Patents by Inventor Hartmut Hoffmann

Hartmut Hoffmann 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).

  • Publication number: 20090080607
    Abstract: Meat processing device having at least one comminution unit for comminution and/or mixing of fresh and/or frozen meat and having at least one transport means (2) on which the meat can be transported and which is arranged, in the direction of processing, downstream of the comminution unit (1), which has a fat analysis device (3) for determining the fat content, the density in the meat and/or the BEFFE (connective tissue protein free meat protein), and also process for fat analysis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2006
    Publication date: March 26, 2009
    Inventors: Hartmut Hoffmann, Stefan Linn
  • Publication number: 20080210104
    Abstract: The invention relates to a meat processing machine, with the aid of which fresh and/or frozen meat is chopped and which comprises a fat analyzing device for determining the fat content in the meat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2005
    Publication date: September 4, 2008
    Inventors: Stefan Josef Linn, Hartmut Hoffmann, Dieter Evers
  • Patent number: 6677050
    Abstract: A process for connecting at least two components, particularly body components of motor vehicles, wherein the first component has an undercut on a side facing the second component. In the area of the undercut, a connection piece is cast to the first component. The connection piece is designed such that, during its solidification, the connection piece is firmly connected with the first component by the contraction of a last-solidifying core area of the connection piece. Then the second component is mounted on the connection piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2002
    Date of Patent: January 13, 2004
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Franz Guetlbauer, Hartmut Hoffmann, Arno Jambor, Volker Thoms
  • Publication number: 20030085017
    Abstract: A process for connecting at least two components, particularly body components of motor vehicles, wherein the first component has an undercut on a side facing the second component. In the area of the undercut, a connection piece is cast to the first component. The connection piece is designed such that, during its solidification, the connection piece is firmly connected with the first component by the contraction of a last-solidifying core area of the connection piece. Then the second component is mounted on the connection piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2002
    Publication date: May 8, 2003
    Applicant: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Franz Guetlbauer, Hartmut Hoffmann, Arno Jambor, Volker Thoms
  • Patent number: 6513572
    Abstract: A process for connecting at least two components, particularly body components of motor vehicles, wherein the first component has an undercut on a side facing the second component. In the area of the undercut, a connection piece is cast to the first component. The connection piece is designed such that, during its solidification, the connection piece is firmly connected with the first component by the contraction of a last-solidifying core area of the connection piece. Then the second component is mounted on the connection piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2003
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Franz Guetlbauer, Hartmut Hoffmann, Arno Jambor, Volker Thoms
  • Patent number: 6401800
    Abstract: A device for continuous. casting of workpieces has a melting crucible, a filling device, and a forming tool provided with a temperature control system. The temperature control system of the forming tool is designed so that areas of the workpiece to be manufactured that have a greater wall thickness can be cooled to a greater degree and areas of the workpiece to be manufactured with a lesser wall thickness can be cooled to a lesser degree and/or heated. The solid-liquid interface of the workpiece is located in a plane that is at least approximately perpendicular to the vertical axis of the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2002
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Franz Guetelbauer, Hartmut Hoffmann, Andreas Poellmann, Volker Thoms
  • Patent number: 6364973
    Abstract: The invention relates to drawn pieces made of steel plate, particularly for motor vehicles bodies, and to a process for manufacturing such drawn pieces. In order to be able to manufacture drawn pieces with a high piece strength but of a low weight and with a low susceptibility to denting in a simple manner, according to the invention, a spring steel plate which is already hardened in the initial state, particularly bainitized—for example, CK60 or C63 or 67SiCr5—is used during the drawing of the vehicle body parts. The yield point of the heat-treated plate bar material is approximately in the range of from 800 to 1,800 N/mm2; the tensile strength is above that. Because of these strength values, plate bars of a plate thickness of approximately 0.3 mm to 0.6 mm can be used, whereby approximately 20 to 60% of the previous piece weight can be saved. The drawn piece according to the invention is therefore a definite lightweight part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2002
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Roland Golle, Hartmut Hoffmann, Volker Thoms
  • Publication number: 20020007928
    Abstract: A process for connecting at least two components, particularly body components of motor vehicles, wherein the first component has an undercut on a side facing the second component. In the area of the undercut, a connection piece is cast to the first component. The connection piece is designed such that, during its solidification, the connection piece is firmly connected with the first component by the contraction of a last-solidifying core area of the connection piece. Then the second component is mounted on the connection piece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2001
    Publication date: January 24, 2002
    Applicant: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Franz Guetlbauer, Hartmut Hoffmann, Arno Jambor, Volker Thoms
  • Patent number: 6328092
    Abstract: A process for connecting at least two components, particularly body components of motor vehicles, wherein the first component has an undercut on a side facing the second component. In the area of the undercut, a connection piece is cast to the first component. The connection piece is designed such that, during its solidification, the connection piece is firmly connected with the first component by the contraction of a last-solidifying core area of the connection piece. Then the second component is mounted on the connection piece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2001
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Franz Guetlbauer, Hartmut Hoffmann, Arno Jambor, Volker Thoms
  • Patent number: 4405200
    Abstract: In a coupler for detachably placing the ends of at least two light waveguides in energy transmitting communication, which coupler is composed of two coupling halves each including a core member provided with at least one precisely positioned bore holding the end of at least one fiber of an associated conductor, a sleeve in which the core member is mounted and which is provided with at least one extension part extending axially of the sleeve, the core having a frontal end face provided with an axially extending guide pin and a guide opening diametrically opposite the guide pin, with respect to the axis of the core member, and a sleeve nut for securing the two halves of the coupler together, each coupling half includes elements supporting the core member to permit the core member to be axially movable in a resilient manner in the sleeve from an end position and to have a limited axial and radial mobility therein, the core member being in its end position when the coupling halves are uncoupled and moving axially
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 1981
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1983
    Assignee: Teldix GmbH
    Inventors: Hartmut Hoffmann, Klaus U. Baron
  • Patent number: 4386304
    Abstract: In control drives for high speed blanking presses, a serious problem of excessive tool wear arises from increases in the immersion depth of a top tool into its associated bottom tool when the stroke frequency increases. To overcome this, a control drive is provided wherein the top tool is held at a substantially constant immersion depth in the opening in the bottom tool over the entire stroke frequency range of the press. A measuring instrument detects the stroke frequency. This detected frequency is fed into a control circuit programmed with a characteristic corresponding to either immersion depth or ram adjustment as a function of stroke frequency. The output of the control circuit is a control signal coupled to a drive motor to maintain the constant immersion depth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 1978
    Date of Patent: May 31, 1983
    Assignee: L. Schuler GmbH
    Inventors: Ewald Bergmann, Franz Schneider, Hartmut Hoffmann, Burkhard Schumann, Gunther Grupp