Patents by Inventor Walter Sodler

Walter Sodler 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: 4930588
    Abstract: An electronic balance with a weighing scale which is connected via a parallel guide to a system carrier, and with a translation lever which is rotatably mounted on the system carrier and onto the shorter lever arm of which the force of the weight acting on the balance scale is transferred via a coupling element and on the longer arm of which the coil of an electromagnetic compensation of force is fastened, that at least one spring touches the translation lever for the purpose of astatization, the line of application of which spring passes through the point of rotation of the translation lever. This results in a compact design and a good efficiency of astatization. It is advantageous to use a wire or a band and/or a laterally jutting-out projection on the translation lever as spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 1989
    Date of Patent: June 5, 1990
    Assignee: Sartorius GmbH
    Inventors: Otto Kuhlmann, Walter Sodler, Eberhard Stadler
  • Patent number: 4813505
    Abstract: It is disclosed for a balance with a scale on top based on the principle of the electromagnetic compensation of force with a system carrier fixed to the housing, with a load receiver, with two guide rods which connect the load receiver to the system carrier in a vertically movable direction as parallel guide, whereby the stem carrier, the two guide rods and the load receiver are designed as a one-piece casting, with a translation lever and with a coupling element between load receiver and translation lever, whereby the force from the load receiver corresponding to the mass of the weighed material is transferred via the coupling element to the shorter lever arm of the translation lever and the coil of the electromagnetic compensation of force is fastened to the longer lever arm of the translation lever that the system carrier comprise lateral projections which extend into the area between the guide rod arms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 1988
    Date of Patent: March 21, 1989
    Assignee: Sartorius GmbH
    Inventors: Walter Sodler, Eberhard Lubke, Otto Kuhlmann
  • Patent number: 4798250
    Abstract: A wind guard for a balance is suggested which consists of at least two cylindrically curved wall elements, in which each wall element is connected to a corresponding segment of the circular covering surface. In this manner, the balance scale is readily accessible both from the side and also from above when the wind guard is open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 14, 1987
    Date of Patent: January 17, 1989
    Assignee: Sartorius GmbH
    Inventors: Erich Knothe, Franz-Josef Melcher, Gunther Maaz, Klaus Dardat, Walter Sodler
  • Patent number: 4566548
    Abstract: In an analytical balance with a pan and a four-bar mechanism which keeps the balance pan parallel horizontally during its vertical travel, the one vertical side of which is held fast to the housing, the other vertical side of which, in the form of a coupling piece, carries an extension which receives the pan, and both horizontal sides of which are connected in an articulated manner by an upper and a lower rod to the vertical sides, whereby the four-bar mechanism is loaded by the restoring force of a load converter, the extension (16) which receives the pan (17) is L-shaped, the horizontal L-shank (pan arm) (16") carries the pan (17) rigidly connected to its free end and the vertical L-shank (bearing arm) (16') is mounted on the bar (18'") of a U-shaped arm bearing (18) which projects above and below over the vertically movable end (9) of the four-bar mechanism (5, 6, 7, 8, 9) with its two horizontal U-shanks (18, 18") in the rod planes and is rigidly fastened to it in two vertically superposed bearings (118')
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 1984
    Date of Patent: January 28, 1986
    Assignee: Sartorius GmbH
    Inventors: Walter Sodler, Erich Knothe, Gunther Maaz, Joachim Madge
  • Patent number: 4401176
    Abstract: Electronic weigher apparatus is disclosed which utilizes a plate situated below the weighing scale and above a load receiver which is part of an electronic weight measuring system. The plate is shaped in such a way that thermal air currents generated by the electronic apparatus are carried through a low air resistance path from the interior to the exterior of the weigher casing while a high resistance airflow path prevents air currents from being carried upward from the electronic apparatus to the weighing scale. A collar encircling the scale prevents external air currents from disturbing it during the loading operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 1982
    Date of Patent: August 30, 1983
    Assignee: Sartorius GmbH
    Inventors: Erich Knothe, Franz-Josef Melcher, Jurgen Ober, Walter Sodler, Veronika Martens
  • Patent number: 4281731
    Abstract: An electromagnetic force-compensating weigher with a load supporting device resiliently supported by resilient joints and movable between stops, wherein electric circuitry is connected to produce a slowly decaying mechanical oscillation upon the load supporting device, to thereby reduce the spring hysteresis of the resilient joints.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1980
    Date of Patent: August 4, 1981
    Assignee: Sartorius GmbH
    Inventors: Walter Sodler, Dieter Blawert, Jurgen Ober
  • Patent number: 4273203
    Abstract: Apparatus for overload protection of precision or analysis scales having a parallel-guided load support with limit stops to limit the range of movement thereof, comprises an auxiliary parallel guide connection between the weighing pan and load support, and resiliently yieldable means connected between the weighing pan and load support to yield under excessive or improperly placed loads and thus protect the scale mechanism. The resiliently yieldable means may comprise the auxiliary parallel guide or may comprise a separate means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 1979
    Date of Patent: June 16, 1981
    Assignee: Sartorius GmbH
    Inventors: Dieter Blawert, Karl-Heinz Rademacher, Walter Sodler
  • Patent number: 4128992
    Abstract: A rocking motor for driving an indexing element in a quartz controlled analog wristwatch is impulsed once per minute. The indexing element and the indexed "center" wheel are carried between parallel shunt plates holding the permanent magnet. The driving element is deflected by a pulse from its rest position to tension a spring, and the minute wheel is indexed when the driving element is returned by the reset spring.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1977
    Date of Patent: December 12, 1978
    Assignee: Timex Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph Egger, Franz Mayer, Herbert Schwartz, Walter Sodler, Jean Suard, Wilhelm Tilse