Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Mayer

Wolfgang Mayer 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: 20060214817
    Abstract: According to the invention, primary route information, which describes a primary route of a mobile unit, is determined for said mobile unit. The primary route information is then evaluated using fuzzy logic, determining the maneuver information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2002
    Publication date: September 28, 2006
    Inventors: Martin Appl, Martin Hartmann, Kai Heesche, Henning Lenz, Wolfgang Mayer, Torsten Mosis
  • Publication number: 20060191531
    Abstract: The invention concerns an apparatus for supplying a respiratory gas, a humidifying apparatus, a respiratory gas tube and a connecting apparatus therefor. The apparatus of the invention includes a blowing device for delivering the respiratory gas, a housing device which has a bottom region, a top surface region and a side region extending upwardly between the top surface region and the cover region, as well as a connecting device for connecting a humidifying apparatus for humidifying the respiratory gas, wherein the connecting device is arranged in the side region of the apparatus in such a way that the humidifying apparatus can be laterally coupled thereto. The humidifying apparatus according to the invention is distinguished by a partial amount discharge device for passing a partial amount of the liquid pre-stored in a liquid storage space into a humidifying region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2006
    Publication date: August 31, 2006
    Applicant: MAP Medizin-Technologie GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Mayer, Harald Genger, Stefan Madaus, Andreas Klopp, Stefan Schatzl, Harald Vogele, Bernd Lang
  • Patent number: 7096864
    Abstract: An apparatus for supplying a respiratory gas includes a blowing device for delivering the respiratory gas, a housing device having a bottom region, a top surface region and a side region extending upwardly between the top surface region and the cover region, as well as a connecting device for connecting a humidifying apparatus. The connecting device is arranged in the side region of the apparatus in such a way that the humidifying apparatus can be laterally coupled thereto. The humidifying apparatus may include a partial amount discharge device for passing a partial amount of the liquid pre-stored in a liquid storage space into a humidifying region. A respiration tube includes a connecting plug structure which has both a respiratory gas connecting portion and a pressure measuring tube connecting portion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2006
    Assignee: MAP Medizin-Technologie GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Mayer, Harald Genger, Stefan Madaus, Andreas Klopp, Stefan Schatzl, Harald Vogele, Bernd Lang
  • Patent number: 7087851
    Abstract: The invention relates to a microswitch comprising a housing, a switching plunger arranged in displaced relationship with the center of said housing and projecting from said housing, contacts which are arranged on the housing side located opposite the switching plunger, and a contact bridge which is adapted to be transferred from a first to a second switching position through the switching plunger and a bistable spring, said switching plunger being provided with a cantilevered arm which projects on one side and on the projecting end of which a downholder is provided for positive opening of the contact bridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2005
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2006
    Assignee: Schaltbau GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Mayer
  • Publication number: 20060121774
    Abstract: The subject matter of the disclosure is a cable holder 1 for a large number of connection cables 2, 4, 6, 8 of an electrical or electronic control device, in particular of an electronic ballast of a lamp. The cable holder 1 has a base body 24, in which receptacles 32, 34, 36, 50 are formed which surround, at least in sections, an insulating sheath of the connection cables 2, 4, 6, 8 and are associated with apertures 38, 40, 42, 52, which open out into an end face 44 of the base body 24, cable ends 12, 14, 16, 18, from which the insulation has been stripped, of the connection cables 2, 4, 6, 8 extending through the apertures 38, 40, 42, 52.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2005
    Publication date: June 8, 2006
    Inventors: Wolfgang Ebert, Wolfgang Mayer
  • Publication number: 20060016678
    Abstract: The invention relates to a microswitch comprising a housing, a switching plunger arranged in displaced relationship with the centre of said housing and projecting from said housing, contacts which are arranged on the housing side located opposite the switching plunger, and a contact bridge which is adapted to be transferred from a first to a second switching position through the switching plunger and a bistable spring, said switching plunger being provided with a cantilevered arm which projects on one side and on the projecting end of which a downholder is provided for positive opening of the contact bridge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2005
    Publication date: January 26, 2006
    Applicant: Schaltbau GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Mayer
  • Patent number: 6959677
    Abstract: The invention proposes a hydraulic support element (1) whose high-pressure chamber (10) is kept substantially free of air bubbles and oil foam. This is realized through a deflecting sleeve (15a) in combination with two vent bores (16) situated diametrically opposite each other on the inner peripheral surface (17) of the pressure piston (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2005
    Assignee: Ina-Schaeffler KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Mayer, Harald Smola, Klaus Benedikt, Christian Kunze
  • Publication number: 20050178351
