Patents by Inventor Franz Hofer

Franz Hofer 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: 9651414
    Abstract: A filling device for a weighing device includes a loading device for the feeding of products, a transport area, which is supplied with products from the loading device, at least one sensor for capturing and forwarding of product occupation information on the transport area, and a control means. The at least one sensor is thereby formed to capture at least a partial area of the transport area and the control means is formed to divide the area captured by the at least one sensor virtually in a multiplicity of sectors. Further, a method for performing of a monitoring and capturing process of a filling of a filling device is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2017
    Assignee: MULTIPOND WÄGETECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Franz Hofer, Florian Hübel, Wolfram C. Zeck
  • Publication number: 20150177052
    Abstract: A filling device for a weighing device includes a loading device for the feeding of products, a transport area, which is supplied with products from the loading device, at least one sensor for capturing and forwarding of product occupation information on the transport area, and a control means. The at least one sensor is thereby formed to capture at least a partial area of the transport area and the control means is formed to divide the area captured by the at least one sensor virtually in a multiplicity of sectors. Further, a method for performing of a monitoring and capturing process of a filling of a filling device is disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: June 25, 2015
    Applicant: MULTIPOND WÄGETECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Franz HOFER, Florian HÜBEL, Wolfram C. ZECK
  • Patent number: 5154125
    Abstract: A folding staircase for track-bound vehicles comprises a base ladder part, movably carried in the vehicle, and a swinging ladder part hingedly carried by the base ladder part. The base ladder part is movable between a stowed position and an extended position whereat it extends from the vehicle generally in the direction of travel. The swinging ladder part is rotatable between a first position, whereat it overlies the base ladder part, and a second position, whereat it extends from the distal end of the base ladder part to the track. Devices are provided for displacing the base ladder portion from the stowed position to the extended position and for displacing the swinging ladder part from the first position to the second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 1991
    Date of Patent: October 13, 1992
    Assignee: Man GHH Schienenverkehrstechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Anton Renner, Franz Hofer
  • Patent number: 4773334
    Abstract: In order to achieve in a truck for a track vehicle with an H-shaped truck frame which consists of a composite fiber structure serving the function of a primary spring, with two longitudinal beams connected to each other via transverse beams, a distribution of the loads of the truck frame suitable for composite fibers, the frame contains a torsion-elastic central plate member which couples the longitudinal beams to each other independently of the transverse beams, is designed in the truck plane as a frame stiffening element, is provided with load introduction points for the longitudinal and transverse support of the vehicle body and is designed as a bending-stiff composite fiber component for the transmission of longitudinal and transverse forces between the load introduction points and the longitudinal beams.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 27, 1988
    Assignee: Messerschmitt-Bolkow-Blohm GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Nowak, Rolf Leo, Franz Hofer, Walter Oefner
  • Patent number: 4407656
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of manufacturing a color television display tube having an envelope including a conical portion (11) and a window portion (12) which are sealed together in a vacuum-tight manner by means of a sealing glass (18). Before these portions are sealed together, a gettering device (21) is assembled in a place inside the envelope of the tube, for example to the internal magnetic screening cap (17) or the high-voltage contact (26). The gettering device (21) comprises a source of evaporable gettering metal and at least one gas source formed from a material which releases gas upon heating. The gas-releasing material includes a nitrided pulverulent ternary alloy of iron, germanium and at least one of the metals chromium and manganese. Such a gas-releasing material can be exposed to moist air of 450.degree. C. for at least one hour without any deterioration, which conditions occur when the window portion (12) and the conical portion (11) are sealed together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1981
    Date of Patent: October 4, 1983
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventor: Franz Hofer
  • Patent number: 4134801
    Abstract: A method of manufacturing an elementary slice provided with a microcircuit and having terminal connections in the form of metallic bumps which ensure the connection of the microcircuit to external circuitry. A major slice is provided in which a number of elementary slices are formed which adjoin each other along future severing lines. Lands are provided on which to grow metallic bumps. In order to be able to electrolytically grow the metallic bumps on the lands, the latter are series-connected together and to a voltage source by conductive strips which extend in a zig-zag manner over the severing lines. After the growth process the electric connections between the lands are automatically interrupted when the slice is severed into elementary slices. The most important application of the invention lies in the field of manufacturing elementary slices with bubble domain handling structures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 1978
    Date of Patent: January 16, 1979
    Assignee: U.S. Philips Corporation
    Inventors: Franz Hofer, Gustaaf H. A. VAN DER Hoorn