Siegfried Schulte (engineer)
Siegfried Schulte (born July 31, 1934 ) is a German engineer and inventor .
Life
Schulte, who has worked as an independent inventor and engineer since 1964, developed around 300 patents in the course of his life. In 1971 he founded the company Schulte Elektrotechnik , which initially produced two-pole switching and tripping motor protection switches . He then had the development of dead man's switches for lawn mowers, zero voltage switches for garden shredders, etc., as well as the world's first steering column switch for automobiles, which combines all switching functions on the steering wheel, patented.
He also developed the first self-controlling residual current circuit breaker for decentralized use. For this purpose, in 1997, at the suggestion of Erich Häußer , President of the German Patent Office, he was awarded the Rudolf Diesel Medal in gold by Federal Council President Johannes Rau . Schulte also developed a modular system for decentralized energy and data distribution. In 2002, this was honored with the red dot design award for product design.
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ US and EPO patents (selection)
- ↑ http://www.derwesten.de/staedte/luedenscheid/Erfinder-der-sicheren-Schalter-id1612407.html
- ↑ Diesel Medal Award Winner
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Schulte, Siegfried |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German engineer and inventor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 31, 1934 |