Patents by Inventor Frank Poehlau

Frank Poehlau 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: 7070496
    Abstract: An air outlet device for a vehicle, especially for an aircraft, comprises a nozzle body with an air intake opening and an air outlet opening. The air outlet device further comprises a holding element formed with an accommodating opening having the nozzle body supported therein for rotation about a longitudinal axis extending through the air intake opening and the air outlet opening, and a valve body arranged coaxially within the nozzle body and guided by the holding element. Upon rotation of the nozzle body, the valve body can be displaced in the nozzle body between a closing position for blocking the air outlet opening and a maximum opening position for clearing the air outlet opening to the maximum extent. The valve body is of a hollow configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2006
    Assignee: Goodrich Hella Aerospace Lighting Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Thomassin, Frank Poehlau, Klaus Kurz
  • Patent number: 7044439
    Abstract: An easy-to-assemble motor-adjustable throttle valve for fluid channels, especially in motor vehicle air conditioning systems, which can be obtained when a geared motor is integrated in the setting stem without causing an unacceptable reduction of the remaining clear channel cross-section. A built-in housing fitted with a high-speed small servomotor and provided with a strongly reducing shaft gear disposed inn the axial extension of the housing is radially inserted through a side wall of the channel and coaxially inserted into a pot-shaped tapered section of one end of the setting stem, the output wheel of the shaft gear being formed on the inner covering surface of such section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2001
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2006
    Assignee: Oechsler Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Frank Poehlau
  • Publication number: 20050197056
    Abstract: An air outlet device for a vehicle, especially for an aircraft, comprises a nozzle body with an air intake opening and an air outlet opening. The air outlet device further comprises a holding element formed with an accommodating opening having the nozzle body supported therein for rotation about a longitudinal axis extending through the air intake opening and the air outlet opening, and a valve body arranged coaxially within the nozzle body and guided by the holding element. Upon rotation of the nozzle body, the valve body can be displaced in the nozzle body between a closing position for blocking the air outlet opening and a maximum opening position for clearing the air outlet opening to the maximum extent. The valve body is of a hollow configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2004
    Publication date: September 8, 2005
    Inventors: Stefan Thomassin, Frank Poehlau, Klaus Kurz
  • Patent number: 6887147
    Abstract: An air outlet device for a vehicle, especially for an aircraft, comprises a nozzle body with an air intake opening and an air outlet opening. The air outlet device further comprises a holding element formed with an accommodating opening having the nozzle body supported therein for rotation about a longitudinal axis extending through the air intake opening and the air outlet opening, and a valve body arranged coaxially within the nozzle body and guided by the holding element. Upon rotation of the nozzle body, the valve body can be displaced in the nozzle body between a closing position for blocking the air outlet opening and a maximum opening position for clearing the air outlet opening to the maximum extent. The valve body is of a hollow configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: Goodrich Hella Aerospace Lighting Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Thomassin, Frank Poehlau, Klaus Kurz
  • Patent number: 6811136
    Abstract: A piezoelectric valve whose housing defines a valve chamber wherein at least one piezoelectric flexural transducer is located. The piezoelectric flexural transducer possesses a contact face, which faces a first outer wall of the valve housing. This first outer wall is in the form of a wiring support which possesses a support body consisting of plastic material, which at the outer side opposite to the valve chamber bears a wiring arrangement. The wiring arrangement is in electrical contact by way of a via extending through a cutout in the support body with the piezoelectric flexural transducer, since the via consists of an electrically conductive elastic plug, against which the at least one contact face is thrust at the inner face of the support body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2004
    Assignee: Festo AG & Co.
