Patents Assigned to System GmbH
  • Fuse box for a vehicle
    Patent number: 7095628
    Abstract: A fuse box for a vehicle contains a base box having a housing in which a first bus bar with a battery connection terminal is disposed. The fuse box is configured according to a modular system. For this purpose, the housing is provided for the attachment of an extension box. The extension box preferably has a second bus bar that is placed in contact with the first bus bar. As a result of the modular system with the extension box, it is possible, for example, to allow for extensions in a vehicle on-board power system with little expenditure in respect of the fuse box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Leoni Bordnetz-Systeme GmbH & CO KG
    Inventors: Norbert Friedrich, Dean McDermott
  • Ergonomic map information system
    Patent number: 7096118
    Abstract: A system for the ergonomic communication of a map portion is presented. The map portion may include map information, map background, and additional information. The system includes an interface control unit that may include a graphics control unit, a processor and a memory. The system may include one or more modules for creating an ergonomic presentation including: a border module that may add the additional information to the representation; an adaptation module for adapting the map information and map background and/or additional information with one another, such as within a maximum color contrast; a scale-dependent module that may adapt the color intensity and width of map information as a function of scale and type; and a smoothing module to increase the quality of the map portion representation. The system may include a method for controlling the representation of a map portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2006
    Assignee: Harman Becker Automotive Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Elmar Cochlovius, Günther Huber
  • Emergency pneumatic spring with centering action
    Publication number: 20060180048
    Abstract: A pneumatic spring (LUF) for a rail vehicle (SFZ), comprising two bellow rims (BF1, BF2) mounted one above the other and interconnected by pneumatic-suspension bellow (LBA). One of the bellow rims (BF1) comprises a groove (NUT) and the other rim (BF2) comprises a counterpart (GGS) for the groove (NUT), which permit an automatic centering of the two bellow rims (BF1,BF2) in relation to one another in the transversal direction (Q) of the vehicle, if the pneumatic spring (LUF) fails.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2006
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Applicant: Siemens Transportation systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Martin Teichman, Herwig Waltensdorfer, Andreas Kienberger, Herbert Haas, Johannes Hirtenlechner, Christian Kuter
  • Degradable chewing gum bases
    Publication number: 20060182845
    Abstract: The invention relates to degradable chewing gum bases comprising elastomer, polymer resin, filler and further additives, in which the filler portion is entirely or partially replaced by an photoactive filler.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2005
    Publication date: August 17, 2006
    Applicant: Wacker Polymer Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rene Grawe, Thomas Wimmer
  • Gas bag with limiting straps
    Patent number: 7090249
    Abstract: A gas bag comprising a gas bag wall with an upper portion and limiting straps connecting the upper portion to an opposite portion of the gas bag wall has a connecting ring, from which the limiting straps originate. At least one reinforcement layer is provided between the connecting ring and the upper portion. At least one first seam fastens the connecting ring and the reinforcement layer to the upper portion, and at least one second seam only fastens the reinforcement layer to the upper portion, the second seam being arranged radially outside the first seam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: TRW Automotive Safety Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Amrei Drechsler, Claudia Gross, Jan Isensee, Dominik Schütz
  • Door with structural components configured to radiate acoustic Energy
    Patent number: 7088836
    Abstract: A door leaf includes a stiff, light structural part that maintains fed-in vibrational energy and, by flexural waves, propagates this energy in at least one active surface perpendicular to its thickness to distribute resonance mode vibration components over at least one surface, which has specified, preferred locations or sites within it for transducer devices, which are affixed on the structural part at one of the locations or sites to set the structural part into vibration and to allow it to resonate, thus creating an acoustic radiator that delivers an acoustic output signal when it vibrates in resonance, the front and/or the rear cover panel of the door leaf being part of the stiff, light structural component. The transducer(s) is/are situated between the cover panels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: Harman Becker Automotive Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Bachmann, Gerhard Krump, Hans-Juergen Regl, Andreas Ziganki
  • Airbag module
    Patent number: 7083186
    Abstract: An airbag module for a vehicle occupant restraint system comprises a housing and an airbag which is folded up into an airbag pack. The airbag is arranged in the housing and is adapted to be inflated by gas from a pressurized gas source. The housing has an outlet opening that defines an outlet plane and has a predetermined width that is smaller than the largest width of the airbag pack, measured parallel to the outlet plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: TRW Occupant Restraint Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Joachim Lutz, Robert Mohr
