Patents by Inventor Tobias Schwarz

Tobias Schwarz 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: 9457400
    Abstract: A casting valve configured to supply a melt of a casting device includes a valve housing including a melt channel connection as an inlet and a valve outlet as a run-out. A melt channel is configured to be pressurizable via a casting pressure. A valve compartment is configured to receive the melt. The valve compartment is connectable via the melt channel connection with the melt channel. A closing device is configured to modify a cross-sectional surface of the valve outlet. A post-compression piston is configured to post-compress the melt after a completion of a mold filling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: SCHULER PRESSEN GMBH
    Inventors: Juergen Fahrenbach, Martin Gaebges, Michael Richter, Tobias Schwarz
  • Patent number: 9457485
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric shaver having a housing pivotably connected to a shaving head, where the shaving head can be locked at several predetermined positions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2016
    Assignee: Braun GmbH
    Inventors: Thorsten Pohl, Joachim Krauss, Tobias Schwarz, Peter Junk, Reinhold Eichhorn, Andreas Peter, Michael Odemer, Martin Fuellgrabe, Christoph Zegula, Alois Koeppl
  • Publication number: 20160129500
    Abstract: A method for a die casting with a casting device comprising a casting valve with a valve piston and a post-compression piston configured to provide a post-compression. The method includes providing a casting valve in a closed position and a mold cavity which is cleaned and prepared for a mold filling process, opening the casting valve for a casting, filling the casting valve with a melt, closing the casting valve after the filling with the melt, cooling the casting valve and the melt, and removing a cast part. A post-compression is provided to the melt during the cooling by the post-compression piston.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2016
    Publication date: May 12, 2016
    Applicant: SCHULER PRESSEN GMBH
    Inventors: JUERGEN FAHRENBACH, MARTIN GAEBGES, MICHAEL RICHTER, TOBIAS SCHWARZ
  • Patent number: 9044868
    Abstract: A cutting head for an electric razor is provided. The cutting head has at least one upper blade and a lower blade associated with the upper blade, which upper and lower blades are movably supported relative to one another and can be driven accordingly by a drive device. The upper blade has a contact surface for the skin to be shaved, which contact surface is formed by a plurality of webs that are each bounded by slots. The longitudinal extent of the webs runs substantially perpendicular to a threading edge bounding the contact surface. The contact surface is designed to be concave and rises towards the threading edge, where the threading edge has an outer radius and this outer radius encloses an angle of less than 90°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: Braun GmbH
    Inventors: Reinhold Eichhorn, Andreas Hartmann, Peter Junk, Joachim Krauss, Michael Odemer, Andreas Peter, Thorsten Pohl, Markus Sabisch, Tobias Schwarz, Thomas Verstege, Juergen Wolf, Christoph Zegula
  • Patent number: 8955228
    Abstract: A system comprising a primary electrical device, such as a shaver, and an auxiliary electrical device, such as a shaver cleaner, defining a receiving arrangement for receiving the primary electrical device. The primary electrical device includes a first connector configured to couple with an associated connector of the auxiliary device to transmit electrical or electromagnetic energy between the devices. The primary electrical device includes an additional connector configured to couple the primary electrical device for receiving electrical or electromagnetic energy, such as from an electric mains voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Braun GmbH
    Inventors: Reinhold Eichhorn, Detlef Gleich, Sebastian Hottenrott, Peter Junk, Christof Kleemann, Michael Odemer, Thorsten Pohl, Tobias Schwarz, Jürgen Wolf
  • Publication number: 20140345825
    Abstract: A casting device includes a mold cavity configured to form a hollow space for a cast part, a casting chamber for a metal melt, a gating system, an annular duct for the metal melt, and at least two annular duct connections configured to connect the casting chamber to the annular duct. The annular duct is configured to be connectable with the mold cavity via the gating system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: SCHULER PRESSEN GMBH
    Inventors: MARTIN GAEBGES, Juergen Fahrenbach, Tobias Schwarz
  • Publication number: 20140345824
    Abstract: A casting valve configured to supply a melt of a casting device includes a valve housing comprising a melt channel connection as an inlet and a valve outlet as a run-out. A melt channel is configured to be pressurizable via a casting pressure. A valve compartment is configured to receive the melt. The valve compartment is connectable via the melt channel connection with the melt channel. A closing device is configured to modify a cross-sectional surface of the valve outlet. A post-compression piston is configured to post-compress the melt after a completion of a mold filling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2014
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Applicant: SCHULER PRESSEN GMBH
    Inventors: JUERGEN FAHRENBACH, MARTIN GAEBGES, MICHAEL RICHTER, TOBIAS SCHWARZ
  • Publication number: 20140238633
