Patents by Inventor Michael Schaffer

Michael Schaffer 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: 12215767
    Abstract: A rotary bearing (50), especially for harmonic gearing, comprising an outer bearing ring (1b) and an inner bearing ring (1a) arranged therein; whereby the inner bearing ring (1a) and the outer bearing ring (1b) are each provided with at least one receptacle (10, 11) through which, when the two receptacles (10, 11) are in a corresponding position with respect to one another, rolling elements (8) can be inserted through a receptacle opening (22) formed by the two receptacles (10, 11) into an anti-friction bearing between the bearing surface (7) of the inner bearing ring (1a) and the bearing surface (9) of the outer bearing ring (1b), wherein a guide ring (20) for the rolling elements (8) is arranged in at least one of the two receptacles (10, 11) between the receptacle opening (22) and the rolling elements (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2025
    Assignee: Harmonic Drive SE
    Inventors: Matthias Mendel, Alexander Schäfer, Michael Schaffer
  • Publication number: 20230130289
    Abstract: A rotary bearing (50), especially for harmonic gearing, comprising an outer bearing ring (1b) and an inner bearing ring (1a) arranged therein; whereby the inner bearing ring (1a) and the outer bearing ring (1b) are each provided with at least one receptacle (10, 11) through which, when the two receptacles (10, 11) are in a corresponding position with respect to one another, rolling elements (8) can be inserted through a receptacle opening (22) formed by the two receptacles (10, 11) into an anti-friction bearing between the bearing surface (7) of the inner bearing ring (1a) and the bearing surface (9) of the outer bearing ring (1b), wherein a guide ring (20) for the rolling elements (8) is arranged in at least one of the two receptacles (10, 11) between the receptacle opening (22) and the rolling elements (8).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: Harmonic Drive SE
    Inventors: Matthias MENDEL, Alexander SCHÄFER, Michael SCHAFFER
  • Patent number: 11180809
    Abstract: Provided herein are methods of predicting a likelihood of survival following treatment with AA and prednisone in a patient having CRPC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2021
    Assignee: Janssen Pharmaceutica NV
    Inventors: Deborah Sokol Ricci, Weimin Li, Michael Gormley, Jayaprakash Karkera, Michael Schaffer
  • Patent number: 11092225
    Abstract: A strain wave gear mechanism (1) has a gear mechanism component (CS) and an elastically deformable transmission component (FS) that is at least partially in alignment therewith in the radial direction (29) and can be deformed elliptically by way of a drive component (WG). Internal or external toothing systems (8, 9) on the gear mechanism component (CS) and the transmission component (FS) are brought into engagement in opposite regions of an elliptical axis to rotate the transmission component (FS) and the gear mechanism component (CS) relative to one another. The transmission component (FS) and the gear mechanism component (CS) are mounted such that they can be rotated relative to one another by means of a pivot bearing (30) which has a bearing intermediate space (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2021
    Assignee: Harmonic Drive AG
    Inventors: Matthias Mendel, Michael Schaffer, Dominik Göbel, Alexander Arthen, Johannes Petrus Koenen
  • Patent number: 10977595
    Abstract: A system includes one or more server hardware computing devices includes one or more processors and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to receive a request to verify an identity of a user attempting to complete an examination provided by an online proctored examination platform to a candidate user authorized to complete the examination and repeatedly, at a predefined interval during the examination, determine, based at least in part on user data collected by the online proctored examination platform during the examination, the user data identifying the user at a time that the interval elapses, whether the user is the candidate user, and, responsive to a determination that the user is not the candidate user, perform one or more of a plurality of actions associated with a failed identity verification, the plurality of actions including stopping the examination.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: PEARSON EDUCATION, INC.
