Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Friedrich Kueffner
  • Patent number: 7405368
    Abstract: The invention relates to control scales whereon the weight of products (14) is determined in a dynamic manner during the transport thereof on a weighing strip (4) by means of filtering weight values detected during said transportation. According to the invention, said scales comprise an optimisation device which automatically determines the optimum length of filtering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: Mettler-Toledo Garvens GmbH
    Inventors: Harald Beck, Rolf Kreimeyer
  • Patent number: 7404587
    Abstract: A motor vehicle includes a roof having at least one part which can be moved as a whole between an opened position and a closed position and which, in the closed position, extends between an area near a wind shield frame and a rear rigid roof part. The rear rigid roof part includes two lateral tips which, when the roof is closed, are overlapped on their upper side by frame parts which can be moved upward to create an opening for the passage of the movable roof part. The roof has a rear window which is mounted relatively far towards the front so that the rear window is not window is not moved upwardly when the frame parts are moved upwardly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2008
    Assignee: Wilhelm Karmann GmbH
    Inventor: Franz-Ulrich Brockhoff
  • Patent number: 7400914
    Abstract: Wireless headphones operated by a storage battery and having a connector socket for the insertion of a charge plug of an electric connection into a power pack. The headphones further have at least one miniature loudspeaker, audio electronics, a reception part, and charging electronics to monitor the charging process of the storage battery. In order to be able to use the headphones even with a dead storage battery, a socket is provided for the insertion of a signal plug of an electrical connection with an audio device for the transmission of signals. The audio electronics conduct only the signals received via the signal plug to the loudspeakers when the signal plug is inserted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: AKG Acoustics GmbH
    Inventor: Christoph Schwald
  • Patent number: 7392682
    Abstract: A method for coiling thin metal strip, especially hot-rolled or cold-rolled thin steel strip, on a coiler mandrel which is adjusted in diameter. At the beginning, the inner windings of the coil are coiled on the adjusted coiler mandrel diameter and, after the final winding of the coil, the coiler mandrel is pulled out or the coil is taken off. At least the first inner winding is joined over a large area with the second inner winding by introducing adhesives, fillers, pieces of metal, bonding agents, or the like into an angular space between the inner windings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: SMS Demag AG
    Inventors: Klaus Bäumer, Klaus Ginsberg, Matthias Tuschhoff
  • Patent number: 7393020
    Abstract: In a pipe connection, a first pipe has a first flange of sheet metal provided with a first wall connected circumferentially to the first pipe. A second pipe has an end section shaped as a second flange. A clamp engages across the first and second flanges and has conical sidewalls forcing the first and second flanges axially against one another when tightening the clamp. The first flange delimits together with the first pipe an annular chamber that is coaxial to the longitudinal pipe axis. The first flange has a second wall that is glidingly supported on a free end of the first pipe. A sheet metal sealing ring is positioned between the first and second flanges. It has an edge section that is bent back onto a remaining sealing ring section that has a corrugation projecting past the bent edge section in an untightened state of the clamp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2008
    Assignee: NORMA Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Günther Hartig, Steve Williams
  • Patent number: 7387004
    Abstract: The invention relates to a latch which must enable the locked mobile part (10) of a motor vehicle body to be released if necessary by means of a key-actuated closing cylinder (40), in order to manually open the mobile part (10). A handle (21) is provided on the mobile part (10) for the opening of the same (10), said handle being able to pivot in a vertical plane in relation to the vehicle body. When the handle is in its closed position (20.1), it is essentially flush with the vehicle body. In the outwardly pivoted open position, the handle can be gripped by a hand, also enabling the closing cylinder (40) to be accessed by the key. In order to provide the latch with a compact design, the handle (21) is embodied as a carrier for the closing cylinder (40) and forms a pivotable arrangement (20) therewith. A rotary coupling member (45) which can be actuated by the closing cylinder (40) is located on said arrangement (20) and participates in the pivoting movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2008
    Assignee: Huf Hülsbeck & Fürst GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Heiko Schütz, Gerd Buschmann
  • Patent number: 7377696