    Abstract: A method for manufacturing a cast component with a casting device includes providing a casting device. The casting device comprises a filling chamber, a mold cavity comprising a hollow space, runners comprising at least one of a different length and a different cross-section, and a plunger arranged in the filling chamber. The metal melt is provided in a fluid state in the filling chamber. The metal melt is advanced via the runners from the filling chamber to the mold cavity by advancing the plunger in the filling chamber. Electromagnetic fields are provided. A flow velocity of melt currents in the respective runners is increased or decreased via the electromagnetic fields so that a melt front in each of the runners reaches the mold cavity when the filling chamber has been completely filled by the plunger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2014
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: SCHULER PRESSEN GMBH
    Inventor: TOBIAS SCHWARZ
  • Publication number: 20140245226
    Abstract: A display and operating device has a touch-sensitive display field by way of which the parameters of a parameter vector can be changed. In order to set the parameters, a structure of circular or annular elements is displayed, on the circumference of which a corresponding contact element is positioned. Using the position of a contact element on the circumference of the ring element, the value of the parameter is coded. The contact element is moved by user interaction to different radial positions about the center of the respective ring element to change the parameter value along the display field in the radial direction, and rotated in the circumferential direction of the ring element. The resolution of the parameter adjustment can be established in a simple and intuitive manner by selecting the radial position of the contact element during its rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Publication date: August 28, 2014
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Simon Butscher, Jens Mueller, Tobias Schwarz
  • Patent number: 8806756
    Abstract: An electric shaving apparatus including a housing and a shaving head. The shaving head is coupled to the housing by at least one first elastic element and includes at least one first shaving element. The electric shaving apparatus includes in addition an electric motor for generating an oscillatory motion of the shaving head and an oscillatory motion differing therefrom of at least one second shaving element. The electric motor includes two drive components of which a first drive component is adapted to be driven to oscillate relative to a second drive component. One of the drive components is connected to the second shaving element. The second shaving element or a drive part connected thereto is equipped with an elastic connection to the shaving head.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: Braun GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard Kraus, Uwe Schober, Detlef Gleich, Thomas Verstege, Tobias Schwarz
  • Patent number: 8732961
    Abstract: The invention relates to a lower cutter (4) which, together with an associated upper cutter (6), forms the shaving head of a dry shaver. The upper cutter is designed in the form of a perforated foil (6) which at least partially encloses the lower cutter (4) and is prestressed against the same. The lower cutter (4) has a plurality of spaced-apart blades having cutting edges (12, 13) in the form of strips between two peripheral regions (9, 10). The lower cutter (4) is essentially U-shaped in cross section. The width of the strip tapers monotonously from the two peripheral regions (9, 10) in the direction of the center (Z).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: Bruan GmbH
    Inventors: Reinhold Eichhorn, Andreas Hartmann, Peter Junk, Joachim Krauss, Michael Odemer, Andreas Peter, Thorsten Pohl, Markus Sabisch, Tobias Schwarz, Thomas Verstege, Juergen Wolf, Christoph Zegula
  • Publication number: 20140114328
    Abstract: The present disclosure is concerned with an attachment for an epilator or an epilator having at least a clamping unit for clamping and plucking hairs. The clamping unit is arranged for driven movement relative to a housing of the attachment or the epilator along a hair capture direction. The clamping unit has a moveable clamping element having a clamping surface and a hair guiding surface and a fixed clamping element having a clamping surface and a hair guiding surface, wherein the moveable clamping element and the fixed clamping element are arranged to be cyclically moveable between an open position and a closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: Braun GmbH
    Inventors: Frieder Grieshaber, Tarik Mehaddene, Bernhard Kraus, Luis Burrell-Diez, Andreas Lennartz, Tobias Schwarz, Markus Halm
  • Publication number: 20140107669
    Abstract: An attachment for an epilator or an epilator having at least a clamping unit for clamping and plucking hairs that is arranged for driven movement relative to a housing along a hair capture direction is disclosed. The clamping unit has a moveable clamping element having a clamping surface and a hair guiding surface and a fixed clamping element having a clamping surface and a hair guiding surfaced. The moveable clamping element and the fixed clamping element are arranged to be cyclically moveable between an open position in which the two clamping surfaces have a minimal distance such that a gap for receiving hairs is formed between them and a closed position in which the two clamping surfaces abut on each other. The two hair guiding surfaces form a funnel in front of the gap in the open position with respect to the hair capture direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: Braun GmbH
    Inventors: Frieder Grieshaber, Tarik Mehaddene, Bernhard Kraus, Luis Burrell-Diez, Andreas Lennartz, Tobias Schwarz, Markus Halm
  • Publication number: 20140107670
