Patents by Inventor Werner Koerber

Werner Koerber 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).

  • Publication number: 20210263881
    Abstract: A computer system, including a computing module, a communication module, and at least one I/O interface is described. The computing module includes a COM Express module and/or a COM HPC module. The communication module includes a SMARC module and/or a Qseven module. The communication module has an FPGA module which is connected in a signal-transmitting manner to the computing module and to the at least one I/O interface. The FPGA module is configured to communicate with the computing module based on at least one first communication standard, and to communicate with the at least one I/O interface based on at least one second communication standard. The FPGA module is configured to convert signals from the least one first communication standard to the at least one second communication standard and vice versa. The computing module is configured as a host, and the communication module is configured as a client. A method of operating a computer system is furthermore described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Applicant: HEITEC AG
    Inventors: Alexander Jäger, Werner Körber
  • Patent number: 7606045
    Abstract: A head or bottom element of a component support, having guide rails arranged side-by-side and aligned in an insertion direction for receiving a printed circuit board of a plug-in module, wherein the guide rails are formed by one-piece guide elements of the head or bottom element. The guide elements can be formed of two rows of several guide strips per guide rail, each of which extends in the insertion direction, which strips are punched out of a plate-shaped head or bottom element and are projectingly beveled in the direction toward an underside of the head element or a top of the bottom element. A distance of the guide strips of the guide rails is matched to the thickness of the printed circuit boards of the plug-in modules. The head or bottom element forms guide paths for the printed circuit boards of the plug-in modules between the rows of guide strips of the guide rails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: RITTAL RES Electronic Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Eike Waltz, Werner Körber, Kurt Schaffer
  • Patent number: 7520787
    Abstract: A device for detachable electrical connection of a contact pin to a sheet metal component. According to this invention, a durable conducting connection of the contact pin to the sheet metal component may be achieved, whereby the sheet metal component has at least one perforation, in which a sleeve for a contact element is housed in an electrically-conducting manner, enclosing a spring element. The contact pin is housed in the sleeve by the spring element in the assembled position and the contact pin and the sleeve are electrically connected to the sheet metal component by the spring element. This arrangement has a particularly high current-carrying capacity as a result of the spring arrangement housed in the sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2009
    Assignee: RITTAL RES Electronic Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Eike Waltz, Werner Körber, Kurt Schaffer
  • Patent number: 7466559
    Abstract: A component support having two or more module carriers aligned with each other in a direction across a width of a component support. The module carriers have two insert card guidance devices connected with each other via a support element so that guides of the insert card guidance devices, which extend in the direction of the depth of the component support, form receivers for one or several insert cards. The insert cards are electrically connected to a rear support by plug-in connections, and the module carriers are releasably connected with the support so that the removal of a single arbitrary module carrier from the row of the module carriers is possible. The component can be individually matched in a simple manner to different applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 16, 2008
    Assignee: RITTAL RES Electronic Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Werner Körber, Eike Waltz
  • Patent number: 7428148
    Abstract: A component support having at least one insert card reception chamber with two insert card guidance devices, which have oppositely located guides for receiving at least one insert card. The guides are arranged and spaced apart from each other by a size of a height of the insert card. Insert cards of different structural height can be installed in the component support if the insert card receptacle is divided at a half of the height between the two guides by a guide rail. The guide rails, together with the guides of the insert card guidance devices, form partial receptacles, into which printed circuit boards of a reduced insert card height can be introduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2008
    Assignee: RITTAL RES Electronic Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Eike Waltz, Werner Körber
  • Patent number: 7165984
    Abstract: An operating element having an end piece, which is arranged for connecting to a printed circuit board and a front plate. An operating lever is rotatably mounted on the end piece. The operating lever has at least one grip section and one on and/or off lever piece, which are at least partly made from a wear-resistant material. Such a design has the particular advantage that part of the operating element which performs an on and/or off lever action, the on and/or off lever piece, opposite the section of the operating element to manipulate, the handle, is at least partly made from a wear-resistant material. The complete unit is thus rendered significantly more robust without sacrificing ergonomics of the grip piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2007
