Patents by Inventor Uwe Mayer

Uwe Mayer 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: 20040184686
    Abstract: A guide rail for a linear bearing has at least one rail element with a guideway for rolling bodies. The rail element is connected to a plastic body or borders the plastic body, with the plastic body forming the base body of the guide rail. To increase the precision of the guide rail, especially when used in an environment involving a wide temperature range, the rail element is connected to a metallic support frame which is surrounded at least partially by the material of the plastic body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2004
    Publication date: September 23, 2004
    Applicant: AB SKF
    Inventors: Uwe Mayer, Ludwig Edelmann, Henryk Velde, Anita Gransow
  • Patent number: 6474868
    Abstract: A roller bearing for longitudinal motion includes a sleeve part through which passes a guide rod, a plurality of preferably uniformly distributed race plates each disposed in a respective receptacle formed in either the sleeve part or the guide rod, and a plurality of roller bodies disposed between the race plates and the guide rod. To compensate in a simple way for production variations, a spring mechanism is operatively associated with at least one of the race plates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2002
    Assignees: SKF Linearsysteme GmbH, Nacam France S.A.
    Inventors: Andreas Geyer, Erwin Jeschka, Uwe Mayer, Erwin Stahl, Henryk Velde, Eric Baudez, Benoit Duval, André Laisement, Manuel Antonio Onteniente
  • Patent number: 6361309
    Abstract: An injection molding tool for producing a cage for a linear bearing in which several rolling elements are positioned in the cage in the direction of its longitudinal extent in the assembled state includes two tool halves each provided with protrusions. The protrusions extend into the cavity of the tool during the injection molding process and form a portion of a receiver pocket for receiving a rolling element. To make the injection molding process simple and economical, the protrusions are fixedly connected with the tool halves, with the protrusions being are shaped in such a way that, when acting together, they form holding elements for retaining the rolling elements in the receiver pockets in the cage when the injection molding tool is closed. The holding elements are thus integrated into the basic geometry of the cage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2000
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2002
    Assignee: SKF Linearsysteme GmbH
    Inventors: Albert Burzynski, Ludwig Edelmann, Andreas Geyer, Hermann Glöckner, Erwin Jeschka, Holger Kristandt, Uwe Mayer, Henryk Velde, Lothar Walter
  • Patent number: 6276830
    Abstract: Linear guide assembly comprising at least two guide rails, which are moveable in the longitudinal direction with respect to each other and have prismatic shaped raceways, a plurality of rolling elements guided in a cage, at least one gear wheel for the positive guidance of the cage is connected to the cage, which wheel engages in toothed racks, each of which is connected to a guide rail, the gear wheel comprising a disk, having axial projections distributed around the periphery at least one of the end surfaces and rows of uniformly spaced recesses, into which the projections on the disk can engage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2001
    Assignee: SKF Linearsysteme GmbH
    Inventors: Ludwig Edelmann, Andreas Geyer, Hermann Glöckner, Georg Hierl, Holger Kristandt, Uwe Mayer, Henryk Velde, Lothar Walter
  • Publication number: 20010006564
    Abstract: A roller bearing for longitudinal motion includes a sleeve part through which passes a guide rod, a plurality of preferably uniformly distributed race plates each disposed in a respective receptacle formed in either the sleeve part or the guide rod, and a plurality of roller bodies disposed between the race plates and the guide rod. To compensate in a simple way for production variations, a spring mechanism is operatively associated with at least one of the race plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2000
    Publication date: July 5, 2001
    Inventors: Andreas Geyer, Erwin Jeschka, Uwe Mayer, Erwin Stahl, Henryk Velde, Eric Baudez, Benoit Duval, Andre Laisement, Manuel Antonio Onteniente
  • Patent number: 6168313
    Abstract: A bearing unit includes a housing provided with a cylindrical bore and a linear bearing positioned within the cylindrical bore. The linear bearing includes a cage in which are arranged a plurality of endless ball rows each defined by a longitudinally extending ball track for load-bearing balls, a longitudinally extending return track for non-load-bearing balls, and deflection tracks connecting ends of the longitudinally extending ball track and the longitudinally extending return track. Each longitudinally extending ball track opens radially outwardly with a track plate being arranged to cover the longitudinally extending ball track for the load-bearing balls. The cylindrical bore of the housing is provided with a plurality of recesses each located in an area of the cylindrical bore facing one axial end of one of the track plates to permit radial deflection of the one axial end of the track plate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1999
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2001
    Assignee: SKF Linearsysteme GmbH
    Inventors: Ludwig Edelmann, Andreas Geyer, Hermann Glöckner, Georg Hierl, Holger Kristandt, Uwe Mayer, Henryk Velde, Lothar Walter
  • Patent number: 6155719
