Patents by Inventor Thomas Winkler

Thomas Winkler 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: 20150136433
    Abstract: Percussion unit, especially for a rotary hammer and/or percussion hammer, comprising a control unit which is designed for open-loop and/or closed loop control of a pneumatic percussion mechanism, and at least one operating condition sensor unit. According to the disclosure, the control unit is designed to detect at least one percussion mechanism parameter depending on measurement values of the operating condition sensor unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Rainer Nitsche, Matthias Tauber, Gerd Schlesak, Antoine Vandamme, Thomas Winkler, Christian Bertsch, Achim Duesselberg, Ulli Hoffmann, Thilo Henke, Juergen Lennartz, Helge Sprenger
  • Publication number: 20150135306
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an electric tool, particularly a hand-held power tool, comprising a control unit which has control software with control parameters, and is provided for the purpose of controlling a drive unit. According to the disclosure, said electric tool comprises an interface unit that is provided to fundamentally update and/or modify the control software and/or the control parameters.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 3, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Thomas Winkler, Ulli Hoffmann, Klaus Kuespert, Klaus Marx, Carsten Diem, Jan Breitenbach, Juergen Lennartz, Ulrich Schulmeister, Christian Bertsch, Achim Duesselberg, Helge Sprenger
  • Publication number: 20150112739
    Abstract: A method and system for monetization of an application is provided. The method includes identifying one or more monetizing event in the application. Further, the method includes modifying one or more trigger points in the application based on the identified monetizing event. Each trigger point is associated with a rule for monetizing the application in response to an activation of the trigger point. Furthermore, the method includes building an application package including the modified trigger points.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2014
    Publication date: April 23, 2015
    Inventors: Chirag Pathak, Jussi Leino, Bernard Wei, Thomas Winkler, Ashwini Bharadwaj
  • Publication number: 20150101835
    Abstract: Percussion unit, especially for a rotary hammer and/or percussion hammer, comprising a control unit which is designed for controlling a pneumatic percussion mechanism. According to the disclosure, the control unit comprises at least one load estimation device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2013
    Publication date: April 16, 2015
    Inventors: Rainer Nitsche, Antoine Vandamme, Thomas Winkler, Helge Sprenger, Haris Hamedovic, Wolfgang Fischer, Christian Bertsch, Mario Eduardo Vega Zavala, Ulli Hoffmann, Thilo Henke, Achim Duesselberg
  • Publication number: 20150090086
    Abstract: A power tool includes a sawing working device of an at least partially flat form and at least one actuator. The sawing working device is configured to produce a sawing cut in a working direction. The at least one actuator is configured to produce at least one oscillation in the sawing working device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2014
    Publication date: April 2, 2015
    Inventors: Thomas Winkler, Helge Sprenger, Peter Schwenkel, Richard Schoenleber, David Gaenzle
  • Patent number: 8977708
    Abstract: A mobile wireless communications device may include a portable housing, at least one wireless transceiver carried by the portable housing, and a controller carried by the portable housing and coupled to the at least one wireless transceiver. The controller may be configured to operate a plurality of different mobile device applications for processing different electronic file types and generating download electronic file transfer requests and upload electronic file transfer requests, download requested electronic files for the plurality of different device applications via the at least one wireless transceiver using a common file transfer application responsive to the download electronic file transfer requests, and upload requested electronic files for the plurality of different device applications via the at least one wireless transceiver using the common file transfer application responsive to the upload electronic file transfer requests.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2015
    Assignee: BlackBerry Limited
    Inventors: Vikram Kewalramani, Arun Kumar, Michael Thomas Winkler
  • Patent number: 8966752
    Abstract: A shaft, such as a camshaft for use in the internal combustion engine of a motor vehicle, in which the shaft includes a basic shaft body, a plurality of functional bodies, such as cams, mounted in axially spaced positions on the basic shaft body, and at least one balancing element mounted on the basic shaft body, in which the at least one balancing element is produced separately from the basic shaft body and from the functional bodies, and the functional bodies and the at least one balancing element are subsequently mounted on said basic shaft body, for example, by axial press fitting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Neumayer Tekfor Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Manfred Vogel, Matthias Derse, Matthias Bechtold, Thomas Winkler
