Patents by Inventor Horst Schindler

Horst Schindler 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).

  • Method for equipping substrates with components
    Patent number: 6618935
    Abstract: A method for increasing equipping performance of a process line includes providing automatic equipping units to equip substrates with components and an equipping program. A theoretical program is determined before the equipping process starts. The goal is an optimally high equipping performance based on a theoretical time behavior of the individual automatic equipping units. Observers measure the actual time behavior of the automatic equipping units and are provided in control devices of automatic equipping units arranged in the line. An updated equipping program, with which the individual automatic equipping units or, respectively, the entire line of automatic equipping units are operated, is determined with the assistance of the measured actual time behavior. A new allocation of components to be equipped at equipping locations ensues according to the updated equipping program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2003
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Horst Schindler
  • Light cover, especially a plate-shaped or bowl-shaped lamp cover
    Patent number: 4825346
    Abstract: Light cover (10), especially a plate-shaped or bowl-shaped lamp cover made of transparent material, at least one layer (11) being produced from light-transmitting foamed material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1986
    Date of Patent: April 25, 1989
    Assignee: Norddeutsche Seekabelwerke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Horst Schindler, Adriaan A. Reekers