Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Michael J. Striker
  • Patent number: 8282819
    Abstract: Disclosed is a filter device (10), particularly a liquid filter, comprising a filter element (16) that is disposed in a filter housing (12, 14) and a heater (28) for heating medium flowing through the filter device (10). The inventive filter device (10) is characterized in that the heater (28) is designed with at least one heating circuit (30) that is molded into the filter housing (12, 14). Alternatively or additionally, the heater (28) is designed with at least one heating circuit (30) which is provided with an electrical contact (34) in at least one of the final zones thereof, said electrical contact (34) being riveted to the heating circuit (28).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Alberto Parra Navarrete, Alfonso Baz, Bernhard Hager, Carlos J. Blasco Remacha, Volker Brielmann, Leopold Bernegger
  • Patent number: 8282283
    Abstract: A linear motion device has a first assembly and a second assembly which is linearly movable relative to the first assembly, in which at least one, and preferably at least two, first rolling surface(s) which extend(s) in a longitudinal direction is/are provided on the first assembly, each first rolling surface being located opposite a second rolling surface provided on the second assembly, and in which a row of rolling elements is located between the first and second rolling surfaces, and in which the first assembly includes a single-pieced, first body and at least one return assembly, at least one return passage being provided in the first body, and furthermore in which at least one curved deflection passage is located entirely within the deflection assembly and connects the first rolling surface to the return passage in a manner such that the rolling elements may circulate endlessly, and in which at least one projection that engages in the return passage is provided on the deflection assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Steffen Pfister, Bernhard Keller
  • Patent number: 8283889
    Abstract: A charging device (10, 100) includes a charging unit (12) and at least one interchangeable, rechargeable energy storage unit (14), in particular an interchangeable battery (18), of a power tool (16). Each energy storage unit (14) has first contact means (24) for contacting the corresponding power tool (16) and additional contact elements (38) for contacting the charging unit (12) in such a way that the charging unit (12) is able to charge the energy storage unit (14) via the additional contact elements (38), both when the unit is connected to the power tool (16) and when it is disconnected from the power tool (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Osswald, Ursula Schmid, Klaus Dengler
  • Patent number: 8282426
    Abstract: An electrical contact (10), in particular for an electronic control unit (50), includes a number of contact pins (56) and at least one electrical cable (14) which has a connector lug (28). The connector part (12) is accommodated in an interference fit (44) in a receiving chamber (40) of a housing part (36) that includes at least one contact strip (64).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Peter Zweigle
  • Patent number: 8284396
    Abstract: A system for the optical inspection of glass panels (2) is described, with a conveying device (3) for moving a glass panel (2), and with a first inspection module (5, 6, 7), which includes an illumination device and a camera for illuminating and photographing the glass panel (2), and with a first evaluation module (8, 9, 10, 11) for evaluating the photographs of the glass panel (2). In addition, a second inspection module (5, 6, 7) is provided, which includes an illumination device or a camera for illuminating the photograph of the glass panel (2), and it is connected with a second evaluation module (8, 9, 10, 11) for evaluating the photographs taken of the glass panel, the illumination systems and/or the cameras of the first inspection module (5, 6, 7) and the second inspection module (5, 6, 7) having different designs and/or being located in different places relative to the glass panel (2), which is moved past the inspection modules (5, 6, 7) via the conveying device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Isra Vision AG
    Inventor: Armin Rudert
  • Patent number: 8281583
    Abstract: A hydraulic control assembly, in particular for controlling hydraulic consumers of a mobile machine, includes a load reporting line (26) that can be subjected to the highest load pressure of a plurality of hydraulic consumers, triggered simultaneously each via a respective main control valve (38, 57), and that is connectable by an end portion (26a) to a pump regulator (25). A pressure limiting valve (50) limits the control pressure in the end portion (26a) of the load reporting line (26). The pressure limiting valve (50) is adjustable as a function of the magnitude of a pilot control signal serving to trigger a main control valve (38, 57).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Kauss
