Patents Represented by Attorney Gudrun E. Huckett
  • Patent number: 8343612
    Abstract: An absorbent fiber web has a base layer of cellulose fibers and an external layer that is connected at least across areas thereof with the base layer. The external layer is a nonwoven of nano fibers. The base layer and the nonwoven are connected to one another across areas thereof without a binder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: McAirlaid's Vliesstoffe GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jens Söder, Andreas Schmidt
  • Patent number: 8338760
    Abstract: An inductor for induction hardening of a metallic rod-shaped toothed rack, wherein a first outer surface of the toothed rack provided with the teeth is substantially planar and a remaining second outer surface of the toothed rack in cross-section is profiled, wherein the inductor has a substantially rod-shaped first inductor element that extends parallel to a longitudinal axis of the toothed rack. The first inductor element extends across an entire length of the toothed rack to be hardened along the first outer surface provided with the teeth and hardens the first outer surface of the toothed rack. The toothed rack and the inductor during the hardening process are arranged stationarily.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: EFD Induction GmbH
    Inventor: Leif Markegaard
  • Patent number: 8330902
    Abstract: The invention relates to a display cell, comprising two transparent, equidistant plates, wherein the gap between the plates is filled with a liquid-crystal material-containing layer, characterized in that the liquid-crystal material-containing layer is inhomogeneous and anisotropic, wherein it has a first region made up of compartments, which comprise entirely, substantially or mainly liquid-crystal material, and a second, coherent region which comprises entirely, substantially or mainly an organic polymer material and surrounds the compartments made of liquid-crystal material. In addition, the invention relates to a liquid-crystal material-containing mixture which can be used to produce the layer between the plates, and to a method for producing the display cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Monika Bauer, Frank Kuschel, Joachim Mueller
  • Patent number: 8303216
    Abstract: A laying device simultaneous lays at least two substantially parallel and axially spaced apart groups of flexible media lines in at least one flat layer in the soil, wherein each group of flexible media lines has at least one flexible media line. The laying device has a cutting device for generating at least one slot in the ground. The cutting device has one or more substantially vertical blades and a substantially horizontal blade connected to a lower end of the one or more vertical blades, or the cutting device, viewed in the cutting direction, has a round, semi-circular, oval, polygonal or Y-shaped configuration. At least two devices for dispensing the groups of media lines are arranged on the side of the laying device that is facing away from the cutting direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignees: Doppelacker GmbH, Technische Universität Dresden
    Inventor: Jens Kluge
  • Patent number: 8302509
    Abstract: A hydraulic bolt tensioning device has a cylinder supported on a machine part that is to be clamped by threaded bolt and nut. An exchangeable bushing has a first end screwed onto a free threaded end of the threaded bolt that projects past the nut. A tensioning piston is seal-tightly guided in the cylinder and supported on a second end of the exchangeable bushing. A pressure medium is supplied into an annular space between cylinder and piston. A control device is provided for setting a nominal pressure of the pressure medium corresponding to a nominal pretension of the threaded bolt. A yield limit detection device detects whether a yield limit of the threaded bolt is reached during tensioning. A controller acts on a pressure relief device for pressure relief of the bolt tensioning device when reaching, or shortly after reaching, the yield limit of the threaded bolt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Inventors: Frank Hohmann, Jörg Hohmann
  • Patent number: 8302567
    Abstract: A motor chain saw has a motor housing with a drive unit for driving a saw chain on a guide bar. The drive unit is an internal combustion engine with a cylinder and a crankshaft extending transversely to a longitudinal axis of the motor chain saw. A drive pinion is mounted on a first end of the crankshaft. A cooling air blower with a blower wheel is mounted on the second end of the crankshaft. A cooling air stream of the blower flows transversely to the longitudinal axis of the motor chain saw about the cylinder and exits through a housing opening. A hand guard arranged between a handle and a front end of the guide bar is connected with one leg near the housing opening for the cooling air stream. In front of the housing opening a baffle element is supported on the leg of the hand guard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventor: Wolfgang Junginger
  • Patent number: 8303045
    Abstract: A protective device for tire walls has a holder for attaching the protective device on a wheel. The protective device has protective elements connected to the holder. The protective elements are shape-stable parts that under load are elastically deformable. They extend approximately radially away from the holder. The protective elements do not protect the entire tire but only the endangered area of the tire walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Erlau AG
    Inventors: Hansjörg Rieger, Johannes Werner Rieger, Zvonimir Bogdan
  • Patent number: 8302314
    Abstract: In a method for manufacturing internally and/or externally profiled rings from pipe material or solid material, machine-cutting processes and forming processes are combined with one another sequentially, parallel, or sequentially and parallel, wherein one of the forming processes is roll forming. During roll forming a counterforce is generated relative to a flow direction of the starting material so that a material flow in at least one of an axial direction and a radial direction of the starting material is controlled such that flowing material is integrated into a profile to be shaped on the ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Technische Universität Dresden
    Inventors: Thomas Ficker, André Hardtmann, Mario Houska
  • Patent number: 8297903
    Abstract: A nut for screw connections has two substantially identically sized nut segments of a half-shell shape, wherein the nut segments each have an inner side provided with an inner thread segment defining together an inner thread. The nut segments are connected to each other so as to be moveable toward each other until the nut segments reach a closed position. The nut segments are maintained in the closed position by springs or a locking device. An actuating device is moveably arranged on at least one of the two nut segments for releasing the closed position, wherein the actuating device is adapted to manually actuated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 30, 2012
