Patents by Inventor Wilhelm Schneider

Wilhelm 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: 20230228345
    Abstract: A valve device having a valve housing (10), in which fluid ports (P, A, T) are provided and in which at least one valve piston (12, 14) can be moved longitudinally, which valve piston either separates at least two of the fluid ports (P, A, T) from one another or interconnects them as a function of its travel position, and having at least one latching device (16, 18) for each valve piston (12, 14) for the detachable fastening of the respective valve pistons (12, 14) in one of its travel positions, which latching device has at least one latching means (20), which can be brought into a latching position (22), which is characterized in that, as part of the respective latching devices (16, 18) for detachably fastening the respective valve pistons (12, 14), at least one control body (24) that can be moved independently of the respective valve pistons (12, 14) is provided, which control body is set up such that, in at least one blocking position, it prevents the relevant latching means (20) disposed in the latching
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Wolfgang Friedrich Wilhelm SCHNEIDER, Roger Daniel TANNER
  • Publication number: 20230228341
    Abstract: A valve device having a valve housing (10, 54, 94, 166) and fluid ports (16, 18) disposed therein, which are connected to or separated from one another in a fluid-conveying manner by means of a valve piston (22) displaceable along its longitudinal axis (24) in its various travel positions, and having at least one latching device (26, 28) for latching the valve piston (22) in at least one of its travel positions, wherein individual latching means (30, 38, 170) of said latching device, when it is actuated by an external force, take latching positions spatially different from one another, which is characterized in that, with respect to the longitudinal axis (24) of the valve piston (22), the individual latching means (30, 38, 170) of the latching device (26, 28) take positions differing from one another both in the axial and in the radial direction in the individual latching positions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2021
    Publication date: July 20, 2023
    Inventors: Wolfgang Friedrich Wilhelm SCHNEIDER, Roger Daniel TANNER, Marcel STAMBER-BUR
  • Patent number: 10240625
    Abstract: An assembly unit has an assembly part with an assembly side and an opposite outer side. A through opening extends from the outer side to the assembly side. A screw has a head that juts radially over the through opening on the outer side and a shank which reaches through the through opening with radial clearance. The screw has a threaded portion and a non-threaded portion disposed between the threaded portion and the head. A holder fixes the screw captively in the through opening. The holder is held axially movably in the through opening and axially movably on the non-threaded shank portion of the screw. The holder has a disk-shaped flange with a flange opening reached through by the non-threaded shank of the screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: Richard Bergner Verbindungstechnik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wilhelm Schneider, Udo Schmidt, Stefan Braun
  • Patent number: 10208779
    Abstract: An assembly unit includes an assembly part penetrated by a through opening and a cylindrical sleeve which is captively fixed in the through opening. The sleeve has at least one spring element which protrudes from an external face of the sleeve by an excess length in a non-assembled state. The excess length is dimensioned such that the spring element is elastically moved radially inward by contact with the wall of the through opening when the sleeve is introduced into the through opening, so that the spring element presses against the wall 4 of the through opening as a result of elastic restoring forces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Richard Bergner Verbindungstechnik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wilhelm Schneider, Judith Klein, Georg Hirschmann
  • Publication number: 20170292555
    Abstract: An assembly unit has an assembly part with an assembly side and an opposite outer side. A through opening extends from the outer side to the assembly side. A screw has a head that juts radially over the through opening on the outer side and a shank which reaches through the through opening with radial clearance. The screw has a threaded portion and a non-threaded portion disposed between the threaded portion and the head. A holder fixes the screw captively in the through opening. The holder is held axially movably in the through opening and axially movably on the non-threaded shank portion of the screw. The holder has a disk-shaped flange with a flange opening reached through by the non-threaded shank of the screw.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: WILHELM SCHNEIDER, UDO SCHMIDT, STEFAN BRAUN
  • Patent number: 9782858
    Abstract: A method for producing an assembly unit includes providing the assembly unit with an assembly part and at least one welding element serving for the thermal joining of the assembly part to a basic construction. The welding element is fixed in a through opening of the assembly part with at least one form-locking connection acting in the direction of the center longitudinal axis of the through opening and having a first end face, a second end face facing away from the first, and a peripheral surface that interconnects the end faces. The welding element has two side faces running parallel to each other and pointing away from each other, a profile that ensures the at least one form-locking connection and two transverse surfaces which connect the side faces one to the other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 10, 2017
    Assignee: Richard Bergner Verbindungstechnik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wilhelm Schneider, Juliane Niedermueller, Klaus Dehlke
  • Patent number: 9744616
