Patents by Inventor Rolf Schumacher

Rolf Schumacher 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: 20210184338
    Abstract: A method for producing at least one transmitting and/or receiving antenna (2) for transmitting and/or receiving electromagnetic waves. Electrically conductive threads are worked into a textile substrate material (1) as transmitting and/or receiving antennas (2) by means of a tricot machine or Raschel machine. The invention further relates to a corresponding transmitting and/or receiving antenna (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Inventors: Rolf Schumacher, Harald Katschke, Robert Katschke
  • Publication number: 20200117973
    Abstract: An RFID system with an RFID chip and a transmitting and/or receiving antenna that are applied onto a substrate material for sending and/or receiving electromagnetic waves. The transmitting and/or receiving antenna is formed by only a single electrically conductive thread that forms a linear, non-intersecting structure. A segment of the electrically conductive thread loops around the RFID chip without touching it across an angle of at least 180°, by which a capacitive coupling is effected between the RFID chip and the transmitting and/or receiving antenna. The invention further relates to a method for producing an RFID system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Rolf Schumacher, Harald Katschke
  • Patent number: 10349468
    Abstract: A method for producing a textile sheet heating element includes forming a knitted material and, in one and the same work step, inserting heat conductors as warp threads. Contact conductors that touch the heat conductors are inserted spaced from one another as weft threads or weft thread groups. A warp knitting machine or Raschel machine is used to produce the sheet heating element. The production speed of the knitting or Raschel machine is varied as a function of stitch formation. The warp knitting machine or Raschel machine has a magazine weft insertion system with feeding chains to feed in weft threads and a weft carriage to insert weft threads. Both the feeding chain and the weft carriage are paused for preset periods as a function of stitch formation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: KUFNER HOLDING GMBH
    Inventor: Rolf Schumacher
  • Publication number: 20160262209
    Abstract: A method for producing a textile sheet heating element includes forming a knitted material and, in one and the same work step, inserting heat conductors as warp threads. Contact conductors that touch the heat conductors are inserted spaced from one another as weft threads or weft thread groups. A warp knitting machine or Raschel machine is used to produce the sheet heating element. The production speed of the knitting or Raschel machine is varied as a function of stitch formation. The warp knitting machine or Raschel machine has a magazine weft insertion system with feeding chains to feed in weft threads and a weft carriage to insert weft threads. Both the feeding chain and the weft carriage are paused for preset periods as a function of stitch formation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2014
    Publication date: September 8, 2016
    Applicant: KUFNER HOLDING GMBH
    Inventor: Rolf Schumacher
  • Publication number: 20160134235
    Abstract: Photovoltaic (PV) power generation systems and methods are disclosed, wherein the system includes a PV module having an integrated frame structure, PV cell rows, solar tracking system, and cooling system. A protective cover may be included with the frame structure to form an enclosed area in which the PC cell rows, cooling system, and tracking system are placed, thereby protecting them from the elements. The cooling system may be a water circulation based cooling system, and the integrated frame of the PV module may be directly mounted on a foundation consisting of a water tank. The water tank may serve as the storage unit for the water cooling system, with the water from the tank being pumped through the cooling profiles at each cell row in the frame and then returned to the tank. Other mounting structures may also form the foundation for the integrated frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: ANDES MINING & ENERGY CORPORATION S.A.
    Inventor: Rolf SCHUMACHER
  • Publication number: 20100040405
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a bellows for a joint arrangement. The bellows comprises pleats, an axis and a joint end, a zone of the joint end being produced by blow molding and forming a receiver for a retaining ring. The receiver, in the proximity of the pleats, has a plurality of outward-pointing bulged portions that form a recess and at least one inclined receiving edge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2006
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Inventors: Thorsten Scholtz, Markus Deisinger, Rolf Schumacher
  • Patent number: 6887413
    Abstract: A covering or trim part includes an injection molding compound and a decor part durably connected with the molding compound. The decor part may contain a real-wood veneer as well as a metal part. The covering a trim part is made by combining an injection molding operation with a cutting operation of the decor part in the injection. A multi-part injection mold permits more complicated molding and undercutting and/or the forming of variable wall thicknesses.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventor: Rolf Schumacher
  • Publication number: 20020151444
    Abstract: There are disclosed compounds of formula I 1
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2002
    Publication date: October 17, 2002
    Inventors: Horst Zinke, Rolf Schumacher
  • Patent number: 6463787
