Patents by Inventor Roland Schmid

Roland Schmid 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: 7016200
    Abstract: In a module frame for electronic components, having a conductor structure having a metallic conductor, at least one contact segment of a metallic conductor, the at least one contact segment of the metallic conductor uncovered by the insulation sheathing and conductively connected to a segment of the metallic conductor, the thermal conduction cross section of the at least one connecting web being designed to be so small that when the contact segment is intensely heated, the connecting web has a throttling effect on the heat flow to the segment of the conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2001
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2006
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Roland Schmid, Thomas Uhland, Kai Beckbissinger, Ralf Schinzel, Udo Hennel
  • Publication number: 20050239385
    Abstract: In a process for the profiling of a grinding worm (1) with at least two grinding width zones (4, 6) with differently modified thread profile for the grinding of spur and helical gears with three-dimensionally modified flank profile, the grinding width zones (4, 6) are arranged overlapping in order to gain optimum exploitation of the grinding worm width (3). In one variant, profiling of the grinding worm (1) is performed with an abrasive coated profiling gear (25) with a tooth flank geometry and facewidth differing from that of the workpiece to be ground. By suitable selection of the diagonal ratio and the allocation of the width zones (28, 29) of the profiling gear (25) to the grinding width zones (4, 6) of the grinding worm (1), it is possible to adapt the modifications of the grinding worm flanks to the requirements of the workpiece without having to alter the flank geometry of the profiling gear (25).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2005
    Publication date: October 27, 2005
    Applicant: Reishauer AG
    Inventors: Ralf Jankowski, Roland Schmid, Dieter Nobs, Michael Siebert, Wolfgang Thyssen
  • Patent number: 6752695
    Abstract: In the continuous generation grinding of a gear the modifications of tooth trace contours and/or corrections of tooth trace deviations determined by flank measurement are specified separately for the left and right flanks (3, 4) of the gear (1). By means of these data, supplementary motions of the NC machine axes across the face width of the left flank (3) and the right flank (4) of the gear (1) are calculated in a control system of a gear flank grinding machine, by means of which a grinding worm produces the specified modified or deviation corrected tooth traces on the left flanks (3) and the right flanks (4) of the gear (1) in one and the same grinding stroke.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2004
    Assignee: Reishauer AG
    Inventor: Roland Schmid
  • Publication number: 20040047125
    Abstract: In a module frame for electronic components, having a conductor structure having a metallic conductor, at least one contact segment of a metallic conductor, the at least one contact segment of the metallic conductor uncovered by the insulation sheathing and conductively connected to a segment of the metallic conductor, the thermal conduction cross section of the at least one connecting web being designed to be so small that when the contact segment is intensely heated, the connecting web has a throttling effect on the heat flow to the segment of the conductor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2003
    Publication date: March 11, 2004
    Inventors: Roland Schmid, Thomas Uhland, Kai Beckbissinger, Ralf Schinzel, Udo Hennel
  • Publication number: 20030166377
    Abstract: In the continuous generation grinding of a gear the modifications of tooth trace contours and/or corrections of tooth trace deviations determined by flank measurement are specified separately for the left and right flanks (3, 4) of the gear (1). By means of these data, supplementary motions of the NC machine axes across the face width of the left flank (3) and the right flank (4) of the gear (1) are calculated in a control system of a gear flank grinding machine, by means of which a grinding worm produces the specified modified or deviation corrected tooth traces on the left flanks (3) and the right flanks (4) of the gear (1) in one and the same grinding stroke.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2003
    Publication date: September 4, 2003
    Applicant: Reishauer AG
    Inventor: Roland Schmid
  • Patent number: 6577029
    Abstract: An electric-motor drive mechanism is proposed, with an electric motor (12) that has a brush holder (16, 116, 216) for containing brushes (15a, 15b) and at least one magnetic field sensor (18a, 18b, 118a, 218a) for detecting the magnetic field of a magnetic wheel (19) non-rotatably connected to the motor armature shaft (32) and an electronics housing (20) for containing an electronics mounting plate (24) for a set of motor output and/or control electronics. The electronics mounting plate (24, 124, 224) is disposed outside an electric motor pole pot housing (26) on a support (28, 128, 228) formed onto the brush holder (16, 116, 216) and that the at least one magnetic field sensor (18a, 18b, 118, 218) directly contacts the control electronics on the electronics mounting plate (24, 124, 224) by means of first inserted strip conductors (30a-1 . . . 30a-3, 30b-1 . . . 30b-3, 130, 230) that are guided in bundles and are at least partially integrated into the brush holder (16, 116, 216).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2003
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Weber, Norbert Knab, Roland Schmid, Piotr Deptula
  • Patent number: 6386911
    Abstract: A connector is mounted on a circuit board by a pair of elongated fasteners (23) that each have a connector end (29) that is fixed to the connector housing and a board mount end (28) that is fixed in mount holes (80) in the circuit board. The board mount ends of the fasteners are press fit into circuit board holes as the termination ends (42) of the connector contacts are inserted into plated holes in the board. Each fastener is attached to the connector by passing the connector end of the fastener through a hole (24) in a plate-like metal wing (74) of the connector and then press fitting the connector end of the fastener to the wing. The fastener has an elongated pin-like middle portion (26) that can be bent 90° so most of the connector can lie beyond an edge (70, 72) of the circuit board and partly in the plane of the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2000
