Patents by Inventor Walter Richter

Walter Richter 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).

  • Patent number: 11166556
    Abstract: A chair has a seat with a seat shell. A frame for supporting the seat has, on its side facing the seat, a mounting strut running parallel to the plane of the seat shell. An underside of the seat shell if formed with a receiving profile for the mounting strut. The receiving profile has a fastening section extending from a circumferential edge of the seat shell parallel to a plane of the seat shell into the interior of the seat shell and having an access opening at the circumferential edge of the seat shell. A clamping strip is provided for clamping the mounting strut in the fastening section. The clamping strip is slid from the access opening in a direction parallel to a longitudinal direction of the fastening section and is fixed in its end position in the fastening section perpendicular to the plane of the seat shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2021
    Assignee: VS Vereinigte Spezialmoebelfabriken GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Markus Freisleben, Jens Heller, Walter Richter, Michael Scheller
  • Publication number: 20200163459
    Abstract: A chair has a seat with a seat shell. A frame for supporting the seat has, on its side facing the seat, a mounting strut running parallel to the plane of the seat shell. An underside of the seat shell if formed with a receiving profile for the mounting strut. The receiving profile has a fastening section extending from a circumferential edge of the seat shell parallel to a plane of the seat shell into the interior of the seat shell and having an access opening at the circumferential edge of the seat shell. A clamping strip is provided for clamping the mounting strut in the fastening section. The clamping strip is slid from the access opening in a direction parallel to a longitudinal direction of the fastening section and is fixed in its end position in the fastening section perpendicular to the plane of the seat shell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2019
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: MARKUS FREISLEBEN, JENS HELLER, WALTER RICHTER, MICHAEL SCHELLER
  • Patent number: 9055817
    Abstract: An article of furniture, such as a chair, including a free-swinging seat and a free-swinging backrest. The chair includes a seat and backrest coupled to a chair frame, where the chair frame includes first and second laterally spaced apart components. The first and second components each have a floor strut and a pair of legs that may be arranged in a substantially triangular configuration for supporting the seat. The chair also includes a coupling device, which may include a spring element, coupled to the legs and configured to allow forward movement of the seat and backward movement of the backrest, where movement of the seat and backrest may occur independently of one another. In some embodiments, the maximum movement of the seat and backrest may be limited by restricting movement of the coupling device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: VS Vereinigte Spezialmobelfabriken GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Reinhard Weber, Walter Richter, Markus Schuppler
  • Patent number: 8764116
    Abstract: An item of seating furniture contains a seat providing a seat surface, a generally circular foot panel positioning the item of seating furniture on a floor, and a central part, which connects the seat to the foot panel and of which a vertical center axis runs centrally through the foot panel. The foot panel is of at least partially convex configuration and that side of the foot panel which is directed toward the floor is configured, at least in part, as a non-slip surface. This creates an ergonomic item of seating furniture which stands in a stable state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: VS Vereinigte Spezialmoebelfabriken GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Reinhard Weber, Thomas Braun, Walter Richter, John Harding
  • Publication number: 20120153700
    Abstract: An article of furniture, such as a chair, including a free-swinging seat and a free-swinging backrest. The chair includes a seat and backrest coupled to a chair frame, where the chair frame includes first and second laterally spaced apart components. The first and second components each have a floor strut and a pair of legs that may be arranged in a substantially triangular configuration for supporting the seat. The chair also includes a coupling device, which may include a spring element, coupled to the legs and configured to allow forward movement of the seat and backward movement of the backrest, where movement of the seat and backrest may occur independently of one another. In some embodiments, the maximum movement of the seat and backrest may be limited by restricting movement of the coupling device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Publication date: June 21, 2012
    Applicant: VS Vereinigte Spezialmobelfabriken GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Reinhard Weber, Walter Richter, Markus Schuppler
  • Publication number: 20110221255
