Patents by Inventor Franz Fuchs

Franz Fuchs 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: 9143199
    Abstract: An NFC communicator has an antenna circuit to enable inductive coupling, via an RF H field, of the NFC communicator and another near field RF communicator in near field range. The antenna circuit has an antenna element coupled in parallel with a first capacitor to form a parallel LC circuit. The antenna element has an antenna coil in series with a second capacitor to reduce the voltage to which circuitry of the NFC communicator is subjected by a received RF H field. Alternatively or additionally, receive circuitry of the NFC communicator may be coupled to only a proportion of the antenna coil to reduce the voltage to which circuitry of the NFC, communicator is subjected by a received RF H field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2015
    Assignee: Broadcom Europe Limited
    Inventors: Joakim Bangs, Robin Wilson, Franz Fuchs
  • Patent number: 8813468
    Abstract: A chain has alternating vertical and horizontal chain links and with each link having an oval profile. The vertical links having an end web supporting surface formed on its inside that engages with a complementary bearing surface on the end web of adjacent horizontal link. The supporting surfaces and the bearing surfaces of all end webs are widened beyond two lateral surfaces of the respective end web, and supporting surfaces and bearing surfaces associated with one another are formed in each case as complementary cylindrical surfaces extending between longitudinal limbs. A method for producing such, closed profile chain links are hooked into open profile chain links and then the latter are closed by welding. And wherein, all supporting surfaces and bearing surfaces associated with one another are formed in each case as cylindrical surfaces that complement one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Pewag Austria GmbH
    Inventors: Aegyd Pengg, Franz Fuchs
  • Publication number: 20130333348
    Abstract: A chain has alternating vertical and horizontal chain links and with each link having an oval profile. The vertical links having an end web supporting surface formed on its inside that engages with a complementary bearing surface on the end web of adjacent horizontal link. The supporting surfaces and the bearing surfaces of all end webs are widened beyond two lateral surfaces of the respective end web, and supporting surfaces and bearing surfaces associated with one another are formed in each case as complementary cylindrical surfaces extending between longitudinal limbs. A method for producing such, closed profile chain links are hooked into open profile chain links and then the latter are closed by welding. And wherein, all supporting surfaces and bearing surfaces associated with one another are formed in each case as cylindrical surfaces that complement one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2011
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Applicant: PEWAG AUSTRIA GMBH
    Inventors: Aegyd Pengg, Franz Fuchs
  • Publication number: 20130273845
    Abstract: An NFC communicator has an antenna circuit to enable inductive coupling, via an RF H field, of the NFC communicator and another near field RF communicator in near field range. The antenna circuit has an antenna element coupled in parallel with a first capacitor to form a parallel LC circuit. The antenna element has an antenna coil in series with a second capacitor to reduce the voltage to which circuitry of the NFC communicator is subjected by a received RF H field. Alternatively or additionally, receive circuitry of the NFC communicator may be coupled to only a proportion of the antenna coil to reduce the voltage to which circuitry of the NFC, communicator is subjected by a received RF H field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Publication date: October 17, 2013
    Inventors: Joakim Bangs, Robin Wilson, Franz Fuchs
  • Patent number: 8489020
    Abstract: An NFC communicator has an antenna circuit to enable inductive coupling, via an RF H field, of the NFC communicator and another near field RF communicator in near field range. The antenna circuit has an antenna element coupled in parallel with a first capacitor to form a parallel LC circuit. The antenna element has an antenna coil in series with a second capacitor to reduce the voltage to which circuitry of the NFC communicator is subjected by a received RF H field. Alternatively or additionally, receive circuitry of the NFC communicator may be coupled to only a proportion of the antenna coil to reduce the voltage to which circuitry of the NFC communicator is subjected by a received RF H field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2013
    Assignee: Broadcom Innovision Limited
    Inventors: Joakim Bangs, Robin Wilson, Franz Fuchs
  • Patent number: 8436569
    Abstract: The machine in accordance with the present disclosure is an AC machine whose pole numbers can be switched (from pole p1 to pole p2), and whose number of series turns per phase N can be switched say from N0=Nrated to N1=N0/2. Furthermore, it employs an inverter so that the frequency can be changed from a low value (e.g., 5 Hz) to a high value (e.g., 200 Hz). Due to the combination of pole number and number of series turns switching/reconfiguration, a high torque at low speed (e.g., 0 rpm) and a high torque at high speed (e.g., 5,000 rpm) can be achieved, making mechanical gears obsolete. In addition, the output power of the motor can be increased at high speed in direct proportion to the speed increase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Inventor: Ewald Franz Fuchs
