Patents by Inventor Michael Ramm
Michael Ramm 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).
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Publication number: 20240042714Abstract: A heating press (1) for vulcanizing a vehicle tire under a vacuum, having a heating press upper part (3) and a heating press lower part (6), wherein a circular-ring-shaped hood upper part (4) with a container (2) having the mold parts (14, 16, 17, 18, 21) of a vulcanizing mold is arranged on the heating press upper part (3), and wherein the heating press upper part (3) can be moved in an axial direction (P1) in such a way that the hood upper part (3) can be moved onto the heating press lower part (6) to form a closed hood interior space (12), wherein a press plate (23) is arranged above the container (2) in the hood upper part (4) such that this press plate (23) and thus the container (2) can be moved in the axial direction (P1), wherein at least one vacuum-tight seal (5) is arranged at least in the end face (24) of a hood part (4), wherein, in the course of a first stroke (H1), the hood upper part (3) can be moved in such a way that it rests on the heating press lower part (6) and the interior space of thType: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2021Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbHInventors: Karsten Wenzel, Horst Wedekind, Michael Ramm
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Publication number: 20230405951Abstract: A heating press (1) for vulcanizing a vehicle tire under a vacuum, comprising a heating press upper part (3) and a heating press lower part (6), wherein a container (2) having the mold parts (14, 16, 17, 18, 21) of a segmented vulcanizing mold and a cylindrical hood upper part (4) enclosing said container are arranged on the heating press upper part (3), wherein the hood upper part (4) is arranged fixedly on the heating press upper part (3), wherein the diameter of the hood upper part (4) is dimensioned such that said hood upper part can be pushed over the heating press lower part (6) with a small clearance and said hood upper part has a length (23) which is sufficient to form a closed hood interior space (12) with the heating press lower part (6) and heating press upper part (4) when the vulcanizing mold is still open, wherein, in the course of a first stroke (H1), the heating press upper part (3) can be moved in the axial direction (P1) in such a way that the hood upper part (4) forms a vacuum-tight hoodType: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2021Publication date: December 21, 2023Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbHInventors: Karsten Wenzel, Horst Wedekind, Michael Ramm, Holger Blickwedel
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Publication number: 20230382067Abstract: A heating press (1) for vulcanizing a vehicle tire under a vacuum, comprising a heating press upper part (3) and a heating press lower part (6), wherein a container (2) having the mold parts (14, 16, 17, 18, 21) of a segmented vulcanizing mold and a cylindrical hood upper part (4) enclosing said container are arranged on the heating press upper part (3), wherein the hood upper part (4) and the heating press upper part (3) can be moved independently of one another and relative to one another in the axial direction (P1), wherein the cylindrical hood upper part (4) has a length (23) which is sufficient to form a closed hood interior space (12) with the heating press lower part (6) and heating press upper part (4) when the heating press upper part (3) is open, wherein at least one respective vacuum-tight seal (5) is arranged on those surfaces at which the hood upper part (4) directly adjoins the heating press upper part (3) and—when the hood interior space (12) is closed—the heating press lower part (6), in orType: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2021Publication date: November 30, 2023Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbHInventors: Karsten Wenzel, Horst Wedekind, Michael Ramm
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Publication number: 20230373176Abstract: A heating press (1) for vulcanizing a vehicle tire under a vacuum, having a heating press upper part (3) and a heating press lower part (6), wherein the heating press upper part (3) has a hood upper part (4) mounted thereon and a container (2), which contains mold parts (16, 18, 21) of a segmented vulcanizing mold, in this hood upper part (4), wherein the hood upper part (4) has a first circular ring (23), which is arranged fixedly on the heating press upper part (3), and a second circular ring (24), which adjoins this first circular ring coaxially in an axial direction and can be telescopically retracted and extended out over the first circular ring (23) in an axial direction P1, wherein vacuum-tight seals (5, 9) are arranged between the two circular rings (23, 24) and between the second circular ring (24) and the heating press lower part (6), wherein, after a first partial stroke (TH1), the hood upper part (3) can be moved in such a way that it rests on the heating press lower part (6) by way of the extType: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2021Publication date: November 23, 2023Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbHInventors: Karsten Wenzel, Horst Wedekind, Michael Ramm