    Inventors: Gregory Anderson, Wayne Bailey, Colleen M. Dolan, Jide Fajobi, Darrick Jensen, Ronald D. Lancaster, Jr., Matthew Maloney, Michael Nealis, Steven C. Nordberg, Peter Pascale, Andrew Stockinger, Julianne Michael Schaffer
  • Patent number: 10876614
    Abstract: A transmission component set has a bearing ring (1) and a strain wave gear mounted thereon. Said strain wave gear comprises an input or drive component (2), a flexible or resilient transmission component (4) having external teeth (3), and a gear (6) having an internal teeth (5). The transmission component (4) is fitted onto the drive component (2) and thereby is elliptically deformable such that the external teeth (3) of the transmission component (4) engage with the internal teeth (5) of the gear (6) in opposing areas of a major axis of the ellipse, wherein the gear (6) or the transmission component (4), via its bearing surface (7), can be mounted on a bearing surface (9) of the bearing ring (1) by means of rolling elements (8). The gear (6) or the transmission component (4) and the bearing ring (1) are each provided with at least one indentation or receptacle (10, 11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 29, 2020
    Assignee: Harmonic Drive AG
    Inventors: Matthias Mendel, Michael Schaffer
  • Publication number: 20200368235
    Abstract: Combinations of Bruton's tyrosine kinase (Btk) inhibitors, e.g., 1-((R)-3-(4-amino-phenoxyphenyl)-1H-pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidin-1-yl)piperidin-1-yl)prop-2-en-1-one, with a second anticancer agent are provided. Also provided are methods of treating cancers, and autoimmune disorders by administering combinations of Bruton's tyrosine kinase (Btk) inhibitors, e.g., 1-((R)-3-(4-amino-3-(4-phenoxyphenyl)-1H-pyrazolo[3,4-d]pyrimidin-1-yl)piperidin-1-yl)prop-2-en-1-one, and second anticancer agents.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2019
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: Betty Chang, Sriram Balasubramanian, Richard Crowley, Hsu-Ping Kuo, Brett Hall, Kate A. Sasser, Tineke Casneuf, Michael Schaffer, Matthias Versele, Willem Ligtenberg, Cue Davis
  • Patent number: 10816188
    Abstract: The invention relates to a control cabinet light for illuminating a control cabinet interior, wherein the control cabinet light comprises a light base member which holds an illuminating means of the control cabinet light and a transparent illuminating means cover mounted at the light base member, said cover transparently surrounding the illuminating means, characterized in that the illuminating means cover has two transparent separated parallel sides between which the illuminating means is disposed when the illuminating means cover is placed on the light base member, wherein the illuminating means comprises a flat illuminating means plate on which a plurality of individual illuminating means, in particular LEDs or OLEDs, are distributed, and wherein the illuminating means plate extends parallel or at an angle of more than 0°, in particular less than an angle of about 45°, relative to the parallel sides of the illuminating means cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Ewgenij Premysler, Marco Deusing, Kurt-Michael Schaffer
  • Patent number: 10718496
    Abstract: The invention relates to a switch cabinet light for illuminating the interior of a switch cabinet, comprising a light-emitting circuit board that has at least a first and a second orientation relative to a translucent light cover of the switch cabinet light in order to vary the beam direction of the switch cabinet light, wherein a light-emitting side of the light-emitting circuit board faces toward a first wall section of the translucent light cover in a first orientation of the light-emitting circuit board and toward a second wall section of the translucent light cover in a second orientation of the light-emitting circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Ewgenij Premysler, Kurt-Michael Schaffer, Marco Deusing, Matthias Müller, Christian Dietrich
  • Publication number: 20200003288
    Abstract: A strain wave gear mechanism (1) has a gear mechanism component (CS) and an elastically deformable transmission component (FS) that is at least partially in alignment therewith in the radial direction (29) and can be deformed elliptically by way of a drive component (WG). Internal or external toothing systems (8, 9) on the gear mechanism component (CS) and the transmission component (FS) are brought into engagement in opposite regions of an elliptical axis to rotate the transmission component (FS) and the gear mechanism component (CS) relative to one another. The transmission component (FS) and the gear mechanism component (CS) are mounted such that they can be rotated relative to one another by means of a pivot bearing (30) which has a bearing intermediate space (16).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: Harmonic Drive AG
    Inventors: Matthias MENDEL, Michael SCHAFFER, Dominik GÖBEL, Alexander ARTHEN, Johannes Petrus KOENEN
  • Publication number: 20190197220
    Abstract: A system includes one or more server hardware computing devices includes one or more processors and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to receive a request to verify an identity of a user attempting to complete an examination provided by an online proctored examination platform to a candidate user authorized to complete the examination and repeatedly, at a predefined interval during the examination, determine, based at least in part on user data collected by the online proctored examination platform during the examination, the user data identifying the user at a time that the interval elapses, whether the user is the candidate user, and, responsive to a determination that the user is not the candidate user, perform one or more of a plurality of actions associated with a failed identity verification, the plurality of actions including stopping the examination.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2018
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Gregory ANDERSON, Wayne BAILEY, Colleen M. DOLAN, Jide FAJOBI, Darrick JENSEN, Ronald D. LANCASTER, JR., Matthew MALONEY, Michael NEALIS, Steven C. NORDBERG, Peter PASCALE, Andrew STOCKINGER, Julianne Michael Schaffer
  • Patent number: 10258905
    Abstract: A hydrocyclone vibration measurement system includes an upper vibration sensor attached to the overflow of a hydrocyclone and a lower vibration sensor attached to the underflow of the hydrocyclone. A vibration analysis system includes an ADC, an overall vibration value processing channel, and one or more band pass filters. The overall vibration value processing channel generates overflow and underflow scalar vibration values representing overall vibration measured at the overflow and underflow portions of the hydrocyclone. The vibration analysis system may interface with a DCS to provide control information for controlling the hydrocyclone based on the overflow and underflow scalar vibration values.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Emerson Electric (US) Holding Corporation (Chile) Limitada
