Patents by Inventor Kurt A. Mueller

Kurt A. Mueller 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: 11292597
    Abstract: A gliding sports apparatus, which is preferably controllable by upper body and/or arms and/or hands and/or fingers, extends from a leading edge to a trailing edge in an intended direction of overflow when it is fastened to a user. The gliding sports apparatus comprises at least two shoulder ribs which extend substantially from the leading edge to the trailing edge, and wherein each of the shoulder ribs is connectable fixedly to an upper arm of the user but is rotatable about the axis of the upper arm, two hand ribs which extend substantially from the leading edge to the trailing edge, and wherein each of the hand ribs is connectable fixedly to a hand of the user, a back airfoil which is formed between the two shoulder ribs, and two arm airfoils, which are formed in each case between a shoulder rib and a hand rib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Inventor: Kurt Müller
  • Publication number: 20200239139
    Abstract: A gliding sports apparatus, which is preferably controllable by upper body and/or arms and/or hands and/or fingers, extends from a leading edge (40) to a trailing edge (41) in an intended direction of overflow when it is fastened to a user (30). The gliding sports apparatus (25, 25?) comprises at least two shoulder ribs (1) which extend substantially from the leading edge (40) to the trailing edge (41), and wherein each of the shoulder ribs (1) is connectable fixedly to an upper arm (34) of the user (30) but is rotatable about the axis of the upper arm, two hand ribs (3) which extend substantially from the leading edge (40) to the trailing edge (41), and wherein each of the hand ribs (3) is connectable fixedly to a hand (38) of the user (30), a back airfoil (8) which is formed between the two shoulder ribs (1), and two arm airfoils, which are formed in each case between a shoulder rib (1) and a hand rib (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventor: Kurt MÜLLER
  • Patent number: 9365138
    Abstract: A seat divider device, in particular an air passenger seat divider device, has at least one seat divider unit which has at least two main support elements formed separately from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: RECARO Aircraft Seating GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Kurt Mueller
  • Patent number: 9297403
    Abstract: The invention relates to a self-tapping screw with a head and an outer thread support. The core cross-section of the outer thread support has the shape of a rounded n-sided polygon, n being a prime number>3.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: RUIA GLOBAL FASTENERS AG
    Inventor: Kurt Müller
  • Patent number: 9289863
    Abstract: A part (10) welded in a rotationally symmetrical manner and comprising two parts (12, 14), which are connected by a rotationally symmetrical weld (16), wherein a main loading area (22) occurs in the vicinity of the weld (16), and only the weld (16) and the surroundings (22) thereof are strengthened by case hardening in the extreme fiber in such a way that case strengthening is present there, and a method for producing a part (10) welded in a rotationally symmetrical manner and comprising two parts (12, 14) by welding a rotationally symmetrical weld (16) between the two parts (12, 14), wherein after the parts (12, 14) are welded, the weld (16) and the surroundings (22) thereof are case hardened and the hardened zone (16, 22) is quenched immediately thereafter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 22, 2016
    Assignee: RUIA GLOBAL FASTENERS AG
    Inventors: Robert Bongartz, Reiner Dorow, Kurt Müller
  • Publication number: 20140328646
    Abstract: The invention relates to a self-tapping screw with a head and an outer thread support. The core cross-section of the outer thread support has the shape of a rounded n-sided polygon, n being a prime number >3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2012
    Publication date: November 6, 2014
    Inventor: Kurt Müller
  • Patent number: 8845475
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a connecting assembly, more particularly for being used in the driveline of a motor vehicle. The connecting assembly comprises a housing and a driving gear. The housing comprises a first housing part with a first flange portion and a second housing part with a second flange portion. The driving gear comprises a receiving portion for receiving the housing and a supporting face which laterally delimits the receiving portion, wherein the first flange portion of the first housing part is axially arranged between the supporting face of the driving gear and the second flange portion of the second housing part, and wherein the second flange portion is welded to the driving gear. A method of producing a connecting assembly is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: GKN Driveline International GmbH
    Inventors: Nikolaus Mayr, Ernst Mairhofer, Oliver Roth, Kurt Müller, Jürgen Wörner
  • Publication number: 20140224969
