Patents by Inventor Michael Kress

Michael Kress 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: 11303854
    Abstract: An inspection system comprising an inspection and/or maintenance device and a monitoring device is provided. The inspection and/or maintenance device is operationally connected to the monitoring device via a wired communication connection, and the inspection and/or maintenance device has at least one image recording system, the at least one image recording system provides digital video data and the inspection and/or maintenance device has a transmitting device which is operationally coupled to the at least one image recording system and to the communication connection, and the monitoring device has a receiving device which is operationally coupled to the communication connection. The transmitting device and the receiving device are adapted to transmit the digital video data at least via a sub-section of the communication connection in an analog manner according to an AHD standard. Also provided is a method for transmitting digital video data is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: iPEK International GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Kress, Harald Kaderabek, Fabian Zahnd, Dominik Pomp
  • Patent number: 11059695
    Abstract: A cable reel is provided, in particular for a pipe inspection system, the cable reel having a frame and a cable receptacle. The cable receptacle is rotatably arranged on the frame, it being possible to wind a cable onto the cable receptacle and unwind it from the cable receptacle. The cable receptacle has an inner cage and an outer cage, with the diameter of the inner cage being smaller than the diameter of the outer cage. The inner cage is arranged coaxially with respect to the outer cage and is inside the outer cage. It is possible to rotate the inner cage and the outer cage independently of one another, and the inner cage is receives a first cable portion of the cable and the outer cage receives a second cable portion of the cable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: iPEK International GmbH
    Inventors: Fabian Zahnd, Simon Grimm, Gerhard Kennerknecht, Michael Kress
  • Publication number: 20200095089
    Abstract: A cable reel is provided, in particular for a pipe inspection system, the cable reel having a frame and a cable receptacle. The cable receptacle is rotatably arranged on the frame, it being possible to wind a cable onto the cable receptacle and unwind it from the cable receptacle. The cable receptacle has an inner cage and an outer cage, with the diameter of the inner cage being smaller than the diameter of the outer cage. The inner cage is arranged coaxially with respect to the outer cage and is inside the outer cage. It is possible to rotate the inner cage and the outer cage independently of one another, and the inner cage is receives a first cable portion of the cable and the outer cage receives a second cable portion of the cable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2019
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: Fabian ZAHND, Simon GRIMM, Gerhard KENNERKNECHT, Michael KRESS
  • Publication number: 20190373223
    Abstract: An inspection system comprising an inspection and/or maintenance device and a monitoring device is provided, wherein the inspection and/or maintenance device is operationally connected to the monitoring device via a wired communication connection, and the inspection and/or maintenance device has at least one image recording system, the at least one image recording system providing digital video data, and wherein the inspection and/or maintenance device has a transmitting device which is operationally coupled to the at least one image recording system and to the communication connection, and the monitoring device has a receiving device which is operationally coupled to the communication connection, wherein the transmitting device and the receiving device are adapted to transmit the digital video data at least via a sub-section of the communication connection in an analog manner according to an AHD (analog high definition) standard.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Michael KRESS, Harald KADERABEK, Fabian ZAHND, Dominik POMP
  • Publication number: 20190032324
    Abstract: A sewer inspection and/or maintenance system is provided comprising an inspection and/or maintenance unit and a control and/or display unit, wherein the control and/or display unit is coupled operatively to the inspection and/or maintenance unit via a twisted-pair cable comprising copper. The inspection and/or maintenance unit comprises an imaging unit, which is coupled operatively to a processing unit comprising a digital signal processor (DSP) or an application-specific integrated circuit (ASIC) of the inspection and/or maintenance unit. The processing unit is coupled operatively to the twisted pair cable, and the processing unit is adapted to digitalize and to compress the image data received from the imaging unit to prepare the digitalized and compressed image data for a transmission according to the BroadR-Reach standard, and to transmit the prepared image data according to the BroadR-Reach standard via the twisted pair cable to the control and/or display unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2018
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventor: Michael Kress
  • Patent number: 9840941
