Patents by Inventor Michael Sinner

Michael Sinner 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: 11914335
    Abstract: An industrial control system may receive processing information from at least two control systems associated with at least two components within an industrial automation system. The processing information may include a processing load value for each of the at least two control systems. The industrial control system may then distribute processing loads associated with the at least two control systems when a total processing load between the at least two control systems is unbalanced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Rockwell Automation Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Charles M. Rischar, William Sinner, Michael Kalan, Haithem Mansouri, Subbian Govindaraj, Juergen Weinhofer, Andrew R. Stump, Daniel S. DeYoung, Frank Kulaszewicz, Edward A. Hill, Keith Staninger, Matheus Bulho
  • Patent number: 11498115
    Abstract: To simplify a commissioning and parameter change in a 3D bending process of wires, a 3D bending device and a 3D bending method for bending a wire are provided. The wire is held by a first leg and a second leg and the legs are moved, via a first to third relative movement device, in a first to third relative movement with a first to third movement axis in order to change, in an adjustable manner independently of one another, torsion angles of the first and second legs and a distance between the central axes of the legs.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: GROB-WERKE GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Roland Hörtrich, Michael Sinner
  • Publication number: 20210178452
    Abstract: To simplify a commissioning and parameter change in a 3D bending process of wires, a 3D bending device and a 3D bending method for bending a wire are provided. The wire is held by a first leg and a second leg and the legs are moved, via a first to third relative movement device, in a first to third relative movement with a first to third movement axis in order to change, in an adjustable manner independently of one another, torsion angles of the first and second legs and a distance between the central axes of the legs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2020
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Roland HÖRTRICH, Michael SINNER
  • Patent number: 6076849
    Abstract: A panel is inserted into a cutout in the visible boundary wall of a fascia, in particular in a motor-vehicle dashboard, which panel contains an airbag cover which is delimited with respect to the panel and is pressed open in the event of a crash by means of an inflating airbag sack. The panel is secured releasably at least in some regions along the contour of the airbag cover and, in the process, outside the airbag cover, in a manner which is invisible from the vehicle interior, by latching projections being provided which are molded integrally onto the rear side of said panel and engage into associated sockets which are not supported on the visible boundary wall of the fascia.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2000
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Bernhard Holzapfel, Martin Kruse, Michael Sinner, Rolf Dembowski, Rainer Zipfel
  • Patent number: 5941491
    Abstract: A holding device for drink containers to be arranged in a central console of a car in front of a gear-changing or gear-selecting lever, has a holder having a linear guide and extendable from a pushed-in basic position into an extended holding position, the holder having a receptacle for insertion of a drink container, the linear guide being formed so that it causes a swivelling movement of the holder to a side during an extending movement of the holder from the pushed-in basic position to the extended holding position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 1997
    Date of Patent: August 24, 1999
    Assignee: Fischerwerke, Artur Fischer GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Bernd Plocher, Martin Kruse, Michael Sinner
  • Patent number: 5806916
    Abstract: Known cross members consisting of an alloy press-drawn section do not permit easy assembly of the passenger airbag module or other bolt-on parts after the cross members have been installed. Accordingly, the press-drawn section of the cross member is provided with at least one groove open at the top in such fashion that a rib or a bar of a bolt-on part can be added from above such that simple pivoting enables a seating surface of the cross member to cooperate with a mounting surface of the bolt-on part in the installed state. Assembly is extremely simple. The cross members are used for the instrument panels of motor vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 15, 1998
    Assignees: Mercedes-Benz AG, MC Micro Compact Car Aktiengesellschaft, Petri Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Sinner, Martin Kruse, Bernhard Holzapfel, Ulrich Schick, Stefan Reh
  • Patent number: 5711567
    Abstract: An arrangement connecting the dashboard and the center console. On both sides of the rearward face end of the dashboard, dovetail guides are provided which are formed by the detachable mounting of at least one dovetail connection element, are accessible from above and extend essentially in a downward widening manner. On the forward face end of the center console, dovetail guides are provided which are molded on both sides, are closed in the upward direction, extend in the downward direction in a widening manner and interact in a form-locking fashion with the respective assigned dovetail guide on the dashboard. As a result, an easily mountable, reliable connection of the center console and the dashboard is implemented at low expenditures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: January 27, 1998
    Assignee: Mercedes-Benz AG
    Inventors: Michael Sinner, Ulrich Nienhaus, Heinz Koukal, Juegen Koerber
  • Patent number: 5632507
    Abstract: A flexible support has one fixed end in a vehicle interior, and another end projecting freely into the passenger compartment on which an impact protector is fixed. In a flexing direction, the flexible support has spaced upper and lower belts, which are connected with each other by ribs to form hollow spaces. One belt extends along a straight line and the other belt is configured with protrusions and/or depressions between adjacent ribs in the direction toward the straight belt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1997