    Inventors: Wolfgang Eberhardt, Heinz Kück, Carsten Pein, Frank Pöhlau, Andreas Schmid, Stefan Klump, Michael Riedel, Jürgen Sestak, Udo Töpfer, Hubert Krämer, Martin Maichl, Markus Hoffman, Gebhard Munz, Michael Weinmann
  • Publication number: 20040177718
    Abstract: The invention relates to a harmonic drive which can be manufactured from a small number of plastic injection moulded parts, dispensing with the additional space required for a sensor disk which is flange-mounted on the main drive pinion in order to detect kinematic information for a control circuit, by integrating the corresponding sensor equipment directly into the drive. Preferably, the rotating drive ring is fitted with at least one magnetic dipole as a sensor transmitter whereby the movement thereof when it passes a fixed position on the housing is detected by a stationary detector which is preferably embodied in the form of a Hall generator and mounted on the support ring of the drive.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2004
    Publication date: September 16, 2004
    Inventor: Frank Poehlau
  • Patent number: 6790059
    Abstract: An electric bus bar for low to medium current magnitudes is produced by co-extruding a support structure and a plurality of strips embedded therein. The material of the support structure is plastic and non-electroplatable, whereas the material of the strip is plastic and electroplatable. After a one-piece support element comprising the support structure and the strips has been formed by the co-extrusion step, exposed surfaces of the strips are electroplated with an electrically conductive material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: September 14, 2004
    Assignee: Oechsler Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Frank Poehlau
  • Patent number: 6776067
    Abstract: The invention relates to a harmonic drive (12) which can be provided with overload protection that is easy to influence constructionally and a free-wheeling characteristic. To this end, the spokes (21) of the internal geared wheel (15) are specifically deformable depending on the torque or the direction of rotation. The spoke shafts (22) are divided crosswise to the drive axis (24) or in a radial direction in relation thereto. This division (45) is bridged over flexibly in the peripheral direction of the internal geared wheel so that the effective radial length of the spoke may be reduced in the presence of the appropriate bending stress by buckling the shaft, in order to then eliminate the local toothing contact between the internal geared wheel edges (13) and the outer support ring (11) in the extension of the spoke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2004
    Assignee: Oechsler Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Joseph Bögelein, Frank Pöhlau
  • Patent number: 6772655
    Abstract: In order to guide supply or construction elements through a harmonic drive (8) in a central manner, said harmonic drive is embodied in a hollow gear. The harmonic drive directly provides a given correcting translatory variable which is defined by the speed of rotation of the output ring and motor driven harmonic generator when the output ring axially displaces a threaded rod (26) which freely extends in a coaxial manner through a longitudinal bore in the harmonic drive and engages with said output ring, said axial displacement occurring as a result of the rotational movement of the inner thread of the output ring, whereby the threaded rod is secured to the housing and prevented from rotating (29, 30). The threaded rod can move in a linear manner in relation to the gear motor (13) when the gear motor is installed in a stationary manner or when the treaded rod is installed in a stationary manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Oechsler AG
    Inventor: Frank Poehlau
  • Publication number: 20040113111
    Abstract: An easy-to-assemble motor-adjustable throttle valve (12) for fluid channels (11), especially in motor vehicle air conditioning systems, which can be obtained when a geared motor (14) is integrated in the setting stem without causing an unacceptable reduction of the remaining clear channel cross-section. A built-in housing fitted with a high-speed small servomotor and provided with a strongly reducing shaft gear (28,31) disposed in the axial extension of the housing is radially inserted through a side wall of the channel and coaxially inserted into a pot-shaped tapered section (19) of one end of the setting stem, the output wheel of the shaft gear being formed on the inner covering surface of said section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2004
    Publication date: June 17, 2004
    Inventor: Frank Poehlau
  • Publication number: 20040038567
    Abstract: An electric bus bar for low to medium current magnitudes is produced by co-extruding a support structure and a plurality of strips embedded therein. The material of the support structure is plastic and non-electroplatable, whereas the material of the strip is plastic and electroplatable. After a one-piece support element comprising the support structure and the strips has been formed by the co-extrusion step, exposed surfaces of the strips are electroplated with an electrically conductive material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2003
    Publication date: February 26, 2004
    Inventor: Frank Poehlau
  • Publication number: 20040025629
    Abstract: A shaft gear includes a housing in which a bearing gear is fixed, and a cup-shaped output ring driven about an axis and including a deformable wall which defines a geared flexible strip. The output ring is disposed inside of the bearing gear and is deformed by a rotating eccentric, whereby the geared strip revolves around a geared surface of the bearing gear. The geared strip and the geared surface have a truncated conoidal shape in order to minimize the risk of breaking-off the geared strip.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2003
    Publication date: February 12, 2004
    Inventor: Frank Poehlau
  • Publication number: 20040005853
