Patents by Inventor Ernst Berger

Ernst Berger 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: 8151412
    Abstract: A caster, in particular a free-running caster is provided. The caster includes twinned wheels and a housing with a substantially vertically aligned upper-side journal opening for holding a rotary journal which connects the caster to an item of furniture or to some other object. The caster also has an axle bolt which extends through the housing transversely with respect to the journal opening and supports the wheels. In order to permit cost-effective production with sufficient load capacity in the region of the axle receptacle, an axle carrier having a passage opening for the axle bolt is arranged in the housing. The axle carrier is composed of a material with a higher strength than the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Gross + Froelich GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ernst Berger, Ralph von Bordelius
  • Patent number: 8015664
    Abstract: The invention relates to a twin-wheel caster provided with a housing containing a journal opening on a top side thereof, which is oriented in a substantially vertical direction for receiving a pivot connecting a roller to a furniture or another object, a shaft-shaped slide opening on the lower side thereof, which is laterally offset with respect to the journal opening and used for receiving a cross head supported by the housing with the aid of a spring, wherein the cross head has a through opening which is oriented in a substantially perpendicular direction with respect to the shaft-shaped slide opening and receives a swivel pin bearing two wheels, is placed in the housing in such a way that it is slidable between rolling and braking positions and recesses embodied in the slide opening limiting walls and used for passing the swivel pin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2011
    Assignee: Gross & Froelich GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ernst Berger, Ralph Von Bordelius
  • Patent number: 7899922
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of storing an object received from a client device on one or more content servers remote from the client device includes receiving, through a service oriented (SOA) layer, object metadata about the object from a non-proprietary interface running on the client device and generating a uniform resource locator (URL) with which to retrieve the object. The URL and metadata for locating and retrieving the object from a web application server are transmitted to the client device through the non-proprietary interface, and the metadata for locating and retrieving the object is transmitted through the service oriented architecture (SOA) layer to the client device. The object is received from the client device, and the object is not transmitted through the SOA layer. Finally, the object is stored on at least one of the remote content servers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2011
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Johann Dornbach, Michael Roedel, Jens Kehr, Ernst Berger, Peter Szincsak
  • Publication number: 20090083304
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of storing an object received from a client device on one or more content servers remote from the client device includes receiving, through a service oriented (SOA) layer, object metadata about the object from a non-proprietary interface running on the client device and generating a uniform resource locator (URL) with which to retrieve the object. The URL and metadata for locating and retrieving the object from a web application server are transmitted to the client device through the non-proprietary interface, and the metadata for locating and retrieving the object is transmitted through the service oriented architecture (SOA) layer to the client device. The object is received from the client device, and the object is not transmitted through the SOA layer. Finally, the object is stored on at least one of the remote content servers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2007
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Inventors: Johann Dornbach, Michael Roedel, Jens Kehr, Ernst Berger, Peter Szincsak
  • Publication number: 20090049647
    Abstract: The invention relates to a twin-wheel caster (26, 26?) is provided with a housing (10) comprising a journal opening (12) on a top side thereof, which is oriented in substantially vertical direction for receiving a pivot (14) connecting a roller to a furniture or another object, a shaft-shaped slide opening (16) on the lower side thereof, which is laterally offset with respect to the journal opening (12) and used for receiving a cross head (18) supported by the housing (10) with the aid of a spring (20), wherein said cross head (18) comprises a through opening (24) which is oriented in a substantially perpendicular direction with respect to the shaft-shaped slide opening (16) and receives a swivel pin (22) bearing two wheels (26, 26?), is placed in the housing (10) in such a way that it is slidable between rolling and braking positions and recesses (32) embodied in the slide opening limiting walls and used for passing the swivel pin (22).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2006
    Publication date: February 26, 2009
    Inventors: Ernst Berger, Ralph Von Bordelius
  • Publication number: 20080141487
    Abstract: The invention relates to a caster, in particular free-running caster, having twinned wheels (26, 26?), having a housing (10) with a substantially vertically aligned, upper-side journal opening (12) for holding a rotary journal (14) for connecting the caster to an item of furniture or to some other object, and having an axle bolt (22) which extends through the housing transversely with respect to the journal opening and supports the wheels. In order to permit cost-effective production with sufficient load capacity in the region of the axle receptacle, it is proposed according to the invention that an axle carrier (18) having a passage opening (24) for the axle bolt (22) is arranged in the housing (10), with the axle carrier (18) being composed of a material with a higher strength than the housing (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2007
