Patents by Inventor Helmut Schaffer

Helmut Schaffer 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: 11834886
    Abstract: A device for protection against entrapment for a door for a vehicle includes an extruded profile extruded from an elastomer material, wherein the extruded profile includes a door leaf wall, which faces a contact edge of a door leaf of a door when the device is mounted on the door, a sealing wall arranged in an opposing position relative to the door leaf wall and a plunger for transferring a compression force into the extruded profile. The plunger is mounted on the sealing wall and extends along a transverse axis of the extruded profile away from the door leaf wall. The device also includes at least one switching element for detecting a compression of the extruded profile, wherein the at least one switching element is arranged in the region of the plunger between the door leaf wall and the plunger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas Hirtenlehner, Peter Jetzinger, Helmut Schaffer
  • Publication number: 20230211835
    Abstract: A vehicle has a spoiler fastened to an outer skin component of the vehicle. For this purpose, clip elements are provided on the outer skin component and are in engagement with corresponding mating clip elements of the spoiler. The clip elements have an end stop in a z-direction, which is oriented transversely to the surface of the outer skin component. Between the spoiler and the outer skin component there is an intermediate element, which is elastically compressed in the z-direction and presses the spoiler against the end stop. A method is provided for mounting the spoiler on the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Falco HOLLMANN, Helmut SCHAFFER, Bernt Arne SYVERTSEN
  • Publication number: 20220048372
    Abstract: A protection device for a door leaf for a motor vehicle includes a main body, a follower portion and a suspension element. The main body has a fastening side for fastening the main body to the door leaf and a sealing side opposite the fastening side. Furthermore, the main body comprises a first outer portion and a second outer portion. The first outer portion and the second outer portion run between the sealing side and the fastening side. The follower portion is arranged on the sealing side. The suspension element movably connects the follower portion to the main body and is designed to cause an evasive movement of the follower portion away from the fastening side in response to an application of force to the first outer side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Johann BRAMAUER, Thomas HIRTENLEHNER, Helmut SCHAFFER, Peter JETZINGER
  • Publication number: 20200291709
    Abstract: A device for protection against entrapment for a door for a vehicle includes an extruded profile extruded from an elastomer material, wherein the extruded profile includes a door leaf wall, which faces a contact edge of a door leaf of a door when the device is mounted on the door, a sealing wall arranged in an opposing position relative to the door leaf wall and a plunger for transferring a compression force into the extruded profile. The plunger is mounted on the sealing wall and extends along a transverse axis of the extruded profile away from the door leaf wall. The device also includes at least one switching element for detecting a compression of the extruded profile, wherein the at least one switching element is arranged in the region of the plunger between the door leaf wall and the plunger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Thomas HIRTENLEHNER, Peter JETZINGER, Helmut SCHAFFER
  • Patent number: 8867045
    Abstract: A triggering light grid and a method for registering the position of containers and/or for checking their alignment on a conveyance path. Due to the fact that a plurality of light barriers provided at different height levels with respect to the conveyance path and having light sources that can be activated separately of one another and a shared housing are provided, as is a triggering unit for the generation of control signals on the basis of output signals of the light barriers, different container types can be registered by reprogramming the triggering light grid without mechanical adjustment of the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Krones AG
    Inventors: Stefan Piana, Thorsten Gut, Bernhard Dunzinger, Helmut Schäffer
  • Patent number: 4426757
    Abstract: The invention relates to a web guide roller for a web which is required to be moved at a high speed, having cavities arranged on its surface for receiving the air carried with the moving web, whereby a finely branched network of compression chambers is arranged on the surface between plateau-like smoothly ground and polished areas on which the web lies in contact. Further the invention relates to a process for the production of this web guide rollers for use at high speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 1981
    Date of Patent: January 24, 1984
    Assignee: Agfa-Gevaert Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Roland Hourticolon, Gerhard Roth, Hans Frenken, Helmut Schaffer, Gunther Koepke
  • Patent number: 4014491
    Abstract: The tension level of moving webs of material is adjusted or measured and regulated by means of a guide roller mounted on parallel swing arms which include an angle 0 <.alpha. <90.degree. with the horizontal, .alpha. lying in an angular range of .+-. 15.degree. around the value .alpha..sub.M at which the traction applied to the web by the guide roller is at a minimum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 1974
    Date of Patent: March 29, 1977
    Assignee: AGFA-Gevaert, A.G.
    Inventors: Hans Gref, Wolfgang Schweicher, Hans Frenken, Heinz Bussmann, Karl Voss, Helmut Schaffer, Willi Junkersdorf