    Abstract: A detector has a frame, a window for allowing radiation to enter, outlook sensors for sensing radiation, a unit for processing outlook sensor signals and outlook mirrors that are shaped and mounted in the frame for reflecting radiation from outside detection zones onto the outlook sensor, some of which are mounted near the window such that they face each other. When the detector is installed and operated as intended, the perpendicular to the inner window surface in its centroid of the perpendicular projections of the mirror surfaces of the near-mounted mutually-facing outlook mirrors onto the inner window surface intersects the horizontal plane at floor level outside. Any sector of the horizontal plane around said perpendicular without the detection zones of the near-mounted mutually-facing outlook mirrors extends over 160° at most.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Publication date: August 14, 2014
    Applicant: SIEMENS AB
    Inventors: Simon Daniel FISCHER, Kurt MUELLER
  • Patent number: 8671392
    Abstract: Techniques for integrating software applications include identifying an enterprise application executable in a first computing environment, where the enterprise application is compatible with a first version of a network application executable in a second computing environment so that a first set of functionality of the first version of the network application is exposed through the enterprise application. The features include identifying a second version of the network application executable in the second computing environment. The second version of the network application includes a second set of functionality at least partially distinct from the first set of functionality. The features include delivering an integration component from the second computing system to the first computing system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: SAP AG
    Inventors: Andreas Jahr, Dennis Koerner, Ralf Kurt Mueller
  • Publication number: 20140062149
    Abstract: A seat divider device, in particular an air passenger seat divider device, has at least one seat divider unit which has at least two main support elements formed separately from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: Recaro Aircraft Seating GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Kurt MUELLER
  • Publication number: 20140060298
    Abstract: A measurement apparatus is provided, which is included on a measurement and programming basis for a projectile, which detects the fields and/or signals which emerge/originate from a programming coil, and is electrically connected to an evaluation device which itself evaluates these detected values. These values can then be taken into account for the programming of the projectile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Inventors: Kurt MUELLER, Aldo ALBERTI
  • Publication number: 20140064845
    Abstract: A fitting body having at least one fitting unit is produced, at least to a large part, from a material having a density of less than 7000 kg/m3.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2013
    Publication date: March 6, 2014
    Applicant: RECARO Aircraft Seating GmbH & Co. KG.
    Inventors: Kurt MUELLER, Alfons STACHEL, Jurgen BAUMANN
  • Patent number: 8651453
    Abstract: The invention relates to a valve cartridge for a solenoid valve, having a capsule, a magnetic armature that is movably guided within the capsule, a valve insert that is inserted into the capsule at a first end, and a valve body, which is pressed into a second end of the valve insert and has a main valve seat. The magnetic armature, moved by a generated magnetic force, moves a tappet guided within the valve insert. The tappet has a closing element with a sealing element which plunges into the main valve seat of the valve body in a sealing manner for carrying out a sealing function, and an associated solenoid valve. According to the invention the valve insert is configured as a one-part slotted bushing, and the valve body is configured as a bonnet-shaped bushing. The valve body configured as a bushing is pressed into a second end of the valve insert configured as a slotted bushing such that the main valve seat is disposed within the valve insert.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Heyer, Reinhard Fink, Florian Richter, Jean-Guillaume Pic, Daniel Brenndoerfer, Volkmar Wetschorek, Harald Speer, Florian Rispler, Oliver Holz, Friedrich Mueller, Nicolas Houis, Anton Fritz, Alice Schacherl, Franz Neuhauser, Hubert Rapp, Martin Haas, Christoph Kasper, Joerg Fricke-Schmidt, Guenther Schnalzger, Martin Kirschner, Elmar Vier, Stefan Eichmann, Jens Kolarsky, Gerhard Stokmaier, Dietmar Kratzer, Kurt Mueller
  • Patent number: 8587442
    Abstract: A smoke alarm has a base element with a flat mounting surface, a light emitter that is attached to the mounting surface and that is configured to issue an illuminating light, and a light receiver that is attached to the mounting surface next to the light emitter and that is configured to receive a measurement light that results from a back-scattering of the illumination light at a measurement object located in a detection space. A data processing device is coupled to an output of the light receiver and configured to evaluate temporal changes of an output signal issued by the light receiver. Also, there is provided a method for checking the functional capability of the smoke alarm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Markus Loepfe, Kurt Müller, Georges A. Tenchio, Walter Vollenweider
