Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Kroner
Wolfgang Kroner 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).
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Patent number: 7954902Abstract: In order to allow use of the seat belt in both positions of use of a reversible seat, an articulated end fitting is proposed for connecting a seat belt to the reversible seat, with a connecting part (51) and a projecting elongate lug (53) connected thereto for suspending a seat belt, the elongate lug (53) being pivotable relative to the connecting part (51) about three different axes (A, B, C).Type: GrantFiled: December 21, 2006Date of Patent: June 7, 2011Assignee: Intier Automotive Seating Systems GmbHInventors: Michael Haas, Ralf Hoge, Armin Amend, Wolfgang Kroner
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Publication number: 20080265643Abstract: In order to allow use of the seat belt in both positions of use of a reversible seat, an articulated end fitting is proposed for connecting a seat belt to the reversible seat, with a connecting part (51) and a projecting elongate lug (53) connected thereto for suspending a seat belt, the elongate lug (53) being pivotable relative to the connecting part (51) about three different axes (A, B, C).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2006Publication date: October 30, 2008Inventors: Michael Haas, Ralf Hoge, Armin Amend, Wolfgang Kroner
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Patent number: 6381199Abstract: An electronic device is described, for a timepiece of electronic or electromechanical type, comprising a source of electrical power (4), such as a battery, an electronic circuit (3) and an electrical connector tongue (5) effecting an electrical connection between the source of electrical power and the electronic circuit. The electrical connector tongue (5) has first and second openings (55, 56) cooperating with a pair of fixing pins (25, 26) fixed to a support (2) of the said device, and further comprises a section (57) formed between the said openings (55, 56) and adapted to deform in an elastic manner so as to alter the spacing between the openings (55, 56) and allow engagement and retention of the electrical connector tongue (5) on the fixing pins (25, 26).Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2000Date of Patent: April 30, 2002Inventors: Wolfgang Kröner, Markus Kaiser, Renato Schneider
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Patent number: 5826945Abstract: A bench seat system for small motor vehicles, such as small vans, includes at least one seat with a seat upper frame to receive seat cushions and a backrest and with seat feet connected with the seat upper frame for anchoring to the body floor of the motor vehicle. To achieve a modular system from which bench seats with different widths and numbers of seats can be assembled in an economical fashion, the upper frame of the seat is assembled from a plurality of L-shaped pillars spaced apart from one another at seat intervals. The pillars are rigidly connected with one another by a plurality of cross tubes. Each seat is then delimited laterally by two pillars. One seat foot is associated with each seat, being fastened in the area between two pillars on two cross tubes, projecting at right angles from the latter, which cross tubes connect the horizontal legs of the L-shaped pillars with one another.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 1996Date of Patent: October 27, 1998Assignee: Mercedes-Benz AGInventors: Helmut Siebler, Georgios Tsilchorozidis, Dieter Mankiewicz, Ulrich-Jurgen Mampe, Norbert Kubert, Wolfgang Kroner, Gerd Ponath
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Patent number: 4970709Abstract: A hand adjustment structure for a wristwatch which has a spur gear structure disposed intermediate the minute and the hour gears of the watch includes a crown gear structure on one side of the spur gear disc for engagement with the pinion of a time setting shaft by which the spur gear structure can be rotated and together therewith the watch's minute and hour hands radial projections are stamped axially out of the spur gear disc in a circular array so as to form the crown gear structure integrally with the spur gear disc.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 1986Date of Patent: November 13, 1990Assignee: Pforzheimer Uhrenrohwerke Porta GmbHInventor: Wolfgang Kroner
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Patent number: 4805161Abstract: In a drive gear structure for an electronically controller watch which includes a stepping motor having a drive pinion in engagement with an intermediate gear disc and a center gear in engagement with an intermediate gear pinion associated with the intermediate gear disc, a reducing gear structure is provided which has a reducing gear disc which is also in engagement with the same center gear disc and a reducing gear pinion which is in engagement with the minute gear of the watch. The single center gear disc is somewhat larger in width than the corresponding second gear disc of a corresponding watch with second hand indicator but not as wide as a second gear disc and second gear pinion used for a corresponding watch with second hand. The intermediate gear pinion and the reducing gear disc which are both in engagement with the second gear disc have the same pitch.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 1988Date of Patent: February 14, 1989Assignee: Pforzheimer Uhrenwerke Porta GmbHInventor: Wolfgang Kroner
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Patent number: 4719609Abstract: An hour gear structure of a watch operating mechanism which comprises a sleeve shaft carrying an hour gear disc and serving as a bearing for the shaft of a minute gear structure, the hour gear is mounted on the sleeve shaft off its axial center so that, when mounted on the base plate of a watch's operating mechanism, its projection length from the base plate may be made different for different applications depending on whether the longer or shorter sleeve shaft section is inserted through the support opening in the base plate.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 1986Date of Patent: January 12, 1988Assignee: Pforzheimer Uhrenrohwerke PORTA GmbHInventor: Wolfgang Kroner
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Patent number: 4704037Abstract: In a mounting arrangement for a wristwatch operating mechanism wherein a base plate carries a circuit board and other circuit components and has a cavity for the reception of a battery with a connector strap extending between the battery cavity and the circuit board for electrical connection of one battery pole with the appropriate contact of the circuit board, the circuit board is mounted on the base by a single screw which extends through the board and at the same time through one end of the connector strap so as to firmly engage the connector strap with the appropriate contact of the circuit board, the connector strap having a full coating of insulating material except for the contact areas with the battery and the circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: June 13, 1986Date of Patent: November 3, 1987Assignee: Pforzheimer Uhren-Rohwerke PORTA GmbHInventor: Wolfgang Kroner
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Patent number: 4703208Abstract: A wristwatch stepping motor comprises mounted on a support plate a rotor, an armature consisting of two portions each with a pole structure disposed at opposite sides of the rotor and a coil mounted on a coil core which is integral with one of the armature portions, the other armature portion being spaced from the coil core and being so mounted that its one end is in abutment with the free end of the coil core and the pole structures of both armature portions together with the rotor are arranged outside the area around the coil core, both armature portions being located by collars and sleeves projecting from the support plate to facilitate automatic assembly of the motor.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 1986Date of Patent: October 27, 1987Assignee: Pforzheimer Uhren-Rohwerke PORTA G.m.b.HInventors: Wolfgang Burkhardt, Wolfgang Kroner
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Patent number: 4671670Abstract: The operating mechanism for a watch indicating arrangement, especially for a date indicating structure of an electrically operated wristwatch provided with an indicating element which is advanced periodically and operated by a drive mechanism associated with the watch, the operating mechanism includes a non-uniform transmission gear structure with a driving and a driven gear which have at least one engagement mode in which the non-uniform rotational speed of the driven gear is relatively low while the available torque is relatively high and the driven gear has associated therewith means for engaging the indicating structure for advancing the indicating element a predetermined step with each revolution of the driven gear wherein the means for engaging the indicating element are so arranged that engagement of the indicating element for its advance takes place while the non-uniform transmission is in the highest torque providing engagement mode.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 1986Date of Patent: June 9, 1987Assignee: Pforzheimer Uhren-Rohwerke PORTA GmbHInventor: Wolfgang Kroner