Patents by Inventor Bernd Kaufmann

Bernd Kaufmann 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: 11040291
    Abstract: A motion picture presentation device with at least one motion picture display device, a multitude of seats for viewers and a movement device are configured with at least five linear drives. With the linear drives, the seats can be collectively moved in at least five degrees of freedom. At least one linear drive is fixed to a swivelling arm. At least two linear drives are immovably fixed at a respective base point, and a base element to which the seats are fixed such that they can be swivelled. The arrangement can be brought out of a first docking position, in which the base element can be docked at an access point, into a presentation position, in which the base element is swivelled by a swivel angle of at least 15° in relation to its first position, by activating the movement device. The base element can be brought from the docking position into the presentation position by swivelling the arm upwards.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: SIMTEC SYSTEMS GMBH
    Inventors: Bernd Kaufmann, Anne Lena Kaufmann
  • Publication number: 20210072631
    Abstract: A motion picture presentation device with at least one motion picture display device, a multitude of seats for viewers and a movement device are configured with at least five linear drives. With the linear drives, the seats can be collectively moved in at least five degrees of freedom. At least one linear drive is fixed to a swivelling arm. At least two linear drives are immovably fixed at a respective base point, and a base element to which the seats are fixed such that they can be swivelled. The arrangement can be brought out of a first docking position, in which the base element can be docked at an access point, into a presentation position, in which the base element is swivelled by a swivel angle of at least 15° in relation to its first position, by activating the movement device. The base element can be brought from the docking position into the presentation position by swivelling the arm upwards.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventors: Bernd KAUFMANN, Anne Lena KAUFMANN
  • Patent number: 10883651
    Abstract: The invention relates to a monitor system (10) with (h) a first monitor (12.1), (i) a second monitor (12.2), (j) a third monitor (12.3), (k) at least a fourth monitor (12.4) and (l) a base (16). According to the invention, it is intended that (m) the monitors (12.i) are fixed to the base (16) such that they can each be moved by way of a motor in at least two degrees of freedom, and that (n) the monitors are fixed to the base (16) by means of lazy tong drives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: SIMTEC SYSTEMS GMBH
    Inventor: Bernd Kaufmann
  • Publication number: 20200326032
    Abstract: The invention relates to a monitor system (10) with (h) a first monitor (12.1), (i) a second monitor (12.2), (j) a third monitor (12.3), (k) at least a fourth monitor (12.4) and (l) a base (16). According to the invention, it is intended that (m) the monitors (12.i) are fixed to the base (16) such that they can each be moved by way of a motor in at least two degrees of freedom, and that (n) the monitors are fixed to the base (16) by means of lazy tong drives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2018
    Publication date: October 15, 2020
    Inventor: Bernd KAUFMANN
  • Patent number: 9803786
    Abstract: The press fitting for a pipe, is provided with a fitting body which has a supporting sleeve with a free end and a pressing sleeve. The pressing sleeve is held substantially concentrically with respect to the supporting sleeve by means of at least one spacer element arranged at the holding end of the pressing sleeve. I the region of the holding end of the pressing sleeve, the fitting body has a locking depression or a locking projection. At the holding end, the cylindrical wall of the pressing sleeve has at least one opening through which a locking element extends to the axial fitting of the pressing sleeve to the fitting body, wherein the locking element projects into the locking depression of the fitting body and ends in the depression, or the locking element engages around or behind the locking projection of the fitting body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: Uponor Innovation AB
    Inventors: Marcus Bohl, Bernd Kaufmann, Thomas Kern-Emmerich
  • Patent number: 9757658
    Abstract: Provided herein is a fairground ride, such as a ghost train or dark ride attraction, having a vehicle including a chassis and a passenger seat for passengers. The vehicle further includes a hexapod drive set on the chassis and a rotary table connected to the hexapod drive, whereby the passenger seat is swivel-mounted on the rotary table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: SIMTECH SYSTEMS GMBH
    Inventor: Bernd Kaufmann
  • Patent number: 8596687
    Abstract: A fitting for a pipe, has a base body and a connecting body, each having a passage for a fluid. Both bodies include contact surfaces that can be slid into each other, including at least one pair of opposing recesses forming a receiving chamber. The fitting has a flexible, substantially incompressible locking element that can be inserted into the receiving chamber for fixing the two bodies together. At least one of the two bodies includes an access chamber extending between an outer surface of the associated body and the receiving chamber. The access chamber connects to and is an extension of the receiving chamber. The locking element includes a stop protrusion at one of its opposite ends for stopping the locking element externally at least one of the two bodies in order to prevent the locking element from unintentionally slipping out of the receiving chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2013
    Assignee: Uponor Innovation AB
