Patents by Inventor Walter Bleuel

Walter Bleuel 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: 8382346
    Abstract: The invention provides an illumination device, preferably a reading lamp, which, on the one hand, has a compact design and, on the other hand, ensures a flexible illumination of objects, for which, in order to ensure an adequately high illuminance, high-power light sources can be used and which includes preferably a light source and a light-guiding element that can be pivoted and/or tilted around a pivoting/tilting point, which has at least one light-guiding axis and at least one light in-coupling surface as well as one light out-coupling surface, with the light-guiding element being arranged preferably in an axially displaceable manner in such a way that a free beam area can exist between the light source and the light in-coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2013
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Bernd Schultheis, Petra Kuntze, Oliver Keiper, Sigurd Dressler, Andreas Hatzenbuehler, Walter Bleuel, Klaus Engelmann, Paul Bou Saleh, Armin Plichta
  • Patent number: 8256457
    Abstract: A saddle tank for internal combustion engines of motor vehicles includes an oblong boom, which is connected at one end to a swirl pot located in the first chamber and rests toward the other end on a lower saddle surface of the saddle and a retainer for a Venturi nozzle or pump, which is mounted so it is rotatable on the other end of the boom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventor: Walter Bleuel
  • Publication number: 20100002443
    Abstract: The invention provides an illumination device, preferably a reading lamp, which, on the one hand, has a compact design and, on the other hand, ensures a flexible illumination of objects, for which, in order to ensure an adequately high illuminance, high-power light sources can be used and which includes preferably a light source and a light-guiding element that can be pivoted and/or tilted around a pivoting/tilting point, which has at least one light-guiding axis and at least one light in-coupling surface as well as one light out-coupling surface, with the light-guiding element being arranged preferably in an axially displaceable manner in such a way that a free beam area can exist between the light source and the light in-coupling.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2007
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Inventors: Bernd Schultheis, Petra Kuntze, Oliver Keiper, Sigurd Dressler, Andreas Hatzenbuehler, Walter Bleuel, Klaus Engelmann, Paul Bou Saleh, Armin Plichta
  • Publication number: 20090314782
    Abstract: A liquid container is provided that has an opening at the bottom for supplying or removing a liquid, and a groove is formed in the container bottom in the container interior in the area of the opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2007
    Publication date: December 24, 2009
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Walter Bleuel
  • Publication number: 20090134175
    Abstract: A fuel tank is provided that is made of a plastics material. The fuel tank includes, but is not limited to an outer tank and a swirl pot arranged in the interior thereof. The edge of the swirl pot and the opening of the fuel tank are connected positively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2006
    Publication date: May 28, 2009
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Walter Bleuel, Heinz-Werner Wille
  • Publication number: 20080149199
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a saddle tank for internal combustion engines of motor vehicles, comprising an oblong boom, which is connected at one end to a swirl pot located in the first chamber and rests toward the other end on a lower saddle surface of the saddle and a retainer for a Venturi nozzle or pump, which is mounted so it is rotatable on the other end of the boom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2007
    Publication date: June 26, 2008
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventor: Walter BLEUEL
  • Patent number: 5992263
    Abstract: A locking device for locking an adjustable steering column in an adjusted position including a lateral clamping element having enlarged heads at opposite ends thereof and a piston and a cylinder between the enlarged heads and a rotatable locking rod for locking or unlocking the steering column arranged axially immovable relative to the steering column and compactly in a space that is little used. The piston and cylinder have overlapping bores parallel to the centerline of the steering column. The locking rod, also parallel to the centerline of the steering column, has an oval-shaped portion protruding through the overlapping bores so that when the long axis of the oval-shaped portion is vertical the clamping element is loose and the steering column is vertically and horizontally adjustable and when the long axis of the oval-shaped portion is horizontal the clamping element is tight and the steering column is vertically and horizontally locked.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 1997
    Date of Patent: November 30, 1999
    Assignee: General Motors Corporation
    Inventors: Walter Bleuel, Wolfgang Markard
  • Patent number: 4364673
    Abstract: An electrical clock, particularly a quartz clock, with a movement case receiving a time-producing and time-indicating device, on the rear side of the movement case setting members being provided for the clock time and for an alarm device, and a mount in which the movement case is insertable in different relative positions relative to the mount. A viewing glass covers the time-indicating device. The movement case with the viewing glass form a self-contained unit. The mount is formed as a housing surrounding on all sides at least the rear side of the movement case and has an inner periphery which corresponds to the periphery of the movement case, the movement case being detachably catchably insertable within the inner periphery of the housing. The housing is formed at its outer periphery for connection to attachment means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 1981
    Date of Patent: December 21, 1982
    Assignee: VDO Adolf Schindling AG
    Inventor: Walter Bleuel
  • Patent number: 4362402
    Abstract: A clock with a housing with quadratic or square cross-section in the plane of the dial plate and a holder for the detachable reception of the housing. At least one part of the holder is formed in the shape of a yoke having two spring arms between which the housing can be clampingly inserted, and at least the side surfaces of the housing and at least the free ends of the arms are provided with interengaging profiles for the detent connection of the holder and the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 14, 1980
    Date of Patent: December 7, 1982
    Assignee: VDO Adolf Schindling AG
    Inventors: Manfred Kallinke, Walter Bleuel, Wolfgang Hoehn, Kurt Heinrich