Patents by Inventor Christopher Buchmann

Christopher Buchmann 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: 11353314
    Abstract: A method for determining a distance between components has the steps of providing a first conductive section in or on the first component in a region directed toward the second component, providing a second conductive section in or on the second component in a region directed toward the first conductive section, feeding a first voltage pulse into a first connection of the first conductive section, capturing a reflection voltage pulse in response to the first voltage pulse at the first connection, determining an impedance profile along the first conductive section by evaluating the reflection voltage pulse, and determining a distance between the components along the first conductive section by calculating a corresponding local distance, associated with the determined impedance profile, between the first conductive section and the second conductive section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignees: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH, Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Christopher Buchmann, Alois Friedberger, Thomas Kruse, Thomas Körwien
  • Patent number: 10955371
    Abstract: A measurement arrangement for measuring process and structure parameters of a fiber composite material along a measuring path includes a fiber material, a matrix material which surrounds the fiber material at least in regions, and an electrical sensor element that includes at least two signal transmission lines twisted together and aligned along the measuring path in and/or at the fiber material such that the signal transmission lines are surrounded at least in portions by the matrix material, wherein the electrical sensor element is configured to measure the process and structure parameters on the basis of the behavior of electromagnetic signals that are fed into the signal transmission lines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: Airbus Defence and Space GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Weimer, Christopher Buchmann, Henning Becker, Richard Hesse, Andreas Meyer-Giesow
  • Patent number: 10682820
    Abstract: A fiber composite laminate having one or more fiber layers, comprising a first laminate region and a second laminate region. In the first laminate region, the fiber layers of the fiber composite laminate are impregnated with a thermoplastic elastomer material. In the second laminate region, fiber layers of a first lamina of the fiber composite laminate are impregnated with the thermoplastic elastomer matrix, and fiber layers of at least one second lamina of the fiber composite laminate that is positioned on top of the first lamina are impregnated with a thermosetting polymer matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE GMBH
    Inventors: Christopher Buchmann, Christian Weimer, Christoph Meier, Jonas Gruenewald
  • Publication number: 20190170674
    Abstract: A measurement arrangement for measuring process and structure parameters of a fiber composite material along a measuring path includes a fiber material, a matrix material which surrounds the fiber material at least in regions, and an electrical sensor element that includes at least two signal transmission lines twisted together and aligned along the measuring path in and/or at the fiber material such that the signal transmission lines are surrounded at least in portions by the matrix material, wherein the electrical sensor element is configured to measure the process and structure parameters on the basis of the behavior of electromagnetic signals that are fed into the signal transmission lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Christian Weimer, Christopher Buchmann, Henning Becker, Richard Hesse, Andreas Meyer-Giesow
  • Publication number: 20190152166
    Abstract: A fiber composite laminate having one or more fiber layers, comprising a first laminate region and a second laminate region. In the first laminate region, the fiber layers of the fiber composite laminate are impregnated with a thermoplastic elastomer material. In the second laminate region, fiber layers of a first lamina of the fiber composite laminate are impregnated with the thermoplastic elastomer matrix, and fiber layers of at least one second lamina of the fiber composite laminate that is positioned on top of the first lamina are impregnated with a thermosetting polymer matrix.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Christopher Buchmann, Christian Weimer, Christoph Meier, Jonas Gruenewald
  • Patent number: 10213972
    Abstract: A method for producing a fiber composite laminate, including the steps of applying pressure and/or heat to a first preform, which has one or more dry fiber layers and a thermoplastic elastomer, such that the thermoplastic portion of the thermoplastic elastomer completely impregnates the dry fiber layers of the first preform in at least one first region and only partially impregnates the dry fiber layers in at least one second region and, in a thermosetting polymer matrix, impregnating and curing the fiber layers of the second region of the first preform that are still dry and have not been impregnated with the thermoplastic portion of the thermoplastic elastomer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE GMBH
    Inventors: Christopher Buchmann, Christian Weimer, Christoph Meier, Jonas Gruenewald
  • Publication number: 20180356201
    Abstract: A method for determining a distance between a first component (2) and a second component (4) has the steps of providing at least one first conductive section (8) in or on the first component (2) in a region directed toward the second component (4), providing at least one second conductive section (12) in or on the second component (4) in a region directed toward the first conductive section, feeding a first voltage pulse into a first connection of the first conductive section, capturing a reflection voltage pulse in response to the first voltage pulse at the first connection, determining an impedance profile along the at least one first conductive section by evaluating the reflection voltage pulse, and determining at least one distance between the first component (2) and the second component (4) along the at least one first conductive section by calculating at least one corresponding local distance, associated with the determined impedance profile, between the at least one first conductive section (8) and the
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2018
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Inventors: Christopher BUCHMANN, Alois FRIEDBERGER, Thomas KRUSE, Thomas KÖRWIEN
  • Publication number: 20170297277
    Abstract: A method for producing a fiber composite laminate, including the steps of applying pressure and/or heat to a first preform, which has one or more dry fiber layers and a thermoplastic elastomer, such that the thermoplastic portion of the thermoplastic elastomer completely impregnates the dry fiber layers of the first preform in at least one first region and only partially impregnates the dry fiber layers in at least one second region and, in a thermosetting polymer matrix, impregnating and curing the fiber layers of the second region of the first preform that are still dry and have not been impregnated with the thermoplastic portion of the thermoplastic elastomer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Inventors: Christopher Buchmann, Christian Weimer, Christoph Meier, Jonas Gruenewald