Patents by Inventor Rudolf Kohler

Rudolf Kohler 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).

  • Apparatus for optically determining the profile and/or upper surface properties of flat workpieces in a wide belt abrading machine
    Patent number: 7605927
    Abstract: An elongated bar shaped housing contains an optical sensing apparatus with at least one light source to create a sensing beam and a deflecting arrangement which moves the sensing beam back and forth between the longitudinal ends of the housing. One of the walls of the housing has an output window extending in the longitudinal direction of the housing for the sensing beam and an input window parallel to the output window for the sensing beam reflected from a workpiece or its support. In the housing behind the input window there is a strip shaped light receiving arrangement with a plurality of optical sensors, as well as an evaluation unit connected to the light receiving arrangement to which the output signals of the light receiving arrangement are sent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2009
    Assignee: Hans Weber Maschinenfabrik GmbH
    Inventors: Georg Weber, Rudolf Köhler, Gerhard Josef Abraham
  • Apparatus for optically determining the surface contour of flat workpieces in a wide belt abrading machine
    Publication number: 20080218763
    Abstract: An elongated bar shaped housing contains an optical sensing apparatus with at least one light source to create a sensing beam and a deflecting arrangement which moves the sensing beam back and forth between the longitudinal ends of the housing. One of the walls of the housing has an output window extending in the longitudinal direction of the housing for the sensing beam and an input window parallel to the output window for the sensing beam reflected from a workpiece or its support. In the housing behind the input window there is a strip shaped light receiving arrangement with a plurality of optical sensors, as well as an evaluation unit connected to the light receiving arrangement to which the output signals of the light receiving arrangement are sent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2006
    Publication date: September 11, 2008
    Applicant: Hans Weber Maschinenfabrik GmbH
    Inventors: Georg Weber, Gerhard Josef Abraham, Rudolf Kohler
  • Apparatus for optically determining the profile and/or upper surface properties of flat workpieces in a wide belt abrading machine
    Publication number: 20070223010
    Abstract: An elongated bar shaped housing contains an optical sensing apparatus with at least one light source to create a sensing beam and a deflecting arrangement which moves the sensing beam back and forth between the longitudinal ends of the housing. One of the walls of the housing has an output window extending in the longitudinal direction of the housing for the sensing beam and an input window parallel to the output window for the sensing beam reflected from a workpiece or its support. In the housing behind the input window there is a strip shaped light receiving arrangement with a plurality of optical sensors, as well as an evaluation unit connected to the light receiving arrangement to which the output signals of the light receiving arrangement are sent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2007
    Publication date: September 27, 2007
    Applicant: Hans Weber Maschinenfabrik GmbH
    Inventors: Georg Weber, Rudolf Kohler, Gerhard Abraham
  • Spray clutch with a double cage
    Patent number: 4875564
    Abstract: A double cage structure for a freewheel sprag clutch in which the inner cage ring is formed of metal and the outer cage ring is formed of a plastic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 1988
    Date of Patent: October 24, 1989
    Assignee: Borg-Warner Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Hermann Leitz, Erich Krayer, Rudolf Kohler