Patents by Inventor Richard Bender

Richard Bender 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: 10415140
    Abstract: A method for anti-corrosion treatment of components produced from aluminum, comprising a pre-treatment stage and subsequent painting. The pre-treatment stage includes steps of pickling and passivation wherein passivation of the components includes contacting them with an acidic, aqueous composition based on water-soluble compounds of the elements Zr and/or Ti. The pickling and passivation are coordinated with each other so that a re-dosing of active components of the passivation solution can occur in substantial parts from the pickling solution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Mathieu Van de Cappelle, Ina Kruegermann, Thomas John-Schillings, Andrea Soldati, Andreas Richard Bender
  • Publication number: 20170016119
    Abstract: A method for anti-corrosion treatment of components produced from aluminium, comprising a pre-treatment stage and subsequent painting. The pre-treatment stage includes steps of pickling and passivation wherein passivation of the components includes contacting them with an acidic, aqueous composition based on water-soluble compounds of the elements Zr and/or Ti. The pickling and passivation are coordinated with each other so that a re-dosing of active components of the passivation solution can occur in substantial parts from the pickling solution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Mathieu Van de Cappelle, Ina Kruegermann, Thomas John-Schillings, Andrea Soldati, Andreas Richard Bender
  • Patent number: 8327765
    Abstract: A glass-to-metal bushing for ignitors of airbags or belt tensioning pulleys. A metal pin is arranged in a slot in the base plate in the fixing material, the base plate being formed by one element whereby the base geometry describing the slot is produced by at least one separation process. Structure is provided between the front and rear of the base plate for preventing relative motion of the fixing material in the direction of the base plate rear portion across from the inner circumference of the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2008
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2012
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Thomas Fink, Neil Heeke, Adolf Olzinger, Thomas Pfeiffer, Reinhard Ranftl, Richard Bender, Bartholomäus Forster
  • Patent number: 8276514
    Abstract: A glass-to-metal bushing for ignitors of airbags or belt tensioning pulleys. A metal pin is arranged in a slot in the base plate in the fixing material, the base plate being formed by one element whereby the base geometry describing the slot is produced by at least one separation process. Structure is provided between the front and rear of the base plate for preventing relative motion of the fixing material in the direction of the base plate rear portion across from the inner circumference of the slot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Thomas Fink, Neil Heeke, Adolf Olzinger, Thomas Pfeiffer, Reinhard Ranftl, Richard Bender, Bartholomäus Forster
  • Publication number: 20100229616
    Abstract: A glass-to-metal bushing for ignitors of airbags or belt tensioning pulleys. A metal pin is arranged in a slot in the base plate in the fixing material, the base plate being formed by one element whereby the base geometry describing the slot is produced by at least one separation process. Structure is provided between the front and rear of the base plate for preventing relative motion of the fixing material in the direction of the base plate rear portion across from the inner circumference of the slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2010
    Publication date: September 16, 2010
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Thomas Fink, Neil Heeke, Adolf Olzinger, Thomas Pfeiffer, Reinhard Ranftl, Richard Bender, Bartholomäus Forster
  • Publication number: 20090159066
    Abstract: The instant invention is a heat reclaimer that is positioned within the chimney of an existing outdoor wood stove. The reclaimer is heated by the waste heat leaving the combustion chamber of the outdoor wood stove. This waste heat is captured in the reclaimer by heating water inside the reclaimer then recirculating that water to the existing outdoor wood stove raising the temperature of the return water in that outdoor wood stove and thereby increasing the efficiency of the outdoor wood stove. The device maximizes the efficiency for specific heating outdoor wood stoves by extracting BTUs from waste or lost flue gases through a safe and environmentally sound practice. The device saves substantial amounts of resources as well as time gathering and preparing the fuels.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2008
    Publication date: June 25, 2009
    Inventors: Santiago Adame, John Richard Bender
  • Publication number: 20090005839
    Abstract: In a preferred embodiment the present invention provides a tanning system with base unit and canopy unit mounted to define a gap for a person to be tanned. The canopy unit defines a facial area to be before the person's face. The facial area provides ultraviolet illumination coupled with illumination in the visible light and/or infrared light spectrums. In one embodiment, the system includes one or more facial tanners and one or more skin rejuvenation portions mounted in the facial area. Preferably, the facial area includes one skin rejuvenation portion mounted in the center of the facial area before the person with a face to be tanned and two facial tanners mounted laterally beside the skin rejuvenation portion within the facial area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Publication date: January 1, 2009
    Inventors: Roy Lloyd Griffith, Gregory Richard Bender, Matthew Lee Adams, Randall Jay Ballentine
  • Publication number: 20080250963
    Abstract: A glass-to-metal bushing for ignitors of airbags or belt tensioning pulleys. A metal pin is arranged in a slot in the base plate in the fixing material, the base plate being formed by one element whereby the base geometry describing the slot is produced by at least one separation process. Structure is provided between the front and rear of the base plate for preventing relative motion of the fixing material in the direction of the base plate rear portion across from the inner circumference of the slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2008
