Patents by Inventor Thomas Luckas

Thomas Luckas 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: 20230138757
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and computer program product are therefore provided for providing syntax-based spatial auditory cues to facilitate user interaction with navigational assistance or at least semi-autonomous vehicle control. Methods may include: receiving an indication of location based information; parsing the location based information into one or more portions of information; classifying the one or more portions of information based on a syntax of one or more words contained in the one or more portions to obtain one or more classified portions of information; determining, for a respective one of the one or more classified portions of information, a communication mode associated with the respective one of the one or more classified portions; and providing for generation of audible communication of the location based information, where the one or more classified portions are communicated according to a respective communication mode associated with the respective one or more classified portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2021
    Publication date: May 4, 2023
    Inventors: Francesco Grani, Thomas Lucka, Mario Lopez Batres
  • Patent number: 11365061
    Abstract: A conveyor for separating, singulating or conveying bulk material comprises a conveying plate, a substructure and a pulse generator for generating an oscillation. The substructure stands on a base surface. The conveying plate is arranged on the substructure at a distance from the base surface. The pulse generator is fixed on the substructure and is/can be brought into an operative connection with the conveying plate. The oscillation generated by the pulse generator can be transmitted to the conveying plate and a force is exerted on the substructure by the oscillation. The conveyor comprises an equalising pulse generator which is fixed on the substructure and creates a counter-oscillation. A counter-force which is in an opposite direction to the force is exerted on the substructure by the counter-oscillation. A resultant force which results from the force and the counter-force and which acts on the substructure is reduced by the counter-force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: IMA-TEC GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Luckas, Frank Hüttner
  • Publication number: 20210292094
    Abstract: A conveyor for separating, singulating or conveying bulk material comprises a conveying plate, a substructure and a pulse generator for generating an oscillation. The substructure stands on a base surface. The conveying plate is arranged on the substructure at a distance from the base surface. The pulse generator is fixed on the substructure and is/can be brought into an operative connection with the conveying plate. The oscillation generated by the pulse generator can be transmitted to the conveying plate and a force is exerted on the substructure by the oscillation. The conveyor comprises an equalising pulse generator which is fixed on the substructure and creates a counter-oscillation. A counter-force which is in an opposite direction to the force is exerted on the substructure by the counter-oscillation. A resultant force which results from the force and the counter-force and which acts on the substructure is reduced by the counter-force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Applicant: IMA-TEC GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Luckas, Frank Hüttner
  • Patent number: 5836219
    Abstract: In a motor-gear drive unit, particularly for automobile window lifters and the like, a moisture-tight closure of the gear case (2) is provided by a gear case cover (4). The cover (4) is preferably injection-molded from plastic and can be connected to the gear case (2) nonpositively by a press-fitted, insertable clamp fastening. Specifically, the clamp fastening takes the form of a peripheral web (4.1) capable of being pressed into a peripheral channel-like groove (2.2), where the peripheral web (4.1) and the peripheral channel-like groove (2.2) are provided, respectively, on either the case (2) or the cover (4). If the peripheral web (4.1) is provided on the cover (4), a peripheral scraping rib (4.11) is molded on the inside surface of the web (4.1). An elastic gasket layer (5) having a static sealing edge (5.1) is applied, e.g., injection-molded onto an outer surface of the peripheral web (4.1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 17, 1998
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellshcaft
    Inventors: Peter Klingler, Thomas Luckas
  • Patent number: 5606890
    Abstract: A drive-end gear wheel is engaged by a drive disc through an intermediate cushion that accepts slave bars of the driving disc and reinforcement ribs of the drive-end gear wheel. The reinforcement ribs couple an inner hub with an outer ring gear flange of the drive-end gear wheel. The reinforcement ribs are formed with transition curves that uniformly transmit tangential and radial deformation stresses to the outer ring gear flange, ensuring reliable and durable operation of the drive gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 4, 1997
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Thomas Luckas