Patents by Inventor Roland Plabst

Roland Plabst 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).

  • Publication number: 20230302973
    Abstract: A driver's seat for a rail vehicle includes a seat, a frame, a support, a fastening unit and a compressed air line, ensuring compressed-air-assisted functionalities of the driver's seat. The frame supporting the seat is mounted rotatably and connected to a first end of the support permitting the seat to rotate about an axis of the support. A second end of the support is connected to the fastening unit, fastening the seat in a vehicle control console. The air line ensures compressed-air-assisted seat functionalities and has a first region with partial coils running around the support at a predefined distance. The partial coils are formed and fastened such that rotational movement of the seat effects a change in distance of the partial coils relative to the support. The partial coils of the air line form a spiral, wound around the support at a predefined distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2021
    Publication date: September 28, 2023
    Inventors: Roland Plabst, Josef Denk
  • Publication number: 20220297543
    Abstract: A current collector for a rail vehicle intended for international transport includes a support bringing two contact strips into electrically conductive contact with a contact wire on the roof of the rail vehicle. Each contact strip has a first length and a contact strip extension at each end. Each contact strip extension is rotatably mounted and connected to a respective end of the contact strip. In a first position the contact strip extensions are hinged inwards, such that a resulting total length of the contact strip with the associated contact strip extensions corresponds to the first length of the contact strip. In a second position, the contact strip extensions are hinged outwards, such that the resulting total length of the contact strip with the associated contact strip extensions corresponds to a second length of the contact strip which is greater than the first length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Roland Plabst, Dieter Wendler
  • Patent number: 7369416
    Abstract: Electric or electronic modules may be carried by an electrically shielded module carrier that includes a cover element and a base element enclosing at least one mounting region which is divided into a front section and a rear section by an intermediate wall card. Holding elements for inserted flat modules are laterally provided in each section and include guiding gratings which face each other in pairs and are integrated into an electromagnetic shield. The cover element and the base element are connected to the guiding gratings of the front section in a fixed manner and are detachably connected to the guiding gratings of the rear section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Roland Plabst
  • Patent number: 7306476
    Abstract: Contact device for electrical cable with a cable shield including an arc-shaped contact part (3) that can be secured around the sheath of a cable and is provided with contact elements that protrude in a radially inward manner. Each contact element extends to form a point such that during installation in a direction of impact that is oriented inwards and in an essentially radial manner, the point penetrates the cable sheath and produces an electrical contact with the cable shield.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Walter Gerlich, Roland Plabst, Carsten Siebold
  • Publication number: 20050233642
    Abstract: Contact device for electrical cable with a cable shield comprising an arc-shaped contact part (3) that can be secured around the sheath of a cable and is provided with contact elements that protrude in a radially inward manner. Each contact element (5) extends to form a point (13) such that during installation in a direction of impact that is oriented inwards and in an essentially radial manner, said point penetrates the cable sheath (8) and produces an electrical contact with the cable shield (9).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2003
    Publication date: October 20, 2005
    Inventors: Walter Gerlich, Roland Plabst, Carsten Siebold
  • Publication number: 20050168964
    Abstract: Electric or electronic modules may be carried by an electrically shielded module carrier that includes a cover element and a base element enclosing at least one mounting region which is divided into a front section and a rear section by an intermediate wall card. Holding elements for inserted flat modules are laterally provided in each section and include guiding gratings which face each other in pairs and are integrated into an electromagnetic shield. The cover element and the base element are connected to the guiding gratings of the front section in a fixed manner and are detachably connected to the guiding gratings of the rear section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2003
    Publication date: August 4, 2005
    Inventor: Roland Plabst