Patents by Inventor Michael Ullrich
Michael Ullrich 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).
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Patent number: 8550052Abstract: A piston for an internal combustion engine has an upper part and a lower part. The upper part has a collar with a ring rib and the lower part has a wall and a contact part radially within the wall. When the upper part is connected with the lower part by friction welding, the face surfaces of the ring rib, the collar, the wall, and the contact part form friction-welding surfaces and form a cooling channel and a cooling cavity between them. To supply the cooling channel and the cooling cavity with cooling oil, radial bores are introduced into the ring rib, which bores connect the cooling channel with the cooling cavity. In this way, it is guaranteed that a sufficient residual amount of oil collects in the cooling channel and in the cooling cavity, which amount is constantly renewed, and leads to good cooling of the piston crown.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 2011Date of Patent: October 8, 2013Assignee: MAHLE International GmbHInventors: Klaus Keller, Michael Ullrich, Rainer Scharp
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Publication number: 20130014722Abstract: A piston for an internal combustion engine has a piston head that has a circumferential cooling channel as well as a combustion bowl having a circumferential bowl wall that makes a transition into a piston crown by way of a bowl edge region. The combustion bowl is formed at least in part by a piston base body and the bowl wall is formed at least in part from an insert. The insert is connected with the piston base body by means of beam welding. A lower weld seam is configured in the bowl wall, which seam encloses an acute angle with the piston center axis (M) and ends in the lower half of the cooling channel. An upper weld seam runs from the cooling channel ceiling to the piston crown and is disposed centered or radially offset toward the outside, with reference to the clear width of the cooling channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2011Publication date: January 17, 2013Applicant: MAHLE International GmbHInventors: Rainer SCHARP, Peter KEMNITZ, Michael Ullrich
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Publication number: 20120222644Abstract: A piston for an internal combustion engine has a piston head, a piston skirt, and a circumferential recess configured between the piston head and the piston skirt. The piston has a piston base body and a piston ring element. The piston base body has a crown region of a combustion bowl and the piston skirt. The piston ring element has a piston crown, a wall region of the combustion bowl, a circumferential top land, and a circumferential ring belt with ring grooves. The piston ring element has a circumferential cooling channel between the wall region of the combustion bowl and the ring belt, closed with a closure element. The piston base body and the piston ring element have a circumferential joining seam in the region of the combustion bowl, by way of which seam they are non-releasably connected with one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2011Publication date: September 6, 2012Applicant: MAHLE International GmbHInventors: Karlheinz Bing, Michael T. Lapp, Rainer Scharp, Michael Ullrich
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Publication number: 20120160204Abstract: The present invention relates to a piston (10, 110, 210) for an internal combustion engine, having a first piston component (11) and a second piston component (12), which jointly form a circumferential cooling channel (23) that is open toward the second piston component (12), whereby the first piston component (11) forms at least a part of a piston crown (13) as well as an outer circumferential wall (34) of the cooling channel, characterized in that the outer circumferential wall (34) of the cooling channel (23) has a circumferential projection (32) below the piston crown (13), which projection is provided with a circumferential guide surface (33) for coolant, directed radially inward.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2011Publication date: June 28, 2012Applicant: MAHLE International GmbHInventors: Rainer Scharp, Michael Ullrich
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Publication number: 20120037114Abstract: A piston for an internal combustion engine has an upper part and a lower part. The upper part has a collar with a ring rib and the lower part has a wall and a contact part radially within the wall. When the upper part is connected with the lower part by friction welding, the face surfaces of the ring rib, the collar, the wall, and the contact part form friction-welding surfaces and form a cooling channel and a cooling cavity between them. To supply the cooling channel and the cooling cavity with cooling oil, radial bores are introduced into the ring rib, which bores connect the cooling channel with the cooling cavity. In this way, it is guaranteed that a sufficient residual amount of oil collects in the cooling channel and in the cooling cavity, which amount is constantly renewed, and leads to good cooling of the piston crown.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 9, 2011Publication date: February 16, 2012Applicant: MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBHInventors: Klaus KELLER, Michael ULLRICH, Rainer SCHARP