    Assignee: Rittal RES Electronic Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ralf Behrens, Werner Körber, Siegfried Kurrer, Kurt-Michael Schaffer
  • Patent number: 7142432
    Abstract: An operating element for the engaging and extraction of planar sub-assemblies, with a display element in the operating lever, a front element for a planar sub-assembly with operating element and component support for accommodating planar sub-assemblies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2006
    Assignee: Rittal Electronic Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Werner Koerber, Kurt Michael Schaffer, Ralf Behrens
  • Patent number: 7130199
    Abstract: An operating element for engaging and extraction of a planar sub-assembly with an end-piece prepared for connection to the planar sub-assembly. An operating lever rotatably mounted on the end-piece has at least one grip section and a locking element which may be displaced, in particular shifted between at least two switch positions, whereby in a first switch position, the operating lever is held in a state with the planar sub-assembly in an engaged position and in a second switch position, the operating lever is released for extraction. The operating lever has at least one combined display/switching element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2006
    Assignee: Rittal RES Electronic Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Werner Koerber, Kurt Michael Schaffer, Ralf Behrens
  • Patent number: 7044753
    Abstract: A contact assembly having a spring contact strip and a contact element, in particular, a subrack front panel. The spring contact strip has a contact limb that is bent over, with an end that can be freely pivoted. To improve the mechanical stability of the spring contact strip, the inventive contact limb extends an entire length of the spring contact strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Rittal RES Electronic Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Kurt-Michael Schaffer, Eike Waltz, Werner Körber
  • Patent number: 6924430
    Abstract: An actuating element for inserting and removing a flat module by leverage, the element having an end piece designed to be connected to a flat module. An actuating lever, which is pivotally mounted on the end piece, has at least one grip section and a locking element, which can be displaced, particularly slid between two connection positions. In a first connection position, the actuating lever retains the flat module in its inserted state and in a second connection position, the actuating lever is released to remove the module by leverage. The actuating element has a connecting element, which is activated in the first connection position of the locking element, which can be displaced into a third connection position, in which the actuating lever is retained in the first position, corresponding to the inserted state of the flat module and in which the connecting element is disconnected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2005
    Assignee: Rittal Electronics Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Werner Koerber, Kurt Michael Schaffer, Ralf Behrens
  • Publication number: 20040099072
    Abstract: The invention relates to an actuating element for inserting and removing a flat module (2) by leverage, said element comprising an end piece (1) designed to be connected to a flat module (2). An actuating lever (4), which is pivotally mounted on the end piece (1), has at least one grip section (5) and a locking element (6), which can be displaced, in particular, slid between two connection positions (A, B). In a first connection position (A), the actuating lever (4) retains the flat module (2) in its inserted state and in a second connection position (B), the actuating lever (4) is released to remove the module by leverage. The actuating element has a connecting element (25), which is activated in the first connection position (A) of the locking element (6). The latter (6) can be displaced into a third connection position (C), in which the actuating lever (4) is retained in the first position, corresponding to the inserted state of the flat module (2) and in which the connecting element (25) is disconnected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2003
    Publication date: May 27, 2004
    Inventors: Werner Koerber, Kurt Michael Schaffer, Ralf Behrens
  • Patent number: 6741479
    Abstract: An actuator element for levering in and out printed circuit modules. The actuator element has an end piece that is adapted to be linked with a printed circuit module an actuator lever. The actuator lever is rotatably mounted on the end piece and has at least one handle part and one locking slide that can be slid between at least two switch positions. The locking slide, in a first switch position, retain the actuator lever in a first position that corresponds to a fastened state of the printed circuit module, and releases the actuator lever in a second switch position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2004
    Assignee: RITTAL RES Electronic Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Werner Körber, Siegfried Kurrer, Kurt-Michael Schaffer
  • Publication number: 20040049903
    Abstract: The invention relates to an operating element for the engaging and extraction of planar sub-assemblies, with a display element (7) in the operating lever (4), a front element for a planar sub-assembly with operating element and component support for accommodating planar sub-assemblies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2003
    Publication date: March 18, 2004
    Inventors: Werner Koerber, Kurt Michael Schaffer, Ralf Behrens
  • Publication number: 20030221857
    Abstract: The invention relates to a front system for a flat module comprising an integrated electric display clement (28) and a lever pull handle (13) with an end piece (3) for a front system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2003
