Patents by Inventor Horst Franke
Horst Franke 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).
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Patent number: 11446748Abstract: Machining ball tracks and guiding webs of an inner part for a constant velocity joint in a clamping arrangement includes mechanical machining of at least one first ball track in a first rotational position; rotating the articulated inner part into a second rotational position for machining at least one further ball track; wherein at least one guiding web is mechanically machined during the rotating of the inner joint part from the first rotational position into the second rotational position. A corresponding device is used for machining ball tracks and guiding webs of an inner joint part.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2016Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignees: GKN Driveline Deutschland GmbH, GKN Driveline Vigo SAInventors: Miguel Ángel Giráldez López, Miguel Ángel Fernández Maroto, Horst Franke
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Publication number: 20200055127Abstract: Machining ball tracks and guiding webs of an inner part for a constant velocity joint in a clamping arrangement includes mechanical machining of at least one first ball track in a first rotational position; rotating the articulated inner part into a second rotational position for machining at least one further ball track; wherein at least one guiding web is mechanically machined during the rotating of the inner joint part from the first rotational position into the second rotational position. A corresponding device is used for machining ball tracks and guiding webs of an inner joint part.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2016Publication date: February 20, 2020Applicants: GKN Driveline Deutschland GmbH, GKN Driveline Vigo SAInventors: Miguel Ángel GIRÁLDEZ LÓPEZ, Miguel Ángel FERNÁNDEZ MAROTO, Horst FRANKE
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Patent number: 7740226Abstract: An electromagnetic actuator is disclosed. The actuator has a coil arrangement which can be excited electrically, and has an armature. The armature is mounted such that it can move axially in the coil arrangement, is composed of soft magnetic material, and is moved in the axial direction when the coil arrangement is excited. A guide sleeve is fixed in the coil arrangement and guides the armature in the axial direction. The guide sleeve is produced from a soft magnetic material.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2007Date of Patent: June 22, 2010Assignees: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Markus Engel, Horst Franke
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Patent number: 7425441Abstract: A bioreactor for culturing microorganisms which has a reactor vessel, a plurality of gas-introduction tubes and a gas-introduction system for introducing gas into a culture medium in the gas-introduction tubes via injectors, wherein the gas-introduction tubes are connected by their respective lower end, in the vertical direction, to the reactor vessel and by their opposite upper end to the upper end of an upright vessel which is likewise connected by its lower end to the reactor vessel, and at the upper end of the upright vessel an expansion vessel is arranged.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2005Date of Patent: September 16, 2008Assignee: Sartorius Stedim Biotech GmbHInventors: Jürgen Broneske, Horst Franke, Otto Pulz, Heinz-Rüdiger Keitel, Wolf-Dietrich Linke, Bernd-Ulrich Wilhelm, Rainer Salzmann, Wolfgang Kröger, Mirko Riese
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Publication number: 20070199527Abstract: An electromagnetic actuator is disclosed. The actuator has a coil arrangement which can be excited electrically, and has an armature. The armature is mounted such that it can move axially in the coil arrangement, is composed of soft magnetic material, and is moved in the axial direction when the coil arrangement is excited. A guide sleeve is fixed in the coil arrangement and guides the armature in the axial direction. The guide sleeve is produced from a soft magnetic material.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2007Publication date: August 30, 2007Inventors: Markus Engel, Horst Franke
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Publication number: 20060243653Abstract: A device for removing substances from blood or other body fluids, comprising a bundle of semi-permeable hollow fibers, the ends of which are embedded and held in a pottant, and a tubular casing surrounding the hollow fiber bundle. At the ends of the casing, inlet and outlet pipes are connected with partitioned fluid chambers formed in the casing. Different aspects are provided to improve the flow properties, for increasing the filtering efficiency, such as varying packing density along the length of the fiber bundle, a distributor disc within a cap, apertures on the circumference of the pottant and an ordered structure of the rippling of the hollow fibers.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 19, 2006Publication date: November 2, 2006Inventors: Bernd Heinrich, Konrad Martins, Dieter Mehnert, Eckard Muller, Katrin Kracht, Horst Franke, Rainer Hector
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Publication number: 20050255584Abstract: A bioreactor for culturing microorganisms which has a reactor vessel, a plurality of gas-introduction tubes and a gas-introduction system for introducing gas into a culture medium in the gas-introduction tubes via injectors, wherein the gas-introduction tubes are connected by their respective lower end, in the vertical direction, to the reactor vessel and by their opposite upper end to the upper end of an upright vessel which is likewise connected by its lower end to the reactor vessel, and at the upper end of the upright vessel an expansion vessel is arranged.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2005Publication date: November 17, 2005Applicant: Sartorius AGInventors: Jurgen Broneske, Horst Franke, Otto Pulz, Heinz-Rudiger Keitel, Wolf-Dietrich Linke, Bernd-Ulrich Wilhelm, Rainer Salzmann, Wolfgang Kroger, Mirko Riese
