Patents Represented by Attorney, Agent or Law Firm Michael J. Striker
  • Patent number: 8161718
    Abstract: In a self-propelled agricultural working machine having working units whose working parameters are adjustable, moving at a ground speed that is regulated automatically as a function of at least one crop-material parameter and/or one working parameter of the working machine using a forward-travel regulator, and having at least one control, operating, and display unit, with which the crop-material parameters and/or the working parameters of the working machine may be adjusted and displayed, the operator of the working machine has access to information regarding the state of the forward-travel regulator when the ground speed is being regulated using a forward-travel regulator. For this purpose, the crop-material parameter and/or working parameter of the working machine that currently limits the ground-speed control via the forward-travel regulator is displayed directly to the operator of the working machine in the control, operating, and display unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Bussmann, Andreas Wilken, Joachim Baumgarten, Georg Eggenhaus
  • Patent number: 8162575
    Abstract: A transport and assembly vehicle for a component module such as an aircraft engine includes a mobile platform which includes support arm structures on which the component module is situated during conveyance and while maintenance work is performed, and which are movable relative to the platform in such a manner that they may assume at least two positions, namely an active position in which they hold the component module, and an inactive position in which they release the component module; the support arm structures of the movable platform include receiving adapters, and the receiving adapters are situated in such a manner that their position is changeable in the longitudinal and transverse directions of the movable platform, so that the transport and assembly vehicle may be used to transport component modules of highly diverse sizes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventor: Frank Knurr
  • Patent number: 8161652
    Abstract: A hand-held power tool, in particular a hand-held power tool for sawing, includes a drive unit (12a), which includes a drive shaft (14a; 14b), and a dust-extraction device (16a; 16b) with a suction unit (20a; 20b) and a drive shaft (22a; 22b). A transmission unit (24a; 24b) is installed upstream of the drive shaft (22a; 22b) of the suction unit (20a; 20b).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stefano Delfini, Beat Gerber, Miguel Alexandre Pinto Da Costa
  • Patent number: 8162301
    Abstract: A construction kit for a manipulating system, includes at least one first and one second element that are located parallel or at an angle to one another and are connectable to one another, at least one centering element that is located between the first and second elements, and at least one securing element for connecting the first element to the second element. The construction kit has a centering element, which has an outer circumferential surface that is provided with at least one form-locking means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Josef Dirschbacher
  • Patent number: 8161613
    Abstract: The invention is based on a method for producing a screw connection by means of a cutout screwdriver (10) that terminates a screw driving operation when a predetermined torque is achieved. According to the invention, data relating to an operation are detected in the cutout screwdriver (10) and transmitted to an external monitoring unit (20). The invention also discloses a device for executing the method as well as a cutout screwdriver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Schuele, Mike Voigt
  • Patent number: 8151679
    Abstract: The invention is based on a device having a centering element (10) and at least one form-locking element (12) for fastening an axially mountable tool (14) to a drive shaft (16), which is drivable in an oscillating manner, of a hand-held power tool (28) in which the centering element (10) is provided for centering the tool (14) relative to the drive shaft (16), and the form-locking element (12) is provided for defining a rotary position of the tool (14) relative to the drive shaft (16). It is proposed that the form-locking element (12) is located radially outside the centering element (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Ulrich Bohne
  • Patent number: 8152601
    Abstract: A motor-driven machine tool (1) with a tool that can be rotatably driven comprises a drive shaft (5) and a tool shaft (6) on which the tool is received, the rotational movement of the drive shaft being transmissible onto the tool shaft via a coupling device (8). The drive shaft is rotatably received in pivot bearings (14, 15) in the housing of the machine tool, the coupling device acting upon the drive shaft in the portion between the two pivot bearings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Adolf Zaiser, Jens Blum, Heiko Roehm
  • Patent number: 8151599
    Abstract: The invention relates to a transport container (1) comprising a superinsulation in the form of an evacuated insulating container (2) comprising a vacuum maintaining material (55). The transport container is provided with a cooling container (16) comprising a heat-conducting metal wool filling (57) and an organic coolant which undergoes a solid/liquid phase change in the temperature range of between ?30° C. and ?850° C. and has a heat of fusion of at least 50 J/ml. A slim cylindrical sample chamber (24) is used to receive deep-frozen tissue samples (26), said chamber being surrounded by the cooling container (16) and merging into a long neck opening (25) forming a single component therewith, said opening being largely filled by the insulating shaft (30) of a screwable plug (28) and sealed from the sample chamber (24). The air in the ring gap (32) created can be evacuated by means of an evacuating system (48).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Inventor: Bernhard Sixt
  • Patent number: 8155870
    Abstract: A method of navigating an agricultural vehicle, which is equipped with a 3D imaging device for imaging surroundings of the vehicle, and an image processing device, includes obtaining from the 3D imaging device frames imaging at least a part of the surroundings of the vehicle at different points of time while the vehicle is moving thus providing a chronological sequence of frames, analysing the frames, and establishing a change of pose of the vehicle using results of the analysis of at least two chronologically different frames.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: AGROCOM GmbH & Co. Agrarsystem KG
    Inventors: Tommy Ertbolle Madsen, Rufus Blas Morten
  • Patent number: 8147173
    Abstract: An adapter for operating a keyhole saw (10) on a driving machine includes a driving section (17; 117) for absorbing torque and a threaded section (18; 118) screwed into a threaded hole (20) in the keyhole saw (10). A driving segment (16; 116) is offset radially relative to the adapter axis and is inserted in a form-fit manner into a receiving hole (21) present in the keyhole saw (10). The driving segment (16; 116) is located in an axially extending manner on the end of a driving element (12; 112) which includes the driving element section (17; 117). The threaded section (17; 117) is formed on a threaded mandrel (13; 113) which is situated in the driving element (12; 112) and is non-detachably connected thereto. The threaded mandrel (13; 113) is held in the driving element (12; 112) in a rotatable manner to be axially displaceable to a limited extent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Renato Goetz, Daniel Grolimund