    Inventors: Frank Hohmann, Jörg Hohmann
  • Patent number: 8292695
    Abstract: The invention relates to a machine for creating non-cylindrical bore surfaces having a machine spindle (5), to which a machining tool (2-06, 3-04) can be connected, onto which a feed movement is transferred via a feed means (1-10). A direct axially parallel acting linear drive (1-06) is provided in the tool fitting unit (1) associated with the machine spindle (5) for fine feeding, the feed movement of which overlaps the first mentioned feed movement, and the actuating means (1-05) of which acts upon a feed (1-03) that is disposed together with the machining tool (2-05, 3-04) and the means for deflection (1-031, 1-032) of the feed movement in a tool unit (2, 3) that can be exchanged on the tool fitting unit (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Gehring Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Flores, Ulrich Klink, Klaus Litty, Andreas Dolla
  • Patent number: 8281444
    Abstract: A cleaning pig for a pipeline for long-distance transportation of a fluid material is advanced in the pipeline in a travel direction by the fluid material transported in the pipeline. The cleaning pig has a pig body and two collars connected to the pig body and spaced apart from one another. The pig body and the collars fill a pipe cross-section of the pipeline. An intermediate space is delimited between the two collars. A pressure opening is arranged at a trail end of the pig body in the travel direction. A pressure conduit connects the pressure opening to the intermediate space. A suction device is arranged in the intermediate space. A suction outlet is connected by a suction conduit to the suction device. The pressure conduit is connected to at least one jet opening directed with a jet action against an inner wall of the pipeline.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Rosen Swiss AG
    Inventors: Patrik Rosen, Hubert Linder, Frank Fielers
  • Patent number: 8271789
    Abstract: Disclosed is a system managing usage authorizations, comprising a central computer system, field devices and smart cards, wherein the system maintains databases containing all information relating to the users, user accounts, user smart cards, field devices and products, establishes and maintains at least at times communication with the field devices, issues instructions based on the available information and transmits to a plurality of field devices, with the field devices maintaining information relating to the smart cards and products so that communication between a field device and a smart card allows at least a portion of the smart card-related instructions to be processed from the instruction list and stored on the field device and to be transmitted to the computer system during the next communication, and wherein the smart cards carry to allow exchange of information with a field device and store instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Scheidt & Bachmann GmbH
    Inventors: Norbert Miller, Wolfgang Flugge, Martin Koczwara
  • Patent number: 8251405
    Abstract: A pressurized water container for water fountains, ponds, swimming pools, and aquariums has at least two housing parts and at least one seal arranged between the at least two housing parts, wherein the at least two housing parts are connectable to one another in a lockable way. The at least two housing parts have projections and matching recesses, wherein the projections engage the recesses and, by a displacement of the at least two housing parts relative to one another in opposite directions, they are lockable on one another and releasable from one another when reversing the displacement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignee: OASE GmbH
    Inventor: Dominik Brune
  • Patent number: 8242035
    Abstract: A textile web material impregnated with a mixture that contains at least a prepolymer prepolymerized from a starting material of one or more bifunctional or polyfunctional organic cyanates and from a starting material of one or more bifunctional or polyfunctional aromatic alcohols, wherein the one or more bifunctional or polyfunctional organic cyanates and the one or more bifunctional or polyfunctional aromatic alcohols are present in weight ratios ensuring a molar ratio of the OCN groups to the OH groups between 95:5 and 70:30 prior to prepolymerization. The mixture further contains one or more fillers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignees: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Monika Bauer, Rajko Wurzel, Christoph Uhlig, Dietmar Völkle, Volker Müller, Karsten Hesse, Wilfried Michaelis
  • Patent number: 8241869
    Abstract: A fermentation device for biological degradation of substrate containing organic material and for recovery of biogas produced by degradation has an elongate closed container having a first end and a second end opposite the first end. The first end has an inlet opening for untreated substrate and the second end has at least one removal opening for treated substrate. The container has at least one removal opening for biogas. The container has several reaction cells provided with individually driven mixing units. The mixing units have mixing unit shafts positioned transversely to a longitudinal extension of the container and mixing impellers mounted on the mixing unit shafts and driven on a circular path. The mixing unit shafts are arranged at axial spacings smaller than a diameter of the mixing units so that the mixing impellers when the mixing unit shafts rotate pass trough an overlap range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2012
    Assignee: STRABAG Umweltanlagen GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Büchner, Gerhard Langhans, Urs Haller, Roland Sickinger
  • Patent number: D669343
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2012
    Assignee: Belting Group GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Pesch, Michael Ebner
  • Patent number: D670225
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Brabus GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Müller
  • Patent number: D670226
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2012
    Assignee: Brabus GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Müller
  • Patent number: D673178
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: OASE GmbH
    Inventor: Aleks Tatic
  • Patent number: D673192
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2012
    Assignee: Michael Weinig AG
    Inventor: Rainer Gramlich