Patents by Inventor Andreas Schuette

Andreas Schuette 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).

  • Patent number: 11772407
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for encoding a dimensionally stable packaging container or an associated constituent made of plastics material, wherein the packaging container is suitable for storing consumer goods such as food, detergents, etc., wherein a film-shaped, flat plastics material for forming the three-dimensional packaging container or the associated constituent is deep-drawn using a tool mold while, at a plurality of positions, the outer sides or the inner sides thereof undergo a first shape-changing treatment acting on the first surface thereof for producing a plurality of three-dimensional codes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2023
    Assignee: PACCOR Packaging GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Schütte, Helmut Ruland, Nicolas Lorenz
  • Publication number: 20230078352
    Abstract: Method of identifying a packaging material for recycling comprising the steps of: a. Providing a container for packaging a product with a container inherent code; b. Creating an entry in a database associated with the container inherent code, the entry containing at least data on packaging materials used in the production of the container; c. Providing at least one read-out device for reading out the container-inherent code; d. Reading out the container inherent code; e. Retrieving the data of the entry from the database for recycling the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Helmut Ruland, Andreas Schütte
  • Patent number: 11414145
    Abstract: A method for joining a lens to a housing of a lighting device of a motor vehicle, in which the housing is accommodated and secured in a receptacle device. The method includes accommodating the lens in a pre-centering device, aligning the lens towards the housing during an alignment procedure and accommodating the lens by a holding device after the alignment procedure. The method further includes holding the lens by the holding device during a subsequent joining process, releasably attaching the holding device to the pre-centering device, aligning, via fastening elements, during the alignment procedure and moving the accommodated lens and the holding device attached to the pre-centering device relative to the receptacle device such that the lens and the holding device are aligned on the housing accommodated in the receptacle device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Andreas Schuette
  • Patent number: 11351740
    Abstract: A device for joining a lens with a housing of a lighting device of a motor vehicle, having a receiver for receiving and securing the housing and a pre-centering device for positioning the lens on the housing, wherein the pre-centering device includes a frame element and a plurality of positioning elements that are attached to the frame element for receiving the lens, wherein during a pre-centering process, the frame element of the pre-centering device is movable together with the joined lens relative to the receiver in such a way that the lens is aligned on the housing, which is received in the receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Andreas Schuette
  • Publication number: 20220101758
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for coding a dimensionally stable packaging container or an associated component made of a plastics-based and/or paper-based material composition, the packaging container being suitable for storing consumer goods such as food, washing agents, etc., wherein, during a shape-forming process for forming the three-dimensional packaging container or the associated component by means of a shaping tool mold, at least one outer and/or inner side undergoes, in at least one position, a shape-changing treatment acting on its first surface in order to produce at least one three-dimensional code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Andreas Schütte, Helmut Ruland, Nicolas Lorenz
  • Publication number: 20220097436
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for encoding a dimensionally stable packaging container or an associated constituent made of plastics material, wherein the packaging container is suitable for storing consumer goods such as food, detergents, etc., wherein a film-shaped, flat plastics material for forming the three-dimensional packaging container or the associated constituent is deep-drawn using a tool mold while, at a plurality of positions, the outer sides or the inner sides thereof undergo a first shape-changing treatment acting on the first surface thereof for producing a plurality of three-dimensional codes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 31, 2022
    Inventors: Andreas Schütte, Helmut Ruland, Nicolas Lorenz
  • Patent number: 11136081
    Abstract: A device for joining a lens to a housing of a lighting device of a motor vehicle, having a receptacle device for accommodating and securing the housing, a pre-centering device for aligning and clamping the lens on the housing during an alignment procedure, and having a holding device for accommodating the lens after the alignment procedure and for holding the lens during an adjustment process, wherein the holding device is releasably attached to the pre-centering device by fastening elements during the alignment operation, and wherein the pre-centering device, together with the accommodated lens and the holding device attached to the pre-centering device is movable relative to the receptacle device during the alignment procedure such that the lens and the holding device can be aligned on the housing accommodated in the receptacle device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Andreas Schuette
