Patents by Inventor Frank Otto
Frank Otto 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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Publication number: 20060286905Abstract: A grinding and/or polishing machine for grain crops such as rice, wheat or other types of grain crops, comprising a grinding rotor surrounding a sifting basket. The grinding rotor is embodied as a hollow shaft and has openings enabling air to enter the working area. The air enters the hollow shaft via an upper and a lower air inlet. The working area is defined by a vertically displaceable catchment plate on the side of the product outlet. The displaceability of said catchment plate is adjusted by a membrane drive.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2004Publication date: December 21, 2006Applicant: BUEHLER AGInventors: Markus Brockfeld, Christoph Kaufmann, Frank-Otto Goerlitz
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Patent number: 7088117Abstract: A cartridge (10) includes a chuck plate (12) for receiving a wafer (74) and a probe plate (14) for establishing electrical contact with the wafer. In use, a mechanical connecting device (90) locks the chuck plate and the probe plate fixed relative to one another to maintain alignment of the wafer and the probe plate. Preferably, electrical contact with the wafer is established using a probe card (50) that is movably mounted to the probe plate by means of a plurality of leaf springs (52.) The mechanical connecting device is preferably a kinematic coupling including a male connector (94) and first and second opposed jaws (122, 124.) Each of the jaws is pivotable from a retracted position in which the male connector can be inserted between the jaws and an engaging position in which the jaws prevent withdrawal of the male connector from between the jaws. The male connector is movable between an extended and a retracted position, and is biased towards the retracted position.Type: GrantFiled: March 24, 2003Date of Patent: August 8, 2006Assignee: Aehr Test SystemInventors: Frank Otto Uher, John William Andberg, Mark Charles Carbone, Donald Paul Richmond, II
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Publication number: 20060124000Abstract: The invention relates to a system for dehulling by cylinders, in particular to a system for dehulling grain fruits. An exemplary system includes a pair of rubber cylinders arranged in a housing. The product supply is carried out with the aid of a chute in a pneumatic conveyor which operates in a pressure mode and can be embodied in the form of a conveyor tube provided with an elbow. The system can make it possible to obtain a better supply performance and reduced breaking propensity.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 14, 2003Publication date: June 15, 2006Applicant: Buhler AGInventor: Frank-Otto Gorlitz
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Publication number: 20040261635Abstract: The invention relates to a roller-sheller, in particular to a rubber roller-sheller (1) for shelling rice or other cereals.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2004Publication date: December 30, 2004Applicant: BUHLER AGInventors: Frank-Otto Gorlitz, Edmund Chylinski
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Publication number: 20040046578Abstract: A cartridge (10) includes a chuck plate (12) for receiving a wafer (74) and a probe plate (14) for establishing electrical contact with the wafer. In use, a mechanical connecting device (90) locks the chuck plate and the probe plate fixed relative to one another to maintain alignment of the wafer and the probe plate. Preferably, electrical contact with the wafer is established using a probe card (50) that is movably mounted to the probe plate by means of a plurality of leaf springs (52.) The mechanical connecting device is preferably a kinematic coupling including a male connector (94) and first and second opposed jaws (122, 124.) Each of the jaws is pivotable from a retracted position in which the male connector can be inserted between the jaws and an engaging position in which the jaws prevent withdrawal of the male connector from between the jaws. The male connector is movable between an extended and a retracted position, and is biased towards the retracted position.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2003Publication date: March 11, 2004Inventors: Frank Otto Uher, John William Andberg, Mark Charles Carbone, Donald Paul Richmond
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Publication number: 20030192412Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for marking and analyzing detects in a means for cutting-to-size boards of wood at least in part, in which defect detection is combined with marking by a marking means. By an assignment between the detected defects and marks, the steps in the process following cutting-to-size can be controlled as a function of the existence of defects.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 10, 2002Publication date: October 16, 2003Applicant: Siempelkamp Handling Systeme GmbH & Co.Inventors: Frank Otto, Peter Kryst, Joseph Matukewicz
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Patent number: 6580283Abstract: A cartridge (10) includes a chuck plate (12) for receiving a wafer (74) and a probe plate (14) for establishing electrical contact with the wafer. In use, a mechanical connecting device (90) locks the chuck plate and the probe plate fixed relative to one another to maintain alignment of the wafer and the probe plate. Preferably, electrical contact with the wafer is established using a probe card (50) that is movably mounted to the probe plate by means of a plurality of leaf springs (52). The mechanical connecting device is preferably a kinematic coupling including a male connector (94) and first and second opposed jaws (122, 124). The cartridge can then be removed from the alignment device and placed in a burn-in or test chamber that does not itself require means for aligning the wafer or for providing a probing force.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 1999Date of Patent: June 17, 2003Assignee: Aehr Test SystemsInventors: Mark Charles Carbone, Frank Otto Uher, John William Andberg, Jerzy Lobacz, Donald Paul Richmond, II
