Patents by Inventor Armin Michel
Armin Michel 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).
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Patent number: 10843591Abstract: A gear assembly for a seat adjuster includes a gear housing, a worm gear, a helical gear meshed with the worm gear, a wobble gear carried on an eccentric lobe of the helical gear, a pinion disc, a first ring gear disposed in the gear housing, a second ring gear disposed in the pinion disc, and a pinion member carrying the helical gear and the pinion disc. The wobble gear includes first and second sets of wobble gear teeth that mesh with the first and second ring gears, respectively. A housing side gear ring disposed in the gear housing defines part of the first ring gear and the gear housing defines another part of the first ring gear. The pinion disc defines the second ring gear.Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2019Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: FISHER & COMPANY, INCORPORATEDInventors: Burckhard Becker, Mircea Napau, Armin Michel
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Patent number: 10703228Abstract: A seat-track assembly is provided and may include a first track member having a series of locking features and a second track member slidably supported by the first track member. The seat-track assembly may also include a locking mechanism having locking pawls movable between a locked state engaged with the locking features to restrict relative movement between the first and second track members and an unlocked state disengaged from the locking features to permit relative movement between the first and second track members. The locking pawls may each include locking elements that are received within respective ones of the series of locking features in the locked state such that the locking elements restrict relative movement between the first track member and the second track member in two directions when the locking pawls are in the locked state.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2019Date of Patent: July 7, 2020Assignee: FISHER & COMPANY, INCORPORATEDInventors: David G. Anticuar, Andrew Joshua Simms, Karl Sponsler, Seth Kirkendall, Sapan Mahendra Poptani, Armin Michel
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Publication number: 20190389333Abstract: A seat-track assembly is provided and may include a first track member having a series of locking features and a second track member slidably supported by the first track member. The seat-track assembly may also include a locking mechanism having locking pawls movable between a locked state engaged with the locking features to restrict relative movement between the first and second track members and an unlocked state disengaged from the locking features to permit relative movement between the first and second track members. The locking pawls may each include locking elements that are received within respective ones of the series of locking features in the locked state such that the locking elements restrict relative movement between the first track member and the second track member in two directions when the locking pawls are in the locked state.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2019Publication date: December 26, 2019Inventors: David G. ANTICUAR, Andrew Joshua SIMMS, Karl SPONSLER, Seth KIRKENDALL, Sapan Mahendra POPTANI, Armin MICHEL
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Publication number: 20190152347Abstract: A gear assembly for a seat adjuster includes a gear housing, a worm gear, a helical gear meshed with the worm gear, a wobble gear carried on an eccentric lobe of the helical gear, a pinion disc, a first ring gear disposed in the gear housing, a second ring gear disposed in the pinion disc, and a pinion member carrying the helical gear and the pinion disc. The wobble gear includes first and second sets of wobble gear teeth that mesh with the first and second ring gears, respectively. A housing side gear ring disposed in the gear housing defines part of the first ring gear and the gear housing defines another part of the first ring gear. The pinion disc defines the second ring gear.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2019Publication date: May 23, 2019Applicant: FISHER & COMPANY, INCORPORATEDInventors: Burckhard BECKER, Mircea NAPAU, Armin MICHEL
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Patent number: 10195975Abstract: A gear assembly for a seat adjuster includes a gear housing, a worm gear, a helical gear meshed with the worm gear, a wobble gear carried on an eccentric lobe of the helical gear, a pinion disc, a first ring gear disposed in the gear housing, a second ring gear disposed in the pinion disc, and a pinion member carrying the helical gear and the pinion disc. The wobble gear includes first and second sets of wobble gear teeth that mesh with the first and second ring gears, respectively. A housing side gear ring disposed in the gear housing defines part of the first ring gear and the gear housing defines another part of the first ring gear. A pinion disc gear ring disposed in the pinion disc defines part of the second ring gear and the pinion disc defines another part of the second ring gear.Type: GrantFiled: January 12, 2017Date of Patent: February 5, 2019Assignee: FISHER & COMPANY, INCORPORATEDInventors: Burckhard Becker, Mircea Napau, Armin Michel
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Publication number: 20170203677Abstract: A gear assembly for a seat adjuster includes a gear housing, a worm gear, a helical gear meshed with the worm gear, a wobble gear carried on an eccentric lobe of the helical gear, a pinion disc, a first ring gear disposed in the gear housing, a second ring gear disposed in the pinion disc, and a pinion member carrying the helical gear and the pinion disc. The wobble gear includes first and second sets of wobble gear teeth that mesh with the first and second ring gears, respectively. A housing side gear ring disposed in the gear housing defines part of the first ring gear and the gear housing defines another part of the first ring gear. A pinion disc gear ring disposed in the pinion disc defines part of the second ring gear and the pinion disc defines another part of the second ring gear.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2017Publication date: July 20, 2017Applicant: FISHER & COMPANY, INCORPORATEDInventors: Burckhard BECKER, Mircea NAPAU, Armin MICHEL