  • Publication number: 20210284263
    Abstract: A method for joining a lens to a housing of a lighting device of a motor vehicle, in which the housing is accommodated and secured in a receptacle device. The method includes accommodating the lens in a pre-centering device, aligning the lens towards the housing during an alignment procedure and accommodating the lens by a holding device after the alignment procedure. The method further includes holding the lens by the holding device during a subsequent joining process, releasably attaching the holding device to the pre-centering device, aligning, via fastening elements, during the alignment procedure and moving the accommodated lens and the holding device attached to the pre-centering device relative to the receptacle device such that the lens and the holding device are aligned on the housing accommodated in the receptacle device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Applicant: HELLA GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Andreas SCHUETTE
  • Patent number: 11104083
    Abstract: A method for joining a lens with a housing of a lighting device for a motor vehicle, having the steps: positioning the housing in a receiving device of a welding device, said housing having on its underside at least one fastener for attaching the lighting device in the motor vehicle, identifying the position of the at least one fastener relative to the receiving device, calculating a correction value on the basis of the identified position of the at least one fastener, and moving the lens held in a holding device of the welding device in the direction of the housing along a travel distance and welding the lens to the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 31, 2021
    Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Andreas Schuette
  • Publication number: 20190193799
    Abstract: A device for joining a lens to a housing of a lighting device of a motor vehicle, having a receptacle device for accommodating and securing the housing, a pre-centering device for aligning and clamping the lens on the housing during an alignment procedure, and having a holding device for accommodating the lens after the alignment procedure and for holding the lens during an adjustment process, wherein the holding device is releasably attached to the pre-centering device by fastening elements during the alignment operation, and wherein the pre-centering device, together with the accommodated lens and the holding device attached to the pre-centering device is movable relative to the receptacle device during the alignment procedure such that the lens and the holding device can be aligned on the housing accommodated in the receptacle device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: HELLA GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Andreas SCHUETTE
  • Publication number: 20190193343
    Abstract: A method for joining a lens with a housing of a lighting device for a motor vehicle, having the steps: positioning the housing in a receiving device of a welding device, said housing having on its underside at least one fastener for attaching the lighting device in the motor vehicle, identifying the position of the at least one fastener relative to the receiving device, calculating a correction value on the basis of the identified position of the at least one fastener, and moving the lens held in a holding device of the welding device in the direction of the housing along a travel distance and welding the lens to the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: HELLA GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Andreas SCHUETTE
  • Publication number: 20190193337
    Abstract: A device for joining a lens with a housing of a lighting device of a motor vehicle, having a receiver for receiving and securing the housing and a pre-centering device for positioning the lens on the housing, wherein the pre-centering device includes a frame element and a plurality of positioning elements that are attached to the frame element for receiving the lens, wherein during a pre-centering process, the frame element of the pre-centering device is movable together with the joined lens relative to the receiver in such a way that the lens is aligned on the housing, which is received in the receiver.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Applicant: HELLA GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Andreas SCHUETTE
  • Patent number: 7722744
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (12) which is used to press a pressure shoe (10) against a counter surface, comprising at least one at least partially flexible pressure body (16) which is supported on the bearing body (14), said pressure body comprising at least one cavity (18) which can be impinged upon by pressure fluid in order to produce a predetermined pressing force over a corresponding pressure body volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2010
    Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Jens Mueller, Ewald G. Welp, Andreas Schuette, Dimitrios Giannoulis, Ralf Pfifferling, Wolfgang Meyer-Grevendick
  • Publication number: 20070284072
    Abstract: A sheath for a pressing device, the sheath having a cylindrical circumferential face having a circumferential face radius and an annular bearing resiliently mounted to at least one axial end of the sheath in a spring elastic manner. The annular bearing has a smaller radius than the circumferential face radius. Additionally, the sheath has a bellows-shaped transition region extending at the at least one axial end of the sheath from the cylindrical circumferential face to the annular bearing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2005
