Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Brutschin

Wolfgang Brutschin 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: 20050255733
    Abstract: An electrotechnical device is provided, having components connected by means of plug connections. The interior of the device is filled with a casting material. The device includes: a housing; arranged in the housing a first component which has at least one terminally-protruding contact pin; a second component which has a socket on which terminally-located contact plugs are provided for receiving the contact pins; and an insert in which the first component is arranged. The insert includes a secluded chamber which has an opening into which the socket of the second component is introduced. The chamber additionally includes a rear wall lying opposite the opening through which the contact pins are stuck into the contact plugs of the socket. An air-tight seal exists between the contact pins and the rear wall. The housing is filled with the casting material from an end lying opposite to the opening of the chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2003
    Publication date: November 17, 2005
    Inventors: Volker Dreyer, Wolfgang Brutschin, Gottfried Hintner
  • Patent number: 6920787
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for determining and/or monitoring the level of a filling material in a container. According to the invention, an oscillatable unit is provided which is fastened to a membrane, whereby said oscillatable unit is mounted at the height of the predetermined level. An emitting-receiving unit is provided which, with a given emit frequency, causes the membrane and the oscillatable unit to oscillate, and which receives the oscillations of the oscillatable unit. A control/evaluation unit is provided, which identifies once the predetermined level is obtained upon a given change in frequency or which, with the aid of the oscillation frequency of the oscillatable unit, determines the density of the filling material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2005
    Assignee: Endress + Hauser GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Brutschin, Sergei Lopatin
  • Patent number: 6881906
    Abstract: A circuit board with a contact sleeve mounted thereon. The contact sleeve is electrically connectable in the manner used for an SMD-component. An upper side of the circuit board has a recess and a metallizing bordering the recess, the metallizing being connected to a conductor path extending on the circuit board, and, set in the recess, a contact sleeve, which is both mechanically secured and electrically connected to the metallizing by means of a solder connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: Endress + Hauser GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventors: Dietmar Birgel, Karl-Peter Hauptvogel, Wolfgang Brutschin, Alexander Müller
  • Publication number: 20040140123
    Abstract: A circuit board (15) with a contact sleeve (17) mounted thereon. The contact sleeve (17) is electrically connectable in the manner used for an SMD-component. An upper side of the circuit board (15) has a recess (23) and a metallizing (25, 26) bordering the recess (23), the metallizing (25, 26) being connected to a conductor path (27) extending on the circuit board (15), and, set in the recess (23), a contact sleeve (17), which is both mechanically secured and electrically connected to the metallizing (25) by means of a solder connection (29).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2003
    Publication date: July 22, 2004
    Inventors: Dietmar Birgel, Karl-Peter Hauptvogel, Wolfgang Brutschin, Alexander Muller
  • Publication number: 20030159506
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for determining and/or monitoring the level of a filling material in a container. According to the invention, an oscillatable unit (2) is provided which is fastened to a membrane (5), whereby said oscillatable unit (2) is mounted at the height of the predetermined level. An emitting-receiving unit (6) is provided which, with a given emit frequency, causes the membrane (5) and the oscillatable unit (2) to oscillate, and which receives the oscillations of the oscillatable unit (2). A control/evaluation unit (10) is provided, which identifies once the predetermined level is obtained upon a given change in frequency or which, with the aid of the oscillation frequency of the oscillatable unit (2), determines the density of the filling material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2003
    Publication date: August 28, 2003
    Inventors: Wolfgang Brutschin, Sergei Lopatin
  • Patent number: 6236322
    Abstract: An apparatus for establishing and/or monitoring a predetermined filling level in a container is described, which apparatus can be used in a wide range of applications, that is to say in many different media, which apparatus comprises: a housing (1), an oscillating element for projecting into the container, a diaphragm (5), which is fixedly clamped into the housing (1) at its edge and to which the oscillating element is fastened, and an electromechanical transducer for exciting the diaphragm (5) to produce oscillations in dependence on a transmission signal (S) present at the transducer and for receiving and converting oscillations thereof into an electrical reception signal (E), in which a percentage interval between a resonant frequency fr and an antiresonant frequency far divided by the resonant frequency fr exceeds 20% when the oscillating element oscillates in air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: Endress + Hauser GmbH + Co.
    Inventors: Sergej Lopatin, Helmut Pfeiffer, Alexander Müller, Volker Dreyer, Wolfgang Brutschin