  • Patent number: 8283268
    Abstract: The colorless transparent colloid-former-containing glass that is convertible into a colorless transparent glass ceramic or a metal colloid-colored glass ceramic via respective heat treatments contains a combination of one or more metal colloid formers and one or more redox partners. The metal colloid formers are compounds containing Au, Ag, As, Bi, Nb, Cu, Fe, Pd, Pt, Sb and/or Sn. The redox partners are compounds containing As, Ce, Fe, Mn, Sb, Sn and/or W, with the proviso that the redox partner must be different from the metal colloid former.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Meike Schneider, Thilo Zachau, Friedrich Siebers, Wolfgang Schmidbauer
  • Patent number: 8282446
    Abstract: The invention is based on a protective hood fastening device having a fastening element (12a-12n) for fastening a protective hood (14a-14n) which is intended for partly enclosing a rotating application tool on a body (16a-16n) of an electric tool (10a-10n). It is proposed that the fastening element (12a-12n) comprise at least one latching element (18a-18n) for locking the protective hood (14a-14n) against rotation relative to the body (16a-16n) of the electric tool (10a-10n).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Maria-Margareta Sulea, Stefan Heess, Juergen Wiker, Peter Stierle
  • Patent number: 8282068
    Abstract: A tool, has a tool shell having a top side for shaping a fiber-reinforced component, and an underside, wherein said tool shell is dimensionally stable and is provided with an integrally moulded ribbed structure on said underside to provide a dimensional stability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: CLAAS Fertigungstechnik GmbH
    Inventor: Robert Buehlmeyer
  • Patent number: 8281872
    Abstract: A drill hammer for the three operation modes of drilling, chiseling, and hammer-drilling has a motor with a motor shaft; a gear with an intermediate shaft, a driving gear wheel, a toothed slaving shaft , a shifting hub, and a driven gear wheel; a percussion mechanism with a wobble disk and a wobble gear wheel; and a driven shaft with a driving gear wheel and a drill chuck. The gear is configured to be changed over easily without axial displacement of running gears that mesh with one another so that the drill hammer is more robust, shorter or more compact, and lighter in weight. The drill hammer is thus simply and economically constructed and whose efficiency is not impaired by the gear shifting mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Achim Duesselberg, Andre Ullrich, Helmut Heinzelmann, Thomas Bernhardt, Michael Weiss, Tobias Herr
  • Patent number: 8283270
    Abstract: The neutral glass according to the present invention is characterized by excellent hydrolytic stability, a relatively low processing temperature and low content of boron oxide. Here, the neutral glass has the following composition, in percent by weight based on oxide content: SiO2, 70-79; B2O3, 0-<5; Al2O3, <5; ZrO2, 0.5-<5; TiO2, 0.5-6; Na2O, 1-6; K2O, 3 to 8; and Li2O, 0-0.5, wherein a total amount of SiO2 and B2O3 is less than 83 percent by weight.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Joerg Hinrich Fechner, Christof Kass
  • Patent number: 8285459
    Abstract: In a route planning system and method for agricultural working machines, a defined working width is assigned to the agricultural working machines to generate driving routes in a territory, and dynamic adaptation of the planned driving route is carried out thereby ensuring that the driving route to be covered is flexibly adaptable to changing external conditions such as driving around obstacles, thereby largely relieving the operator of the agricultural working machine of the task of performing laborious steering maneuvers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Norbert Diekhans, Jochen Huster, Andreas Brunnert
  • Patent number: 8283269
    Abstract: The borosilicate glass with improved solarization-resistance has a transmittance curve within an area bounded by respective curves defined by the corresponding equations ?=1.7·(??277) and ?=1.6·(??284) in a wavelength range of 283 nm to 325 nm. This glass has a composition, in wt. % based on oxide content, of: 55-82, SiO2; 10-20, B2O3; 1-10, Al2O3; 0-5, Li2O; 0-10, Na2O; 0-10, K2O; 0-10, ?M2O; 0-5, MgO; 0-10, CaO; 0-5, SrO; 0-15, BaO; 0-15, ?MO; 0-3, ZrO2; 0-5, ZnO; 0-2, CeO2; 0-3, WO3; 0-2, SnO2: 0-0.1, Fe2O3; 0.05-2, MoO3; 0-5, Bi2O3; 0-1, TiO2 and 0-5, oxides of selected rare earth and Group IVB to VIIIB elements. The transmittance is adjusted by varying the MoO3 content and if necessary the TiO2 and Bi2O3 content. The glass is especially suitable for use in a weathering apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Joerg Hinrich Fechner, Franz Ott
  • Patent number: 8285044
