Patents by Inventor Thomas A. SCHNEIDER

Thomas A. SCHNEIDER 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: 20200078888
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a machining center, and more particularly, to a machining center which allows a bed and a column to be integrated, thereby being capable of reducing the overall size of the apparatus and saving production costs and allows vibrations and displacements occurring in each of 5 axes to be rapidly transmitted to other axes to minimize relative vibrations and displacements between the axes, thereby being capable of performing high-precision machining.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Applicant: HYUNDAI WIA CORPORATION
    Inventors: Dal-ho LEE, Je-wang KIM, Dennis KORFF, Sebastian SPENGLER, Erik NOWAK, Behzad JALIZI, Marc SIEBER, Johannes HOERNER, Thomas SCHNEIDER, Sang-mook HAN
  • Publication number: 20200046120
    Abstract: A synchronous chair mechanism (10) for simultaneously changing a seat and a backrest of a chair from a zero position in which the backrest is tilted to a minimum extent relative to the seat, into an end position in which the backrest is tilted to a maximum extent relative to the seat, includes a base (20) that is connectable to a substructure provided for setting up the chair. The synchronous chair mechanism also includes a backrest carrier (30) on which the backrest is mountable, a seat support (40) that is designed for holding a seat, and a spring element (8) having a front end and a rear end. The backrest carrier (30) is mounted on the base (20) so as to be pivotable about a first rotational axis (710). The seat support (40) is connected to the backrest carrier (30) so as to articulate about a second rotational axis (720), and is connected to the front end of the spring element (80) so as to articulate about a third rotational axis (730).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2017
    Publication date: February 13, 2020
    Inventors: Hermann BOCK, Thomas SCHNEIDER, Thomas KAMBER
  • Patent number: 10538840
    Abstract: A method for depositing film on a substrate (16) through pulsed laser deposition, which includes: generating at least two pulsed laser beams (4, 5, 6) with at least one laser (1), and directing the at least two laser beams (4, 5, 6) to different target spots (9, 10, 11) of a target (12), whereby the target (12) is ablated and at least two plasma plumes (13) are created. The plasma plumes (13) create a flow of target material towards the substrate (16) and the target material is deposited onto the substrate (16) at a deposition area (24). The plasma plumes (13) created by the at least two laser beams (4, 5, 6) are spatially and temporally superimposed, and the target spots (9, 10, 11) are separated from each other at a distance that allows a gas-dynamical interaction of the created plasma plumes (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: BRUKER HTS GMBH
    Inventors: Alexander Usoskin, Thomas Schneider
  • Patent number: 10465885
    Abstract: An assembly set for recessed ceiling and wall luminaires, comprises a mounting sleeve and a luminaire housing, which is adapted to be installed in the mounting sleeve, the mounting sleeve being mountable in a wall or ceiling opening. The mounting sleeve is provided with contact portions extending, on the side of the mounting sleeve facing away from the wall or ceiling opening, perpendicular to a wall of the mounting sleeve into the interior of the latter. The luminaire housing comprises at least two locking elements extending beyond the circumference of the luminaire housing, wherein the locking elements of the luminaire housing engage behind the contact portions of the mounting sleeve at the fixing position, and the locking elements are operatively connected to handles in the interior of the luminaire housing such that the locking elements can be transferred from the fixing position to a release position by moving the handles towards each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Glashütte Limburg Leuchten GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventors: Heinrich J. Gantenbrink, Thomas Schneider
  • Patent number: 10433642
    Abstract: A chair is disclosed having a mechanism with a spring unit that permits mutually synchronous deflection between a backrest and a seat over a range between a respective zero position of back and seat inclination and a respective maximum back or seat inclination. Stationary first and second axes of rotation extend through a base support of a carrier unit. A back carrier is articulated on the first axis of rotation, and a third axis of rotation extends through the back carrier. A front of a base plate lies movably on the base support and a rear of the base plate is articulated on the third axis of rotation. The base support has a U-shape with two arms thereof having portions extending upward to engage associated openings in the base plate. When the mechanism is deflected, a relative displacement between the arms and the openings occurs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: VITRA PATENTE AG