    Abstract: An air outlet device for a vehicle, especially for an aircraft, comprises a nozzle body with an air intake opening and an air outlet opening. The air outlet device further comprises a holding element formed with an accommodating opening having the nozzle body supported therein for rotation about a longitudinal axis extending through the air intake opening and the air outlet opening, and a valve body arranged coaxially within the nozzle body and guided by the holding element. Upon rotation of the nozzle body, the valve body can be displaced in the nozzle body between a closing position for blocking the air outlet opening and a maximum opening position for clearing the air outlet opening to the maximum extent. The valve body is of a hollow configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2003
    Publication date: January 8, 2004
    Applicant: Goodrich Hella Aerospace Lighting Systems Gmbh
    Inventors: Stefan Thomassin, Frank Poehlau, Klaus Kurz
  • Publication number: 20030234151
    Abstract: A shaft transmission can be equipped with an integrated gently switching neutral clutch by means of a drive core widening approximately conically, which is axially displaceable relative to the inner wheel between a tapered and round free region (12.2) and a non-circular drive region (12.1). For changing of gears a shifting claw engaging in a circular groove on the drive core (12.1) for its axial displacement in the inner wheel (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2002
    Publication date: December 25, 2003
    Inventor: Frank Poehlau
  • Patent number: 6648786
    Abstract: The invention relates to a gear motor which is easy to install and which due to its especially flat design can be utilized in various ways also in narrow spaces. To this end, the gearmotor is provided on one side of a wheel-shaped housing base body with an especially short motor and on the opposite side and in a coaxial relation thereto with a reducing gear. The main gear drive element can be configured integrally with the motor shaft and with a circular disk as the line support for the disk-shaped rotor by plastic injection molding. The track of said line support is introduced in the disk surface as an electroconductive lining by way of MID technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2003
    Assignee: Oechsler Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Frank Poehlau
  • Patent number: 6589109
    Abstract: An air outlet device (10) for a vehicle, especially for an aircraft, comprises a nozzle body (40) with an air intake opening (44) and an air outlet opening (46). The air outlet device (10) further comprises a holding element (14) formed with an accommodating opening (36) having the nozzle body (40) supported therein for rotation about a longitudinal axis (42) extending through the air intake opening (44) and the air outlet opening (46), and a valve body (68), arranged coaxially within the nozzle body (40) and guided by the holding element (14). Upon rotation of the nozzle body (40), the valve body (68) can be displaced in the nozzle body (40) between a closing position for blocking the air outlet opening (46) and a maximum opening position for clearing the air outlet opening (46) to the maximum extent. The valve body (68) is of a hollow configuration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Goodrich Hella Aerospace Lighting Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Thomassin, Frank Poehlau, Klaus Kurz
  • Publication number: 20030121363
    Abstract: In order to guide supply or construction elements through a harmonic drive (8) in a central manner, said harmonic drive is embodied in a hollow gear. The harmonic drive directly provides a given correcting translatory variable which is defined by the speed of rotation of the output ring and motor driven harmonic generator when the output ring axially displaces a threaded rod (26) which freely extends in a coaxial manner through a longitudinal bore in the harmonic drive and engages with said output ring, said axial displacement occurring as a result of the rotational movement of the inner thread of the output ring, whereby the threaded rod is secured to the housing and prevented from rotating (29, 30). The threaded rod can move in a linear manner in relation to the gear motor (13) when the gear motor is installed in a stationary manner or when the treaded rod is installed in a stationary manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2002
    Publication date: July 3, 2003
    Inventor: Frank Poehlau
  • Publication number: 20020119745
    Abstract: An air outlet device (10) for a vehicle, especially for an aircraft, comprises a nozzle body (40) with an air intake opening (44) and an air outlet opening (46). The air outlet device (10) further comprises a holding element (14) formed with an accommodating opening (36) having the nozzle body (40) supported therein for rotation about a longitudinal axis (42) extending through the air intake opening (44) and the air outlet opening (46), and a valve body (68), arranged coaxially within the nozzle body (40) and guided by the holding element (14). Upon rotation of the nozzle body (40), the valve body (68) can be displaced in the nozzle body (40) between a closing position for blocking the air outlet opening (46) and a maximum opening position for clearing the air outlet opening (46) to the maximum extent, The valve body (68) is of a hollow configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2002
    Publication date: August 29, 2002
    Inventors: Stefan Thomassin, Frank Poehlau, Klaus Kurz
  • Patent number: RE38068
    Abstract: The data carrier card has a card base structure formed with a recess in which one or more chips are disposed. The recess can be closed by a cover that is connected to the card base structure via a flexible area. The cap can thereby be pivoted relative to the base body of the card, with the flexible area acting as a hinge. The flexible region and the cover may either be construed in one piece with the card base structure, or the flexible area may be part of a label.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Frank Stoll, Frank Pöhlau