Patents by Inventor Thomas Hiestand

Thomas Hiestand 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: 11388041
    Abstract: A network node (3, 4) comprising at least one client interface port (40) and a database (46, 48) storing data allowing to retrieve for a given client interface, a service associated therewith, for a given service, a client interface associated therewith. A Maintenance End Point (MEP) (50, 52) is established on the network node and is associated with an end-to-end service between a client device (10, 12) connected with said client interface port and a remote client device connected to a remote network node (3, 4). Said MEP is configured to exchange connectivity messages with a corresponding MEP (50, 52) established on said remote network node and to detect a client interface fault and a service fault based on connectivity messages received from said corresponding MEP, or based on missing connectivity messages from said corresponding MEP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2022
    Assignee: XIEON NETWORKS S.a.r.l.
    Inventors: Sergio Silva, Thomas Hiestand
  • Publication number: 20190028327
    Abstract: A network node (3, 4) comprising at least one client interface port (40) and a database (46, 48) storing data allowing to retrieve for a given client interface, a service associated therewith, for a given service, a client interface associated therewith. A Maintenance End Point (MEP) (50, 52) is established on the network node and is associated with an end-to-end service between a client device (10, 12) connected with said client interface port and a remote client device connected to a remote network node (3, 4). Said MEP is configured to exchange connectivity messages with a corresponding MEP (50, 52) established on said remote network node and to detect a client interface fault and a service fault based on connectivity messages received from said corresponding MEP, or based on missing connectivity messages from said corresponding MEP.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Inventors: Sergio SILVA, Thomas HIESTAND
  • Patent number: 5582432
    Abstract: A device for transferring a medium to a servo device has a first component and a second component positioned in the first component so as to be rotatable about an axis of rotation. The first component is displaceable to a limited extent relative to the second component along the axis of rotation. An annular chamber is located between the first and second components and is delimited axially on one side by the first component and on the other side by the second component. First and second radial sealing gaps are provided on opposite sides of the annular chamber. The annular chamber has a circumferential sidewall that is slanted relative to the axis of rotation such that a first surface of the first component forming the circumferential sidewall of the annular chamber and a second surface of the first component forming the radially extending annular surface of the annular chamber are positioned at an acute angle to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1995
    Date of Patent: December 10, 1996
    Inventor: Thomas Hiestand
  • Patent number: 5269345
    Abstract: A device for transferring a pressure medium has a first stationary component and a second component that is inserted into the first stationary component such that it is rotatably drivable therein. A first annular chamber is defined between the first stationary component and the second component and has a first and a second axial end. The first axial end is delimited at least partially by the first stationary component and the second axial end is delimited at least partially by the second component. An inlet line and an outlet line are connected to the first annular chamber. The outlet line guides the pressure medium to a consuming device. Radially extending sealing slots are defined between the first stationary component and the second component at the first and the second axial ends whereby the sealing slots have adjustable slot widths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 14, 1993
    Assignee: SMW Schneider & Weisshaupt GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Hiestand, Thomas Hiestand