Patents by Inventor Jochen Hartmann
Jochen Hartmann 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: 11072130Abstract: The invention relates to a hand-guided device (10) for setting a setting element (12) in a component. The device comprises a handle (14) for holding the device, a carriage (34), which can be moved in relation to the handle and which bears a rotatably supported drive shaft (46), at one end of which a holder for the setting element is formed, a force accumulator (44), which is arranged between the handle and the carriage and which serves to store a defined advancing force, with which the force limiter can be loaded by means of a relative motion between the handle and the carriage, and a force limiter (64) for limiting the advancing force stored in the force accumulator. The force accumulator is designed to apply the stored advancing force to the setting element by means of the carriage. The invention further relates to a method for manually setting a setting element by means of said device.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2016Date of Patent: July 27, 2021Inventors: Reinhard Zoll, Ralf Wiethoff, Jochen Hartmann
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Publication number: 20210016397Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for braking and holding a processing element that has a head and that is automatically supplied to a tool. The apparatus has a guide channel for the processing element; and a braking element that is movably supported between a braking position and a release position and that can be at least partly introduced into the guide channel to brake and hold the processing element supplied. A part of the braking element that projects into the guide channel in the braking position and thereby narrows the guide channel has an end face that faces the guide channel and that forms a latch recess for holding the head of the processing element.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2019Publication date: January 21, 2021Inventors: Ralf Wiethoff, Jochen Hartmann, Wolfgang Wagenstaller
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Patent number: 10882146Abstract: The invention relates to a magazine (24) for holding a plurality of joining elements (10) and for feeding said joining elements (10) to a joining device (27), comprising two storage grooves (38) for storing and guiding the joining elements (10), said storage grooves extending at least in sections along two mutually concentric circular paths.Type: GrantFiled: June 6, 2016Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Inventors: Erwin Pfaffenrath, Wolfgang Wagenstaller, Jochen Hartmann
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Patent number: 10876357Abstract: A flowing drilling apparatus having a feed drive for producing a feed of a flow drill in an axial direction and having a rotary drive for producing a rotational movement of the flow drill. The flowing drilling apparatus includes a control device that is configured and adapted to control the feed drive and/or the rotary drive in accordance with a first set of parameters up to a defined switchover point and to control it/them in accordance with a second set of parameters differing from the first set of parameters, from the defined switchover point onward.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2019Date of Patent: December 29, 2020Inventors: Christian Schönig, Jochen Hartmann
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Publication number: 20200308912Abstract: A flowing drilling apparatus having a feed drive for producing a feed of a flow drill in an axial direction and having a rotary drive for producing a rotational movement of the flow drill. The flowing drilling apparatus includes a control device that is configured and adapted to control the feed drive and/or the rotary drive in accordance with a first set of parameters up to a defined switchover point and to control it/them in accordance with a second set of parameters differing from the first set of parameters, from the defined switchover point onward.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 26, 2019Publication date: October 1, 2020Inventors: Christian Schönig, Jochen Hartmann
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Patent number: 10569371Abstract: The invention relates to a separation unit for a feed apparatus for joining elements, in particular screws, in particular flow-drilling screws, comprising a joining element receiver for receiving a joining element having a head and a shaft, a slider displaceable relative to the joining element receiver, and a rotational element about which the joining element received in the joining element receiver is rotatable on a displacement of the slider.Type: GrantFiled: January 3, 2018Date of Patent: February 25, 2020Assignee: Weber Schraubautomaten GmbHInventors: Ralf Wiethoff, Jochen Hartmann
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Patent number: 10479024Abstract: The invention relates to a device for setting a setting element having a first plastic material in a component having a second plastic material, comprising a rotational advancing unit, by means of which the setting element can be rotated about an axis of rotation and simultaneously an axial force acting in the direction of the axis of rotation can be applied to the setting element in order to drive the setting element into the component, a friction welding joint thereby being produced between the setting element and the component, a differential-distance measuring apparatus for measuring the differential distance between a surface of the component and a surface of the driven setting element, and a control unit for controlling the rotational advancing unit in dependence on the measured differential distance.Type: GrantFiled: April 13, 2015Date of Patent: November 19, 2019Assignee: Weber Schraubautomaten GmbHInventors: Ralf Wiethoff, Jochen Hartmann
