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).

  • Patent number: 10843591
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 24, 2020
    Assignee: FISHER & COMPANY, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Burckhard Becker, Mircea Napau, Armin Michel
  • Patent number: 10703228
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: FISHER & COMPANY, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: David G. Anticuar, Andrew Joshua Simms, Karl Sponsler, Seth Kirkendall, Sapan Mahendra Poptani, Armin Michel
  • Publication number: 20190389333
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventors: David G. ANTICUAR, Andrew Joshua SIMMS, Karl SPONSLER, Seth KIRKENDALL, Sapan Mahendra POPTANI, Armin MICHEL
  • Publication number: 20190152347
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: FISHER & COMPANY, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Burckhard BECKER, Mircea NAPAU, Armin MICHEL
  • Patent number: 10195975
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: FISHER & COMPANY, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Burckhard Becker, Mircea Napau, Armin Michel
  • Publication number: 20170203677
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2017
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Applicant: FISHER & COMPANY, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Burckhard BECKER, Mircea NAPAU, Armin MICHEL
  • Publication number: 20160046208
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2015
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Inventors: David G. ANTICUAR, Andrew Joshua SIMMS, Karl SPONSLER, Seth KIRKENDALL, Sapan Mahendra POPTANI, Armin MICHEL
  • Patent number: 9251312
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 2, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Lutz Dominick, Karlheinz Dorn, Armin Michel, Vladyslav Ukis
  • Patent number: 9205763
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: FISHER & COMPANY, INCORPORATED
    Inventors: David G. Anticuar, Andrew Joshua Simms, Karl Sponsler, Seth Kirkendall, Sapan Mahendra Poptani, Armin Michel
  • Patent number: 9070095
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Detlef Becker, Karlheinz Dorn, Andrew John Hewett, Armin Michel
  • Patent number: 9063817
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2015
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karlheinz Dorn, Armin Michel, Vladyslav Ukis
  • Patent number: 9029498
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignees: Novomer, Inc., DSM IP Assets B.V.
    Inventors: Scott D. Allen, Armin Michel
  • Publication number: 20140263920
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2012
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Inventors: David G. Anticuar, Andrew Joshua Simms, Karl Sponsler, Seth Kirkendall, Sapan Mahendra Poptani, Armin Michel
  • Publication number: 20130337204
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: DSM IP ASSETS B.V.
    Inventors: Armin Michel, Scott Allen
  • Patent number: 8595751
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karlheinz Dorn, Armin Michel, Vladyslav Ukis
  • Publication number: 20130303724
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2011
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicants: DSM IP ASSETS B.V., NOVOMER, INC.
    Inventors: Scott D. Allen, Armin Michel
  • Patent number: 8522208
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Karlheinz Dorn, Andrew John Hewett, Detlef Becker, Christian Spitzner, Antonius Ax, Norbert Dürbeck, Frank Hirschbeck, Dieter Krotz, Armin Michel, Artur Pusztai, Subrata Sinha
  • Publication number: 20120144931
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Publication date: June 14, 2012
    Applicant: MTU AERO ENGINES GMBH
    Inventor: Armin Michel
  • Publication number: 20110231865
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Karlheinz Dorn, Armin Michel, Vladyslav Ukis
  • Publication number: 20110231832
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2011
    Publication date: September 22, 2011
    Applicant: SIEMENS AG
    Inventors: Karlheinz Dorn, Armin Michel, Vladyslav Ukis