Patents by Inventor Andreas Strauss

Andreas Strauss 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: 20180194258
    Abstract: Mobile beverage-preparation apparatus for preparing beverages, in particular hot and/or cold ones, using at least one beverage extract (beverage preparation) and for dispensing the prepared beverage (beverage dispensing) in a vehicle. The beverage-preparation apparatus has a mobile housing, which is configured for accommodating at least one extract container in an interchangeable manner. The at least one extract container is configured for accommodating the beverage extract and has at least one container information item. The container information item is representative of an identifier of the extract container, of the volume of the extract container (container volume) or of the type of beverage extract. The extract container may have a number of these container information items at the same time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Applicant: GENESIS PATENT AG
    Inventor: ANDREAS STRAUSS
  • Patent number: 9856757
    Abstract: An arrangement of a camshaft phaser (1) which has a drive element (2) and at least two driven elements (3, 4), whereby the camshaft phaser (1) has a first control valve (7) arranged concentrically to the camshaft phaser (1), and a second control valve (8) arranged off-centered with respect to the rotational axis (5) of the camshaft phaser (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventor: Andreas Strauss
  • Patent number: 9249694
    Abstract: A camshaft unit includes a camshaft having a radial channel, a hydraulic phase setting device communicating with the radial channel for adjusting the phase length of the camshaft with respect to a crankshaft via hydraulic pressure medium and a pressure medium channel embodied as a solid cylinder head component. To transfer a pressure medium, at least one pressure medium transfer element is formed between the pressure medium channel and the radial channel. The pressure medium transfer element includes a ring channel including a ring channel opening extending in the peripheral direction of the ring channel and including a radial channel opening leading into a radial channel and opposite the ring channel opening. The pressure medium channel communicates with the radial channel via the ring channel opening and the radial channel opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Ali Bayrakdar, Joachim Dietz, Gerhard Scheidig, Andreas Strauss
  • Patent number: 9074498
    Abstract: An arrangement of a camshaft phaser (1) which has a drive element (2) and at least two driven elements (3, 4), whereby the drive element (2) and the driven elements (3, 4) have several radially oriented vanes (6) that cover the lateral surfaces (9) of the adjacent element in the axial direction (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
    Inventor: Andreas Strauss
  • Patent number: 9060600
    Abstract: A trolley for preparing and dispensing drinks, with individual drink selection such that the drinks are prepared from cold-water and hot-water tanks and extracts. The component parts of the drink are fed via connecting lines, by pumping units, by way of a dispensing unit and are filled into a drinking vessel. It is for this purpose that the dispensing unit can be adjusted from an upper, operating position into a lowered, storage position, in which it is incorporated in the construction of the trolley, beneath an upper boundary surface. The dispensing unit has a dispensing location with a plurality of feed openings in a dispensing head, which is arranged above an inserted drinking vessel, such that each feed opening is connected to, and controllable by, a separate feed line for hot water and cold water and extracts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: AIR-ELTEC PATENT UG
    Inventor: Andreas Strauss
  • Publication number: 20150159522
    Abstract: A rolling bearing (50) which includes a rolling bearing inner ring (51), a rolling bearing outer ring (52) and a rolling bearing ball cage ring (53). The aim of the invention is to enable a hydraulic pressure medium (P) to be transferred, economizing as much mounting space as possible, for example for a camshaft (10), the phase position thereof being adjustable in relation to a crankshaft via a hydraulic pressure medium (P) through a hydraulic phase adjusting device (20). The rolling bearing (50) includes at least one channel (51a, 51a?, 52a?, 41, 42) for guiding hydraulic pressure medium (P). A camshaft assembly equipped with such a rolling bearing (50).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2013
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Inventors: Ali Bayrakdar, Joachim Dietz, Gerhard Scheidig, Andreas Strauss
  • Publication number: 20150144082
    Abstract: A camshaft unit includes a camshaft having a radial channel, a hydraulic phase setting device communicating with the radial channel for adjusting the phase length of the camshaft with respect to a crankshaft via hydraulic pressure medium and a pressure medium channel embodied as a solid cylinder head component. To transfer a pressure medium, at least one pressure medium transfer element is formed between the pressure medium channel and the radial channel. The pressure medium transfer element includes a ring channel including a ring channel opening extending in the peripheral direction of the ring channel and including a radial channel opening leading into a radial channel and opposite the ring channel opening. The pressure medium channel communicates with the radial channel via the ring channel opening and the radial channel opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Andreas Strauss, Gerhard Scheidig, Ali Bayrakdar, Joachim Dietz
  • Publication number: 20150111211
    Abstract: The present application describes the use of low HER3 as a selection criterion for treating patients with a HER inhibitor, such as pertuzumab. It also describes the use of high HER2:HER3 ratio as a selection criterion for treating cancer patients, such as ovarian cancer patients, with a HER inhibitor, such as pertuzumab. In addition, the application describes the use of high HER3 as a selection criterion for treating cancer patients with a chemotherapeutic agent, for instance gemcitabine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Applicants: GENENTECH, INC., HOFFMANN-LA ROCHE INC.