    Inventors: Thomas Kern-Emmerich, Rudolf Geier, Bernd Kaufmann, Markus Friedrichs
  • Publication number: 20110219594
    Abstract: A tool device for the connection of a plastic pipe, particularly a plastic/metal composite pipe, to a fitting having a compression or sliding sleeve, has a housing (40), a drive element (20) that can be mechanically driven, which can be displaced selectively along a first movement direction or along a second movement direction, a pipe expanding tool (14) for expanding a pipe end (50) that can be slid onto a supporting sleeve (48) of a fitting (46), and a compression sleeve-pressing tool (16) or a sliding sleeve-sliding tool (16?) for pressing a compression sleeve (52) onto the expanded pipe end (50) having been slid onto the supporting sleeve (48) of the fitting (46?) or for sliding a sliding sleeve (52?) onto the expanded pipe end (50) having been slid onto the supporting sleeve (48).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2009
    Publication date: September 15, 2011
    Applicant: Uponor Innovation Ab
    Inventor: Bernd Kaufmann
  • Publication number: 20110101673
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fitting for a pipe, particularly a plastic pipe or plastic-metal composite pipe, having a base body (12) having a passage (14) for a fluid, a connecting body (16), also comprising a passage (17) for a fluid and that can be releaseably connected to the base body (12), to which a pipe can be connected. Both bodies (12, 16) comprise contact surfaces (26, 28) that can be slid into each other, comprising at least one pair of opposing recesses (30, 32) forming a receiving chamber (34). The fitting further has a flexible and substantially incompressible locking element (44) that can be inserted into the receiving chamber (34) for fixing the two bodies (12, 16) to each other. At least one of the two bodies (12, 16) comprises an access chamber (36, 38) extending between an outer surface (40) of the associated body (12) and the receiving chamber (34). The access chamber (36, 38) connects to the receiving chamber (34) substantially as an extension thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Publication date: May 5, 2011
    Applicant: Uponor Innovation Ab
    Inventors: Thomas Kern-Emmerich, Rudolf Geier, Bernd Kaufmann, Markus Friedrichs
  • Publication number: 20100259039
    Abstract: The press fitting for a pipe, in particular plastic pipe or plastic-metal composite pipe, is provided with a fitting body (12) which has a supporting sleeve (14) with a free end (16) and a pressing sleeve (18). The pressing sleeve (18) is held substantially concentrically with respect to the supporting sleeve (14) by means of at least one spacer element (42) arranged at the holding end (35) of said pressing sleeve. In the region of the holding end (35) of the pressing sleeve (18), the fitting body (12) has a locking depression (30) or a locking projection. At the holding end (35), the cylindrical wall (34) of the pressing sleeve (18) has at least one opening (32) through which a locking element (20) extends to the axial fitting of the pressing sleeve (18) to the fitting body (12), wherein the locking element (20) projects into the locking depression (30) of the fitting body (12) and ends in said depression, or the locking element (20) engages around or behind the locking projection of the fitting body (12).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2008
    Publication date: October 14, 2010
    Applicant: Uponor Innovation AB
    Inventors: Marcus Bohl, Bernd Kaufmann, Thomas Kern-Emmerich
  • Patent number: 7445609
    Abstract: An apparatus for medical fluid delivery is to be improved for the sake of simple monitoring of the quantity of medical fluid delivered. For attaining this object, a safety device (15) with a patient model (16) is provided, which from past values and current values of the dosage rate of the medical fluid extrapolates a future medical fluid concentration (17) and switches off the dosage unit (10) for the medical fluid if the extrapolated medical fluid concentration (17) exceeds a predetermined limit value (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2008
    Assignee: Drager Medical AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Claus Bunke, Ralf Dittman, Bernd Kaufmann, Jens Köhne, Jürgen Manigel, Gerald Panitz
  • Publication number: 20080258464
    Abstract: A fitting tube including a fitting body (12) having a support sleeve (14) for connecting a tube thereto, a press sleeve (16) surrounding the support sleeve (14) and at least one holding element (18) for holding the press sleeve (16) to the fitting body (12). The holding element (18) engages a circumferential receiving groove (26) formed on the fitting body (12). The press sleeve (16) has at least two receiving openings (24) which, with the press sleeve (16) held to the fitting body (12), are arranged substantially in the radial plane defined by receiving groove (26). The holding element (18) includes two legs (22) which extend through the receiving openings (24) in order to hold the press sleeve (16) to the fitting body (12), and project in a circumferential direction into the receiving groove (26), and/or extend tangentially thereto through substantially diametrically opposite partial regions of the receiving groove (26).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2007
    Publication date: October 23, 2008
    Applicant: Uponor Innovation AB
    Inventors: Bernd Kaufmann, Thomas Kern
  • Publication number: 20060009729
    Abstract: An apparatus for medical fluid delivery is to be improved for the sake of simple monitoring of the quantity of medical fluid delivered. For attaining this object, a safety device (15) with a patient model (16) is provided, which from past values and current values of the dosage rate of the medical fluid extrapolates a future medical fluid concentration (17) and switches off the dosage unit (10) for the medical fluid if the extrapolated medical fluid concentration (17) exceeds a predetermined limit value (14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2005