    Inventor: Thomas Schneider
  • Patent number: 10402308
    Abstract: A method of extending the functionality of an enterprise software suite is disclosed. A request is received from a client system to modify a programming object on a productive system deployed in the cloud environment. A logical unit of programming objects is identified on the productive system, the logical unit including the programming object. Copies of each of the programming objects in the logical unit of programming objects are created in a sandbox of a combined development and test system deployed in the cloud environment, the copies including a copy of the programming object. The copy of the programming object is modified in the sandbox. A result of the modifying of the copy of the programming object in the sandbox is communicated for presentation in a client system without modifying the programming object on the productive system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2019
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Thomas Wieczorek, Thomas Schneider, Thomas Bollmeier, Michael Kappert, Bernhard Then, Lu Zhao, Sandro Schiefner
  • Patent number: 10343395
    Abstract: A device for printing hollow bodies includes a rubber blanket cylinder. A supply device, which guides the hollow bodies to the rubber blanket cylinder, is provided. The supply device comprises a mandrel which is rotated by a drive. One of the hollow bodies to be printed is arranged coaxially on the mandrel. An axial spacing between the mandrel and the rubber blanket cylinder can be changed as a result of an adjusting movement of the supply device. The adjusting movement of the supply device is a linear adjusting movement. The supply device is configured as a linear system which radially supplies the hollow bodies to the rubber blanket cylinder individually and one after the other. The supply device has multiple different positions, each of which places the respective hollow body to be printed, along the adjustment path of the supply device. The positions are arranged at different respective radial distances with respect to the rubber blanket cylinder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Koenig & Bauer AG
    Inventors: Ewald Röthlein, Thomas Schneider
  • Publication number: 20190162819
    Abstract: A radar system having at least one radar transmission unit, at least one radar reception unit, a central unit, and a glass fiber for connecting these units, wherein the central unit has a central optical transmission unit to provide an optical radar driver signal, and wherein the at least one radar transmission unit has an optical reception unit and a radar transmitter, wherein the optical reception unit receives the optical radar driver signal and converts the optical radar driver signal into an electrical radar driver signal and provides the electrical radar driver signal for driving the radar transmitter, wherein the at least one radar reception unit includes a radar receiver, a mixer and an optical modulation unit. Also disclosed is an associated method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2018
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Thomas SCHNEIDER, Jörg SCHÖBEL, Fabian SCHWARTAU, Stefan PREUSSLER, Hanjo RHEE, Christoph SCHEYTT, Michael SCHWENKERT, Thorsten BAGDONAT, Heiko KURZ
  • Publication number: 20190143669
    Abstract: A device for printing hollow bodies includes a rubber blanket cylinder. A supply device, which guides the hollow bodies to the rubber blanket cylinder, is provided. The supply device comprises a mandrel which is rotated by a drive. One of the hollow bodies to be printed is arranged coaxially on the mandrel. An axial spacing between the mandrel and the rubber blanket cylinder can be changed as a result of an adjusting movement of the supply device. The adjusting movement of the supply device is a linear adjusting movement. The supply device is configured as a linear system which radially supplies the hollow bodies to the rubber blanket cylinder individually and one after the other. The supply device has multiple different positions, each of which places the respective hollow body to be printed, along the adjustment path of the supply device. The positions are arranged at different respective radial distances with respect to the rubber blanket cylinder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Ewald RÖTHLEIN, Thomas SCHNEIDER
  • Publication number: 20190120458