    Abstract: Linear guide assembly comprising at least two guide rails, which are movable in the longitudinal direction with respect to each other having similarly shaped raceways, a plurality rolling elements, guided in a cage, at least one gear wheel connected to the cage for the positive guidance of the cage, which wheel engages in toothed racks or the like, each of which is connected to a guide rail, said gear wheel consisting of a disk, having an external circumference which is provided with uniformly distributed axial rolling elements, which project slightly beyond the disk, and wherein said recesses, correspond to the external shape of the rolling elements and into which the rolling elements can engage, are provided equal distances apart directly in the guide rails.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 1999
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2000
    Assignee: SKF GmbH
    Inventors: Ludwig Edelmann, Andreas Geyer, Hermann Glockner, Georg Hierl, Holger Kristandt, Uwe Mayer, Henryk Velde, Lothar Walter
  • Patent number: 6132092
    Abstract: A ball bearing for permitting linear movements includes a cage having an inner surface that is adapted to surround a shaft, a plurality of axial guide tracks for receiving load-bearing balls and axial return tracks for receiving non-load-bearing balls. A cover is provided at each end of the cage, with each cover being provided a turn-around track that connect an end of one guide track with an end of an adjoining return track. The guide tracks and the return tracks have a slit extending along the length of the tracks and opening radially inwardly. To enable economical production of the bearing with relatively simple tools and universal use of a single cage for different ball bearings, the lateral guide walls of both the guide tracks and the return tracks possess the same cross-sectional configuration and, in the radial outer area of the cage, are provided with axially extending grooves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2000
    Assignee: SKF Linearsysteme GmbH
    Inventors: Ludwig Edelmann, Hermann Glockner, Uwe Mayer, Henryk Velde, Lothar Walter
  • Patent number: 6123338
    Abstract: A radial seal useful in linear ball bearings and designed to be secured during transportation as well as during operation of the bearing includes an arcuate disk portion having opposite sides. An arcuate projection is provided on each side of the disk portion, at least one of which is axially oriented. The projections are designed to have different diameters. This produces a stepped seating surface along the outside diameter of the radial seal that effects a reliable seating of the radial seal in the linear ball bearing. The radial seal can also be designed with two axially oriented projections disposed at different diameters on one side of the disk portion for projecting into an annular groove on the frontal face of the outer ring of the linear ball bearing. By constructing the projections with circumferential outer faces that slightly diverge in a cone-shaped manner, the projections further inhibit the seal from falling out of the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2000
    Assignee: SKF Linearsysteme GmbH
    Inventors: Ludwig Edelmann, Andreas Geyer, Hermann Glockner, Holger Kristandt, Uwe Mayer, Henryk Velde, Lothar Walter
  • Patent number: 6109788
    Abstract: A ball bearing for permitting linear movements includes a cage having an inside surface that is adapted to surround a shaft. The cage also has ball tracks each defined by an axial guide track, an axial return track and two turn-around tracks which connect the ends of the guide track and the return track. The guide and return tracks have a radially inwardly open slit that extends along the lengths of the tracks. The guide tracks are covered by respective ball track plates provided with projections that project into grooves in the cage. To reduce tool and manufacturing costs, ball track plates having the same profile (i.e., identical outside diameters, ball track diameters, plate widths and plate thicknesses) are used for several ball bearing sizes with different bore and outside diameters.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1998
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2000
    Assignee: SKF Linearsystems GmbH
    Inventors: Ludwig Edelmann, Hermann Glockner, Zoltan Laszlofalvi, Uwe Mayer, Henryk Velde, Lothar Walter
  • Patent number: 6068404
    Abstract: A ball bearing for permitting longitudinal movements with respect to a shaft includes a cage provided with at least two longitudinally extending guide tracks having opposite ends that are connected by semicircular turn around tracks. A plurality of balls are positioned in the guide tracks, with balls positioned in one of the guide tracks forming load-bearing balls and balls positioned in another one of the guide tracks forming non-load-bearing balls. The longitudinally extending guide track for the load-bearing balls is provided with a slit that is open radially inwardly for passage of the balls in a direction radially inwardly towards the shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 1998
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2000
    Assignee: SKF Linearsysteme GmbH
    Inventors: Ludwig Edelmann, Andreas Geyer, Hermann Glockner, Holger Kristandt, Zoltan Laszlofalvi, Uwe Mayer, Henryk Velde, Lothar Walter
  • Patent number: 5145260
    Abstract: A rolling bearing for longitudinal movement has a cage with its inner surface surrounding a shaft. The cage has axially extending races for loaded balls and axially extending return races for unloaded balls, as well as a cover on each of its two ends. Each cover has turn around races connected between the ends of a race and a return race. The races, return races and turn around races have slits extending along the races and open to the shaft. Each turn around race in the covers is bounded by a curved shoulder section on the inner surface of the cage and extending along the turn around race, and a curved inner wall section of the cover extending parallel to the curved shoulder wall section of the cage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 1991