  • Method for engraving printing cylinders
    Patent number: 7085018
    Abstract: In a method for engraving printing cylinders in an electronic engraving machine, printing densities are matched in individual engraving lanes by engraving cups in the printing lanes with which the prescribed characteristic rated printing densities are to be achieved. The actual printing densities are identified by measurement after the printing. A corrected lane calibration is derived for the respective engraving lane from deviations between the rated printing densities and the actual printing densities. The allocated corrected lane calibration is applied in the engraving lanes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Hell Gravure Systems GmbH
    Inventor: Ernst-Rudolf Gottfried Weidlich
  • Gas bag for a vehicle occupant restraint system
    Patent number: 7083194
    Abstract: A gas bag consists of an upper piece, a front piece and a rear piece, which each have a generally hexagonal shape with a first half and a second half. The first half of the upper piece is congruent with the second half of the rear piece and connected therewith along three outer edges thereof. The first half of the rear piece is congruent with the second half of the front piece and connected therewith along three outer edges thereof. The first half of the front piece is congruent with the second half of the upper piece and connected therewith along three outer edges thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: TRW Occupant Restraint Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Philipp Ritter
  • Actuating device for a safety means
    Patent number: 7083023
    Abstract: An actuating device for a safety arrangement in a vehicle has a pneumatic muscle as a drive and a pyrotechnical gas generator for feeding the pneumatic muscle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: TRW Occupant Restraint Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Karl Birk, Uwe Class, Reiner Dannenhauer, Michael Lüders, Thomas Miodek, Thomas Hasbach
  • Safety apparatus to suppress the spread of fire from a fixing chamber of a fixing station in an electrophotographic print or copy device
    Patent number: 7085510
    Abstract: To suppress spread of fire from a fixing chamber of a fixing station in an electrophotographic print or copy device, in the event of a fire, in order to partition a fixing chamber for a recording medium in a fireproof manner, arranged at the openings of the fixing chamber is a safety apparatus made of an elastic sealing element and a counter-element, between which the recording medium is guided through. The sealing element is comprised of a fiberglass tube, inside which an elastic filling material or an elastic spreading element is situated. When the sealing element is pressed on the counter-element, a clamp region for the recording medium is formed, via which the opening of the fixing chamber can be sealed and a burning segment of the recording medium can be extinguished. Additionally, ashes present on the recording medium can be removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Oce Printing Systems GmbH
    Inventor: Günter Rosenstock
  • End wall module
    Publication number: 20060162278
    Abstract: The invention relates to an end wall module for a transport vehicle. The inventive end wall module having a first wall and the second wall arranged at a distance therefrom. The first wall is embodied in the form of a first corrugated structure and the second wall is embodied in the form of a second corrugated structure. Said corrugated structures are embodied in such a way that they are distanced from each other when the end wall module is mounted without being deformed and are engaged into each other by the shape thereof when the end wall module is at least in the first deformation stage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2003
    Publication date: July 27, 2006
    Applicant: Faurecia Innenraum Systeme GmbH
    Inventors: Marco Braun, Steve Kober, Udo Becker, Ludovic Dejaeger, Lars Bischoff
  • Upper body side protection device for a vehicle occupant and vehicle seat
    Patent number: 7080880
    Abstract: A vehicle seat has an upper body side protection device that is integrated in the back rest. The protection device comprises a gas bag which has an elongated, oval chamber via which, in the case of an intrusion, the force is introduced into the occupant principally in the region of the hip and the shoulder, in order to displace him in the direction towards the center of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2003
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2006
    Assignee: TRW Occupant Restraint Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Dominique Acker, Sven Hofmann, Jürgen Hirth, Norbert Ellerbrok, Andreas Loos
  • Method and device for transmitting messages over a data network
    Publication number: 20060155820
    Abstract: In a method and system for transmitting messages over a data network, the communication task is used which is implemented on a transmitting microcontroller which determines, on the basis of a routing table, which communication system is used to forward the message to which adjacent microcontroller. A dual-ported RAM is provided between two microcontrollers as one type of communication system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2003
    Publication date: July 13, 2006
