Patents by Inventor Volker Distelrath

Volker Distelrath 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: 20040231553
    Abstract: A fun-ride and more especially a roller coaster or a similar fun-ride, in the case of which the amusement potential is simply enhanced because the basic or original type of movement, that is to say travel of a vehicle cabin on rails of a roller coaster is combined with a further and different types of motion is discontinued or then alternatively continued with such different type of motion. Figure along the travel path, that is to say for example along the elevated rails of a roller coaster, at one or more points additional ride change means are provided, which produce the additional or alternative type of motion for the vehicle cabin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2004
    Publication date: November 25, 2004
    Inventors: Volker Distelrath, Theo Fehsenmayr, Robert Gettert, Alfred Muller, Werner Riebesel, Martin Schneider, Philipp Stollwerck, Wendelin Stuckl
  • Patent number: 6302029
    Abstract: A vehicle, a vehicle for a fairground ride in particular, with an undercarriage (3) guided in a track (8) and a top carriage (2) arranged on said undercarriage (3) and rotatable with respect thereto, a damping device (9) for damping the relative movement between the top carriage and the undercarriage is provided for, is characterized in that said damping device (9) is constructed as centrifugal brake and/or a locking and/or alignment system (10, 11) controlled by said track (8) is provided for, which blocks or permits rotations of said top carriage (2) in relation to said undercarriage and/or aligns said top carriage (2) with respect to said undercarriage (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2000
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2001
    Assignee: Maurer Sohne GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Volker Distelrath