Patents by Inventor Thomas Lux
Thomas Lux 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).
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Publication number: 20230219250Abstract: A saw chain includes connecting links and drive links that are mutually connected by rivets in an articulated manner about rivet axes. The rivets project through at least one rivet opening of one connecting link and through a rivet opening of a drive link. At least one rivet has, on one end face thereof, a depression having a depression edge and a depression base surrounded by the depression edge. The distance of the depression edge from a central plane of the saw chain increases at an increasing radial distance from the rivet axis. The distance (e) of the base from the central plane does not increase at any point of the base at an increasing radial distance from the rivet axis. A greatest distance (a) of the base from the rivet axis corresponds to 50% to 100% of half the core diameter (d) of the rivet.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2023Publication date: July 13, 2023Inventors: Georg Maier, Thomas Frei, Thomas Lux
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Patent number: 11628509Abstract: A saw chain includes connecting links and drive links that are mutually connected by rivets in an articulated manner about rivet axes. The rivets project through at least one rivet opening of one connecting link and through a rivet opening of a drive link. At least one rivet has, on one end face thereof, a depression having a depression edge and a depression base surrounded by the depression edge. The distance of the depression edge from a central plane of the saw chain increases at an increasing radial distance from the rivet axis. The distance (e) of the base from the central plane does not increase at any point of the base at an increasing radial distance from the rivet axis. A greatest distance (a) of the base from the rivet axis corresponds to 50% to 100% of half the core diameter (d) of the rivet.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KGInventors: Georg Maier, Thomas Frei, Thomas Lux
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Publication number: 20230115313Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for determining a sharpness condition of a saw chain of a chain saw. The saw chain includes at least one cutting link having an upper cutting blade. An upper cutting blade image of the upper cutting blade of the cutting link is recorded using an imaging device. An evaluation of the upper cutting blade image is performed using an evaluation unit, which includes an artificial neural network. A sharp condition and a dull condition of the saw chain are defined in the evaluation unit. The saw chain is assigned on the basis of the upper cutting blade image using the artificial neural network to the sharp condition or the dull condition.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2022Publication date: April 13, 2023Inventors: Marco Weber, Thomas Lux, Luis Jaeger, Siddharth Baburaj
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Publication number: 20230001602Abstract: A guide bar for a chainsaw has a middle section which forms a groove base of a guide groove. The middle section has an edge layer which includes at least one hardened region extending from a first end having a first edge layer depth to a second end having a second edge layer depth. The first edge layer depth at the first end is less than the second edge layer depth at the second end. The second edge layer depth at the second end is greater than 1 mm. The first edge layer depth at the first end of the hardened region is at most 3 mm.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2022Publication date: January 5, 2023Inventors: Matthias Schulz, Thomas Lux, Martin Schlegl, Matthias Mueller, Georg Maier
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Patent number: 11485040Abstract: A guide bar for motor chainsaws has side plates and a middle section between the side plates connected fixedly and non-movably to the side plates. The side plates form a clamping section and a deflection section opposite the clamping section. A guide groove extends circumferentially about the guide bar. The middle section forms the guide groove bottom in the deflection section. A guide bar tip is located where the longitudinal center axis of the guide bar intersects the deflection section. The side plates each have a guide surface extending continuously across a first longitudinal side of the guide bar, the deflection section, and a second longitudinal side of the guide bar. The guide surfaces of the side plates have hardened regions at the first and second longitudinal sides and at the guide bar tip with a hardness greater than a hardness of a middle region of the side plates.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2020Date of Patent: November 1, 2022Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KGInventors: Thomas Lux, Martin Leiendecker, David Mitrega
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Publication number: 20210346968Abstract: A saw chain includes connecting links and drive links that are mutually connected by rivets in an articulated manner about rivet axes. The rivets project through at least one rivet opening of one connecting link and through a rivet opening of a drive link. At least one rivet has, on one end face thereof, a depression having a depression edge and a depression base surrounded by the depression edge. The distance of the depression edge from a central plane of the saw chain increases at an increasing radial distance from the rivet axis. The distance (e) of the base from the central plane does not increase at any point of the base at an increasing radial distance from the rivet axis. A greatest distance (a) of the base from the rivet axis corresponds to 50% to 100% of half the core diameter (d) of the rivet.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2021Publication date: November 11, 2021Inventors: Georg Maier, Thomas Frei, Thomas Lux