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Inventors: Ernst Berger, Ralph von Bordelius
  • Patent number: 5898149
    Abstract: This power circuit-breaker has at least one cylindrically constructed arcing chamber which is provided with a stationary contact, with a moving contact and with a quenching zone between the two contacts. A shaft of the moving contact is permanently connected to a blowout volume which is closed off on the stationary contact side by an insulating nozzle through which at least one flow channel passes. The arcing chamber has a first compression volume which is operatively connected to the blowout volume and to a second compression volume. It is intended to provide a power circuit-breaker in which the blowing-out of the arc with pure SF.sub.6 gas is made stronger. This is achieved by providing a moving auxiliary piston between the first compression volume and the second compression volume and by the auxiliary piston being connected to the moving contact via a direction-changing device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 27, 1999
    Assignee: Asea Brown Boveri AG
    Inventors: Ernst Berger, Christian Lindner
  • Patent number: 5589674
    Abstract: A metal-encapsulated, gas-insulated switching installation is provided with at least one busbar system, the busbar system having an axis separation, and a circuit breaker, the circuit breaker being in the form of a pole and having a pole axis, the circuit breaker including at least one quenching chamber installed in a pole enclosure and at least one connection for the associated busbar system. The pole axis is arranged at a right angle to a surface of a foundation. The circuit breaker of the switching installation includes a modular circuit breaker pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1996
    Assignee: ABB Management AG
    Inventors: Ernst Berger, Franz Heil, Herbert Schifko, Piero Tecchio
  • Patent number: 5578804
    Abstract: A metal-enclosed, gas-insulated switching installation includes at least two busbar systems and a circuit breaker. Each circuit breaker is in the form of a pole having a pole axis and at least one extinction chamber, installed in a pole housing. The pole axes are arranged perpendicularly to a foundation and are located in a first plane. The switching installation includes an electrically conductive connection, extending along a connecting axis, of the voltage-carrying extinction chamber of the circuit breaker to each of the busbar systems and an isolator arranged in the connection between the busbar and the circuit breaker pole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1996
    Assignee: ABB Management AG
    Inventors: Ernst Berger, Franz Heil, Herbert Schifko, Piero Tecchio
  • Patent number: 5578805
    Abstract: A metal-enclosed, gas-filled switchgear unit has at least two busbar systems and a circuit breaker which respectively has per pole a pole axis and at least one arcing chamber built into a pole housing constructed as a metal enclosure. The pole axes are arranged perpendicular to a foundation and lie in a first plane. Furthermore, the switchgear unit respectively has an electrically conductive connection, extending along a connecting axis, between the live arcing chamber of the respective pole and each of the busbar systems. A metal-enclosed, gas-filled switchgear unit is provided in which the insulation and the fastening of the arcing chambers of the circuit breaker poles are substantially simplified and reduced in cost. The arcing chamber is connected in a force-closed fashion to the at least two current terminals and the arcing chamber is positioned by these alone in the metal enclosure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1996
    Assignee: ABB Management AG
    Inventors: Ernst Berger, Franz Heil
  • Patent number: 4265225
    Abstract: Two identical header tube members are fitted to opposite ends of an absorbing member with a plurality of internal channels for circulation of a heat transport fluid to form a collector element. Each header has a header tube which is spaced from a header base plate by a tube saddle. The perimeter of the element includes a flange for joining it together with other, identical elements. Any number of such elements may be joined together to form a continuous, watertight sheet. Where the header tubes of adjoining elements connect, their spacing from the base plate leaves a passageway under them between adjacent tube saddles. Water can run off the surface through the passageway in the direction of slope of the surface upon which the sheet of elements is installed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 5, 1981
    Assignee: Datwyler AG.Schweiz, Kabel-, Gummi- und Kunststoffwerke
    Inventors: Ernst Berger, Norbert Herwegh
  • Patent number: 4195850
    Abstract: In order to form a tighter seal, especially at corner butt joints, between polygonal construction plate elements which are pressed together at their edges with an intervening gasket strip, the strip is provided at its critical sealing section with a second material of greater elasticity than the first, main gasket material. A third material which plastically deforms under pressure is partially embedded in the second material. The pressure of the second material when compressed forces the third material to flow into low seal pressure spaces and gaps of the seal to form a bonded seal with a seal pressure which is distributed by the deformation of the third material. Various configurations of the gasket cross-section and of corner segments are described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1979
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1980
    Assignee: Datwyler AG, Schweiz. Kabel-Gummi-u.Kunststoffwerke
    Inventors: Ernst Berger, Norbert Herwegh