Patents by Inventor Peter Spiess

Peter Spiess 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: 8035494
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a motor vehicle control device data transfer system and process. In particular, it relates to such a system and process for the transfer of data, subject to the risk of tampering, from a central data-processing device (12) at the motor vehicle manufacturer's to a motor vehicle data-processing device (5), such as an electronic drive engine control device, in which tamper-free data transfer is guaranteed. In this connection, an authentication enquiry value is generated by the vehicle data-processing device (5) and transferred to the central data-processing device (12) by means of a mobile data-processing device (9). This generates an authentication response value, which is transferred back by the same route with release data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2011
    Assignee: AGCO Corporation
    Inventors: Alfred Waldmann, Hans-Peter Spiess
  • Publication number: 20110119968
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for producing a transparent object that attracts a viewer's attention. At least some of the object surface facing the viewer is illuminated by means of an illumination source that irradiates a bottom surface of the object, said bottom surface facing away from the viewer. The disclosed method is characterized in that the object is provided with a surface that is reflective in incident light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2008
    Publication date: May 26, 2011
    Inventors: Frank Buddenhagen, Lutz Stöhr, Peter Spiess
  • Patent number: 7506727
    Abstract: A door with a sliding door leaf has guides that are arranged in the region of an edge of the door leaf. The guides include a belt so aligned that it extends by the belt length thereof longitudinally of the guide surface for the door leaf in the direction of sliding of the door leaf. When the door leaf is sliding, the belt runs with the door leaf in such a manner that a portion of the belt bears against the guide surface when the door leaf is open, closed and sliding and thereby guides the door leaf.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2009
    Assignee: Inventio AG
    Inventor: Peter Spiess
  • Publication number: 20080278282
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a motor vehicle control device data transfer system and process. In particular, it relates to such a system and process for the transfer of data, subject to the risk of tampering, from a central data-processing device (12) at the motor vehicle manufacturer's to a motor vehicle data-processing device (5), such as an electronic drive engine control device, in which tamper-free data transfer is guaranteed. In this connection, an authentication enquiry value is generated by the vehicle data-processing device (5) and transferred to the central data-processing device (12) by means of a mobile data-processing device (9). This generates an authentication response value, which is transferred back by the same route with release data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2008
    Publication date: November 13, 2008
    Applicant: AGCO GmbH
    Inventors: Alfred Waldmann, Hans-Peter Spiess
  • Publication number: 20070199771
    Abstract: An elevator door system includes a motor rotating a vertical reel, and an elevator door. The door can be formed of a plurality of vertically aligned rigid panels or can be a sheet of material which is rigid or reinforced in the vertical direction or can have any other appropriate form making it suitable for being wound upon and unwound from the reel. The door is mounted to a flexible force transmission member provided along an entire width of the door and interconnected to the reel. Accordingly, the forces generated by the motor for opening and closing the door are substantially transmitted through the transmission member rather than being imparted onto the door itself Hence, in use the strain on the door is greatly reduced and therefore the quantity of material used for the door and consequently its cost and mass can be reduced without deteriorating performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2006
    Publication date: August 30, 2007
    Applicant: Inventio AG
    Inventor: Peter Spiess
  • Publication number: 20070181269
    Abstract: An elevator door system includes a motor, a vertical reel, and a door attached at a first end to the vertical reel for winding and unwinding thereupon. A force transmission device interconnects a second end of the door and a compensation device whereby the motor simultaneously drives the vertical reel and the compensation device having a variable diameter. In use, as the door is unwound from the vertical reel, the force transmission device is simultaneously wound upon the compensation device. Hence, not only is a thrust exerted on the door by the vertical reel, but a drag is exerted thereupon by the force transmission device. Furthermore, the compensation device has a variable diameter to compensate for, amongst other things, the changes in the diameter the door wound on the vertical reel. Hence, the tension in the force transmission device and the door can be kept substantially constant during operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2006
    Publication date: August 9, 2007
    Applicant: INVENTIO AG
    Inventor: Peter Spiess
  • Publication number: 20070181270
    Abstract: A door system includes a reel, a door interconnect at a first end to the reel for winding and unwinding thereupon and one or more guide channels. The reel is rotatably mounted on a lever which is pivotally mounted to a pivot axis. Thus, the reel can pivot about the pivot axis to ensure that, during operation, a point at which an outer layer of the door engages/disengages with the penultimate door layer remains in the same general location with respect to the guide channels and accordingly, an angle (if any) at which the door enters the guide channels remains constant throughout operation of the door system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2006