    Assignee: Mercedes-Benz AG
    Inventors: Michael Sinner, Bernhard Holzapfel, Friedrich Reiter
  • Patent number: 5577770
    Abstract: An instrument panel with knee restraint for motor vehicles has a pair of deformation bars which can be deformed in a defined manner with respect to three zones, a load-distributing panel, and a large-surface-area impact-absorption member arranged in front of the load-distributing panel. In order to achieve an inexpensive knee restraint which does not require a redesign of the instrument panel configuration when the knee restraint is mounted on the instrument panel, the deformation bars are arranged on that side of the instrument panel remote from the vehicle interior and are supported, by one leg on the rear surface of the instrument panel and another leg on the transverse carrier fixed to the bodywork. The impact-absorption member is a shell-like carrier part positioned on that side of the instrument panel facing the vehicle interior. A cavity is defined and completely filled by an energy-absorbing insert, e.g. consisting of foam, which forms the energy-absorption element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1995
    Date of Patent: November 26, 1996
    Assignee: Mercedes-Benz AG
    Inventors: Michael Sinner, Bernhard Holzapfel
  • Patent number: 4742814
    Abstract: A process for the production of sugars, and optionally cellulose and lignin, from lignocellulosic vegetable materials which comprises subjecting the vegetable materials to a chemical pretreatment with a mixture of water and lower aliphatic alcohols and/or ketones at a temperature from 100.degree. to 190.degree. C. for a period of from 4 hours to 2 minutes with control of the breakdown of the hemicellulose components followed by separation of residue and a subsequent main chemical treatment with a similar solvent mixture at elevated temperatures for a further period of from 6 hours to 2 minutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 1987
    Date of Patent: May 10, 1988
    Assignee: Bau- und Forschungsgesellschaft Thermoform AG
    Inventors: Michael Sinner, Hans-Hermann Dietrichs, Jurgen Puls, Werner Schweers, Karl-Heinz Brachthauser
  • Patent number: 4587285
    Abstract: Aqueous heat-curable compositions which are based on known heat-curable condensation products of aldehydes and OH- and/or NH.sub.2 -containing compounds, which contain hemicellulose-cleavage products having an average degree of polymerization, DP, of 5 to 100 and of at least 10% by weight, relative to the total weight of heat-curable materials, and aldehydes, in an amount of 5 to 50% by weight, relative to the weight of hemicellulose-cleavage products. The invention also relates to the use of these compositions for glueing and for preparing moldings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 6, 1986
    Assignee: Fritz-Werner Industrie-Ausruestungen GmbH
    Inventors: Cihan Ayla, Hans-Hermann Dietrichs, deceased, Jurgen Puls, Michael Sinner
  • Patent number: 4520105
    Abstract: A process for the production of sugars, and optionally cellulose and lignin, from lignocellulosic vegetable materials which comprises subjecting the vegetable materials to a chemical pretreatment with a mixture of water and lower aliphatic alcohols and/or ketones at a temperature from 100.degree. to 190.degree. C. for a period of from 4 hours to 2 minutes with control of the breakdown of the hemicellulose components followed by separation of residue and a subsequent main chemical treatment with a similar solvent mixture at elevated temperatures for a further period of from 6 hours to 2 minutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 1983
    Date of Patent: May 28, 1985
    Assignee: Bau- und Forschungsgesellschaft Thermoform AG
    Inventors: Michael Sinner, Hans-Hermann Dietrichs, Jurgen Puls, Werner Schweers, Karl-Heinz Brachthauser
  • Patent number: 4275159
    Abstract: A process for the production of xylose by enzymatic hydrolysis of xylan wherein an aqueous solution containing xylan is treated with a carrier having bonded thereto xylanase enzyme and a carrier having bonded thereto .beta.-xylosidase and, optionally, uronic acid-splitting enzyme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1981
    Assignee: Projektierung Chemische Verfahrenstechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Jurgen Puls, Michael Sinner, Hans-Hermann Dietrichs
  • Patent number: 4200692
    Abstract: A process for the production of xylose by enzymatic hydrolysis of xylan wherein an aqueous solution containing xylan is treated with a carrier having bonded thereto xylanase enzyme and a carrier having bonded thereto .beta.-xylosidase and, optionally, uronic acid-splitting enzyme.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 1977
    Date of Patent: April 29, 1980
    Assignee: Projektierung Chemische Verfahrenstechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Jurgen Puls, Michael Sinner, Hans-Hermann Dietrichs
  • Patent number: 4181796
    Abstract: A process for the production of xylan and fibrinous material from vegetable raw material by treating the raw material with saturated steam at a temperature of from 160.degree. to 230.degree. C. for a period from 2 minutes to 4 hours.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1977
    Date of Patent: January 1, 1980
    Assignee: Projektierung Chemische Verfahrenstechnik Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung
    Inventors: Hans-Hermann Dietrichs, Michael Sinner, Fritz Opderbeck, Karl-Heinz Brachthauser
  • Patent number: 4160695
    Abstract: A process for the production of glucose from cellulose containing raw material by steam treatment at a temperature from 160.degree. to 230.degree. C. for from 2 minutes to 4 hours followed by lixiviation with aqueous alkali and acid or enzymatic hydrolysis of fibrinous residue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 1977
    Date of Patent: July 10, 1979
    Assignee: Projektierung Chemische Verfahrenstechnik Gesellschaft mit beschrankter Haftung
    Inventors: Hans-Hermann Dietrichs, Michael Sinner, Fritz Opderbek, Karl-Heinz Brachthauser