    Publication date: December 13, 2007
    Applicant: VOITH PATENT GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Schneid, Ruediger Kurtz, Jens Mueller, Andreas Schuette, Dirk Hoeckelmann, Uwe Matuschczyk
  • Publication number: 20070051250
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (12) which is used to press a pressure shoe (10) against a counter surface, comprising at least one at least partially flexible pressure body (16) which is supported on the bearing body (14), said pressure body comprising at least one cavity (18) which can be impinged upon by pressure fluid in order to produce a predetermined pressing force over a corresponding pressure body volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2004
    Publication date: March 8, 2007
    Applicant: VOITH PAPER PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Jens Mueller, Ewald Welp, Andreas Schuette, Dimitrios Giannoulis, Ralf Pfifferling, Wolfgang Meyer-Grevendick
  • Patent number: 6932888
    Abstract: A flexible press cover which has an additional strengthening element in at least one of its two end regions. As a result, in the end region, the tensile strength and the tensile rigidity in the circumferential direction are increased with respect to that hitherto known in such a way that it is no longer necessary to clamp the press cover end region in between two components. Instead, the press cover according to the present invention is suitable to be fixed to the outer circumferential surface of a rotatable supporting element belonging to the cover carrying disk without the aid of an outer ring, a clamping band, clamping filament or the like. In the most beneficial case, the arrangement for fixing the press cover to the aforementioned supporting element is completely free of any kind of fixing elements which would be associated with the cover outer surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2005
    Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Matuschczyk, Andreas Meschenmoser, Joachim Grabscheid, Andreas Schütte
  • Patent number: 6208915
    Abstract: A method for the on the whole minimum-fuel, computer-assisted control of an optionally determined number of thrusters, arranged as desired on a spacecraft, is to be specified, which method solves this linear optimization problem within the shortest possible time by reducing the computation expenditure. The method depends on the dual simplex algorithm and a suitably provided dual permissible start table. The dual permissible start table is set up on the basis of a previously computed optimum table and the transformation of the actual forces-moments vector belonging to the selected start table. Specific processing steps in the dual simplex algorithm are either not needed at all or are substituted with processing steps that require considerably less computation expenditure. Finally, a reduced table is used in place of the simplex table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Andreas Schütte, Kolja Auf der Heide
  • Patent number: 6126789
    Abstract: A shoe press, in particular for a paper machine, comprising a pair of rolls, with one roll having a flexible roll sleeve that rotates around a stationary carrier and support devices, the flexible roll sleeve having axial end areas and being mounted on a carrier in a radially rotatable manner at each of its axial end areas over the support devices, each roll having a shoe with a flat support surface, the support surface of the shoe of one roll supporting an interior side of the roll sleeve, the support surfaces being arranged essentially parallel to each other to create a press opening therebetween, and at least one of the support devices being radially flexible, and in particular elastic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2000
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Schiel, Andreas Schuette, Wolfgang Schuwerk, Joachim Grabscheid, Werner Leitenberger, Uwe Matuschczyk, Christian Steger, Wolf Gunter Stotz
  • Patent number: 6065396
    Abstract: Press device to treat a fibrous pulp web that may include a shoe press roll and a mating roll. The shoe press roll and the mating roll may be positioned to form a press nip, and at least one endless belt guided through the press nip and forming a substantially non-flexible and rigid drive element at least partially driving the press device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2000
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Schiel, Andreas Schuette, Wolfgang Schuwerk, Joachim Grabscheid, Werner Leitenberger, Uwe Matuschczyk, Christian Steger
  • Patent number: 5935385
    Abstract: A press device, e.g., a shoe press device, for treating a sheet of material, e.g., paper or cardboard, in an elongated press gap elongated in a travel direction of the sheet of material. The press device may include a flexible roll jacket that runs around a stationary carrier, an opposing face that forms the elongated press gap with the flexible roll jacket, and at least one of a hydrodynamically and hydrostatically lubricated support element supported on the carrier. The support element may include a compression face adapted to a shape of the opposing face and at least one cloth belt guided through the elongated press gap. The support element may further include an entry face for the flexible roll jacket and for the cloth belt and positioned before the compression face in the travel direction of the sheet of material. A lubricant aspiration device is located before the support element in the travel direction, and is spaced from the roll jacket during normal operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 10, 1999
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Grabscheid, Christian Schiel, Andreas Schuette