Patents by Inventor Ralf Weber
Ralf Weber 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).
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Patent number: 9718648Abstract: The invention relates to a moving walk having an endless conveyor member comprising pallets and at least one longitudinal drive member to which the pallets are connected, which drive member is engaged by a drive unit, whereby the endless conveyor member runs in a middle section of the moving walk along an upper conveying track and along a lower return track; at both ends of the middle section a respective end section is located, whereby each end section comprises an entrance/exit area of the moving walk and a transfer means for transferring the endless conveyer member from the conveyor track to the return track and vice versa.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2016Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: Kone CorporationInventors: Tomi Petteri Sipilä, Andreas Mnich, Ralf Weber, Arttu Hult, Hongbin Gary Yao
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Publication number: 20170159735Abstract: An adjusting device for a disc brake, in particular for utility vehicles, is provided. The adjusting device includes a freewheel having an inner ring and an outer ring. The inner ring and outer ring together with multiple rolling bearing balls form an axial ball bearing. The inner ring is rotatably supported relative to the outer ring by the rolling bearing balls. The freewheel further has a cage in which multiple clamping rollers are biased with compression springs and compression pieces, the cage being arranged between the inner ring and the outer ring in a radial direction relative to a through-bore passing through the inner and outer rings. The compression springs may be pretensioned by rotating the cage relative to the inner ring and then fixing the cage to on the inner ring with a locking device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2017Publication date: June 8, 2017Inventors: Abdelaziz RGUICHI, Ralf WEBER, Christian SCHEUFLER
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Publication number: 20170159732Abstract: A disc brake, preferably a compressed air-actuated disc brake, in particular for a motor vehicle, has a brake application mechanism with a brake rotary lever, at least one spindle unit having a threaded rod screwed into a bridge, and a brake caliper. The caliper frames an edge region of a brake disc. The brake caliper has a brake application portion and a caliper back which are connected together via tie bars. The brake application mechanism with the brake rotary lever is received in the brake application portion of the brake caliper from an application face side of the brake disc. The brake application portion of the brake caliper has a first region, in which the application mechanism and a force transmission portion of the brake rotary lever are arranged, a second region, which is formed as a lever housing, and a lever portion for the brake rotary lever.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2017Publication date: June 8, 2017Inventors: Matthias KLINGNER, Ralf WEBER, Philipp ADAMCZYK, Christian SCHEUFLER
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Patent number: 9582160Abstract: In order to display a set of media items in a visually pleasing manner, the relationship between the set of media items and a plurality of predefined media arrangements may be determined. A score corresponding to the set of media items may be compared to a score corresponding to each of the predefined media arrangements. The media item score and the media arrangement scores may be based on properties of the media items and properties of the media arrangements, respectively. The media arrangement that is most closely related to the set of media items may be identified based on the score comparison and the media items may be displayed in the identified media arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2013Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Eric Circlaeys, Kjell Bronder, Ralf Weber
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Publication number: 20170022420Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions obtainable by reaction of a hydrate of magnesium sulfate with diammonium hydrogenphosphate and a further inorganic substance, especially anhydrous magnesium sulfate. The invention also relates to the production of the compositions and to the use thereof as flame retardants.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2016Publication date: January 26, 2017Applicant: K+S Kali GmbHInventors: Ralf WEBER, Ulrich Kleine-Kleffmann
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Patent number: 9551390Abstract: A disc brake for a commercial vehicle is provided. The disc brake includes a brake caliper which engages over a brake disc and is in the form of a sliding caliper, two brake pads which are arranged in the caliper, are movable in opposite directions and each have a pad carrier plate and a friction lining fastened thereon and of which an application-side brake pad is pressable against the brake disc by an application device via at least one brake plunger, and with at least one restoring device with which the brake caliper is returnable after a braking-induced displacement and release of the brake. The restoring device is provided with a friction element which is mounted in the brake pad so as to be displaceable to a limited extent under pressure loading in the axial direction of the brake disc and on which an elastic pressure element held in the brake caliper and/or brake plunger acts.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2014Date of Patent: January 24, 2017Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventors: Thomas Eichler, Paul Haberl-Guenthner, Ralf Weber, Igor Nesmjanowitsch
