Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Martin A. Faber
  • Patent number: 6962377
    Abstract: A driving rod lock for a sliding door, with a lock housing (2) which is arranged to the rear of a cuff plate (1) and which comprises a driving member for a driving rod (3) for driving bolt elements (4), which driving rod is displacable between a blocked position and an open position of the lock by actuation of the driving member along the rear side of the cuff plate, with a tracer (5) which extends through an opening of the cuff plate (1) and which, with a blocking section (6) arranged in the lock housing (2), blocks displacement of the driving rod (2) from the open into the closed position and releases displacement in a position pressed in against the force of a return spring (7). Improving a such sliding door lock with respect to handling, the driving member is a latch nut (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2005
    Assignee: Carl Fuhr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Reiner Tönges
  • Patent number: 6263771
    Abstract: The invention relates to a force transmission structure especially for a screwing wrench with multiple corners. The invention is configured for an inner multiple cornered mating profile especially for a screw with a six cornered inner case profile. The force transmission structure is constructed with equal multiple corners whose flanks border one another in a circumferential direction. The diameter contour line of each flank possesses two convex curvature lines which are interspaced and the interspacing area recoils between the curvature lines and connecting tangent lines, the tangent lines consisting of both crowns of the convex curvature lines. In order to transmit high levels of torque, the invention provides that the section of the curvature lines between the crowns and the multiple corners is either rectilinear of its curvature is flatter than that of the convex curvature line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Assignee: Wera-Werk Hermann Werner GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Martin Strauch
  • Patent number: 6227995
    Abstract: A drive system of a vehicle includes an engine mounted in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle, a starting device connected to the engine, a continuously variable transmission comprising a primary pulley, a secondary pulley and a drive belt looped over the primary pulley and secondary pulley and a forward and reverse changeover apparatus. The drive system further includes an input shaft extending in a longitudinal direction of the vehicle and connecting the starting device with the forward and reverse changeover apparatus, a primary shaft of the primary pulley arranged in parallel with the input shaft on one lateral side of the input shaft, a secondary shaft of the secondary pulley arranged in parallel with the input shaft on the other lateral side of the input shaft, and a hollow drive shaft rotatably fitted over the input shaft for transmitting output of the forward and reverse changeover apparatus to the primary shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 8, 2001
    Assignee: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kenichi Yamada
  • Patent number: 6189739
    Abstract: A device (G) for dispensing liquids (1), especially medicinal liquids, from a mouthpiece aperture (2), the latter being connected to a supply of liquid, by manual actuation of a piston-cylinder device (4) which allows the manual actuation only after an overload threshold (Ü) has been exceeded. The device achieves a design which is advantageous for use, and provides a powerful jet of liquid, by a smaller restoring spring force, assigned to the overload threshold (Ü), of the piston-cylinder device (4) designed as a pump (P).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2001
    Assignee: AstraZeneca AB
    Inventor: Alfred von Schuckmann
  • Patent number: 6116664
    Abstract: A lock, in particular for motor vehicle doors or the like, having a rotary latch which can be locked via a pawl and can be released by the pawl. For this purpose, a release force acts or does not act on the pawl via a coupling member movable by an actuator as a function of commands by an operator. The coupling member can be moved by the actuator into at least three positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2000
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventor: Torsten Wegner
  • Patent number: 6112564
    Abstract: A lock, particularly for the door of a motor vehicle, having lock elements including at least one lock element which can be connected by connecting elements to at least one manipulator. A coupling device is arranged in a force transmission path between the manipulator and the at least one lock element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2000
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventors: Klaus Rathmann, Theo Baukholt, Sven Petzold, Jens Lubben
  • Patent number: 5791055
    Abstract: A handle on blades of knives, or the like, with a cross section which is substantially elliptical over its entire length and having the longer axis of the ellipse in the plane of the knife blade. The cross section reduces towards both ends of the handle in such a manner that the two ellipse axes of the ellipse cross sections of the offset end of the handle and of the free end of the handle are shortened by approximately the same amount. In this connection the two more narrowly curved ellipse arcs develop two vertex lines extending in longitudinal direction and lying in the plane of the knife blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 11, 1998
    Assignee: Zwilling J.A. Henckels AG
    Inventor: Petra Mangol
  • Patent number: 5156540
    Abstract: Feed unit, in particular for the feeding of fuel, having an electric drive motor and a pump unit coupled to it, which comprises a base plate, an intermediate plate having a recess for rotating pump parts and a cover, at least the base plate and the cover consisting of a ceramic material and the end sides of the base plate and of the cover which face the intermediate plate having ground surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 20, 1992
    Assignee: VDO Adolf Schindling AG
    Inventors: Norbert Fernau, Helmut Kohlhaas
  • Patent number: 5153025