    Publication date: December 4, 2003
    Inventors: Werner Koerber, Kurt Michael Schaffer, Ralf Behrens, Siegfried Kurrer
  • Publication number: 20030109157
    Abstract: The invention relates to an operating element for the engaging and extraction of a planar sub-assembly (2), with an end-piece (1), prepared for connection to a planar sub-assembly (2). An operating lever (4), rotatably mounted on the end-piece (1), comprises at least one grip section (5) and a locking element (6) which may be displaced, in particular shifted between at least two switch positions (A, B), whereby in a first switch position (A) the operating lever (4) is held in a state with the planar sub-assembly in an engaged position and in a second switch position (B) the operating lever is released for extraction. The operating lever (4) comprises at least one combined display/switching element (7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2002
    Publication date: June 12, 2003
    Inventors: Werner Koerber, Kurt Michael Schaffer, Ralf Behrens
  • Patent number: 6500012
    Abstract: A contact spring connector that contains a holding strip, from which a contact spring leaf and a clamping leaf alternatingly extend in rows. A contact spring leaf has a contact leg, which is spread away from the holding strip and is connected with the holding strip via a cap area. A clamping leaf has a clamping leg connected with the holding strip by spring bands and from which a clamping element is spread away from between the spring bands. The decoupling of the contact spring leaf from the clamping leaf in particular results in ruggedness in respect to mechanical effects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2002
    Assignee: Rittal Electronic System GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ernst Billenstein, Werner Körber, Siegfried Kurrer, Kurt-Michael Schaffer
  • Patent number: 6474479
    Abstract: A module rack has on its front at least one upper and one lower crossrail and at least one left and one right vertical corner profile strip. A vertical mounting groove is formed in at least one vertical corner profile strip. The vertical mounting groove faces away from the front of the module rack. Additional fastening capabilities may be provided on the front of the module rack. These additional fastening capabilities are used for external add-on parts such as a covering box, a handle, and cover panels. The module rack may be used for e.g., plug-in modules having electric circuits and components mounted on a printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignee: Rittal Electronic Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Siegfried Kurrer, Ernst Billenstein, Werner Körber
  • Patent number: 6437237
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a screening device having a base plate and at least one shaped strip which can be joined to a side edge of the base plate. In this case, a shaped strip can be designed as a contact shaped strip or as a spring shaped strip with a plugged-on contact socket connector, and can advantageously be joined respectively to opposite side edges of a base plate. The advantage of the screening device in accordance with the present invention is, in particular, the low height of the shaped strips and, resulting therefrom, the electromagnetic screening, extending virtually ideally in one plane, of the metal housing, in particular in the case of a plurality of screening devices arranged next to one another. With subracks, the screening device in accordance with the present invention can be used, for example, as a rear cover or as a front filler panel for unassigned module locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2002
    Assignee: Siemens AG
    Inventors: Siegfried Kurrer, Werner Körber, Ernst Billenstein, Kurt-Michael Schaffer
  • Patent number: 6291765
    Abstract: An electromagnetically shielded housing, in particular a subrack, has metal housing parts and at least one spring contact strip (FE). The spring contact strip is joined to a first housing part (BE) and is shaped such that the first housing part simultaneously makes contact with and is snap-connected to a second housing part (QV). When the electromagnetically shielded housing is fashioned as a subrack, a subrack shielding plate corresponds to the first housing part and a transverse rail corresponds to the second housing part. The stress-free snap-connection of the subrack shielding plate and transverse rail provided by the spring contact strip requires no additional compression. It is not necessary to screw down the subrack shielding plate, unless, for example, increased stability is desired. It is particularly advantageous if a distal edge of the preferably angled-off edge region (KE) of the subrack shielding plate is recessed into the housing and does not bend back out from the transverse rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Siegfried Kurrer, Werner Körber, Ernst Billenstein, Kurt-Michael Schaffer
  • Patent number: 6178092
    Abstract: In a subrack, the front plates have shank screws which extend through the front plates and are fitted into the front plates so that the front plates have virtually no ability to move, i.e., have no “play”, in the radial direction, but the shank screws can still be rotated and be displaced in the axial direction. The shank screws advantageously undertake two functions simultaneously in this arrangement. When a module is inserted into the subrack, the front plate is simultaneously centered by the shank screw. It can also subsequently be fixed accurately in position on the subrack by the same shank screw. As a result, a multiplicity of modules can be inserted into the subrack next to one another without mutual hindrance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ernst Billenstein, Werner Körber, Siegfried Kurrer, Kurt-Michael Schaffer