Patents by Inventor Albert Vent

Albert Vent has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20220013823
    Abstract: Method of identifying an overheating event in a battery cell single-phase immersion cooling system (90) comprising a cooling fluid (40) in a closed container (50) having a fixed volume, one or more battery cells (10) immersed in the cooling fluid, and a pressure sensor (130) for sensing a pressure in the closed container. The method comprises the steps of a) determining an instant pressure prevailing in the closed container using the pressure sensor; b) deriving from the instant pressure an instant maximum temperature prevailing anywhere in the closed container; and c) generating a signal when the instant maximum temperature exceeds a predetermined threshold temperature.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Knut Schumacher, Albert Vent, Dieter Otmar Stibe
  • Patent number: 7865008
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a biological scanner for scanning biological growth plates. The biological growth plate is loaded into the biological scanner via motorized rollers, and an actuator presses the growth plate against a platen once the growth plate is drawn to a scanning position within the scanner. The biological scanner then generates one or more images of the growth plate. Moreover, sensors can be arranged to facilitate sensing and positioning of the growth plate in a plurality of locations for imaging different parts of the plate. Additional embodiments are directed to features such as a hinged door that facilitates access to the scanner, and footings disposed on various sides of the scanner to facilitate flip-over of the scanner for simplified use by right-handed or left-handed users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2011
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Josef A. Graessle, Kevin R. Green, Albert Vent
  • Publication number: 20100232660
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a biological scanner for scanning biological growth plates. The biological growth plate is loaded into the biological scanner via motorized rollers, and an actuator presses the growth plate against a platen once the growth plate is drawn to a scanning position within the scanner. The biological scanner then generates one or more images of the growth plate. Moreover, sensors can be arranged to facilitate sensing and positioning of the growth plate in a plurality of locations for imaging different parts of the plate. Additional embodiments are directed to features such as a hinged door that facilitates access to the scanner, and footings disposed on various sides of the scanner to facilitate flip-over of the scanner for simplified use by right-handed or left-handed users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Inventors: Josef A. Graessle, Kevin R. Green, Albert Vent
  • Patent number: 7496225
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a biological scanner for scanning biological growth plates. The biological growth plate is loaded into the biological scanner via motorized rollers, and an actuator presses the growth plate against a platen once the growth plate is drawn to a scanning position within the scanner. The biological scanner then generates one or more images of the growth plate. Moreover, sensors can be arranged to facilitate sensing and positioning of the growth plate in a plurality of locations for imaging different parts of the plate. Additional embodiments are directed to features such as a hinged door that facilitates access to the scanner, and footings disposed on various sides of the scanner to facilitate flip-over of the scanner for simplified use by right-handed or left-handed users.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 24, 2009
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Josef A. Graessle, Kevin R. Green, Albert Vent
  • Publication number: 20080144916
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a biological scanner for scanning biological growth plates. A biological growth plate can be loaded into the biological scanner. Upon loading of a biological growth plate, the biological scanner generates an image of the plate and may perform an analysis of the image. Various embodiments are directed to loading features that facilitate automated loading and proper positioning of a plate within the biological scanner, and ejection features that facilitate the automated ejection of the plate from the scanner. Additional embodiments are directed to features that allow a scanner unit of the biological scanner to be attached to a mounting platform of the scanner in different possible configurations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2008
    Publication date: June 19, 2008
    Inventor: Albert VENT
  • Publication number: 20080090286
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a biological scanner for scanning biological growth plates. A biological growth plate can be loaded into the biological scanner. Upon loading of a biological growth plate, the biological scanner generates an image of the plate and may perform an analysis of the image. Various embodiments are directed to loading features that facilitate automated loading and proper positioning of a plate within the biological scanner, and ejection features that facilitate the automated ejection of the plate from the scanner. Additional embodiments are directed to features that allow a scanner unit of the biological scanner to be attached to a mounting platform of the scanner in different possible configurations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2007
    Publication date: April 17, 2008
    Inventors: Albert VENT, Klaus KRAETZIG
  • Patent number: 7351574
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a biological scanner for scanning biological growth plates. A biological growth plate can be loaded into the biological scanner. Upon loading of a biological growth plate, the biological scanner generates an image of the plate and may perform an analysis of the image. Various embodiments are directed to loading features that facilitate automated loading and proper positioning of a plate within the biological scanner, and ejection features that facilitate the automated ejection of the plate from the scanner. Additional embodiments are directed to features that allow a scanner unit of the biological scanner to be attached to a mounting platform of the scanner in different possible configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventor: Albert Vent
  • Patent number: 7319031
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a biological scanner for scanning biological growth plates. A biological growth plate can be loaded into the biological scanner. Upon loading of a biological growth plate, the biological scanner generates an image of the plate and may perform an analysis of the image. Various embodiments are directed to loading features that facilitate automated loading and proper positioning of a plate within the biological scanner, and ejection features that facilitate the automated ejection of the plate from the scanner. Additional embodiments are directed to features that allow a scanner unit of the biological scanner to be attached to a mounting platform of the scanner in different possible configurations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2008
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Albert Vent, Klaus D. Kraetzig
  • Publication number: 20050053265
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a biological scanner for scanning biological growth plates. The biological growth plate is loaded into the biological scanner via motorized rollers, and an actuator presses the growth plate against a platen once the growth plate is drawn to a scanning position within the scanner. The biological scanner then generates one or more images of the growth plate. Moreover, sensors can be arranged to facilitate sensing and positioning of the growth plate in a plurality of locations for imaging different parts of the plate. Additional embodiments are directed to features such as a hinged door that facilitates access to the scanner, and footings disposed on various sides of the scanner to facilitate flip-over of the scanner for simplified use by right-handed or left-handed users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2003
