Patents Represented by Attorney Martin A. Farber
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Patent number: 6752292Abstract: A cartridge set (1) for dispensing in-situ foam, with polyol being contained in one cartridge (2) and isocyanate being contained in another cartridge (3), and with both cartridges (2, 3) opening into a common, elongated mixing nozzle (9), via which foam (S) produced from the substances as components is dispensed, wherein portions (18) of expandable graphite are contained at least in one of the cartridges (2, 3).Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2000Date of Patent: June 22, 2004Assignee: illbruck GmbHInventor: Goslin Van Herpen
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Patent number: 6749454Abstract: A plug-in connection comprising a connector (1) for fitting onto a counter connector (2), contact elements (3) of the connector (1) entering into an electrical conducting connection with counter contact elements (4) of the counter connector (2), with a sleeve (7) which surrounds the contact elements (3) carried by a core (K) and forms a snap collar (18) for gripping behind a latching bead (27, 28) of the counter connector (2) and with a locking coupling (5) which is displaceable in the plugging direction and which, in a release position, allows radial escape of the snap collar (18) and, in a locking position, prevents it, the core (K) being made of a harder plastic than a casing (17) surrounding the core (K) with a spacing and forming a sleeve portion (7) which has peripheral interruptions (8 and 9) and on the inside of which the snap collar (18) of softer plastic is formed integrally with the casing (17).Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2002Date of Patent: June 15, 2004Assignees: ESCHA Bauelemente GmbH, Lumberg Automation Components GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Werner Schmidt, Rainer Daedelow, Karsten Gembruch
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Patent number: 6746218Abstract: A compact electrohydraulic motor pump unit comprising a housing which forms a reservoir for a pressurized fluid and contains an electric motor, and which comprises a first housing sealing section, a second housing sealing section and a tubular housing mid-section therebetween. Disposed between the second housing sealing section and the electric motor is a support plate for a pump which can be driven by the electric motor via a motor shaft and by which pressurized fluid can be conveyed on a pressurized flow path to a delivery connection. In such a conventional type motor pump unit, a circumferential seal, which is intended to seal off the interior of the housing, is located both between the support plate and the housing mid-section and between the support plate and the second housing sealing section.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2002Date of Patent: June 8, 2004Assignee: Bosch Rexroth AGInventor: Roland Heller
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Patent number: 6741660Abstract: In a method for modulation of a basic clock for digital circuits, in which the intervals between adjacent switching edges are varied, with the basic clock being split into equidistant sections, and the intervals between adjacent switching edges being varied as a function of cyclically recurring random numbers, the position of a switching edge (ai+1) following a switching edge (a1) to be calculated as follows: a i + 1 = ( a 1 + p - ( N - 1 2 - Z i + 1 ) ) ⁢ ⁢ mType: GrantFiled: July 13, 2000Date of Patent: May 25, 2004Assignees: Mannesmann VDO AG, Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe GmbHInventors: Frank Sattler, Walter Klumb
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Patent number: 6739521Abstract: A shield cleaning system, operating solely by spraying with washing fluid, for shields (2) of an automobile light has a plurality of washing nozzles (12-14) which are arranged on a washing arm (6) pivotable about a pivot axis (7) and which are located opposite and at a short distance from the shield (2) and together spray a part region of the shield (2) with washing fluid. The washing nozzles (12-14) are guided by the washing arm (6) over that region of the shield (2) which is to be cleaned.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 1999Date of Patent: May 25, 2004Assignee: Mannesman VDO AGInventors: Joachim Bandemer, Rainer Kober, Torsten Hahn
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Patent number: 6729299Abstract: A throttle body (10) with a housing (12) comprising a housing cover (17) and a housing body (14) and with a through throttle aperture (20) for a throttle butterfly (26) arranged on a throttle-butterfly shaft (22), the throttle-butterfly shaft (22) being drivable as a function of specifiable parameters by an electronic system (56) arranged in the housing (12) by an electric actuator (32) likewise arranged in the housing (12) and having an actuator shaft (28), the position of the throttle-butterfly shaft (22) being detectable by a position detection device (70) arranged in the housing (12), is to have a particularly small space requirement and, at the same time, a contactless position detection device (70) for the throttle-butterfly shaft (22) For this purpose, the electronic system (56) for the electric actuator (32) is arranged in the housing cover (17), and the position detection device (70) comprises a Hall-effect magnet (76) arranged on the actuator shaft (28) and a Hall-effect sensor (72) arranged directlType: GrantFiled: July 18, 2002Date of Patent: May 4, 2004Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Rolf Anschicks, Eugen Bernarding
