Patents by Inventor Thorsten Kusnik

Thorsten Kusnik 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: 8701749
    Abstract: A method for producing a heat exchanger, a) a coolant pipe and a blank are provided; b) a bead that is made of a plastic adhesive is placed between the coolant pipe and the blank so as to extend in a manner that is adapted to the shape of the coolant pipe; and c) the bead located between the coolant pipe and the blank is compressed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbH
    Inventors: Detlef Cieslik, Thorsten Kusnik, Berthold Pflomm
  • Patent number: 8601935
    Abstract: A linear compressor comprising a piston housing; a compressor piston configured for reciprocatory motion with the piston housing along an axis thereof, whereby the compressor piston is mounted in the piston housing a housing wall having openings formed therein with a gaseous fluid flowing through the openings; and a discharge device for fluid condensate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2013
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Marco Giacchi, Thorsten Kusnik, Jan-Grigor Schubert
  • Patent number: 8161764
    Abstract: A built-in refrigerator comprising a carcass, in the lower rear area of which a machine compartment is formed. Said machine compartment is closed at least in part by means of a rear wall. The rear wall delimits a first air passage of the machine compartment at the level of a support area of the carcass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 24, 2012
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Roland Benitsch, Siegfried Grasy, Thorsten Kusnik, Wolfgang Nuiding
  • Patent number: 8146467
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical stressing means having a housing (2) which can be attached to the drive spindle of a machine tool and in which a threaded rod (3) for adjustment of the clamping jaws of a chuck is mounted such that it can be moved axially, and having an electric actuating motor (4), whose rotor is connected for drive purposes to a drive wheel (6). The drive wheel (6) is connected to the shaft generator (7) of a harmonic drive, and the internal gearwheel (8) of the harmonic drive is connected to the housing (2), with the steel bush (9) (flexspline), which has an external tooth system, of the harmonic drive being provided as a drive for the spindle nut associated with the threaded rod (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2012
    Assignee: ROEHM GmbH
    Inventors: Johann Taglang, Thorsten Kusnik
  • Publication number: 20100218548
    Abstract: A linear compressor comprising a piston housing; a compressor piston configured for reciprocatory motion with the piston housing along an axis thereof, whereby the compressor piston is mounted in the piston housing a housing wall having openings formed therein with a gaseous fluid flowing through the openings; and a discharge device for fluid condensate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2007
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERATE GMBH
    Inventors: Marco Giacchi, Thorsten Kusnik, Jan-Grigor Schubert
  • Publication number: 20100072713
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electrical stressing means having a housing (2) which can be attached to the drive spindle of a machine tool and in which a threaded rod (3) for adjustment of the clamping jaws of a chuck is mounted such that it can be moved axially, and having an electric actuating motor (4), whose rotor is connected for drive purposes to a drive wheel (6). The drive wheel (6) is connected to the shaft generator (7) of a harmonic drive, and the internal gearwheel (8) of the harmonic drive is connected to the housing (2), with the steel bush (9) (flexspline), which has an external tooth system, of the harmonic drive being provided as a drive for the spindle nut associated with the threaded rod (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2007
    Publication date: March 25, 2010
    Inventors: Johann Taglang, Thorsten Kusnik
  • Publication number: 20100008801
    Abstract: A compressor including a cylinder, the cylinder delimiting a compressor chamber having a circular cross-section and the cylinder having a longitudinal axis and including a front wall, the front wall of the cylinder having inlet and outlet openings for passage therethrough of a medium to be compressed; and a reciprocating piston disposed in the compressor chamber, the reciprocating piston being reciprocable within the compressor chamber in a movement that includes a dead center position and having a pair of opposed ends with one end being more proximate to the front wall of the cylinder than the other opposed end and the reciprocating piston having an expulsion projection on its one end, the expulsion projection entering the outlet opening in a dead center position of the reciprocating piston, the longitudinal axis of the cylinder extending through the outlet opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2007
    Publication date: January 14, 2010
    Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmhH
    Inventors: Marco Giacchi, Thorsten Kusnik, Jan-Grigor Schubert
  • Publication number: 20090272140
    Abstract: A built-in refrigerator comprising a carcass, in the lower rear area of which a machine compartment is formed. Said machine compartment is closed at least in part by means of a rear wall. The rear wall delimits a first air passage of the machine compartment at the level of a support area of the carcass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2007