  • Patent number: 8875851
    Abstract: A combined electromechanical vehicle brake has a hydraulically activated operating brake and an electromechanically activated parking brake apparatus. A hydraulic operating pressure chamber in a brake housing is delimited by a brake piston that can be loaded by hydraulic pressure to carry out operating braking actions. The brake piston can be activated along a longitudinal piston axis to achieve a braking effect. The parking brake apparatus acts upon the brake piston by a gear unit because the gear unit converts the rotational movement of an electromechanical actuator into a translational movement, causing the brake piston to be activated to carry out parking brake processes and remain in the activated position. The gear unit has a threaded spindle and a threaded nut that contact one another via a plurality of rolling elements. A spring element allows the rolling elements to slip when the gear unit is activated in the unloaded state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2014
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventor: Thomas Winkler
  • Patent number: 8869677
    Abstract: A piston for a brake caliper of a disc brake constructed as a pot which is open at one end, having a longitudinal axis, a wall, and a piston head. The piston is supported in a cylinder of the brake caliper such that it can be moved along the longitudinal direction, and it can be placed against a brake pad in the region of the piston head by an axial contact surface. When the piston is subjected to pressure by a hydraulic fluid, the piston moves in the cylinder and presses the brake pad against a brake disc. A projection having a conical surface is provided on an inner surface of the piston head. A recess is provided, which is substantially at the same distance from the longitudinal axis as the projection on the inner surface of the piston head, on an outer surface of the piston head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignees: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG, Erdrich-Beteiligungs GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk Koch, Herwig Bauer, Thomas Winkler, Anja Klimt, Uwe Zeibig
  • Patent number: 8827055
    Abstract: An emergency braking system for a machine tool for the abrupt braking of a rotating shaft, including at least one brake drum and at least one brake shoe which are brought into engagement with each other in order to brake the shaft, the brake drum engaging with the brake shoe under the influence of a centrifugal force resulting from the rotation of a shaft. The present system is configured in such a way that at least one resetting device is provided which makes it possible to reset the brake shoes in the direction of their original position after braking has taken place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Winkler
  • Patent number: 8764294
    Abstract: A circumferential guide for rolling bodies for use in a linear guide unit which has a carriage-type part and a rail-type part that has at least one loaded roller body row and one unloaded roller body row during the intended operation. The circumferential guide is configured as a pre-mountable unit. A linear guide unit is also disclosed that contains at least one circumferential guide. The circumferential guide has at least one component for the rolling bodies, which at least partially guides both the loaded rolling body rows and the unloaded rolling body rows (Ru) during the intended operation. This configuration achieves that the parts requirement for the circumferential guide can be held low, resulting both in a reduction of production costs and in a compact and stable shape of the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 1, 2014
    Assignee: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventor: Thomas Winkler
  • Patent number: 8739804
    Abstract: A mechanism for releasing an eye strip from a backing material card is described. The backing material card includes a movable flap that releases a right and/or left undamaged end of a strip (for right or left hand preference) into free space in order to conveniently lift the strip off the backing material, preferably between the user's thumb and index finger, for proper orientation and placement on the eyelid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: Victoria McGill Enterprises, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel E. Cohen, Steven Thomas Winkler
  • Patent number: 8689665
    Abstract: An emergency braking system for a machine tool for abruptly braking a revolving shaft includes at least one brake drum and at least one brake shoe which are engaged with one another in order to brake the shaft. The braking intervention between the brake drum and the brake shoe takes place under the influence of a centrifugal force resulting from the rotation of a shaft as soon as a locking device is released. Also provided in the braking system is a diagnostic system which allows the functionality of the locking device to be checked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Winkler
  • Patent number: 8689948