    Abstract: A mounting unit includes a mounting part for a mating surface of a basic structure which cannot be welded to the mounting part and a welding element fixed in a through-bore of the mounting part. The welding element corresponds to the bore and has a thickness at least as large as the mounting part. An annular groove is formed in the welding element. A part of the welding element bounding the groove on the outside forms a form-locking connection element expanded outward and fixing the welding element in the bore by a form-locking connection toward the mounting side. A central region radially within the annular groove is a welding surface for the mating surface, is aligned with or protrudes beyond a mounting-side edge region of the bore with an overhang and is aligned with or projects over the form-locking connection element. A production method is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: Richard Bergner VerbindungstechnikGmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Wilhelm Schneider
  • Patent number: 9687903
    Abstract: An assembly unit is produced according to the following method steps: an assembly part is provided which does not yet have a through bore. A disc-shaped welding element blank with a first end side, a second end side and a peripheral surface is stamped out of a sheet metal blank by a punch and a hole die so that the peripheral surface has a cylindrical longitudinal portion extending away from the first end side, and an adjoining cone portion which tapers towards the second end side and forms with this a cutting edge. The welding element blank is stamped with the cutting edge at the front into the assembly part to thereby form the through bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Richard Bergner Verbindungstechnik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wilhelm Schneider, Juliane Niedermueller, Klaus Dehlke
  • Patent number: 9664226
    Abstract: The invention relates to an assembly unit having an assembly part, which is penetrated by a bore and is to be fastened to a basic structure. The basic structure having a shaft, a head, and a fastener. The fastener having a fastening section on the end thereof facing away from the head, which is held captively and movably in the bore between a first axial position and a second axial position. The assembly unit having a spring, which encompasses the shaft and is formed from a wound spring wire and which holds the fastener captively in the bore. The spring wire is wound in a spiral shape such that the windings thereof do not overlap in the radial direction relative to the spring axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: RICHARD BERGNER VERBINDUNGSTECHNIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Wilhelm Schneider, Helmut Wierzba
  • Publication number: 20170082126
    Abstract: An assembly unit includes an assembly part penetrated by a through opening and a cylindrical sleeve which is captively fixed in the through opening. The sleeve has at least one spring element which protrudes from an external face of the sleeve by an excess length in a non-assembled state. The excess length is dimensioned such that the spring element is elastically moved radially inward by contact with the wall of the through opening when the sleeve is introduced into the through opening, so that the spring element presses against the wall 4 of the through opening as a result of elastic restoring forces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2016
    Publication date: March 23, 2017
    Inventors: WILHELM SCHNEIDER, JUDITH KLEIN, GEORG HIRSCHMANN
  • Publication number: 20150354619
    Abstract: The invention relates to an assembly unit having an assembly part, which is penetrated by a bore and is to be fastened to a basic structure. The basic structure having a shaft, a head, and a fastener. The fastener having a fastening section on the end thereof facing away from the head, which is held captively and movably in the bore between a first axial position and a second axial position. The assembly unit having a spring, which encompasses the shaft and is formed from a wound spring wire and which holds the fastener captively in the bore. The spring wire is wound in a spiral shape such that the windings thereof do not overlap in the radial direction relative to the spring axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Wilhelm SCHNEIDER, Helmut WIERZBA
  • Publication number: 20150258635
    Abstract: A method for producing an assembly unit includes providing the assembly unit with an assembly part and at least one welding element serving for the thermal joining of the assembly part to a basic construction. The welding element is fixed in a through opening of the assembly part with at least one form-locking connection acting in the direction of the center longitudinal axis of the through opening and having a first end face, a second end face facing away from the first, and a peripheral surface that interconnects the end faces. The welding element has two side faces running parallel to each other and pointing away from each other, a profile that ensures the at least one form-locking connection and two transverse surfaces which connect the side faces one to the other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2015
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: WILHELM SCHNEIDER, JULIANE NIEDERMUELLER, KLAUS DEHLKE
  • Publication number: 20150219140
    Abstract: A method produces an assembly unit containing an assembly part having a bore and a sleeve which has a sleeve shaft. The sleeve has a terminal flange that overhangs the sleeve shaft toward the outside, and the sleeve shaft is plugged into the bore. The flange bears against the outer side of the assembly part. A gap between the sleeve and the assembly part is filled with an insulating compound. To produce the assembly unit, the sleeve shaft of a sleeve blank, the flange of which has a preassembly form such that an outer rim of the flange extends in a plane that extends at right angles to the longitudinal center axis of the sleeve shaft such that the flange underside is concave, is plugged into the bore. The sleeve blank deforms such that the insulating compound located between the flange and the assembly part is displaced into the gap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Publication date: August 6, 2015
    Inventors: RALF JENNING, KLAUS ROSSMEISSL, WILHELM SCHNEIDER
  • Publication number: 20150190880
    Abstract: A mounting unit includes a mounting part for a mating surface of a basic structure which cannot be welded to the mounting part and a welding element fixed in a through-bore of the mounting part. The welding element corresponds to the bore and has a thickness at least as large as the mounting part. An annular groove is formed in the welding element. A part of the welding element bounding the groove on the outside forms a form-locking connection element expanded outward and fixing the welding element in the bore by a form-locking connection toward the mounting side. A central region radially within the annular groove is a welding surface for the mating surface, is aligned with or protrudes beyond a mounting-side edge region of the bore with an overhang and is aligned with or projects over the form-locking connection element. A production method is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2014