    Publication date: November 5, 2009
    Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbH
    Inventors: Roland Benitsch, Siegfried Grasy, Thorsten Kusnik, Wolfgang Nuiding
  • Publication number: 20090238701
    Abstract: A compressor includes a working chamber in which a piston for compressing a gas can be displaced, a piston disposed in the working chamber, an inlet connection communicated with the working chamber, the inlet connection guiding a gas to the working chamber; an outlet connection communicated with the working chamber, the piston being displaceable within the working chamber to displace gas from working chamber via the outlet connection; a plurality of openings in a wall of the working chamber, the openings being communicated with the outlet connection for permitting gas flow from the outlet connection back to the working chamber, the openings being respectively covered and uncovered by the piston as the piston moves within the working chamber; and a particle filter arranged in a flow path of the gas between the inlet connection and the outlet connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2007
    Publication date: September 24, 2009
    Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Marco Giacchi, Thorsten Kusnik, Jan-Grigor Schubert
  • Publication number: 20090020265
    Abstract: A heat exchanger includes at least two tube sections wound helically to form a spiral and are arranged in an interlacing manner inside one another for guiding a heat transfer fluid. The heat exchanger includes a first tube section helically wound to form a first spiral. The first tube section is for guiding a first heat transfer fluid and a second tube section is helically wound to form a second spiral, the first spiral and the second spiral being arranged in an interlacing manner inside one another and being connected to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2006
    Publication date: January 22, 2009
    Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Adolf Feinauer, Thorsten Kusnik, Wolfgang Nuiding
  • Publication number: 20080066489
    Abstract: A method for producing a heat exchanger, a) a coolant pipe and a blank are provided; b) a bead that is made of a plastic adhesive is placed between the coolant pipe and the blank so as to extend in a manner that is adapted to the shape of the coolant pipe; and c) the bead located between the coolant pipe and the blank is compressed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2005
    Publication date: March 20, 2008
    Applicant: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUGERAETE GMBH
    Inventors: Detlef Cieslik, Thorsten Kusnik, Berthold Pflomm
  • Publication number: 20070295495
    Abstract: A heat exchanger for a refrigerating appliance includes a plate, a conduit tubing, which is placed in thermo-conductive contact with the plate and is provided for transporting a coolant, and a holding material layer that adheres to the plate and to the conduit tubing. The holding material layer is made of a bitumen composition. The heat exchanger can be produced by stacking the plate, the conduit tubing, and a sheet made of the bitumen composition, whereby the holding material layer is formed form the sheet by heating and pressing the stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 10, 2007
    Publication date: December 27, 2007
    Applicant: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbH
    Inventors: Detlef Cieslik, Thorsten Kusnik, Berthold Pflomm
  • Patent number: 7266890
    Abstract: A heat exchanger for a refrigerating appliance includes a plate, a conduit tubing, which is placed in thermo-conductive contact with the plate and is provided for transporting a coolant, and a holding material layer that adheres to the plate and to the conduit tubing. The holding material layer is made of a bitumen composition. The heat exchanger can be produced by stacking the plate, the conduit tubing, and a sheet made of the bitumen composition, whereby the holding material layer is formed form the sheet by heating and pressing the stack.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2004
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2007
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeraete GmbH
    Inventors: Detlef Cieslik, Thorsten Kusnik, Berthold Pflomm
  • Publication number: 20060124274
    Abstract: A heat exchanger for a refrigeration device including a base plate with a tubular duct for coolant fixed thereto. A pipe is arranged on the base plate and is included with a temperature sensor. The pipe is fixed to the surface of the base plate with the aid of at least one brace, which brace is connected both to the pipe and to the tubular coolant duct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2003
    Publication date: June 15, 2006
    Inventors: Detlef Cieslik, Thorsten Kusnik
  • Publication number: 20050109497
    Abstract: A heat exchanger for a refrigerating appliance includes a plate, a conduit tubing, which is placed in thermo-conductive contact with the plate and is provided for transporting a coolant, and a holding material layer that adheres to the plate and to the conduit tubing. The holding material layer is made of a bitumen composition. The heat exchanger can be produced by stacking the plate, the conduit tubing, and a sheet made of the bitumen composition, whereby the holding material layer is formed form the sheet by heating and pressing the stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2004
    Publication date: May 26, 2005
    Inventors: Detlef Cieslik, Thorsten Kusnik, Berthold Pflomm