    Abstract: A luminaire includes a receiving element for a rotationally symmetrical glass body with a receiving opening, a rotationally symmetrical glass body arranged in the receiving opening and an annular, permanently elastic element arranged between the receiving element and the glass body, wherein the receiving element is formed with a support surface which is inclined towards the glass body and the glass body is formed with a receiving surface diametrically opposite to the support surface. The permanently elastic element is positioned in the installed state between the support surface and the receiving surface in order to fix the receiving element and the glass body positively and concentrically to each other. An annular gap is provided between glass body and receiving element for introducing the annular, permanently elastic element between support surface and receiving surface. A method for fastening the glass body in the receiving element is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2018
    Publication date: April 25, 2019
    Inventor: Thomas SCHNEIDER
  • Patent number: 10218660
    Abstract: A client user accesses content that is primarily textual in nature. A status of the user related to the content is detected, and a notification is provided for display to the user that is based on the user status. The notification is located in a notification area, and obscures at least part of the content, which is located in a content area. The user performs a gesture referencing the content area to dismiss the notification. In some cases, the gesture involves a gesture that the user would normally make to perform an action related to the content even if the notification were not displayed. The notification is then removed from display, and the action related to the content is simultaneously implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Google LLC
    Inventors: Thomas Schneider, Jokubas Zukerman, Maurice Shore, Melissa Youngju Byun
  • Patent number: 10168600
    Abstract: System and methods for the sampling of an optical signal by generating a plurality of copies of the spectrum of the said optical signal including at least one sampling block for the convolution between the optical input spectrum and an optical comb; wherein the said sampling block includes a modulator, and a bias voltage generator, the said sampling block is driven by an electrical comb generator and a phase shifter, the said electrical comb generator being configured to generate a number of N lines, with N from one to infinity, in the radio frequency domain, equally spaced in frequency and locked in phase, the said modulator being configured to generate a plurality of 2N+1 copies of the input spectrum from (i) the signal spectrum and (ii) a number of N lines provided by the said electrical comb generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Inventor: Thomas Schneider
  • Publication number: 20180355785
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a device for conducting air, in particular inlet air distributor pipe, for an internal combustion engine with a plurality of cylinder heads. The device for conducting air includes a pipe body. The pipe body has an air distribution channel with a plurality of outlet openings for connecting to a plurality of inlet channels of the plurality of cylinder heads. The pipe body includes a plurality of single venting channels for connecting to a plurality of coolant chambers of the plurality of cylinder heads for venting the plurality of coolant chambers. The pipe body additionally includes a collective venting channel, the plurality of single venting channels discharging therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventor: Thomas Schneider
  • Patent number: 10141581
    Abstract: A method for depassivation of a lithium-thionyl battery includes applying at least one current test load (LAST) (101) to an electrode of the battery (10), wherein at least one of a shape, a magnitude or points in time of the application of the at least one current test load (LAST) occurs dependent on a measurement of a response signal (u(t), du(t) on the battery (10), and energy of the at least one current test load (LAST) is drawn from the battery (10), comparing the response signal (u(t), du(t) of the battery (10) arising from application of the at least one current test load (LAST) to at least one predefined criterion (103), and establishing an operating state (12) or issuing an error message depending on satisfaction of the at least one predefined criterion (103).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: 4114
    Inventors: Rene Klewer, Ansgar Schmidt, Thomas Schneider
  • Publication number: 20180328238
    Abstract: The invention concerns a pushrod for a valve gear of an internal combustion engine. The invention furthermore concerns a valve gear and a motor vehicle, in particular a truck, with such a pushrod. The pushrod (1) is distinguished in that to increase the bending resistance, a shank (2) of the pushrod (1) has a rib structure (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Bernd HUNEKE, Manuel STENGLEIN, Thomas SCHNEIDER
  • Publication number: 20180267387