    Abstract: An attachment for an epilator or an epilator having at least a clamping unit for clamping and plucking hairs that is arranged for driven movement relative to a housing of the attachment or the epilator along a hair capture direction is disclosed. The clamping unit has a first clamping element having a clamping surface and a hair guiding surface and a second clamping element having a clamping surface and a hair guiding surface. The first clamping element and the second clamping element are arranged to be cyclically first between an open position in which the two clamping surfaces have a minimal distance such that a gap for receiving hairs is formed between them and a closed position in which the two clamping surfaces abut on each other. The two hair guiding surfaces form a funnel in front of the gap in the open position with respect to the hair capture direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: Braun GmbH
    Inventors: Frieder Grieshaber, Tarik Mehaddene, Bernhard Kraus, Luis Burrell-Diez, Andreas Lennartz, Tobias Schwarz, Markus Halm
  • Patent number: 8555509
    Abstract: A shaving unit for an electric shaver which comprises an outer cutter and an inner cutter associated to that outer cutter. The cutters are mounted so as to be movable relative to each other and adapted to be set in a relative motion by a drive mechanism. The inner cutter provides a plurality of cutting edges and abuts with its outer face on the inner face of the outer cutter. The outer cutter provides a plurality of teeth equipped with cutting edges. The outer cutter provides two comb elements which are disposed opposite one another and which extend according to the direction of the relative motion. The two comb elements are aligned with respect to one another such that the tips of the teeth of the first comb element are facing the tips of the teeth of the second comb element, the tips of the teeth spaced from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2013
    Assignee: Braun GmbH
    Inventors: Thorsten Pohl, Joachim Krauss, Tobias Schwarz, Peter Junk, Reinhold Eichhorn, Andreas Peter, Michael Odemer, Martin Fuellgrabe, Christoph Zegula, Alois Koeppl, Stefan Fuerst
  • Publication number: 20130023806
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a skin treatment device for professional and private use. In particular the present invention concerns a skin treatment device comprising a drive unit and an attachment, the drive unit comprising an output element and a rotary support element rotating about an axis of rotation, the rotary support element comprising protrusions, the attachment comprising a skin treatment element and a chassis for the skin treatment element, the chassis comprising a multitude of recesses to cooperate with the protrusions of the rotary support element of the drive unit, wherein the chassis can be supported by the rotary support element and wherein the protrusions can be brought into an engagement position with the recesses, while the chassis is supported by the rotary support element, and the protrusions can be brought into a disengagement position with the recesses, while the chassis is supported by the rotary support element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Inventors: Christof Ungemach, Michael Maichel, Ralf Klug, Tobias Schwarz, Pedro Sanchez-Martinez
  • Publication number: 20130023805
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a skin treatment device for professional and private use. In particular the present invention concerns a skin treatment device comprising a drive unit and an attachment, the drive unit comprising an output element and a rotary support element rotating about an axis of rotation, the rotary support element comprising protrusions, the attachment comprising a skin treatment element and a chassis for the skin treatment element, the chassis comprising a multitude of recesses to cooperate with the protrusions of the rotary support element of the drive unit, wherein the chassis can be supported by the rotary support element and wherein the protrusions can be brought into an engagement position with the recesses, while the chassis is supported by the rotary support element, and the protrusions can be brought into a disengagement position with the recesses, while the chassis is supported by the rotary support element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Inventors: Christof Ungemach, Michael Maichel, Ralf Klug, Tobias Schwarz
  • Publication number: 20120168409
    Abstract: A resistance welding device is disclosed in which one and the same operator control device can be used to flexibly operate a plurality of welding controllers simultaneously or a plurality of operator control devices can be used to flexibly operate only one and the same welding controller simultaneously.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 26, 2011
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Tobias Schwarz, Dhruv Kalia
  • Publication number: 20120055026
    Abstract: A shaving unit for an electric shaver which comprises an outer cutter and an inner cutter associated to that outer cutter. The cutters are mounted so as to be movable relative to each other and adapted to be set in a relative motion by a drive mechanism. The inner cutter provides a plurality of cutting edges and abuts with its outer face on the inner face of the outer cutter. The outer cutter provides a plurality of teeth equipped with cutting edges. The outer cutter provides two comb elements which are disposed opposite one another and which extend according to the direction of the relative motion. The two comb elements are aligned with respect to one another such that the tips of the teeth of the first comb element are facing the tips of the teeth of the second comb element, the tips of the teeth spaced from one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2011
    Publication date: March 8, 2012
    Inventors: Thorsten Pohl, Joachim Krauss, Tobias Schwarz, Peter Junk, Reinhold Eichhorn, Andreas Peter, Michael Odemer, Martin Fuellgrabe, Christoph Zegula, Alois Koeppl, Stefan Fuerst
  • Patent number: D763505
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Braun GmbH
    Inventors: Frieder Grieshaber, Bjorn Kling, Tarik Mehaddene, Markus Halm, Tobias Schwarz