    Applicant: Oce Printing Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Jens Umlauf, Christian Fertl, Christian Wallis, Rainer Katterloher, Hermann Andresen, Stephan Pilsl
  • Position-correction device for correcting the position of a component holder for electronic components
    Publication number: 20060155396
    Abstract: In the case of a position-correction device for correcting the position of a component holder of a handling apparatus for electronic components, in particular ICs, a base plate and a centering frame which can be displaced in relation to the base plate are provided in the region of a contact unit. A drive device is also provided and is operatively connected to the centering frame in order to displace the centering frame and thus the component holder inserted into the centering frame as a function of correction values which are calculated by a computation device on the basis of measured values which are obtained by a position-detection device for detecting the actual position of the component which is to be tested and is held in the component holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2005
    Publication date: July 13, 2006
    Applicant: Multitest elektronische Systeme GmbH
    Inventor: Gunther Jeserer
  • Quality control method for two-dimensional matrix codes on metallic workpieces, using an image processing device
    Publication number: 20060155408
    Abstract: The invention relates to a quality control method for two-dimensional matrix codes on metallic workpieces, said codes consisting of stamped marking dots. The stamping process for the marking dots is carried out by a marking tool (17) with the aid of predetermined digital positional data. The corresponding image data is then recorded for analysis by means of the image processing device (22), exclusively at the locations that have been predetermined by the positional data, or additional image data that has been previously generated is also used for the analysis, to establish whether a correct marking dot with the required quality characteristics is present.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2003
    Publication date: July 13, 2006
    Applicant: BORRIES MARKIER-SYSTEM gmbH
    Inventor: Konrad Frohlich
  • Apparatus and method for transmitting a digitized signal, and a data source and data sink to implement the method
    Patent number: 7071861
    Abstract: The utilization of the capacity of a data transmission system (e.g., a MOST vehicle network) is improved in the event that the operating frequency and channel width of the system do not match the word frequency and word width of the digitized signal. The data words of the digitized signal are decomposed into partial words with a smaller width than that of the channels on which they are transmitted. Consequently, in each individual channel there remains a residual transmission capacity that makes it possible to transmit an identifier for each individual transmitted partial data word. A data sink, connected to the transmission system, uses this identifier to obtain information about the position of the respective partial data word in its original data word. This identifier may be one bit (i.e., a Boolean signal).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2001
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Harman Becker Automotive Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Stiegler, Harald Schöpp, Frank Bähren
  • Air outlet device for a vehicle, especially for an airplane
    Patent number: 7070496
    Abstract: An air outlet device for a vehicle, especially for an aircraft, comprises a nozzle body with an air intake opening and an air outlet opening. The air outlet device further comprises a holding element formed with an accommodating opening having the nozzle body supported therein for rotation about a longitudinal axis extending through the air intake opening and the air outlet opening, and a valve body arranged coaxially within the nozzle body and guided by the holding element. Upon rotation of the nozzle body, the valve body can be displaced in the nozzle body between a closing position for blocking the air outlet opening and a maximum opening position for clearing the air outlet opening to the maximum extent. The valve body is of a hollow configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Goodrich Hella Aerospace Lighting Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Thomassin, Frank Poehlau, Klaus Kurz
  • Transferring and fixing system and method using a guided conveyor section and a free conveyor section
    Publication number: 20060140661
    Abstract: In a method and system for transfer printing of an electrostatic recharge toner image from an intermediate carrier onto a recording medium and for fixing of the transfer-printed toner image onto the recording medium, the recording medium lying on an electrostatically-chargeable conveyor belt and adhered thereto by electrostatic forces is transported through a transfer printing region and subsequently along a guided transport section. The recording medium is conveyed to a fixing device. The guided transport section is arranged in a transport unit and the fixing device is arranged in a fixing unit which are independent of one another. The fixing unit has at least one wall designed to hinder a heat transfer from the fixing unit to the transport unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2003
    Publication date: June 29, 2006
    Applicant: Oce Printing Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Markus Stahuber, Andreas Wirtz
  • Cooling machine
    Patent number: D524831
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: AHT Cooling Systems GmbH
    Inventor: Reinhold Resch