Hans J Schmidt

US Patent:

40500500, Sep 20, 1977

Filed:

May 27, 1975

Appl. No.:

5/580541

Inventors:

Mutsuo Nakanishi - Villa Park IL
Hans Schmidt - Schiller Park IL

Assignee:

Matsushita Electric Company of America - Franklin Park IL

International Classification:

H01C 1048

US Classification:

338190

Abstract:

A potentiometer assembly particularly suited for supplying tuning voltages for all of the bands of signals capable of receipt by a television receiver or the like, includes three segments of resistive material arranged in a circle on a support member. Each of the segments corresponds to a different band of frequencies to which the television receiver may be tuned. Band selection is effected by comparable conductive segments on the support member. In one embodiment, a single wiper is used to sweep all of the resistive segments to supply the desired tuning voltage output. A cam arrangement is used to adjust the detented position of the wiper relative to the support member to effect fine tuning at each position. Other embodiments utilize individually adjustable wipers for each station or detent position of the tuner, with each wiper being preset to effect the fine tuning at the detented position of the potentiometer assembly. The individual contacts or wipers for each position are arranged to overlap comparable resistances on the resistive material, so that the entire range of tuning voltages which appear across the resistive material is available from the outputs of the assembly.

US Patent:

46089942, Sep 2, 1986

Filed:

Dec 20, 1984

Appl. No.:

6/683856

Inventors:

Lyuji Ozawa - Glencoe IL
Hans Schmidt - Wood Dale IL
Mike Hsu - Franklin Park IL
Arye Perlmutter - Skokie IL

Assignee:

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. - Osaka

International Classification:

A61B 500

US Classification:

128670

Abstract:

A physiological monitoring device receives a plurality of physiological measurements, including the user's diastolic and systolic blood pressure, pulse rate and body temperature. The physiological measurements are stored in a memory which is controlled by a microprocessor. The microprocessor organizes the measurements and causes the measurements to be displayed for analysis on a screen in either digital or graph form, printed in either digital or graph form and/or transmitted over a phone line or other communication link for reproduction in either digital or graph from at a distant receiver located, for example, in a doctors office or hospital.

US Patent:

39802426, Sep 14, 1976

Filed:

Apr 29, 1974

Appl. No.:

5/465017

Inventors:

Hans Schmidt - Deerfield IL

Assignee:

Quasar Electronics Corporation - Franklin Park IL

International Classification:

H01F 4108

US Classification:

242 4C

Abstract:

An annular core holder form supports in rotatable fashion a toroidal core in connection with a pair of fixed support members to comprise a core holder assembly for winding wire coils on the core through the action of a revolving wire-carrying shuttle of a coil winding machine. The core holder form is intergally wound to the core through the wrapping action of the shuttle and is removable with the core. The pair of support members and the holder form have generally central first openings extending axially therethrough to permit the shuttle to thread the core, support members and holder form in order to wind the wire coils axially about the annular wall of the core. The support members have respective second openings communicating with the first openings and which are aligned with each other to permit the passage of a winding wire strand. The core holder form has two axially spaced rows of outer tooth-like projections, either or both of which can be used to rotatingly drive the holder form and toroidal core as a unit. Precision and closely wound coils of wire are continuously wrapped about successive arcuate segments of the annular walls of the holder form and core as they are exposed through the second openings to the shuttle operation.

US Patent:

41107217, Aug 29, 1978

Filed:

Jan 14, 1977

Appl. No.:

5/759346

Inventors:

Mutsuo Nakanishi - Villa Park IL
Hans Schmidt - Schiller Park IL

Assignee:

Quasar Electronics Corporation - Franklin Park IL

International Classification:

H01C 1016

US Classification:

338128

Abstract:

A potentiometer assembly particularly suited for supplying tuning voltages for all of the bands of signals capable of receipt by a television receiver or the like, includes three segments of resistive material arranged in a circle on a support member. Each of the segments corresponds to a different band of frequencies to which the television receiver may be tuned. Band selection is effected by comparable conductive segments on the support member. In one embodiment, a single wiper is used to sweep all of the resistive segments to supply the desired tuning voltage output. A cam arrangement is used to adjust the detented position of the wiper relative to the support member to effect fine tuning at each position. Other embodiments utilize individually adjustable wipers for each station or detent position of the tuner, with each wiper being preset to effect the fine tuning at the detented position of the potentiometer assembly. The individual contacts or wipers for each position are arranged to overlap comparable resistances on the resistive material, so that the entire range of tuning voltages which appear across the resistive material is available from the outputs of the assembly.

US Patent:

44159307, Nov 15, 1983

Filed:

Jan 6, 1982

Appl. No.:

6/337488

Inventors:

Hans Schmidt - Wood Dale IL
Robert A. Wolff - Lombard IL

Assignee:

Matsushita Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. - Osaka

International Classification:

H04N 544

US Classification:

3581911

Abstract:

An adjustable potentiometer assembly provides tuning voltages for application to a varactor diode tuner in a television receiver. The assembly includes a substrate having distributive resistive elements formed thereon each with a tuning area at which the correct tuning voltage is established. The distributive resistive elements are formed in at least one row with the tuning areas aligned. In addition, the width or tuning range of the tuning areas for each channel are substantially equal.

US Patent:

42717140, Jun 9, 1981

Filed:

May 16, 1979

Appl. No.:

6/039515

Inventors:

Hans Schmidt - Wood Dale IL

Assignee:

Matsushita Electric Corporation of America - Franklin Park IL

International Classification:

F16H 1500
F16H 1300

US Classification:

74202

Abstract:

A self reversing drive mechanism is disclosed for providing a reversible speed reducing drive between a drive shaft and the rotary tuner mechanism of a television receiver. The drive mechanism comprises an idler wheel freely pivotally mounted about the drive shaft and in engagement with it. The idler wheel has a circumference which is greater than the distance between the drive shaft and the driven member of the rotatable tuner. As a result, the idler wheel mechanism rotates about the drive shaft in either direction until itself engages with the driven member of the rotary tuner. This is done without any additional external forces to accomplish tight engagement of the idler wheel between the drive shaft and the driven member.

US Patent:

40489493, Sep 20, 1977

Filed:

Nov 15, 1976

Appl. No.:

5/741711

Inventors:

Hans Schmidt - Schiller Park IL

Assignee:

Matsushita Electric Company of America - Franklin Park IL

International Classification:

F16H 3500
H03J 102

US Classification:

1161243

Abstract:

A turret indicator for a television receiver includes a stationary gear attached to a mounting base with a shaft passing through it. A rotatable carrier turret is mounted on the shaft and it carries five rotatable planetary indicator turrets which are programmed with channel numbers, five on each indicator turret to give a total of 25 indicating positions. When the rotatable carrier turret is rotated, the numerals on the indicator turrets appear sequentially at a viewing window in the television receiver cabinet.