    Abstract: A machine tool having an emergency braking system for abruptly braking a rotating shaft of the machine tool to protect a user of the machine tool, the emergency braking system having a brake drum that can be forced into engagement with the at least one brake shoe to brake the shaft. The brake drum and the at least one brake shoe are designed and configured in a way that allows the braking engagement therebetween to take place under the influence of a centrifugal force or centrifugal acceleration resulting from the rotation of a shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Winkler
  • Patent number: 8684147
    Abstract: A combined vehicle brake which has a hydraulically actuable service brake and an electromechanically actuable parking brake device, a hydraulic service pressure space being delimited in a brake housing by a brake piston which can be acted upon by hydraulic pressure medium in order to execute service braking operations, so that the brake piston can be actuated along a piston longitudinal axis in order to achieve a braking action, and the parking brake device acting on the brake piston by a gear, in that the gear converts the rotational movement of an electromechanical actuator into a translational movement and causes an actuation of the brake piston in order to execute parking braking operations and holds the said brake piston in the actuated position, the gear having a threaded spindle and a threaded nut which are in contact with one another via a plurality of rolling bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Thomas Winkler, Anja Klimt, Thomas Hess, Willi Zeig, Marcus Schumann
  • Patent number: 8677870
    Abstract: An emergency braking system for abruptly braking a revolving shaft of a machine tool for protecting a user of the machine tool includes a brake drum which may be engaged with at least one brake shoe in order to brake the shaft. The brake drum and the at least one brake shoe are configured in such a way that the braking engagement between the brake drum and the brake shoe takes place under the influence of a centrifugal force or centrifugal acceleration resulting from the rotation of a shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Winkler
  • Patent number: 8616100
    Abstract: An emergency braking system for a machine tool, for the abrupt braking of a rotating shaft, including at least one brake drum and at least one brake shoe which are brought into engagement with one another in order to brake the shaft. According to the present system, the system is configured in such a way that the braking engagement between the brake drum and the brake shoe takes place under the influence of a centrifugal force resulting from the rotation of a shaft as soon as a locking device is triggered.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Winkler
  • Patent number: 8616348
    Abstract: A combined vehicle brake including a hydraulically actuated service brake and an electromechanically actuated parking brake device, a hydraulic operating pressure chamber in a brake housing being defined by a brake piston, which for performing service braking actions can be acted upon by hydraulic pressure fluid, so that the brake piston can be actuated along a piston longitudinal axis in order to produce a braking action, and the parking brake device acting on the brake piston by way of a transmission that translates the rotary motion of an electromechanical actuator into a translational motion and actuates the brake piston to perform parking brake actions and to keep it in the actuated position. Also disclosed is a transmission for translating a rotary motion into a translational motion by way of a screw spindle and a spindle nut, which are in contact with one another by way of multiple rolling elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Thomas Winkler, Jürgen Balz, Dirk Koch, Marcus Schumann, Anja Klimt, Jürgen Bauer, Torsten Hintz
  • Publication number: 20130346606
    Abstract: Some aspects of what is described here relate to managing the use of network resources on a mobile device. User input received at the device indicates whether to allow an application associated with a first perimeter on the device to access a network resource associated with a second perimeter on the device. For example, in some instances user input may indicate whether to allow data from applications associated with a personal perimeter on the device to be transmitted over an enterprise communication system. When outbound data associated with the first perimeter are received, the device determines, according to the indication from the user input, whether to route the outbound data to the network resource associated with the second perimeter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Inventors: Christopher Maybee Ryerson, Christopher Lyle Bender, Michael Thomas Winkler, David Bukurak, Benjamin Altman
  • Publication number: 20130328323
    Abstract: A method and mechanism for starting an internal combustion engine, having a summed torque extending in a wave form over a rotational angle of the crankshaft of the internal combustion engine, by means of an electric machine which is rotationally coupled to the crankshaft and torsional elasticity which is effective between the crankshaft and the electric machine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2013
    Publication date: December 12, 2013
    Inventors: Wolfgang Reik, Thomas Winkler, Mathias Goeckler