    Abstract: An item of seating furniture contains a seat providing a seat surface, a generally circular foot panel positioning the item of seating furniture on a floor, and a central part, which connects the seat to the foot panel and of which a vertical center axis runs centrally through the foot panel. The foot panel is of at least partially convex configuration and that side of the foot panel which is directed toward the floor is configured, at least in part, as a non-slip surface. This creates an ergonomic item of seating furniture which stands in a stable state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: VS VEREINIGTE SPEZIALMOBELFABRIKEN GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Reinhard Weber, Thomas Braun, Walter Richter, John Harding
  • Publication number: 20100102053
    Abstract: A method for producing a combustion chamber, particularly for airbags, with a barrel shaped body to which an ignition chamber is attached by welding and which has a transition opening between the ignition chamber and the barrel shaped body and a discharge opening in the barrel shaped body lying substantially opposite the transition opening, the barrel shaped body having a wall thickness in the vicinity of the discharge opening and in the vicinity of the transition opening or of the region where the ignition chamber is attached is greater than the wall thickness of the remainder of the barrel shaped body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2009
    Publication date: April 29, 2010
    Applicant: Neumayer Tekfor Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Walter Richter, Stefan Malm
  • Patent number: 7610885
    Abstract: A rotor (2) and/or rotor housing (1) for a camshaft adjuster for a motor vehicle engine and a method for manufacturing the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Neumayer Tekfor Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Stueckrad, Stefan Malm, Helmut Straub, Walter Richter
  • Publication number: 20080309057
    Abstract: A combustion chamber, particularly for airbags, with a barrel shaped body to which an ignition chamber is attached and which has a transition opening between the ignition chamber and the barrel shaped body and a discharge opening in the barrel shaped body lying substantially opposite the transition opening, the barrel shaped body having a wall thickness in the vicinity of the discharge opening and in the vicinity of the transition opening or of the region where the ignition chamber is attached is greater than the wall thickness of the remainder of the barrel shaped body, and to a method for producing such a combustion chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Applicant: Neumayer Tekfor Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Walter Richter, Stefan Malm
  • Publication number: 20080312000
    Abstract: A rotor (2) and/or rotor housing (1) for a camshaft adjuster for a motor vehicle engine and a method for manufacturing the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2008
    Publication date: December 18, 2008
    Applicant: Neumayer Tekfor Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Stueckrad, Stefan Malm, Helmut Straub, Walter Richter
  • Patent number: 5289771
    Abstract: A shiftable ink knife holder supports a plurality of spaced ink knives in an elongated support. The support is rotatable about an axis of rotation between working and rest positions. The rotation of the support can be accomplished by suitable drive motors. These drive motors also engage and disengage locking bolts that, in their locked position, engage the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 1993
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1994
    Assignee: Koenig & Bauer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Walter Richter, Kurt J. Weschenfelder
  • Patent number: 4578626
    Abstract: An electric control arrangement for controlling the speed of a roll driving motor for rolling mills for manufacturing hollow blocks is described. A power controller determines from the speed, field strength and armature current of the driving motor, the actual value of the motor power, compares the latter with a reference value, and generates a controlled variable which is fed to a current controller of the control arrangement to control the motor so that the motor delivers constant power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1985
    Date of Patent: March 25, 1986
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Walter Richter
  • Patent number: D664779
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: VS Vereinige Spezialmoebelfakriken GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Reinhard Weber, Thomas Braun, Walter Richter, John Harding
  • Patent number: D921393
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: VS Vereinigte Spezialmoebelfabriken GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jean Nouvel, Thomas Mueller, Walter Richter, Markus Freisleben, Michael Scheller, Jens Heller
  • Patent number: D939851
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: VS Vereinigte Spezialmoebelfabriken GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jean Nouvel, Thomas Mueller, Walter Richter, Markus Freisleben, Michael Scheller, Jens Heller
  • Patent number: D961952
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2022
    Assignee: VS Vereinigte Spezialmoebelfabriken GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Martin Ballendat, Walter Richter, Jens Heller, Thomas Mueller
  • Patent number: D977261
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2023
    Assignee: VS Vereinigte Spezialmoebelfabriken GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jean Nouvel, Thomas Mueller, Walter Richter, Markus Freisleben, Michael Scheller, Jens Heller