Patents by Inventor Michael Christ

Michael Christ 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: 9157507
    Abstract: A spare part set for a gearmotor series includes transmissions actuated by electric motors. The series has at least one dimension which may be characterized by at least one physical, mechanical and/or geometrical value, e.g., by nominal power, axis height or torque. Each electric motor includes at least one crankcase, a rotor provided with a rotor axis and a side-shield for a motor bearing arranged within a given size. The crankcase includes an interface with the side-shield for a motor bearing, which is selected such that at least two different embodiments thereof are connectable to the said crankcase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: October 13, 2015
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Heinrich Zimmermann, Michael Christ, Roland Denefleh, Jürgen Megerle, Joachim Sander
  • Patent number: 8435156
    Abstract: In a series of planetary transmissions, the series including a least one size, each size including at least two variants, the planetary transmission including at least one planetary-transmission stage, which contains at least one planetary-gear carrier having a web face, and planets, a sun, and a ring gear, the planetary-gear carrier including bores of a first type and bores of a second type on its web face, the bores of the first type being arranged on a first circle having a first radius with respect to the imaginary axis of the planetary-gear carrier, and the bores of the second type being arranged on a second circle having a second radius with respect to the imaginary axis of the planetary-gear carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: Sew-Eurodrove GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Michael Christ
  • Patent number: 8375819
    Abstract: In a toothed piece for a geared motor, series of geared motors and connection, the toothed piece, for a connection with a motor shaft of the electric motor, having at least a first toothing in a first axial region, and having at least a second toothing in a second axial region, the second toothing meshing with a running toothing of a further toothed piece of the gear unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2013
    Assignee: Sew-Eurodrive GmbH & Co
    Inventor: Michael Christ
  • Publication number: 20110185589
    Abstract: The device according to the invention for thermally processing web-like fabric webs substantially comprises a plurality of successive processing fields for acting on the fabric web with a processing gas, transport means for conveying the fabric web through the processing fields in the extended state, devices for supplying additional air to the processing fields, devices for discharging exhaust air from the processing fields, a mixing device which is provided in each processing field and which is connected to the devices for supplying the additional air and which has an adjustment member, the ratio of additional air to circulating recirculation air present in the processing gas thereby being able to be adjusted, and a central heating system which is for adjusting the temperature of the processing gas and which is connected to the plurality of processing fields by means of a ring circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2011
    Publication date: August 4, 2011
    Inventor: Michael Christ
  • Patent number: 7351177
    Abstract: A series of gear systems is disclosed, each of which comprises least one double-shaft, reversible planetary stage including a combination of an open positive gear system having lantern-gear teeth and an output system. “z1” represents the lantern-gear arrangement, and a number of teeth z2 is assigned to at least one planetary gear. The series of gear systems comprises several variants of size categories. Each of the several variants comprises internal gears in which external rollers are seated in grooves such that the intervals are different in the different variants and are produced by the regular elimination of individual external rollers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2008
    Assignee: Sew-Eurodrive GmbH & Co. KG.
    Inventor: Michael Christ
  • Patent number: 7182709
    Abstract: A series of gear motors, a gear motor, and a planetary-gear stage includes planet wheels that mesh with a sun wheel and inner gear teeth provided for the gear housing. The planet wheels are supported in a rotatable planet carrier, which forms the power take-off, and to which a sealing element is assigned on the output side. The planetary-gear stage is assigned a further sealing element on the input side. The gear housing is shaped on the input side such that an interface is formed for connection to further components, which include at least one shaft connected to the sun wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2007
    Assignee: Sew-Eurodrive GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Christ, Heinrich Zimmermann, Jürgen Kasper
  • Publication number: 20060194666
    Abstract: A spare part set for a gearmotor series includes transmissions actuated by electric motors. The series has at least one dimension which may be characterized by at least one physical, mechanical and/or geometrical value, e.g., by nominal power, axis height or torque. Each electric motor includes at least one crankcase, a rotor provided with a rotor axis and a side-shield for a motor bearing arranged within a given size. The crankcase includes an interface with the side-shield for a motor bearing, which is selected such that at least two different embodiments thereof are connectable to the said crankcase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2004
    Publication date: August 31, 2006
    Inventors: Heinrich Zimmermann, Michael Christ, Roland Denefleh, Jurgen Megerle, Joachim Sander
  • Publication number: 20050085324
    Abstract: A series of gear motors, a gear motor, and a planetary-gear stage includes planet wheels that mesh with a sun wheel and inner gear teeth provided for the gear housing. The planet wheels are supported in a rotatable planet carrier, which forms the power take-off, and to which a sealing element is assigned on the output side. The planetary-gear stage is assigned a further sealing element on the input side. The gear housing is shaped on the input side such that an interface is formed for connection to further components, which include at least one shaft connected to the sun wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2002
