Patents by Inventor Stephen Kohler

Stephen 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).

  • Vibration actuator for rigid structures for high-performance bass playback in automobiles
    Patent number: 11943599
    Abstract: An actuator for exciting a component of a motor vehicle with vibrations. The actuator has a housing, an electrical coil and a magnet that is movable to a limited extent in the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Continental Engineering Services GmbH
    Inventors: Dimitrios Patsouras, Robert Joest, Jens Friedrich, Johannes Kerkmann, Pascal Köhler, Karsten Moritz, Robert Wick, Stephen Eisele, Charalampos Ferekidis, Philipp Neubauer
  • Disc Cleaner
    Publication number: 20070245505
    Abstract: A disc cleaner (10) for cleaning discs (D), which in some aspects can clean vertically oriented discs. The disc cleaner may include a housing (20) for supporting a disc, a drive assembly supported by the housing and engageable with the disc to rotate the disc, and means for applying cleaning agent (B) to a data recording surface of the disc (R) while the disc is supported by the housing. The disc cleaner may include housing that facilitates handling of the disc by its central hole, a drive assembly disposed within the housing, the drive assembly frictionally rotating the disc by its perimeter, and a switch (75) for actuating the drive assembly when the disc is at least partially inserted in the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2005
    Publication date: October 25, 2007
    Inventors: Tony Abfall, Paul Holbrook, Stephen Kohler, Sigurd Nelson ll, David Waskin
  • Catalyst holder and agitation system for converting stirred tank reactor to fixed bed reactor
    Patent number: 7074962
    Abstract: This invention relates to apparatus particularly a monolith catalytic reactor in a stirred tank reactor. The stirred tank reactor including the fixed bed catalytic reactor apparatus comprises: an housing having an open top and open bottom portion supportably maintained with said tank, said housing having a substantially outwardly extending, horizontal baffle near its top portion said baffle having a least one perforation in its surface, and said housing having at least one perforation in the wall near its top portion; a fixed bed catalyst system supportably retained within said housing permitting both liquid and gas flow therethrough; and, an agitator shaft terminating in a turbine blade substantially adjacent the perforation in the wall of said housing, said agitator having a passageway including an opening in an upper portion thereof to the interior of an upper part of said tank and terminating in an opening adjacent the turbine blade.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2006
    Assignee: Air Products and Chemicals, Inc.
    Inventors: Reinaldo Mario Machado, James Edward Koniski, Stephen Kohler
  • Catalyst holder and agitation system for converting stirred tank reactor to fixed bed reactor
    Publication number: 20060104873
    Abstract: This invention relates to apparatus particularly a monolith catalytic reactor in a stirred tank reactor. The stirred tank reactor including the fixed bed catalytic reactor apparatus comprises: an housing having an open top and open bottom portion supportably maintained with said tank, said housing having a substantially outwardly extending, horizontal baffle near its top portion said baffle having a least one perforation in its surface, and said housing having at least one perforation in the wall near its top portion; a fixed bed catalyst system supportably retained within said housing permitting both liquid and gas flow therethrough; and, an agitator shaft terminating in a turbine blade substantially adjacent the perforation in the wall of said housing, said agitator having a passageway including an opening in an upper portion thereof to the interior of an upper part of said tank and terminating in an opening adjacent the turbine blade.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 9, 2006
    Publication date: May 18, 2006
    Inventors: Reinaldo Machado, James Koniski, Stephen Kohler
  • Catalyst holder and agitation system for converting stirred tank reactor to fixed bed reactor
    Publication number: 20030157003
    Abstract: This invention relates to apparatus particularly a monolith catalytic reactor in a stirred tank reactor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Publication date: August 21, 2003
    Inventors: Reinaldo Mario Machado, James Edward Koniski, Stephen Kohler