Patents by Inventor Thomas Baumgartner

Thomas Baumgartner 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: 12239974
    Abstract: Disclosed is a measuring arrangement for measuring the total nitrogen bound (TN) in a measuring liquid, comprising: a radiation source emitting UV radiation; a radiation receiver configured to generate a signal that depends on the intensity of radiation impinging on the radiation receiver; a vessel having a first opening and a second opening opposite the first opening; a first window closing the first opening; and a second window closing the second opening. The first and second windows are transparent to the measuring radiation. The measuring radiation emitted by the radiation source propagates along a measuring path which extends from the radiation source through the first window, the vessel, and the second window to the radiation receiver. The measuring arrangement also includes a heating element in thermal contact with the vessel wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Conducta GmbH+Co. KG
    Inventors: Ulrich Rottensteiner, Christian Cramer, Eva-Maria Petat, Thomas Baumgartner, Thomas Schipolowski, Ralf Bernhard
  • Patent number: 12196313
    Abstract: A tensioning device, more particularly a hydraulically actuated chain tensioner, for a chain drive of an internal combustion engine, having a tensioner housing, a tensioning piston which is displaceably guided in a piston bore of the tensioner housing and has a piston skirt, a transport securing means for fastening the tensioning piston in the tensioner housing, a adjustment apparatus for incrementally adjusting and limiting the working range of the tensioning piston, and a final position securing means for the captive arrangement of the tensioning piston in the piston bore. The transport securing means, the adjustment apparatus and the final position securing means together have a single securing ring for fastening the tensioning piston in the tensioner housing, the incremental adjustment and limiting of the working range of the tensioning piston and the captive arrangement of the tensioning piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2025
    Assignee: IWIS MOTORSYSTEME GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Franz Wach, Florian Bruhn, Andreas Görmer, Thomas Baumgartner, Petra Doll
  • Publication number: 20240206094
    Abstract: An electronics housing comprises a housing cover and/or a housing body for delimiting a receiving space, and an electronics module arranged therein, wherein the electronics module has a plug connector socket accessible from outside the electronics housing for receiving a plug connector plug of a data cable, wherein the electronics housing has a pull tab integrated into the plug connector socket or upstream of the plug connector socket on the outside, for releasing the plug connector latched connection between the plug connector socket and the plug connector when the pull tab is pulled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2023
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventors: Thomas Baumgartner, Axel Vierkötter, Konstantinos Diplas, Christian Felcmann
  • Patent number: 11905307
    Abstract: The present invention relates to new phosphaviologen derivatives, methods of making phosphaviologen derivatives, and uses thereof, including uses in electrochromic devices and organic battery materials. The phosphaviologen derivatives described herein have strong electron-accepting properties and can be used to provide phosphaviologen derivative-containing electronic materials. In certain embodiments, the phosphaviologen derivatives include dimeric phosphaviologens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Inventors: Thomas Baumgartner, Markus Boergardts
  • Patent number: 11906023
    Abstract: A gear reducer with a first center sprocket having a first number of teeth and second center sprocket having a second number of teeth are mechanically coupled by a rotor including a plurality of sprockets, wherein minimal inertial mass is overcome while changing the direction of a driven sprocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Inventor: Herbert Thomas Baumgartner
  • Publication number: 20230279933
    Abstract: A gear reducer with a first center sprocket having a first number of teeth and second center sprocket having a second number of teeth are mechanically coupled by a rotor including a plurality of sprockets, wherein minimal inertial mass is required to be overcome while changing the direction of a driven sprocket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventor: Herbert Thomas Baumgartner
  • Patent number: 11116093
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a wing hinge for a field device housing, including: a first wing having a first and a second holding device, the first holding device configured to connect to the field device housing and to move the first wing about a first axis; a second wing having a third and a fourth holding device, the third holding device configured to connect to the second holding device and to move the second wing relative to the first wing about a second axis, wherein the fourth holding device is connectable to a housing cover as to move the housing cover relative to the second wing about a third axis; and a tensioning element in contact with the first wing and the second wing and configured to move the first wing relative to the second wing about the second axis from a first position into a second position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Conducta GmbH+Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Dieterich, Thomas Baumgartner
  • Publication number: 20210053047
    Abstract: Disclosed is a measuring arrangement for measuring the total nitrogen bound (TN) in a measuring liquid, comprising: a radiation source emitting UV radiation; a radiation receiver configured to generate a signal that depends on the intensity of radiation impinging on the radiation receiver; a vessel having a first opening and a second opening opposite the first opening; a first window closing the first opening; and a second window closing the second opening. The first and second windows are transparent to the measuring radiation. The measuring radiation emitted by the radiation source propagates along a measuring path which extends from the radiation source through the first window, the vessel, and the second window to the radiation receiver. The measuring arrangement also includes a heating element in thermal contact with the vessel wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2020
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Ulrich Rottensteiner, Christian Cramer, Eva-Maria Petat, Thomas Baumgartner, Thomas Schipolowski, Ralf Bernhard
  • Patent number: 10780989
    Abstract: An aircraft propeller drive system has a gear to be driven by an engine and having a first plurality of teeth. A torsion bar has a first end driven by the gear and a second end rotatable relative to the first end about a torsion axis by a torsion angle. An output shaft is driven by the second end and is adapted for connection to a propeller. A clutch has a driven member rotationally fixed to the output shaft and a driving member having a second plurality of teeth. The first and second pluralities of teeth engage each other when a variation in the torsion angle from a mean torsion angle is greater than a predetermined angle. Torque is transferred between the gear and the output shaft via the clutch when the first and second pluralities of teeth engage each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: BRP-ROTAX GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Harald Mittermaier, Johann Bayerl, Michael Dopona, Thomas Baumgartner