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Patent number: 6556032Abstract: A cartridge (10) includes a chuck plate (12) for receiving a wafer (74) and a probe plate (14) for establishing electrical contact with the wafer. In use, a mechanical connecting device (90) locks the chuck plate and the probe plate fixed relative to one another to maintain alignment of the wafer and the probe plate. Preferably, electrical contact with the wafer is established using a probe card (50) that is movably mounted to the probe plate by means of a plurality of leaf springs (52.) The mechanical connecting device is preferably a kinematic coupling including a male connector (94) and first and second opposed jaws (122, 124.) Each of the jaws is pivotable from a retracted position in which the male connector can be inserted between the jaws and an engaging position in which the jaws prevent withdrawal of the male connector from between the jaws. The male connector is movable between an extended and a retracted position, and is biased towards the retracted position.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 2001Date of Patent: April 29, 2003Assignee: Aehr Test SystemsInventors: Frank Otto Uher, John William Andberg, Mark Charles Carbone, Donald Paul Richmond, II
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Patent number: 6543408Abstract: In internal combustion engines with direct fuel injection an injector injects fuel into the combustion chamber to form an ignitable fuel/air mixture with separately supplied combustion air, with the mixture to be ignited by a spark plug. The fuel is injected in a cone shape and the electrodes are protected from being wetted with fuel and coking if they are disposed outside the lateral surface of the conical fuel jet generated by the injection nozzle. In order to bring ignitable mixture between the electrodes and to ensure optimal operating behavior of the internal combustion engine by improving the combustion sequence, a combustion chamber configuration is provided such that the conical fuel jet is injected in a free jet which is substantially uninfluenced by the combustion chamber perimeter, and the electrodes of the spark plug project into a fuel vortex extending from the lateral surface during injection.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2002Date of Patent: April 8, 2003Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AGInventors: Johannes Ernst, Bernhard Heel, Rolf Klenk, Frank Otto, Klaus Rössler, Guido Vent
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Patent number: 6413113Abstract: A kinematic coupling includes a male connector (94) and first and second opposed jaws (122, 124.) Each of the jaws is pivotable from a retracted position in which the male connector can be inserted between the jaws and an engaging position in which the jaws prevent withdrawal of the male connector from between the jaws. The male connector is movable between an extended and a retracted position, and is biased towards the retracted position. This provides a positive clamping force when the kinematic coupling is engaged.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 1999Date of Patent: July 2, 2002Assignee: Aehr Test SystemsInventors: Frank Otto Uher, John William Andberg, Mark Charles Carbone, Donald Paul Richmond, II
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Patent number: 6403264Abstract: An invention is described through which it is possible to reduce in quantity the coloured, mostly dark, and frequently adhesive deposits which form in lead accumulators with separators of filled poly-olefins during formation and operation. The essential feature is that the separators contain as plasticizer a process oil with a CA value of ≦6%, a sulphur content of ≦2000 ppm and a polar part of ≦1%. Preferred process oils to be used as plasticizers are relatively naphthenic and naphthenic oils.Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 1999Date of Patent: June 11, 2002Assignee: Daramic, Inc.Inventors: Hellmut Bünsch, Klaus Heinrich Ihmels, Frank Otto Theubert
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Publication number: 20020030502Abstract: A cartridge (10) includes a chuck plate (12) for receiving a wafer (74) and a probe plate (14) for establishing electrical contact with the wafer. In use, a mechanical connecting device (90) locks the chuck plate and the probe plate fixed relative to one another to maintain alignment of the wafer and the probe plate. Preferably, electrical contact with the wafer is established using a probe card (50) that is movably mounted to the probe plate by means of a plurality of leaf springs (52.) The mechanical connecting device is preferably a kinematic coupling including a male connector (94) and first and second opposed jaws (122, 124.) Each of the jaws is pivotable from a retracted position in which the male connector can be inserted between the jaws and an engaging position in which the jaws prevent withdrawal of the male connector from between the jaws. The male connector is movable between an extended and a retracted position, and is biased towards the retracted position.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 18, 2001Publication date: March 14, 2002Inventors: Frank Otto Uher, John William Andberg, Mark Charles Carbone, Donald Paul Richmond
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Patent number: 6340895Abstract: A cartridge (10) includes a chuck plate (12) for receiving a wafer (74) and a probe plate (14) for establishing electrical contact with the wafer. In use, a mechanical connecting device (90) locks the chuck plate and the probe plate fixed relative to one another to maintain alignment of the wafer and the probe plate. Preferably, electrical contact with the wafer is established using a probe card (50) that is movably mounted to the probe plate by means of a plurality of leaf springs (52.) The mechanical connecting device is preferably a kinematic coupling including a male connector (94) and first and second opposed jaws (122, 124.) Each of the jaws is pivotable from a retracted position in which the male connector can be inserted between the jaws and an engaging position in which the jaws prevent withdrawal of the male connector from between the jaws. The male connector is movable between an extended and a retracted position, and is biased towards the retracted position.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 1999Date of Patent: January 22, 2002Assignee: AEHR Test Systems, Inc.Inventors: Frank Otto Uher, John William Andberg, Mark Charles Carbone, Donald Paul Richmond, II