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Patent number: 10071606Abstract: A sensor housing for mounting in a vehicle wheel, preferably a motor vehicle wheel and preferably on an inside of a tire of the wheel, is provided. The sensor housing includes a base surface for securing the sensor housing in the inner chamber of a wheel, a receiving area having a recess for receiving a sensor, and a predetermined breaking point for breaking open the receiving area and thus for releasing the sensor from the receiving area, preferably in a manner that prevents reuse of the sensor housing. A sensor arrangement including the sensor housing and a sensor received therein is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2016Date of Patent: September 11, 2018Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Jochen Hartmann, Hubert Schumacher
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Publication number: 20180193966Abstract: The invention relates to a separation unit for a feed apparatus for joining elements, in particular screws, in particular flow-drilling screws, comprising a joining element receiver for receiving a joining element having a head and a shaft, a slider displaceable relative to the joining element receiver, and a rotational element about which the joining element received in the joining element receiver is rotatable on a displacement of the slider.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 3, 2018Publication date: July 12, 2018Inventors: Ralf Wiethoff, Jochen Hartmann
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Publication number: 20180186088Abstract: The invention relates to a hand-guided device (10) for setting a setting element (12) in a component. The device comprises a handle (14) for holding the device, a carriage (34), which can be moved in relation to the handle and which bears a rotatably supported drive shaft (46), at one end of which a holder for the setting element is formed, a force accumulator (44), which is arranged between the handle and the carriage and which serves to store a defined advancing force, with which the force limiter can be loaded by means of a relative motion between the handle and the carriage, and a force limiter (64) for limiting the advancing force stored in the force accumulator. The force accumulator is designed to apply the stored advancing force to the setting element by means of the carriage. The invention further relates to a method for manually setting a setting element by means of said device.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2016Publication date: July 5, 2018Inventors: Reinhard Zoll, Ralf Wiethoff, Jochen Hartmann
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Publication number: 20180154487Abstract: The invention relates to a magazine (24) for holding a plurality of joining elements (10) and for feeding said joining elements (10) to a joining device (27), comprising two storage grooves (38) for storing and guiding the joining elements (10), said storage grooves extending at least in sections along two mutually concentric circular paths.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2016Publication date: June 7, 2018Inventors: Erwin Pfaffenrath, Wolfgang Wagenstaller, Jochen Hartmann
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Publication number: 20170043525Abstract: The invention relates to a device for setting a setting element having a first plastic material in a component having a second plastic material, comprising a rotational advancing unit, by means of which the setting element can be rotated about an axis of rotation and simultaneously an axial force acting in the direction of the axis of rotation can be applied to the setting element in order to drive the setting element into the component, a friction welding joint thereby being produced between the setting element and the component, a differential-distance measuring apparatus for measuring the differential distance between a surface of the component and a surface of the driven setting element, and a control unit for controlling the rotational advancing unit in dependence on the measured differential distance.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 13, 2015Publication date: February 16, 2017Inventors: Ralf Wiethoff, Jochen Hartmann
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Publication number: 20170015152Abstract: A sensor housing for mounting in a vehicle wheel, preferably a motor vehicle wheel and preferably on an inside of a tire of the wheel, is provided. The sensor housing includes a base surface for securing the sensor housing in the inner chamber of a wheel, a receiving area having a recess for receiving a sensor, and a predetermined breaking point for breaking open the receiving area and thus for releasing the sensor from the receiving area, preferably in a manner that prevents reuse of the sensor housing. A sensor arrangement including the sensor housing and a sensor received therein is also provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2016Publication date: January 19, 2017Inventors: Jochen HARTMANN, Hubert SCHUMACHER
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Patent number: 9024742Abstract: A warning strategy determines in a mutually separate manner the different effects that may occur in a tire and allows the increments and their priority in the display or indication for the driver to be evaluated in a mutually separate manner. This strategy occurs in connection with a sensor which can transmit at least the outside temperature and, preferably, also the barometric pressure to an evaluation device for detecting tire inflation pressure and tire temperature. As a result, in addition to an air loss monitoring function, the load capacity of the tire can also be evaluated at least as a function of the outside temperature. The evaluation device receives further input signals, such as the vehicle velocity, the tire contact area and/or the vehicle load, whereby also a dynamic tire stress can be taken into account as an indication or display for the driver.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2012Date of Patent: May 5, 2015Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Hubert Schumacher, Jochen Hartmann
