Patents by Inventor Christian Berning

Christian Berning 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: 20110204702
    Abstract: The invention relates to a bit holder (20) for a cutting machine, road milling machine, surface miner, or the like, having a bit receptacle (29) that comprises an introduction opening, and having a bit supporting surface (26), at least one wear protection element (40) being arranged in a region associated with the bit supporting surface (26). In order to bring about effective wear protection with little outlay in a bit holder of this kind, provision is made according to the present invention that the at least one wear protection element is embodied as a weld (40), and is arranged at least locally in at least one recess (41).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2009
    Publication date: August 25, 2011
    Inventors: Thomas Lehnert, Christian Berning, Martin Lenz
  • Patent number: 7976106
    Abstract: The invention relates to a self-propelled civil engineering machine, in particular a road-milling machine, a road recycler, or a road stabilizer, having a frame carried by a set of running gear, a working unit for performing work required for the civil engineering operation, and in particular a working drum, and a drive unit carried by the frame of the machine, to drive the working drum. A power transmitter is used to transmit the driving power from the drive unit to the working unit. The drive unit of the self-propelled civil engineering machine has a first and a second drive engine, the power transmitter being so designed that the driving powers coming from the first and the second drive engines can be transmitted to the working unit together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Berning, Dieter Simons, Peter Busley
  • Publication number: 20110163511
    Abstract: A method of operating a road-building machine involves a machine having a chassis with four ground engaging supports and four working cylinders connecting the ground engaging supports to the chassis. A height of the left front and right rear ground engaging supports is adjusted in a first direction. The height of the right front and left rear ground engaging supports is adjusted in a second direction opposite the first direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: WIRTGEN GMBH
    Inventors: Christian Berning, Dieter Simons, Markus Schäfer
  • Publication number: 20110123268
    Abstract: The invention relates to a self-propelled road-milling machine for doing work on surfacings on the ground, and in particular carriageways. The road-milling machine according to the invention is characterised by a signalling arrangement which has at least one control unit for the entry of at least two different states of operation by the driver of the road-milling machine and at least one visual indicator or display unit to indicate or display for the driver of the transporting vehicle the at least two states of operation which are preset with the control unit by the driver of the road-milling machine. The first state of operation may be a request for the transporting vehicle to be braked or stopped and the second state of operation may be a request for the transporting vehicle to be started or to continue travelling. In a preferred embodiment of the visual indicator or display unit, the request for braking or stopping is shown as a cross and the request for starting or continued travel as an arrow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2010
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Applicant: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Berning, Armin Montermann, Cyrus Barimani, Guenter Haehn, Stefan Cutler, Angela Cutler
  • Publication number: 20110020063
    Abstract: The invention relates to a road marking having multiple depressions introduced into the road surface, the depressions comprising two lateral longitudinal walls, extending in the longitudinal direction of the road, that transition, proceeding from the road surface, continuously into a bottom region; and the depression being delimited by two transverse walls extending transversely to the longitudinal direction of the road. The road markings have improved utilization properties if provision is made that the longitudinal walls comprise a region convexly curved transversely to the longitudinal direction of the road. The invention further relates to a cutting unit for producing such road markings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2010
    Publication date: January 27, 2011
    Applicant: WIRTGEN GMBH
    Inventors: Stefan Abresch, Christian Berning, Michael Schulz, Cyrus Barimani, Guenter Haehn
  • Patent number: 7828309
    Abstract: The invention relates to a road-building machine whose left front wheel (4) or caterpillar, right front wheel (6) or caterpillar, left rear wheel (8) or caterpillar and right rear wheel (10) or caterpillar are connected to the road-building machine chassis by means of an actuating element and are height-adjustable with respect to the road-building machine frame. According to said invention, different actuating elements are rigidly connected to the road-building machine chassis and forcedly coupled to each other in such a way that the left front wheel (4) or caterpillar and the right rear wheel (10) or caterpillar are height-adjustable in the same direction and with respect to the right front wheel (6) or caterpillar and the left rear wheel (8) or caterpillar are adjustable in the opposite directions. The all wheels (4, 6, 8, 10) or caterpillars are equally height-adjustable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Berning, Dieter Simons, Markus Schäfer
  • Patent number: D627798
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Berning, Thomas Kramer, Cyrus Barimani, Günter Hähn
  • Patent number: D627799
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Berning, Thomas Kramer, Cyrus Barimani, Günter Hähn
  • Patent number: D627800
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Berning, Thomas Kramer, Cyrus Barimani, Günter Hähn
  • Patent number: D627801
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Berning, Thomas Kramer, Cyrus Barimani, Günter Hähn
  • Patent number: D627802
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Berning, Thomas Kramer, Cyrus Barimani, Günter Hähn
  • Patent number: D628603
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Berning, Thomas Kramer, Cyrus Barimani, Günter Hähn
  • Patent number: D635156
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Berning, Thomas Kramer, Cyrus Barimani, Günter Hähn
  • Patent number: D635158
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Berning, Thomas Kramer, Cyrus Barimani, Günter Hähn
  • Patent number: D635159
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Berning, Thomas Kramer, Cyrus Barimani, Günter Hähn
  • Patent number: D635160
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2011
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Berning, Thomas Kramer, Cyrus Barimani, Günter Hähn
  • Patent number: D635593
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2011
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Berning, Thomas Kramer, Cyrus Barimani, Günter Hähn
  • Patent number: D641712
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2011
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Berning, Thomas Kramer, Cyrus Barimani, Günter Hähn
  • Patent number: D642133
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2011
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Berning, Thomas Kramer, Cyrus Barimani, Günter Hähn
  • Patent number: D642542
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Wirtgen GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Berning, Thomas Kramer, Cyrus Barimani, Günter Hähn