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Publication number: 20020002008Abstract: A kinematic coupling includes a male connector (94) and first and second opposed jaws (122, 124.) Each of the jaws is pivotable from a retracted position in which the male connector can be inserted between the jaws and an engaging position in which the jaws prevent withdrawal of the male connector from between the jaws. The male connector is movable between an extended and a retracted position, and is biased towards the retracted position. This provides a positive clamping force when the kinematic coupling is engaged.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 1999Publication date: January 3, 2002Inventors: FRANK OTTO UHER, JOHN WILLIAM ANDBERG, MARK CHARLES CARBONE, DONALD PAUL RICHMOND
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Patent number: 6217367Abstract: A kinematic coupling includes a male connector (94) and first and second opposed jaws (122, 124.) Each of the jaws is pivotable from a retracted position in which the male connector can be inserted between the jaws and an engaging position in which the jaws prevent withdrawal of the male connector from between the jaws. The male connector is movable between an extended and a retracted position, and is biased towards the retracted position. This provides a positive clamping force when the kinematic coupling is engaged.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 1999Date of Patent: April 17, 2001Assignee: Aehr Test SystemsInventors: Frank Otto Uher, John William Andberg, Mark Charles Carbone, Donald Paul Richmond, II
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Patent number: 6199780Abstract: When compacting particulate material, such as granular or powdery material, the same is fed to a first section which determines the compaction degree. In a second section, the weight/volume ratio is further increased so that it determines further the ultimate compaction degree. Optionally the compaction degree is controlled a third time within a third section which is normally the final section. In order to influence and to control the compaction degree at least in the first and second sections, energy can be absorbed by means of separate drives within these sections.Type: GrantFiled: June 20, 1997Date of Patent: March 13, 2001Assignee: Bühler GmbHInventor: Frank-Otto Görlitz
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Patent number: 5736588Abstract: Rigid foams which possess urethane groups are prepared by reacting polyisocyanates with compounds which possess at least two active hydrogen atoms which are reactive towards isocyanate groups, in the presence of water and alkanes as blowing agent and solution promoters. The solution promoter used is a compound with a polar group.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 1996Date of Patent: April 7, 1998Assignee: Bayer AktiengesellschaftInventors: Norbert Eisen, Walter Klan, Frank Otto, James Thompson-Colon
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Patent number: 4978011Abstract: A sorting machine for grained products comprises at least one sorting board which is inclined relative to horizontal and vertical planes and reciprocatingly vibratable in a plane and direction suitable for sorting, a unit for supplying a product to be sorted and arranged in one region of the sorting board and a unit for separating and withdrawing a sorted product and located in another region of the sorting board, the sorting board with the supplying unit and the separating and withdrawing unit together forming a sorting unit, two imbalance drives which operate in opposite directions and cooperate with the sorting unit for driving the latter in vibration, a base frame, a unit forming at least three supporting points on which the sorting unit is supported in a vibration-damping manner freely movably so as to provide inclination of the sorting unit relative to horizontal and vertical planes, and a unit for additionally adjusting the inclination relative to the horizontal and vertical planes.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 1988Date of Patent: December 18, 1990Assignee: Buhler GmbHInventors: Frank-Otto Gorlitz, Friedrich-Wilheim Rusch
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Patent number: 4674262Abstract: A device for temporarily holding containers on a feed connection piece includes a plurality of expanding segments surrounding the connecting piece and being held in position thereon by a resilient sleeve. Lower parts of respective segments extend over a lower edge on the connecting piece and are tilted by levers attached to a top edge of respective segments so as to expand the elastic sleeve into engagement with an inner surface of a container. The expanding segments are returned into their rest position by the resilient constricting force of the sleeve.Type: GrantFiled: March 17, 1986Date of Patent: June 23, 1987Assignee: Buhler-Miag GmbHInventor: Frank-Otto Goerlitz
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Patent number: 4276158Abstract: The exchangeable planar screen includes a screen frame having an open lateral wall and a collecting floor and, above the floor, a meshed fabric; a duct unit assembled of at least two separate and intersecting channels adjoins the open wall of the frame whereby one channel is flush with the collecting floor and the other channel has a funnel-like inlet section adjoining the edge of the fabric and is directed perpendicularly relative to the one channel.Type: GrantFiled: March 5, 1980Date of Patent: June 30, 1981Assignee: Buhler-Miag GmbHInventor: Frank Otto Gorlitz