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Publication number: 20110276579Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for dynamically generating data to dataset mappings and dataset to logical instance mappings and distributing these mappings to subscribers for the purpose of routing work. An advisory engine updates the mappings of data to data sets based at least in part on changing demands and patterns of access to data, and updates the mappings of datasets to logical instances based at least in part on anticipated capacity and change in conditions of the database servers. The subscribers receive and store the mapping information that maps the data to dataset identifiers, and dataset identifiers to logical database instances. The subscribers may also receive information that describes the current availability conditions of database instances, which are used to override the mapping of logical database instances to physical database instances. Subscribers may use the data to dataset mapping to map data identified from in an incoming database request to a dataset.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 7, 2010Publication date: November 10, 2011Inventors: Carol Lyndall Colrain, Michael Ullrich Zoll, Vladimir Begun, Rajkumar Arockia Irudayaraj, Logan O'Sullivan Bruns
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Patent number: 7311075Abstract: The invention relates to a split piston for an internal combustion engine, comprising an upper piece, connected to a lower piece, by means of a screw connection. The screw connection comprises a tubular connector piece, mounted on the underside of the piston upper piece with an external thread, a spacer sleeve with an external and an internal thread and a support rib formed on the lower piece of the piston with an internal thread. The upper piece can thus be screwed to the lower piece, by means of the connector piece, the spacer sleeve and the support rib. The spacer sleeve acts as a compressing body and the connector piece as an extending body, to generate the mechanism tension necessary for fixing the screw connection.Type: GrantFiled: August 19, 2004Date of Patent: December 25, 2007Assignee: Mahle GmbHInventor: Michael Ullrich
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Patent number: 7260340Abstract: In order to be able to supply a rotating transfer roller in a transfer printing station of an electrophotographic printing device with a high voltage, a system and method is proposed that comprises a voltage transfer device with an elastically borne brush, a compensation device with a bushing standing under spring force, and a monitoring device with a Hall switch. For voltage transfer, the brush is pressed onto the voltage connection location of the transfer roller. For compensation of the axial play of the transfer roller, the bushing is pressed onto the bearing of the transfer roller. For monitoring as to whether a transfer roller is connected with the device, the Hall switch is used which checks whether the bushing has been moved or not.Type: GrantFiled: August 27, 2004Date of Patent: August 21, 2007Assignee: Oce Printing Systems GmbHInventors: Michael Ullrich, Stefan Brecht, Friedrich Meschenmoser
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Publication number: 20060274521Abstract: A lighting device is connectable to a horizontal arm of a realty sign post for directing light to both sides of the sign. The device includes a mounting structure and an upper housing. The device is actuated by a polar rechargeable batter disposed in the housing. Solar panels are connected to an arcuate surface of the upper housing of the device and electrically connected to the batter and a series of LED lights fitted along a pair of cavities in the mounting structure. The lighting device is attached to the realty sign post by pivotal arms that selectively secure around the horizontal arm.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2006Publication date: December 7, 2006Inventor: Michael Ullrich
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Publication number: 20060225568Abstract: The invention relates to a split piston for an internal combustion engine, comprising an upper piece, connected to a lower piece, by means of a screw connection. The screw connection comprises a tubular connector piece, mounted on the underside of the piston upper piece with an external thread, a spacer sleeve with an external and an internal thread and a support rib formed on the lower piece of the piston with an internal thread. The upper piece can thus be screwed to the lower piece, by means of the connector piece, the spacer sleeve and the support rib. The spacer sleeve acts as a compressing body and the connector piece as an extending body, to generate the mechanism tension necessary for fixing the screw connection.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 19, 2004Publication date: October 12, 2006Inventor: Michael Ullrich
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Publication number: 20060045556Abstract: In order to be able to supply a rotating transfer roller in a transfer printing station of an electrophotographic printing device with a high voltage, a system and method is proposed that comprises a voltage transfer device with an elastically borne brush, a compensation device with a bushing standing under spring force, and a monitoring device with a Hall switch. For voltage transfer, the brush is pressed onto the voltage connection location of the transfer roller. For compensation of the axial play of the transfer roller, the bushing is pressed onto the bearing of the transfer roller. For monitoring as to whether a transfer roller is connected with the device, the Hall switch is used which checks whether the bushing has been moved or not.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2004Publication date: March 2, 2006Inventors: Michael Ullrich, Stefan Brecht, Friedrich Meschenmoser