    Abstract: In order to achieve reproducible vibration excitation of a quartz crystal even under the technical conditions which prevail when it is used for monitoring electroplating baths, a mounting for the quartz crystal 7 is proposed. The mounting for the quartz crystal 7 has two holding elements 3, 6, 14 detachably connected to one another as a form-fit, and at least two contact elements 5, 9 on the holding elements 3, 6, 14 brought into electrical contact with the contacting surfaces 32 of the quartz crystal 7. The quartz crystal 7 is fitted with the holding elements 3, 6, 14 and/or the contact elements 5, 9 at least one of the contact elements 9 being configured as a resilient body. The at least one resilient contact element 9 has an end face 34, 134 for electrically contacting the quartz crystal 7, the size of which face corresponds roughly to the size of the quartz crystal 7.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2002
    Assignee: Atotech Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Rolf Schumacher, Mathias Wünsche
  • Patent number: 6380139
    Abstract: There are disclosed compounds of formula I wherein R1 and R2 are each independently of the other C3-C18alkyl, C5-C12cycloalkyl, C5-C6cycloalkylmethyl, C9-C10bicycloalkylmethyl, C9-C10tricycloalkylmethyl, phenyl, C7-C24alkylphenyl or, taken together, are R3 is C2-C18alkylene which is interrupted by —O—, —S—, or —NR4—, or is a group of formula R4 is hydrogen, C1-C18alkyl, phenyl-C1-C4alkyl, phenyl or C1-C6alkyl-substituted phenyl, R5 is hydrogen or methyl. These compounds are particularly suitable for use as additives for lubricant compositions, hydraulic fluids and machining fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 26, 1995
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2002
    Assignee: Ciba Specialty Chemicals Corporation
    Inventors: Horst Zinke, Rolf Schumacher
  • Patent number: 6361732
    Abstract: A process for the face-side, in particular thick, coating of a motor vehicle interior trim part or the like inserts the interior trim part, in uncoated form, in a defined position in a diecasting or injection molding tool. A mold tool with polished surface is laid under pressure and under heat against the face-side surface of the coating. In the mold tool, the resin or the lacquer is applied under pressure and under heat in a single operation onto the interior trim part surface to be coated in the manner of an injection molding or diecasting process despite a shrinkage due to curing. The resin or the lacquer is acted on with a uniform pressure during the entire curing time. The pressure is chosen such that any air present in the liquid resin or lacquer is dissolved.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 1996
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventor: Rolf Schumacher
  • Patent number: 5976341
    Abstract: A process and apparatus for electrolytically depositing a uniform metal layer onto a workpiece is provided. The workpiece, for example a circuit board, serves as a cathode. The anode is insoluble and dimensionally stable. Both anode and cathode are immersed in a plating solution contained in an electrolytic container. The solution includes (a) ions of the metal to be deposited on the workpiece, (b) an additive substance for controlling physical-mechanical properties of the metal to be deposited, such as brightness, and (c) an electro-chemically reversible redox couple forming oxidizing compounds when contacting the anode. A metal-ion generator is provided, supplying metal parts of the metal to be deposited onto the workpiece; The plating solution is circulated between the container and the ion generator for maintaining a reaction between the oxidizing compounds and the metal parts for forming metal ions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 2, 1999
    Inventors: Rolf Schumacher, Wolfgang Dahms, Reinhard Schneider, Walter Meyer, deceased, Helga Meyer, Silke Kaftanski, Petra Fromme
  • Patent number: 5840144
    Abstract: A process for covering an object such as a steering wheel with a natural covering, preferably fine wood veneer, wherein the veneer is cut into strips, softened and molded. The thus molded veneer strip is first glued to one side of the object and then the ends are trimmed. Thereafter, a molded veneer strip is glued to the opposite side of the object, and the ends are trimmed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 1996
    Date of Patent: November 24, 1998
    Assignee: Mercedes-Benz AG
    Inventors: Rolf Schumacher, Andreas Kellermann
  • Patent number: 5633059
    Abstract: A veneer for the veneering of especially curved surfaces has a face veneer formed from thin veneer sheets. The veneer sheets are adhesively bonded along their edges so as to be butted flush and on the side opposite the visible side to a mock veneer which is arranged underneath and which extends over the entire region of the face veneer. To maintain the relative movability between the veneer sheets and the mock veneer, an adhesive is coated on underneath the veneer sheets and is influenced in its setting reaction. In terms of the setting reaction, the adhesive is still reactive over a particular timespan. Thus, when the veneer is finally applied, the adhesive does not tear apart at the joints during a shaping curvature of the veneer because the adhesive in the joint region of adjacent edges of the veneer sheets is set completely.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1995
    Date of Patent: May 27, 1997
    Assignee: Mercedes-Benz AG
    Inventors: Rolf Schumacher, Klemens Barth, Kaspar Worms
  • Patent number: 5362419