  • Publication number: 20130191820
    Abstract: Techniques for integrating software applications include identifying an enterprise application executable in a first computing environment, where the enterprise application is compatible with a first version of a network application executable in a second computing environment so that a first set of functionality of the first version of the network application is exposed through the enterprise application. The features include identifying a second version of the network application executable in the second computing environment. The second version of the network application includes a second set of functionality at least partially distinct from the first set of functionality. The features include delivering an integration component from the second computing system to the first computing system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2012
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: SAP AG
    Inventors: Andreas Jahr, Dennis Koerner, Ralf Kurt Mueller
  • Publication number: 20120312120
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a venting assembly for a unit with components running in a lubricant. The venting assembly comprises a housing part, a rotating component which, by a rolling contact bearing, is rotatably supported around an axis of rotation relative to the housing part, as well as a venting channel for venting the assembly, wherein an inner opening of the venting channel is arranged so as to axially adjoin the rolling contact bearing, and wherein, in an axial view, the opening of the venting channel at least partially covers the rolling contact bearing. Furthermore, the disclosure relates to a transmission assembly with such a venting assembly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2009
    Publication date: December 13, 2012
    Applicant: GKN DRIVELINE INTERNATIONAL GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Engelmann, Ralf Schäfer, Kurt Müller
  • Publication number: 20120264559
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a connecting assembly, more particularly for being used in the driveline of a motor vehicle. The connecting assembly comprises a housing and a driving gear. The housing comprises a first housing part with a first flange portion and a second housing part with a second flange portion. The driving gear comprises a receiving portion for receiving the housing and a supporting face which laterally delimits the receiving portion, wherein the first flange portion of the first housing part is axially arranged between the supporting face of the driving gear and the second flange portion of the second housing part, and wherein the second flange portion is welded to the driving gear. A method of producing a connecting assembly is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2010
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Inventors: Nikolaus Mayr, Ernst Mairhofer, Oliver Roth, Kurt Müller, Jürgen Wörner
  • Publication number: 20120177437
    Abstract: The invention relates to a part (10) welded in a rotationally symmetrical manner and comprising two parts (12, 14), which are connected by a rotationally symmetrical weld (16), wherein a main loading area (22) occurs in the vicinity of the weld (16), and only the weld (16) and the surroundings (22) thereof are strengthened by case hardening in the extreme fiber in such a way that case strengthening is present there, and a method for producing a part (10) welded in a rotationally symmetrical manner and comprising two parts (12, 14) by welding a rotationally symmetrical weld (16) between the two parts (12, 14), wherein after the parts (12, 14) are welded, the weld (16) and the surroundings (22) thereof are case hardened and the hardened zone (16, 22) is quenched immediately thereafter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2010
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: RUIA GLOBAL FASTENERS AG
    Inventors: Robert Bongartz, Reiner Dorow, Kurt Müller
  • Patent number: 8217580
    Abstract: A flashlight for alarm systems includes a light source containing at least one light emitting diode and a circuit which controls said light source. The circuit has a feed supply, a current converter, and flash control device. The current converter, the light source, and the flash control device are connected in series. The current converter includes a control unit, an inductor, an induction stop, and a resistor which are connected in series. The flash control device includes at least one switch for actuating the light source and a microprocessor for controlling the at least one switch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2012
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Max Grimm, Kurt Müller, Antonio Pedrosa, Hansjürg Wälti
  • Publication number: 20120098322
    Abstract: A seat frame device for having at least two frame parts which are connected by way of at least one connection. At least one connection is formed at least partially of a pin connection, having at least one pin which is secured in the respective connection position by way of a safety connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2010
    Publication date: April 26, 2012
    Applicant: RECARO AIRCRAFT SEATING GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Kurt Müller