    Abstract: An image-processing device carries out an object segmentation in which the object segmentation is executed and/or is executable through comparison of a camera image to a scene reference image of a surveillance scene, equipped with a learning device for generating the scene reference image; the learning device generates the scene reference image through evaluation of a medium-term and/or long-term observation of the surveillance scene a) that extends over a time period of longer than one day, preferably longer than several days, in particular longer than 1 week, and/or b) that extends over a time period that includes several states of the surveillance scene.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Niem, Stefan Mueller-Scheiders, Marcel Merkel
  • Patent number: 8281589
    Abstract: For operating an internal combustion engine having a throttle situated in an exhaust line or exhaust return line, in which a heat engine is driven by a quantity of heat produced by the internal combustion engine, in a first non-heating operating mode of the internal combustion engine, a first setpoint value is preset, a first operating parameter that characterizes a temperature of the internal combustion engine is detected, a first triggering value is determined for the triggering of the at least one throttle as a function of the first setpoint value and the first operating parameter, the at least one throttle is triggered in accordance with the first triggering value, and the at least one heat engine is driven by the resulting quantity of heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Guillaume Huard, Juergen Stegmaier, Henrick Brandes, Martin Cichon, Manfred Schmitt, Lutz Rauchfuss, Oliver Tschismar
  • Patent number: 8281723
    Abstract: A vehicle for a rail-borne transportation system includes an eddy current brake that contains a large number of magnetic poles and a mechanism for activating the magnetic poles for braking. The magnetic poles are formed by movably supported permanent magnets, and the activation mechanism switches the permanent magnets from an inactive position into an active position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2012
    Assignee: ThyssenKrupp Transrapid GmbH
    Inventors: Friedrich Loeser, Qinghua Zheng
  • Patent number: 8267385
    Abstract: The invention relates to a holding device (1), especially for fixing a glass substrate during a cutting process. The holding device comprises a housing (2) and a plunger (3) which can be axially displaced in relation to the housing (2). The plunger has a first and a second end section (4, 5), the first end section (4) projecting from the housing (2) and having a suction element (6). The aim of the invention is inter alia to improve a known holding device in such a manner that the substrate can be approached and fixed almost without the application of force. The holding device (1) according to the invention is characterized in that the plunger (3) is received in the housing (2) by a pneumatic spring. A holding system (20) comprising a plurality of holding devices (1) is protected in a support plate (24), the support plate (24) having a vacuum channel collector (21) which is connected to vacuum channels (13) and which is connected to a common vacuum pump (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Martin Kurz, Thorsten Grahl, Martin Angermann, Brian MacKintosh
  • Patent number: 8269479
    Abstract: A mechanical support device (10) for a sensor plate (18) of a device for transmitting and/or receiving electromagnetic high-frequency signals, is designed as a winding core (24, 26) of at least one coil (32, 32?, 32?; 34, 34?, 34?; 36, 36?, 36?) in an inductive sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Reiner Krapf, Uwe Skultety-Betz, Michael Mahler, Christoph Wieland, Ewald Schmidt, Ulli Hoffmann
  • Patent number: 8266352
    Abstract: The keys which are used to activate the machine functions are embodied as keys (T1 Tn) which are directly connected to one of the SPS inputs (9). One of the several key planes can be selected by the user interface (13) of the PC coupled to the SPS. A control unit (4), which is connected to the SPS inputs (9) and which processes data in the SPS, is provided. Said control unit contains information about the keyboard layout of the keys (T1 Tn) on the respectively selected key plane by the PC by means of the data interface (8) and comprises a key signal which is arranged on the SPS entry (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Jens Kleinfeld
  • Patent number: 8261512
    Abstract: A baler with a bale pressing chamber for agricultural stalk materials is connected with a wrapping device comprising a wrapping table for the enveloping of a bale with foil via at least one support frame carried by a chassis, between the baler and the wrapping device at least one actively driven bale transfer device for the transfer of the finished bale from the bale pressing chamber to the wrapping table of the wrapping device is present, and as a function of the inclination of the baler and/or the wrapping device to the perpendicular the operational sequence of the transfer of the bale from the bale pressing chamber to the wrapping device is controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: Usines Claas France SAS
    Inventors: Christoph Gette, Lionel Hasse, Olivier Plenert