    Publication date: August 9, 2007
    Applicant: Inventio AG
    Inventor: Peter Spiess
  • Patent number: 7207550
    Abstract: An elevator having a car and a suspension member or respectively hoisting member for carrying an operating weight. Furthermore, a power transmission is intended for moving the suspension member and the hoisting member over at least one moving surface of the power transmission. The power transmission and the suspension member or respectively hoisting member are rope-shaped and/or belt-shaped. Also, the power transmission and the suspension member or respectively hoisting member are physically separated from each other. The power transmission and the suspension member or respectively hoisting member are stretched against at least one supporting body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 10, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2007
    Assignee: Inventio AG
    Inventors: Peter Spiess, Gert Silberhorn, Andreas Gaussmann, Peter Hitz, Dieter Mehr, Johannes Kocher
  • Publication number: 20070056807
    Abstract: A device moves a door seal for a displaceable door panel of an elevator car in an elevator installation with an elevator shaft having shaft doors. The movable door seal is arranged so that the door panel in a closed state is sealed off. The device includes an entrainer unit connected with the door panel and upon stopping of the elevator car at a floor executes a part movement. The device also includes a coupling mechanism mechanically connecting the entrainer unit with the door seal to bring the door seal out of a sealing position into an open position when the entrainer unit executes the part movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2006
    Publication date: March 15, 2007
    Applicant: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Peter Spiess, Dario Augugliaro
  • Publication number: 20050087401
    Abstract: An elevator installation has a sealing element that is movable by an electromagnetic actuator from a first position to a second position. The sealing element includes a seal carrier that is movably arranged at a door leaf of a door of the elevator installation. An electromagnetic actuator is fastened in the region of the door and upon actuation acts on the seal carrier to move it from the first position to the second position. An electrical circuit triggers the actuation before the door leaf executes an opening movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2004
    Publication date: April 28, 2005
    Inventors: Erwin Reinder Kuipers, Peter Spiess
  • Publication number: 20040173411
    Abstract: An elevator having deflecting rollers integrated in the cage floor or in the counterweight. The support and drive element is guided in the cage floor through a floor channel. By comparison with a conventional cage floor with deflecting rollers (bottom blocks) arranged underneath the cage floor, the cage floor is constructed to be very small in height overall, which has a direct effect on the shaft pit depth. The height gained by the cage floor can be saved in the shaft pit depth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2004
    Publication date: September 9, 2004
    Applicant: Inventio AG
    Inventors: Gert Silberhorn, Peter Spiess, Ernst Ach
  • Publication number: 20040128913
    Abstract: A door with a sliding door leaf has guides that are arranged in the region of an edge of the door leaf. The guides include a belt so aligned that it extends by the belt length thereof longitudinally of the guide surface for the door leaf in the direction of sliding of the door leaf. When the door leaf is sliding, the belt runs with the door leaf in such a manner that a portion of the belt bears against the guide surface when the door leaf is open, closed and sliding and thereby guides the door leaf.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 2, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Inventor: Peter Spiess
  • Publication number: 20040045772
    Abstract: An elevator having a car and a suspension member or respectively hoisting member for carrying an operating weight. Furthermore, a power transmission is intended for moving the suspension member and the hoisting member over at least one moving surface of the power transmission. The power transmission and the suspension member or respectively hoisting member are rope-shaped and/or belt-shaped. Also, the power transmission and the suspension member or respectively hoisting member are physically separated from each other. The power transmission and the suspension member or respectively hoisting member are stretched against at least one supporting body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2003
    Publication date: March 11, 2004
    Applicant: Inventio AG
    Inventors: Peter Spiess, Gert Silberhorn, Andreas Gaussmann, Peter Hitz, Dieter Mehr, Johannes Kocher
  • Patent number: 6668494
    Abstract: An elevator shaft door frame has posts of a basic configuration that can be combined with cladding profile members of different shape and size. The posts include a plate-like profile member with two U-shaped corrugations and a plate fastened to the profile member and covering the open rear side of the corrugations. A decorative cladding profile member is fastened to the post and has one U-shaped profile member abutting and fastened to the plate and another U-shaped profile member abutting and fastened to the one U-shaped profile member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: Inventio AG
    Inventors: Jules Christen, Roland Weidmann, Peter Spiess
  • Publication number: 20020178663
