Patents by Inventor Ivan Grgec-Messner

Ivan Grgec-Messner 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: 6055864
    Abstract: In the case of a pressure sensor (1) a measuring cell (4) is fixed together with a retaining body (9) in a housing (2) of the pressure sensor. For this purpose, the housing (2) has a constriction (15) encircling it on the outside. A contact base (11), which is placed at the top onto the retaining body (9), is fixed by means of an inwardly bent section (18) of the housing (2), with the result that the pressure sensor (1) is closed in a sealed manner. The fixing of the retaining body (9) by means of the constriction (15) means that the pressure sensor (1) is also suitable for particularly high pressures with the risk that the retaining body (9) could slip in the housing (2) due to the pressure acting on the measuring cell (4) being excluded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2000
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventors: Rudolf Stiller, Norbert Schmidt, Ivan Grgec-Messner, Klaus-Dieter Meese
  • Patent number: 5560343
    Abstract: A pressure-limiting valve has a closure member (5) which, in its closed position, rests with initial stress against a valve seat (4) and has, on the side towards the valve seat (4), a shoulder (6) which can be formed by a circumferential flange (7) on the closure member (5). This induces enlargement of the opening stroke upon a slight opening of the closure member (5) as the flow strikes against the shoulder (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 1, 1996
    Assignee: VDO Adolf Schindling AG
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Werkmann, Frank Reiter, Ivan Grgec-Messner, Reiner Liebl
  • Patent number: 4675255
    Abstract: A pole terminal is formed as an intermediate piece and has toward the bottom a clamping piece for fastening to a conventional battery pole and toward the top a pole body to which a conventional battery terminal can be fastened. In the pole terminal there are a Hall element and an evaluation electronics so that the current flow through the pole body can be measured.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1986
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1987
    Assignee: VDO Adolf Schindling AG
    Inventors: Thomas Pfeifer, Ivan Grgec-Messner