Magazine for the fixation of small components

US6164448A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG · DE

Inventors

• Wolfgang Schmutz · Rottweil, DE
• Guenter Ernst · Salt Lake City, US
• Udo Berg · Darmstadt, DE
• Klaus-Peter Kaemper · Roetgen, DE
• Klaus Renner · Emmingen-Liptingen, DE
• Ulrich Rothmaier · Tuttlingen, DE
• Juergen Rudischhauser · Tuttlingen, DE
• Ralf Grimme · Pleidelsheim, DE
• Dirk Schlenker · Schwieberdingen, DE
• Achim Stock · Aalen, DE
• Wolfgang Schaefer · Leverkusen, DE
• Klaus Irion · Liptingen, DE

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 12, 1999
• Grant date: Dec 26, 2000
• Expiry date: Mar 12, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S206/818
• WIPO field: Audio-visual technology
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A magazine for the fixation of small components such as those used in micro system technology and light engineering. The magazine includes a magazine base carrier with holders for the small components. The magazine has recipients to form the holders, each recipient being situated at defined and known locations and containing releasable fixing units, each of which is provided with securing structure for securing a small component.