Patents Represented by Attorney Martin A. Farber

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  • Electric motor intended to be fixed to a printed circuit board
    Patent number: 6534888
    Abstract: In an electric motor intended to be fixed to a printed circuit board, provision is made for it to have at least one expanding dowel (4), for it to be possible for the motor (1) to be fixed to a printed circuit board (6, 32) by the expanding dowel or dowels (4) being expanded, and by it being possible for the expanding dowel or dowels (4) to be secured at least by a pin (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 18, 2003
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventors: Thomas Vorberg, Markus Keutz, Heinrich-Jochen Blume, Peter Schmidt, Sabine Vorberg, Klaus Kronenberg, Frank Weiand
  • Method of forming a shaped body of brittle ultra fine particles with mechanical impact force and without heating
    Patent number: 6531187
    Abstract: A method of forming a film or a micro structure having high density and high strength by bonding brittle ultra fine particles without heating them. The brittle ultra fine particles blown to a substrate are applied with a mechanical impact force to break and bond them together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2003
    Assignee: Agency of Industrial Science and Technology
    Inventor: Jun Akedo
  • Laser lap welding process of welding together overlapped plated steel sheets
    Patent number: 6528756
    Abstract: Prior to welding together two overlapped plated steel sheets 4 and 5 by laser lap welding that irradiates parts of the plated steel sheets (4, 5) extending on a weld line (Lw), slits (4b) are formed intermittently in the upper plated steel sheet (4) with a laser beam (L). Subsequently, a welding head (1) is moved along the weld line (Lw) while the upper plated steel sheet (4) is pressed against the lower plated steel sheet (5) by pressure rollers. Parts of the upper plated steel sheet (4) extending on the weld line (Lw) and not provided with the slits (4b) are irradiated with the laser beam to laser-weld the plated steel sheets (4, 5) together. A vapor of the component of the coating layers coating the joining surfaces (4a, 5a) of the plated steel sheets (4, 5) produced from the coating layers by the heat produced by the laser beam is discharged through the slits (4b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hidetaka Degawa, Shoji Kojima, Tomotaka Nagase, Hiroki Saito, Kazuyuki Hoshino, Satoshi Ueda, Koji Tomita, Kosuke Kawai, Hiroshi Shimazaki
  • Closing device
    Patent number: 6526790
    Abstract: A lock device, in particular for doors of motor vehicles, has lock elements such as at least rotary latch and a pawl, wherein at least a one lock element a pawl can be connected via connecting elements with at least one handle or such connection can be eliminated. An actuator device of the lock device has a cam disk, the connection being made or eliminated as a function of the cam disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventor: Torsten Wegner
  • Hydrostatic drive system for an injection molding machine and a method for operating such a drive system
    Patent number: 6527540
    Abstract: A hydrostatic drive system for an injection molding machine which has a movable mold-closing plate comprises a hydraulic pump and a differential hydraulic cylinder, by which the mold-closing plate can be moved in the direction of the closing position by the feeding of pressure medium into the second pressure space remote from the piston rod and can be moved in the direction of the open position by the feeding of pressure medium into the first pressure space on the piston-rod side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2003
    Assignee: Bosch Rexroth AG
    Inventor: Jörg Dantlgraber
  • Lock, in particular for motor vehicle doors
    Patent number: 6523376
    Abstract: A lock suitable for use in a motor vehicle door has a rotary latch, a locking wedge, a pawl, a setting device, and a transmission device wherein the rotary latch cooperates with the locking wedge to be locked in a locking position by the pawl. Upon actuation of a manipulator, the setting device brings the pawl electrically at least into one opening position. The transmission device brings the pawl into its opening position by actuation of the manipulator over a displacement range which is greater than a displacement range of an electric unlocking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: VDO Adolf Schindling AG
    Inventors: Theo Baukholt, Klaus-Peter Rathmann, Jens Lübben, Sven Petzold
  • Connector
    Patent number: 6523864
