Patents by Inventor Thomas Fuhrmann

Thomas Fuhrmann 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: 11136526
    Abstract: A coating composition for the piston of an internal combustion engine comprises 10-30 wt. % of phenolic resin, 10-30 wt. % of epoxy resin, 10-30 wt. % of at least one solid lubricant selected from the group consisting of graphite, MoS2, WS2 and BN, and 5-30 wt. % of Fe2O3 particles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Federal-Mogul Nurnberg GmbH
    Inventors: Dominik Leitzmann, Monika Blumm, Thomas Fuhrmann, Margrit Dannenfeldt, Achim Adam, Jurgen Reitenspiess
  • Publication number: 20200102656
    Abstract: A steel piston for an internal combustion engine includes an amorphous phosphate layer in at least one region thereof. On account of this layer the adhesion of an antifriction coating is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: DOMINIK LEITZMANN, MONIKA BLUMM, MARGRIT DANNENFELDT, THOMAS FUHRMANN, MANFRED HAACK, JURGEN LUBER
  • Publication number: 20190127657
    Abstract: The invention relates to a coating composition for the piston of an internal combustion engine. The composition comprises 10-30 wt. % of phenolic resin, 10-30 wt. % of epoxy resin, 10-30 wt. % of at least one solid lubricant selected from the group consisting of graphite, MoS2, WS2 and BN, and 5-30 wt. % of Fe2O3 particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: DOMINIK LEITZMANN, MONIKA BLUMM, THOMAS FUHRMANN, MARGRIT DANNENFELDT, ACHIM ADAM, JURGEN REITENSPIESS
  • Publication number: 20180274479
    Abstract: Disclosed is a coating for reducing or preventing hot-gas oxidation of the piston in an internal combustion engine. Said coating comprises a polysilazane-based polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2016
    Publication date: September 27, 2018
    Inventors: MARGRIT DANNENFELDT, MONIKA BLUMM, THOMAS FUHRMANN, DOMINIK LEITZMANN
  • Patent number: 9238267
    Abstract: Cutting insert made of hard metal, cermet or ceramic substrate body with multi-layer coating applied thereto by CVD methods. The coating has a total thickness of 5 to 40 ?m and, starting from the substrate surface, has one or more hard material layers, an alpha aluminum oxide (?-Al2O3) layer of a layer thickness of 1 to 20 ?m and optionally at least portion-wise over the ?-Al2O3 layer one or more further hard material layers as decorative or wear recognition layers. The ?-Al2O3 layer has a crystallographic preferential orientation characterized by a texture coefficient TC (0 0 12)?5 for the (0 0 12) growth direction. The ?-Al2O3 layer has an inherent stress in the region of 0 to +300 MPas, and the substrate within a region of 0 to 10 ?m from the substrate surface has an inherent stress minimum in the region of ?2000 to ?400 MPas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: Walter AG
    Inventors: Dirk Stiens, Sakari Ruppi, Thomas Fuhrmann
  • Publication number: 20140193624
    Abstract: Cutting insert made of hard metal, cermet or ceramic substrate body with multi-layer coating applied thereto by CVD methods. The coating has a total thickness of 5 to 40 ?m and, starting from the substrate surface, has one or more hard material layers, an alpha aluminium oxide (?-Al2O3) layer of a layer thickness of 1 to 20 ?m and optionally at least portion-wise over the ?-Al2O3 layer one or more further hard material layers as decorative or wear recognition layers. The ?-Al2O3 layer has a crystallographic preferential orientation characterised by a texture coefficient TC (0 0 12)?5 for the (0 0 12) growth direction. The ?-Al2O3 layer has an inherent stress in the region of 0 to +300 MPas, and the substrate within a region of 0 to 10 ?m from the substrate surface has an inherent stress minimum in the region of ?2000 to ?400 MPas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2012
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Applicant: WALTER AG
    Inventors: Dirk Stiens, Sakari Ruppi, Thomas Fuhrmann
  • Patent number: 7885403
    Abstract: A hand held communications device is provided. The device includes: a circuit board including electronic components; display coupled to the circuit board; a housing substantially surrounding the circuit board and electronic components, wherein the housing includes a base element covering a bottom side of the circuit board and electronic components and a housing element attached to the base element covering a top side of the circuit board and electronic components, wherein the housing element includes a display aperture with the display partially projecting therethrough; and a cover removably connected to the housing by a connection, wherein the cover and the base element substantially enclose the housing element therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2011
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Fuhrmann, Annett Ortscheid (nee Wilke), Dirk Umbach, Ricky William Barnett, Terence Johnson, Mark Robert Mason, Bruce Samuels, Tony Horne
  • Patent number: 7239700