    Abstract: An internal lever for a switchable cam follower for a valve train of an internal combustion engine with two opposite side walls (1, 2), between which at least one cam roller (9) can be arranged for following a cam stroke motion and aligned opposing openings (3, 4) on a support-side lever end area for holding a shaft (7) for the pivoting support on an external lever (8) of the cam follower encompassing the internal lever at least in some sections. The side walls (1, 2) are made from sheet metal and, arranged in the area of the openings (3, 4) spaced apart from each other, define a space for the arrangement of the cam roller (9) and are connected to each other by at least one stiffening element (5). A method for producing an internal lever is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Kress, Kilian Dummer
  • Publication number: 20170204748
    Abstract: An internal lever for a switchable cam follower for a valve train of an internal combustion engine with two opposite side walls (1, 2), between which at least one cam roller (9) can be arranged for following a cam stroke motion and aligned opposing openings (3, 4) on a support-side lever end area for holding a shaft (7) for the pivoting support on an external lever (8) of the cam follower encompassing the internal lever at least in some sections. The side walls (1, 2) are made from sheet metal and, arranged in the area of the openings (3, 4) spaced apart from each other, define a space for the arrangement of the cam roller (9) and are connected to each other by at least one stiffening element (5). A method for producing an internal lever is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Kress, Kilian Dummer
  • Patent number: 9103417
    Abstract: A lever-type cam follower for a valve train of an internal combustion engine, the cam follower having two side walls which are connected to each other through a crossbar on whose underside, on one end, a support for a gas exchange valve is disposed, the crossbar having a recess through which a roller extends, the roller is supported via a bearing on a pin seated in the side walls, wherein the roller is so narrow that outer front ends of the roller are clearly spaced from and out of contact with longitudinal surfaces of the recess, one guide extension projects from each of the longitudinal surfaces towards a central longitudinal plane of the cam follower, and the roller is guided on inner sides of the at least one guide extension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Oliver Witter, Michael Kress
  • Patent number: 8925505
    Abstract: A finger follower lever of a valve train, which has a lever body that is a pressed and punched component made of sheet metal and has a U-shaped cross-section with two largely parallel side walls. A roller rotatably mounted between the side walls on a pin. The pin is uniformly hardened and inserted at each end into a hole punched out of the side wall and is staked or caulked at the ends. To enable the holes to be punched out simultaneously in opposite directions of a relatively narrow lever body, at least one of the two side walls has, at least on the outside thereof, a flat recess in the region of the hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Stephan Moeck, Michael Kress, Martin Lambert
  • Patent number: 8633314
    Abstract: The present invention provides alternative forms of Compound I, processes to reproducibly make them and methods of treating patients using them.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Cephalon, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Bierlmaier, Michael Christie, R. Scott Field, R. Curtis Haltiwanger, Linli He, Martin J. Jacobs, Michael Kress, Robert E. McKean, Dale R. Mowrey, Joseph Petraitis, Mehran Yazdanian, Veronique Courvoisier
  • Patent number: 8584640
    Abstract: The invention relates to a finger follower, or lever (1) of a valve train, for example of a piston-type internal combustion engine, with a lever body (2) having an end-sided base web (4), on which there is a spherical cap-shaped bearing cup (8) for an articulated mounting on a bearing pin of a housing-sided support element, said bearing pin terminating as a spherical cap; and on this base web is fastened a retaining clamp (9), engaging with an annular groove of the bearing pin, in order to secure the finger follower (1) on the support element in such a way that said finger follower can move to a limited extent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2013
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Stephan Moeck, Michael Kress
  • Publication number: 20130263695
    Abstract: A lever-type cam follower for a valve train of an internal combustion engine, the cam follower having two side walls which are connected to each other through a crossbar on whose underside, on one end, a support for a gas exchange valve is disposed, the crossbar having a recess through which a roller extends, the roller is supported via a bearing on a pin seated in the side walls, wherein the roller is so narrow that outer front ends of the roller are clearly spaced from and out of contact with longitudinal surfaces of the recess, one guide extension projects from each of the longitudinal surfaces towards a central longitudinal plane of the cam follower, and the roller is guided on inner sides of the at least one guide extension.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Oliver Witter, Michael Kress
  • CAM
    Publication number: 20130263694