    Abstract: The invention proposes a hydraulic support element (1) whose high-pressure chamber (10) is kept substantially free of air bubbles and oil foam. This is realized through a deflecting sleeve (15a) in combination with two vent bores (16) situated diametrically opposite each other on the inner peripheral surface (17) of the pressure piston (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2005
    Publication date: August 18, 2005
    Inventors: Wolfgang Mayer, Harald Smola, Klaus Benedikt, Christian Kunze
  • Patent number: 6916405
    Abstract: Process and apparatus for drying a material web. The process includes guiding the material web to at least one heated area having a jacket surface of a cylinder having a diameter of between about 4-10 meters, setting the material web, having a dry content of between about 45-55%, onto the at least one heated area, maintaining the material web in uninterrupted contact with the at least one heated area at least until the material web achieves a firmness sufficient for detaching the material web from the heated area, and detaching the material web from the at least one heated area with a dry content of between about 55%-65%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2005
    Assignee: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Wolf, Markus Oechsle, Wolfgang Mayer, Thomas Mack, Roland Mayer
  • Patent number: 6729285
    Abstract: What is proposed is a lever-type cam follower (1) made of sheet metal, typically for a valve train of an internal combustion engine, said cam follower (1) comprising two parallel side walls (3a, 3b) connected by a crossbeam (2), an underside (4) of the crossbeam (2) having a support (6) for at least one gas exchange valve on one end (5), said support (6) being limited by guide walls (7a, 7b) extending parallel to the side walls (3a, 3b), wherein the one end (5) of the cam follower (1) is narrower than the rest of the length of the cam follower (1), and at least in the region of said one end (5), the side walls (3a, 3b) have a smaller mean wall thickness (DSM) than over the rest of said length, which wall thickness (DSM) increases at least in said region continuously from ends (8a, 8b) of the side walls (3a, 3b) in the direction of the crossbeam (2), and the thickness (DF) of the guide walls (7a 7b) is smaller than the mean wall thickness (DSM) in the region of the narrow one end (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2004
    Assignee: INA-Schaeffler KG
    Inventors: Reinhard Ammon, Robert Kamm, Wolfgang Mayer, Hubert Geus
  • Patent number: 6716316
    Abstract: Process for conditioning a circulating felt belt of a machine, pipe suction apparatus and traversing pipe suction apparatus therefor, the process including performing a zonal conditioning of a plurality of zones across a width of the felt belt by measuring at least one of, fibrous material web cross direction profile; felt belt cross direction profile; and permeability of the felt belt across the width of at least one of the web and the belt. The felt belt is conditioned depending on measuring results obtained for a respective zone. The pipe suction apparatus includes a ceramic body extending at least essentially across the entire width of the felt belt, the ceramic body being provided with a slotted surface by way of which the felt belt is subjectable to vacuum, with a respective effective amount of slotted surface being zonally variably adjustable by way of movable tongues.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2004
    Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Grabscheid, Ulrich Begemann, Oswald Satzger, Wolfgang Mayer, Ralf Rziha, Wolfgang Bamberger, Georg Kleiser, Thomas Rühl
  • Publication number: 20040011492
    Abstract: Application device for impinging on an element of a machine, including a plurality of nozzle units arranged at a respective distance from one another, the nozzle units being conveyed in a closed rotating path in a first direction extending generally transversely to a machine travel direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 31, 2001
    Publication date: January 22, 2004
    Applicant: VOITH PAPER PATENT GMBH
    Inventors: Joachim Grabscheid, Ulrich Begemann, Oswald Satzger, Wolfgang Mayer, Ralf Rziha, Wolfgang Bamberger, Georg Kleiser, Thomas Ruhl
  • Patent number: 6666954
    Abstract: Pressing arrangement having two press rolls forming at least one press nip for dewatering a web, and two dewatering belts arranged to be guided through the at least one press nip with the web. The dewatering belts positioned on opposite sides of the web to absorb water. A common guidance path, formed by the dewatering belts guiding the web, is located after the at least one press nip. A separating roll and a lower one of the dewatering belts is arranged to wrap the separating roll along with the web at an end of the common guidance path. An upper one of the dewatering belts is arranged to be guided away from the web in a separation path in a region of the separating roll. Lower dewatering belt and web wrap the separating roll subsequent to the separation path at a wrapping angle of at least about 30°.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 23, 2003
    Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Kotitschke, Wolfgang Mayer, Roland Mayer
  • Patent number: 6658758
    Abstract: In a drying section of a machine for producing a material web such as, in particular, a paper or cardboard web, a pick-up suction roll, in particular a larger pick-up suction roll, is provided between the last pressing nip of a pressing section and a subsequent impingement drying unit, which suction roll removes the material web from a pressing felt guided through the pressing nip or from a transfer belt and transfers it to the impingement drying unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2003
    Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Kahl, Markus Oechsle, Wolfgang Mayer, Georg Kugler, Roland Mayer
