Patents by Inventor Frank Hummel
Frank Hummel 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).
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Patent number: 11987311Abstract: A lock system for securing a battery of a vehicle operable by muscle power and/or motor power, in particular an electric bicycle. The lock system includes: a deadbolt which is pivotable about a bolt axis, a lock cylinder which is configured to actuate the deadbolt, and a lifting element which is coupled to the lock cylinder, the lock cylinder being movable into a holding position and into a release position, the lock cylinder in the holding position preventing a removal of the battery in a removal direction, and in the release position allowing the removal of the battery. The lifting element is configured to move the battery in the removal direction when the deadbolt is moved from the holding position into the release position.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2020Date of Patent: May 21, 2024Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Christoph Schumacher, Dennis Mehlo, Haris Alisic, Lisa Bayer, Thilo Koeder, Volker Jabs, Frank Hummel
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Publication number: 20220081049Abstract: A lock system for securing a battery of a vehicle operable by muscle power and/or motor power, in particular an electric bicycle. The lock system includes: a deadbolt which is pivotable about a bolt axis, a lock cylinder which is configured to actuate the deadbolt, and a lifting element which is coupled to the lock cylinder, the lock cylinder being movable into a holding position and into a release position, the lock cylinder in the holding position preventing a removal of the battery in a removal direction, and in the release position allowing the removal of the battery. The lifting element is configured to move the battery in the removal direction when the deadbolt is moved from the holding position into the release position.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2020Publication date: March 17, 2022Inventors: Christoph Schumacher, Dennis Mehlo, Haris Alisic, Lisa Bayer, Thilo Koeder, Volker Jabs, Frank Hummel
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Patent number: 11024917Abstract: A retaining element provided for two-stage fastening to an accumulator or which is part of an accumulator, safeguards against removal from a retaining device. The retaining device is oriented toward the retaining element and is fastened in an interior of tubes of a bicycle frame of an electrically driven bicycle.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2017Date of Patent: June 1, 2021Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Christian Trif, Christoph Schumacher, Frank Hummel, Martin Tenzer, Volker Jabs
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Publication number: 20190165347Abstract: A retaining element provided for two-stage fastening to an accumulator or which is part of an accumulator, safeguards against removal from a retaining device. The retaining device is oriented toward the retaining element and is fastened in an interior of tubes of a bicycle frame of an electrically driven bicycle.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 12, 2017Publication date: May 30, 2019Inventors: Christian Trif, Christoph Schumacher, Frank Hummel, Martin Tenzer, Volker Jabs
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Patent number: 10207879Abstract: A honing machine using a robot to load gears into a loadbox at a loadbox station. The loadbox moves downstream to a position over an empty pallet in a pallet load station where the gears are released into the empty pallet. A series of downstream machining stations performing a series of honing operations on the bores of the gears in a series of pallets. A removal mechanism removing the honed gears simultaneously from the pallet at a pallet unload station. An overhead gripper on a movable gantry grips the empty pallet at the unload station and returns the pallet to the pallet load station where the pallet is reloaded with additional gears from the loadbox. The honing machine can continuously hone gears using only one pallet at each machining station and one pallet at the pallet loading station.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Gehring L.P.Inventors: Dennis Monnier, Wayne Starosciak, Frank Hummel
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Publication number: 20180093837Abstract: A honing machine using a robot to load gears into a loadbox at a loadbox station. The loadbox moves downstream to a position over an empty pallet in a pallet load station where the gears are released into the empty pallet. A series of downstream machining stations performing a series of honing operations on the bores of the gears in a series of pallets. A removal mechanism removing the honed gears simultaneously from the pallet at a pallet unload station. An overhead gripper on a movable gantry grips the empty pallet at the unload station and returns the pallet to the pallet load station where the pallet is reloaded with additional gears from the loadbox. The honing machine can continuously hone gears using only one pallet at each machining station and one pallet at the pallet loading station.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2017Publication date: April 5, 2018Applicant: Gehring L.P.Inventors: Dennis Monnier, Wayne Starosciak, Frank Hummel
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Patent number: 9221106Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) for the combined precision turning and honing of a cylindrical borehole (35). The device (1) according to the invention can comprise either only honing stones (29) which can be fed or also cutters (7) that can be fed during machining.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2011Date of Patent: December 29, 2015Assignee: Gehring Technologies GmbHInventors: Gerhard Flores, Erwin Baumgartner, Frank Hummel, Michael Rach
