Patents by Inventor Rainer Schmitt

Rainer Schmitt 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: 10377672
    Abstract: A method for the production of polygranular graphite bodies including the step of provisioning a mixture including a high-temperature treated anthracite having a high vitrinite content and a petroleum-based needle coke and/or a pitch-based needle coke, and provisioning at least one binder coke precursor. The method also includes the steps of forming a green body from the mixture from the provisioning step, and carbonizing and graphitizing the green body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Showa Denko Carbon Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Wilhelm Frohs, Rainer Schmitt
  • Patent number: 10308513
    Abstract: A method for the production of graphite bodies, including the step of provisioning a mixture including a high-temperature treated anthracite having a high vitrinite content and provisioning at least one binder coke precursor. The method also includes the steps of forming a green body from the mixture provided in the provisioning step, and carbonizing and graphitizing the green body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Showa Denko Carbon Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Wilhelm Frohs, Rainer Schmitt
  • Publication number: 20190031961
    Abstract: Coke including additives that are accumulated at the yield points or in the regions surrounded by the yield points. For homogeneous distribution, the additives are continuously dosed into the delayed coker during the filling time. The dosing can be carried out by powdery blowing with an inert gas (nitrogen) or also distributed in a slurry consisting of the reaction components and a partial flow of the coker feed (vacuum resid, pytar, decant oil or coal-tar distillates). According to an advantageous form of embodiment, the additives may optionally have a diameter of between 0.05 mm and 5 mm, preferably between 1 mm and 3 mm. Advantageously, the additives can be selected from at least one of acetylene coke, fluid coke, flexi coke, shot coke, carbon black, non-graphitisable carbons (chars), non-graphitic anthracite, silicon carbide, titanium carbide, titanium diboride or mixtures thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: SGL CFL CE GmbH
    Inventors: Oswin ÖTTINGER, Heribert WALTER, Martin CHRIST, Johann DAIMER, Wilhelm FROHS, Frank HILTMANN, Rainer SCHMITT
  • Patent number: 10132211
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotor for a camshaft adjuster for rotation about a rotation axis. The rotor has an inner sheath and an outer sheath and at least one control vane, pointing at least substantially radially away from the rotation axis, having a first control vane side and a second control vane side. The rotor furthermore has a first liquid channel system and a second liquid channel system, wherein the first liquid channel system opens in a first liquid channel opening and the second liquid channel system opens in a second liquid channel opening. The rotor comprises: a first sintered joining part, a second sintered joining part which is joined to the first sintered joining part and an insert part which is inserted in an intermediate chamber which is formed by at least one of a first recess of the first sintered joining part and a second recess of the second sintered joining part. The invention further relates to a parts set and to a method for producing a joined component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 20, 2018
    Assignees: GKN Sinter Metals Engineering GmbH, Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rainer Schmitt, Antonio Casellas, Kerstin Ziegler, Christian Bösel, Uwe Stollberger
  • Publication number: 20180281063
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a punching tool of a sintering press, comprising at least one lower punch and an upper punch, a first punch of the upper punch and/or lower punch having a top piece that is asymmetric with respect to an axial axis of the punch press. The first punch has a geometry which widens from the top piece towards a base and is also asymmetric with respect to the axial axis of the punch press. The invention further relates to a method for pressing at least one powdery material to a green body in a sintering press.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Inventors: Rainer Schmitt, Robert Maassen, Eberhard Ernst, Hasim Tekines
  • Publication number: 20180282888
    Abstract: A cathode bottom, to a method for the production thereof, and to the use thereof in an electrolytic cell for producing aluminium. The cathode bottom has at least two cathode blocks and/or at least one cathode block and at least one sidewall block, which are arranged at a distance from each other. The gap is filled with a pre-compressed graphite plate, composed of expanded graphite and a graphite intercalation compound.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Publication date: October 4, 2018
    Applicant: SGL CFL CE GMBH
    Inventors: Rainer SCHMITT, Martin CHRIST
  • Publication number: 20180257137
    Abstract: The invention relates to a sintering press which comprises at least one upper punch and a lower punch, a powder reservoir for filling a female die of the sintering press with at least one powder material that can be sintered, and a female die for producing a green body using the powder material from the powder reservoir. A first punch of the upper punches and/or lower punches has a punch top which is off-center and asymmetric with respect to an axial axis of the sintering press and which can be moved in the female die along a female die outer wall and/or along an adjacent punch without being guided inside the female die. The first punch is asymmetric in shape between the punch top and the base, which shape at least reduces an axial tilting of the punch and a lateral drag of the punch top on an adjacent outer surface in the female die, in particular prevents such tilting and dragging, during insertion and extraction therefrom during a pressing step in the production of the green body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Publication date: September 13, 2018