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Patent number: 9489104Abstract: A set of media items may be matched with a media arrangement that displays the media items in the set in a group of frames. The media arrangement may extend across an area larger than a viewable area of a display device. In order to determine the media items that appear within a viewable area, a list of media items may be divided into two portions, one on either side of a middle item in the list. If any part of a frame with which the middle item is associated is within an extended spatial area that extends beyond the viewable area, the middle item may be eliminated from the list, when no part of the frame with which the middle item is associated is within the extended area. The process may be repeated until it is determined that a part of a frame with which the middle item is associated is within the extended area.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2013Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Eric Circlaeys, Kjell Bronder, Ralf Weber
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Patent number: 9487706Abstract: The present invention relates to compositions obtainable by reaction of a hydrate of magnesium sulfate with diammonium hydrogenphosphate and a further inorganic substance, especially anhydrous magnesium sulfate. The invention also relates to the production of the compositions and to the use thereof as flame retardants.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2013Date of Patent: November 8, 2016Assignee: K+S Kali GmbHInventors: Ralf Weber, Ulrich Kleine-Kleffmann
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Publication number: 20160264380Abstract: The invention relates to a moving walk having an endless conveyor member comprising pallets and at least one longitudinal drive member to which the pallets are connected, which drive member is engaged by a drive unit, whereby the endless conveyor member runs in a middle section of the moving walk along an upper conveying track and along a lower return track; at both ends of the middle section a respective end section is located, whereby each end section comprises an entrance/exit area of the moving walk and a transfer means for transferring the endless conveyer member from the conveyor track to the return track and vice versa.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2016Publication date: September 15, 2016Applicant: KONE CorporationInventors: Tomi Petteri Sipilä, Andreas Mnich, Ralf Weber, Arttu Hult, Hongbin Gary YAO
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Patent number: 9334912Abstract: A functional unit is provided for adjusting a brake pad of a disc brake, having the following function parts: a guide rail, two adjusting spindles, arranged parallel to and spaced apart from each other in the guide rail and held in an axially moveable manner, and a synchronization device for synchronously adjusting the adjusting spindles, wherein the functional parts are pre-mounted into one assembly.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2014Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzsfahrzeuge GmbHInventors: Ralf Weber, Matthias Klingner
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Publication number: 20160021331Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided providing users with the ability to create and produce multimedia devices. In one aspect of the present invention, users are provided with the capability to easily and seamlessly create slideshows using multiple forms of graphic elements instead of just still pictures. In another aspect of the present invention, users are provided with the capability to create and modify the DVD menu that is required for DVDs to function properly on conventional DVD players. In still another aspect of the present invention, users are provided with an intuitive graphic interface that simply and clearly explains the trade offs the user must make in deciding which mode to record the DVD.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2015Publication date: January 21, 2016Inventors: Ralf Weber, Guillaume Vergnaud
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Patent number: 9227602Abstract: A disc brake for a commercial vehicle includes a brake caliper that straddles a brake disc, a brake application device, arranged in the brake caliper, for pressing brake pads against the brake disc. Two parallel, spaced-apart adjusting spindles are mounted in a rotatable manner via a corresponding thread, in a bridge of the brake application device. A wear adjusting device is arranged in the brake caliper and compensates for a wear-related change in the clearance between the brake pad and the brake disc by axially moving the adjusting spindles. A synchronizing device includes a traction drive mechanism which allows the two adjusting spindles to be synchronously rotated. The fraction drive mechanism has a traction mechanism that meshes in a force transmitting manner with drive gears which are effectively connected to the adjusting spindles for conjoint rotation therewith. Each drive gear includes at least one form-fitting element which engages with an outer axial guide of the associated adjusting spindle.Type: GrantFiled: April 10, 2014Date of Patent: January 5, 2016Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventors: Ralf Weber, Matthias Klingner
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Publication number: 20150370804Abstract: A system in accordance with the present invention may include one or more processors, memory that receives instructions from the one or more processors according to a clock operating at a frequency, one or more programs stored in the memory, with instructions to: access media content; analyze the media content according to meta data, media characteristics, or other media-related data; and, create a media content object cluster according to the meta data, the media characteristics, or the other media-related data.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 15, 2015Publication date: December 24, 2015Inventors: Ralf Weber, Bob Van Osten
