Patents by Inventor Peter Adam

Peter Adam 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).

  • Publication number: 20020009482
    Abstract: The object of this invention is a food supplement based on NADH, Octocosanol and Vitamin E, which stimulates the generation of energy by the organism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2001
    Publication date: January 24, 2002
    Inventor: Peter Adams
  • Patent number: 6214475
    Abstract: A process for the manufacture of a thermo-mechanically stable thermal insulating layer, in which a ceramic thermal insulating layer is applied to a metallic component by thermal spraying and the thermal insulating layer is shot peened during and/or after its application in order to reduce sintering effects. The ceramic thermal insulating layer has a porous structure which is opened up by the formation of microscopic fissures formed near the surface of the layer by the shot peening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Assignee: Daimler-Benz AG
    Inventors: Joachim Bamberg, Peter Adam
  • Patent number: 5721057
    Abstract: A ceramic heat insulation layer applied to a metal structural part or to an intermediate adherent layer thereon, has the surfaces of its inner, open pore structure coated with a passivating ceramic material or a metal deposition material for improving the properties of the heat insulation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 24, 1998
    Assignee: MTU Motoren-UND Turbinen-Union Munchen GMGH
    Inventors: Joachim Bamberg, Ludwig Steinhauser, Erwin Bayer, Peter Adam
  • Patent number: 5566592
    Abstract: An adjusting drive having a gear housing sealed by a gear-housing lid, with a gear wheel or driver rotatably or sluably supported therein. An axial bearing neck is premolded on the gear-housing lid. A radial inner bearing projection concentric to the driver is premolded on the driver and provides a bearing arrangement inside the bearing neck. A radially outer bearing projection is also premolded on the driver and tangentially and sluably supports the gear wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 1995
    Date of Patent: October 22, 1996
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Adam, Rudolf Fiedler
  • Patent number: 5534308
    Abstract: A ceramic heat insulation layer applied to a metal structural part or to an intermediate adherent layer thereon, has the surfaces of its inner, open pore structure coated with a passivating ceramic material or a metal deposition material for improving the properties of the heat insulation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1995
    Date of Patent: July 9, 1996
    Assignee: MTU Motoren-Und Turbinen-Union Munchen GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Bamberg, Ludwig Steinhauser, Erwin Bayer, Peter Adam
  • Patent number: 5528093
    Abstract: To integrate electronics with a drive unit, given a simple manufacturing or assembly, and a compact type of construction, a printed-circuit board, which accommodates the electronic components and which is designed, at the same time, as a brush-holder plate for the commutator motor, is arranged, together with an electronic housing, parallel to housing flanges of a motor housing, of a gear housing. The printed circuit board of the drive unit, and is covered on its one axial side by the motor housing and the electronic housing, and on its other axial side by the gear housing thereby protecting it from external elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 18, 1996
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Adam, Peter Michel, Rudolf Fiedler
  • Patent number: 5495657
    Abstract: In the case of assembly after the insertion of the rotor (4-7) with the commutator (4) into the motor housing (8), in order to be able to install the brush holder (1), with its brushes (1.1; 1.2) which are subject to radial spring pressure, simply and in a manner which can be carried out by an automated machine it is proposed that: the brush holder (1) is pushed onto one end part (2.1) of an installation mandrel (2) which is in the form of a sleeve and whose other end (2.3) is placed on the commutator (4), together with an integrated restraining part (3) which holds the brushes (1.1; 1.2) in a raised installation position; and that the restraining part (3) is fixed outside the motor housing (8) by means of a conical expansion of one end part (2.1). The brush holder (1) is then moved into its final position with the brushes (1.1; 1.2) which now slide on the installation mandrel (2 ). The brushes (1.1; 1.2) are pressed radially onto the commutator (4) during the withdrawal of the installation mandrel (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 5, 1996
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Pius Zeisner, Peter Adam
  • Patent number: 5455071