    Abstract: System and methods for the sampling of an optical signal by generating a plurality of copies of the spectrum of the said optical signal including at least one sampling block for the convolution between the optical input spectrum and an optical comb; wherein the said sampling block includes a modulator, and a bias voltage generator, the said sampling block is driven by an electrical comb generator and a phase shifter, the said electrical comb generator being configured to generate a number of N lines, with N from one to infinity, in the radio frequency domain, equally spaced in frequency and locked in phase, the said modulator being configured to generate a plurality of 2N+1 copies of the input spectrum from (i) the signal spectrum and (ii) a number of N lines provided by the said electrical comb generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventor: Thomas Schneider
  • Publication number: 20180216805
    Abstract: An assembly set for recessed ceiling and wall luminaires, comprises a mounting sleeve and a luminaire housing, which is adapted to be installed in the mounting sleeve, the mounting sleeve being mountable in a wall or ceiling opening. The mounting sleeve is provided with contact portions extending, on the side of the mounting sleeve facing away from the wall or ceiling opening, perpendicular to a wall of the mounting sleeve into the interior of the latter. The luminaire housing comprises at least two locking elements extending beyond the circumference of the luminaire housing, wherein the locking elements of the luminaire housing engage behind the contact portions of the mounting sleeve at the fixing position, and the locking elements are operatively connected to handles in the interior of the luminaire housing such that the locking elements can be transferred from the fixing position to a release position by moving the handles towards each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2018
    Publication date: August 2, 2018
    Inventors: Heinrich J. GANTENBRINK, Thomas SCHNEIDER
  • Patent number: 10028586
    Abstract: The chair is of the type with mutually synchronous adjustment between back inclination and seat inclination, namely via a region between a respective zero position of back inclination (R0) and seat inclination (S0) and a respective maximum back inclination and seat inclination. The chair has a substructure (1) which is intended for placing on the floor and on which a base (2) is fastened rigidly. A seat support (6) which has a seat region and a back region is connected to the base (2). Furthermore, the chair includes two backrest bows (3) which are deflectable differently with respect to each other and are fastened on one side to the base (2) and on the other side to the back region of the seat support (6). The two backrest bows (3) are coupled independently of each other to the base (2) on a stationary first axis of rotation (D1). The seat region of the seat support (6) is coupled to the base (2) on a stationary second axis of rotation (D2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: Vitra Patente AG
    Inventor: Thomas Schneider
  • Patent number: 10019763
    Abstract: A system stores financial accounting data in a Base ledger, together with overlying extension ledger(s). An engine receives both generic financial data, and financial data utilized for specific purposes. Utilizing a mapping table the engine stores in an underlying Base ledger, the generic financial data (e.g., a fixed asset acquisition). The engine stores in overlying extension ledgers, specific financial data (e.g., a linear asset depreciation and/or an declining balance method of asset depreciation) derived from that generic data. This reduces memory footprint by persisting the generic data in one location only. The stored data may be read utilizing dataviews combining data from Base and extension ledgers. A recursive algorithm may evaluate chain(s) of ledgers. Embodiments may be particularly suited to store in the Base ledger generic financial data common to multiple accounting principles (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Georg Dopf, Michael Conrad, Stefan Gauger, Joachim Kenntner, Joachim Liebler, Ruediger Raubeck, Andreas Reccius, Thomas Schachner, Thomas Schneider, Radim Sykora
  • Patent number: 10000369
    Abstract: A beverage bottle closing machine being configured and disposed to close tops of filled beverage bottles with screw-type and other caps. The abstract of the disclosure is submitted herewith as required by 37 C.F.R. § 1.72(b). As stated in 37 C.F.R. § 1.72(b): A brief abstract of the technical disclosure in the specification must commence on a separate sheet, preferably following the claims, under the heading “Abstract of the Disclosure.” The purpose of the abstract is to enable the Patent and Trademark Office and the public generally to determine quickly from a cursory inspection the nature and gist of the technical disclosure. The abstract shall not be used for interpreting the scope of the claims. Therefore, any statements made relating to the abstract are not intended to limit the claims in any manner and should not be interpreted as limiting the claims in any manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2018
    Assignee: KHS GmbH
    Inventors: Lothar Wilhelm, Thomas Schneider, Igor Singur