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Patent number: 6726557Abstract: A vehicle (1) having a sound-radiating element (10) for emitting sound waves into a passenger compartment (2) and having an air duct (6) for the air conditioning of the passenger compartment (2), the air duct (6) having an air duct inner wall (7) facing the passenger compartment (2). To reduce the installation space for the sound-radiating element and to simplify the assembly, the sound-radiating element (10) has the air duct inner wall (7) and an oscillation exciter (9) arranged on the air duct inner wall (7), for exciting oscillation of the air duct inner wall (7).Type: GrantFiled: September 4, 2002Date of Patent: April 27, 2004Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Jürgen Dreyer, Rolf Janke, Heiko Schnieders, Michael Hein, Winfried Möll
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Patent number: 6727962Abstract: In a combination instrument for a motor vehicle, in particular for a utility vehicle or a bus, having an LC display (1), a light-guiding plate (4) is provided, into which ambient light is injected from inside or from outside the motor vehicle, in which the injected ambient light is guided by total reflection at the side of the LC display (1) facing away from the viewer and which has, at the side of the LC display (1) facing away from the viewer, a coating (11) or a structure (13) for extracting the ambient light out of the light-guiding plate (4) there and for injecting the ambient light into the LC display (1). This measure backlights the LC display (1), leading to a significant increase in the contrast for information displayed on the LC display (1).Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2001Date of Patent: April 27, 2004Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AGInventor: Jürgen Adams
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Patent number: 6723958Abstract: Display with a heater, a) the display having at least one display glass, b) the heater having an electrically operated heating element connected to a voltage supply (UB, GND), c) the heating element comprising a thin layer, d) the layer being made of a material forming an electrical resistance, and e) the layer being applied over a surface area to the at least one display glass or being embedded over a surface area in the display.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2001Date of Patent: April 20, 2004Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Peter Brandt, Wolfgang Siegel
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Patent number: 6720937Abstract: In order to improve the readability of analog or digital display units (2a, 2b, 3) arranged in a combination instrument, 1 that either at least one of the display units (2a, 2b, 3) can be pivoted about at least one spatial axis (X, X1, X2, X′, Y, Y1, Y2, Y′) by a drive arranged in the combination instrument (1), 2 or that at least the front side of the housing of the combination instrument (1) is subdivided into a plurality of subregions (A, B, C), and that at least one of these subregions (A, B or C) can be pivoted together with the display units (2a, 2b, 3) integrated in it.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2000Date of Patent: April 13, 2004Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AGInventors: Elmar Neugart, Gerhard Over
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Patent number: 6715646Abstract: A closure (V) for a vessel, such as a bottle (1), having a closure cap and a closure lower part, tamper proofing (37) being provided, having a securing part which, on first use, can be displaced into a position which clearly indicates that the vessel has been opened, and, to achieve a simple structure which is reliable in use, the securing part comprises a securing projection (38) which passes freely through the closure cap and is secured to the closure lower part, and the securing projection, to destroy the tamper proofing can be pressed into the closure lower part, and latching elements, which interact in the manner of barbs with the pressed-in securing part, are formed in the closure lower part.Type: GrantFiled: July 16, 2002Date of Patent: April 6, 2004Assignee: Alpla-Werke Alwin Lehner GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Udo Suffa
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Patent number: 6712544Abstract: A device (1) for connecting first and second components (2, 3) which lie at a spacing from one another by clamping by a spacer (7), which is disposed in a spacing region, and a clamping piece (15) which clamps the two components (2, 3) with respect to one another, the securing actuation of the clamping piece (15) initially displacing the spacer (7) from a spaced position to a bearing position with respect to the second component (3) and then fixing the device to the first component (2) by clamping elements (13) which move into engagement against the wall of an insertion cavity (6) of the first component (2), wherein the spreading elements (13) are associated with the spacer (7).Type: GrantFiled: January 16, 2002Date of Patent: March 30, 2004Assignee: Witte-Velbert GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Norbert Krüger, Edvard Rückert
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Patent number: 6708898Abstract: In the case of a fluidic nozzle (12) a nozzle body (13) is fixed in a housing (17) by a form-locking latching connection (18). For this purpose, an elastically deformable latching body (14) engages in a recess (16) of the housing (17). The operational position of the nozzle body (13) is thereby defined with high accuracy, with the result that an undesirable escape of the liquid between the nozzle body (13) and the housing (17) is prevented. Furthermore, at the same time the contact surface can be reduced here to a section (20) which is inclined toward an outlet opening (19) of the fluidic nozzle (12) and has a correspondingly improved sealing.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2000Date of Patent: March 23, 2004Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AGInventors: Bernd Hoffmann, Jürgen Hofmann
