Patents by Inventor Lothar Hoerl

Lothar Hoerl 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: 20210277998
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for sealing an object to be sealed, in particular for sealing a rotating shaft, which device has a sealing body, which has a sealing side facing the object to be sealed and a back side facing away from the object to be sealed. On the back side, the sealing body has at least one element that changes the stiffness of the sealing body, which element changes the contact pressure between the sealing body and the object to be sealed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2017
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: Universitaet Stuttgart
    Inventors: Lothar Hoerl, Nino Dakov, Mario Stoll, Frank Bauer