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Publication number: 20230373177Abstract: A heating press (1) for vulcanizing a vehicle tire under a vacuum, having a heating press upper part (3) and a heating press lower part (6), wherein the heating press upper part (3) has a hood upper part (4) mounted thereon and a container (2), which contains mold parts (16, 18, 21) of a segmented vulcanizing mold, in this hood upper part (4), wherein the hood upper part (4) has a first circular ring (23), which is arranged fixedly on the heating press upper part (3), and a second circular ring (24), which adjoins this first circular ring coaxially in an axial direction and can be telescopically retracted and extended in over the first circular ring (23) in an axial direction P1, wherein vacuum-tight seals (5, 9) are arranged between the two circular rings (23, 24) and between the second circular ring (24) and the heating press lower part (6), wherein, after a first partial stroke (TH1), the hood upper part (3) can be moved in such a way that it rests on the heating press lower part (6) by way of the exteType: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2021Publication date: November 23, 2023Applicant: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbHInventors: Karsten Wenzel, Horst Wedekind, Michael Ramm
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Publication number: 20220128500Abstract: The invention relates to a measuring device having a transmitter (1, 2, 3) for transmitting a measurement signal, a receiver (4) for receiving a response to the transmitted measurement signal, and a signal processing device (7, 8, 9; 18) for determining a measurement result from the response, the transmitter and/or the receiver having a coil (3; 4; 16), the measuring device having a calibration device for reducing an interference influence on the measurement result, characterized in that the calibration device is configured such that a current pulse can be introduced into the coil (3; 4; 16) from a current source (DC) and the signal processing device (7, 8, 9; 18) can perform a measurement value correction using the calibration signal generated by the current pulse and can determine a measurement result from the response and the measurement value correction. The invention further relates to a measuring method.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 30, 2019Publication date: April 28, 2022Inventors: Xihe Tan, Egon Zimmermann, Achim Mester, Jan van der Kruk, Walter Glaas, Markus Dick, Michael Ramm
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Patent number: 8226389Abstract: A device for vulcanizing vehicle tires uses a heating press and an internal bladder that is supplied with vaporous heating medium. In order to assure that the measurement of the vulcanization temperature is effected at the relevant locations of the internal heater, there is provided a temperature sensor in the form of a radiation thermometer or pyrometer that is disposed in the bladder cavity. The pyrometer takes an indirect temperature measurement for at least one location on the interior wall of the bladder by measuring a radiant energy emitted from the interior of the bladder.Type: GrantFiled: July 5, 2011Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Continental Reifen Deutschland GmbHInventors: Bernd Fricke, Boris Primke, Michael Ramm, Rolf Hackbarth
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Publication number: 20110262572Abstract: A device for vulcanizing vehicle tires uses a heating press and an internal bladder that is supplied with vaporous heating medium. In order to assure that the measurement of the vulcanization temperature is effected at the relevant locations of the internal heater, there is provided a temperature sensor in the form of a radiation thermometer or pyrometer that is disposed in the bladder cavity. The pyrometer takes an indirect temperature measurement for at least one location on the interior wall of the bladder by measuring a radiant energy emitted from the interior of the bladder.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 5, 2011Publication date: October 27, 2011Applicant: CONTINENTAL REIFEN DEUTSCHLAND GMBHInventors: Bernd Fricke, Boris Primke, Michael Ramm, Rolf Hackbarth
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Patent number: 5764042Abstract: A controlled power supply source is described, which has a parallel control member having a controllable semiconductor component whose load path is arranged between output terminals of the power supply source and whose control input is connected to an output of a control device, the control device having a reference input for supplying a reference voltage. The control device has a control amplifier which is fed from a current bank having at least one constant current source, an actual value input of said control amplifier receiving the voltage between the output terminals of the power supply source, and a nominal value input receiving the reference voltage from the reference input of the control device.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 1997Date of Patent: June 9, 1998Assignee: U.S. Philips CorporationInventors: Ralf Beier, Axel Nathe, Michael Ramm
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Patent number: 5231351Abstract: A processing circuit for a magnetoresistive rotary speed sensor (13) or the like having a comparator (11) with switching hysteresis for converting an analog sensor signal into a digital switching signal. An apparatus is provided at the input side of the comparator in order to alternately supply each of the comparator inputs, as a function of the switching signal at the output side of the comparator, symmetrically with a given hysteresis signal as a switching threshold. This apparatus also includes a preamplifier (15) which precedes the comparator non-inverting input and which amplifies the sensor signal, and an offset amplifier (18) of the same construction which precedes the comparator inverting input and which amplifiers an offset signal of a preceding offset network (21). The processing circuit provides a simple, integrable circuit which suppresses offsets and compensates for temperature and supply voltage fluctuations and any spread in tolerances of the circuit components.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 1991Date of Patent: July 27, 1993Assignee: U.S. Philips CorporationInventors: Jurgen Kordts, Georg Kisters, Michael Ramm