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Publication number: 20140113535Abstract: A honing tool for machining cylindrical bores has a tool body provided with a guide bore and a feed rod disposed in the guide bore. The tool body has a honing stone receptacle extending from the guide bore in a radial direction of the tool body outwardly through the tool body. A honing stone is arranged in the honing stone receptacle. A pin is disposed in the honing stone and projects laterally from the honing stone. An elongate spring is disposed in the tool body parallel to the honing stone, wherein the elongate spring element has a first end section, a central section, and a second end section opposite the first end section. The central section is guided across the pin and the first end section is secured in the radial direction in the tool body.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 18, 2013Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: GEHRING TECHNOLOGIES GMBHInventors: Erwin Baumgartner, Jörg Necker, Klaus Fleckenstein, Andreas Senke, Frank Hummel, Alexander Christian Weber
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Publication number: 20130058730Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1) for the combined precision turning and honing of a cylindrical borehole (35). The device (1) according to the invention can comprise either only honing stones (29) which can be fed or also cutters (7) that can be fed during machining.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 11, 2011Publication date: March 7, 2013Applicant: GEHRING TECHNOLOGIES GMBHInventors: Gerhard Flores, Erwin Baumgartner, Frank Hummel, Michael Rach
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Patent number: 8378852Abstract: A monitoring system for alerting operators of aircraft or other vehicles when they are approaching a geographical feature of interest, such as a runway, taxiway or other aircraft. The system includes a database having at least one geo-referenced chart, a processor, a positioning system configured to identify a number of aircraft or other vehicle operational parameters and transmit that data to the processor, and a display unit configured to display the present position of the aircraft on the geo-referenced chart. After receiving the operational parameters, the processor identifies a virtual containment zone centered about the aircraft or vehicle. The processor further monitors the position of the aircraft or other vehicle relative to any geographical features of interest and determines whether at least a portion of a geographical feature is located within the containment area. If such a condition is detected, a notification is generated and presented to the operator who may respond accordingly.Type: GrantFiled: September 23, 2008Date of Patent: February 19, 2013Assignee: Universal Avionics Systems Corp.Inventors: Joachim Laurenz Naimer, Frank Hummel, David Zeitouni, Patrick Krohn
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Patent number: 8373579Abstract: A monitoring system for alerting pilots of aircraft or operators of vehicles when the aircraft or vehicle is approaching a geographical feature of interest, such as a runway, includes a database including at least one geo-referenced chart; a processor; a positioning system configured to identify at least one of the position, heading, track and velocity of the vehicle, and transmit such data to the processor; and a display unit configured to display the present position of the aircraft on the at least one geo-referenced chart. After receiving the position, heading, track and/or velocity data, the processor determines whether the aircraft has entered a containment area associated with a geographical feature of interest, and if so, provides a visible notification to the pilot or operator, which may comprise a change in display of the geographical feature of interest.Type: GrantFiled: December 6, 2006Date of Patent: February 12, 2013Assignee: Universal Avionics Systems CorporationInventors: Joachim Laurenz Naimer, Frank Hummel, John Jorgensen, Patrick Krohn
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Publication number: 20090115637Abstract: A monitoring system for alerting operators of aircraft or other vehicles when they are approaching a geographical feature of interest, such as a runway, taxiway or other aircraft. The system includes a database having at least one geo-referenced chart, a processor, a positioning system configured to identify a number of aircraft or other vehicle operational parameters and transmit that data to the processor, and a display unit configured to display the present position of the aircraft on the geo-referenced chart. After receiving the operational parameters, the processor identifies a virtual containment zone centered about the aircraft or vehicle. The processor further monitors the position of the aircraft or other vehicle relative to any geographical features of interest and determines whether at least a portion of a geographical feature is located within the containment area. If such a condition is detected, a notification is generated and presented to the operator who may respond accordingly.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2008Publication date: May 7, 2009Inventors: Joachim Laurenz Naimer, Frank Hummel, David Zeitouni, Patrick Krohn
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Publication number: 20080140269Abstract: A monitoring system for alerting pilots of aircraft or operators of vehicles when the aircraft or vehicle is approaching a geographical feature of interest, such as a runway, includes a database including at least one geo-referenced chart; a processor; a positioning system configured to identify at least one of the position, heading, track and velocity of the vehicle, and transmit such data to the processor; and a display unit configured to display the present position of the aircraft on the at least one geo-referenced chart. After receiving the position, heading, track and/or velocity data, the processor determines whether the aircraft has entered a containment area associated with a geographical feature of interest, and if so, provides a visible notification to the pilot or operator, which may comprise a change in display of the geographical feature of interest.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2006Publication date: June 12, 2008Inventors: Joachim Laurenz Naimer, Frank Hummel, John Jorgensen, Patrick Krohn