    Abstract: An electronic radiotelephone comprising: a first housing; a second housing releasably attachable to the first housing to meet with the first housing around the periphery of the radiotelephone; and retaining means comprising a cover for holding the electronic components of the radiotelephone to the first housing when the second housing is released from attachment with the first housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2007
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Fuhrmann, Annett Ortscheid, Dirk Umbach, Ricky William Barnett, Terence Johnson, Mark Robert Mason, Bruce Samuels, Tony Horne
  • Publication number: 20060239445
    Abstract: A hand held communications device is provided. The device includes: a circuit board including electronic components; display coupled to the circuit board; a housing substantially surrounding the circuit board and electronic components, wherein the housing includes a base element covering a bottom side of the circuit board and electronic components and a housing element attached to the base element covering a top side of the circuit board and electronic components, wherein the housing element includes a display aperture with the display partially projecting therethrough; and a cover removably connected to the housing by a connection, wherein the cover and the base element substantially enclose the housing element therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2006
    Publication date: October 26, 2006
    Inventors: Thomas Fuhrmann, Annett Ortscheid (nee Wilke), Dirk Umbach, Ricky Barnett, Terence Johnson, Mark Mason, Bruce Samuels, Tony Horne
  • Patent number: 7092520
    Abstract: An electronic radiotelephone comprising: a first housing; a second housing releasably attachable to the first housing to meet with the first housing around the periphery of the radiotelephone; and retaining means comprising a cover, for holding the electronic components of the radiotelephone to the first housing when the second housing is released from attachment with the first housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2006
    Assignee: Nokia Corporation
    Inventors: Thomas Fuhrmann, Annett Ortscheid, Dirk Umbach, Ricky William Barnett, Terence Johnson, Mark Robert Mason, Bruce Samuels, Tony Horne
  • Patent number: 7085649
    Abstract: Electronic organiser (10) with a calendar (11) in which appointments at least according to date, time and an individual description, for example a person to be visited, are variable. If the organiser (10) is provided with an interface (22) which can exchange data in respect of the appointments with an interface (22) existing on another device (21), the data recorded in the calendar (11) can be used to run the other device or the electronic organiser (10) can be controlled by the other device. Thus for example data recorded in the calendar (11) can be used by a navigation system for faster input of the destination, or for example departure appointments can be changed by the other device according to the traffic or other situations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2001
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2006
    Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones, Ltd.
    Inventors: Reinhold Baur, Tero Valtonen, Turkka Keinonen, Anne Koppinen, Anne Kirjavainen, Maximiliano Roque-Cerna, Karsten Lehn, Markus Pazina, Wofgang Theimer, Klaus Kespohl, Peter Buth, Cordula Conrady, Stephan Rastuttis, Thomas Fuhrmann, Minna Asikainen
  • Patent number: 7019832
    Abstract: An optical spectrometer comprises at least two coupling apertures with different mode field diameters, a means for dispersing the light beams exiting each of the coupling apertures along a dispersion axis and at least two decoupling apertures on which the dispersed light beams are imaged and whose mode field diameters each correspond to the mode field diameters of the associated coupling apertures. Due the enlarged mode field diameter, a larger spectral fraction of dispersed light beams, i.e., light of a larger spectral bandwidth, can be coupled into the decoupling aperture than into the decoupling aperture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2003
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2006
    Assignee: Acterna Eningen GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Fuhrmann, Wolfgang Schmid, Michael Pahlke
  • Patent number: 6978123
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic device having a housing (1) which has a housing wall (5) with openings (7) for control elements (8) and/or display elements (9, 10). Attachment means (11) for detachably connecting to the housing (1) an external wall element (14) which at least partially covers the housing wall (5) being present on the housing (1), the external wall element (14) having openings (7?) which are aligned with the openings (7) in the housing wall (5). As a result, by using different external wall elements (14) the external appearance of the electronic device can be easily modified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2005
    Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones Ltd.
