Patents by Inventor Axel Köhler

Axel Köhler 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: 20170341121
    Abstract: A method may be used to produce a component that includes at least two different materials. The method may involve providing a hardenable planar or preformed steel sheet or steel profile, completely or partially heating the steel sheet or steel profile to the austenitic temperature, inserting the heated steel sheet or steel profile into a first tool for hot forming and/or press hardening the steel sheet or steel profile to give a completely or partially hardened steel workpiece. In the course of the hot forming and/or press hardening at least one jog is made in the steel sheet or the steel profile. The jog may serve for fastening at least one second material thereto.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Applicants: ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG, ThyssenKrupp AG
    Inventors: Axel Köhler, Janko Banik, Sascha Sikora
  • Patent number: 4366182
    Abstract: A skin-covered meat product, such as poultry and especially chickens, is roasted and grilled in a cassette-oven installation with a roasting oven, a spray box and a grilling oven. First the skin of the chicken is perforated by injection needles and simultaneously a saline solution with atomized seasonings is injected into the chicken meat. At a starting position the chickens are threaded and fastened on a vertical rotary spit suspended on an endless conveying chain (24), the spits are electrically heated and together with the chickens are transported through the roasting oven where the chickens are exposed to short-wave infrared radiation and roasted. The spits with the chickens thereafter are transported through the spray box where the chickens are sprayed with a mixture of oil and atomized seasonings and then are transported through the grilling oven where the chickens are exposed to medium-wave infrared radiation and grilled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1982
    Inventors: Karl-Axel Kohler, Rolf Collin, Ralf Larsson