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Patent number: 7220099Abstract: A sealing arrangement for a rotor of a turbomachine includes a blade (2), a heat shield (3, 4) and a sealing element (5, 6) for sealing between the blade (2) and the heat shield (3, 4) when the blade (2), heat shield (3, 4) and sealing element (5, 6) are assembled for use in the rotor. The heat shield (3, 4) includes a first slot (7, 8) for accommodating a first member (11, 12) of the sealing element (5, 6), and a root portion of the blade (2) includes a second and third slot (9, 10) for accommodating a second member (13, 14) of the sealing element (5, 6). The first slot (7, 8) extends in a direction which is substantially mutually perpendicular to a direction in which the second and third slot (9) extends, and the first member (11, 12) extends in a direction which is substantially mutually perpendicular to a direction in which the second member (13, 14) extends.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2004Date of Patent: May 22, 2007Assignee: ALSTOM Technology Ltd.Inventors: Igor A. Bekrenev, Arkadi Fokine, Frank Hummel, Igor Ossipov, Sergey Trifonov
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Publication number: 20050129525Abstract: A sealing arrangement for a rotor of a turbomachine includes a blade (2), a heat shield (3, 4) and a sealing element (5, 6) for sealing between the blade (2) and the heat shield (3, 4) when the blade (2), heat shield (3, 4) and sealing element (5, 6) are assembled for use in the rotor. The heat shield (3, 4) includes a first slot (7, 8) for accommodating a first member (11, 12) of the sealing element (5, 6), and a root portion of the blade (2) includes a second and third slot (9, 10) for accommodating a second member (13, 14) of the sealing element (5, 6). The first slot (7, 8) extends in a direction which is substantially mutually perpendicular to a direction in which the second and third slot (9) extends, and the first member (11, 12) extends in a direction which is substantially mutually perpendicular to a direction in which the second member (13, 14) extends.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2004Publication date: June 16, 2005Inventors: Igor Bekrenev, Arkadi Fokine, Frank Hummel, Igor Ossipov, Sergey Trifonov
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Patent number: 6758533Abstract: In a wheel for a motor vehicle, the existing hollow spaces are filled with residual cores. These cores are made of a metallic foam or are of shell-shaped bodies or shell-shaped bodies filled with metallic foam. The cores are arranged in closed and open hollow spaces.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2002Date of Patent: July 6, 2004Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche AGInventors: Frank Hummel, Jens Stach
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Patent number: 6622946Abstract: A device for coating of workpieces has an application unit provided with a distributing plate which has at least one nozzle and at least one valve unit, the at least one valve unit being formed as a plate valve with at least one inlet slider and at least one outlet slider.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2001Date of Patent: September 23, 2003Assignee: Sieghard Schiller GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Thomas Held, Frank Hummel, Martin Speidel, Andreas Zimmermann
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Patent number: 6497459Abstract: A multi-part vehicle wheel includes a rim spider and a rim which are mutually connected by screwing devices. For connection by way of the screwing devices, the rim spider has ring surfaces which are placed flush on the rim. So that precise positioning of the metal foam core can take place, this metal foam core has core marks or needle cushions. For sealing off the hollow space of the spoke of the rim spider, which is filled with metal foam, a sealing strip or a sealing ring is arranged between the rim and the rim spider and is held in a clamped-in manner when the wheel parts are connected.Type: GrantFiled: March 16, 2001Date of Patent: December 24, 2002Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche AktiengesellschaftInventors: Frank Hummel, Jens Stach
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Patent number: 6471303Abstract: A wheel for a motor vehicle includes cavities in a spoked rim structure. These cavities are provided with a removable sand core or with a remaining core, for example, made of metal foam. A rim, or a rim and a rim flange, may be connected with the spoked rim structure, so that a two-part or a three-part wheel can be produced in a simple manner.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2001Date of Patent: October 29, 2002Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c.F. Porsche AGInventors: Frank Hummel, Jens Stach
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Publication number: 20020020768Abstract: A device for coating of workpieces has an application unit provided with a distributing plate which has at least one nozzle and at least one valve unit, the at least one valve unit being formed as a plate valve with at least one inlet slider and at least one outlet slider.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2001Publication date: February 21, 2002Inventors: Thomas Held, Frank Hummel, Martin Speidel, Andreas Zimmermann