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Patent number: 9019094Abstract: A method is provided for real-time monitoring of tire pressure, wherein the pressure value determined by use of a pressure sensor in the tire is transmitted by an electronic wheel device, without the use of a trigger transmitter fixed on the vehicle, by radio, in short transmission intervals, to a monitoring device installed in the vehicle, only if, at least when the vehicle is not moving, the value is outside a prespecified normal range. When the vehicle is not moving, the electronic wheel device transmits a signal suitable for a system monitoring function, at certain time intervals and, using the same time frame or a whole-number fraction or multiple thereof, carries out a measurement of the tire pressure. The signal has a short transmission duration on the order of 25 ?s to 500 ?s.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2013Date of Patent: April 28, 2015Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Axel Schwab, Jochen Hartmann
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Patent number: 8959990Abstract: An arrangement of a tire pressure sensor unit on the inner wall of the tread of a vehicle tire in a retaining device for the sensor unit is provided. The retaining device is connected to the inner wall, wherein a sealing compound is applied to the inner wall, or in the case of a retaining device having a closed bottom section which is connected to the inner wall, the sealing compound is applied to the bottom section facing the sensor unit. In the event that a foreign object punctures the inner wall, or punctures the inner wall and the bottom section, the sealing compound prevents at least a short-term loss of pressure caused by the hole resulting therefrom in that the sealing compound at least almost tightly seals the hole.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2013Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Jochen Hartmann, Axel Schwab, Michael Meier
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Publication number: 20140070936Abstract: A method is provided for real-time monitoring of tire pressure, wherein the pressure value determined by use of a pressure sensor in the tire is transmitted by an electronic wheel device, without the use of a trigger transmitter fixed on the vehicle, by radio, in short transmission intervals, to a monitoring device installed in the vehicle, only if, at least when the vehicle is not moving, the value is outside a prespecified normal range. When the vehicle is not moving, the electronic wheel device transmits a signal suitable for a system monitoring function, at certain time intervals and, using the same time frame or a whole-number fraction or multiple thereof, carries out a measurement of the tire pressure. The signal has a short transmission duration on the order of 25 ?s to 500 ?s.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2013Publication date: March 13, 2014Applicant: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Axel SCHWAB, Jochen HARTMANN
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Publication number: 20130305818Abstract: An arrangement of a tire pressure sensor unit on the inner wall of the tread of a vehicle tire in a retaining device for the sensor unit is provided. The retaining device is connected to the inner wall, wherein a sealing compound is applied to the inner wall, or in the case of a retaining device having a closed bottom section which is connected to the inner wall, the sealing compound is applied to the bottom section facing the sensor unit. In the event that a foreign object punctures the inner wall, or punctures the inner wall and the bottom section, the sealing compound prevents at least a short-term loss of pressure caused by the hole resulting therefrom in that the sealing compound at least almost tightly seals the hole.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2013Publication date: November 21, 2013Applicant: Bayerische Motoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Jochen HARTMANN, Axel SCHWAB, Michael MEIER
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Publication number: 20120249319Abstract: A warning strategy determines in a mutually separate manner the different effects that may occur in a tire and allows the increments and their priority in the display or indication for the driver to be evaluated in a mutually separate manner. This strategy occurs in connection with a sensor which can transmit at least the outside temperature and, preferably, also the barometric pressure to an evaluation device for detecting tire inflation pressure and tire temperature. As a result, in addition to an air loss monitoring function, the load capacity of the tire can also be evaluated at least as a function of the outside temperature. The evaluation device receives further input signals, such as the vehicle velocity, the tire contact area and/or the vehicle load, whereby also a dynamic tire stress can be taken into account as an indication or display for the driver.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2012Publication date: October 4, 2012Applicant: Bayerische Mortoren Werke AktiengesellschaftInventors: Hubert Schumacher, Jochen Hartmann
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Patent number: 3931376Abstract: A rolling apparatus for ceramic material comprises a smooth upper roll and rough lower roll for rolling a bar-shaped premolding out into a plate. The premolding is arranged to become attached to the upper roll and travel round with it, possibly more than once. When the plate comes into the gap between the rolls for the last time the upper roll is made negative electrically with respect to the lower roll.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 1971Date of Patent: January 6, 1976Assignee: Fetok GmbHInventor: Jochen Hartmann