Patents by Inventor Roland Fischer

Roland Fischer 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).

  • Publication number: 20220195752
    Abstract: A door for a laboratory workstation is disclosed. The laboratory workstation has a horizontally extending work surface for providing a working area. The door is movable in relation to the work surface in a vertical direction perpendicular to the work surface between a safety position, in which the door closes the working area for manual access of a user, an access position in which the working area is open for manual access of a user, and a loading position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: TECAN TRADING AG
    Inventors: Roland FISCHER, Andre HAEFELFINGER, Antono DJOJOATMODJO
  • Publication number: 20190360460
    Abstract: A method for rotating the rotor of a wind turbine, in particular in still air conditions. The rotor rotates about a rotor axis and comprises at least three rotor blades, each having a center of gravity located outside of the respective axes of rotation. To create an imbalance in the rotor, the blade pitch angle of a first rotor blade is systematically set to be different from the blade pitch angle of a second rotor blade in such a way that a gravitational torque about the rotor axis is generated as a result of the change in the position of the center of gravity of the first rotor blade. The invention also relates to a computer program product and a wind turbine, which are designed to carry out this method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2018
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventor: Roland Fischer
  • Patent number: 10012750
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a device for monitoring access to a storage area of a plurality of storage areas for goods, including a measurement signal generation, detection, and evaluator. The measurement signal generator includes a signal source and a conductor loop arrangement, the detector for detecting the generated magnetic field is configured to provide a measurement signal on the basis of the detected magnetic field, and the evaluator for evaluating the measurement signal is configured to determine an instance of access to one of the storage areas on the basis of the measurement signal, to compare a determined instance of access with a target access instance, and to output a display signal on the basis of the comparison.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Tobias Draeger, Roland Fischer, Iker Mayordomo, Christine Gundelfinger, Markus Hartmann
  • Patent number: 9757767
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device, the use thereof and a method for producing highly porous, crystalline surface coatings comprising at least two spraying devices operating in sequential sequence for applying coating agents from the storage vessels (3, 4) to a material arranged on a sample holder (1) and at least one rinsing device (5, 13, 16) for removing unbound molecules from the coated surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUER TECHNOLOGIE
    Inventors: Christof Woell, Osama Shekhah, Matthias Franzreb, Hasan Arslan, Jonas Wohlgemuth, Roland Fischer
  • Patent number: 9484663
    Abstract: A device for dividing at least one bundle of insulated electrical conductors is provided, where in the housing, is arranged a contact part, consisting of metal, which protrudes outwardly beyond the profile of the housing and has at its end projecting out of the housing at least one throughhole and at its end located in the housing a connecting element for electrically conductively connecting a conductor. In the assembly position at least one electrical individual line extends through one of the openings into the housing. The line has at least two conductors, wherein one of the conductors is electrically conductively connected to the contact part, while the other conductor of the individual line projects through one of the openings out of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: NEXANS
    Inventors: Thomas Kreuzer, Andreas Linner, Roland Fischer, Jurgen Dittrich
  • Publication number: 20160139288
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a device for monitoring access to a storage area of a plurality of storage areas for goods, including a measurement signal generation, detection, and evaluator. The measurement signal generator includes a signal source and a conductor loop arrangement, the detector for detecting the generated magnetic field is configured to provide a measurement signal on the basis of the detected magnetic field, and the evaluator for evaluating the measurement signal is configured to determine an instance of access to one of the storage areas on the basis of the measurement signal, to compare a determined instance of access with a target access instance, and to output a display signal on the basis of the comparison.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2016
    Publication date: May 19, 2016
    Inventors: Tobias DRAEGER, Roland FISCHER, Iker MAYORDOMO, Christine GUNDELFINGER, Markus HARTMANN
  • Patent number: 9309080
    Abstract: This invention relates to a technology for bonding pieces of nonwoven material to each other by fluid entanglement or needling technology.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: Norafin Industries GmbH
    Inventors: Marc Jolly, Michael Groschopp, André Lang, Roland Fischer
  • Publication number: 20150349453