    Abstract: In a plug-in connection (1), in particular for fluid lines, which comprises a part of the connection (2) to be inserted and a receiving part of the connection (3), between which a seal (10) can be clamped and which are able to be releasably connected to one another by flexible snap-in elements (7, 18) in a snap-in position, the seal (10) can, be clamped between a front portion (4) of the part of the connection (2) to be inserted and an abutment (11) in the receiving part of the connection (3) and the distance of the snap-in elements (7) of the part of the connection (2) to be inserted from the front portion (4) of the latter is dimensioned such that the snap-in position is reached after slight axial compression, and if need be radial compression, of the flexible seal (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventors: Thomas Discher, Sigbert Hauser, Rolf Schlein, Rüdiger Stange
  • Device for driving an air-conditioning compressor
    Patent number: 6525505
    Abstract: A device for driving an air-conditioning compressor having an electric motor, in particular for motor vehicles, having an arrangement for reducing the difference in pressure between the intake side and delivery side of the air-conditioning compressor during a starting phase of the electric motor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2003
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Bay, Michael Henninger
  • Oil circulating apparatus for automatic transmission
    Patent number: 6520293
    Abstract: A part of oil sucked by an oil pump is circulated to an oil pan through a hydraulic control circuit, an oil cooler and an oil passage provided in a transmission case and the oil pan. The oil guided to the oil pan is gushed out from a discharge port of the oil passage toward a suction port of an oil strainer communicating with the oil pump. The discharge port of the oil passage is disposed opposite and adjacent to the suction port of the oil strainer so that only the oil containing a small number of bubbles is sucked by the oil pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Hiroshi Ogawa, Mamoru Murakami, Jun Nakayama
  • Display device having pointer and electrooptic display
    Patent number: 6522381
    Abstract: A invention relates to a display device, in particular for a motor vehicle, having a pointer, a scale and an electrooptic display, it being possible to represent measured values on the scale in an analog fashion using the pointer, and at least one area of the electrooptic display being arranged along the movement path of the pointer. In order to provide a high level of information density while simultaneously making the display easy to read, the electrooptic display has a first display field which runs along at least one section of the movement path of the pointer and has display segments which can be actuated, and a second display field which can be actuated in an unrestricted way.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventor: Peter Brandt
  • Screwdriver or screwdriver attachment
    Patent number: 6520055
    Abstract: The invention relates to a screwdriver or screwdriver attachment (S) comprising one input and one output end (1 and 2) and a shank (4) located in between the two. The output end has at least three, preferably four, ribs (7) which radiate outwards from a central section (8) located around the axis of rotation (x—x). The ribs (7) on each end side have a face, which is placed at an angle to the axis of rotation, and flanks on the front and back side (13, 14) which run substantially parallel to each other in the area next to the frontal face (11). In this area the flank (13) on the front side is located on a diametrical surface (diameter D—D) in relation to the axis of rotation (x—x), whereby the flanks (13, 14) of adjoining ribs (7) form a groove (9) which runs lengthways and whose root (16) ends in the outer surface of a section of the shank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: Wera Werk Hermann Werner GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Andreas Reusch, Giuseppe De Bona
  • Locking device
    Patent number: 6519986
    Abstract: A locking device, in particular for a vehicle, having a rotary catch (1), which encloses a locking bolt (2) and can be arrested or released by a pawl (7), the pawl (7), via a lever which is connected to a grip via connecting elements, being actuable by the grip, which locking device is distinguished by the fact that the at least one lever is mounted about a fixed pivot (8), at least one grip acting on the lever, which is formed as an actuating lever (17).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventor: Herbert Wicker
  • Drive device, for a movable part, in particular a hinged side window of a vehicle
    Patent number: 6520038
    Abstract: A drive device for a moveable part, in particular a hinged side window of a vehicle, with an actuating drive and with a threaded piece which is driven by the actuating drive and which meshes with an associated threaded piece, the associated threaded piece moving the part, there being provision, in order to reduce undesirable noises, for individual flights of at least one threaded piece (14) to be designed in such a way that they come to bear under the effective force in the respectively associated flights of the other threaded piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventor: Gerhard Pfanzer
  • Display device with a liquid-crystal cell
