Patents by Inventor Alexander Doss

Alexander Doss 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).

  • METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MAKING A GLASS PRODUCT AND CORRESPONDING GLASS PRODUCT
    Publication number: 20240092672
    Abstract: A method of making a glass product includes: melting a batch of raw materials to form a glass melt in a melting tank; heating the batch and/or the glass melt using two or more electrodes, the electrodes including an electrode material and heating the batch and/or the glass melt includes operating the electrodes at a current frequency of at least 1,000 Hz and at most 5,000 Hz; withdrawing the glass melt from the melting tank; and forming the glass melt into the glass product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: Schott AG
    Inventors: Rainer Erwin Eichholz, Josef Rasp, Alexander Uwe Strobel, Werner Axt, Patrick Sattler, Reinhard Wurm, Roland Doss, Wolfgang Schmidbauer, Volker Ohmstede, Kim Oliver Hofmann
  • Sliding camshaft barrel position sensing
    Patent number: 10329971
    Abstract: A system and method for sensing a camshaft barrel position of a sliding camshaft includes at least one sliding camshaft having at least one camshaft barrel and at least one position shifting slot disposed in the at least one camshaft barrel. At least one actuator is provided for engaging the at least one position shifting slot on the rotating sliding camshaft and shifting position of the at least one camshaft barrel and at least one sensor is provided for detecting the shifted position of the at least one camshaft barrel wherein the camshaft barrel includes position identifying features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Douglas R Verner, Scot A Douglas, Joseph J Moon, Alexander Doss
  • SLIDING CAMSHAFT BARREL POSITION SENSING
    Publication number: 20180258803
    Abstract: A system and method for sensing a camshaft barrel position of a sliding camshaft includes at least one sliding camshaft having at least one camshaft barrel and at least one position shifting slot disposed in the at least one camshaft barrel. At least one actuator is provided for engaging the at least one position shifting slot on the rotating sliding camshaft and shifting position of the at least one camshaft barrel and at least one sensor is provided for detecting the shifted position of the at least one camshaft barrel wherein the camshaft barrel includes position identifying features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2017
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Douglas R. Verner, Scot A. Douglas, Joseph J. Moon, Alexander Doss