    Publication date: October 16, 2008
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Thomas Fink, Neil Heeke, Adolf Olzinger, Thomas Pfeiffer, Reinhard Ranftl, Richard Bender, Bartholomaus Forster
  • Publication number: 20060222881
    Abstract: A glass-to-metal bushing for igniters of airbags or belt tensioning pulleys. A metal pin is arranged in a slot in the base plate in the fixing material, the base plate being formed by one element whereby the base geometry describing the slot is produced by at least one separation process. Structure is provided between the front and rear of the base plate for preventing relative motion of the fixing material in the direction of the base plate rear portion across from the inner circumference of the slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2006
    Publication date: October 5, 2006
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Thomas Fink, Neil Heeke, Adolf Olzinger, Thomas Pfeiffer, Reinhard Ranftl, Richard Bender, Bartholomaus Forster
  • Patent number: 7059312
    Abstract: An ignition unit for igniting propellants having at least one electrically conductive pin with a pin holder comprising a metal ring which encloses the pin by leaving an annular cavity with an insulating filing in the annular cavity. An electrically conductive bridge or a semi-conductor bridge connects between the metal ring and the pin with a sealing cap which is connected to the one face side of the pin holder and which receives the propellant. A plug can be connected in a positive or non-positive way with the metal ring on its end averted from the sealing cap and which enters into an electrically conductive connection with the pin in operation. At least one of the two elements, either the metal ring or the plug are provided with a coating in the region between the mutual connection, which coating has a low electric contact resistance between the plug and the metal ring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2006
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Adolf Olzinger, Richard Bender
  • Publication number: 20050016510
    Abstract: An ignition unit for igniting propellants having at least one electrically conductive pin with a pin holder comprising a metal ring which encloses the pin by leaving an annular cavity with an insulating filing in the annular cavity. An electrically conductive bridge or a semi-conductor bridge connects between the metal ring and the pin with a sealing cap which is connected to the one face side of the pin holder and which receives the propellant. A plug can be connected in a positive or non-positive way with the metal ring on its end averted from the sealing cap and which enters into an electrically conductive connection with the pin in operation. At least one of the two elements, either the metal ring or the plug are provided with a coating in the region between the mutual connection, which coating has a low electric contact resistance between the plug and the metal ring.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2004
    Publication date: January 27, 2005
    Inventors: Adolf Olzinger, Richard Bender
  • Publication number: 20040216631
    Abstract: A glass-to-metal bushing for ignitors of airbags or belt tensioning pulleys. A metal pin is arranged in a slot in the base plate in the fixing material, the base plate being formed by one element whereby the base geometry describing the slot is produced by at least one separation process. Structure is provided between the front and rear of the base plate for preventing relative motion of the fixing material in the direction of the base plate rear portion across from the inner circumference of the slot.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2004
    Publication date: November 4, 2004
    Inventors: Thomas Fink, Neil Heeke, Adolf Olzinger, Thomas Pfeiffer, Reinhard Ranftl, Richard Bender, Bartholomaus Forster
  • Patent number: 6219605
    Abstract: In a method and an air bag system for depleting the kinetic energy of a vehicle occupant in case of a vehicle accident involving heavy, negative acceleration, the air bag system comprising a control unit for inflating an air bag which activates the air bag system on the basis of electric signals of an acceleration sensor provided in the vehicle, further sensor elements are provided by means of which the parameters determining the individual kinetic energy of the vehicle occupant are sensed and electrical signals representing these parameters are transmitted by the sensor elements to an electronic analyzer connected to the control unit, this electronic analyzer establishing on the basis of these signals a point in time t4 at which the vehicle occupant is likely to come into contact with the inflated air bag of the air bag system, the electronic analyzer calculating on the basis of the established point in time t4 a prior point in time t2 at which the inflation of the air bag is to commence and signalling this
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2001
    Assignee: TRW Airbag Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Hermann Bauer, Richard Bender, Franz Fürst
  • Patent number: 6042146
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for filling a restraint device, in particular an impact cushion (airbag) for the protection of the occupants of a motor vehicle, with the following features. The restraint device is filled by an inert gas or gas mixture stored in a pressure container; the pressure container has an outlet opening which is closed by a burstable membrane; a module for opening the membrane is associated with the outlet opening; the module has an ignition unit; the igniter case is surrounded by a toroidal propellant chamber; for the ignition of the propellant stored in the propellant chamber, the igniter case has, in addition to axial nozzles, further nozzles directed radially outwards and finally a flow control is provided which directs the hot gas, produced by the propellant, onto the membrane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2000