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Publication number: 20160046208Abstract: A seat-track assembly is provided and may include a first track member having a series of locking features and a second track member slidably supported by the first track member. The seat-track assembly may also include a locking mechanism having at least two locking pawls movable between a locked state engaged with the locking features to restrict relative movement between the first and second track members and an unlocked state disengaged from the locking features to permit relative movement between the first and second track members. The at least two locking pawls may each include at least two locking elements that are received within respective ones of the series of locking features in the locked state such that each of the locking elements simultaneously restrict relative movement between the first track member and the second track member in two directions when the locking pawls are in the locked state.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 28, 2015Publication date: February 18, 2016Inventors: David G. ANTICUAR, Andrew Joshua SIMMS, Karl SPONSLER, Seth KIRKENDALL, Sapan Mahendra POPTANI, Armin MICHEL
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Patent number: 9251312Abstract: An application platform is disclosed in a medical environment with a number of computer systems providing an information technology infrastructure and a plurality of basic information technology services to a number of users in the medical environment. At least one embodiment of the application platform provides a particularly simple and coordinated upgrade and update by independent software manufacturers and further provides a particularly high operational fail-safety during updates and upgrades by preventing damage to the systems caused by third party installer programs. To this end, at least one embodiment of the application platform includes a plurality of platform versioning building blocks and a number of platform data repositories, wherein the plurality of platform versioning building blocks are mutually independently updateable.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2010Date of Patent: February 2, 2016Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Lutz Dominick, Karlheinz Dorn, Armin Michel, Vladyslav Ukis
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Patent number: 9205763Abstract: A seat-track assembly is provided and may include a first track member having a series of locking features and a second track member slidably supported by the first track member. The seat-track assembly may also include a locking mechanism having at least two locking pawls movable between a locked state engaged with the locking features to restrict relative movement between the first and second track members and an unlocked state disengaged from the locking features to permit relative movement between the first and second track members. The at least two locking pawls may each include at least two locking elements that are received within respective ones of the series of locking features in the locked state such that each of the locking elements simultaneously restrict relative movement between the first track member and the second track member in two directions when the locking pawls are in the locked state.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2012Date of Patent: December 8, 2015Assignee: FISHER & COMPANY, INCORPORATEDInventors: David G. Anticuar, Andrew Joshua Simms, Karl Sponsler, Seth Kirkendall, Sapan Mahendra Poptani, Armin Michel
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Patent number: 9070095Abstract: A method, a system and a computer program product are disclosed for providing information concerning scheduled procedure steps and/or information concerning performed procedure steps within a taskflow which includes a plurality of tasks for processing medical image data. Each taskflow is associated with a taskflow specific context folder. In at least one embodiment, a publisher task is adapted to select selected data out of the medical image data. For these selected data, meta-information is updated by incorporating additional information concerning scheduled procedure steps and performed procedure steps. This is done by maintaining referential integrity between image data, scheduled procedure steps and performed procedure steps.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2008Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Detlef Becker, Karlheinz Dorn, Andrew John Hewett, Armin Michel
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Patent number: 9063817Abstract: An application platform is disclosed together with a method for operating a data processing arrangement on which the application platform is implemented along with at least one application which is executable on the application platform by accessing at least one programming interface of the application platform. In at least one embodiment, in the course of a change of version of the application platform or of a part of the platform, a check is carried out by way of an update module to determine whether a newly-to-be-installed more recent version of the application platform or of the part of the platform is consistent with the existing older version of the application platform or of the part of the platform in terms of the interface specification and/or the behavior of the or each programming interface. If necessary, the update module overwrites the older version with the more recent version.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2011Date of Patent: June 23, 2015Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Karlheinz Dorn, Armin Michel, Vladyslav Ukis
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Patent number: 9029498Abstract: The present invention provides polycarbonate polyol compositions with improved characteristics. Such polycarbonate polyol compositions are useful in thermosetting applications for the production of coatings for consumer products.Type: GrantFiled: November 23, 2011Date of Patent: May 12, 2015Assignees: Novomer, Inc., DSM IP Assets B.V.Inventors: Scott D. Allen, Armin Michel
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Publication number: 20140263920Abstract: A seat-track assembly is provided and may include a first track member having a series of locking features and a second track member slidably supported by the first track member. The seat-track assembly may also include a locking mechanism having at least two locking pawls movable between a locked state engaged with the locking features to restrict relative movement between the first and second track members and an unlocked state disengaged from the locking features to permit relative movement between the first and second track members. The at least two locking pawls may each include at least two locking elements that are received within respective ones of the series of locking features in the locked state such that each of the locking elements simultaneously restrict relative movement between the first track member and the second track member in two directions when the locking pawls are in the locked state.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2012Publication date: September 18, 2014Inventors: David G. Anticuar, Andrew Joshua Simms, Karl Sponsler, Seth Kirkendall, Sapan Mahendra Poptani, Armin Michel
