Patents by Inventor Rudolf Stiller

Rudolf Stiller 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: 6543283
    Abstract: A sensor for determining the level and temperature of a liquid, in particular in a motor vehicle, has an elongate housing (1), in which all the components required for temperature measurement and level measurement are accommodated. This housing (1) consists of two half shells (2, 3) which rest one on the other and of which one half shell (3) has all the components required for level measurement and the wiring and resistance wire (21) necessary for this purpose and the other half shell (2) has all the components required for temperature measurement and the wiring necessary for this purpose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2003
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventors: Joachim Acht, Ralf Schimmel, Manfred Rother, Rudolf Stiller
  • Publication number: 20020066315
    Abstract: A sensor for determining the level and/or temperature of a liquid, in particular in a motor vehicle, has an elongate housing (1), in which all the components required for temperature measurement and level measurement are accommodated. This housing (1) consists of two half shells (2, 3) which rest one on the other and of which one half shell (3) has all the components required for level measurement and the wiring and resistance wire (21) necessary for this purpose and the other half shell (2) has all the components required for temperature measurement and the wiring necessary for this purpose.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2001
    Publication date: June 6, 2002
    Inventors: Joachim Acht, Ralf Schimmel, Manfred Rother, Rudolf Stiller
  • Patent number: 6055864
    Abstract: In the case of a pressure sensor (1) a measuring cell (4) is fixed together with a retaining body (9) in a housing (2) of the pressure sensor. For this purpose, the housing (2) has a constriction (15) encircling it on the outside. A contact base (11), which is placed at the top onto the retaining body (9), is fixed by means of an inwardly bent section (18) of the housing (2), with the result that the pressure sensor (1) is closed in a sealed manner. The fixing of the retaining body (9) by means of the constriction (15) means that the pressure sensor (1) is also suitable for particularly high pressures with the risk that the retaining body (9) could slip in the housing (2) due to the pressure acting on the measuring cell (4) being excluded.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1999
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2000
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventors: Rudolf Stiller, Norbert Schmidt, Ivan Grgec-Messner, Klaus-Dieter Meese
  • Patent number: 6016705
    Abstract: A pressure sensor has a movable diaphragm stretched directly between the annular pressing surfaces of two housing parts, and an electrical measuring device. In an area that is located radially outward as viewed from the pressing surfaces, the diaphragm has a sealing ring that abuts both housing parts. As a result, transverse vibrations of the diaphragm are reliably supported.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 1998
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2000
    Assignee: Mannesmann VDO AG
    Inventors: Ulrich Baur, Werner Wallrafen, Rudolf Stiller, Norbert Schmidt
  • Patent number: 5886266
    Abstract: A sensor chamber (7) is provided in a holder (5) of a tank insert (4), a pressure sensor (8) being inserted into said chamber. This pressure sensor (8) rests on a circumferential packing (9) of a shoulder (10) of the sensor chamber (7).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1998
    Date of Patent: March 23, 1999
    Assignee: VDO Adolf Schindling AG
    Inventors: Rudolf Stiller, Andreas Maennchen, Norbert Schmidt