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Inventor: WILHELM SCHNEIDER
  • Publication number: 20150176627
    Abstract: A method produces a fastener unit which has a fastener with a shank and with a head projecting radially beyond the shank and has a disk through which a central passage opening extends. On the shank, there is provided a radially projecting engage-behind element. The method includes providing a disk blank having a passage opening, a diameter of which passage opening is larger than the diameter of the engage-behind element. The shank already equipped with a fixing element is inserted so far into the passage opening that the passage opening is extended through by a first shank section extending away from the head. The passage opening is reduced in size, so as to form a radial overlap between the engage-behind element and an edge region of the disk, by radially inwardly directed plastic deformation of at least a part of the edge region of the disk blank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Inventors: WILHELM SCHNEIDER, HELMUT WIERZBA
  • Publication number: 20150151347
    Abstract: An assembly unit is produced according to the following method steps: an assembly part is provided which does not yet have a through bore. A disc-shaped welding element blank with a first end side, a second end side and a peripheral surface is stamped out of a sheet metal blank by a punch and a hole die so that the peripheral surface has a cylindrical longitudinal portion extending away from the first end side, and an adjoining cone portion which tapers towards the second end side and forms with this a cutting edge. The welding element blank is stamped with the cutting edge at the front into the assembly part to thereby form the through bore.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Publication date: June 4, 2015
    Inventors: WILHELM SCHNEIDER, JULIANE NIEDERMUELLER, KLAUS DEHLKE
  • Publication number: 20150063902
    Abstract: A mounting unit has a mounting part with a mounting face and an outer face facing away therefrom. The mounting part is configured for fixing to a basic structure made of a material which is not able to be welded to the material of the mounting part. The mounting part further has a welding sleeve fixed in a through-bore of the mounting part. An outer end of the sleeve is arranged on the outer face and bears a radially protruding flange supported on the outer face of the mounting part. A shaft of the sleeve protruding from a flange lower face has a contour shape corresponding to the cross-sectional shape of the through-bore and a length which is at least as large as a thickness of the mounting part in the edge region of the hole of the through-bore. The shaft is retained in the through-bore by a form-locking connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventor: WILHELM SCHNEIDER
  • Patent number: 8235722
    Abstract: A method of producing a dental prosthetic item 3, wherein the dental prosthetic item 3 is attached, via an interior surface 5, to another dental prosthetic item 2 by means of an adhesive 9, and for adhesive 9 there is provided a gap 8 disposed between an interior surface of the dental prosthetic item 3 and the other dental prosthetic item 2, wherein interior surface 5 of the dental prosthetic item is designed to make allowance for the visual properties of adhesive 9. Furthermore, a dental prosthetic item 3 is produced on the above lines and a blank 41 for the production of such a dental prosthetic item 3 and the other dental prosthetic item 2 is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignees: Sirona Dental Systems GmbH, Vita Zahnfabrik H. Rauter GmbH Co. KG
    Inventors: Joachim Pfeiffer, Wilhelm Schneider, Norbert Thiel
  • Patent number: 8057122
    Abstract: An assembly unit attachable to a base structure has at least one assembly part with a through opening and at least one fastener with a radially expanded head and a shaft that is provided with a fastening section extends through the through opening and is held captive therein. The shaft is encircled by a sleeve and the head of the fastener projects in a radial direction over the sleeve. Two stop elements project from the outer circumferential surface of the sleeve. An axial catch projects from the wall of the through opening. The axial catch and the stop elements are embodied such that they can be moved past each other in axial direction. The axial catch inside the through opening and the second stop element on the outer circumferential surface are respectively arranged in an axial position. The fastening section is arranged in a specific axial position relative to the surface of the assembly part that is facing away from the head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Richard Bergner Verbindungstechnik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Wilhelm Schneider
  • Publication number: 20090110478
    Abstract: An assembly unit attachable to a base structure has at least one assembly part with a through opening and at least one fastener with a radially expanded head and a shaft that is provided with a fastening section extends through the through opening and is held captive therein. The shaft is encircled by a sleeve and the head of the fastener projects in a radial direction over the sleeve. Two stop elements project from the outer circumferential surface of the sleeve. An axial catch projects from the wall of the through opening. The axial catch and the stop elements are embodied such that they can be moved past each other in axial direction. The axial catch inside the through opening and the second stop element on the outer circumferential surface are respectively arranged in an axial position. The fastening section is arranged in a specific axial position relative to the surface of the assembly part that is facing away from the head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2008
    Publication date: April 30, 2009
    Applicant: Richard Bergner Verbindungstechnik GmbH & Co KG
    Inventor: WILHELM SCHNEIDER