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Patent number: 6710488Abstract: An electric motor having a stator and a rotor, with the rotor having at least one permanent magnet and one rotor shaft and with the stator having at least two coils which produce a rotating magnetic field when alternating currents flow through them, by which the rotor can be driven, and wherein the rotor shaft is mounted radially and axially. The rotor (4) is mounted by at least one elastic thrust ring (1a, 1b), with one thrust ring (1a) being arranged axially on one side of the rotor (4).Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2001Date of Patent: March 23, 2004Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AGInventors: Klaus Kronenberg, Frank Jansa, Klaus Kriessler, Heinrich-Jochen Blume, Henry Strobel, Albert Stolzlechner
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Patent number: 6710322Abstract: A invention relates to a device for detecting the position of a selector lever, in which the selector lever is connected to a switching device that transmits a signal to an evaluation device for a desired position of the selector lever. In a a device for detecting the position of a selector lever which operates reliably over its entire service life and can be produced at reasonable cost, the selector lever (1) is connected to a diaphragm (2, 3) arranged in the beam path between an optical transmitter (18) and an optical receiver (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14), the diaphragm (2, 3), which follows the movement of the selector lever (1), being designed in such a way as to be optically transparent in the desired position of the selector lever (1), as a result of which the optical receiver (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14) receives the signal from the optical transmitter (18) and transmits it to the evaluation device (15).Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2000Date of Patent: March 23, 2004Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AGInventor: Andreas Baltes
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Patent number: 6697262Abstract: An electromechanical device for mounting an electronic assembly on a mounting rack, in particular for mounting a display instrument recessed in a dashboard. There is at least one conductive Velcro-type connector between the electronic assembly (6) and the mounting rack (7), the conductive Velcro-type connector serving both for the mechanical fastening and the electrical contacting of the assembly (6) on the mounting rack (7).Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2002Date of Patent: February 24, 2004Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Jürgen Adams, Jürgen Wolf
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Patent number: 6695362Abstract: A rotary-latch lock (1), of which a rotary latch (8) has a fork mouth (9) for accommodating a mating locking part (6) which, in a locked position of the rotary-latch lock (1), is located in front of a blocking flank (16) formed by a fork-mouth leg (11), having a window-like opening (17, 25, 26) which promotes plastic deformation when the blocking flank (16) is subjected to increased loading, wherein the opening (17, 25, 26) forms a bending/extending web (18, 23, 24).Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2002Date of Patent: February 24, 2004Assignee: Witte-Velbert GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Bernd Klüting, Norbert Krüger
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Patent number: 6691831Abstract: A plurality of heat receiving ribs are projected inwardly from the inner wall surfaces of a crankcase of a splashing oil lubrication type internal combustion engine. The heat receiving ribs extend in the same direction of a crankshaft so as to easily absorb heat from splashed engine oil. As a result, the temperature in the crankcase is reduced, thereby the lubrication characteristic of the engine oil can be maintained in good condition.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2000Date of Patent: February 17, 2004Assignee: Fuji Jukogyo Kabushiki KaishaInventor: Akira Furuya
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Patent number: 6693523Abstract: In an instrument cluster for motor vehicles with a variable-color display, with which at least two different measured variables and/or operating states of the motor vehicle can be represented in analog and/or digital form, when a value of a measured variable is overshot or a certain operating state of the motor vehicle is entered, the color and/or brightness of representation of more than one measured value displayed and/or operating state displayed are changed.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2000Date of Patent: February 17, 2004Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AGInventors: Heinz-Bernhard Abel, Heinrich Noll
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Patent number: 6688830Abstract: A device f or the bracing connection of spaced-apart components (1, 2) by a connecting screw (5), comprising a supporting part (3), which can be secured on the first component (1) by fastening elements (8), and a spacer part (4), which can be displaced axially in relation to the supporting part (3) by rotation and, as the connecting screw (5), fitted into an opening of the spacer part, is screwed in, is carried along, as a result of friction-fitting engagement of the lateral surface of the screw shank against resilient elements (9) projecting into the opening, until it strikes against the second component (2) Both the supporting part (3) and the spacer part (4) are threaded bushings (6, 7) formed in one piece, the fastening elements (8) and the resilient elements (9) forming parts of the respective shaped member.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2002Date of Patent: February 10, 2004Assignee: Witte-Velbert GmbH & Co. KGInventor: Bernd Klüting