    Abstract: There is disclosed a method for the continuous marking of electric strands with which annular markings, which are limited in axial direction, are applied to the surface of the strands by means of color jets. The color jets emerge under pressure from at least one nozzle which is driven by an electrical oscillation system, the frequency of which is controlled proportionally to a rate of withdrawal of the strands. For an easy changing of the axial distance between the markings, square pulses are fed to the oscillation system from a converter which converts electrical d.c. voltage into a square waveform signal at a specific frequency. The square waveform drives the oscillation system at the specific frequency. As a desired value, the converter is fed a d.c. voltage which is proportional to the rate of withdrawal of the strand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 6, 1992
    Assignee: Kabelmetal Electro Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung
    Inventors: Wolfram Klebl, Rainer Brunn
  • Patent number: 5005328
    Abstract: A roofing slab (1) is developed in the form of a dormer, having a tube connection socket (9) provided on its lower side and a cap-shaped hood provided on its upper side, the hood leaving air passage openings free. For simplified association of the tube connection socket, a plug-detent connection is provided between hood (2) and arms (St) of the roofing slab (1), the arms lying below the hood (2). An insertion opening (E) is provided in an inner space between the plug-detent means for receiving the tube connection socket (9) which is held by resting on the arms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 9, 1991
    Assignee: Johannes Klober
    Inventor: Johannes Holtgreve
  • Patent number: 4989574
    Abstract: An electromagnetic pickup has a coil and a core. A noise shielding cylindrical member of magnetic material is provided around the coil to form an open magnetic circuit between the noise shielding member and the core.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 5, 1991
    Assignee: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Kunihiro Abe
  • Patent number: 4913118
    Abstract: A fuel injection control system has a pressure sensor for sensing pressure in each cylinder of an engine, a temperature sensor for sensing temperature of a cylinder of the engine. A quantity of intake air at a predetermined crank angle is calculated based on the detected pressure and temperature. A fuel injection pulse width is calculated based on the calculated quantity of intake air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 3, 1990
    Assignee: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hideo Watanabe
  • Patent number: 4844042
    Abstract: A control system for a fuel injection system has a mass air flow meter for producing an air flow signal dependent on quantity of induced air, and an acceleration detector for detecting acceleration of the engine and for producing an acceleration signal. In response to the acceleration signal, the value of the air flow signal is reduced for a time. An actuator of the fuel injection system is operated in accordance with the reduced air flow signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: July 4, 1989
    Assignee: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Hisashi Osano
  • Patent number: 4750436
    Abstract: In order to create a technically more effective and more economical method of decontamination by which complete decomposition of all injurious substances is obtained in simple fashion, it is proposed, in connection with a method and a plant for the treatment of contaminated soils, that the drying can be combined in a mill passed through by hot gases with a crushing of the material to a particle size of 0 to 10 mm, that after the drying the material, together with the gaseous phase, be treated in the form of a solid/gas dispersion in a heating and decontamination path with burner, with a temperature within the range of 800.degree. C. to 1200.degree. C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1987
    Date of Patent: June 14, 1988
    Assignee: O&K Orenstein & Kopel
    Inventors: Hans-Dietmar Maury, Wolfgang Buslowski, Bernold Kraft
  • Patent number: 4721254
    Abstract: An electromagnetically actuatable fuel-injection valve for injection systems of internal combustion engines has a valve housing, a soft-iron core which is located within the valve housing and bears a fixed solenoid winding, and a valve closure plate which forms an armature and coaxially faces said core forming an air gap with it. This plate can be urged by a compression spring against an annular seat 10 which surrounds an outlet, and whose radially circumferential edge is guided in axial movement along a guide which correspondingly surrounds said edge. The valve closure plate has a coaxially protruding plug which extends through or into the outlet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1985
    Date of Patent: January 26, 1988
    Assignee: VDO Adolf Schindling AG
    Inventor: Martin Horn
  • Patent number: 4646011
    Abstract: In a contact-less electronic angular-position transmitter having a turnable magnet (5), sensor coils (11, 12) arranged at right angles to each other are provided on a toroidal core (9), common to all sensor coils, of a magnetic-field detector formed in accordance with the flux-gate principle in order to determine the angular position. The angular-position transmitter is preferably arranged, together with the turnable magnets and the turnable core having the sensor coils, in a housing (1) which shields them from the terrestrial field. In the said housing, the inner space (2), within which the magnet can turn, is hermetically separated from an inner space (3) in which the toroidal core (9), together with the sensor coils and the electronic system (15-19) is arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1987
    Assignee: VDO Adolf Schindling AG
    Inventor: Werner Wallrafen
  • Patent number: 4571110
    Abstract: A ball joint for connecting rod parts having a ball socket (1) of flexible plastic at the end of a shaft (2) in order to receive a ball head (4). In order to facilitate the assembling of the ball joint while retaining the customary pulling-out forces, it is proposed that a wall section of the ball socket (1) be developed as a yoke-shaped part (5, 12) developed in one piece thereon, which can be engaged together with the ball head (4) into the ball socket (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 1984
    Date of Patent: February 18, 1986
    Assignee: TRW Ehrenreich GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Hans Amrath