    Patent number: 6522383
    Abstract: In a display device with a liquid-crystal cell (1) with two supporting panels (2, 3) and a heating device (4) and at least one pole filter (6), the pole filter (6) is kept at a distance from the heating device (4) by a transparent insulating layer (7). This avoids inadmissibly high thermal loading of the pole filter (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2003
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventor: Peter Brandt
  • Apparatus for storing data in a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 6516256
    Abstract: An apparatus for storing data of a device, in particular of a motor vehicle, which is to be monitored, in which apparatus the data are preferably stored by means of a control unit in a memory unit. In an apparatus which permits a plurality of data which change continuously during the service life of the motor vehicle to be stored in an operationally reliable way and with a high processing speed, the fixed data and the continuously updated data of the apparatus which is to be monitored are stored in the memory unit 15 which contains the open-loop and/or closed-loop control processes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventors: Stefan Hartmann, Dieter Gnatzy, Stefan Hohrein
  • Wing of composite material and method of fabricating the same
    Patent number: 6513757
    Abstract: A wing of composite material has an upper skin, a lower skin and a plurality of intermediate spars arranged between the upper and the lower skin. The intermediate spars extend from roots to tips of the upper and the lower skins. The intermediate spars are integrally formed with the upper and the lower skins or are adhesively bonded to the upper and the lower skins. The wing has a small number of parts, needs greatly reduced time for fabrication and can be fabricated at a low cost.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventors: Kazuaki Amaoka, Takayuki Nagao, Atsushi Harada, Naoya Takizawa, Hideyuki Sano, Yasuhiro Toi, Megumi Hiraki
  • Pointer instrument
    Patent number: 6511194
    Abstract: In a pointer instrument (1) having a pointer shaft (12) that deflects a pointer flag (10), the pointer flag (10) can be illuminated by means of a light source (14). For this purpose, the light source (14) is formed, for example, as a light-emitting polymer (13), which is applied between the pointer flag (10), which is formed at the same time as an electrode, and a further, transparent electrode (15), and emits light of any desired coloration under appropriate electrical excitation. The pointer flag (10) can assume any desired shape as the result of using such a light source (14) that can be shaped. In particular, multiple curvatures can be represented without differences in brightness occurring in this case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2003
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventors: Heinrich Noll, Frank Jansa
  • Breather system for engine
    Patent number: 6508238
    Abstract: A cylinder head is provided with a gas-liquid separation chamber apart from a chain chamber. The gas-liquid separation chamber is communicated with a crank chamber via a gas inlet and the chain chamber. The gas inlet is opened in the side direction of a chain within the chain chamber, and has an inclined bottom surface. At an upper end portion of the gas-liquid separation chamber is mounted an oil flow back chamber, which has an opening to communicate with a chain chamber. A blow-by gas in the crank chamber is guided into the gas-liquid separation chamber, where an oil component is separated, and then fed into another gas-liquid separation chamber in order to separate the oil component in two steps. Thereby, the oil component in the blow-by gas can be securely separated without adding new components or causing complication in a structure of breather system of an engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2003
    Assignee: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki Kaisha
    Inventor: Akira Furuya
  • Dispenser for the dispensing elements in strips
    Patent number: 6508380
    Abstract: A dispenser (1) for dispensing strip elements (4), having a supply chamber (3) for accommodating a strip-element stack (St), and having a discharging pusher (14) with a nose (16) for interacting with a first strip element (4′) of the strip-element stack (St), via a discharging slot (15) which is adapted to the thickness (y) of a strip element (4). In order to achieve a more functionally advantageous solution, the discharging pusher (14) has a pusher nose (16) which is made of elastically compliant material and, in the uninfluenced state, projects by more than the thickness (y) of the strip element (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2003
    Inventor: Alfred von Schuckmann
  • Pocket knife
    Patent number: D471421
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2003
    Assignee: Vereinigte Stahlwarenfabriken Gebr. Richartz & Söhne GmbH
    Inventor: Manfred Lang