    Inventors: Lukas C. Amler, Merrill Birkner, Chin-Yu Lin, Joachim Moecks, Andreas Strauss
  • Patent number: 8940302
    Abstract: The present application describes the use of low HER3 as a selection criterion for treating patients with a HER inhibitor, such as pertuzumab. It also describes the use of high HER2:HER3 ratio as a selection criterion for treating cancer patients, such as ovarian cancer patients, with a HER inhibitor, such as pertuzumab. In addition, the application describes the use of high HER3 as a selection criterion for treating cancer patients with a chemotherapeutic agent, for instance gemcitabine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 27, 2015
    Assignees: Genentech, Inc., Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Lukas C. Amler, Merrill Birkner, Chin-Yu Lin, Joachim Moecks, Andreas Strauss
  • Patent number: 8931447
    Abstract: A device (1) for controlling and/or influencing the valve control times of an internal combustion engine, in particular to a camshaft adjustment device, which includes a drive element (2) which is fastened to an attachment part (3) with a screw connection (4), wherein the drive element (2) and/or the attachment part (3) are/is composed of a fiber-reinforced material. In order to obtain a more lightweight design and to be able to reduce screwing forces, the invention provides that at least one of the contact faces (5, 6) between the drive element (2) and the attachment part (3) is at least partially subjected to material-removing processing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2015
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Schulte, Rene Gunther, Andreas Strauss
  • Publication number: 20140271267
    Abstract: A controllable coolant pump for a cooling circuit of an internal combustion engine having a pump housing with an inner bore, a shaft drivable via a pulley mounted rotatably via a first bearing and a second bearing, wherein the shaft is configured at least partially as a hollow shaft and has a longitudinal axis, wherein a rotor is fastened to one end of the shaft, which rotor has an idler pulley and vanes which project into a suction chamber to suck water via a suction connector of the pump housing into the suction chamber to an annular channel of the pump housing, wherein the idler pulley can be displaced axially via a push rod connected to an actuator. The fluidic actuator has a first pressure chamber and a second pressure chamber. The weight and the installation space requirement of the controllable coolant pump can be reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2012
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Michael Weiss, Klaus Hahn, Andreas Strauss
  • Patent number: 8833318
    Abstract: A device (11) for the variable adjusting of the control timing of gas exchange valves (9, 10) of an internal combustion engine (1) with a drive element (13), an output element (14), at least one pressure chamber (23) and a volume accumulator (31), wherein the output element (14) is arranged in a rotatable manner to the drive element (13), and the pressure chamber (23) is bordered at least partially by these components (13, 14), wherein a phase position between the output element (14) and the drive element (13) can be variably adjusted by the pressure medium supply to or pressure medium removal from the pressure chamber (23). Pressure medium lines (25a, b, p) are provided by which the pressure medium can be supplied to the pressure chamber (23) or removed therefrom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 16, 2014
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Strauss, Kurt Kirsten
  • Patent number: 8800512
    Abstract: A camshaft adjuster which has a locking device by which a drive input and drive output part can be rotationally fixedly locked in a locking rotational position. The locking device has a multiplicity of engagement pairs which include one axial bar which is held in the drive input or drive output part and a bar slot which is formed in the respective other part. The engagement pairs are designed such that, during an adjustment of the drive output part in the drive direction, the bars can be placed in successive engagement with the bar slots in a relative rotational position between an end rotational position, which lags behind in the drive direction, and the locking rotational position. The bar slots prevent an adjustment of the drive output part counter to the drive direction and permit an adjustment in the drive direction until the locking rotational position is reached.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 12, 2014
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventor: Andreas Strauss
  • Patent number: 8752518
    Abstract: A switchable device for supplying at least one consumer of an internal combustion engine with pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2014