    Abstract: A device for dividing at least one bundle of insulated electrical conductors is provided, where in the housing, is arranged a contact part, consisting of metal, which protrudes outwardly beyond the profile of the housing and has at its end projecting out of the housing at least one throughhole and at its end located in the housing a connecting element for electrically conductively connecting a conductor. In the assembly position at least one electrical individual line extends through one of the openings into the housing. The line has at least two conductors, wherein one of the conductors is electrically conductively connected to the contact part, while the other conductor of the individual line projects through one of the openings out of the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 2, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Thomas Kreuzer, Andreas Linner, Roland Fischer, Jurgen Dittrich
  • Publication number: 20140302304
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device, the use thereof and a method for producing highly porous, crystalline surface coatings comprising at least two spraying devices operating in sequential sequence for applying coating agents from the storage vessels (3, 4) to a material arranged on a sample holder (1) and at least one rinsing device (5, 13, 16) for removing unbound molecules from the coated surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2012
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Applicant: KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUER TECHNOLOGIE
    Inventors: Christof Woell, Osama Shekhah, Matthias Franzreb, Hasan Arslan, Jonas Wohlgemuth, Roland Fischer
  • Patent number: 8750984
    Abstract: A device for stimulation via electric and magnetic fields is provided. The autonomic/vegetative nervous system can be controlled by signals in the frequency ranges of 0.05 to 0.15 Hz and 0.15 to 0.30 Hz, respectively. By addition of characteristic sinusoidal oscillations between the head and a peripheral area with the corresponding low-frequency sympathetic or parasympathetic control frequency as base oscillation and with application-typical EEG frequencies and higher-frequency sinusoidal oscillations in the range of ca. 250 to 1500 Hz, characteristic stimulation programs are established. These are applied by field applicators in the upper body area and in the lower body. The associated mat applicators distribute field energy. The field applicator is equipped with a combination of a magnetic-field-generating coil arrangement and an electrode arrangement generating the electric field. The electrode generating the electric field can at the same time be designed as a magnetic-field-generating coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2014
    Assignee: Actegy Ltd.
    Inventors: Stewart Penny, Manfred Krauss, Roland Fischer, Werner Schmidt, Mario Mobius
  • Patent number: 8608606
    Abstract: A transmission device having power splitting. In the first driving range, the mechanical power branch transmits torque from the ring gear to the additional fixed gear by the fixed gear. In this case, power branches from the ring gear. The hydrostatic power branch branches from the second sun gear. The hydrostatic branch transmits power from the first to the second hydraulic unit. The first and second hydraulic units act respectively as a pump and a motor. On one of the hydrostatic shafts, the mechanical and hydrostatic powers are added and transmitted to the output. In the second driving range, power from the planet carrier partially branches to the ring gear and passes to the hydrostatic shaft for the second hydraulic unit. An auxiliary shaft can be coupled by a gear to a fixed gear operatively connected to a shaft of the power splitting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Roland Fischer, Michael Siber, Robert Morrison
  • Patent number: 8535190
    Abstract: A transmission with power branching, and the transmission, in a first drive range, transmits torque from the ring gear to a fixed wheel. In one branch, power is transmitted from a first to a second hydraulic unit which respectively operate as a pump and a motor. At one of the hydrostatic shafts, the mechanical and hydrostatic power are summed and transmitted to the drive output. In a second drive range, power coming from the planetary carrier is partially branched off to the ring gear and transmitted, via the gear wheels of the hydrostatic shaft, to the second hydraulic unit. From the second hydraulic unit, hydraulic power passes to the first hydraulic unit. In the process, the first hydraulic unit operates as a motor and the second hydraulic unit as a pump. From the second sun gear, power is transmitted to the double planetary gear and summed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2013
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Roland Fischer, Michael Siber, Robert Morrison
  • Publication number: 20130025767
    Abstract: This invention relates to a technology for bonding pieces of nonwoven material to each other by fluid entanglement or needling technology.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2012
    Publication date: January 31, 2013
    Applicant: NORAFIN INDUSTRIES (GERMANY) GMBH
    Inventors: Marc Jolly, Michael Groschopp, André Lang, Roland Fischer
  • Publication number: 20120302389
    Abstract: A transmission device having power splitting. In the first driving range, the mechanical power branch transmits torque from the ring gear to the additional fixed gear by the fixed gear. In this case, power branches from the ring gear. The hydrostatic power branch branches from the second sun gear. The hydrostatic branch transmits power from the first to the second hydraulic unit. The first and second hydraulic units act respectively as a pump and a motor. On one of the hydrostatic shafts, the mechanical and hydrostatic powers are added and transmitted to the output. In the second driving range, power from the planet carrier partially branches to the ring gear and passes to the hydrostatic shaft for the second hydraulic unit. An auxiliary shaft can be coupled by a gear to a fixed gear operatively connected to a shaft of the power splitting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Applicant: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Roland Fischer, Michael Siber, Robert Morrison