  • Publication number: 20200196469
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a wing hinge for a field device housing, including: a first wing having a first and a second holding device, the first holding device configured to connect to the field device housing and to move the first wing about a first axis; a second wing having a third and a fourth holding device, the third holding device configured to connect to the second holding device and to move the second wing relative to the first wing about a second axis, wherein the fourth holding device is connectable to a housing cover as to move the housing cover relative to the second wing about a third axis; and a tensioning element in contact with the first wing and the second wing and configured to move the first wing relative to the second wing about the second axis from a first position into a second position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Dieterich, Thomas Baumgartner
  • Patent number: 10207561
    Abstract: Embodiments disclose systems and methods for a vehicle with an articulating suspension exploration platform with shock dampening. More specifically, embodiments include a passive articulating of forces by mirroring and chaining bar linkages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Inventor: Herbert Thomas Baumgartner
  • Patent number: 10161781
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a device for dispensing a liquid, including a vertically arranged, translucent pipe for guiding the liquid, wherein the pipe has an upper section and a lower section, wherein an inner diameter of the upper section is greater than an inner diameter of the lower section, at least two light barriers for detecting a rise in the liquid over two defined levels in the pipe, wherein a first light barrier detects a rise in the liquid in the upper section of the pipe, and wherein a second light barrier detects a rise in the liquid in the lower section of the pipe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Conducta GmbH+Co. KG
    Inventors: Frank Müller, Thomas Baumgartner, Ralf Bernhard
  • Publication number: 20180079276
    Abstract: Embodiments disclose systems and methods for a vehicle with an articulating suspension exploration platform with shock dampening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Inventor: Herbert Thomas Baumgartner
  • Patent number: 9897549
    Abstract: An analytical device, including: a processing system for treating a liquid sample and for supplying the treated liquid sample to a measuring cell, to the liquid sample; a measuring transducer for registering a measured value of the treated liquid sample variable; a control unit to control the processing system; and an evaluating unit for determining the measured variable based on the measured value registered by the measuring transducer. The analytical device includes at least one first supply container containing a first reagent component, at least one second supply container containing a second reagent component and a mixing apparatus, for mixing a predetermined amount of the first reagent component contained in the first supply container with a predetermined amount of the second reagent component to form a predetermined amount of the reagent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Conducta GmbH+Co. KG
    Inventors: Ulrich Kathe, Ralf Steuerwald, Thomas Schipolowski, Matthias Knopp, Tobias Zachmann, Thomas Baumgartner
  • Patent number: 9839912
    Abstract: An analytical device for automated determining of a measured variable of a liquid sample, includes: a base module; a replaceable cassette connectable with the base module and having at least one liquid container connectable via a fluid line with a measuring cell and containing a reagent to be added to the liquid sample for forming a measured liquid; and a measuring transducer for registering measured values correlated with the measured variable for the measured liquid accommodated in the measuring cell. The cassette has, associated with the at least one liquid container, a fluid coupling apparatus having a primary component and a secondary component and serving for producing a connection of the fluid line with the liquid container.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Conducta GmbH+Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Oprea, Thomas Baumgartner, Jurgen Erchinger, Christian Hirn, Ralf Steuerwald, Tobias Zachmann, Ulrich Kathe, Anja Gerlinger
  • Patent number: 9745074
    Abstract: An aircraft propeller drive system has a gear to be driven by an engine and having a first plurality of teeth. A torsion bar has a first end driven by the gear and a second end rotatable relative to the first end about a torsion axis by a torsion angle. An output shaft is driven by the second end and is adapted for connection to a propeller. A clutch has a driven member rotationally fixed to the output shaft and a driving member having a second plurality of teeth. The first and second pluralities of teeth engage each other when a variation in the torsion angle from a mean torsion angle is greater than a predetermined angle. Torque is transferred between the gear and the output shaft via the clutch when the first and second pluralities of teeth engage each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: BRP-POWERTRAIN GMBH & CO KG
    Inventors: Harald Mittermaier, Johann Bayerl, Michael Dopona, Thomas Baumgartner
  • Publication number: 20170089750
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a device for dispensing a liquid, including a vertically arranged, translucent pipe for guiding the liquid, wherein the pipe has an upper section and a lower section, wherein an inner diameter of the upper section is greater than an inner diameter of the lower section, at least two light barriers for detecting a rise in the liquid over two defined levels in the pipe, wherein a first light barrier detects a rise in the liquid in the upper section of the pipe, and wherein a second light barrier detects a rise in the liquid in the lower section of the pipe.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Publication date: March 30, 2017
    Inventors: Frank Müller, Thomas Baumgartner, Ralf Bernhard
  • Patent number: 8353916
    Abstract: A quick-release guide assembly for an external fixation system has a body with at least one hole and a handle portion with a handle bar. The device body comprises at least one extension having a first coupling portion. The handle comprises a complementary second coupling portion, wherein one coupling portion comprising a spring actuated locking pin, wherein an actuator knob is provided to release the locking pin. Therefore the coupling portion of the handle can be releasably attached to the guide body, enabling a quick change of device bodies having different oriented and arranged holes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2013
    Assignee: Stryker Trauma S.A.
    Inventors: Thomas Baumgartner, Andreas Bernhard
  • Patent number: D896898
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Inventor: Herbert Thomas Baumgartner
  • Patent number: D954852
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Inventor: Herbert Thomas Baumgartner