Patents Assigned to System GmbH
  • Surveillance system for terrestrial navigational and airport landing systems
    Patent number: 6469655
    Abstract: The invention deals with a surveillance system for terrestrial navigational and landing systems, in which the navigational signals being transmitted for aeroplanes or other airborne objects by the navigational and airport landing systems are received and evaluated by a ground-based receiving and control facility. In this system: the receiving and control facility is equipped with a plurality of additional receiving stations; these additional receiving stations operate in the frequency range of the navigational signals; the additional receiving stations are arranged geographically distributed within the transmitting range of the navigational or airport landing system; the signals recorded by the additional receiving stations are forwarded to a central evaluating unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Assignee: Airsys Navigation Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Erich Franke, Herbert Kleiber
  • Gas bag module for vehicle occupant restraint systems
    Patent number: 6467802
    Abstract: A gas bag module for a vehicle occupant restraint system includes a gas bag having at least a first fabric layer which is made of interwoven weft threads and warp threads and which forms a wall of the gas bag. The gas bag module also includes a gas lance with openings for an inflow of a gas into the gas bag. A second fabric layer is disposed in the area of the openings and is formed by part of the weft threads of the first fabric layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2002
    Assignee: TRW Occupant Restraint Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Jürgen Heigl
  • Airbag module
    Publication number: 20020149183
    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: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2002
    Publication date: October 17, 2002
    Applicant: TRW Occupant Restraint Systems Gmbh & Co. KG
    Inventors: Joachim Lutz, Robert Mohr
  • Vehicle occupant restraint device
    Publication number: 20020149181
    Abstract: A restraint device for an occupant in a vehicle having a steering wheel, a dashboard with a lower end limiting a footwell, an A-pillar and a windshield, comprises a first gas bag for protecting the thorax area of a vehicle occupant, and a second gas bag for supporting the first gas bag. The second gas bag has a deployed condition and extends at least partly over the windshield of the vehicle in the deployed condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2002
    Publication date: October 17, 2002
    Applicant: TRW Occupant Restraint Systems GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventors: Heinz Eyrainer, Alexander Heilig, Reiner Dannenhauer
  • Airbag module
    Publication number: 20020149185
    Abstract: An airbag module for a vehicle occupant restraint system comprises a gas generator, an airbag which can be inflated by means of a pressurized gas flow that can be supplied by the gas generator. The airbag module further comprises a housing that has a generator chamber to accommodate the gas generator and an airbag chamber to accommodate the airbag. A deformable dividing wall is provided between the generator chamber and the airbag chamber, the dividing wall having outlet openings and being adapted to be deformed by the pressurized gas flow from a resting state into a working state in which the dividing wall forms a guide channel for the pressurized gas flow flowing out of the gas generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2002
    Publication date: October 17, 2002
    Applicant: TRW Occupant Restraint Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Joachim Lutz, Robert Mohr
  • Vehicular impact protection device
    Patent number: 6464252
    Abstract: An impact protection device for arrangement in a steering wheel of a truck vehicle is provided. The steering wheel has a rim that is located in a plane inclined at an angle of less than 45° to a horizontal plane. The device has an inflatable gas bag mounted in a folded condition and an inflator activatable as a function of vehicle deceleration. The gas bag, in an inflated condition, has the shape of a mushroom with an annular outer edge portion engaging about and behind said steering wheel rim.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignee: TRW Automotive Safety Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Martin Kreuzer
  • High speed gear with oil lubrication, especially for environmentally sealed railway driving mechanism
    Patent number: 6464040
    Abstract: The invention relates to a high-speed gear with oil lubrication, with oil-recycling ducts (8) leading out of the labyrinth chambers of contactless shaft seals (6) to the crankcase (5) of the gear casing (3). According to the invention, the oil-recycling ducts (8) terminate in regions (10) in which a vacuum is automatically established during running operation, independently of the direction of rotation of the gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler Rail Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Hallmann, Erwin Skumawitz
  • Gas bag cover with burst line
    Patent number: 6464248
