Patents by Inventor Thomas Schott

Thomas Schott 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).

  • Assembly for an automation system
    Publication number: 20070208435
    Abstract: There is described an assembly, having at least one input/output and having means for storing a program and a method for project planning a program for an assembly of an automation system, with an absolute address being assigned to each of the inputs/outputs and a unique identifier being assigned to each absolute address when the program is created. An electronic display means is provided to improve the control and monitoring of an assembly of this type, to display the assigned identifiers as plain text and/or symbols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2007
    Publication date: September 6, 2007
    Inventor: Thomas Schott
  • Tailgate of a motor vehicle
    Patent number: 6250707
    Abstract: A tailgate of a motor vehicle which can be selectively pivoted as the trunk lid around a front pivot axis by a front four-bar mechanism which has two levers or can be pivoted as the lid of a roof receiver for the folding roof around a rear pivot axis by a rear four-bar mechanism which has two levers, has a lever that is part of both the front four-bar mechanism and the rear four-bar mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2000
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2001
    Assignee: Webasto Vehicle Systems International GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Dintner, Stefan Miklosi, Thomas Schott
  • System of peripheral assemblies which may be arranged in a decentralized manner
    Patent number: 6076123
    Abstract: A peripheral assembly system which can be arranged in a decentralized manner, including a basic assembly (1) and at least one expansion module. The basic assembly (1) has integrated input/output units (4, 5) of, for example, 16 or 32 bits as well as an expansion connection (7). Via the expansion connection (7), the basic assembly (1) can be expanded, in a fine-tuned manner, with expansion modules, modules having channels numbering not more than 2.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 1998
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2000
    Assignee: Siemens AG
    Inventors: Thomas Schott, Siegfried Oblasser, Klaus Helmrich