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Patent number: 5479110Abstract: Flexible contact terminals configured from printed strip circuits and usable with integrated circuit test fixtures. The termination circuits include printed conductive pathways formed on a flexible, multi-layered substrate. The conductive paths are three dimensionally tailored for impedance and resilience. Circuit processing includes steps to profile etch the conductive paths at the X, Y and Z-axis, especially end terminations. A support fixture contains the termination circuits to provide resilient electrical test terminations to circuit components supported to a resilient component support.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 1994Date of Patent: December 26, 1995Assignee: Advanpro CorporationInventors: Jesse Crane, Robert E. Vosika, Horst Franke
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Patent number: 4953394Abstract: An apparatus for monitoring the air pressure in a pneumatic tire carried by the rim of a vehicle wheel, comprising a sensing element which is arranged at the rim ring and which can be deformed and acted upon by the tire pressure, with a permanent magnet as the measurement value generator, in the region of rotary movement of which is disposed a measurement value sensor which is fixed to the vehicle in a stationary position and which is connected to an evaluation circuit. The apparatus is reliable in operation and uncomplicated in structure.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 1988Date of Patent: September 4, 1990Assignee: Alligator Ventilfabrik GmbHInventors: Horst Franke, Hans-Jorg Schmid
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Patent number: 4601276Abstract: Disclosed is a method and device for regulating the preparation of fuel-and-air mixture in a carburetor, fuel injection system and the like of an internal combustion engine. The device includes an oxygen probe directly communicating with the combustion chamber of the engine. Periodically fluctuating output signal of the probe is applied to an averaging circuit which produces an average output signal over a predetermined number of engine cycles. The shape and length of the averaged output signal is indicative whether the mixture ratio is lean or rich. The averaging can be made by means of a lowpass filter, an integrator or at least one counter counting in response to the angular position of the crankshaft or the predetermined time intervals. When the probe output voltage has the form of a hump or bulge, its length or area is used for determining the actual .lambda. value in the rich range of ratios of the mixture.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 1983Date of Patent: July 22, 1986Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Eckart Damson, Horst Franke, Helmut Maurer, Klaus Muller, Franz Rieger
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Patent number: 4503505Abstract: A parameter characterizing the course of combustion is ascertained by means of a sensor, preferably an optical sensor. In order to distinguish irregular combustion processes from regular ones, the filtered signal is examined as to its symmetry relative to an imaginary axis of symmetry in the signal maximum. If it is thereby determined that the signal is not symmetrical with respect to this axis, then a recognition signal for irregular combustion is emitted. In order to perform this method, a symmetry pulse is generated, which marks the temporal appearance of the signal maximum. In accordance with this pulse, a characteristic variable is generated which characterizes the course of the signal before the signal maximum and another characteristic variable is generated which characterizes the course of the signal after the signal maximum, and these characteristic variables are then compared with one another.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 1982Date of Patent: March 5, 1985Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Eckard Damson, Horst Franke, Ferdinand Grob, Winfried Moser, Klaus M/u/ ller
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Patent number: 4425788Abstract: To permit individual evaluation of the combustion processes in the respective cylinders (1a-d) of an internal combustion (IC) engine (2), individual optical pick-ups (3a-d; 4a-d) are coupled to the respective cylinders, the output signals either in optical or electrical form are conducted to separate pick-ups for individual evaluation or, alternatively, the output signals are combined and then again separated out by a steering circuit. Individual evaluation can be accomplished by locating light guide fibers from the sensors in a predetermined position with respect to opto-electrical transducers; by forming scanning windows, for example by a rotating disk (19, 20) rotating n in synchronism with the engine and permitting passage of light from the respective fibers of the light guides to respective pick-ups; or by combining the light outputs from the respective sensors (4) either optically by intermixing light guide fibers in a common cable (6'), or electrically in an equivalent OR-circuit (FIG. 8: R.sub.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 1982Date of Patent: January 17, 1984Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Horst Franke, Ernst Linder, Winfried Moser, Klaus Muller, Franz Rieger
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Patent number: 4404841Abstract: To determine proper operation of a combustion sensor, and to normalize the output signals derived from a pick-up having a window exposed to the combustion chamber (10) by compensating for soiling, contamination, and loss of transmissivity of the window due to combustion residue, soot, or the like, a reference light source is provided introducing reference light of a predetermined level to the pick-up, for example when no light is generated due to combustoin events. In an internal combustion (IC) engine, the reference light can be energized during stopped condition of the engine, or during portions of the stroke of the engine when no combustion event takes place.Type: GrantFiled: February 1, 1982Date of Patent: September 20, 1983Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Horst Franke, Ernst Linder, Winfried Moser, Klaus Muller, Franz Rieger
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Patent number: 4381748Abstract: A method is proposed for regulating the combustion of operating mixtures in the combustion chambers of internal combustion engines. The course of the light intensity of the light resulting from combustion in the combustion chamber is detected and evaluated over the course of combustion; reference control variables derived therefrom are formed for use by subsequently disposed closed-loop control devices of the engine.Type: GrantFiled: June 18, 1981Date of Patent: May 3, 1983Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Konrad Eckert, Klaus Muller, Ernst Linder, Helmut Maurer, Franz Rieger, Winfried Moser, Horst Franke, Rainer Burkel, Cornelius Peter