Patents by Inventor Wolfgang Zimmer

Wolfgang Zimmer 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: 6827799
    Abstract: A method is disclosed wherein weakened zones are provided in plastic trim parts in the from of cuts produced by means of an ultra sound cutting method, and wherein the cuts can be made suitably narrow and extending through the thickness of a multilayered plastic trim part in a manner that the cuts are without jagged edges and remain invisible on the visible side even when the cut extends though a decorative layer of the multilayered plastic part even after long term storage under heat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2004
    Assignee: Peguform GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Zimmer, Antonio Vidal Garrido
  • Publication number: 20040129367
    Abstract: A method is disclosed wherein weakened zones are provided in plastic trim parts in the from of cuts produced by means of an ultra sound cutting method, and wherein the cuts can be made suitably narrow and extending through the thickness of a multilayered plastic trim part in a manner that the cuts are without jagged edges and remain invisible on the visible side even when the cut extends though a decorative layer of the multilayered plastic part even after long term storage under heat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2003
    Publication date: July 8, 2004
    Applicant: PEGUFORM GMBH & CO. KG,
    Inventors: Wolfgang Zimmer, Antonio Vidal Garrido
  • Patent number: 6146058
    Abstract: A seal processing station for gathering loose and transmitting properly oriented seals to an insertion station where the seals are to be placed on a wire, the seal processing station having a seal sorting unit and a seal feeding unit that has a feed track going between the seal sorting unit and the insertion station where the seal sorting unit has a container where the loose seals are placed and a seal propulsion device with a seal feed channel extending from a lower end of the container to an upper end where the channel includes an air inlet for blowing air up the channel to feed seals from the lower end to the upper end and unto the feed track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 1998
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2000
    Assignee: The Whitaker Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Gerst, Jorg Herzog, Hans-Peter Hoffmann, Horst Knapp, Hans Quiring, Wolfgang Zimmer