    Abstract: An elevator shaft door frame has posts of a basic configuration that can be combined with cladding profile members of different shape and size. The posts include a plate-like profile member with two U-shaped corrugations and a plate fastened to the profile member and covering the open rear side of the corrugations. A decorative cladding profile member is fastened to the post and has one U-shaped profile member abutting and fastened to the plate and another U-shaped profile member abutting and fastened to the one U-shaped profile member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2002
    Publication date: December 5, 2002
    Inventors: Jules Christen, Roland Weidmann, Peter Spiess
  • Patent number: 5869794
    Abstract: Method and device for stopping of an elevator cage due to a deviation of the elevator position, acceleration, or speed from a travel curve in excess of a certain predetermined safety margin. Travel parameters, computed by the elevator control, may be passed on to a drive control of a cage drive for moving and positioning of the elevator cage, and may also be passed on to a drive control of a reference drive for moving and positioning a trigger part. Accordingly, each of the elevator cage and the trigger part may be driven by individual discrete drivers, but, due to each driver receiving the same travel parameters, the elevator cage and the trigger part move in synchronization. The trigger part may be coupled to the elevator cage to be movable when the elevator cage deviates from the computed travel curve. When the deviation from the travel curve exceeds a predetermined safety margin, the trigger part may actuate a safety switch to stop the cage or reference drivers or to arrest movement of the elevator cage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 1996
    Date of Patent: February 9, 1999
    Assignee: Inventio AG
    Inventor: Peter Spiess
  • Patent number: 5667039
    Abstract: A roller for use in a roller guide for sliding elevator doors may include a resilient element for effecting quieter elevator operation. The resilient element may form a roller body with a bowl shaped annular casing of sheet steel to run along a carrier section including a preferably greased rail running surface. The roller body may be dimensioned such that the spring effect of the resilient element is stressed only within the elastic range or limit of the sheet steel. To obtain optimum spring effect, a radius of the rail running surface may be slightly greater than a radius of the roller body. Also, the roller body may include an open side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 16, 1997
    Assignee: Inventio AG
    Inventor: Peter Spiess
  • Patent number: 5655626
    Abstract: A roller guide for use with sliding elevator doors may include elements for effecting quieter sliding door running by reducing noise associated with the rollers running along the roller guide. The roller guide may by formed by a convex running surface made from a hose-like covering of sheet metal producing a spring effect. The hose-like covering may be dimensioned to utilize the spring effect within an elastic range or limit of the sheet metal, with the optimum spring effect occurring when a radius of the rail running surface is slightly less than a radius of a running surface. An elastic material, to dampen running noise, may be inserted between the hose-like covering and a carrier section. The carrier section may also include spaces for clamping respective ends of the hose-like covering.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 1995
    Date of Patent: August 12, 1997
    Assignee: Inventio AG
    Inventor: Peter Spiess
  • Patent number: 5616895
    Abstract: A door safety circuit for monitoring of story doors in lift installations. The door safety circuit includes a transmitter that produces a non-electrical signal which is guided by a series of conductor portions. The non-electrical signal may be transmitted through a first conductor partial portion to a latching device of a first story door, depending upon the latched state of the first story door, the signal may be either transmitted to a second conductor partial portion, which may be included within the latching device, or no longer transmitted. If the signal is similarly transmitted through a plurality of conductor partial portions and serially connected story door latching devices, the circuit may indicate that each story door is properly latched. The circuit may also include a plurality of sensors coupled to a failure recognition circuit for monitoring each conductor partial portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 1994
    Date of Patent: April 1, 1997
    Assignee: Inventio AG
    Inventor: Peter Spiess
  • Patent number: 5584142
    Abstract: Threshold profile member for the guidance of door leaves. The threshold profile member is built in a modular manner and comprised of guide profile members, spacers and separators, with two oppositely directed guide profile members and a spacer together forming a guide groove, with the separators serving for adjustment relative to the door leaf, the latter being provided with slide members and supports, in a recess provided in a building, with the guide profile members, spacers and separators being frictionally interconnected with the door leaf thickness and door gap being adjusted via the use of different separators, with the spacers being arranged only in the region of a screw connection, in order to ensure maintenance of the guide groove width, with the spacers and the separators being horizontally inclinable relative to a door frame side and the separators optionally being comprised of a tough transparent material for the mounting thereunder of lighting and/or information display purposes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 17, 1996
    Assignee: Inventio AG
    Inventor: Peter Spiess