    Publication date: January 12, 2006
    Applicant: Drager Medical AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Claus Bunke, Ralf Dittman, Bernd Kaufmann, Jens Kohne, Jurgen Manigel, Gerald Panitz
  • Patent number: 6386477
    Abstract: An unwinding station continuously unwinds a material web, notably a paper or cardboard web, for a machine, specifically a coater, for conversion of the material web. The station includes a primary unwinding system, a secondary unwinding system and a splicing system to splice together material webs unwinding from two reels, with each reel being carried by one of the unwinding systems. The reel carried by the primary unwinding system, which is disposed after the splicing of the material webs to one another, is transferable by use of a carrying system to the secondary unwinding system. The unwinding station is distinguished specifically by an auxiliary drive that is movable jointly with the reel and which can be driven with the aid of the reel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Kaufmann, Johann Grupp
  • Patent number: 6173636
    Abstract: A paper machine for one of making and processing a fiber material web. A plurality of rolls carry the fiber material web. The plurality of rolls include a load roll and another roll defining a nip therebetween. The fiber material web travels through the nip and defines a gore with the load roll on an approach side of the nip. A movable cutoff knife includes a cutting edge positioned in the gore at a slight distance from the nip and adjacent to the fiber material web. At least one impulse exchanger is positioned in association with the cutoff knife. The impulse exchanger is configured to transfer impulse energy to the cutoff knife whereby the cutting edge cuts the fiber material web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 15, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2001
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Zygmunt Madrzak, Bernd Kaufmann
  • Patent number: 6086954
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for direct or indirect one-sided or double-sided application of a liquid or pasty coating medium onto a spliced traveling material web, notably of paper or cardboard, includes at least one applicator applying the coating medium at a predetermined point of coating application onto the material web. At least one coating suspension system briefly suspends the application of the coating medium at the point of coating application or at a point of suspension located, based on the direction of travel of the material web, ahead of the point of coating application. The suspension of the application of coating medium occurs while or before the material web splice passes the point of coating application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2000
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Kaufmann, Zygmunt Madrzak
  • Patent number: 5779184
    Abstract: A device is provided for stabilizing a paper web in an unwinding and splicing station. The splicing station includes a primary paper roll and a secondary paper roll. A suction trough extends across a width of the paper web and includes a suction zone adjacent the paper web. The paper web unwinds from the secondary paper roll and passes the suction trough. The suction zone extends substantially across the width of the paper web and is configured to effect a substantially uniform vacuum in its area, wherein the unwinding paper web runs evenly over the suction zone area.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 14, 1998
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Kaufmann, Herbert Illenberger
  • Patent number: 5740982
    Abstract: Apparatus for splicing the end of a terminating reel to the outer layer of a subsequent reel: a splicing tube is either swingable or reciprocable to move between a waiting position out of contact with the strip to be cut and an operating position where the splicing tube moves transversely to and into contact with the strip and moves the strip to a position where it can be cut by a knife. A knife movable between a waiting position where it will not cut the strip and a cutting position where movement of the splicing tube to the operating position moves the strip to contact the knife for cutting. The knife is supported to be moved between its positions either by swinging or by movement along a guide path. The splicing tube includes a vacuum zone which holds the strip to it, and the splicing tube is rotatable on its axis for maintaining the tension of the strip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 21, 1998
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventor: Bernd Kaufmann
  • Patent number: 5536312
    Abstract: A doctor device, notably for machines used to coat paper or cardboard, with a relatively bendable, flexible doctor element fitted in or on a separate holder. At least along its length in the holder, the device features a convex crowning of its working surface about its longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1996
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiermaschinen GmbH
    Inventors: Zygmunt Madrzak, Bernd Kaufmann
  • Patent number: 5212002
    Abstract: For making a web connection, an adhesive tape is used which essentially features on only one side an adhesive layer. The cover foil of this adhesive layer is comprised of two parts that are separated by a longitudinal seam. Applied on the other side of the substrate of the adhesive layer is at least one narrow adhesive strip, also having a cover foil, which preferably is contained on an edge of the adhesive tape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1991
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1993
    Assignee: J. M. Voith GmbH
    Inventors: Zygmunt Madrzak, Bernd Kaufmann