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Patent number: 7003878Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a ring support (1) with a sheet metal cooling channel welded thereon (5), which is transfused later with an aluminium melt for producing a piston. The aim of the invention is to improve the production of openings (4) for supplying and removing oil. Said openings are produced even before the transfusion of the cooled ring support. When the alfin pretreament of the cooling ring supports occurs, said cooling channel is filled with melt and emptied again during removal front the alfin bath.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2001Date of Patent: February 28, 2006Assignee: MAHLE GmbHInventor: Michael Ullrich
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Patent number: 6877473Abstract: The invention relates to a piston for a diesel engine comprising a combustion cavity. The piston crown and the cavity are plasma-sprayed with a coating. The aim of the invention is to produce the coating in a cost-effective manner. To achieve this, the layer thickness of the coating is uneven, being thicker in the border region of the cavity.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2001Date of Patent: April 12, 2005Assignee: Mahle GmbHInventors: Ulrich Bischofberger, Wilfried Sander, Michael Ullrich
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Patent number: 6874418Abstract: In electrographic printing devices which print a printing material, for example paper webs, there exists a problem in the case of a malfunction that the printing material has to be removed from the printing unit as this occurs it should be avoided that drive rollers for the printing material are dirtied by non-fixed toner images. To avoid this, a cutting device is provided that presents a reel cutter that is guided in a guide groove of a guide tube. When a malfunction occurs, the cutting device is activated, the reel cutter cuts the printing material, and the cut sections of the printing material are pulled out of the printing unit separately.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2003Date of Patent: April 5, 2005Assignee: Oce Printing Systems GmbHInventors: Michael Ullrich, Stefan Brecht, Friedrich Meschenmoser
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Publication number: 20040069263Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a ring support (1) with a sheet metal cooling channel welded thereon (5), which is transfused later with an aluminium melt for producing a piston. The aim of the invention is to improve the production of openings (4) for supplying and removing oil. Said openings are produced even before the transfusion of the cooled ring support. When the alfin pretreament of the cooling ring supports occurs, said cooling channel is filled with melt and emptied again during removal front the alfin bath.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2003Publication date: April 15, 2004Inventor: Michael Ullrich
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Publication number: 20030196547Abstract: The invention relates to a piston for a diesel engine comprising a combustion cavity. The piston crown and the cavity are plasma-sprayed with a coating. The aim of the invention is to produce the coating in a cost-effective manner. To achieve this, the layer thickness of the coating is uneven, being thicker in the border region of the cavity.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2003Publication date: October 23, 2003Inventors: Ulrich Bischofberger, Wilfried Sander, Michael Ullrich
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Publication number: 20030188647Abstract: In electrographic printing devices which print a printing material, for example paper webs, there exists a problem in the case of a malfunction that the printing material has to be removed from the printing unit as this occurs it should be avoided that drive rollers for the printing material are dirtied by non-fixed toner images. To avoid this, a cutting device is provided that presents a reel cutter that is guided in a guide groove of a guide tube. When a malfunction occurs, the cutting device is activated, the reel cutter cuts the printing material, and the cut sections of the printing material are pulled out of the printing unit separately.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 28, 2003Publication date: October 9, 2003Inventors: Michael Ullrich, Stefan Brecht, Friedrich Meschenmoser
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Patent number: 6026777Abstract: A piston with a cooling channel having a basic piston barrel made from forged steel and a box-shaped shaft, bosses and boss supports and connecting walls between the boss supports as well as a combustion trough. The piston increases the rigidity of the ring part. To accomplish this, the piston has a wall extending all around above the boss bores. A structural component is welded in between the wall and the piston head and limits the cooling channel. This design increases the rigidity of the ring part in pistons.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 1999Date of Patent: February 22, 2000Assignee: Mahle GmbHInventors: Peter Kemnitz, Michael Ullrich
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Patent number: 5113817Abstract: A piston for an internal combustion engine with a separate head and skirt which are joined by a piston pin. The ring belt extends downward from head and terminates above the pin. The space between the lower edge of the ring belt and a section of the head defines a cooling oil ring space. A depression is formed in the head and is partly defined by the section. The second land has the largest diameter and exclusively guides the piston. The height of the second land is in the range of three to seven percent of the piston diameter. The diametrical second land clearance is 1.5% to 2.5%. The diametrical third land clearance is one percent of the piston diameter. The diametrical top land clearance is in the range of 1.5 mm to 2.0 mm.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 1991Date of Patent: May 19, 1992Assignee: Mahle, GmbHInventors: Peter Kemnitz, Michael Ullrich, Hanspeter Wieland