Patents by Inventor Werner Kirchner

Werner Kirchner 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: 8984983
    Abstract: A steering column arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a bracket, to which a jacket tube of a steering column supporting a steering shaft is releasably fixed by a clamping mechanism. The clamping mechanism includes at least one clamping part that is supple in the transverse direction (y direction) of the steering column arrangement and rigid in shear terms in the longitudinal direction (x direction and z direction) of the steering column arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2015
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Detlef Hansen, Horst Hartmann, Jens-Werner Kirchner, Holger Kittler, Ivica Milicevic, Ralf Prigge
  • Publication number: 20120266714
    Abstract: A steering column arrangement for a motor vehicle includes a bracket, to which a jacket tube of a steering column supporting a steering shaft is releasably fixed by a clamping mechanism. The clamping mechanism includes at least one clamping part that is supple in the transverse direction (y direction) of the steering column arrangement and rigid in shear terms in the longitudinal direction (x direction and z direction) of the steering column arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2010
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Detlef Hansen, Horst Hartmann, Jens-Werner Kirchner, Holger Kittler, Ivica Milicevic, Ralf Prigge
  • Patent number: 6462138
    Abstract: A process is described for reducing the residual monomer content in a liquid solution, mixture, melt, suspension or dispersion of a polymer by postpolymerization with addition of a redox initiator system at a reaction temperature appropriate to it and with an extremely short mixing time of the liquid system in the production reactor by metering—gradually, in portions or continuously—at least one of the redox initiator components required to initiate polymerization of the residual monomers over a period (metering time) which is from about 10 to 250 times the mixing time of the liquid system in said reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Robert Rupaner, Sven Lawrenz, Johannes Dobbelaar, Gerhard Bauer, Franz-Josef Mueseler, Werner Kirchner, Bradley Ronald Morrison, Jürgen Nahstoll, Martin Meister, Reinhard Bächer, Wolfgang Hübinger, Gerhard Schumacher
  • Patent number: 6458230
    Abstract: A process for preparing recyclable fiber composites, comprising bonding fibers with a polymeric bonding agent applied as an aqueous polymer dispersion to said fibers, the polymeric bonding agent comprising at least one addition polymer which, in the state of an aqueous dispersion, has a film forming capability at the temperature at which the addition polymer is combined with said fibers, and said aqueous polymer dispersion, when subjected to a change in pH, is converted into an aqueous solution of the addition polymer. The aqueous addition polymer of the addition polymer dispersion can contain protic acid groups, and the state of the dispersion can be converted to an aqueous addition polymer solution by raising the pH of the aqueous medium. Alternatively, the addition polymer may contain basic groups, in particular, amino groups, and its state as a dispersion can be converted into an aqueous addition polymer resolution by lowering the pH of the aqueous medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 1996
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Robert Rupaner, Karl-Heinz Schumacher, Werner Kirchner, Bradley Ronald Morrison, Roland Offner, Hermann Seyffer