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Mathias Boegershausen, Michael Busse, Eduard Golovatai-Schmidt, Andreas Strauss
  • Publication number: 20140020643
    Abstract: An arrangement of a camshaft phaser (1) which has a drive element (2) and at least two driven elements (3, 4), whereby the drive element (2) and the driven elements (3, 4) have several radially oriented vanes (6) that cover the lateral surfaces (9) of the adjacent element in the axial direction (7).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventor: Andreas Strauss
  • Publication number: 20140007827
    Abstract: An arrangement of a camshaft phaser (1) which has a drive element (2) and at least two driven elements (3, 4), whereby the camshaft phaser (1) has a first control valve (7) arranged concentrically to the camshaft phaser (1), and a second control valve (8) arranged off-centered with respect to the rotational axis (5) of the camshaft phaser (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Publication date: January 9, 2014
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventor: Andreas Strauss
  • Patent number: 8622038
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (11) for variably adjusting the control times of gas exchange valves (9, 10) of an internal combustion engine (1) having a hydraulic phase shifting device (12), a camshaft (6, 7), and a pressure accumulator (15), wherein the phase shifting device (12) can be brought into a drive connection with a crankshaft (2) and is connected to the camshaft (6, 7) in a rotationally fixed manner, wherein a phase position of the camshaft (6, 7) relative to the crankshaft (2) can be variably adjusted by means of the phase shifting device (12) and wherein the interior of the camshaft (6, 7) comprises a cavity (38).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventor: Andreas Strauss
  • Patent number: 8485152
    Abstract: A switchable device for supplying at least one consumer of an internal combustion engine with pressure, comprising: a cavity formed inside a camshaft; a first displacement element arranged in the cavity having a first pressure surface which at least partially delimits a first accumulator chamber together with the wall of the cavity; a first energy accumulator which interacts with the first displacement element; a locking mechanism by which the first displacement element can be locked in the second end position; a switching mechanism which can be actuated by an actuator, having a switch element that can be brought into at least two switching positions; a second displacement element arranged in the cavity having a second pressure surface which at least partially delimits a second accumulator chamber together with the wall of the cavity; a second energy accumulator which interacts with the second displacement element; the first accumulator chamber and the second accumulator chamber communicating with each other
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Mathias Boegershausen, Michael Busse, Eduard Golovatai-Schmidt, Andreas Strauss
  • Publication number: 20130087112
    Abstract: A device (1) for controlling and/or influencing the valve control times of an internal combustion engine, in particular to a camshaft adjustment device, which includes a drive element (2) which is fastened to an attachment part (3) with a screw connection (4), wherein the drive element (2) and/or the attachment part (3) are/is composed of a fiber-reinforced material. In order to obtain a more lightweight design and to be able to reduce screwing forces, the invention provides that at least one of the contact faces (5, 6) between the drive element (2) and the attachment part (3) is at least partially subjected to material-removing processing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Schulte, Rene Gunther, Andreas Strauss
  • Publication number: 20120318822
    Abstract: In the case of a trolley (1) for preparing and dispensing drinks, with individual drink selection, it is provided that the drinks are prepared from cold-water and hot-water tanks and extracts. The component parts of the drink here are fed via connecting lines, by means of pumping units, by way of a dispensing unit (6) and are filled into a drinking vessel. It is provided, for this purpose, that the dispensing unit (6) can be adjusted from an upper, operating position into a lowerable, storage position, in which it is incorporated in the construction of the trolley, beneath an upper boundary surface. The dispensing unit has a dispensing location (7) with a plurality of feed openings in a dispensing head, which is arranged above an inserted drinking vessel, wherein each feed opening is connected to, and controllable by, a separate feed line for hot water and cold water and extracts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2011
    Publication date: December 20, 2012
    Inventor: Andreas Strauss