Patents by Inventor Winfried Schmidt

Winfried Schmidt 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: 20250155021
    Abstract: In one aspect, an actuating drive for an electrical assembly of a motor vehicle includes a drive train which includes a drive transmission, with the drive transmission having at least one rotatably mounted, first transmission element. The actuating drive also includes a locking unit for locking the drive train, which includes a self-locking locking transmission that has at least one rotatably mounted, second transmission element that is mechanically operatively connected to the first transmission element of the drive transmission. The first transmission element of the drive transmission and the second transmission element of the locking transmission (are mounted rotatably about a common axis of rotation. Furthermore, the first transmission element has a first toothing and the second transmission element has a second toothing which differs from the first toothing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2024
    Publication date: May 15, 2025
    Inventors: Robert Meierle, David Welz, Winfried Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20250155020
    Abstract: In one aspect, an actuating drive for an electrical assembly of a motor vehicle includes a drive train, which includes a drive transmission and a drive motor for driving the drive transmission. The actuating drive also includes having a locking unit for locking the drive train, which includes a self-locking locking transmission that is operatively connected to the drive transmission, and a locking motor for driving the locking transmission. The actuating drive further includes a control unit for controlling the drive motor and the locking motor. The control unit is designed such that the drive motor and the locking motor can be operated, in particular in a starting operation, asynchronously and/or with a time delay relative to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 13, 2024
    Publication date: May 15, 2025
    Inventors: David Welz, Robert Meierle, Winfried Schmidt
  • Patent number: 11504888
    Abstract: Methods for producing at least a part of a sporting good, in particular a sports shoe, can include: (a) depositing a first material into a mold, and (b) vibrating the mold to modify the distribution of the first material in the mold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Hans-Peter Nürnberg, Henry Niles Hanson, Martin Löhner, Dietmar Klaus Drummer, Jörg Vetter, Mirjam Lucht, Heinz Hohensinner, André Schmidt, Norbert Stark, Winfried Schmidt, Markus Hohenberger, Stephan Lintner, Muhammad Tausif, Tom O'Hare, Parikshit Goswami, Stephen John Russell
  • Publication number: 20180147752
    Abstract: Described are methods for producing at least a part of a sporting good, in particular a sports shoe. According to one aspect of the invention, the method includes the steps of: (a) depositing a first material into a mold and (b) vibrating the mold to modify the distribution of the first material in the mold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2017
    Publication date: May 31, 2018
    Inventors: Hans-Peter Nürnberg, Henry Niles Hanson, Frank Prissok, Martin Löhner, Dietmar Klaus Drummer, Jörg Vetter, Mirjam Lucht, Heinz Hohensinner, André Schmidt, Norbert Stark, Winfried Schmidt, Markus Hohenberger, Stephan Lintner, Muhammad Tausif, Tom O'Hare, Parikshit Goswami, Stephen John Russell
  • Patent number: 9579644
    Abstract: Pipette for operating a syringe with a bar-shaped housing, a fixture with an opening at the lower end of the housing for putting in a syringe with a fastening portion on the upper edge of a cylinder, a fixture body with a further fixture and a further opening on the lower end of the housing, for putting in a further fastening portion of a piston of the syringe, means for detachably holding the fastening portion in the fixture and the further fastening portion in the further fixture, means for displacing the fixture body within the housing in the longitudinal direction of the housing, which have a draw-up lever activated from the outside of the housing, which is connected to the fixture body via a connection element which grips through a straight slit extending in the longitudinal direction of the housing, wherein below the slit in the housing, a cover stripe covering the slit is held in the housing at two positions spaced apart from each other in the longitudinal direction of the slit, and wherein the connect
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: Eppendorf AG
    Inventors: Herbert Belgardt, Jörg Sattler, Burkhardt Reichmuth, Winfried Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20160036437
    Abstract: In the case of a multifunctional switch (11) with a panel (14), of injection-moulded ceramic for example, coaxially surrounded by a frame (18), the panel (14) and the frame (18) are produced as separate components, which however are connected to one another in a material-bonding and/or form-fitting manner to form one part by means of an annular light guide (20) that particularly radiates axially parallel and is created by material being injected, introduced by flooding or poured into a gap (17) located between them or is adhesively cemented therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Applicant: OECHSLER AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Winfried SCHMIDT, Matthias WEISSKOPF, Robert MEIERLE
  • Patent number: 9228856
    Abstract: Using integrated multi-component assembly injection molding, a two-part magnetic rotational angle sensor system having high sensing accuracy is very efficiently integrally produced in a tool as a functional unit that can be directly applied, comprising a polymer-bonded permanent magnet as a passive transmitter part in the first section, which can be rotated relative to the material of the active sensor receiver part, which material is sprayed thereon and then shrunk, with the potted receiver. For this purpose, injection molding materials are used that are mutually incompatible for adhesion and lift off from one another over the mutual contact regions due to shrinkage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: OECHSLER AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Winfried Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20150251590
    Abstract: A handle with haptically high-quality surfaces has decorative and functional symbols above, in or beneath a disc, with a corona-like emission being brought about by the end region of a light-conducting hollow cylinder along the peripheral region of said disc, continuously or intermittently circumferentially, which hollow cylinder is fed from a lighting distribution board parallel to the disc. At the same time, the hollow cylinder radiates centripetally into the peripheral region in so far as it comprises light-conducting material. Apertures representing symbols in the disc can contain fibre optic conductors, which are likewise connected to the lighting distribution board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2015