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2002
    Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Werner Biermann, Hans Kieninger, Roland Schmid, Wolfgang Drichelt
  • Patent number: 6142793
    Abstract: A molded plastic saddle (19) lies at the front of a PC card (10), the saddle connecting to the front connector (18), the front of the circuit board (16), and the front of the lower cover part (12) in connections that are easily performed by the PC card maker who assembles the components. The saddle has laterally spaced opposite saddle side portions (120, 122) connected by a laterally-extending crossbar (28). Each saddle side portion has a cutout (38) in its side, and the sheet metal lower cover part has upstanding side rails (51, 52) with front portions forming holdown tabs (53) that are bent to extend into the cutouts to lock the front of the lower housing part to the saddle and thereby to the front connector and the front end of the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 1999
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2000
    Assignee: ITT Manufacturing Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Andreas Schremmer, Werner Biermann, Roland Schmid
  • Patent number: 6068491
    Abstract: A connector arrangement of a control system with a controller in a motor vehicle is designed so that it can be manufactured advantageously and is reliable in operation.To do so, the connector arrangement and the respective controller are designed so that several separate connector sockets with externally accessible contact elements are arranged on the controller, which is mounted on the vehicle's internal combustion engine as a surface-mounted controller, some of the contact elements being designed as high-current contact elements which are connected directly to one another through busbars running inside the controller.The respective mating connectors can be connected to the connector sockets, the mating connectors being electrically connected to components of the vehicle over cable harnesses or cable segments, where a first mating connector connected to cable segments is composed of partial mating connectors which can be handled independently of one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Hofmeister, Achim Herzog, Peter Schiefer, Thomas Raica, Michael Schoenfeld, Roland Schmid, Willy Betz, Ralf Schinzel, Albert Staake, Rolf Litzinger, Hans Seitel, Edwin Eberlein, Eberhard Spengler
  • Patent number: 6025710
    Abstract: In a connection arrangement between a sensor and connection leads, only a small installation space is required. To this end, the connection arrangement has a signal amplifier, which is electrically contacted by means of bond connections with the sensor and the connection leads. This is achieved by means of connecting elements, which are designed as thin sheet-metal shaped parts and are fixed with tab-shaped end sections in a housing of plastic, in which the signal amplifier is also inserted. The end sections, the signal amplifier, and the bond connections are arranged in a space-saving manner in roughly one plane. The connection arrangement is especially suited for sensors used to measure the speed of motor vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 1995
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2000
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Schneider, Roland Schmid, Reinhold Jocham, Thomas Ullmann, Hans-Juergen Herderich
  • Patent number: 5908336
    Abstract: A multipole electrical plug connector having contact elements narrowly spaced from one another, and the plug connector having small dimensions in a manner favorable in terms of production engineering. To this end, the plug connector has contact elements, each having an attachment section and a contact section, whose attachment sections are manufactured from a one-piece self-supporting punched grid. The thickness d of the punched grid is independent of the thickness a of the contact sections, which are produced separately from the attachment sections and are assembled with them to form the contact elements, which upon integration into a housing of an electrical device are partially equipped with a sheathing made of plastic. The plug connector is preferably used in automotive engineering, for example, in electrical control units with highly integrated circuits.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1997
    Date of Patent: June 1, 1999
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Roland Schmid, Reinhold Jocham
  • Patent number: 5885119
    Abstract: A multipole electrical plug connector for a releasable coupling with a counter-connector has a contact set including a plurality of contact elements each having a contact portion and a connecting portions, the connecting portions of the contact elements being formed as part of a one-piece punched grate with a thickness which is independent from a thickness of the contact portions which is joined with the connecting portions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1999
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Roland Schmid, Reinhold Jocham
  • Patent number: 5801330
    Abstract: An electrical device has at least one electrical power component, a housing including a plurality of housing parts, and a spring element arranged to provide a mechanical and thermal contact of the at least one electrical power component with the housing. The housing parts including a lower housing part which is formed as a metal cover moveable within a predetermined range and the spring element presses the at least one power component in an interior of the housing against the metal cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 1995
    Date of Patent: September 1, 1998