    Inventors: Rainer Schmitt, Robert Maassen, Eberhard Ernst, Hasim Tekines
  • Publication number: 20180236547
    Abstract: The invention relates to a powder press, comprising a tool structure, which has a conical substructure having lower rams nested in each other, wherein each lower ram has a longitudinal extent, in particular a cylindrical longitudinal extent, which is guided in a die, wherein, in the case of at least two longitudinal extents of the lower rams, each longitudinal extent is adjoined by a conical enlargement, wherein the conical enlargements can be guided in each other, wherein the region of the conical enlargement has an inner wall and an outer wall, which expand conically and which are preferably longer than the longitudinal extent. The invention further relates to a method for operating a powder press and to a computer program product having computer program code means that can be executed on a computer system in order to perform the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2016
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: Rainer Schmitt, Eberhard Ernst
  • Publication number: 20180222803
    Abstract: A method for the production of polygranular graphite bodies including the step of provisioning a mixture including a high-temperature treated anthracite having a high vitrinite content and a petroleum-based needle coke and/or a pitch-based needle coke, and provisioning at least one binder coke precursor. The method also includes the steps of forming a green body from the mixture from the provisioning step, and carbonizing and graphitizing the green body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: Showa Denko Carbon Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Wilhelm Frohs, Rainer Schmitt
  • Publication number: 20180194631
    Abstract: A method for the production of graphite bodies, including the step of provisioning a mixture including a high-temperature treated anthracite having a high vitrinite content and provisioning at least one binder coke precursor. The method also includes the steps of forming a green body from the mixture provided in the provisioning step, and carbonizing and graphitizing the green body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Applicant: Showa Denko Carbon Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Wilhelm Frohs, Rainer Schmitt
  • Publication number: 20180022050
    Abstract: A powder press is proposed with a die construction which has a conical lower ram (UE) with lower rams which are nested inside one another, wherein each lower ram has a longitudinal extent, in particular a cylindrical longitudinal extent, which is guided by way of a template (M), wherein a conical widened portion adjoins preferably every longitudinal extent, wherein a respective cone angle of the lower ram preferably increases from the inside to the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 25, 2018
    Inventors: Eberhard Ernst, Rainer Schmitt, Hasim Tekines, Christian Siegert
  • Publication number: 20180015544
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a body by means of an additive production method (AM) by using metal powder, comprising the following steps: designing the body in a computer-simulated manner while taking into account at least one region of the body to be processed and transferring data to an additive production device, in particular an additive powder-bed production device, successively providing the metal powder in order to construct powder layers arranged one on the other, successively hardening parts of the powder layers in order to form at least one specified structure in the powder layers arranged one on the other, wherein the structure is at least partially filled with metal powder of the powder layers, and calibrating a body, which is created by means of the structure, in the region to be processed. The invention further relates to a corresponding device, to a body produced in such a way, and to a computer program product for performing the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Rainer SCHMITT, Simon HÖGES, Ümit AYDIN, Richard KALLEE, Peter MÖLGG
  • Publication number: 20180015680
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a punch unit of a powder press, wherein the punch unit is assembled from at least two parts, in this case comprising a headpiece as the first part and a widening region, adjoining the headpiece, as the second part, wherein the widening region flares to a diameter of a punch bolder which is directly attachable to an end, located away from the headpiece, of the widening region. Furthermore, punch units of a powder press that slide one inside another, a powder press itself and a method for operating a powder press are proposed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2015
    Publication date: January 18, 2018
    Inventors: Rainer Schmitt, Hasim Tekines, Christian Siegert
  • Patent number: 9662708
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a green compact, said green compact comprising at least two partial green compacts, each partial green compact being compacted and joined from at least one powdery material in one working cycle. Particularly, two, three, four or more than four partial green compacts can be compacted and joined in one working cycle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: GKN Sinter Metals Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Schmitt, Antonio Casellas
  • Publication number: 20170113276
