Patents by Inventor Björn Lind

Björn Lind 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: 8840050
    Abstract: For grounding or electrically charging the shaft of an electrostatic rotary atomizer working with external or direct charging, there are opposing, annular or spiral-shaped sharp edges in the outer surface of a part of the shaft and in the inner surface of a stationary bearing part at the desired potential, which have different, preferably opposite, thread directions, so that the edges intersect each other at points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 23, 2014
    Assignee: Durr Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Baumann, Frank Herre, Hans J. Nolte, Harry Krumma, Stefano Giuliano, Björn Lind
  • Patent number: 8499559
    Abstract: A turbine housing for a high-pressure turbo-charger of a turbo-charger engine system for an internal combustion engine is provided that includes, but is not limited to a low-pressure charger opening for taking up a low-pressure turbo-charger and a high-pressure charger opening for taking up a high-pressure turbo-charger. A high-pressure exhaust opening is attached to a corresponding flange at an exhaust manifold of the engine and there is a short-cut exhaust opening with a high-pressure turbine by-pass valve area attached to a corresponding flange at the exhaust manifold. An external connection opening is attached to a muffler, a waste gate valve area being provided in the close vicinity of the external connection opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2013
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Pal Axelsson, Hans Drangel, Björn Lind
  • Publication number: 20110020108
    Abstract: A turbine housing for a high-pressure turbo-charger of a turbo-charger engine system for an internal combustion engine is provided that includes, but is not limited to a low-pressure charger opening for taking up a low-pressure turbo-charger and a high-pressure charger opening for taking up a high-pressure turbo-charger. A high-pressure exhaust opening is attached to a corresponding flange at an exhaust manifold of the engine and there is a short-cut exhaust opening with a high-pressure turbine by-pass valve area attached to a corresponding flange at the exhaust manifold. An external connection opening is attached to a muffler, a waste gate valve area being provided in the close vicinity of the external connection opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2007
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Pal Axelsson, Hans Drangel, Björn Lind
  • Patent number: 7322793
    Abstract: A turbine, e.g., with a blade arrangement, which receives an air flow in the radial direction and which is located on a carrier surface of the turbine wheel, is used as a drive motor for a rotary atomizer. The drive channel, which contains the turbine blades and which is limited by the carrier surface, is also closed on its other side by a cover element, which is attached to the turbine wheel and which rotates with the wheel for increasing efficiency. For an additional increase in efficiency, the inlet for the drive air of the turbine is configured as an ultrasonic nozzle with a cross section that expands continuously up to the opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2008
    Assignee: Behr Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael Baumann, Frank Herre, Hans J. Nolte, Harry Krumma, Stefano Giuliano, Björn Lind
  • Patent number: 7155825
    Abstract: A method for withdrawing liquid from the liquid bearings of a spindle (1) carried in liquid bearings (3, 5) distinguished in that with the help of pressurized gas, the liquid, together with the gas, is forced to exit the spindle during the operation of the spindle via at least one first channel (12), and that when the spindle is shut down, is forced to exit via at least one second channel (13) with a smaller flow-through cross-section than the first channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2007
    Assignee: Lind Finance & Development AB
    Inventor: Björn Lind
  • Patent number: 6857440
    Abstract: In a method for a safety valve plus such a safety valve, the safety valve has the form of a valve body axially displaceable in a cavity with an inlet on either side of which are arranged outlets, whereby liquid and/or gas flow takes place from the inlet and past the valve body via a flow path to the outlets. On the valve body side, the flow path is provided with a structure that raises the friction in relation to the liquid and/or gas flow between the inlet and outlets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 22, 2005
    Assignee: Lind Finance & Development AB
    Inventor: Björn Lind
  • Patent number: 6568886
    Abstract: Arrangement for a tool spindle equipped with a rotor (22) of an electric driving motor (32). It is distinguished in that the rotating part (1, 3) of the tool spindle is accommodated in a unit (4) that is stationary in relation to the rotating part, that the rotating part (1, 3) has at least one axial channel (12a, 12b or 12d) extending to the area for the rotor (22) for leading cooling fluid to the area (20a, 26), that the stationary unit (4) is provided with an inlet (16, 14 or 25) for leading cooling fluid to the channel (12a, 12b or 12d), that a gap sealing is arranged on either side of the inlet (16, 14, 25) between the stationary unit (4) and the rotating part (1, 3) and forms a dynamic bearing during the rotation of this, and that a channel is arranged to lead away the coolant fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2003
    Assignee: Lind Finance & Development AB
    Inventor: Björn Lind
  • Patent number: 6497538
    Abstract: Arrangement for delivering coolant fluid to the rotating part (1,3) of a tool spindle intended to support a tool at one end. It is distinguished in that the end of the rotating part (1,3) that is opposite the tool is accommodated in a unit (4) that is stationary in relation to the rotating part (1,3), that the rotating part has an axial bore (6) of the rotating part (1,3), that a gap sealing separates the rotating part (1,3) from the stationary unit (4) adjacent to the inlet thereby forming a dynamic bearing during the rotation of the rotating part due to leakage of the coolant fluid through the gap sealing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 24, 2002
    Assignee: Lind Finance & Development AB
    Inventor: Björn Lind
  • Patent number: 6413026