  • Patent number: 8149118
    Abstract: In a device and a method for registering the opening of closures of spaces to be secured, a sealing module, which includes a sensor, a microprocessor, a memory, and a wireless communication device, can be attached to the closure in such a way that the sensor detects a movement and writes data documenting the movement into the memory; a detection unit includes at least one wireless communication device, a microprocessor, and a memory that are embodied to read out at least the data documenting the movement from the memory of the sealing module and to write these data into the memory of the mobile detection unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Niesen, Hubert Kalweit
  • Patent number: 8146782
    Abstract: Disclosed is a foam head (1) for a propellant container (2) with an inner and an outer crimped edge (3, 4) of a valve disk (5). Said foam head (1) comprises an actuating button (6) and a foam discharge port (7) and is embodied so as to sit directly on a valve stem (8). A bottom section (9) of the foam head (1) has an outer diameter (10) that is approximately identical to an inner diameter (11) of the inner crimped edge (3). An outer rib (13) which faces the actuating button (6) is disposed in a lower area (12) of the bottom section (9) so as to engage underneath a bottom side (14) of the inner crimped edge (3). A lower edge (15) of the bottom section (9) is provided with at least one recess (16) in order to form an annular spring (17).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Wella GmbH
    Inventors: Maria Gross, Harald Lohnes, Gabriele Stolper
  • Patent number: 8147210
    Abstract: A hydraulic assembly has a pressure medium container which at least partially encloses an electric motor, and a hydraulic pump which is driven by the electric motor using a simple, compact, and quiet design in a manner such that the electric motor is situated in the pressure medium container and is cooled by pressure medium without using the electric motor fan, in that the pressure medium container includes a partition which subdivides a pressure medium container interior at least partially into an intake region and a return region, and which maintains a certain level of pressure medium in the return region, and the electric motor is located in the return region of the pressure medium container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Gellner
  • Patent number: 8150144
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining the rotational axis and the rotating center of a vehicle wheel by means of at least two image capture units assigned to each other in position and situation during the journey of the vehicle, and by means of an analysis unit arranged downstream of said units, processing the recorded image information, taking into account multiple wheel features (10) present on the wheel or attached for the measurement, and by means of at least one bodywork feature present on the bodywork or attached for the measurement, wherein 2D-coordinates of the wheel features (10) and of the at least one bodywork feature are synchronously detected, and from these the 3D-coordinates of the features are calculated at certain time intervals and counted back to a previously established reference time point or corresponding reference position of the vehicle wheel, taking into account the distance traveled by the at least one bodywork feature relative to the reference position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Guenter Nobis, Steffen Abraham, Volker Uffenkamp
  • Patent number: 8144700
    Abstract: In a method for operating a network having a primary station and at least two secondary stations, the primary station communicates with the secondary stations. The secondary stations communicate with one another via cross communication in the form of telegrams which are generated in the context of communications cycles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stephan Schultze, Alexander Tchekler, Roland Ackermann, Gerald Noack
  • Patent number: 8141387
    Abstract: The process of making the glass-ceramic includes ceramicizing a starting glass at a heating or cooling rate during the ceramicization of at least 10 K/min, so that the glass-ceramic contains at least 50% by volume of ferroelectric crystallites with a maximum diameter of from 20 to 100 nm and not more than 10% by volume of nonferroelectric crystallitesis. The glass ceramic produced by the process contains no pores or not more than 0.01% by volume of the pores and a value of e?·V2max of the glass-ceramic is at least 20 (MV/cm)2, wherein e? is the dielectric constant at 1 kHz and Vmax is the breakdown voltage per unit thickness. The ferroelectric crystallites preferably have a perovskite structure and are composed of substantially pure or doped BaTiO3 and/or BaTi2O5.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Martin Letz, Mark J. Davis, Bernd Ruedinger, Bernd Hoppe, Bianca Schreder, Maria-Louisa Aigner, Daniela Seiler
  • Patent number: 8142262
    Abstract: The invention relates to a grinding device, comprising a mounting body which is detachably connected to a grinding element, said detachable connection being designed such that the mounting body has a first adhering arrangement and the grinding element has a second adhering element and the adhering elements correspond in the manner of a Velcro fastener. The aim of the invention is to improve the quality and efficiency of the detachable connection for exchange of the grinding element of the claimed grinding device. Said aim is achieved, wherein the first adhering element (1) and the second adhering element (2) comprise a number of projections (3) each with a cross-sectional widening in the direction of the free end (7) of the projection (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Werner Huser
  • Patent number: 8145378
    Abstract: A communication system for exchanging data between data recipients and data generators provides the data exchange between stationary and/or mobile units and/or within a stationary or mobile unit, and has a communication network via which the data exchange takes place connects various communication media to one another, and at least one communication manager assigned to the communication network, so that the at least one communication manager identifies the communication route of a data record between the particular data generator and the associated data recipient independently of the communication medium.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 1, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2012
    Assignee: CLAAS Selbstfahrende Erntemaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Norbert Schlingmann, Reinhard Laing
  • Patent number: D656752
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Interstuhl Bueromoebel GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Reiner Moll
  • Patent number: D656753
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: Interstuhl Bueromoebel GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Reiner Moll