Patents by Inventor RÜDIGER SCHÄFER

RÜDIGER SCHÄFER 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: 10447063
    Abstract: An electronic device, including at least one electronic component that can be used as an electrically and wirelessly chargeable terminal or as a transmitting device for such a terminal. The electronic device has a plastic surface that enables electromagnetic interaction between the electronic component and an external electronic component in the frequency range of 110 to 205 kHz. The plastic surface has a coating having a metallic appearance, wherein the coating includes at least one layer that looks metallic and at least one semiconductor material or at least one dielectric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS AG, PFÄFFIKON
    Inventor: Ruediger Schaefer
  • Patent number: 10273576
    Abstract: A method for producing a component with a predetermined gloss level, including the steps of: preparing a component with a metallic surface; producing a matte/glossy mixture by mixing glossy paint and matte paint in a predetermined mixing ratio; applying the matte/glossy mixture to the metallic surface of the component; and cross-linking the matte/glossy mixture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfaffikon
    Inventors: Rüdiger Schaefer, Marc Rosezin, Johannes Wehrle
  • Patent number: 9994952
    Abstract: A component, the surface of which is at least partially covered with a coating, wherein the coating comprises a PVD coating arranged between a first paint layer and a second paint layer and the first paint layer forms a base coat layer on the surface and the second paint layer forms a top coat layer having a top coat thickness on the PVD coating, wherein at least the top coat layer was produced with UV-curable paint. Proceeding from the interface of the PVD coating in a region smaller than the top coat thickness, the top coat layer has a lower degree of cross-linking induced by UV light than in the part of the top coat layer connected to said region. The invention relates in particular to a method for producing such a component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 12, 2018
    Assignee: Oerlikon Surface Solutions AG, Pfäffikon
    Inventors: Ruediger Schaefer, Martin Kaspar
  • Publication number: 20180123377
    Abstract: An electronic device, including at least one electronic component that can be used as an electrically and wirelessly chargeable terminal or as a transmitting device for such a terminal. The electronic device has a plastic surface that enables electromagnetic interaction between the electronic component and an external electronic component in the frequency range of 110 to 205 kHz. The plastic surface has a coating having a metallic appearance, wherein the coating includes at least one layer that looks metallic and at least one semiconductor material or at least one dielectric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2016
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Inventor: Ruediger Schaefer
  • Patent number: 9917485
    Abstract: An electric machine has grooves and windings, divided into strands, of electrical conductors. At least one strand has a number s of coils connected in series and arranged in the grooves. Each coil has sub-conductors connected in parallel and arranged in bundles. Each bundle is arranged in a groove at a bundle position relative to a deepest possible bundle position in the groove. The positions of all bundles in all coils define a number b of possible bundle positions of the strand. The bundles are interchanged between the coils such that each bundle is arranged in the grooves at least n times and at most n? times at each possible bundle position, wherein n is the integer quotient in regard to the quotient of the number s and the number b, wherein n?=n if s is divisible by b and n?=n+1 if s is not divisible by b.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Matthias Centner, Patrick Gels, Rüdiger Schäfer, Jörg Waschek
  • Patent number: 9517490
    Abstract: An irradiation device including at least one radiation source, which emits both UV-radiation and W-radiation, i.e. visible light and/or IR radiation. The device includes a transport device for delivering substrates to be irradiated. At least one wavelength-selective filter reflects UV-radiation at an angle of 45° and transmits W-radiation. Means for the absorption of IR radiation are arranged downstream of the optical filter in the propagation direction in the beam path of the W-radiation not deflected by the wavelength-selective filter. The means for the absorption of IR radiation are also designed to absorb visible light and UV rays, and the irradiation device includes movement means in order to guide the wavelength-selective filter into and out of the beam path of the radiation source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS AG, PFAFFIKON
    Inventors: Carlos Ribeiro, Tasso Karsch, Rüdiger Schäfer, Martin Kaspar
  • Patent number: 9476116
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a plastic component with a coating system, wherein the coating system comprises a basecoat of paint which has been applied to the surface of the plastic and on which a coating applied by means of vapor phase deposition is provided, for its part covered by a top coat of paint, characterized in that the coating applied by vapor phase deposition comprises multiple layers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: OERLIKON SURFACE SOLUTIONS AG, PFAFFIKON
    Inventors: Antal Keckes, Thomas Hermann, Peter Schuler, Ruediger Schaefer, Sascha Bauer
  • Publication number: 20160108520