    Publication date: March 10, 2005
    Inventors: Josef Graessle, Kevin Green, Albert Vent
  • Publication number: 20040101951
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a biological scanner for scanning biological growth plates. A biological growth plate can be loaded into the biological scanner. Upon loading of a biological growth plate, the biological scanner generates an image of the plate and may perform an analysis of the image. Various embodiments are directed to loading features that facilitate automated loading and proper positioning of a plate within the biological scanner, and ejection features that facilitate the automated ejection of the plate from the scanner. Additional embodiments are directed to features that allow a scanner unit of the biological scanner to be attached to a mounting platform of the scanner in different possible configurations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Publication date: May 27, 2004
    Inventors: Albert Vent, Klaus D. Kraetzig
  • Publication number: 20040101952
    Abstract: The invention is directed to a biological scanner for scanning biological growth plates. A biological growth plate can be loaded into the biological scanner. Upon loading of a biological growth plate, the biological scanner generates an image of the plate and may perform an analysis of the image. Various embodiments are directed to loading features that facilitate automated loading and proper positioning of a plate within the biological scanner, and ejection features that facilitate the automated ejection of the plate from the scanner. Additional embodiments are directed to features that allow a scanner unit of the biological scanner to be attached to a mounting platform of the scanner in different possible configurations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Publication date: May 27, 2004
    Applicant: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventor: Albert Vent
  • Patent number: 6264869
    Abstract: Method of preparing a decorative emblem including providing a rigid substrate having on the front surface a 3-dimensional design having protrusions or recesses; placing the substrate in a first mold having an inner surface which closely contacts part of the substrate front surface to provide a gap between an mold inner surface and a front surface; injection molding a first plastic through one or more conduits extending from the back surface of the substrate to the front surface to fill the gap and solidifying the first plastic material; covering at least part of the 3-dimensional design and the first plastic material with a second transparent plastic to form a protective cap by placing the substrate in a second mold having an inner surface which closely contacts part of the surface of the substrate to provide a cavity into which the second plastic is injected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Assignee: 3M Innovative Properties Company
    Inventors: Giancarlo Notarpietro, Albert Vent
  • Patent number: 5769525
    Abstract: The headlight has a reflector (10) and a light source (12) which is arranged in a lamp carrier (22), which can be pivoted in relation to the reflector (10) about a horizontal axis (30) between a position for low beam and a position for high beam by means of an actuator (42). Starting from the position for low beam, the light source (12) is moved as a result of the pivoting movement about the axis (30), together with the lamp carrier (22), both in the direction of the optical axis (11) of the reflector (10) towards its vertex and also vertically downward in relation to the optical axis (11). Starting from the low beam reflected by the reflector (10) in the case of the arrangement of the light source (12) in its low beam position, the result achieved is both a concentration of the light beam reflected by the reflector (10) and an elevation of the light beam, so that an effective high beam is generated by means of which the remote region in front of the vehicle is illuminated with a high illumination intensity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1998
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Hans Daumueller, Karl-Otto Dobler, Rainer Neumann, Frieder Liedtke, Lothar Streit, Albert Vent, Doris Boebel
  • Patent number: 5709452
    Abstract: The headlamp has a headlamp insert (10), which is mounted pivotably at its front marginal region (22) in a portion (26) of a receiving fixture (12) and which is acted upon, at a distance from its bearing point, by an adjusting device. The receiving fixture portion (26) surrounds the headlamp insert (10) on its periphery and between the headlamp insert (10) and the receiving fixture portion (26) there is clamped an elastically deformable element (29) in the form of a ring. By means of the ring (29), the headlamp insert (10) is mounted pivotably without play in the receiving fixture portion (26). Changes in distance which, upon a swivel motion of the headlamp insert (10), arise between this and the receiving fixture portion (26) are counterbalanced by the ring (29) and this ring, together with the receiving fixture portion (26), constitutes a very simple mounting for the headlamp insert (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: January 20, 1998
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Bertling, Hans Daumueller, Karl-Otto Dobler, Juergen Mueller, Lothar Streit, Albert Vent
  • Patent number: 5580150
    Abstract: The headlamp has a headlamp insert (10), which is mounted pivotably at its front marginal region (22) in a receiving fixture (12). A part (50) of the receiving fixture (12) has an opening (52) through which there is placed from above an adjusting screw (54), which is supported by its head (55) against the top side of the receiving fixture part (50), which is screwed into a threaded bore (43) in the headlamp insert (10) and onto which there is screwed, between the headlamp insert (10) and the receiving fixture part (50), a female part (57). The female part (57) enables the adjusting screw (54) and hence the headlamp insert (10) to be fixed to the receiving fixture part (50) and, once the female part (57) is loosened, the adjusting screw (54) can be twisted in order to adjust the alignment of the optical axis (28) of the headlamp insert (10) in a vertical longitudinal plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 3, 1996
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Johannes Bertling, Hans Daumueller, Karl- Otto Dobler, Juergen Mueller, Lothar Streit, Albert Vent
  • Patent number: 5577836
    Abstract: The headlamp has a housing in which a reflector is arranged adjustably. Engaging on the reflector is an adjusting element which can be moved along its longitudinal axis to make an adjustment. At its end, the adjusting element has a ball head which is arranged in a ball socket connected to the reflector. At the transition between the adjusting element and the ball head there is, over part of the circumference, a flattened portion by which a shoulder is formed. Over the rest of the circumference the transition from the adjusting element to the ball head is stepless. The ball socket has a resilient locking member which can engage on the shoulder, in a rotational position of the adjusting element, to secure the ball head from being pulled out. In another rotational position, the locking member engages on the stepless transition between the adjusting element and ball head so that the ball head can be pulled out of the ball socket and the adjusting element can be removed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1996
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Albert Vent, Wolfgang Lehmann