    Abstract: According to the invention this object is attained by a rocker arm for actuating at least one gas exchange valve of an internal combustion engine having an elongated lever body with a floor and with side walls angled away therefrom, wherein a first end section of the lever body has a cup formed in the floor for a support element, and in that a section near the center is provided with a cam engagement surface and in that a second end section of the lever body has a bottom contact surface for a valve stem end of the gas exchange valve, wherein a crossbar extends between the section near the center and the second end section, and wherein the bottom contact surface for the valve stem end has a first stamping toward the top side of the rocker arm for a direct fine enclosure of the valve stem end, and wherein the crossbar has a second stamping whose shape is matched to the valve stem end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Inventors: Oliver Witter, Michael Kress
  • Publication number: 20130087059
    Abstract: A system and method to detect defects in ink blankets of a decorator wheel. An image of each of a plurality of ink blankets of a decorator wheel is acquired using an optical inspection device of the system as the decorator wheel rotates past the optical inspection device during an inking process. Each acquired image is correlated to a unique ink blanket of the plurality of ink blankets. Each acquired image is further matched to a unique standard image of a correlated unique ink blanket. Each acquired image is also compared to a matching unique standard image to determine any defects.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2011
    Publication date: April 11, 2013
    Applicant: APPLIED VISION CORPORATION
    Inventors: Brian M. Baird, Michael A. Kress
  • Publication number: 20120260874
    Abstract: The invention relates to a finger follower, or lever (1) of a valve train, for example of a piston-type internal combustion engine, with a lever body (2) having an end-sided base web (4), on which there is a spherical cap-shaped bearing cup (8) for an articulated mounting on a bearing pin of a housing-sided support element, said bearing pin terminating as a spherical cap; and on this base web is fastened a retaining clamp (9), engaging with an annular groove of the bearing pin, in order to secure the finger follower (1) on the support element in such a way that said finger follower can move to a limited extent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Stephan Moeck, Michael Kress
  • Publication number: 20120260875
    Abstract: A finger follower lever of a valve train, which has a lever body that is a pressed and punched component made of sheet metal and has a U-shaped cross-section with two largely parallel side walls. A roller rotatably mounted between the side walls on a pin. The pin is uniformly hardened and inserted at each end into a hole punched out of the side wall and is staked or caulked at the ends. To enable the holes to be punched out simultaneously in opposite directions of a relatively narrow lever body, at least one of the two side walls has, at least on the outside thereof, a flat recess in the region of the hole.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2012
    Publication date: October 18, 2012
    Applicant: SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Stephan MOECK, Michael KRESS, Martin LAMBERT
  • Publication number: 20120214998
    Abstract: The present invention provides alternative forms of Compound I, processes to reproducibly make them and methods of treating patients using them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2012
    Publication date: August 23, 2012
    Applicant: Cephalon, Inc.
    Inventors: Stephen Bierlmaier, Michael Christie, Laurent Courvoisier, Veronique Courvoisier, R. Scott Field, R. Curtis Haltiwanger, Linli He, Martin J. Jacobs, Michael Kress, Robert E. McKean, Dale R. Mowrey, Joseph Petraitis, Mehran Yazdanian
  • Patent number: 8104441
    Abstract: A cam follower for a valve drive of an internal combustion engine. The cam follower has a housing and a cam roller. The cam roller is arranged between the side walls of the housing and is mounted on a journal which bridges the side walls. The cam roller, which has an outer ring, a rolling body set and an inner ring, is a combined plain and rolling bearing. The outer ring and the inner ring are in sliding contact with one another, and the rolling body set is arranged between the inner ring and the journal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Schaeffler KG
    Inventors: Stephan Moeck, Michael Kress
  • Patent number: 8014586
    Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods to recognize features on bottom surfaces of containers on a container production line, detect defects in the containers, and correlate the defects to specific production equipment of the container production line, based in part on the recognized features. The system includes imaging apparatus, programmable processing devices, and encoders. The methods include synchronization techniques and correlation techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2011
    Assignee: Applied Vision Corporation
    Inventors: Richard A. Sones, Carl E. Sebeny, Brian M. Baird, Michael A. Kress, Michael L. Kress
  • Patent number: 7773214
    Abstract: Apparatus, systems, and methods to recognize features on bottom surfaces of containers on a container production line, detect defects in the containers, and correlate the defects to specific production equipment of the container production line, based in part on the recognized features. The system includes imaging apparatus, programmable processing devices, and controllers. The methods include imaging techniques and estimation techniques.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2010
    Assignee: Applied Vision Corporation
    Inventors: Richard A. Sones, Carl E. Sebeny, Brian M. Baird, Michael A. Kress, Michael L. Kress