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a green compact composite comprising at least a first partial green compact and a second partial green compact, wherein, within one pressing cycle, a powder is introduced into a filling chamber and then separated into a first partial quantity and into a second partial quantity, and, within the same pressing cycle, the respective partial quantities are pressed to form a first partial green compact and a second partial green compact and the partial green compacts are amalgamated after the pressing, wherein the amalgamation forms a press fit between the first partial green compact and the second partial green compact and produces a predetermined breaking point in the green compact composite. Furthermore, the invention proposes a green compact composite, a sintered component and also a press, each of which can be based on the proposed method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2015
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Alexander Hüllen, Rainer Schmitt, Eberhard Ernst
  • Publication number: 20170087638
    Abstract: The invention relates to a press for producing dimensionally stable preforms from material that is substantially in the form of a powder, in particular iron powder and or ceramic powder, with a tool comprising an upper die and a lower die, wherein the upper die and the lower die respectively comprise at least one die, wherein a first die and a second die are arranged together, one sliding in the other, as the upper die or lower die and respectively have a first end and a second end, lying opposite the first end, wherein at least one of the two dies spreads out along one portion to such an extent that the second end thereof has a width that at least approaches an outer diameter of a die holder associated with the second end. This allows presses of a compact form to be made available for producing dimensionally stable preforms of high quality and great complexity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2015
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Rainer Schmitt, Ümit Aydin
  • Publication number: 20160237861
    Abstract: The invention relates to a rotor for a camshaft adjuster for rotation about a rotation axis. The rotor has an inner sheath and an outer sheath and at least one control vane, pointing at least substantially radially away from the rotation axis, having a first control vane side and a second control vane side. The rotor furthermore has a first liquid channel system and a second liquid channel system, wherein the first liquid channel system opens in a first liquid channel opening and the second liquid channel system opens in a second liquid channel opening. The rotor comprises: a first sintered joining part, a second sintered joining part which is joined to the first sintered joining part and an insert part which is inserted in an intermediate chamber which is formed by at least one of a first recess of the first sintered joining part and a second recess of the second sintered joining part. The invention further relates to a parts set and to a method for producing a joined component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Publication date: August 18, 2016
    Applicants: GKN SINTER METALS ENGINEERING GMBH, SCHAEFFLER TECHNOLOGIES AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Rainer Schmitt, Antonio Casellas, Kerstin Ziegler, Christian Bösel, Uwe Stollberger
  • Patent number: 9151194
    Abstract: A progressive distributor base body for distributing lubricant includes a first lubricant inlet channel, at least one second lubricant inlet channel, at least first and second cylinders each configured to slidably support a piston element, and a bore fluidly connecting at least one of the first and second lubricant inlet channels with a channel that is fluidly connected to the first and second cylinders. The progressive distributor base body is formed as one-piece without any seams and a longitudinal direction of the second lubricant inlet channel is parallel to a longitudinal direction of the bore.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2015
    Assignee: LINCOLN GMBH
    Inventor: Rainer Schmitt
  • Publication number: 20150194846
    Abstract: The invention relates to a stator for an electrical machine having at least one rotor. The stator is formed as a body provided with at least one opening and having at least one ferromagnetic material. The stator also has at least one region designed as a stator pole carrier, which surrounds a central axis of the stator at least partially, at least one first stator pole with at least a first edge and a second edge, and at least one second stator pole. The stator poles are preferably aligned substantially facing along a radial direction, arranged directly or indirectly on the stator pole carrier. The invention also concerns an electrical machine having at least one stator pair having a first stator and a second stator. Moreover, the invention concerns a method for assembling an electrical machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Publication date: July 9, 2015
    Inventors: Thomas Pütz, Rainer Schmitt, Ümit Aydin, Antonio Casellas
  • Publication number: 20130264023
    Abstract: A latent heat storage device is formed with a carrier substrate formed of expanded graphite material. Phase change material is infiltrated in the graphite material. A thin graphite sheet provides for the functional heat conductivity into and out of the carrier substrate. After the phase change material (PCM) is infiltrated in the carrier substrate, a density of the infiltrated carrier substrate exceeds its starting density by a ratio of at least 3:1 or 4:1 or more. The volume dimensions of the infiltrated the carrier substrate remain substantially unchanged. In the alternative, the latent heat storage device may also have a PCM coating layer on a thin carrier substrate, wherein the phase change material is interspersed in a carrier matrix forming the PCM coating layer. The composite device may be very thin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2012
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: SGL CARBON SE
    Inventors: BASTIAN HUDLER, RAINER SCHMITT, BRIAN FORD, WERNER LANGER, SYLVIA MECHEN