Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Doerr

Wolfgang Doerr 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: 20110050506
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an antenna arrangement with a printed circuit board, which has an upper side and a lower side, and an antenna supported by the printed circuit board, in particular ring antenna, which comprises at least one electrically conductive antenna section which is arranged on a narrow side of the printed circuit board adjoining the upper side and/or the lower side. The invention also relates to a process for producing an antenna arrangement which comprises a printed circuit board with an upper side and a lower side and an antenna supported by the printed circuit board, in which process for forming at least one antenna section, an electrically conductive material is attached to a narrow side of the printed circuit board which adjoins the upper side and/or the lower side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Publication date: March 3, 2011
    Applicant: DELPHI TECHNOLOGIES, INC.
    Inventor: WOLFGANG DOERR
  • Publication number: 20100133058
    Abstract: A clutch actuation device, particularly for a manual transmission of a vehicle, in particular a commercial vehicle, includes a clutch actuation setting device that can be placed in various settings, based on which a corresponding actuation of the clutch takes place. The clutch actuation setting device is suitable for generating electrical signals as a function of the setting, based on which the clutch is correspondingly actuated. A method controls/regulates such a clutch actuation device, particularly for a manual transmission of a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2009
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang DOERR
  • Patent number: 7610827
    Abstract: An adjusting device for a transmission, such as a motor vehicle transmission is described. The transmission has at least one moveable adjusting element, at least two sensors for detecting a position of the at least one moveable adjusting element, and a code path of the at least one moveable adjusting element having sections of different heights which are provided to be scanned by the at least two sensors, the sections of the code path of different heights being arranged at least two-dimensionally. The at least two sensors are arranged parallel to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Doerr, Zoltán Skriba
  • Patent number: 7600988
    Abstract: Air-demand-controlled compressor arrangement, particularly for commercial vehicles, includes a motor unit for generating a rotating movement which, by way of an interposed rotational-speed-transmitting transmission unit, drives a compressor unit for generating compressed air from ambient air. A control unit triggers the generating of compressed air in the case of a compressed-air demand. The transmission unit is constructed in the manner of a transmission whose rotational speed can be varied, and the control unit interacts with the transmission unit in order to adapt the rotational speed of the transmission unit corresponding to the compressed-air demand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2009
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Doerr, Eduard Gerum
  • Patent number: 7543515
    Abstract: An adjusting device for a transmission is described. The device has at least one movable adjusting element, a plurality of sensors for detecting a position of the at least one movable adjusting element, which are arranged substantially parallel to one another, and a plurality of cam paths having sections of different heights, assigned to corresponding ones of the plurality of sensors. The device also includes a plurality of scanning elements coupled to the plurality of sensors for mechanically scanning the sections of different height, and at least one catch of each of the plurality of cam paths in which a latching element is engageable, wherein the plurality of sensors and the latching element are designed as a common component. The plurality of cam paths result in comparable stroke movements arising for each of the plurality of scanning elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2009
    Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Doerr, Zoltan Skriba
  • Publication number: 20080264191
    Abstract: An adjusting device for a transmission is described. The device has at least one movable adjusting element, a plurality of sensors for detecting a position of the at least one movable adjusting element, which are arranged substantially parallel to one another, and a plurality of cam paths having sections of different heights, assigned to corresponding ones of the plurality of sensors. The device also includes a plurality of scanning elements coupled to the plurality of sensors for mechanically scanning the sections of different height, and at least one catch of each of the plurality of cam paths in which a latching element is engageable, wherein the plurality of sensors and the latching element are designed as a common component. The plurality of cam paths result in comparable stroke movements arising for each of the plurality of scanning elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Publication date: October 30, 2008
    Applicant: Knorr-Bremse Systeme Fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Doerr, Zoltan Skriba
  • Publication number: 20080236323
    Abstract: An adjusting device for a transmission, such as a motor vehicle transmission is described. The transmission has at least one moveable adjusting element, at least two sensors for detecting a position of the at least one moveable adjusting element, and a code path of the at least one moveable adjusting element having sections of different heights which are provided to be scanned by the at least two sensors, the sections of the code path of different heights being arranged at least two-dimensionally. The at least two sensors are arranged parallel to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2008
    Publication date: October 2, 2008
    Applicant: Knorr-Bremse Systeme Fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang DOERR, Zoltan Skriba
  • Patent number: 7226273
    Abstract: Method and compressor arrangement for generating compressed air, particularly for commercial vehicles, which is generated by way of a compressor unit (3) driven by an internal-combustion engine (1) from the ambient air according to a control unit (14), in which cases, by means of the compressor unit (3) operated by the internal-combustion engine, compressed of only a low pressure level is generated for assigned low-pressure consuming devices (7a, 7b), and in that, starting from the compressed air of the low pressure level, by means of a separate auxiliary compressor unit (8), compressed air of a high pressure level is generated for assigned high-pressure consuming devices (11a, 11b), the coordinated triggering of the two compressor units (3,8) being carried out, in a pressure-demand-controlled manner, centrally by means of the control unit (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2007
    Assignee: Knorr-Brense Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Doerr, Eduard Gerum
  • Patent number: 6829893
