Patents by Inventor Frank Demling

Frank Demling 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: 5616965
    Abstract: Apparatus for controlling and adjusting an arbitrary number of adjustment units for a motor vehicle includes an electro-pneumatic bus to which are connected in arbitrary sequence, both electrically and pneumatically, all the pertinent adjusting units. The electro-pneumatic bus is composed of at least one pneumatic adjustment pressure line and of at least one electric control signal line which may contain several conductors. While reference data from a central control electronics are applied through the electric control signal line of the electro-pneumatic bus, the individual adjusting units are connected through associated valves in the pneumatic system to the pneumatic adjustment pressure line of the electro-pneumatic bus. The adjusting units preferably are designed to be modular control loops. As a result the pneumatically driven adjusting members units not only two positions, but also they may be set and controlled in quasi-analogue manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1997
    Assignees: WOCO Franz-Josef Wolf & Co., Alcatel SEL Aktiengesellschaft, Mercedes-Benz AG
    Inventors: Franz J. Wolf, Uwe Reichert, Walter Decker, Frank Demling, Andrew Ogrissek, Dieter Feichtiger, Martin Lindmayer, Dieter Heinle