  • Publication number: 20120268053
    Abstract: The machine in accordance with the present disclosure is an AC machine whose pole numbers can be switched (from pole p1 to pole p2), and whose number of series turns per phase N can be switched say from N0=Nrated to N1=N0/2. Furthermore, it employs an inverter so that the frequency can be changed from a low value (e.g., 5 Hz) to a high value (e.g., 200 Hz). Due to the combination of pole number and number of series turns switching/reconfiguration, a high torque at low speed (e.g., 0 rpm) and a high torque at high speed (e.g., 5,000 rpm) can be achieved, making mechanical gears obsolete. In addition, the output power of the motor can be increased at high speed in direct proportion to the speed increase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Inventor: Ewald Franz Fuchs
  • Patent number: 8186141
    Abstract: A method for producing welded round and profile chains of chain links that are connected to each other. The chain links for round and profile chains produced by this method include two chain link partial pieces that are connected to each other by friction welding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2012
    Assignee: Technische Universitaet Graz
    Inventors: Horst-Hannes Cerjak, Aegyd Pengg, Franz Fuchs
  • Patent number: 8183814
    Abstract: The machine in accordance with the present disclosure is an AC machine whose pole numbers can be switched (from pole p1 to pole p2), and whose number of series turns per phase N can be switched say from N0=Nrated to N1=N0/2. Furthermore, it employs an inverter so that the frequency can be changed from a low value (e.g., 5 Hz) to a high value (e.g., 200 Hz). Due to the combination of pole number and number of series turns switching/reconfiguration, a high torque at low speed (e.g., 0 rpm) and a high torque at high speed (e.g., 5,000 rpm) can be achieved, making mechanical gears obsolete. In addition, the output power of the motor can be increased at high speed in direct proportion to the speed increase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2012
    Inventor: Ewald Franz Fuchs
  • Publication number: 20100269479
    Abstract: A method for producing welded round and profile chains of chain links that are connected to each other. The chain links for round and profile chains produced by this method include two chain link partial pieces that are connected to each other by friction welding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2008
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Applicants: PEWAG AUSTRIA GMBH, TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET GRAZ
    Inventors: Horst-Hannes Cerjak, Aegyd Pengg, Franz Fuchs
  • Publication number: 20100112941
    Abstract: An NFC communicator has an antenna circuit to enable inductive coupling, via an RF H field, of the NFC communicator and another near field RF communicator in near field range. The antenna circuit has an antenna element coupled in parallel with a first capacitor to form a parallel LC circuit. The antenna element has an antenna coil in series with a second capacitor to reduce the voltage to which circuitry of the NFC communicator is subjected by a received RF H field. Alternatively or additionally, receive circuitry of the NFC communicator may be coupled to only a proportion of the antenna coil to reduce the voltage to which circuitry of the NFC communicator is subjected by a received RF H field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2008
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: Innovision Research & Technology PLC
    Inventors: Joakim Bangs, Robin Wilson, Franz Fuchs
  • Publication number: 20100019714
    Abstract: The machine in accordance with the present disclosure is an AC machine whose pole numbers can be switched (from pole p1 to pole p2), and whose number of series turns per phase N can be switched say from N0=Nrated to N1=N0/2. Furthermore, it employs an inverter so that the frequency can be changed from a low value (e.g., 5 Hz) to a high value (e.g., 200 Hz). Due to the combination of pole number and number of series turns switching/reconfiguration, a high torque at low speed (e.g., 0 rpm) and a high torque at high speed (e.g., 5,000 rpm) can be achieved, making mechanical gears obsolete. In addition, the output power of the motor can be increased at high speed in direct proportion to the speed increase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2009
    Publication date: January 28, 2010
    Inventor: Ewald Franz Fuchs
  • Patent number: 6995343
    Abstract: A method and device for limiting and/or controlling the surface temperature of a hob having a ceramic cooking surface. The hob is heated by an energy source which includes a temperature limiter with a variable switching temperature. The switching temperature of the temperature limiter is varied during a cooking procedure according to a redetermined switching temperature-time profile.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2003
