Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Michael J. Striker
  • Transferring device and an agricultural vehicle
    Patent number: 8234047
    Abstract: A transferring device includes controllable goods carrier conveying goods to a target area, a stereo camera for providing images of the target area and a control system for deriving information from the images and controlling the goods carrier taking into account the information derived from the images. The stereo camera has two objective lenses and defines a common base line with a tilt angle relative to a horizontal. The common base line is placed in a vertical plane. The transferring device also includes floodlight projectors that are placed at a distance of at least 0.5 m from the stereo camera. Preferably, the controllable goods carrier is an ejecting spout.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: CLAAS Agrarsystems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Tommy Ertbolle Madsen, Morten Rufus Blas, Allan Kildeby, Kristian Kirk
  • Threshing unit for combine harvesters for optimized crop conveyence
    Patent number: 8231447
    Abstract: A threshing unit for combine harvesters has a cylinder, an assigned concave, at least one drum situated downstream of the cylinder, redirecting a threshed crop material out of a threshing region, and conveying it further in a direction of a remaining-grain separating device, wherein threshing slats of the cylinder and slats of at least one downstream drum are situated at a distance from one another in a circumferential region of the cylinder, and wherein peripheral speeds of the cylinder and the drum are synchronized with one another such that in a turning and scraping region the slats of the cylinder and the drum are always positioned opposite each other, or in a leading position that slightly deviates from the position opposite each other, or in a trailing position which slightly deviates from the position opposite each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventor: Robert Buehlmeier
  • Electric hand-held power tool
    Patent number: 8231438
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hand-held electric power tool comprising at least one driven rotating part (3) that is mounted in at least one bearing (7, 13). According to the invention, the rotating part (3) is vibrationally decoupled from the bearing (7, 13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Axel Kuhnle, Justus Lamprecht, Joerg Lemmel, Steffen Tiede, Ulrich Bohne, Dietmar Saur
  • Method for producing a winding of an electrical machine
    Patent number: 8230578
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing at least one winding of an electrical machine that has a plurality of poles, in particular of a motor generator, preferably for a hybrid drive of a motor vehicle, the winding being formed by winding parts connected in parallel and each pole being associated with at least one groove set that is associated with the winding parts and comprises a plurality of grooves which have different circumferential angle positions relative to the associated pole, grooves with the same circumferential angle position forming equivalent grooves and each winding part of the winding being wound with the same number of windings in equivalent grooves. The invention also relates to a corresponding winding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Uwe Knappenberger
  • Pump unit comprising a main pump and a charge pump with a variable pump capacity
    Patent number: 8231359
    Abstract: A pump unit includes a main pump (4) and a charge pump (5), the pump capacity of which is adjustable via an adjusting element. To adjust the pump capacity of the charge pump (5), an adjusting element of the charge pump (5) is acted upon by an adjusting force which is dependent on the inlet pressure of the main pump (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Merz, Ulrich Gordon Mohn, Rene Constantin Scheerer, Martin Josef Zug
  • Hand-held power tool system
    Patent number: 8221197
    Abstract: The invention relates to a portable power tool system comprising a portable power tool (12a-n), especially an angle grinder, a protective hood unit (14a-n) and a protective hood anti-rotation lock (16a-n) for providing anti-rotational locking between the protective hood unit (14a-n) and the portable power tool (12a-n) in the event of a breakage of a tool (18a-n). According to the invention, the protective hood anti-rotation lock (16a-n) is adapted to provide anti-rotational locking between the protective hood unit (14a-n) and the portable power tool (12a-n) while at the same time securing the protective hood unit (14a-n) to the portable power tool (12a-n) in a working position of the protective hood unit (14a-n).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Cornelius Boeck, Joachim Schadow, Sinisa Andrasic
  • Tool holder for a rotary hammer
    Patent number: 8210545
    Abstract: A tool holder for a hand-guided drilling device, in particular for a rotary hammer, includes a receiving sleeve that is designed as a single piece in particular and that is drivable in a rotating manner for a shank part of an insertion tool. The recess is open at both end faces and limited therebetween by an inner circumferential surface of the receiving sleeve. The inner circumferential surface (62) of the receiving sleeve (34) includes at least six flat circumferential surface sections (62n through 62u; 84, 86) in the circumferential direction, with adjacent circumferential surface sections (62n, 62o; 62p, 62q; 62r 62s; 62t, 62u) forming an angle of 120 degrees.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Eugen Hild, Ulrich Bohne
  • Hand power tool with at least one handle
    Patent number: 8210276
    Abstract: A hand power tool has a housing; at least one handle having at least one gripping part; at least one elastic, vibration-damping element; a mounting part mounted on the elastic element; the gripping part being mounted on the housing through the elastic element and through the mounting element; and at least one movable safety element through which the gripping part is connected with the mounting part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Harald Krondorfer, Mario Frank
  • Communication system and method for mobile and stationary devices
    Patent number: 8213964
    Abstract: A communication system for mobile and stationary devices has at least one transmitter/receiver unit provided for the mobile and stationary devices and covering a defined transmission/reception range, and is formed so that at least partial overlap of the transmission/reception ranges of the mobile and/or stationary devices results in accidental communication between the mobile and/or stationary devices, and this accidental communication changes to a targeted communication.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Fitzner, Heinz-Hermann Wippersteg, Thilo Steckel
  • Fire-resistant glasses having UV-curable intermediate layer
    Patent number: 8211532
