Patent · US Expired

Mounting device, for light guides, operating as a cooking zone marking with sleeve-like receptacles

US5977522A · kind A · utility

6Cited by

4References

19Claims

0Family size

Assignee

Schott Glaswerke · DE

Inventors

Thomas Henrich · Cincinnati, US
Thomas Weingaertner · Memmelsdorf, DE
Juergen Meinl · Bärnau, DE
Holger Koebrich · Gondelsheim, DE
Stefan Hubert · Bubenheim, DE
Bernd Schultheis · Bad Kreuznach, DE

Key dates

Filing date	Dec 3, 1997
Grant date	Nov 2, 1999
Priority date	—
Expiry date	Dec 3, 2017

Classification

Technology area (CPC H)Electricity
CPC primaryH05B3/746
WIPO fieldElectrical machinery, apparatus, energy
WIPO sectorElectrical engineering

Abstract

In order to provide a mounting device for light guides which is pre-mountable on a heating element or on a cooking surface and which can be equipped with the light guides in a simple way, several receptacles (20) for the light guide ends are arranged beside each other on a common receptacle support (1). The receptacle support (1) can itself be formed as an attaching element or can be provided with at least one attaching element. The receptacles are sleeves (24) under tension or crimped sockets in which the light guide ends are inserted and gripped under tension.

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