  • Patent number: 8262525
    Abstract: A hydrostatic-mechanical power split transmission with at least two continuous operating ranges for use in agricultural and construction machines. The transmission has a summation planetary gear and a clutch for forward drive (7) and a clutch for reverse drive (6) that are arranged upstream of the summation gear. The transmission has a first sun gear (13) and a second sun gear (14) and a ring gear such that the ring gear (15) can be connected to an output drive shaft (22), via a clutch for the first driving range (23), and the second sun gear (14) can be connected to the output drive gear (22), via a clutch for the second operating range (27).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2012
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Jurgen Legner, Roland Fischer, Michael Siber
  • Publication number: 20120178565
    Abstract: A transmission with power branching, and the transmission, in a first drive range, transmits torque from the ring gear to a fixed wheel. In one branch, power is transmitted from a first to a second hydraulic unit which respectively operate as a pump and a motor. At one of the hydrostatic shafts, the mechanical and hydrostatic power are summed and transmitted to the drive output. In a second drive range, power coming from the planetary carrier is partially branched off to the ring gear and transmitted, via the gear wheels of the hydrostatic shaft, to the second hydraulic unit. From the second hydraulic unit, hydraulic power passes to the first hydraulic unit. In the process, the first hydraulic unit operates as a motor and the second hydraulic unit as a pump. From the second sun gear, power is transmitted to the double planetary gear and summed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Publication date: July 12, 2012
    Applicant: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Roland Fischer, Michael Siber, Robert Morrison
  • Patent number: 8100156
    Abstract: A cylindrical cutter for machining wood, wooden materials and plastics, has at least one helical cutting edge, wherein a helix angle ?s of the at least one cutting edge is in a range of 70° to close to 90°, a rake angle ?r of the at least one cutting edge between a tool orthogonal plane Po and a rake face A?—measured in a tool reference plane Pr—is at least 5°, and a wedge angle ?r between the rake face A? and a flank A?—measured in the tool reference plane Pr—is 45° to 65°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2012
    Assignee: Ledermann GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Roland Fischer, Christian Gottlöber, Klaus Rehm, Wolfgang Butter
  • Patent number: 8042759
    Abstract: A winding machine for electrical coils to be wound into layers has a device which supplies a material to the coil to be wound in order to separate adjacent layers of the coil from one another. The device has a device for producing a predetermined breaking point in the material, and a measuring unit. The measuring unit determines when the device for producing a predetermined breaking point is to be activated in order to produce a predetermined breaking point in the material. The device also has a guide device which fixes the material on the coil to be wound in the vicinity of the predetermined breaking point at a predetermined time, in order to sever the material at the predetermined breaking point. The winding machine therefore anticipates when a layer change is required, in order to then produce a predetermined breaking point in the material at a distance from the coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2005
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2011
    Assignee: Tuboly-Astronic AG
    Inventors: Reinhold Bauer, Roland Fischer, Daniel Künzli, Christoph Müller
  • Publication number: 20100210389
    Abstract: A hydrostatic-mechanical power split transmission with at least two continuous operating ranges for use in agricultural and construction machines. The transmission has a summation planetary gear and a clutch for forward drive (7) and a clutch for reverse drive (6) that are arranged upstream of the summation gear. The transmission has a first sun gear (13) and a second sun gear (14) and a ring gear such that the ring gear (15) can be connected to an output drive shaft (22), via a clutch for the first driving range (23), and the second sun gear (14) can be connected to the output drive gear (22), via a clutch for the second operating range (27).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2008
    Publication date: August 19, 2010
    Applicant: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Jurgen Legner, Roland Fischer, Michael Siber
  • Patent number: 7765828
    Abstract: A refrigerator includes a freezer compartment provided with an automatic icemaker incorporating a mold configured to produce truncated, crescent-shaped ice cubes. With this arrangement, the icemaker produces cubes that are shorter than full, standard crescent-shaped cubes. The reduced mold size advantageously enables the icemaker to take less space in a freezer compartment, without a significant reduction in ice cube volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: Whirlpool Corporation
    Inventors: Guolian Wu, Kevin Michael Chase, Marcus Roland Fischer