    Abstract: A gas bag cover for a vehicle occupant restraint system has an inner side facing a gas bag to be covered and a wall thickness. The gas bag cover comprises at least one burst line being grooved into the cover from the inner side up to a predefined remaining wall thickness. The burst line comprises an initial point at which the remaining wall thickness has its minimum. The gas bag cover further comprises reinforcement ribs formed on the inner side of the cover, extending along a line which is tangent to the initial point of the burst line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2001
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignee: TRW Automotive Safety Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: John-Oliver Derrick
  • Vehicular restraint system
    Patent number: 6464253
    Abstract: A vehicular restraint system comprises an inflatable gas bag defining an internal volume and a gas generator with a pyrotechnic propellant charge for generating gas upon inflation of the gas bag. The propellant charge is made up of a mass of a pyrotechnic material. The mass of the pyrotechnic material may include a binding agent conglomerating the mass into a rigid shaped body, such body having a surface exposed to the internal volume of the gas bag, or the mass is filled into a flexible envelope, which envelope has a surface exposed to the internal volume of the gas bag. Preferably, the mass has a ductile texture, enabling it to be kneaded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignee: TRW Automotive Safety Systems GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventor: Christian Lorenz
  • Valve piston and valve equipped with same
    Patent number: 6460561
    Abstract: Pressurised medium apparatus with a valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2002
    Assignee: LuK Getriebe-Systeme GmbH
    Inventor: Günter Ebinger
  • Gas bag module
    Publication number: 20020140210
    Abstract: The invention relates to a gas bag module of several components, which comprise a least a carrier element, a gas generator and a gas bag. At least one elastic element is provided and at least one of the components is mounted in the gas bag module so as to be neutralized with regard to vibration by means of the at least one elastic element consisting of silicone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2002
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Applicant: TRW Automotive Safety Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Mark Lovell, Thorsten Nottebaum
  • Gas bag module and vehicle steering wheel
    Publication number: 20020140212
    Abstract: The invention relates to a gas bag module comprising a gas generator and an elastic bearing element by means of which the gas generator is mounted so as to be neutralized with regard to vibrations in the gas bag module. The bearing element is electrically conductive and forms a part of an electrical earth lead for the gas generator. The invention further relates to a steering wheel comprising a gas bag module equipped with a gas generator. The gas bag module is mounted on the steering wheel so as to be neutralized with regard to vibrations by means of an elastic bearing element. The elastic bearing element is electrically conductive and forms a part of an earth lead of the gas generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2002
    Publication date: October 3, 2002
    Applicant: TRW Automotive Safety Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Constantin Hauer
  • Gas bag with tether means
    Patent number: 6457745
    Abstract: A gas bag for a vehicle occupant restraint system comprises two superimposed plies of fabric (12, 14) and a tether secured to the plies of fabric and defining the spacing between them in the inflated condition. The tether is formed by a seam (22b) implemented with a thread slack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: TRW Occupant Restraint Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Jürgen Heigl
  • Side collision protection system for vehicles
    Patent number: 6457742
    Abstract: A side impact protection system for vehicles comprises an inflatable gas bag (10) which has a wall made of a material being impermeable to gas, and a gas source (3) for inflating the gas bag. For reducing peak loads upon diving of the occupant into the inflated gas bag there are provided several burst chambers (12, 14, 16) separated in their contour shape from the inflatable volume of the gas bag (10) by retaining means (18). The retaining means (18) of the burst chambers (12, 14, 16) are dimensioned as regards their strength such that the burst chambers (12, 14, 16) is opened towards the inflatable volume of the gas bag (10) once a predetermined value of the gas bag internal pressure, which is lower than the filling pressure of the filling gases provided by the gas source (3), has been attained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: TRW Occupant Restraint Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Roland Brucker
  • Fiber-structure electrode system for nickel-cadmium batteries and procedure for its manufacture
    Patent number: 6458484