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2006
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Steiner, Tonoha Ramones, Günter Zschau, Peter Blumenthal, Johann Huber, Andreas Marbach, Monika Zeraschi, Bernd Stitzl, Franz Fuchs, Dan Neumayer, Jose-Andres Garcia, Ernst Schweidler
  • Publication number: 20040159650
    Abstract: A method and device for limiting and/or controlling the surface temperature of a hob having a ceramic cooking surface. The hob is heated by an energy source which includes a temperature limiter with a variable switching temperature. The switching temperature of the temperature limiter is varied during a cooking procedure according to a predetermined switching temperature-time profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2003
    Publication date: August 19, 2004
    Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Steiner, Tonoha Ramones, Gunter Zschau, Peter Blumenthal, Johann Huber, Andreas Marbach, Monika Zeraschi, Bernd Stitzl, Franz Fuchs, Dan Neumayer, Jose-Andres Garcia, Ernst Schweidler
  • Patent number: 5803851
    Abstract: A chain drive (1), in particular for lifting devices, having a chain (3) which rotates about a chain wheel (2) and whose oval links (6) which are rotated in an alternate manner about 90.degree. interact as vertical and horizontal links with the chain wheel, wherein the horizontal links (6i) are received in pockets (7) of the chain wheel with substantially planar support surfaces (6) and can be supported with their curved ends (6') on teeth (10) which comprise convex flanks (12) and the vertical links (6s) are positioned in a groove (11) between the teeth, wherein the wire cross-section of the chain links (6) is a rectangle having a curvature adjoined thereto towards the inner part of the link and the convex flanks (12) and the planar support surfaces (8) contact each other in a substantially direct manner, i.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1998
    Assignee: Pewag Austria GmbH
    Inventors: Gerard Walenta, Franz Fuchs
  • Patent number: 5029807
    Abstract: A valve for sealing a conduit under pressure has an armature (12) cooperating with two springs, a permanent magnet, and a solenoid coil. The force of the permanent magnet is used to cock a spring and thereby stored primarily as a spring force when the valve is in any of its two end positions. THe spring force is slightly smaller than the permanent magnetic force of the permanent magnet, and this slightly smaller spring force is effective on a valve stem through a sleeve in a direction opposite to that of the permanent magnetic force. The permanent magnetic force is, for example, stored in a Belleville spring and additionally in a helical or conical spring which provides an extra valve biasing force. In order to open the valve, the solenoid coil (9) of an electromagnet is energized to counteract the force of the permanent magnet to an extent slightly below the stored spring force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1991
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventor: Franz Fuchs
  • Patent number: 4543991
    Abstract: An electromagnetic double-valve can synchronously regulate or control the ow of two materials without the need of a costly mechanical linkage between the two individual valves which may be arranged in a common housing. An armature serves as the valve body or plug in each valve and is held in one valve position by permanent magnets and is switched to the other valve position by a synchronously controlled electromagnetic coil or coils which are connected in series. When one armature is lifted quicker than the other by the electromagnet or magnets, then the total magnetic flux decreases, whereby the second armature is also lifted. The synchronization of the switching operation is enforced by the common, spacially closed magnetic flux through both armatures and by the common effect on both armatures by the electromagnetic coil or coils.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 1983
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1985
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Boelkow-Blohm Gesellschaft mit beschraenkter Haftung
    Inventor: Franz Fuchs
  • Patent number: 4234009
    Abstract: A straight flow seat valve, comprising, a valve housing with a valve chamber therein having an inlet at one end and an outlet at the opposite end which is coaxial with the inlet. A control cylinder is supported in the valve chamber between the outlet and inlet and has a control fluid inlet extending out of the housing for the admission of a control fluid into the chamber in order to move a piston against a spring-biasing force so as to shift a seat body having a seat surface in engagement with a seat adjacent the outlet end so that it is lifted off the seat to open the valve. The seat body is advantageously streamlined at each end to permit flow around it from the inlet around the valve and out through the outlet. In the pressureless state, the spring urges the surface of the seat body onto the valve seat to close the valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 1978
    Date of Patent: November 18, 1980
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventor: Franz Fuchs