Patents by Inventor Ernst Steiner

Ernst Steiner 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: 8684258
    Abstract: A process for reducing aluminum pick-up and adherence during the ultrasonic welding of aluminum braids which are welded in a vertically and/or horizontally adjustable compression chamber of an ultrasonic welding device. The static tool parts which delimit the compression chamber have working surfaces made from polycrystalline diamond (PCD).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Schunk Sonosystems GmbH
    Inventor: Ernst Steiner
  • Patent number: 8453233
    Abstract: In a method of and circuit for identifying and/or verifying the hardware and/or software of an appliance and of a data carrier, for example a smartcard, cooperating with the appliance, it is provided that a first unit (E1) for verifying the hardware and/or software of the appliance, in particular a Trusted Platform Module (TPM), and a second unit (E2) for verifying and/or identifying and authorizing the external data carrier, in particular a Secure Application Module (SAM), are coupled for direct data exchange via a communication interface (17) of the central arithmetic units (2, 10), in order to reduce or eliminate the possibility of attack or manipulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2004
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2013
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Ernst Haselsteiner, Gregor Sueng, Ernst Steiner
  • Publication number: 20120125976
    Abstract: A process for reducing aluminum pick-up and adherence during the ultrasonic welding of aluminum braids which are welded in a vertically and/or horizontally adjustable compression chamber of an ultrasonic welding device. The static tool parts which delimit the compression chamber have working surfaces made from polycrystalline diamond (PCD).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2008
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: SCHUNK SONOSYSTEMS GMBH
    Inventor: Ernst Steiner
  • Patent number: 7533791
    Abstract: An arrangement for the welding of cables by means of an ultrasonic welding device with a compression chamber for housing the cables defined by at least sections of a sonotrode transmitting ultrasonic vibrations, a counter electrode and lateral defining elements. In order to guarantee a desired layout for the cables, the components are installed in an insertion space, before closing the compression chamber, the width of which is less than that of the open compression chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2009
    Assignee: Schunk Ultraschalltechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Ernst Steiner, Horst Dieterle, Dieter Stroh, Heiko Stroh, Peter Wagner
  • Patent number: 7459653
    Abstract: A device for compacting and/or welding electric conductors (10), in particular for producing via nodes or end nodes of stranded conductors. The device includes a first electrode, one section of which constitutes a first delimitation surface of a compacting chamber that receives the conductor, the chamber in addition being delimited by one section of a counter-electrode that forms a second delimitation surface and by at least one additional third delimitation surface that is formed by a section of a delimitation element. The inventions simplifies the construction of the device, enabling repeated compacting and welding of conductors. To achieve this, a compacting chamber has a substantially triangular open cross-section, which is surrounded by the sections of the first electrode and the counter-electrode, these sections being adjustable in relation to one another, and by the delimitation element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2008
    Assignee: Schunk Ultraschalltechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Steiner, Ernst Steiner
  • Publication number: 20080209548
    Abstract: In a method of and circuit for identifying and/or verifying the hardware and/or software of an appliance and of a data carrier, for example a smartcard, cooperating with the appliance, it is provided that a first unit (E1) for verifying the hardware and/or software of the appliance, in particular a Trusted Platform Module (TPM), and a second unit (E2) for verifying and/or identifying and authorizing the external data carrier, in particular a Secure Application Module (SAM), are coupled for direct data exchange via a communication interface (17) of the central arithmetic units (2, 10), in order to reduce or eliminate the possibility of attack or manipulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2004
    Publication date: August 28, 2008
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
    Inventors: Ernst Haselsteiner, Gregor Sueng, Ernst Steiner
  • Publication number: 20080032569
    Abstract: A method and an array for ultrasound welding of litz wires with a preferably rectangular support, which are jointly inserted in a compression space, the width of which is set to match that of the support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2005
    Publication date: February 7, 2008
    Applicant: SCHUNK ULTRASCHALLTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Ernst Steiner, Dieter Stroh, Enno Thoms
  • Publication number: 20070257088
    Abstract: An arrangement for the welding of cables by means of an ultrasonic welding device with a compression chamber for housing the cables defined by at least sections of a sonotrode transmitting ultrasonic vibrations, a counter electrode and lateral defining elements. In order to guarantee a desired layout for the cables, the components are installed in an insertion space, before closing the compression chamber, the width of which is less than that of the open compression chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2005
    Publication date: November 8, 2007
    Inventors: Ernst Steiner, Horst Dieterle, Dieter Stroh, Heiko Stroh, Peter Wagner
  • Publication number: 20070000890
    Abstract: A device for compacting and/or welding electric conductors (10), in particular for producing via nodes or end nodes of stranded conductors. The device includes a first electrode, one section of which constitutes a first delimitation surface of a compacting chamber that receives the conductor, the chamber in addition being delimited by one section of a counter-electrode that forms a second delimitation surface and by at least one additional third delimitation surface that is formed by a section of a delimitation element. The inventions simplifies the construction of the device, enabling repeated compacting and welding of conductors. To achieve this, a compacting chamber has a substantially triangular open cross-section, which is surrounded by the sections of the first electrode and the counter-electrode, these sections being adjustable in relation to one another, and by the delimitation element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2004
    Publication date: January 4, 2007
    Applicant: ULTRASCHALLTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Christian Steiner, Ernst Steiner
  • Patent number: 7124504
    Abstract: A method and device for making multiple connections between electrical conductors surrounded by external insulators in overlapping flexible cables by ultrasonic welding. Overlapping conductors to be connected are arranged on a surface of a carrier disposed between a sonotrode and an electrode, the sonotrode and electrode are sequentially aligned the with overlapping points to be welded, and the conductors are ultrasonically welded at each of the overlapping points. The carrier either includes the electrode at least in designated areas, or includes penetrations constructed and arranged to receive an electrode in designated areas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2006