    Publication date: April 21, 2005
    Inventors: Michael Christ, Heinrich Zimmermann, Jurgen Kasper
  • Publication number: 20050070396
    Abstract: In a series of planetary transmissions, the series including a least one size, each size including at least two variants, the planetary transmission including at least one planetary-transmission stage, which contains at least one planetary-gear carrier having a web face, and planets, a sun, and a ring gear, the planetary-gear carrier including bores of a first type and bores of a second type on its web face, the bores of the first type being arranged on a first circle having a first radius with respect to the imaginary axis of the planetary-gear carrier, and the bores of the second type being arranged on a second circle having a second radius with respect to the imaginary axis of the planetary-gear carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2002
    Publication date: March 31, 2005
    Applicant: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Michael Christ
  • Publication number: 20040198543
    Abstract: The invention relates to a series of gearboxes consisting of single- or multi-stage gear systems in at least one size category, each of which comprises one or more variants, such that each variant incorporates at least one double-shaft, reversible planetary stage consisting of a combination of an open positive gearbox having lantern-gear teeth with at least one planetary gear and an output system, wherein the lantern-gear arrangement can be specified by a number z1, in particular a number z1 of rollers (26), and wherein a number of teeth z2 can be assigned to at least one planetary gear (21, 22), and wherein within a given size category the index i can be assigned to the value z1 of the variants within this size category and the index j can be assigned to the value z2 of the variants within this size category to form a matrix Mij=(z1i, z2j) (in particular a matrix doubly indexed with ij), and wherein the matrix with index k comprises identifiable subsequences Sk, such that the variants within a given s
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2004
    Publication date: October 7, 2004
    Inventor: Michael Christ
  • Publication number: 20040060380
    Abstract: In a toothed piece for a geared motor, series of geared motors and connection, the toothed piece, for a connection with a motor shaft of the electric motor, having at least a first toothing in a first axial region, and having at least a second toothing in a second axial region, the second toothing meshing with a running toothing of a further toothed piece of the gear unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2003
    Publication date: April 1, 2004
    Inventor: Michael Christ
  • Patent number: 6563065
    Abstract: A method of adjusting an electrical switch arrangement comprising a pair of electrical contact members to a predetermined contact spacing is suggested. A first one of the contact members is associated with a first contact carrier and a second one of the contact members is associated with a second contact carrier. The first and second contact members are normally spaced from each other by the predetermined contact distance and are movable relative to each other across the contact distance. At least one of the contact members is displaceably held on the associated contact carrier. The contact carriers are moved towards each other across the predetermined contact distance. The one of the contact members is displaced relative to the associated contact carrier into physical contact with the other of the contact members. The one contact member is fixed in position on the associated contact member while physically contacting the other of the contact members.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2003
    Assignee: TRW Automotive Safety Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Manfred Schrammek, Michael Christ, Guido Hirzmann
  • Publication number: 20030047177
    Abstract: There is provided a process for significantly reducing thickness variations and the deviations of the wafer's centerline from a reference plane in material cut with wire saws in a wire cutting apparatus by utilizing a sacrificial layer. The sacrificial layer prevents excessive kerf loss in slices or wafers at the wire entry and exit points. The process can be used to produce semiconductor wafers having greater uniformity in thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2001
    Publication date: March 13, 2003
    Inventors: Michael Christ, Irl E. Ward
  • Patent number: 5108469
    Abstract: An exhaust-air purifying unit includes a housing, a first fan which is disposed in the housing and which draws exhaust air through the housing, and a heat exchanger which is disposed in the housing and which cools the exhaust air via heat transfer with a stream of cooling air which is drawn through the heat exchanger without contacting the exhaust air. A mechanical filter is disposed in the housing downstream of the heat exchanger, and a washing device is disposed in the housing upstream of the heat exchanger. The washing device sprays a washing liquid into the exhaust air as it enters the heat exchanger to remove harmful substances from the exhaust air.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1990
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1992
    Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co.
    Inventor: Michael Christ
  • Patent number: 5007180
    Abstract: In the case of a method of separating condensable harmful substances and solid particles from the process gas or used air from particularly a textile finishing plant such as for example a drier or a coating plant, for example in the paper or synthetic plastics industry, the used air is pre-filtered, cooled and passed through a mechanical final filtering apparatus. So that a considerable extent of separation from the used air is possible already at the pre-filtering stage, the warm used air is pre-filtered by being cooled to below the dewpoint of the condensable harmful substances and dispersed solid particles. The resultant condensate which contains impurities is extracted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 1989
    Date of Patent: April 16, 1991
    Assignee: Sueddeutsche Kuehlerfabrik Julius Fr. Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Christ, Wolfgang Teichmann