  • Patent number: 6655195
    Abstract: Process for determining disturbances of a moisture cross profile of a fibrous material web in a paper making machine, a paper making machine, and a measuring arrangement for measuring the disturbances, the process including guiding the fibrous material web by way of at least one water-permeable belt and collecting and draining off water released from the belt. The water is collected by several sections separated from one another. The process further includes measuring per time unit, the amount of water in each section, wherein the sections extend at right angles to a web running direction over only a partial section of the fibrous material web. The paper making machine includes at least one water-permeable belt, the belt being wrapped around a roll. The measuring arrangement includes a water collection device having the form of one of a trough or channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 31, 2001
    Date of Patent: December 2, 2003
    Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Joachim Grabscheid, Ulrich Begemann, Oswald Satzger, Wolfgang Mayer, Ralf Rziha, Wolfgang Bamberger, Georg Kleiser, Thomas Rühl
  • Patent number: 6651998
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hidden safety covering for an airbag arranged behind a inner lining part (1) which consists of at least one supporting part (5), of a foam layer (4) and of a decorative layer (3). In an area which is delimited by a weakening (5′) of the cross-section and/or by a material separation (5″) in the supporting part, the material of the supporting part and at least portions of the foam layer can be removed before the airbag (2′) unfolds from the effective area thereof (7′), and can be brought behind the inner lining part, for example, into a capture chamber (8). To this end, the removable portion of material is preferably connected to a traction strip (10) which can be actuated by a traction device that can be initiated by a sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 25, 2003
    Assignee: SAI Automotive SAL GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Mayer, Jürgen Skowronnek, Thomas Jahn
  • Patent number: 6638394
    Abstract: In a method and an associated apparatus for discharging the whitewater from inside the loop of a continuous dewatering wire of a former, specifically a twin wire former in a paper machine the accumulating whitewater is collected by a collection tank, which is located within the loop; the collected whitewater is separated from the air, still inside the loop, by suctioning off of the area above the collection tank and the whitewater is removed from the collection tank through at least one channel that is connected to the collection tank and is located below the collection tank's water level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2003
    Assignee: Voith Paper Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Mayer, Ralf Rziha
  • Publication number: 20030196629
    Abstract: What is proposed is a lever-type cam follower (1) made of sheet metal, typically for a valve train of an internal combustion engine, said cam follower (1) comprising two parallel side walls (3a, 3b) connected by a crossbeam (2), an underside (4) of the crossbeam (2) having a support (6) for at least one gas exchange valve on one end (5), said support (6) being limited by guide walls (7a, 7b) extending parallel to the side walls (3a, 3b), wherein the one end (5) of the cam follower (1) is narrower than the rest of the length of the cam follower (1), and at least in the region of said one end (5), the side walls (3a, 3b) have a smaller mean wall thickness (DSM) than over the rest of said length, which wall thickness (DSM) increases at least in said region continuously from ends (8a, 8b) of the side walls (3a, 3b) in the direction of the crossbeam (2), and the thickness (DF) of the guide walls (7a 7b) is smaller than the mean wall thickness (DSM) in the region of the narrow one end (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2003
    Publication date: October 23, 2003
    Inventors: Reinhard Ammon, Robert Kamm, Wolfgang Mayer, Hubert Geus
  • Patent number: 6589390
    Abstract: Press section of a machine for producing a fiber material, web and process for guiding a fiber material web through the press section. The press section includes at least two double-felted presses arranged in series in a travel direction of the fiber material web. An upstream one of the at least two double-felted presses may include a deflection-controlled shoe press roll and a suction roll, and the deflection-controlled shoe press roll and the suction roll may be arranged to form an upstream press nip. The process may include guiding the fiber material web through a press nip of an upstream one of the at least two double-felted presses formed by a deflection-controlled shoe press roll and a suction roll.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2003
    Assignee: Voith Sulser Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfgang Mayer
  • Publication number: 20030024133
    Abstract: Process and apparatus for drying a material web. The process includes guiding the material web to at least one heated area having a jacket surface of a cylinder having a diameter of between about 4-10 meters, setting the material web, having a dry content of between about 45-55%, onto the at least one heated area, maintaining the material web in uninterrupted contact with the at least one heated area at least until the material web achieves a firmness sufficient for detaching the material web from the heated area, and detaching the material web from the at least one heated area with a dry content of between about 55%-65%.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Publication date: February 6, 2003
    Applicant: Voith Sulzer Papiertechnik Patent GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Wolf, Markus Oechsle, Wolfgang Mayer, Thomas Mack, Roland Mayer