Patents by Inventor Axel Forster

Axel Forster 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: 20240109091
    Abstract: An installation is disclosed for coating objects, preferably automatically, with coating material, the installation having a coating station with at least one coating gun for spraying coating material, in particular as required, in the direction of a coating region, and having a conveying apparatus, by means of which objects to be coated can be transported, in particular continuously, through the coating region. Provision is made, in particular, for the installation to have a device for detecting the presence and/or absence, in a monitoring region located upstream of the coating station—as seen in the conveying direction of the conveying apparatus—of an object to be coated, wherein there is also provided a control device, which is designed to activate the at least one coating gun of the coating station in dependence on the detection result of the device for detecting the presence and/or absence of an object to be coated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2021
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Axel Forster, Roman Mlakar Trümpy, Felix Mauchle
  • Publication number: 20240042477
    Abstract: An arrangement is disclosed for the preferably automatic coating of objects with a coating material, in particular coating powder. The arrangement includes at least one spray device having a spray nozzle via which the coating material is dispensable in a main spraying direction. An extension is further provided, wherein an end region of the extension facing the spray device is preferably detachably connected to an end region of the spray device associated with the extension opposite from the spray nozzle. The arrangement further includes a preferably horizontally extending guide via which the extension with the spray device connected thereto can be longitudinally moved in the direction of extension of the guide relative to the object to be coated. The main spraying direction of the spray nozzle may be implemented so as to deviate from the direction of extension of the guide by a predefined or definable angle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Axel Forster, Felix Mauchle
  • Patent number: 11434854
    Abstract: An air filter system for a utility vehicle includes a filter housing, a coarse filter located on an inlet side and accommodated in the filter housing, a fine filter arranged downstream in a filter operating direction of an airflow to be cleaned, and a cleaning arrangement accommodated in the filter housing for purging dirt particles separated at least in the fine filter counter to the filter operating direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Ming Parker Yuen, Phouphadeth Sananikone, Axel Förster, Alexander Berg
  • Publication number: 20210231085
    Abstract: An air filter system for a utility vehicle includes a filter housing, a coarse filter located on an inlet side and accommodated in the filter housing, a fine filter arranged downstream in a filter operating direction of an airflow to be cleaned, and a cleaning arrangement accommodated in the filter housing for purging dirt particles separated at least in the fine filter counter to the filter operating direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Ming Parker Yuen, Phouphadeth Sananikone, Axel Förster, Alexander Berg
  • Patent number: 7730848
    Abstract: The invention relates to an indicator apparatus (1) having a ring pointer (2), which is mounted such that it can move in the circumferential direction (5), and having a drive unit (3), which drives the ring pointer (2) in the circumferential direction (5), wherein the ring pointer (2) interacts with a stop (10) in a manner limited in terms of its circumferential movement. Particularly in the case of synchronization, radial disengagement often occurs in conventional ring pointer arrangements, and the aim of the invention is to prevent this. In order to solve the problem, the invention proposes arranging the stop (10) directly next to the drive unit (3). The critical advantage of this is that the tangential force on the ring pointer (2) from the drive unit generates an only small disengagement moment on the ring pointer (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2010
    Assignee: VDO Automotive AG
    Inventor: Axel Förster
  • Publication number: 20090056617
    Abstract: The invention relates to an indicator apparatus (1) having a ring pointer (2), which is mounted such that it can move in the circumferential direction (5), and having a drive unit (3), which drives the ring pointer (2) in the circumferential direction (5), wherein the ring pointer (2) interacts with a stop (10) in a manner limited in terms of its circumferential movement. Particularly in the case of synchronization, radial disengagement often occurs in conventional ring pointer arrangements, and the aim of the invention is to prevent this. In order to solve the problem, the invention proposes arranging the stop (10) directly next to the drive unit (3). The critical advantage of this is that the tangential force on the ring pointer (2) from the drive unit generates an only small disengagement moment on the ring pointer (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2006
    Publication date: March 5, 2009
    Inventor: Axel Forster
  • Patent number: 7370603
    Abstract: A pointer instrument for a motor vehicle includes a pointer drive for deflecting a carrier body. A pointer which is visible in an indication is provided on the carrier body. An optical waveguide element is arranged on that side of the carrier body which is remote from an observer. Light from at least one light source is introduced into the optical waveguide element which extends along the movement path of the pointer. Light emerging from the optical waveguide element enters into the pointer and/or the carrier body, and the pointer is formed such that it is illuminated by light emerging from the optical waveguide element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2008
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Balsfulland, Gerhard Friepes, Axel Förster, Patrik Hurth
  • Publication number: 20060144318
    Abstract: A pointer instrument for a motor vehicle includes a pointer drive for deflecting a carrier body. A pointer which is visible in an indication is provided on the carrier body. An optical waveguide element is arranged on that side of the carrier body which is remote from an observer. Light from at least one light source is introduced into the optical waveguide element which extends along the movement path of the pointer. Light emerging from the optical waveguide element enters into the pointer and/or the carrier body, and the pointer is formed such that it is illuminated by light emerging from the optical waveguide element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2005
    Publication date: July 6, 2006
    Inventors: Wolfgang Balsfulland, Gerhard Friepes, Axel Forster, Patrik Hurth