Patents by Inventor Rainer MORGENTHAL

Rainer MORGENTHAL 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: 9447606
    Abstract: A locking system is provided whereby at least two locking devices can be actuated with one and the same key. The key has at least two control tracks, via which, in at least two scanning planes lying one behind the other respectively transverse to the insertion direction, the scanning of scanning points provided on the key is possible. Via the scanning points provided in at least one scanning plane, both types of platelet tumblers can be scanned via the mating scanning points thereof and separated, so that the arrangement of one type of the two platelet tumblers in at least one scanning plane can be chosen freely in order to form a multiplicity of locking devices having cylinders cores having an associated cylinder housing and matched to the free choice of the platelet tumblers, which can be actuated with one and the same key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Helge Winkler, Joerg Havemann, Rainer Morgenthal
  • Publication number: 20120279265
    Abstract: A locking system is provided whereby at least two locking devices can be actuated with one and the same key. The key has at least two control tracks, via which, in at least two scanning planes lying one behind the other respectively transverse to the insertion direction, the scanning of scanning points provided on the key is possible. Via the scanning points provided in at least one scanning plane, both types of platelet tumblers can be scanned via the mating scanning points thereof and separated, so that the arrangement of one type of the two platelet tumblers in at least one scanning plane can be chosen freely in order to form a multiplicity of locking devices having cylinders cores having an associated cylinder housing and matched to the free choice of the platelet tumblers, which can be actuated with one and the same key.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2012
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Inventors: Helge WINKLER, Joerg HAVEMANN, Rainer MORGENTHAL