    Inventors: Thomas Fuhrmann, Annett Wilke, Dirk Umbach
  • Patent number: 6856726
    Abstract: In a light waveguide, the one end of which comprises a flat entering area for the light to be coupled into the core of the light waveguide, the entering area is narrower than the core diameter of the light waveguide and, around the entering area, the end of the light waveguide is laterally sloped up to the entering surface. Only the light which impinges on this entering area passes into the core and is guided therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2005
    Assignee: Wavetek Wandel Goltermann Eningen GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Fuhrmann
  • Publication number: 20040070755
    Abstract: An optical spectrometer comprises at least two coupling apertures with different mode field diameters, a means for dispersing the light beams exiting each of the coupling apertures along a dispersion axis and at least two decoupling apertures on which the dispersed light beams are imaged and whose mode field diameters each correspond to the mode field diameters of the associated coupling apertures. Due the enlarged mode field diameter, a larger spectral fraction of dispersed light beams, i.e., light of a larger spectral bandwidth, can be coupled into the decoupling aperture than into the decoupling aperture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2003
    Publication date: April 15, 2004
    Inventors: Thomas Fuhrmann, Wolfgang Schmid, Michael Pahlke
  • Patent number: 6690468
    Abstract: An optical spectrum analyzer of novel design, in which several different spectra can be measured and analyzed simultaneously. A measuring signal is used as a reference signal for calibrating the optical spectrum analyzer. The light rays are admitted via a coupling device with several coupling apertures arranged in a line; and via a separate decoupling device comprising respective decoupling apertures arranged in a line, the light rays are decoupled. Height offset is realized by a 90° deviation prism. The arrangement makes possible simultaneous analysis of several optical lines with little retroreflection as well as uninterrupted calibration of the measuring process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: February 10, 2004
    Assignee: Wavetek Wandel Goltermann Eningen GmbH & Co.
    Inventors: Karl Benzel, Thomas Fuhrmann, Andreas Conzelmann, Eberhard Loecklin
  • Patent number: 6647248
    Abstract: A cradle that secures a removable device, a body, two side surfaces and two face surface are provided on one face surface, and a movable hook is provided on the other face surface. At least one of the surfaces which has a different designation than the surfaces on which the tabs and hook are located, is equipped with a button, one end of which is equipped with a first slide surface. A slider is provided whose one end has at least one second slide surface and whose other end engages the movable hook(s).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 11, 2003
    Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones, Ltd.
    Inventors: Annett Ortscheid, Thomas Fuhrmann
  • Patent number: 6614527
    Abstract: In an optical spectrum analyzer, the respective wavelength bandwidths of the optical spectrum analyzer are determined at the wavelengths of the reference lines and used as calibration data for determining measurement tolerances by means of reference lines of known wavelength and known wavelength bandwidths from the known wavelength bandwidths of the reference lines and from the wavelength bandwidths of the reference lines measured with the optical spectrum analyzer
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 2, 2003
    Assignee: Acterna Eningen GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Fuhrmann, Klaus Steininger
  • Publication number: 20030138097
    Abstract: An electronic radiotelephone comprising: a first housing; a second housing releasably attachable to the first housing to meet with the first housing around the periphery of the radiotelephone; and retaining means comprising a cover, for holding the electronic components of the radiotelephone to the first housing when the second housing is released from attachment with the first housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2003
    Publication date: July 24, 2003
    Inventors: Thomas Fuhrmann, Annett Ortscheid, Dirk Umbach, Ricky William Barnett, Terence Johnson, Mark Robert Mason, Bruce Samuels, Tony Horne
  • Publication number: 20030036367
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic device having a housing (1) which has a housing wall (5) with openings (7) for control elements (8) and/or display elements (9, 10). Attachment means (11) for detachably connecting to the housing (1) an external wall element (14) which at least partially covers the housing wall (5) being present on the housing (1), the external wall element (14) having openings (7′) which are aligned with the openings (7) in the housing wall (5). As a result, by using different external wall elements (14) the external appearance of the electronic device can be easily modified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Publication date: February 20, 2003
    Inventors: Thomas Fuhrmann, Annett Wilke, Dirk Umbach