    Assignee: Schunk Ultraschalltechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Ernst Steiner, Dieter Stroh, Horst Dieterle
  • Publication number: 20040038598
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and device for connecting the electrical conductors which are surrounded by outer insulation and associated with overlapping flat conductors (47, 49) by means of a sonotrode (52) producing ultrasonic vibrations and a counter electrode associated therewith. The conductors which are to be connected are to be arranged on a surface (48) of a carrier (50) extending between the sonotrode and the counter electrode. The carrier can be embodied as a counter electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventors: Ernst Steiner, Dieter Stroh, Horst Dieterle
  • Patent number: 6319697
    Abstract: (S)-Hydroxynitrile lyases which have an improved substrate acceptance and which are derived from the Hevea brasiliensis and Manihot esculenta (S)-hydroxynitrile lyases, wherein one or more bulky amino acid residues within the hydrophobic channel leading to the active center have been replaced with less bulky amino acid residues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2001
    Assignee: DSM Fine Chemicals Austria GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Effenberger, Harald Wajant, Peter Lauble, Siegfried Förster, Holger Buhler, Helmut Schwab, Christoph Kratky, Ulrike Wagner, Ernst Steiner
  • Patent number: 6079608
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for welding electric conductors employing ultrasound following compaction. The process comprises compaction of the conductors in a compaction area by adjusting height and width up to a preset contact force and ultrasonically welding according to predetermined, stored parameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2000
    Assignee: Schunk Ultraschalltechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Ernst Steiner, Dieter Stroh, Heinz Gotz
  • Patent number: 5941443
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for compacting and then welding electric conductors, especially for making through or terminal connections of flexes by means of ultrasound in a compression chamber adapted to the conductor and adjustable for height and width, in which the conductors to be welded are first compacted and then welded. The compression chamber is adjustable to a predetermined height-width ratio regardless of the cross section of the conductors to be welded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1999
    Assignee: Schunk Ultraschalltechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Ernst Steiner, Dieter Stroh, Heinz Gotz
  • Patent number: 5309951
    Abstract: For a reliable closing of the electric circuit between the inner and outer part of a contact rail on an electric warp stop, a contact drop wire with a chamfered drop wire head is provided, wherein the inner edge of the drop wire head that faces the contact rail slot of the drop wire has at least two sections which are differently chamfered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 10, 1994
    Assignee: Grob & Co.
    Inventor: Ernst Steiner
  • Patent number: 4859195
    Abstract: The contact clamp having a plurality of slots for the contact bars comprises a cover designed as circuit board. It includes at its inner side a plurality of conductors which respectively connect a metallic disk located at the other end of the conductor which pin belongs to a multiple contact plug located on the top of the casing. Two metallic disks located laterally adjacent are allocated to one contact bar including two conductor bars and elastically supported contact pins urged against the conductor bars contact mentioned disks. The separate electrical circuit for every contact bar formed by respective two conductors allows a connection of every contact bar to an individual indicating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1989
    Assignee: Grob & Co., Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Ernst Steiner
  • Patent number: 4854351
    Abstract: The contact bar comprises an outer bar having a U-shaped cross-section and a plurality of bar portions located therein and separated therefrom by an insulating layer. The bar portions are insulated against each other by intermediate insulating layers in partition planes extending laterally as well as parallel to the longitudinal edge. The bar portions are produced suitably by a punching out of a bar such that they, when fitted into each other, will supplement themselves again to a bar such that a shorter bar portion cut proceeding from the upper longitudinal edge of a longer bar portion fits into the longer bar portion. The longer bar portion is at the side facing the end of the contact bar, at which only the connecting contact for a power source is located is considerably narrower than at the opposite side where the drop wires will contact the bar portion upon a yarn breakage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 1988
    Date of Patent: August 8, 1989
    Assignee: Grob & Co. Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Ernst Steiner
  • Patent number: 4838320
    Abstract: One of the bars of a contact bar, preferably the inner bar (12) has an electrical resistance which increases linearly along its entire length and which can be scanned as measurable value at any desired point along said bar. A preferable embodiment for this purpose is a metallic conductive spiral (11) which is wound onto a body of insulating material (10). An inner bar (12) configured in such a manner is held in an outer bar (13), the upper part of which is of U-shaped cross section, whereby a layer of insulating material (14) separates said inner bar from said outer bar of U-shaped cross section. The metallic conductive spiral (11) has, compared to a solid bar, a substantially higher electrical resistance which is suited for the purpose of method of measurements according to the principle of the electrical resistance bridge in order to localize a dropped drop wire on the contact bar in the event of a warp end breakage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 1988
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1989
    Assignee: Grob & Co. Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Ernst Steiner
  • Patent number: 4093864
    Abstract: In the illustrated embodiments, a pair of primary X-ray diaphragm plates have cooperating front edges each with angled sections forming a generally V-shaped edge configuration and providing an included aperture angle facing the symmetry axis, of from 50.degree. to 150.degree., the angled sections being connected by a definitely rounded central section for conforming to rounded boundary contours of different organs such as the heart. The diaphragm plates are advantageously oppositely inclined and crossed so as to be capable of assuming a symmetrical overlapping relation in defining small diaphragm apertures. Further the diaphragm plate front edges may exhibit progressively reduced absorption values to provide a penumbra effect about the freely transmitted cone of rays particularly so as to facilitate examination of marginal zones of an organ which is surrounded by regions of greatly reduced absorption value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1976
    Date of Patent: June 6, 1978
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Alfred Hahn, Ernst Steiner, Rudolf Pospischil