Patents by Inventor Erich Baumann

Erich Baumann 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: 20020034164
    Abstract: A method and device of controlling a telecommunication conference is described, wherein a conference to be controlled is classified into one or at least two different categories, and the control routines associated with a given category are different for each category.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2000
    Publication date: March 21, 2002
    Inventors: Marie Susanna Sjoholm, Erich Baumann, Angel Luis Villafrance, Niklas Bjork, Mario Morris
  • Patent number: 5609246
    Abstract: The blister pack comprises a base portion and a cover layer. The base portion comprises a hollow chamber that contains a soft hydrophilic contact lens and a sterile aqueous preserving solution, and a substantially flat flange that extends right round the outside of the hollow chamber. The cover layer is releasably sealed to the flange in a sealing zone that extends right round the circumference of the hollow chamber. The flange comprises a grip region that extends from one side of the hollow chamber beyond the sealing zone and is covered by a corresponding grip region of the cover layer but is not sealed thereto.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: March 11, 1997
    Assignee: Ciba Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Sharla Borghorst, Erich Baumann, John Golby, Peter Hagmann, Peter Herbrechtsmeier, Otto Kretzschmar, Bernhard Seiferling, Michele De Lucchi, Torsten Fritze, Masahiko Cubo
  • Patent number: 4465417
    Abstract: At least one hanger rail having opposite ends is provided to support a plurality of parked vehicles. Two conveyor lines are associated with the hanger rail and extend transversely thereto to deliver the vehicles to one hanger rail and to receive parked vehicles from the other hanger rail means. Each conveyor line is associated with a respective end of the hanger rail, and the two conveyor lines are driven in mutually opposite directions of conveyance. Each conveyor line comprises an endless series of vehicle carriers, each of which is adapted to carry one of said vehicles and is of like cross section as the hanger rails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 13, 1981
    Date of Patent: August 14, 1984
    Assignee: Voest-Alpine Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Erich Baumann, Klaus Eisenkolb, Werner Morawietz
  • Patent number: 4286479
    Abstract: A drive system for a workpiece table of a machine tool, especially a gear cutting machine, which includes two worm wheel drives of different transmission ratio, each worm wheel drive including a worm and a worm wheel. The worms of the worm wheel drives being adapted alternately to be drivingly connected to a drive shaft. The worms of the worm wheel drives are drivingly connected to each other while the transmission ratio of this transmission connection of the two worms equals the reciprocal transmission ratio of the worm wheel drives with regard to each other. The worm wheels of both worm wheel drives which are rotated in the same direction and at equal speed which latter depends on the respective coupled worm wheel drive, are coupled to each other as well as to the workpiece table.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1978
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1981
    Assignee: Hermann Pfauter
    Inventors: Erich Baumann, Hans-Peter Mente, Wolfgang Muller
  • Patent number: D371678
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 1994
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1996
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Sharla Borghorst, Erich Baumann, John Golby, Peter Hagmann, Peter Herbrechtsmeier, Otto Kretzschmar, Bernhard Seiferling, Michele De Lucchi, Torsten Fritze, Masahiko Cubo