    Publication date: September 10, 2015
    Applicant: OECHSLER AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Winfried SCHMIDT, Matthias WEISSKOPF, Robert MEIERLE
  • Patent number: 9108573
    Abstract: An adjustment device for a carrier plate which can be pivoted about two mutually orthogonal axes and is configured to receive a motor vehicle mirror, includes one motor per axis for moving a non-rotatably and non-tiltably guided linear drive, which is in engagement via a socket with a joint ball on the carrier plate, and a funnel-shaped hub provided with a hollow shaft. A hollow spherical segment of the funnel-shaped hub engages, by spring tabs, in a depression in the form of a hollow spherical segment in the carrier plate, and a spherical segment of the carrier plate is axially elastically clamped in a hollow spherical segment of a housing for drive trains of the two linear drives, thereby locking the hollow shaft on the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2015
    Assignee: OECHSLER AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Joseph Bögelein, Gisela Fuchs, Jürgen Heinz, Axel Vogelhuber, Winfried Schmidt, Marco Wacker, Martin Ruttor
  • Publication number: 20130319139
    Abstract: Pipette for operating a syringe with a bar-shaped housing, a fixture with an opening at the lower end of the housing for putting in a syringe with a fastening portion on the upper edge of a cylinder, a fixture body with a further fixture and a further opening on the lower end of the housing, for putting in a further fastening portion of a piston of the syringe, means for detachably holding the fastening portion in the fixture and the further fastening portion in the further fixture, means for displacing the fixture body within the housing in the longitudinal direction of the housing, which have a draw-up lever activated from the outside of the housing, which is connected to the fixture body via a connection element which grips through a straight slit extending in the longitudinal direction of the housing, wherein below the slit in the housing, a cover stripe covering the slit is held in the housing at two positions spaced apart from each other in the longitudinal direction of the slit, and wherein the connect
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Applicant: Eppendorf AG
    Inventors: Herbert Belgardt, Jörg Sattler, Burkhardt Reichmuth, Winfried Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20130149489
    Abstract: In order to ensure that upon destruction of a brittle article, in particular such as a ceramics element in the form of a frame receiving an apparatus, if possible no free fragments at all become detached therefrom, according to the invention the frame itself or a plate that is integrally moulded therewith and extends over the frame opening remote from view behind the apparatus is non-positively or positively connected at discrete points or in continuous segments in different regions to a connecting part injection-moulded from tough-elastic material. In turn, the connecting part can simultaneously be configured for detachably fastening the ceramics element to the apparatus or to an alternative construction part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2010
    Publication date: June 13, 2013
    Applicant: OECHSLER AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Winfried Schmidt, Jürgen Danner
  • Publication number: 20130033158
    Abstract: A casing shell for electrical measuring, control or communication devices, in particular the casing module of a cell phone, has a high bending and torsional stiffness despite extremely low wall strength with a completely flat outside surface, since the flat blank of a fiber-reinforced matting in an injection mold is back-injected along the matting edge area in striplike form with a preferably also fiber-reinforced frame, including molded functional elements and preferably comprising the cut edges of the matting in an L-shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Applicant: OECHSLER
    Inventors: Winfried SCHMIDT, Marco WACKER
  • Publication number: 20120306480
    Abstract: Using integrated multi-component assembly injection moulding, a two-part magnetic rotational angle sensor system having high sensing accuracy is very efficiently integrally produced in a tool as a functional unit that can be directly applied, comprising a polymer-bonded permanent magnet as a passive transmitter part in the first section, which can be rotated relative to the material of the active sensor receiver part, which material is sprayed thereon and then shrunk, with the potted receiver. For this purpose, injection moulding materials are used that are mutually incompatible for adhesion and lift off from one another over the mutual contact regions due to shrinkage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 28, 2010
    Publication date: December 6, 2012
    Applicant: OECHSLER AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Winfried Schmidt
  • Patent number: 5210154
    Abstract: The invention relates to water-thinnable baking paints, the use thereof as filler material and intermediate stone chip resistant coat as well as a process for painting motor vehicle bodies.The water-thinnable baking paints comprise as binders a combination of(I) 20 to 70% by weight of a water-thinnable polyurethane resin with an acid value of 15 to 35,(II) 20 to 70% by weight of an epoxy resin-modified water-thinnable polyester which can be prepared by reacting a polyester (A) with a molecular weight (number average) below 2000, an acid value of 35-240 and a hydroxyl value of 56-320, with 0.3 to 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1990
    Date of Patent: May 11, 1993
    Assignee: BASF Lacke + Farben Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Klaus Weidemeier, Winfried Schmidt, Hans-Dieter Hille, Bodo Muller
  • Patent number: 5174898
    Abstract: A paint sludge is subjected to aerobic biodegradation with increased dry content of the resulting sludge and the latter is then subjected to anaerobic biological degradation. The effluent from the two biostages are sterilized by ozonization, UV-irradiation or peroxide addition. The sludge from the anaerobic biostage can be dried to an inert granulate and drying vapors are recycled to the aerobic biostage. The sterile liquid is returned to the wash water circulation of the painting plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 1992
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1992
    Assignee: Parkner GmbH
    Inventors: Otto Stuckmann, Peter Hombach, Wolfgang Ruger, Karl Grosse, Wolfgang Leiner, Winfried Schmidt, Reinhard Diekmann