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Lothar Gademann, Roland Schmid, Friedrich-Reinhold Hamann
  • Patent number: 5771474
    Abstract: The method for testing an electronic control device containing a microcomputer and a volatile memory for programs processed in the microcomputer includes transferring a program module for testing to the microcomputer (14) via a serial interface (SSO) prior to the testing, the program module including commands for executing individual data reading and writing operations in the control device (12) in response to respective test commands; writing the program module into the volatile memory (Code RAM) in the control device (12) prior to the testing; receiving test instructions including several test commands in the microcomputer (14) from an external test device (10) via the serial interface (SSO); processing the program module by the microcomputer (14) to test the control device (12); triggering a number of the individual data reading and writing operations in the control device (12) via the several test commands received in the control device (12); transferring data generated in the control device (12) during t
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 3, 1995
    Date of Patent: June 23, 1998
    Assignee: RobertBosch GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Matt, Roland Schmid, Gerold Walter, Mark-John Jordan
  • Patent number: 5424892
    Abstract: A circuit for protecting a MOSFET power transistor, the circuit having a variable input impedance in which the rate of rise of voltage is to be increased and thus the switching time reduced. For this purpose, a second MOSFET auxiliary transistor is connected by its bulk electrode to the source of the MOSFET power transistor. The source of the second MOSFET auxiliary transistor is connected to the gate of a third MOSFET auxiliary transistor and to the gate of the MOSFET power transistor. The drain of the second MOSFET auxiliary transistor is connected to a circuit input terminal which is coupled by a resistor to the gate of the MOSFET power transistor. The gate of the second MOSFET auxiliary transistor is connected to the drain of the second MOSFET auxiliary transistor as well as to the source of the third MOSFET auxiliary transistor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 1994
    Date of Patent: June 13, 1995
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Topp, Roland Schmid, Dagmar Oertel
  • Patent number: 5250779
    Abstract: In order to heat-up a commodity to be heated or a substrate to be coated, uniformly in a vacuum chamber or in a recipient, by means of a gas discharge or low voltage arc discharge, at least one locally variable and/or displaceable magnetic field is maintained in the vacuum chamber or in the recipient at least during the heating up step. Preferably, at least two magnet fields are maintained which partially overlap and which alternatingly are operated stronger or weaker, to therewith locally influence the current density in the vacuum chamber or recipient, in order to produce along the substrate or the commodity to be heated, alternatingly a stronger or less strong heating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 1992
    Date of Patent: October 5, 1993
    Assignee: Balzers Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Helmut Kaufmann, Roland Schmid
  • Patent number: 5229570
    Abstract: During the guiding and centering of an electron beam by means of a magnet field arranged orthogonally to the axis of the electron beam in a vacuum coating plant the signals which are decisive regarding the configuration and control of the magnet field or its axis of rotation, resp., are supplied by a detecting of the burning spot of the electron beam on the surface of the evaporation source by means of a video system, i.e. by means of a video camera resp. and a corresponding picture evaluated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1991
    Date of Patent: July 20, 1993
    Assignee: Balzers Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Helmut Kaufmann, Roland Schmid
  • Patent number: 5001403
    Abstract: A method and apparatus centers of an electron beam (3) in a surface coating installation with movable substrates. A rotating magnetic field is superimposed on a main magnetic field which serves to guide and focus the electron beam. A focal spot of the electron beam is thus caused to rotate about a theoretical axis (17) of the electron beam (3) and the beam sweeps the entire surface (32) of a raw material source (4). Changes in the consumption of reactive gas supplied to the installation are measured by a flowmeter (21). Through a control unit (20) connected to the flowmeter, stationary magnetic fields are superimposed on the rotating magnetic field and the electron beam (3) is aimed at the center of the surface (32) of the raw material source (4) as a function of variations in the reactive gas flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 1990
    Date of Patent: March 19, 1991
    Assignee: Balzers Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Wolfgang Friedel, Helmut Kaufmann, Roland Schmid
  • Patent number: 4951176
    Abstract: The holder (1) for an electronic component (20), especially a hybrid module, is preferably a unitary plastic element having an elongated base plate (2) formed with openings (14) therein to permit insertion of terminal pins or lugs (21) projecting from the component therethrough. Two holder arms (30) project from the base plate, the holder arms having module support portions (3) and oppositely projecting posts (4). The posts fit into receiving openings (26, 27) of a printed circuit board, which receiving openings having a spacing (S) which is greater than the distance (D) between the posts so that, upon insertion of the posts in the openings the arms (30) will tilt towards each other, thus clamping a module, typically in card or board form, between the module support (3) of the arms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 1989
    Date of Patent: August 21, 1990
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Dietrich Bergfried, Gert Jakob, Hans-Heinrich Maue, Uwe Schaub, Walter Roethlingshoefer, Ulrich Goebel, Elmar Huber, Roland Schmid, Gerhard Zucker