Patents by Inventor Ragnar M. Hardmark

Ragnar M. Hardmark 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: 4732239
    Abstract: Anti-skid device especially for motor vehicle comprising elastic arms (2) assembled to a disc unit. In use the disc unit is brought close to the vehicle wheel, the friction of which is to be increased, and the outer ends (3) of the arms are successively drawn in between wheel and ground to increase the friction. Apart from their friction increasing portion (3) the arms (2) are extremely elastic and extend practically to the centre of rotation and bearing of the disc. Above the arms there is arranged a disc (5) extending out to the vicinity of the transition of the arms (2) into the friction increasing members (3). Moreover, beneath the arms a ring (6) is arranged which is attached between the arms (2) to the points (7) of attachment of the disc. In this way the disc is given a plane appearance ensuring that the friction increasing members (3) of the arms can obtain defined feed-in positions relative to the vehicle wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 22, 1988
    Assignee: Onspot AB
    Inventors: Ragnar M. Hardmark, Gote Torneback
  • Patent number: 4328622
    Abstract: An apparatus for measuring the evenness of a substructure, e.g. a road surface, is fitted to a vehicle. The free ends of a number of pivotable measuring arms, uniformly spaced side by side over the entire vehicle width, engage the substructure resiliently during measurement. Each measuring arm is pivotably mounted in a measuring housing which has a plate spring coacting with each arm. On pivotation of the arm relative to said housing, as a result of unevenness in the substructure, the plate spring executes a corresponding deflection, sensed by strain gauges attached to said spring and giving output signals, proportional to the deflection, to an electronic unit wherein the signals are converted to output data representing the surface evenness of the substructure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 1980
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1982
    Assignee: Saab-Scania Aktiebolag
    Inventors: Ragnar M. Hardmark, Bror A. S. Hanberger
  • Patent number: 4212063
    Abstract: An apparatus for measuring the action of forces between a wheeled vehicle and a substructure wherein the invention relates to the improvement of a measuring apparatus having a plurality of controls for selecting measuring distances of varying lengths, with each control programmed to trigger, when actuated, a memory in an electronic unit arranged to compare a signal value preselected to represent the measuring distance with a signal value generated by summing up output signals from a vehicle speed transducer and wherein the electronic unit is programmed to trigger discontinuation of the measuring sequence when the two signal values are equal which will be obtained at the end of the measuring distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 1978
    Date of Patent: July 8, 1980
    Assignee: Saab-Scania Aktiebolag
    Inventor: Ragnar M. Hardmark