    Inventors: Stewart V. Bowers, Timothy Scott Bassett, Tuhin Banerjee, Michael Schaffer, Daniel Nower
  • Publication number: 20190086073
    Abstract: The invention relates to a control cabinet light for illuminating a control cabinet interior, wherein the control cabinet light comprises a light base member which holds an illuminating means of the control cabinet light and a transparent illuminating means cover mounted at the light base member, said cover transparently surrounding the illuminating means, characterized in that the illuminating means cover has two transparent separated parallel sides between which the illuminating means is disposed when the illuminating means cover is placed on the light base member, wherein the illuminating means comprises a flat illuminating means plate on which a plurality of individual illuminating means, in particular LEDs or OLEDs, are distributed, and wherein the illuminating means plate extends parallel or at an angle of more than 0°, in particular less than an angle of about 45°, relative to the parallel sides of the illuminating means cover.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: March 21, 2019
    Inventors: Ewgenij PREMYSLER, Marco DEUSING, Kurt-Michael SCHAFFER
  • Publication number: 20190063725
    Abstract: The invention relates to a switch cabinet light for illuminating the interior of a switch cabinet, comprising a light-emitting circuit board that has at least a first and a second orientation relative to a translucent light cover of the switch cabinet light in order to vary the beam direction of the switch cabinet light, wherein a light-emitting side of the light-emitting circuit board faces toward a first wall section of the translucent light cover in a first orientation of the light-emitting circuit board and toward a second wall section of the translucent light cover in a second orientation of the light-emitting circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2017
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Applicant: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Ewgenij PREMYSLER, Kurt-Michael SCHAFFER, Marco DEUSING, Matthias MÜLLER, Christian DIETRICH
  • Patent number: 10059560
    Abstract: The invention relates to a winding device for winding strand-like material to be wound onto a rotating reel (2), which winding device has a laying apparatus (9) by means of which the material to be wound is guided to the run-on point on the winding. The laying apparatus (9) is substantially movable in the direction of the axis of rotation (3) of the reel (2). Furthermore the winding device (1) has at least one sensor for determining the run-on angle of the material to be wound onto the winding. The winding device (1) is designed in such a way that the movement of the laying apparatus (9) during the winding process is regulated as a function of the run-on angle determined by means of the at least one sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: MASCHINENFABRIK NIEHOFF GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Michael Schaffer, Rudolf Bader, Bernhard Enzensberger, Andreas Kraus, Timo Borchert, Hubert Reinisch
  • Patent number: 10030689
    Abstract: A fastening system for assembling appliances, in particular electrical appliances, comprising at least one profile rail provided with openings and comprising at least one quick-fastener which has a body in which at least one internal thread is formed, is characterized in that the body has over its length (L) at least two spaced-apart internal threads, wherein, in an exact position of the quick-fastener relative to the profile rail, each of the internal threads is brought into alignment with one of the openings of the profile rail, and in that a clamping blade having the same length L as the body is attached to the body, which clamping blade forms between it and the body a gap for receiving the profile side and holds the body against the profile rail by friction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Bodo Thielmann, Kurt-Michael Schaffer, Koen Terwijn
  • Patent number: 9955601
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical device (1) for installation in the interior of an electrical enclosure that has at least one single- or multiple-pole plug (3) accommodated in a housing (2) of the device (1) to connect an electrical conductor having an easily accessible plug opening (6) via one side (4, 5) of the plug (3) wherein the at least one plug (3) has no less than two positions or orientations with respect to the housing (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2018
    Assignee: RITTAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Ewgenij Premysler, Marco Deusing, Kurt-Michael Schaffer
  • Publication number: 20180051789
    Abstract: A transmission component set has a bearing ring (1) and a strain wave gear mounted thereon. Said strain wave gear comprises an input or drive component (2), a flexible or resilient transmission component (4) having external teeth (3), and a gear (6) having an internal teeth (5). The transmission component (4) is fitted onto the drive component (2) and thereby is elliptically deformable such that the external teeth (3) of the transmission component (4) engage with the internal teeth (5) of the gear (6) in opposing areas of a major axis of the ellipse, wherein the gear (6) or the transmission component (4), via its bearing surface (7), can be mounted on a bearing surface (9) of the bearing ring (1) by means of rolling elements (8). The gear (6) or the transmission component (4) and the bearing ring (1) are each provided with at least one indentation or receptacle (10, 11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2016
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Applicant: Harmonic Drive AG
    Inventors: Matthias MENDEL, Michael SCHAFFER
  • Patent number: 9839489
    Abstract: A sharps end capture device is disclosed for use in a system and method for the safe disposal and/or temporary storage of sharp-tipped implements including medical sharps, such as, syringe needles (epidural, spinal, blood collection, catheter, dialysis, intravenous, ophthalmic, hormonal pen, and radiologic). The device is useful to prevent injuries related to the use and disposal of sharp medical instruments, commonly known as, “sharps” or “sharps objects” is disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Starcap Medical, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Schaffer, Charles D. Starnes
  • Patent number: D989424
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: KARMA 360, INC.
    Inventors: Montgomery Bisson, Michael Schaffer, Jesus J. Peña