    Abstract: Tool spindle with a moveable pulling rod (3) axially displaceable in the spindle axle (1) for firmly attaching a tool at the axle of the spindle. The end (10) of the pulling rod (3) that is opposite to the tool extends into a unit (4) that accommodates the end of the pulling rod and that is stationary in relation to the rotation of the pulling rod, that the pulling rod (3) is provided with a piston (11) accommodated in a cylinder chamber (13) arranged in the spindle axle (1) and having at least a first (12b) and a second (12a) axial bore of which the first bore (12b) opens in the cylinder chamber (13) on one side of the piston (11) and the second bore (12a) opens in the cylinder chamber (13) on the other side of the piston (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: Lind Finance & Development AB
    Inventor: Björn Lind
  • Patent number: 6413025
    Abstract: Supply unit for a tool spindle wholly or partially equipped with a moveable pulling rod (3) axially displaceable in the spindle axle (1) for firmly attaching the tool with a fluid supply system for displacing the pulling rod (3), with a fluid supply system for cooling a rotor (22) of a driving source supported on the spindle axle for driving the spindle axle, a fluid supply system for cooling the tool, and a gas supply system for blocking fluid leakage in gaps between parts that move in relation to one another. The supply unit includes, for one or more of the said systems, at least one sensor that senses if a malfunction exists in the fluid and/or gas supply system, and, for one or more of the said systems, an accumulator (704, 164, 243) that from indicated malfunction signals obtained from one or more sensors feeds into the system or systems complementary and replacement fluid respectively gas to the tool spindle at the same time as the sensor or sensors deactivate the driving source of the spindle axle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: Lind Finance & Development AB
    Inventor: Björn Lind
  • Patent number: 6413027
    Abstract: Arrangement for a tool spindle with a pulling rod (3) axially displaceable in the spindle axle (1) for firmly attaching a tool at the spindle of the tool whereby the end of the pulling rod (3) that is opposite to the tool is accommodated in a stationary unit (4), the rotating part (1, 3) is provided with a piston (11) movably displaceable in a cylinder chamber (13) arranged in the spindle axle (1), the pulling rod (3) has at least one first axial bore (12a) opening into the cylinder chamber on one side of the piston (11) and at least one second (12b) axial bore opening into the cylinder chamber on the other side of the piston (11), the stationary unit (4) is provided with an inlet (16) in communication with the first bore (12a) and an inlet (14) in communication with the second bore (12 b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: Lind Finance & Development AB
    Inventor: Björn Lind
  • Patent number: 6413028
    Abstract: Tool spindle with a moveable pulling rod (3) axially displaceable in the spindle axle (1) for firmly attaching a toot at the axle of the spindle. The end (10) of the pulling rod (3) that is opposite to the tool extends into a unit (4) that accommodates the end of the pulling rod and that is stationary in relation to the rotating pulling rod, in which there is a spool (9) surrounding the pulling rod (3) for sensing the axial position of this in the spindle axle (1), the pulling rod is provided with an axial, central hole (6) for leading a coolant agent under pressure to the bit of the tool, whereby the coolant is supplied to the bore (6) of the pulling rod (3) via the stationary unit, that the pulling rod (3) is provided with a piston (11) accommodated in a cylinder chamber (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2002
    Assignee: Lind Finance & Development AB
    Inventor: Björn Lind
  • Patent number: 6409441
    Abstract: Arrangement for a tool spindle with a moveable pulling rod (3) axially displaceable in the spindle axle (1) for firmly attaching the tool. The pulling rod is surrounded by at least one spool (9) that is stationary in relation to the axial displacement of the pulling rod (3) which gives a specific current flow that differs depending on the axial position of the pulling rod (3) in the spool (9), whereby the rotating part (1, 3) of the tool spindle in the form of the spindle axle (1) or the end part (10) of the pulling rod (3) that projects out from this, is accommodated in a stationary unit (4) that is at the end of the tool spindle opposite to the tool and which has an axial bore (6), that the stationary unit (4) is provided with an inlet for introducing coolant fluid under pressure to the bore (6) and that a gap sealing is arranged between the rotating part (1, 3) and the stationary unit (4) adjacent to the inlet to allow leakage of fluid through the gap sealing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2001
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2002
    Assignee: Lind Finance & Development AB
    Inventor: Björn Lind
  • Patent number: 6328509
    Abstract: A tool for milling and drilling where the rotating tool has a bearing surface provided to cooperate with another bearing surface to take up radial cutting forces. The two surfaces are essentially axially non-slidable when the cutting tool is engaging the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2000
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: Björn Finance & Property
    Inventor: Björn Lind
  • Patent number: 6318937
    Abstract: A tool for milling and drilling where the rotating tool has a bearing surface provided to cooperate with another bearing surface to take up radial cutting forces. The two surfaces are mutually separated by a fluid and are essentially axially non-slidable when the cutting tool is engaging the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: Bjorn Lind Finance & Property
    Inventor: Björn Lind
  • Patent number: 6254321
    Abstract: An arrangement relating to high-speed tools includes a drive unit having a high-speed spindle, a drive-unit connected adapter that has a supportive part, and a tool that includes the cutting head. The tool is provided with a bearing surface in the close proximity of the cutting head, and the supportive part has a bearing which takes up cutting forces acting radially on the tool and which coacts with the tool-carried bearing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2001
    Assignee: Bjorn Lind Finance & Property
    Inventor: Björn Lind