furrer, Thomas Frey