    Abstract: Disclosed is a device for influencing in a controlled manner the load-bearing force of supporting rollers (SW) that rest on working rollers. The neck (WZ) of said supporting rollers (SW) which is provided with an extension (ZA) is mounted in roller bearings or sliding bearings that are disposed in a bearing-supporting housing of the rollers of a roller stand. The neck extension (ZA) is mounted in a supporting bearing. The outside of the housing (LG) of said supporting bearing is connected to the bearing-supporting housing. An intermediate housing (ZG) which is inserted in the housing (LG) of the supporting bearing cylindrically encloses the supporting bearing, is impinged upon by a piston cylinder unit (RB, SK), and can be displaced within said housing (LG) in a radial direction relative to the axis of the neck extension (ZA).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: SMS Demag AG
    Inventors: Kurt Scheffe, Karl Keller, Achim Klein, Michael Breuer, Jörn Sohler
  • Patent number: 7370479
    Abstract: The switch cupboard for receiving electrical and electronical components and switching elements which is subject to a rotation and which has at least one cooling device (30) with a cold emitting device part (31) placed in its inner space (23) and with a heat emitting device part (32) which is situated outside the switch cupboard (20) and which is placed for example in the tower head (11) of a wind power station is configured in such a manner that a condensate ring (41) is placed as a shell-shaped collecting trough (40) in the area of the cold side (31a) of the cooling device (30) which is placed in a wall (22) of the switch cupboard (20), cold side which is situated in the inner space (23) of the switch cupboard (20), whereby the inner space (42) is connected with a hose (50) guided out of the inner space (23) of the switch cupboard (20) which is configured as a spiral hose (50a) in the area of the warm side (32a) of the cooling device (30) situated outside the switch cupboard (20), whereby the spirally confi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: Pfannenberg GmbH
    Inventor: Andreas Pfannenberg
  • Patent number: 7367209
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the optimization of shift strategies, as a function of the strip width, for best possible usage of the advantages of CVC/CVCPlus technology in operation of strip-edge oriented shifts in 4-/6-roller stands, comprising a pair of working rollers and a pair of support rollers for a 4-roller stand and, in addition, a pair of intermediate rollers for a 6-roller stand, whereby at least the working rollers and the intermediate rollers cooperate with devices for axial shifting, characterized in that selection of the shift position (VP), for the shifting working/intermediate rollers, is made as a function of strip width. The working/intermediate rollers are then positioned in various positions (P), relative to the strip edge and, within differing strip width ranges (B), the shift position (VP) of each roller is given by an incremental linear progressive function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: SMS Demag AG
    Inventors: Andreas Ritter, Rüdiger Holz
  • Patent number: 7363793
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rolling mill (1) comprising several rolling frames (Fi) and support plates (7) that are provided on the operator side (BS) of the frames (Fi) and can be displaced transversally to the roll axes, said plates being equipped to receive sets of working rolls (14) and lying adjacent to the mill floor (9). The mill also comprises pits (8) that are situated on the operator side (BS) upstream of each frame (Fi), the bottom of said pits being configured to deploy sets of support rolls (12). The aim of the invention is to reduce the time required to exchange the rolls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: SMS Demag AG
    Inventor: Frank-Günter Benner
  • Patent number: D568025
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2008
    Assignee: Schütz GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Udo Schütz
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    Patent number: D568087
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: Villeroy & Boch AG
    Inventor: Helmut Frank
  • Patent number: D568109
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2008
    Assignee: Villeroy & Boch AG
    Inventor: Charlotte Weber
  • Patent number: D568686
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: Villeroy & Boch AG
    Inventor: Andrea Luft
  • Patent number: D569164
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2008
    Assignee: Villeroy & Boch AG
    Inventor: Charlotte Weber
  • Patent number: D569689
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Villeroy & Boch AG
    Inventor: Charlotte Weber
  • Patent number: D569690
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2008
    Assignee: Villeroy & Boch AG
    Inventor: Baldur Schösser
  • Patent number: D570649
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: Villeroy & Boch AG
    Inventor: Andrea Luft
  • Patent number: D573285
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: Hella Fahrzeugteile Austria GmbH
    Inventor: Bernhard Zettl
  • Patent number: D573286
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2008
    Assignee: Hella Fahrzeugteile Austria GmbH
    Inventor: Bernhard Zettl