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).

  • Publication number: 20230219250
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Georg Maier, Thomas Frei, Thomas Lux
  • Patent number: 11628509
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Georg Maier, Thomas Frei, Thomas Lux
  • Publication number: 20230115313
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Marco Weber, Thomas Lux, Luis Jaeger, Siddharth Baburaj
  • Publication number: 20230001602
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Matthias Schulz, Thomas Lux, Martin Schlegl, Matthias Mueller, Georg Maier
  • Patent number: 11485040
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Lux, Martin Leiendecker, David Mitrega
  • Publication number: 20210346968
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Georg Maier, Thomas Frei, Thomas Lux
  • Patent number: 11007589
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 18, 2021
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Lux, Friedrich Hollmeier, Georg Maier, Bertil Stapel, Tobias Grams, Norbert Althoff
  • Publication number: 20210023734
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2020
    Publication date: January 28, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas Lux, Martin Leiendecker, David Mitrega
  • Patent number: 10603826
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Rym Benyahia, Thomas Lux, Ahmet Turan, Nicolas Fournier
  • Publication number: 20200030898
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Publication date: January 30, 2020
    Inventors: Thomas Lux, Friedrich Hollmeier, Georg Maier, Bertil Stapel, Tobias Grams, Norbert Althoff
  • Patent number: 10456946
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Lux, Friedrich Hollmeier
  • Publication number: 20190184614
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2018
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Rym BENYAHIA, Thomas LUX, Ahmet TURAN, Nicolas FOURNIER
  • Patent number: 10307930
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Alexander Fuchs, Thomas Voigt, David Mitrega, Matthias Schulz, Thomas Lux, Oliver Gerstenberger, Jochen Buchholtz, Berthold Schell, Norbert Apfel, Bernd Hein, Ruediger Ludwig, Jan Foehrenbach
  • Patent number: 10166706
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2019
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Rym Benyahia, Thomas Lux, Ahmet Turan, Nicolas Fournier
  • Publication number: 20180304490
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 20, 2018
    Publication date: October 25, 2018
    Inventors: Thomas Lux, Friedrich Hollmeier
  • Publication number: 20180243782
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Uwe WEISSENBERGER, Thomas LUX, Georg SCHNEIDER, Guenay NALINCI
  • Patent number: 9802219
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Wolfgang Fleischmann, Marcus Guldan, Dominic Gueldner, Thomas Lux
  • Publication number: 20170305245
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2015
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Thomas LUX, Sebastian SCHMIDT, Uwe WEISSENBERGER, Stefan BUMANN
  • Publication number: 20170165884
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2015
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Rym BENYAHIA, Thomas LUX, Ahmet TURAN, Nicolas FOURNIER
  • Patent number: 9573294
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: ANDREAS STIHL AG & CO. KG
    Inventors: Jochen Buchholtz, Matthias Schulz, Oliver Gerstenberger, Thomas Lux, Norbert Apfel, Nina Regnet