    Assignee: TRW Airbag Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Hermann Bauer, Richard Bender, Uwe Dolling, Thomas Kistler, Siegfried Zeuner
  • Patent number: 5799973
    Abstract: The invention concerns a tubular gas generator for the filling of an airbag in a retention system for occupants of motor vehicles, whereby two separate combustion chamber units have a common connector and each combustion chamber unit has an ignitor unit with respective filters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 1996
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Assignee: TEMIC Bayern-Chemie Airbag GmbH
    Inventors: Hermann Bauer, Richard Bender, Franz Furst, Bernhard Vetter, Marc Winterhalder, Siegfried Zeuner
  • Patent number: 5621197
    Abstract: A device for disconnecting the flow of current in the positive or impregnated battery cable of a motor vehicle has an electrically conductive plug-in connection that can be placed in the positive or impregnated battery cable in the form of a housing and a plug connector. The housing contains a gas generator of the kind used, for example, for belt tighteners. The gas generator is arranged in the housing in such a way that the propellant gas produced when the gas generator is ignited electrically separates the connector from the housing and this in turn interrupts the flow of current in the positive or impregnated battery cable. Consequently, a short circuit that might occur in the event of an accident and which could otherwise lead to damage of the cable tree and then set the vehicle on fire, is avoided in good time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 15, 1997
    Assignees: TEMIC Bayern-Chemie Airbag GmbH, Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Richard Bender, Christian Herget, Lothar Maier, Alfred Krappel, Robert Albiez, Maximilian Grobmair
  • Patent number: 5601309
    Abstract: A hybrid gas generator for vehicle safety, systems, in particular airbag inflating and seat belt tensioning systems or pyrotechnical isolating switches for disconnecting the vehicle electrical system from the vehicle battery in the event of an impact accident, is described, whereby a moving piston is provided to destroy the bursting diaphragm which closes off the compressed gas container. This piston is moved towards the bursting diaphragm by igniting an ignition system whereby according to this invention the piston has a flange-shaped projection which is located against a shoulder on the internal surface of a sleeve facing the piston and is designed such that when the ignition system is ignited the flange-shaped projection shears off. Advantageously, the operating pressure in the combustion chamber of the hybrid gas generator according to this invention can thus be determined by the area of the shearing surface on the flange-shaped projection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 11, 1997
    Assignee: TEMIC Bayern-Chemie Airbag GmbH
    Inventors: Richard Bender, Uwe Dolling, Christian Herget, Harald Seidel, Bernhard Vetter
  • Patent number: 5556131
    Abstract: Gas generator for an airbag that provides protection against side impact in a vehicle. The gas generator has a housing with a flange for attaching the gas generator to a part of the vehicle, in particular to the backrest of a vehicle seat, and for fixing the airbag. The gas generator also has a sealed fluid-tight propellant tank that acts as combustion chamber. The propellant tank is arranged concentrically in the housing such that an annular chamber is formed between the housing and the propellant tank to allow afterburning. The annular chamber can be connected on the one hand to the inside of the propellant tank through the passage that opens as a result of the burning process and on the other hand to the inside of the airbag through the outlet apertures provided in the housing wall, but otherwise it is sealed fluid-tight. The construction of the generator is therefore very simple and it is of very small size.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 17, 1996
    Assignee: Temic Bayern-Chemie Airbag GmbH
    Inventors: Richard Bender, Lothar Maier
  • Patent number: 5447105
    Abstract: An essentially cylindrical gas generator for generating combustion gases. The gas generator includes a housing having gas outlet openings; a combustion chamber surrounded by the housing; gas-generating fuel disposed in the combustion chamber; an igniting device disposed in the combustion chamber for igniting the fuel; a first filter disposed between the fuel and the gas outlet openings for prefiltering generated gases upon passage thereof from the combustion chamber through the first filter toward the outlet openings; a second filter disposed between the first filter and the outlet openings for filtering the gases upon passage thereof from the first filter through the second filter; and a generally tubular body surrounding the second filter. The tubular body is surrounded by the housing, and is composed of a plurality of third filters and a plurality of guide plates circumferentially alternating with the third filters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 4, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 5, 1995
    Assignee: TEMIC Bayern-Chemie Airbag GmbH
    Inventors: Hermann Bauer, Richard Bender, Rudolf Hawly
  • Patent number: 5419536
    Abstract: A fence post cap is provided which is formed from plastic materials and having a fastener support member, which resists cap deformation during application of the fastener and includes fluid sealing portions about the fastener, and locating studs adjacent the perimeter sides of the cap to facilitate positive seating of the cap on the fence post. The plastic material can be molded in any desired color to match or contrast the fence color. The fastener is received within a counter bore such that the fastener head is more isolated from inadvertent contact after installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 1993
    Date of Patent: May 30, 1995
    Inventor: Richard Bender