Patents by Inventor Bernd Heimes

Bernd Heimes 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: 20150166306
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lift door having a bearing unit with a supporting unit and at least one running roller arrangement which is attached to the supporting unit and which has a running roller and a bearing axle, on which the running roller is rotatably mounted, and a door leaf attached to the bearing unit, wherein the bearing unit is designed to displaceably mount the lift door in a door transom, in that the running roller of the running roller arrangement can roll on a rail of the door transom, wherein the running roller arrangement is designed to be installed on the supporting unit and removed from the supporting unit as a unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP ELEVATOR AG
    Inventors: Maurizio Esposito, Bernd Heim, Adam Kolasinski
  • Patent number: 7234336
    Abstract: A method and a tool are provided for producing structural parts from sheet metal which have a vault-structured stiffening zone and adjacent, flat connection zones. The starting point for producing these structural parts is vault-structured blanks which are smoothed in the region of the connection zones in the course of the forming, whereas the vault structure is retained unchanged in the region of the stiffening zone. These structural parts are produced by an embossing tool which has a die and a two-piece punch including of a fixing punch and a forming punch. In the process, the blank is first of all fixed relative to the fixing punch in the region of the vault-structured stiffening zone by a fixing element which is in a leading position with respect to the die. The connection zones are then shaped between the punch and the forming punch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2007
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Guenter Braun, Juergen Ehrenpfort, Daniela Frank, Martin Gruenbaum, Bernd Heim, Dieter Lange, Michael Schwabe
  • Publication number: 20070000298
    Abstract: A method and a tool are provided for producing structural parts from sheet metal which have a vault-structured stiffening zone and adjacent, flat connection zones. The starting point for producing these structural parts is vault-structured blanks which are smoothed in the region of the connection zones in the course of the forming, whereas the vault structure is retained unchanged in the region of the stiffening zone. These structural parts are produced by an embossing tool which has a die and a two-piece punch including of a fixing punch and a forming punch. In the process, the blank is first of all fixed relative to the fixing punch in the region of the vault-structured stiffening zone by a fixing element which is in a leading position with respect to the die. The connection zones are then shaped between the punch and the forming punch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2003
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Applicant: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Guenter Braun, Juergen Ehrenpfort, Daniela Frank, Martin Gruenbaum, Bernd Heim, Dieter Lange, Michael Schwabe
  • Patent number: 5224367
    Abstract: In a double belt press, in which the steel belts are supported on the back by rollers, inherent compressive stress occurs on the side of the steel belts of a double belt press that are supported on the back by rollers, resulting in an undesirable bowl-shaped deformation of the steel belts. In order to avoid this deformation, at least the side of the steel belts which faces away from the rollers is subjected to treatment by shot blasting before being installed in the double belt press.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1992
    Date of Patent: July 6, 1993
    Assignee: Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co KG
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Ahrweiler, Bernd Heimes
  • Patent number: 5112209
    Abstract: In a double-band or similar press the pressure on the mat that is being fed in is increased so rapidly as soon as this mat comes into contact with the heat-transfer surfaces that the outer areas of the mat harden under the great pressure, whereas the heat has still not penetrated into the interior of the mat. This results in an enhancement of the surface quality of the panel. As an example, to this end, a roller gap can be provided before the feed gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 12, 1992
    Assignee: Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co KG
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Ahrweiler, Bernd Heimes
  • Patent number: 5085812
    Abstract: In a double-belt press for the manufacture of wood chip boards and the like having a width less than the nominal working width of the double-belt press, the forming belts are held in contact with the support structure so as to ensure heat transfer in the edge portion of the pressing zone extending beyond the edge of the filling which produces the boards to the region near the edge of the pressing zone. In this edge portion, an edge filling composed of unbonded particles is compressed on a compressible rotating belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 1989
    Date of Patent: February 4, 1992
    Assignee: Eduard Kusters Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Ahrweiler, Bernd Heimes