Patents by Inventor Armin Hofmann

Armin Hofmann has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20240072429
    Abstract: A system includes an antenna configured to emit electromagnetic waves. The system includes a radome having an interior surface facing the antenna. The interior surface at least partially includes a wave-shaped structure configured to reduce reflections of the electromagnetic waves off the interior surface and to increase transmission of the electromagnetic waves through the radome.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Armin Talai, Syed An Nazmus Saqueb, Maximilian Hofmann
  • Patent number: 6929227
    Abstract: A system (1) for connecting mounting rails comprises a base member (2) and an angular attachment member (3). The base member (2) has an opening (6.1, 6.2) in at least one lateral wall (4.1, 4.2 or 4.3) for passage therethrough of a bolt (7). The openings (6.1, 6.2) are each provided with a collar (10.1, 10.2), which can be brought into engagement with the opening (13) in the attachment member (3). The collar (10.1, 10.2) has at least in an axial region a conical section (8.2) shaped as a clamping cone. At the time of tightening the bolt 7, a form- and force-locking connection between the base member (2) and the attachment member (3) is created.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2005
    Assignee: Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Armin Hofmann, Armin Herb, Stefan Unverzagt
  • Publication number: 20040124319
    Abstract: A system (1) for connecting mounting rails comprises a base member (2) and an angular attachment member (3). The base member (2) has an opening (6.1, 6.2) in at least one lateral wall (4.1, 4.2 or 4.3) for passage therethrough of a bolt (7). The openings (6.1, 6.2) are each provided with a collar (10.1, 10.2), which can be brought into engagement with the opening (13) in the attachment member (3). The collar (10.1, 10.2) has at least in an axial region a conical section (8.2) shaped as a clamping cone. At the time of tightening the bolt 7, a form- and force-locking connection between the base member (2) and the attachment member (3) is created.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2003
    Publication date: July 1, 2004
    Inventors: Armin Hofmann, Armin Herb, Stefan Unverzagt
  • Patent number: 5735380
    Abstract: A suspended storage apparatus in which products (16) are placed in trays (14) supporting shelves (15) for carrying the products. The receiving station of the apparatus comprises an assembly consisting of a pushing device connected to a first drive mechanism (101A), the pushing device including at least one substantially horizontally movable pushing member (107) for transferring products from the shelves to a conveyor belt (108), and a second drive mechanism (101B) for moving the pushing member substantially vertically as it moves horizontally. This combination of two directions of motion enables continuous discharge of the products.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 7, 1998
    Assignee: Sapal Societe Anonyme des Plieuses Automatique
    Inventors: Hauke Schneider, Armin Hofmann
  • Patent number: 5713455
    Abstract: An apparatus for the suspended storage of foodstuffs, particularly slabs of chocolate or the like, arranged on shelves (15) lying flat on trays (14) capable of accommodating a number of such shelves. The shelves (15) are releasable and arranged parallel to one another at a constant spacing, and each shelf forms a plate receiving at least one row of similar foodstuffs. The shelves comprise a closed profile member (80) and two end portions (82) that can be fitted onto the longitudinal ends of the member and are therefore reversible so that they can be reinserted in any position into the trays without using an indexing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 3, 1998
    Assignee: Sapal Societe Anonyme des Plieuses Automatiques
    Inventors: Hans Heiri Walser, Hans Peter Aliesch, Armin Hofmann
  • Patent number: 3977160
    Abstract: A machine for delivering different chocolates or other objects to selected positions on trays comprises, for each type of chocolate, a distribution head receiving chocolates along a waiting line. Yokes of an intermittent chain conveyor laterally displace a number of chocolates to be delivered to a tray, and these chocolates are blown down respective channels leading to the selected positions, where they are taken up by vertically moving suction cups and lowered into the respective position in a tray carried by an intermittently driven conveyor. Synchronized drive of the various members is provided by a directly-linked kinematic chain.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1975
    Date of Patent: August 31, 1976
    Assignee: SAPAL Societe Anonyme des Plieuses Automatiques
    Inventors: Telesforo Klug, Armin Hofmann