Patents by Inventor Rainer Flickinger

Rainer Flickinger 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: 6371684
    Abstract: The invention relates to a clamping ring for connecting cylindrical units of a missile, which have each a circumferential projection and a flat-conical engagement surface. The clamping ring comprises a circumferential portion bent to a arc of a circle and having two ends, which can be tightened together by means of a turnbuckle. The clamping ring has cheeks along its rims. The cheeks have flat-conical engagement surfaces corresponding to the flat-conical engagement surfaces of the circumferential projections of the cylindrical units to be connected. The clamping ring extends with the cheeks over the circumferential projections of the units. In order to increase the strength of the clamping ring by suitable shaping within a predetermined space, the inner surface of the clamping ring is free from edges and guided tightly about the outer contours of the circumferential projections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignee: Bodenseewerk Geratetechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Giesenberg, Rainer Flickinger, Friedrich Kessler
  • Publication number: 20020003984
    Abstract: The invention relates to a clamping ring for connecting cylindrical units of a missile, which have each a circumferential projection and a flat-conical engagement surface. The clamping ring comprises a circumferential portion bent to a arc of a circle and having two ends, which can be tightened together by means of a turnbuckle. The clamping ring has cheeks along its rims. The cheeks have flat-conical engagement surfaces corresponding to the flat-conical engagement surfaces of the circumferential projections of the cylindrical units to be connected. The clamping ring extends with the cheeks over the circumferential projections of the units. In order to increase the strength of the clamping ring by suitable shaping within a predetermined space, the inner surface of the clamping ring is free from edges and guided tightly about the outer contours of the circumferential projections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2001
    Publication date: January 10, 2002
    Inventors: Peter Giesenberg, Rainer Flickinger, Friedrich Kessler
  • Publication number: 20010009634
    Abstract: The invention relates to a clamping ring for connecting cylindrical units of a missile, which have each a circumferential projection and a flat-conical engagement surface. The clamping ring comprises a circumferential portion bent to a arc of a circle and having two ends, which can be tightened together by means of a turnbuckle. The clamping ring has cheeks along its rims. The cheeks have flat-conical engagement surfaces corresponding to the flat-conical engagement surfaces of the circumferential projections of the cylindrical units to be connected. The clamping ring extends with the cheeks over the circumferential projections of the units. In order to increase the strength of the clamping ring by suitable shaping within a predetermined space, the inner surface of the clamping ring is free from edges and guided tightly about the outer contours of the circumferential projections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2001
    Publication date: July 26, 2001
    Inventors: Peter Giesenberg, Rainer Flickinger, Friedrich Kessler
  • Patent number: 5077465
    Abstract: A gyro-stabilized seeker comprises a rotor which is mounted universally movably about a central point and arranged to be driven about a rotor-fixed axis of rotation passing through the central point, as well as an imaging optical system on the rotor which is arranged to image a field of view in a plane perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the rotor. Detector means (130) for generating target signals are located in this plane. The detector means are arranged at a structure-fixed heat-insulating cooler housing (120) and are cooled by a cooler. The axis of rotation is aligned to a target. A convexo-spherical bearing surface (124) is structure-fixedly attached to the cooler housing (120). The detector means (130) are located on a carrier (128) which is universally pivotably mounted on this convexo-spherical bearing surface (124) and are aligned by a rotor carrier (106) according to the axis of rotation of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1990
    Date of Patent: December 31, 1991
    Inventors: Eric Wagner, Peter Giesenberg, Rainer Flickinger