    Date of Patent: September 8, 1992
    Assignee: SKF Linearsysteme GmbH
    Inventors: Ludwig Edelmann, Hermann Glockner, Zoltan Laszlofalvi, Uwe Mayer, Lothar Walter
  • Patent number: 4928041
    Abstract: The invention relates to a flat display device with a faceplate (1) having either an outward curvature or bulging inwards under the action of atmospheric pressure, the device also comprising a planar deflection device (8) to deflect the electron beams (13, 14) in each line. With a view to obtaining a pure-color image, the deflection voltages are corrected according to the particular distance between the deflection device (8) and the faceplate (1), thereby ensuring that the electron beams (13, 14) will impinge only on the appropriate equidistant phosphor dots or strips (4). The formula for calculating the correction factor (K) is stated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 1989
    Date of Patent: May 22, 1990
    Assignee: Nokia Graetz
    Inventors: Uwe Mayer, Kurt-Manfred Tischer
  • Patent number: 4896080
    Abstract: In a flat, vacuum-enclosed picture-reproducing device having a phosphor-coated glass faceplate and a shallow tray-shaped rear housing in which a cathode consisting of a periodic array of oxide-coated heating wires is located in front of a counterelectrode, and which contains a control arrangement between the cathode and the faceplate, a perforated anode is present between the heating wires and the control arrangement, which consists of two layers of electrodes, and the counterelectrode has segments arranged perpendicular to the longitudinal dimension of the oxide-coated heating wires.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 1988
    Date of Patent: January 23, 1990
    Assignee: Nokia Unterhaltungselektronik
    Inventors: Kurt M. Tischer, Uwe Mayer
  • Patent number: 4755065
    Abstract: A cage for a linear or rotationally guided rolling bearing has two uniformly spaced apart smooth boundary surfaces extending in the rolling direction, the cage having pockets adjacent one another in the rolling direction for receiving at least one rolling body. Each pocket has at least one recess pressed in the immediate vicinity of at least one edge in the opposed surfaces of the cage for the production of a holding groove. The walls of the holding groove closely surround dimensionally decreasing sections of the rolling bodies. Each holding groove is formed on the end of one or more holding tongues extending into the pockets. The recesses of the boundary surfaces are in the form of grooves with constant cross section, are pressed only in the holding tongues, and extend across the entire width of the holding tongues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1987
    Date of Patent: July 5, 1988
    Assignee: SKF Linearsysteme GmbH
    Inventors: Lothar Walter, Uwe Mayer, Ludwig Edelmann
  • Patent number: 4729669
    Abstract: A linear ball bearing for a carriage in a machine tool has a support with a pair of raceways which oppose a corresponding pair of raceways formed in the carriage. Two endless rows of balls are arranged to circulate in adjacent planes, with the loaded balls rolling between the opposing raceways. One or two rails are fastened to the support for guiding the loaded balls outwardly of the support. The loaded balls of one row mesh in the interstices of the loaded balls of the other row. Each rail has a guiding web for laterally guiding the loaded balls and at least one retaining web for partly encompassing the loaded balls. The longitudinal gaps between the rail and the support have widths less than the ball diameter, thereby blocking the balls from falling out of the support when the bearing is disassembled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 1986
    Date of Patent: March 8, 1988
    Assignee: SKF Linearsysteme GmbH
    Inventors: Lothar Walter, Uwe Mayer, Zoltan Laszlofalvi
  • Patent number: 4717264
    Abstract: A ball bearing for lengthwise movement has a cage sleeve between a shaft and a housing. The cage sleeve has a plurality of circumferentially distributed channels in which a corresponding row of circulating balls is arranged. The balls loaded by the shaft travel in one linear raceway and return unloaded in another linear raceway, the ends of the linear raceways being connected by a pair of reversing raceways. A load-transmitting raceway rail is seated in each of a plurality of openings in the cage sleeve. Each raceway rail has a raceway groove formed by an inner shoulder and an outer shoulder which overlies the linear raceway for loaded balls, a surface portion which overlies the linear raceway for unloaded balls, and a pair of end surfaces which overlie the respective reversing raceways.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1986
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1988
    Assignee: SKF Linearsysteme GmbH
    Inventors: Lothar Walter, Uwe Mayer, Otmar Winkler, Herbert Dobhan
  • Patent number: 4020063
    Abstract: Cationic dyestuffs of the formula ##STR1## WHEREIN A and B denote aromatic-carbocyclic or aromatic-heterocyclic radicals,D denotes the groups --O--R.sub.2, ##STR2## R denotes hydrogen, alkyl, aralkyl, alkenyl, alkoxy or aryl, X denotes a bridge member andAn.sup.(.sup.-) denotes an anion,Are suitable for dyeing and printing of natural and synthetic materials, particularly of polyacrylonitrile, copolymers of acrylonitrile with other vinyl compounds, of acid modified polyesters and acid modified polyamides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 1973
    Date of Patent: April 26, 1977
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Uwe Mayer, Karl-Heinz Schundehutte