    Abstract: The transparent fire-resistant glazing has at least two glass or glass ceramic panes with a gap between them, which is filed with a UV-cured material made by curing a UV-curable material with UV radiation. The UV-curable material includes at least one bromine-containing flame retardant, which is a polybrominated diphenyl ether, a brominated alcohol, or a polybrominated cycloalkane, and/or a mixtures thereof. The glazing is made by a process in which the panes are cleaned and masked so that there is a gap between them, the UV-curable material is filled into the gap and then cured with UV radiation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Jens Klossek, Ruediger Freitag, Klaus-Dieter Schwabe, Stefan Meinhardt
  • Electromagnetic pressure valve
    Patent number: 8205858
    Abstract: An electromagnetic pressure regulating valve has a valve portion for conducting and regulating the pressure of an operating medium, such as oil, a magnet portion for actuating the valve portion for regulating the pressure of the operating medium and having a magnet housing, in which a magnet core is located that as needed exerts magnetic force on an armature, located in the magnet housing, a spring with a spring force generating a pressure activation threshold to be overcome upon regulation and located between the armature and an adjusting ball that is located in a pole piece of the magnet housing, and the spring has regions of different diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Erwin Mueller, Klaus Schudt, Michael Duerr, Rene Deponte, Guido Daimer
  • Hydraulic block
    Patent number: 8205634
    Abstract: A hydraulic block (24), in particular for an automatic transmission of a motor vehicle, includes at least one valve socket (44) for accommodating a pressure control valve or switching valve (10) and a hydraulic medium at an inlet pressure on an inlet side (30). The hydraulic block (24) includes at least one annular seal (52, 54) encompassing a valve body (20, 66) in the region of the at least one valve socket (44).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Zweigle, Klaus Schudt, Lothar Krauter, Kurt Gensheimer
  • Hand-held power tool, in particular electrically driven hand-held power tool
    Patent number: 8205683
    Abstract: A handheld power tool has a housing having two separate housing parts, between which a primary damping element is disposed, wherein a secondary damping element is disposed acting parallel to said primary damping element. During regular function of the primary damping element, the secondary damping element is at least approximately force-free. In the event of a changed relative position between the two housing parts, the damping occurs via the secondary damping element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Schadow, Joerg Maute
  • Pressure regulating valve
    Patent number: 8205857
    Abstract: A pressure regulating valve (10) includes a magnet coil (16) received in a coil body (18), an armature (26) movable relative to a pole piece (20) for actuating a valve closing member (36), and a magnetic circuit (48) containing a magnet yoke (50). The magnetic circuit (48) has a maximum of three components (20, 66; 26, 50) that together form magnetic transitions (72, 74) oriented in the axial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Schmid, Klaus Schudt, Lothar Krauter, Guenther Krehl, Christof Ott
  • Electronic data exchange system and method
    Patent number: 8204960
    Abstract: In a system and a method of electronic data exchange for retrieving information used to carry out processes, at least one application is used to retrieve the information, and the application retrieves situation-specific information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 19, 2012
    Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Heinz-Hermann Wippersteg, Thilo Steckel
  • Active optoceramics with cubic crystal structure, method of production of the optoceramics, and uses thereof
    Patent number: 8197711
    Abstract: The transparent polycrystalline optoceramic has single grains with a symmetric cubic crystal structure and at least one optically active center. The optoceramic has the following formula: A2+xByDzE7, wherein 0?x?1.1, 0?y?3, 0?z?1.6, and 3x+4y+5z=8, and wherein A is at least one trivalent rare earth cation, B is at least one tetravalent cation, D is at least one pentavalent cation, and E is at least one divalent anion. The method of making the optoceramic includes preparing a powder mixture from starting materials, pre-sintering, sintering and then compressing to form the optoceramic. Scintillator media made from the optoceramic are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Ulrich Peuchert, Yvonne Menke
  • Method and knitting machine for the production of knitted goods with horizontal stripe patterns
    Patent number: 8196438
    Abstract: In a method and a knitting machine for the production of knitting goods with horizontal stripe a comparatively wide thread changing device having a plurality of thread fingers can be associated with two knitting points in such a manner that a first portion of the threads guided by the thread changing device can be fed to one knitting point and another portion of the threads can be fed to the other knitting point or to the knitting tools respectively moved there into a thread pick-up position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2012
    Assignee: SIPRA Patententwicklungs- und Beteiligungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Dietmar Traenkle, Uwe Sauter
  • Device and method for obtaining energy carriers from moist biomass
    Patent number: 8191282
    Abstract: A device for obtaining energy carriers from moist biomass includes a dehydration device for mechanically pre-dehydrating the biomass, and a drying step for post-dehydrating the pre-dehydrated biomass via the addition of heat. The dehydration device includes a first dehydration step and a second dehydration step, which is combined with the drying step to form a single assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventor: Horst Weigelt
  • Directional or flow control valve
    Patent number: 8191579
    Abstract: A directional or flow control valve has an inlet connection, an outlet connection, and a slide that controls a fluid connection between the inlet connection and the outlet connection and is configured to control the fluid connection in at least two adjustable opening cross-sections that are spaced axially apart from each other and allow a partial flow to pass through.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Rainer Imhof
  • Fuel cell cooling device with ion extraction medium
    Patent number: 8187762
    Abstract: A fuel cell cooling device has a cooling loop for circulating a coolant fluid. At least during the operation of the fuel cell, an ion extraction medium that is in the liquid state is provided. A method for cleaning a coolant with a corresponding fuel cell cooling device is provided as well.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Baumann, Florian Wahl, Alexander Martin