Patents by Inventor Kurt Zech

Kurt Zech 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).

  • Publication number: 20260131851
    Abstract: A steering control system and method of controlling a vehicle using the steering control system are disclosed. The final steering control system is configured to receive a plurality of critically damped outputs generated by a plurality of critically damped control loops, and generate, based on the plurality of critically damped outputs, a combined critically damped output. A steering gear box is communicatively coupled with a final steering control system and configured to receive the combined critically damped output from the final steering control system to control a steering angle of a vehicle based on the combined critically damped output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2025
    Publication date: May 14, 2026
    Inventor: Kurt Zech
  • Patent number: 12485958
    Abstract: A steering control system and method of controlling a vehicle using the steering control system are disclosed. The final steering control system is configured to receive a plurality of critically damped outputs generated by a plurality of critically damped control loops, and generate, based on the plurality of critically damped outputs, a combined critically damped output. A steering gear box is communicatively coupled with a final steering control system and configured to receive the combined critically damped output from the final steering control system to control a steering angle of a vehicle based on the combined critically damped output.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2025
    Assignee: TORC Robotics, Inc.
    Inventor: Kurt Zech
  • Publication number: 20250091640
    Abstract: A steering control system and method of controlling a vehicle using the steering control system are disclosed. The final steering control system is configured to receive a plurality of critically damped outputs generated by a plurality of critically damped control loops, and generate, based on the plurality of critically damped outputs, a combined critically damped output. A steering gear box is communicatively coupled with a final steering control system and configured to receive the combined critically damped output from the final steering control system to control a steering angle of a vehicle based on the combined critically damped output.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: March 20, 2025
    Inventor: Kurt Zech
  • Patent number: 4925382
    Abstract: A roller press for compacting fine-grained chemicals, especially salts, into sheets, having synchronously driven rollers with two axially spaced pressing surfaces on ring elements being provided with radial shoulders at both of their ends. Screw feeders for feeding the salt into the roll nip and wedge-shaped wall elements closing-off the roll nip in the axial direction on both ends of said ring elements and bearing against the shoulders, are also provided. Adjustment rods acting parallel to the roll axis are provided for the outer wall elements and vertical rods between the inner wall elements acting onto these wall elements via wedge-shaped surfaces arranged on said rods and the walls of said wall elements facing each other. The ring elements are integral with the roller bodies or separate cylindrical rings shrink-fit onto the roller bodies. Each ring element is associated with at least two screw feeders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 1988
    Date of Patent: May 15, 1990
    Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Koppern GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Hans-Georg Bergendahl, Kurt Zech, Raimund Zisselmar
  • Patent number: 3988095
    Abstract: The invention relates to a roll briquetting press having a preconnected feed arrangement including a multiplicity of juxtaposed screw conveyors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 1974
    Date of Patent: October 26, 1976
    Assignee: Koppern & Co. KG
    Inventors: Peter Mersch, Walter Siepermann, Kurt Zech