    Abstract: Inner and outer surfaces of structural components are aluminized by an aluminum gas diffusion process. For this purpose a gas mixture of a halogenous gas, aluminum monohalide gas, hydrogen, and negligible proportions of aluminum trihalide gas is caused to flow over the outer and inner surfaces of the component to be coated. The process is performed in a vessel in which at least two different temperature zones are maintained for keeping one or more aluminum sources at a higher temperature than the component to be coated. Especially gas turbine engine blades are protected against oxidation and corrosion by the so formed aluminum diffusion coatings on outer and inner surfaces of the blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1994
    Date of Patent: October 3, 1995
    Assignee: MTU Motoren- und Turbinen-Union Muenchen GmbH
    Inventors: Horst Pillhoefer, Martin Thoma, Heinrich Walter, Peter Adam
  • Patent number: 5444315
    Abstract: Electrical lines for two axially located housings are molded into an inelastic carrier and covered at both faces of the carrier. A seal is injection-molded onto the inelastic carrier. In one implementation in which the carrier is disposed between a commutator housing and a gear housing, the inelastic carrier engages a brush holder that is inserted into one housing of the commutator motor. The design enables the electrical lines to pass into the interior of two axially located housings in a simple manner, while guaranteeing a reliable moisture seal between the housings.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 22, 1995
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Adam, Peter Michel
  • Patent number: 5403629
    Abstract: A process for vapor depositing a metallic interlayer on the surface of a metal component, for example, by sputtering and thereafter depositing an aluminum diffusion coating on the interlayer. The metallic interlayer is vapor deposited on the surface of the component in a noble gas atmosphere, more than one-half of which, in per cent by weight, is composed of noble gases which are heavier than argon. Advantageously, the noble gases can be krypton or xenon. The process can be used with particular advantage for applying protective aluminum diffusion coatings on turbine blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 1993
    Date of Patent: April 4, 1995
    Assignee: Mtu Motoren-Und Turbinen-Union Munchen GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Eichmann, Horst Pillhofer, Martin Thoma, Peter Adam
  • Patent number: 5308399
    Abstract: Inner and outer surfaces of structural components are aluminized by an aluminum gas diffusion process. For this purpose a gas mixture of a halogenous gas, aluminum monohalide gas, hydrogen, and negligible proportions of aluminum trihalide gas is caused to flow over the outer and inner surfaces of the component to be coated. The process is performed in a vessel in which at least two different temperature zones are maintained for keeping one or more aluminum sources at a higher temperature than the component to be coated. Especially gas turbine engine blades are protected against oxidation and corrosion by the so formed aluminum diffusion coatings on outer and inner surfaces of the blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 3, 1994
    Assignee: MTU Motoren- und Turbinen-Union Muenchen GmbH
    Inventors: Horst Pillhoefer, Martin Thoma, Heinrich Walter, Peter Adam
  • Patent number: 5291088
    Abstract: A moisture-proof coupling, which is simple in design and easy to assemble, is disposed between a motor housing and a bearing plate, with the electrical leads running out through the moisture-proof coupling. The electrical leads are integrally molded in an insulated lead-insert, which can be inserted into an opening on the end face of the bearing plate. A circumferential sealing ring is molded on the insulated lead-insert. The sealing ring is injection-molded together with the lead-insert on a brush plate so that it can be pre-positioned and, when the motor is assembled, can be pressed between the motor housing and the bearing plate to form a seal. The brush plate can be fixed together with the lead-insert and the sealing ring in the bearing plate in the manner of a pre-assembled component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 1, 1994
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Adam, Werner Seuffert, Manfred Hofmann, Hans-Joachim Muller
  • Patent number: 5268606
    Abstract: A motor casing is provided which guarantees reliable run-off of condensation water from the inside of the casing to its outside, and which reliably prevents drop water from penetrating from the outside into the inside of the motor casing with a simple device. The motor includes a tab which is punched and bent from the casing pot base using a die provided for deep-drawing of the pot-shaped motor casing such that a run-off hole proceeding from the bottom edge of the motor casing upwards, with a drip-off tongue angled away downwards is obtained.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 9, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1993