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Patent number: 11007589Abstract: The disclosure relates to a file for filing a saw tooth of a saw chain. The file includes a file body defining a circumferential direction and a circumference. The file body, in a cross section, has an unhewn guide surface and a file surface adjoining the unhewn guide surface in the circumferential direction. The unhewn guide surface extends over at least ? of the circumference in the cross section.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KGInventors: Thomas Lux, Friedrich Hollmeier, Georg Maier, Bertil Stapel, Tobias Grams, Norbert Althoff
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Publication number: 20210023734Abstract: A guide bar for motor chainsaws has side plates and a middle section between the side plates connected fixedly and non-movably to the side plates. The side plates form a clamping section and a deflection section opposite the clamping section. A guide groove extends circumferentially about the guide bar. The middle section forms the guide groove bottom in the deflection section. A guide bar tip is located where the longitudinal center axis of the guide bar intersects the deflection section. The side plates each have a guide surface extending continuously across a first longitudinal side of the guide bar, the deflection section, and a second longitudinal side of the guide bar. The guide surfaces of the side plates have hardened regions at the first and second longitudinal sides and at the guide bar tip with a hardness greater than a hardness of a middle region of the side plates.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Thomas Lux, Martin Leiendecker, David Mitrega
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Patent number: 10603826Abstract: A method for producing a plastic vehicle attachment part is described, such that a polymeric film is laid in an injection mold, the polymeric film having an opaque or semi-opaque imprint or a color pigmentation. The polymeric film is back injected with a polymeric covering part, wherein the polymeric covering part is optically transparent. A polymeric carrier part is sprayed at least on a part of the surface of the polymeric covering part facing away from the polymeric film. A protective layer is applied at least on the polymeric film.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2018Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCEInventors: Rym Benyahia, Thomas Lux, Ahmet Turan, Nicolas Fournier
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Publication number: 20200030898Abstract: The disclosure relates to a file for filing a saw tooth of a saw chain. The file includes a file body defining a circumferential direction and a circumference. The file body, in a cross section, has an unhewn guide surface and a file surface adjoining the unhewn guide surface in the circumferential direction. The unhewn guide surface extends over at least ? of the circumference in the cross section.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2019Publication date: January 30, 2020Inventors: Thomas Lux, Friedrich Hollmeier, Georg Maier, Bertil Stapel, Tobias Grams, Norbert Althoff
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Patent number: 10456946Abstract: A cutting member of a saw chain has a cutting tooth and a cutting surface having at least one cutting edge. In a side view, looking in a sharpening direction, a first line connects an intersection between an upper edge of a roof section and the cutting surface to an intersection between an imaginary line, which extends parallel to the upper edge, and the cutting surface. A second line connects an intersection between the upper edge and an imaginary displacement of the cutting surface parallel to the contact surface at a position in which a tooth tip of the cutting tooth lies perpendicular to the running direction above a longitudinal center axis of the rearward bearing point, to a point of intersection between the imaginary line and the imaginary displacement of the cutting surface. The contact surface is aligned such that the first and second line extend in parallel.Type: GrantFiled: April 20, 2018Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KGInventors: Thomas Lux, Friedrich Hollmeier
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Publication number: 20190184614Abstract: A method for producing a plastic vehicle attachment part is described, such that a polymeric film is laid in an injection mold, the polymeric film having an opaque or semi-opaque imprint or a color pigmentation. The polymeric film is back injected with a polymeric covering part, wherein the polymeric covering part is optically transparent. A polymeric carrier part is sprayed at least on a part of the surface of the polymeric covering part facing away from the polymeric film. A protective layer is applied at least on the polymeric film.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 3, 2018Publication date: June 20, 2019Inventors: Rym BENYAHIA, Thomas LUX, Ahmet TURAN, Nicolas FOURNIER
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Patent number: 10307930Abstract: A guide bar for a saw chain includes an elongate, flat base body made of a basic material. The base body extends along a longitudinal center axis and, in order to guide a saw chain, has a running surface formed on an outer periphery thereof and a guide groove formed in the outer periphery of the base body. The guide groove has a groove base. A direction-reversing section for the saw chain is provided at one end of the base body. The direction-reversing section includes at least one add-on component having a running surface made of more wear-resistant material than the basic material of the base body. The add-on component is secured to the base body of the guide bar by at least one weld seam. The weld seam extends between the add-on component and the base body and is located spatially beneath the groove base.Type: GrantFiled: August 21, 2014Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KGInventors: Alexander Fuchs, Thomas Voigt, David Mitrega, Matthias Schulz, Thomas Lux, Oliver Gerstenberger, Jochen Buchholtz, Berthold Schell, Norbert Apfel, Bernd Hein, Ruediger Ludwig, Jan Foehrenbach