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Publication number: 20150347361Abstract: An example method may retrieve a markup language document from an electronic storage device. The markup language document may define a component of an interactive media application and a plurality of resolution dependent parameter sets for the component. The method may continue and determine, using at least one processor, a current resolution of a display device of a playback device and select, using the at least one processor, a parameter set of the plurality of resolution dependent parameter sets for the component based on the current resolution and device. The method may also apply, using the at least one processor, the parameter set to the component; and present, using the at least one processor, the component as part of the interactive media application on the playback device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2015Publication date: December 3, 2015Inventors: Eric M. Circlaeys, Guillaume Vergnaud, Ralf Weber, Dong Young Oh, Alexander David Wallace, Daniel Hooper, Benjamin David Ross
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Patent number: 9194448Abstract: A disc brake for a commercial vehicle includes a brake caliper which extends over a brake disc, a brake application device which is arranged in the brake caliper for pressing brake pads against the brake disc, and at least one adjustment spindle which is rotatably mounted in a bridge via a threaded coupling. A wear adjusting device is positioned in the brake caliper by which a wear-induced change of the clearance between the brake pad and the brake disc can be substantially compensated for via an axial movement of the adjusting spindle. The disc brake is designed such that the adjusting spindle has at least one axial groove on an outer side, the length of the groove being limited in the direction of the brake application device. A stop, which is axially fixed relative to the bridge, engages into the axial groove in a relatively displaceable manner.Type: GrantFiled: February 28, 2014Date of Patent: November 24, 2015Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventors: Markus Gruber, Ralf Weber, Matthias Klingner
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Patent number: 9162388Abstract: The invention relates to an extruder which has an extruder housing, in which a delivery channel for a medium to be extruded is formed. At least one screw conveyor is located in the delivery channel and a cooling device is provided for the extruder housing, said device having at least one cooling line in or on the extruder housing, through which line a cooling fluid flows. An electronic device for controlling and/or regulating the operating states of the extruder is accommodated in an electronics housing which can be cooled according to the invention by means of the cooling device for the extruder housing.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2012Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: Thermo Electron (Karlsruhe) GMBHInventors: Peter Roberts, Ralf Weber
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Patent number: 9158776Abstract: Methods and apparatus are provided providing users with the ability to create and produce multimedia devices. In one aspect of the present invention, users are provided with the capability to easily and seamlessly create slideshows using multiple forms of graphic elements instead of just still pictures. In another aspect of the present invention, users are provided with the capability to create and modify the DVD menu that is required for DVDs to function properly on conventional DVD players. In still another aspect of the present invention, users are provided with an intuitive graphic interface that simply and clearly explains the trade offs the user must make in deciding which mode to record the DVD.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2008Date of Patent: October 13, 2015Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ralf Weber, Guillaume Vergnaud
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Publication number: 20150254806Abstract: A set of media items may be matched with a media arrangement that displays the media items in the set in a group of frames having various sizes and positions. The media arrangement may extend across an area that is larger than a viewable area of a display device on which the media arrangement is displayed. A user may adjust (e.g., scroll) the viewable portion of the media arrangement. Because the media arrangement may include a large number of media items, it may not be feasible or possible to retrieve and load all of the media items into media frames in advance. Thus, a method and system may be used to progressively load media items into media frames for the viewable area and to pre-fetch media items for areas of the media arrangement that may be displayed after the current viewable area.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 7, 2014Publication date: September 10, 2015Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Eric Circlaeys, Kjell Bronder, Ralf Weber
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Patent number: 9047255Abstract: A system in accordance with the present invention may include one or more processors, memory that receives instructions from the one or more processors according to a clock operating at a frequency, one or more programs stored in the memory, with instructions to: access media content; analyze the media content according to meta data, media characteristics, or other media-related data; and, create a media content object cluster according to the meta data, the media characteristics, or the other media-related data.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2013Date of Patent: June 2, 2015Assignee: Apple Inc.Inventors: Ralf Weber, Bob Van Osten
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Publication number: 20150135069Abstract: In order to display a set of media items in a visually pleasing manner, the relationship between the set of media items and a plurality of predefined media arrangements may be determined. A score corresponding to the set of media items may be compared to a score corresponding to each of the predefined media arrangements. The media item score and the media arrangement scores may be based on properties of the media items and properties of the media arrangements, respectively. The media arrangement that is most closely related to the set of media items may be identified based on the score comparison and the media items may be displayed in the identified media arrangement.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2013Publication date: May 14, 2015Applicant: APPLE INC.Inventors: Eric Circlaeys, Kjell Bronder, Ralf Weber