Patents by Inventor Benjamin Sauter

Benjamin Sauter 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).

  • Patent number: 11793312
    Abstract: An electromotive adjusting device for adjusting the inclination of a seat part of an item of seating furniture includes a mounting bracket for connecting to a body element of the item of seating furniture and a motor and transmission unit embodied as a drive unit. A mounting element secures the seat part of the item of seating furniture. The motor and transmission unit includes a rotatable drive element and is securely fixed to the at least one mounting bracket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: HETTICH FRANKE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Benjamin Sauter, Marcel Schlaich
  • Publication number: 20220312976
    Abstract: An electromotive adjusting device for adjusting the inclination of a seat part of an item of seating furniture includes a mounting bracket for connecting to a body element of the item of seating furniture and a motor and transmission unit embodied as a drive unit. A mounting element secures the seat part of the item of seating furniture. The motor and transmission unit includes a rotatable drive element and is securely fixed to the at least one mounting bracket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Benjamin SAUTER, Marcel SCHLAICH
  • Publication number: 20220304472
    Abstract: A connecting fitting for a piece of furniture, in particular an item of upholstered furniture, has a first part which can be fixed to a first furniture part and a second part which can be fixed to a second furniture part, the first part having a receptacle for a bearing edge of the second part and the second part being pivotable relative to the first part about the bearing edge within a first angular range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2020
    Publication date: September 29, 2022
    Applicant: Hettich Franke GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Steffen GRATHWOL, Benjamin SAUTER, Marcel SCHLAICH, Philipp STEEB
  • Publication number: 20210156419
    Abstract: A concentric bushing assembly is provided. The assembly includes a bushing having a bushing cylindrical body extending to a first outer diameter and a bushing flanged end extending to a second outer diameter that is larger than the first outer diameter. The assembly also includes an insert having an insert cylindrical body extending to a third outer diameter and an insert flanged end extending to a fourth outer diameter that is larger than the third outer diameter, the cylindrical body disposed within the bushing cylindrical body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Yongpeng Ge, Jason T. Rutkiewicz, Jeffer Li, Benjamin Sauter
  • Patent number: 10995792
    Abstract: A concentric bushing assembly is provided. The assembly includes a bushing having a bushing cylindrical body extending to a first outer diameter and a bushing flanged end extending to a second outer diameter that is larger than the first outer diameter. The assembly also includes an insert having an insert cylindrical body extending to a third outer diameter and an insert flanged end extending to a fourth outer diameter that is larger than the third outer diameter, the cylindrical body disposed within the bushing cylindrical body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: Steering Solutions IP Holding Corporation
    Inventors: Yongpeng Ge, Jason T. Rutkiewicz, Jeffer Li, Benjamin Sauter
  • Patent number: 9670813
    Abstract: The invention relates to a supply system for a medium, in particular for an exhaust-gas purification apparatus for the treatment of exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine, having a storage vessel for the medium, having a dosing device for dosing the medium, and having a provision line which comprises a feed line for the supply of the medium to the dosing device and a return line for returning the medium from the dosing device into the storage vessel. Flow can pass through the dosing device from a feed port to a return port of the dosing device. The provision line comprises an additional fluid connection between the feed line and the return line. The additional fluid connection opens out into the feed line upstream of the feed port of the dosing device and opens out into the return line downstream of the return port of the dosing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Winkler, Holger Sinzenich, Benjamin Sauter
  • Patent number: 9562459
    Abstract: Reciprocating-piston internal combustion engines having different power outputs are to be equipped simply, reliably and inexpensively with a device for the selective catalytic reduction of the exhaust gases having an SCR module for a reciprocating-piston internal combustion engine, comprising a housing and/or a frame, an exhaust-gas section which delimits a flow duct for guiding through exhaust gas, having an inlet opening for introducing the exhaust gas and an outlet opening for discharging the exhaust gas, an SCR catalytic converter which is arranged inside the flow duct, at least one injection element for adding a reducing agent, for example ammonia or a urea solution, to the exhaust gas which is guided through the flow duct. This problem is solved by virtue of the fact that the SCR module comprises at least one delivery device (13) for feeding the reducing agent to the injection element at a predetermined pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH
    Inventors: Benjamin Sauter, Holger Sinzenich, Katharina Görner, Mathias Bauknecht, Klaus Wehler
  • Publication number: 20150322840
    Abstract: The invention relates to a supply system for a medium, in particular for an exhaust-gas purification apparatus for the treatment of exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine, having a storage vessel for the medium, having a dosing device for dosing the medium, and having a provision line which comprises a feed line for the supply of the medium to the dosing device and a return line for returning the medium from the dosing device into the storage vessel. Flow can pass through the dosing device from a feed port to a return port of the dosing device. The provision line comprises an additional fluid connection between the feed line and the return line. The additional fluid connection opens out into the feed line upstream of the feed port of the dosing device and opens out into the return line downstream of the return port of the dosing device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Publication date: November 12, 2015
    Applicant: MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Winkler, Holger Sinzenich, Benjamin Sauter
  • Publication number: 20150089928
    Abstract: Reciprocating-piston internal combustion engines having different power outputs are to be equipped simply, reliably and inexpensively with a device for the selective catalytic reduction of the exhaust gases having an SCR module for a reciprocating-piston internal combustion engine, comprising a housing and/or a frame, an exhaust-gas section which delimits a flow duct for guiding through exhaust gas, having an inlet opening for introducing the exhaust gas and an outlet opening for discharging the exhaust gas, an SCR catalytic converter which is arranged inside the flow duct, at least one injection element for adding a reducing agent, for example ammonia or a urea solution, to the exhaust gas which is guided through the flow duct. This problem is solved by virtue of the fact that the SCR module comprises at least one delivery device (13) for feeding the reducing agent to the injection element at a predetermined pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Applicant: MTU FRIEDRICHSHAFEN GMBH
    Inventors: Benjamin Sauter, Holger Sinzenich, Katharina Görner, Mathias Bauknecht, Klaus Wehler