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Publication number: 20130337204Abstract: The present invention provides coating compositions having a crosslinker and a poly(carbonate polyol). Such coating compositions may be usefully employed in thermosetting applications for the production of coatings for consumer products.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2011Publication date: December 19, 2013Applicant: DSM IP ASSETS B.V.Inventors: Armin Michel, Scott Allen
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Patent number: 8595751Abstract: An application platform is disclosed. Also disclosed in a method for operating a data processing arrangement on which the application platform is implemented as well as a plurality of applications which are executable on the application platform by accessing at least one programming interface of the application platform. At the same time, a plurality of operating system processes running in parallel on the application platform are generated as a result of the execution of at least two applications. In at least one embodiment for this purpose, the application platform includes a process connection module. The process connection module generates an inter-process user interface by which the parallel-running operating system processes collectively interact with a user of the data processing arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: March 15, 2011Date of Patent: November 26, 2013Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Karlheinz Dorn, Armin Michel, Vladyslav Ukis
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Publication number: 20130303724Abstract: The present invention provides polycarbonate polyol compositions with improved characteristics. Such polycarbonate polyol compositions are useful in thermosetting applications for the production of coatings for consumer products. The present invention provides compositions having such improved characteristics, in particular, polycarbonate polyol compositions having a glass transition temperature (Tg) from about ?20° C. to about 60° C., from about ?20° C. to about 50° C., or from about 0° C. to about 30° C., are particularl useful in thermosetting applications. In some embodiments, polycarbonate polyol compositions have a Tg from about ?20° C. to about 3° C. In some embodiments, polycarbonate polyol compositions have a Tg from about 0° C. to about 50° C., from about 0° C. to about 50° C., or from about 10 “C. to about 40° C.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2011Publication date: November 14, 2013Applicants: DSM IP ASSETS B.V., NOVOMER, INC.Inventors: Scott D. Allen, Armin Michel
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Patent number: 8522208Abstract: An effective and user-friendly system is disclosed for creating and running a software application for medical imaging, having at least one framework which has a service layer and a superordinate toolkit layer as an application programming interface, wherein functions of the toolkit layer and of the service layer are grouped in each case in a number of components which are arranged strictly hierarchically in such a way that any component can only ever be accessed from a superordinate component.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2007Date of Patent: August 27, 2013Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Karlheinz Dorn, Andrew John Hewett, Detlef Becker, Christian Spitzner, Antonius Ax, Norbert Dürbeck, Frank Hirschbeck, Dieter Krotz, Armin Michel, Artur Pusztai, Subrata Sinha
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Publication number: 20120144931Abstract: The invention relates to a pressure-measuring probe (1) for measuring pressure values of a flow, in particular a supersonic flow, comprising at least one probe head (2) which has a probe surface (8) provided with pressure-measuring points (4,6) and which can be positioned in the flow by means of at least one probe shaft (10). According to the invention, a top side (12) of the probe head (2) and the bottom side (14) of the probe head define a wedge-shaped probe tip (16), wherein pressure-measuring points (4) are arranged at a distance from each other along the circumferential probe tip (16).Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2010Publication date: June 14, 2012Applicant: MTU AERO ENGINES GMBHInventor: Armin Michel
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Publication number: 20110231865Abstract: An application platform is disclosed. Also disclosed in a method for operating a data processing arrangement on which the application platform is implemented as well as a plurality of applications which are executable on the application platform by accessing at least one programming interface of the application platform. At the same time, a plurality of operating system processes running in parallel on the application platform are generated as a result of the execution of at least two applications. In at least one embodiment for this purpose, the application platform includes a process connection module. The process connection module generates an inter-process user interface by which the parallel-running operating system processes collectively interact with a user of the data processing arrangement.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2011Publication date: September 22, 2011Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Karlheinz Dorn, Armin Michel, Vladyslav Ukis
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Publication number: 20110231832Abstract: An application platform is disclosed together with a method for operating a data processing arrangement on which the application platform is implemented along with at least one application which is executable on the application platform by accessing at least one programming interface of the application platform. In at least one embodiment, in the course of a change of version of the application platform or of a part of the platform, a check is carried out by way of an update module to determine whether a newly-to-be-installed more recent version of the application platform or of the part of the platform is consistent with the existing older version of the application platform or of the part of the platform in terms of the interface specification and/or the behavior of the or each programming interface. If necessary, the update module overwrites the older version with the more recent version.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2011Publication date: September 22, 2011Applicant: SIEMENS AGInventors: Karlheinz Dorn, Armin Michel, Vladyslav Ukis