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Adam, Rolf Deynet
  • Patent number: 5232789
    Abstract: A structural component made of a base metal composition on a nickel or cobalt basis is provided with a protective coating against oxidation, corrosion, and thermal fatigue. The protective coating and the base metal are made of chemically the same or identical material, whereby the bonding of the protective coating is increased, the tendency to crack is reduced, and the resistance to thermal fatigue is improved. The grain size of the coating is substantially smaller than the grain size of the base metal composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 1992
    Date of Patent: August 3, 1993
    Assignee: MTU Motoren- und Turbinen-Union Muenchen GmbH
    Inventors: Albin Platz, Klaus Schweitzer, Peter Adam
  • Patent number: 5095766
    Abstract: A window-actuator drive unit includes a driving disk, which is rotatably supported on an axle of the gear housing. The driving disk is placed in a rotational-slave relationship with the worm gear of a reduction gearing which is connected on the load side to an electric drive motor. The driving disk is connected to the worm gear by way of a damping separator and on its unattached end is a shaft collar which has outer teeth used for an interlocking, rotational-slave relationship either with a cable pulley of a cable window actuator or the driving pinion of an arm or scissors-type window-actuator. The inner teeth of both the cable pulley and the driving pinion correspond to the outer teeth of the shaft collar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 1991
    Date of Patent: March 17, 1992
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfram Knappe, Peter Adam, Peter Michel
  • Patent number: 5040430
    Abstract: In order to produce a window-actuator drive having assembly and service friendliness, particularly by providing a design which enables the gearbox unit to be easily exchanged, the drive is designed as two functionally separate units. A gear housing, a worm gear, and a housing cover which is sealed off from them both makes up a first unit. A cable housing with a cable pulley makes up a second unit. The subassemblies of the first and second unit can be assembled by means of notched, snap-fit connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 1990
    Date of Patent: August 20, 1991
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Adam, Wolfram Knappe, Peter Michel
  • Patent number: 5027670
    Abstract: In a window-lifting actuating drive where two cup-shaped housings enclose a driven worm gear coupled to a cable pulley, a flat seal is configured to seal the worm gear housing from ambient moisture both at the joint between the two housings and between the cable pulley housing and the worm gear. The flat seal is also formed to allow the seal to be prefit to the cable pulley housing and retained to the housing before the housing is assembled to other components of the actuating drive.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 1, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 2, 1991
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Peter Adam
  • Patent number: 4993277
    Abstract: An apparatus for limiting the axial play of the shaft of a motor drive mechanism wherein the precise setting of the axial play (<<0.05 mm) is possible in a simple manner using production and assembly technology. A deformable guard plate, which is secured on its marginal side by a setscrew, in particular a standard production screw, is axially pressed in a contact zone until the desired axial play is achieved. The setscrew is axially supported in front on the case side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 1990
    Date of Patent: February 19, 1991
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Adam, Rolf Deynet, Ronald Gleixner
  • Patent number: 4899432
    Abstract: For a simple adjustment, suitable for automation, of the axial play between the rotor (1, 2) and the stator (5 to 8) of a miniature electric motor, at least one bearing (3) is axially moved relative to its bearing sleeve (51) in the end bell (5) and is fixed in its adjustment position by deformation of the bearing sleeve in a form-locking manner. For axial fixation, especially when used for drives with large axial loads, a thrust shoulder (511, 512) is formed after the axial play is adjusted for the axial contact of the adjusted bearing (15) from the bearing sleeve (51) by hot molding, ultrasonic heat deformation. Alternatively, precut tabs may be formed on the sleeve by embossing to form a thrust shoulder.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: February 13, 1990
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Peter Adam, Ronald Gleixner
  • Patent number: D447480
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2001
    Assignee: Logitech Europe S.A.
    Inventors: Peter Sheehan, Cathal Loughnane, Fred Swan, Peter Adam Stern