    Abstract: An internal-combustion engine for generating a rotational movement is provided to drive a compressor unit which is connected on the output side, for generating compressed air from ambient air. A control unit triggers the generating of compressed air when compressed air is demanded. An auxiliary compressor unit covers peak demands for compressed air and is fluidically connected in parallel with respect to the internal-combustion-engine-driven compressor unit. The auxiliary compressor unit is driven by an electric motor. The control unit starts the operation of the auxiliary compressor unit in the event of a detected peak demand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2004
    Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Doerr, Eduard Gerum
  • Patent number: 6808656
    Abstract: A nuclear fuel sintered body is produced from a powder which contains at least one fissile heavy metal oxide. During the further treatment of the powder over the course of the process preceding the sintering operation, a dopant that contains at least 100 ppm of an iron oxide compound is added to the powder. The powder is a UO2-containing powder obtained from a dry-chemical conversion process, and if appropriate, a powder which contains further fissile heavy metal oxide (U3O8, PuO2, inter alia). As a result, the sintered body is provided with high plasticity combined, at the same time, with a large grain size. This advantageously reduces an interaction between the nuclear fuel sintered body and a fuel rod cladding tube during an operation of the reactor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2004
    Assignee: Framatome ANP GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Gradel, Wolfgang Dörr
  • Publication number: 20040151606
    Abstract: An internal-combustion engine for generating a rotational movement is provided to drive a compressor unit which is connected on the output side, for generating compressed air from ambient air. A control unit triggers the generating of compressed air when compressed air is demanded. An auxiliary compressor unit covers peak demands for compressed air and is fluidically connected in parallel with respect to the internal-combustion-engine-driven compressor unit. The auxiliary compressor unit is driven by an electric motor. The control unit starts the operation of the auxiliary compressor unit in the event of a detected peak demand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Wolfgang Doerr, Eduard Gerum
  • Publication number: 20040151605
    Abstract: Method and compressor arrangement for generating compressed air, particularly for commercial vehicles, which is generated by way of a compressor unit (3) driven by an internal-combustion engine (1) from the ambient air according to a control unit (14), in which cases, by means of the compressor unit (3) operated by the internal-combustion engine, compressed of only a low pressure level is generated for assigned low-pressure consuming devices (7a, 7b), and in that, starting from the compressed air of the low pressure level, by means of a separate auxiliary compressor unit (8), compressed air of a high pressure level is generated for assigned high-pressure consuming devices (11a, 11b), the coordinated triggering of the two compressor units (3,8) being carried out, in a pressure-demand-controlled manner, centrally by means of the control unit (14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2003
    Publication date: August 5, 2004
    Inventors: Wolfgang Doerr, Eduard Gerum
  • Publication number: 20040136840
    Abstract: Air-demand-controlled compressor arrangement, particularly for commercial vehicles, includes a motor unit for generating a rotating movement which, by way of an interposed rotational-speed-transmitting transmission unit, drives a compressor unit for generating compressed air from ambient air. A control unit triggers the generating of compressed air in the case of a compressed-air demand. The transmission unit is constructed in the manner of a transmission whose rotational speed can be varied, and the control unit interacts with the transmission unit in order to adapt the rotational speed of the transmission unit corresponding to the compressed-air demand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2003
    Publication date: July 15, 2004
    Inventors: Wolfgang Doerr, Eduard Gerum
  • Patent number: 6617558
    Abstract: A furnace is provided for microwave sintering of nuclear fuel. A stationary wave is generated in an antenna cavity and used to extract microwaves through slots into a resonance chamber containing the nuclear fuel. A position of the slots is adjusted in such a way that a predetermined temperature profile is produced in the nuclear fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Assignee: Framatome ANP GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Dörr, Thorsten Gerdes, Gerhard Gradel, Bruno Schmitt, Monika Willert-Porada
  • Patent number: 6437303
    Abstract: A method and a furnace are provided for microwave sintering of nuclear fuel. A stationary wave is generated in an antenna cavity and used to extract microwaves through slots into a resonance chamber containing the nuclear fuel. A position of the slots is adjusted in such a way that a predetermined temperature profile is produced in the nuclear fuel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2002
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Dörr, Thorsten Gerdes, Gerhard Gradel, Bruno Schmitt, Monika Willert-Porada
  • Patent number: 6235223
    Abstract: A sintered nuclear fuel body includes (U, Pu)O2 mixed crystals having a mean particle size in a range from 7.5 &mgr;m to 50 &mgr;m. This sintered nuclear fuel body has a high retention capacity for fission gas in a power reactor. In order to produce the sintered nuclear fuel body by sintering a body in a hydrogen-containing sintering atmosphere, a powered substance selected from the group consisting of aluminum oxide, titanium oxide, niobium oxide, chromium oxide, aluminum stearate, aluminum distearate and aluminum tristearate is added to the starting powder for the body. As an alternative or in addition, the body made from the starting powder is sintered during a holding period of 10 minutes to 8 hours at a sintering temperature of 1400° C. to 1800° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Doerr, Harald Cura, Gerhard Gradel
  • Patent number: 5894501
    Abstract: A sintered nuclear fuel body includes (U, Pu)O.sub.2 mixed crystals having a mean particle size in a range from 7.5 .mu.m to 50 .mu.m. This sintered nuclear fuel body has a high retention capacity for fission gas in a power reactor. In order to produce the sintered nuclear fuel body by sintering a body in a hydrogen-containing sintering atmosphere, a powered substance selected from the group consisting of aluminum oxide, titanium oxide, niobium oxide, chromium oxide, aluminum stearate, aluminum distearate and aluminum tristearate is added to the starting powder for the body. As an alternative or in addition, the body made from the starting powder is sintered during a holding period of 10 minutes to 8 hours at a sintering temperature of 1400.degree. C. to 1800.degree. C. in a hydrogen-containing sintering atmosphere, initially with an oxygen partial pressure of 10.sup.-10 to 10.sup.-20 bar and then from 10.sup.-8 to 10.sup.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 13, 1999
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Doerr, Harald Cura, Gerhard Gradel