    Abstract: In order to be able to produce prismatic, unsealed nickel-cadmium batteries without limiting the amount of electrolyte, the invention proposes the manufacture of an electrode system for nicad batteries under at least partial utilization of fibe- structure electrodes, for which purpose positive and negative lamellar electrodes are produced and, with separator material interlayered, stacked in alternating fashion in a defined number to form an electrode assembly. The respective equidirectional electrodes are mutually connected by means of connecting straps; the electrode assembly is pressed and positionally locked between mechanical clamping elements into a unitized, coplanar, undeformable block, under simultaneous compression of the separator material interlayered between the electrodes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 1999
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2002
    Assignee: Hoppecke Batterie Systeme GmbH
    Inventors: Detlef Ohms, Willi Kitzhöfer, Uwe Schaffrath, Gabor Benczur-Urmössy
  • Process for laminating textile sheet materials onto moldable particle foam or onto foamed moldings
    Publication number: 20020134502
    Abstract: The invention provides a process for laminating textile sheet materials onto moldable foam or onto foamed moldings, using, as an adhesive, a polymer preparation based on copolymers of one or more monomers selected from the group comprising vinyl esters, acrylates, methacrylates, vinylaromatics and vinyl chloride and from 0.01 to 25% by weight, based on the total weight of the copolymer, of one or more ethylenically unsaturated monomers containing carboxyl groups.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2002
    Publication date: September 26, 2002
    Applicant: Wacker Polymer System GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Klaus Kolhammer, Claudia Schmidt, Abdulmajid Hashemzadeh, Doris Bauer
  • Gas bag module
    Publication number: 20020135160
    Abstract: In a method of joining components of a gas bag module for a vehicle occupant restraint system, at least one component of the gas bag module, preferably the gas bag, is stowed in an envelope. Thereafter, a partial vacuum is produced inside the envelope and the envelope is closed in gas-tight fashion. A gas bag module for a vehicle occupant restraint system consists of at least two components. At least one component is enclosed in gas-tight fashion in an envelope provided with a partial vacuum.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2002
    Publication date: September 26, 2002
    Applicant: TRW Automotive Safety Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Christian Lorenz
  • Vehicle steering device
    Publication number: 20020135163
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle steering device comprising a steering wheel which has a gas bag module with a gas bag and a covering cap on a front side. The covering cap closes an outlet opening for the gas bag up to its unfolding. At least one of a display- and operating device is arrange in the covering cap. The outlet opening runs around at least one of the display- and operating device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2002
    Publication date: September 26, 2002
    Applicant: TRW Automotive Safety Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: John-Oliver Derrick
  • Method of controlling a torque transmission system and torque transmission system for carrying out the method of controlling
    Publication number: 20020134637
    Abstract: A method of monitoring a torque transmission system with a manually switchable gearbox in the power train of a motor vehicle involves the utilization of at least one sensor unit at the input side of the torque transmission system to ascertain relevant positions of the shift lever of the gearbox and the driving torque of the engine of the motor vehicle. The thus obtained shift lever signals are memorized, together with comparison signals which are obtained as a result of filtering of the shift lever signals, and various characteristics of such signals are recognized and identified to indicate the intention of the operator of the vehicle regarding the switching of the gearbox. The thus obtained switching intention signals are transmitted to a controlled clutch operating system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 12, 2002
    Publication date: September 26, 2002
    Applicant: LuK Getriebe System GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Salecker, Uwe Wagner, Michael Reuschel, Martin Rauser, Bruno Muller, Alfons Wagner
  • Method for the production of medical fittings, in particular dental fittings
    Patent number: 6454629
    Abstract: A method for the production of medical fittings, in particular dental fittings, is proposed. A workpiece (1), from which the fitting is produced, has material removed from it by machining with a tool (7). The tool (7) and the workpiece (1) execute a relative movement with respect to each other along a fixed trajectory. The instantaneous loading of the tool is used to control the speed of this relative movement. In order to avoid the load peaks which occur here, and to ensure a more uniform control, it is proposed that the expected loading of the tool along the trajectory is also calculated and is used to control the speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2002
    Assignee: Sirona Dental Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Basler, Volker Wedler, Bernd Rothenberger