    Abstract: There are disclosed compounds of formula I ##STR1## R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are each independently of the other C.sub.3 -C.sub.18 alkyl, C.sub.5 -C.sub.12 cycloalkyl, C.sub.5 -C.sub.6 cycloalkylmethyl, C.sub.9 -C.sub.10 bicycloalkylmethyl, C.sub.9 -C.sub.10 tricycloalkylmethyl, phenyl, C.sub.7 -C.sub.6 alkylphenyl or, taken together, are ##STR2## R.sub.3 is hydrogen or methyl, A is ##STR3## R.sub.4 is hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 alkyl, and R.sub.5 is a 5- or 6-membered saturated heterocyclic ring,R.sub.6 is hydrogen or methyl,n is an integer from 1 to 11 and m is an integer from 0 to 4.These compounds are particularly suitable for use as additives for lubricant compositions, hydraulic fluids and machining fluids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 8, 1994
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Horst Zinke, Rolf Schumacher
  • Patent number: 5360563
    Abstract: There are disclosed compounds of formulae I and Ia ##STR1## wherein R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 are each independently of the other C.sub.1 -C.sub.13 alkyl which may be interrupted by oxygen, C.sub.5 -C.sub.6 cycloalkyl or, together with the linking N-atom, are a group of formula ##STR2## R is hydrogen or methyl, R.sub.3 is hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.13 alkyl, andR.sub.4 and R.sub.5 are each independently of the other hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.18 alkyl which may be interrupted by oxygen, C.sub.5 -C.sub.6 cycloalkyl or, together with the linking N-atom, are a group of formula ##STR3## withe proviso that R.sub.3, R.sub.4 and R.sub.5 are not simultaneously hydrogen and HNR.sub.1 R.sub.2 are not identical with NR.sub.3 R.sub.4 R.sub.5.The compounds are suitable for use as lubricant additives.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 1993
    Date of Patent: November 1, 1994
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Horst Zinke, Rolf Schumacher
  • Patent number: 5335937
    Abstract: Impact protection devices, arranged in steering wheels or dashboards of motor vehicles, for vehicle occupants are provided with covers which open in the event of an accident in order to release an inflating air bag of the protection device. The cover, which consists of at least one cover flap, is injection molded onto a carrier part by a tough elastic plastic. The plastic surround has along an edge, intended as pivot axis, of the cover flap a cross-sectional tapering which serves as a hinge. At the other edges, the plastic surround is constructed towards the corresponding edges of the carrier part as a groove which, in the event of pressure on the cover flap in the opening direction, easily releases the carrier part edge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 1993
    Date of Patent: August 9, 1994
    Assignee: Mercedes-Benz AG
    Inventors: Hans-Wilhelm Uphues, Zivojin Petkovic, Wolfgang Henseler, Manfred Muller, Stephan Schreiner, Thomas Witkovsky, Thomas Fischer, Rolf Schumacher, Bruno Moltgen
  • Patent number: 5311645
    Abstract: A can distribution apparatus includes an assembly forming an endless path interconnecting a plurality of distribution locations for support movement of cans to and between distribution locations and an assembly for simultaneously advancing cans of varying degrees of fullness and readiness to a textile machine. The can distribution locations include a textile machine delivery location, a can return location, a full can supply location, and a can receipt location. The advancement of each can is effected simultaneous with the advancement of the other cans in the endless path independent of whether the can is empty, partially loaded or contains a full load and whether the full load is prepared for delivery or not. A detector detects the sliver fullness of each can on the endless path and signals this information to a control device which controls the distribution of cans to the various can distribution locations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 1992
    Date of Patent: May 17, 1994
    Assignee: W. Schlafhorst AG & Co.
    Inventors: Hans-Werner Schwalm, Rolf Schumacher, Reiner Reising
  • Patent number: 5291995
    Abstract: A pack for notions and/or other relatively small commodities has a converted blank of cardboard or other degradable material and a light-transmitting plastic cover which is separably connected to a container of the converted blank. The converted blank further comprises a plate-like carrier having an opening so that it can be slipped onto a rail or an analogous support in a self-service store, in a workshop or at home. The plane of the carrier is located between the plane of a bottom wall of the container and the plane of a top wall of the cover. The sidewalls of the container forming part of the converted blank are removably confined between the lateral walls of the cover, and the top wall of the cover then overlies the open top of the container. The carrier can be separated from the container to reduce the space requirements of the remaining parts (container and cover) of the pack in a small area. The container can be withdrawn from and reinserted into the cover.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 1992
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1994
    Assignee: William Prym-Werke GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Rudolf von Agris, Helmut Schiffer, Lutz Mantsch, Rolf Schumacher
  • Patent number: 5273669
    Abstract: A lubricant based on a mineral or synthetic oil is stabilized against oxidative degradation by the addition of a mixture comprising at least one specified aromatic amine of the formula I or II ##STR1## and at least one sterically hindered amine. The lubricant may contain other antioxidants or other additives. It is preferably used as motor oil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 28, 1993
    Assignee: Ciba-Geigy Corporation
    Inventors: Rolf Schumacher, Samuel Evans, Paul Dubs