Patents by Inventor Kurt A. Moldenhauer

Kurt A. Moldenhauer 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: 7059159
    Abstract: An apparatus to secure a door of a cargo container. The apparatus includes a latching device and a cover can be positioned over at least a portion of the latching device. The latching device is positioned within a housing. At least one pad is positioned between the latch and the housing. The latching device includes a screw for moving the latch between an open position and a closed position and a rotary motor for turning the screw. A pre-compressed spring is coupled to the latch and the screw for exerting a force to Increase friction and prevent back rotation of the screw.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Mi-Jack Products, Inc.
    Inventors: William P. Lanigan, Peter W. Mirabella, Gerald F. Chalko, Jr., Kurt A. Moldenhauer, Maciej Labowicz
  • Publication number: 20060117820
    Abstract: A cargo transportation device has a container including a cargo door accessible from the outside for closing the container and being movable from an open position to a closed position. A security system is provided that includes a latching device on the inside of the container, the latching device having a latch, a screw for moving the latch between an open position and a closed position, and a rotary motor for turning the screw. The security system has a latch receiving device, adapted to receive the latch, on the inside of the container. A controller operates a motor to turn a screw in one direction and thereby moves the latch from its unlocked position to its locked position. The controller also can operate the motor to turn the screw in the direction opposite of said one direction thereby moving the latch from its locked position in the latch receiving device to its unlocked position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2005
    Publication date: June 8, 2006
    Inventors: William Lanigan, Peter Mirabella, Gerald Chalko, Kurt Moldenhauer, Maciej Labowicz
  • Publication number: 20040155477
    Abstract: A cargo transportation device has a container including a cargo door accessible from the outside for closing the container and being movable from an open position to a closed position. A security system is provided that includes a latching device on the inside of the container, the latching device having a latch, a screw for moving the latch between an open position and a closed position, and a rotary motor for turning the screw. The security system has a latch receiving device, adapted to receive the latch, on the inside of the container. A controller operates a motor to turn a screw in one direction and thereby moves the latch from its unlocked position to its locked position. The controller also can operate the motor to turn the screw in the direction opposite of said one direction thereby moving the latch from its locked position in the latch receiving device to its unlocked position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2003
    Publication date: August 12, 2004
    Inventors: William P. Lanigan, Peter W. Mirabella, Gerald F. Chalko, Kurt A. Moldenhauer, Maciej Labowicz
  • Patent number: 3970372
    Abstract: A motor driven light chopper has a cylindrical motor casing with annular stator and rotor and windows in the end faces of the casing with cross bars serving for journalling the rotor shaft which is connected to the rotor by a single spoke. The light chopping diaphragm is releasibly secured to the shaft, on the outside of the casing so that one shutter blade or the like shades the spoke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1975
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1976
    Assignee: Hartmann & Braun Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Kurt Moldenhauer, Heinrich Stolz
  • Patent number: 3937962
    Abstract: A two infrared beam gas analyzer, with sample and reference paths and radiation chopper has two absorption cells as detectors wherein the pressures are compared in a first diaphragm capacitor and the sum with parameter modification by operation of pneumatic inpedances is formed in a second diaphragm capacitor. The ratio of the two capacitor outputs constitutes the output of the system. A compact unitary construction is described in detail including the detector chambers and one capacitor in a body serving as mounting element for the second capacitor with a frit like element interposed as pneumatic inpedances and rotational adjustment of that second capacitor as a whole results in parameter adjustment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 1974
    Date of Patent: February 10, 1976
    Assignee: Hartmann & Braun Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Reimar Faulhaber, Kurt Moldenhauer