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Patent number: 10166706Abstract: A method for producing a plastic vehicle attachment part is described, wherein a polymeric film is laid in an injection mold, the polymeric film having an opaque or semi-opaque imprint or a color pigmentation. The polymeric film is back injected with a polymeric covering part, wherein the polymeric covering part is optically transparent. A polymeric carrier part is sprayed at least on a part of the surface of the polymeric covering part facing away from the polymeric film. A protective layer is applied at least on the polymeric film.Type: GrantFiled: July 9, 2015Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCEInventors: Rym Benyahia, Thomas Lux, Ahmet Turan, Nicolas Fournier
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Publication number: 20180304490Abstract: A cutting member of a saw chain has a cutting tooth and a cutting surface having at least one cutting edge. In a side view, looking in a sharpening direction, a first line connects an intersection between an upper edge of a roof section and the cutting surface to an intersection between an imaginary line, which extends parallel to the upper edge, and the cutting surface. A second line connects an intersection between the upper edge and an imaginary displacement of the cutting surface parallel to the contact surface at a position in which a tooth tip of the cutting tooth lies perpendicular to the running direction above a longitudinal center axis of the rearward bearing point, to a point of intersection between the imaginary line and the imaginary displacement of the cutting surface. The contact surface is aligned such that the first and second line extend in parallel.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 20, 2018Publication date: October 25, 2018Inventors: Thomas Lux, Friedrich Hollmeier
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Publication number: 20180243782Abstract: An automated primer application system for producing attachment parts for means of transportation is disclosed. The system comprises an output reel, a take-up reel, an application head with a nozzle opening, and a high-pressure waterjet-consolidated polymer-cellulose nonwoven. The high-pressure waterjet-consolidated polymer-cellulose nonwoven is guided from the output reel over the application head to the take-up reel. The high-pressure waterjet-consolidated polymer-cellulose nonwoven is arranged in front of the nozzle opening. A primer liquid can be fed through the nozzle opening such that the primer liquid can be applied to a surface of a part via the polymer-cellulose nonwoven.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2016Publication date: August 30, 2018Inventors: Uwe WEISSENBERGER, Thomas LUX, Georg SCHNEIDER, Guenay NALINCI
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Patent number: 9802219Abstract: A polymer workpiece is described. The workpiece has an upper main surface, a lower main surface, an injection-mold separating surface and a flow attack edge surface. The flow attack edge surface is formed in the region between the injection-mold separating surface and the lower main surface as a planar surface with an angle ? with respect to the injection-mold separating surface of 20° to 70°, and/or deviates by an amount a from 0.0 mm to 0.5 mm from the planar surface.Type: GrantFiled: November 2, 2012Date of Patent: October 31, 2017Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCEInventors: Wolfgang Fleischmann, Marcus Guldan, Dominic Gueldner, Thomas Lux
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Publication number: 20170305245Abstract: A polymeric pane, having a polymeric main body with a first pane surface, a second pane surface, a peripheral pane edge, and a protective coating on the entire second pane surface and on at least part of the first pane surface. An extruded-on sealing profile is mounted on the side of the first pane surface via an adhesion promoter.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 26, 2015Publication date: October 26, 2017Inventors: Thomas LUX, Sebastian SCHMIDT, Uwe WEISSENBERGER, Stefan BUMANN
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Publication number: 20170165884Abstract: A method for producing a plastic vehicle attachment part is described, wherein a polymeric film is laid in an injection mold, the polymeric film having an opaque or semi-opaque imprint or a color pigmentation. The polymeric film is back injected with a polymeric covering part. wherein the polymeric covering part is optically transparent. A polymeric carrier part is sprayed at least on a part of the surface of the polymeric covering part facing away from the polymeric film. A protective layer is applied at least on the polymeric film.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2015Publication date: June 15, 2017Inventors: Rym BENYAHIA, Thomas LUX, Ahmet TURAN, Nicolas FOURNIER
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Patent number: 9573294Abstract: A chain for a work implement has lateral connecting members connected to central driving members via studs. The stud has two lateral portions spaced apart from one another by a collar. A driving member is mounted pivotably on the collar. At the collar the stud has a surface layer harder than the base material. For a high chain service life, the stud has a diffusion layer above a surface layer above the base material. To produce the stud, the stud is provided with a diffusion layer at least at the collar, and a surface region of the collar is hardened, such that a surface layer is formed between the diffusion layer and the base material of the stud. For a method for producing a driving member, the driving member is provided with a diffusion layer at least at a circumferential surface of a hole and the driving member is hardened.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2015Date of Patent: February 21, 2017Assignee: ANDREAS STIHL AG & CO. KGInventors: Jochen Buchholtz, Matthias Schulz, Oliver Gerstenberger, Thomas Lux, Norbert Apfel, Nina Regnet