    Abstract: A method for producing a component with a predetermined gloss level, including the steps of preparing a component with a metallic surface; producing a matte/glossy mixture by mixing glossy paint and matte paint in a predetermined mixing ratio; applying the matte/glossy mixture to the metallic surface of the component; and cross-linking the matte/glossy mixture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Rüdiger Schaefer, Marc Rosezin, Johannes Wehrle
  • Publication number: 20150375263
    Abstract: An irradiation device including at least one radiation source, which emits both UV-radiation and W-radiation, i.e. visible light and/or IR radiation. The device includes a transport device for delivering substrates to be irradiated. At least one wavelength-selective filter reflects UV-radiation at an angle of 45° and transmits W-radiation. Means for the absorption of IR radiation are arranged downstream of the optical filter in the propagation direction in the beam path of the W-radiation not deflected by the wavelength-selective filter. The means for the absorption of IR radiation are also designed to absorb visible light and UV rays, and the irradiation device includes movement means in order to guide the wavelength-selective filter into and out of the beam path of the radiation source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: Carlos Ribeiro, Tasso Karsch, Rüdiger Schäfer, Martin Kaspar
  • Publication number: 20150200574
    Abstract: An electric machine has grooves and windings, divided into strands, of electrical conductors. At least one strand has a number s of coils connected in series and arranged in the grooves. Each coil has sub-conductors connected in parallel and arranged in bundles. Each bundle is arranged in a groove at a bundle position relative to a deepest possible bundle position in the groove. The positions of all bundles in all coils define a number b of possible bundle positions of the strand. The bundles are interchanged between the coils such that each bundle is arranged in the grooves at least n times and at most n? times at each possible bundle position, wherein n is the integer quotient in regard to the quotient of the number s and the number b, wherein n?=n if s is divisible by b and n?=n+1 if s is not divisible by b.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2013
    Publication date: July 16, 2015
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Matthias Centner, Patrick Gels, Rüdiger Schäfer, Jörg Waschek
  • Publication number: 20150147588
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a plastic component with a coating system, wherein the coating system comprises a basecoat of paint which has been applied to the surface of the plastic and on which a coating applied by means of vapor phase deposition is provided, for its part covered by a top coat of paint, characterized in that the coating applied by vapor phase deposition comprises multiple layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Applicant: Oerlikon Trading AG, Trubbach
    Inventors: Antal Keckes, Thomas Hermann, Peter Schuler, Ruediger Schaefer, Sascha Bauer
  • Publication number: 20150137653
    Abstract: In summary, the invention relates to an electric machine having a housing, a stator which is arranged in the housing and a rotatable rotor arranged inside the stator, wherein the housing comprises at least two housing segments, and the stator comprises at least two stator segments, and a method for manufacturing such a machine. In order to provide an electric machine which has favourable transportation and installation properties together with a high output power and permits a precisely adjustable air gap to be made available despite customary fabrication tolerances of its components, it is proposed that it be possible to secure each of the stator segments individually to one of the housing segments by means of, in each case, at least one mechanically detachable connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2012
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Applicant: SIEMENS AG
    Inventors: Peter Petereit, Christian Schiller, Rüdiger Schäfer
  • Patent number: 8497614
    Abstract: A segmented annular stator for a dynamo-electric machine is disclosed which simplifies transport and assembly of the machine. The segment has a cross section essentially shaped as a circular arc and includes a first and a second segment boundary configured for attachment to an additional segment, a corresponding coil associated with each phase of a three-phase system, a first conductor, and a second conductor. The first conductor is connected to the second conductor via an end connection in an area of end windings, such that a first coil associated with a first phase surrounds second and third coils associated with second and third phases of the three-phase system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 30, 2013
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Axel Möhle, Rüdiger Schäfer
  • Publication number: 20110163550
    Abstract: A segmented annular stator for a dynamo-electric machine is disclosed which simplifies transport and assembly of the machine. The segment has a cross section essentially shaped as a circular arc and includes a first and a second segment boundary configured for attachment to an additional segment, a corresponding coil associated with each phase of a three-phase system, a first conductor, and a second conductor. The first conductor is connected to the second conductor via an end connection in an area of end windings, such that a first coil associated with a first phase surrounds second and third coils associated with second and third phases of the three-phase system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2010
    Publication date: July 7, 2011
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: AXEL MÖHLE, RÜDIGER SCHÄFER