Patents by Inventor Gerald Richter
Gerald Richter 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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Publication number: 20170087956Abstract: An air conditioning system for a motor vehicle operable in refrigeration mode and in heat pump mode, as well as in reheating mode. The operating mode adjusted by controlling air dampers and air directing elements. The air conditioning system has a housing having a cold air flow path a warm air flow path, and an air outlet. The air outlet formed in the region of the cold air flow path and discharging air into the environment. The warm air flow path branches off from the cold air flow path. The cold air flow path and the warm air flow path lead into a first mixing chamber. The air conditioning system further includes a refrigerant circuit having a heat exchanger operable as an evaporator, a compressor, a heat exchanger operable as a first condenser/gas cooler, a heat exchanger operable as a second condenser/gas cooler, and an expansion element.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2016Publication date: March 30, 2017Inventors: Marc Graaf, Gerald Richter
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Patent number: 9581813Abstract: The invention relates to a method for improving the imaging properties of a micro lithography projection objective, wherein the projection objective has a plurality of lenses between an object plane and an image plane, a first lens of the plurality of lenses being assigned a first manipulator for actively deforming the lens, the first lens being deformed for at least partially correcting an aberration, at least one second lens of the plurality of lenses furthermore being assigned at least one second manipulator, and the second lens being deformed in addition to the first lens. Furthermore, a method is described for selecting at least one lens of a plurality of lenses of a projection objective as actively deformable element, and a projection objective.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2015Date of Patent: February 28, 2017Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbHInventors: Olaf Conradi, Heiko Feldmann, Gerald Richter, Sascha Bleidistel, Andreas Frommeyer, Toralf Gruner, Wolfgang Hummel
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Publication number: 20170030250Abstract: A compact heat exchanger and blower unit for motor vehicles, including a blower for the propulsion of an air mass flow with an inlet and an outlet, as well as a coolant-air heat exchanger with an air inlet and an air outlet. The blower, which is embodied as a radial blower, and the coolant-air heat exchanger are aligned with respect to each other such that the air mass flow is propelled by the blower into the coolant-air heat exchanger.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2016Publication date: February 2, 2017Inventors: Marc Graaf, Gerald Richter
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Publication number: 20170001493Abstract: Vehicle climate control system and method for control of the vehicle climate control system for temperature regulation of a vehicle battery, the vehicle climate control system includes a refrigerant circuit containing at least a compressor, a gas cooler/condenser, an expansion element, an evaporator, as well as refrigerant lines to connect the components, wherein an intermediate expansion element is arranged upstream from the expansion element in the refrigerant flow direction and a heat exchanger for the temperature regulation of a vehicle battery is arranged between the expansion elements.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2016Publication date: January 5, 2017Inventors: Marc Graaf, Toni Spies, Gerald Richter
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Patent number: 9481225Abstract: A modular vehicle air-conditioning unit for heating and cooling air includes a housing having at least one blower and a plurality of flaps for setting air flow paths and a refrigerant circuit in fluid communication with the housing. The refrigerant circuit includes a condenser, an evaporator, a compressor, and an expansion device. An evaporator air flow path through the evaporator and a condenser air flow path through the condenser are formed in the housing. At least one of the evaporator air flow path and the condenser air flow path receives air from at least one of an environment, a passenger compartment of a vehicle, and any mixture of thereof.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2012Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Hanon SystemsInventors: Gerald Richter, Marc Graaf, Florian Wieschollek
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Patent number: 9475362Abstract: The invention relates to an HVAC device for a vehicle including an inlet casing, an air distribution casing, and a blower located in a blower casing for drawing air through the inlet casing and delivering the air into the air distribution casing. The device further includes an evaporator in the air distribution casing and a drainage system below the evaporator for draining off liquid condensed out of the air at the surface of the evaporator into the environment of the HVAC device. The inlet casing is positioned such that liquid penetrating the inlet casing accumulates in a lower area of the inlet casing. Between the lower area of the inlet casing and the drainage system of the liquid condensed out at the evaporator, a hydraulic connection is configured such that the liquid is drainable from the inlet easing past the blower casing and evaporator into the drainage system.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2011Date of Patent: October 25, 2016Assignee: HANON SYSTEMSInventor: Gerald Richter
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Publication number: 20160082807Abstract: A device for guiding air for an air conditioning system of a motor vehicle. The air conditioning system includes air outlets. The device is designed so that it encloses a volume and within the volume at least one air channel extending continuously from an inlet to an outlet is formed. The device is arranged in such a way that can be shifted in a continuously variable manner in a direction between two end positions, wherein the device in the end positions in each case closes an air outlet. The device may be arranged in an air conditioning system for a motor vehicle with means for conveying, for cooling and for heating an air mass flow, including a housing with a mixing chamber, in which the device for guiding air is arranged.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2015Publication date: March 24, 2016Inventors: Gerald Richter, Evzi Duka, Sezgin Gökcen, Michael Fietz
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Patent number: 9242526Abstract: The invention relates to an air conditioning system for a motorized vehicle with means for conveying, for cooling, and for heating of air. The air conditioning system comprises a housing with flow guide devices and air vents, an evaporator, and a heat exchanger. The housing is developed with an air distribution element and a range of variation. The flow guide devices of the air vents are arranged within the air distribution element, and the heat exchanger is arranged within the range of variation. With the arrangement of the heat exchanger, it is possible to change the outer dimensions of the range of variation and therefore of the air conditioning system while maintaining unchanged functionality and by using identical components such that the air conditioning system can be adapted to the installation space of different motorized vehicle types.Type: GrantFiled: September 3, 2013Date of Patent: January 26, 2016Assignee: Hanon SystemsInventors: Gerald Richter, Sezgin Gökcen
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Publication number: 20150293352Abstract: The invention relates to a method for improving the imaging properties of a micro lithography projection objective, wherein the projection objective has a plurality of lenses between an object plane and an image plane, a first lens of the plurality of lenses being assigned a first manipulator for actively deforming the lens, the first lens being deformed for at least partially correcting an aberration, at least one second lens of the plurality of lenses furthermore being assigned at least one second manipulator, and the second lens being deformed in addition to the first lens. Furthermore, a method is described for selecting at least one lens of a plurality of lenses of a projection objective as actively deformable element, and a projection objective.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2015Publication date: October 15, 2015Inventors: Olaf Conradi, Heiko Feldmann, Gerald Richter, Sascha Bleidistel, Andreas Frommeyer, Toralf Gruner, Wolfgang Hummel
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Publication number: 20150283876Abstract: The invention relates to an air conditioning system for conditioning the air of a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle, including an outlet section for diverting at least a portion of an air-mass flow circulating in the air conditioning system into the environment of the motor vehicle, a housing for directing the air-mass flow, wherein at least one fan for conveying the air-mass flow is designed within the housing, as well as a coolant circuit for tempering components of the motor vehicle, in particular, components of a power train, having a coolant-air-heat exchanger for transferring heat from the coolant to an air-mass flow.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 8, 2015Publication date: October 8, 2015Inventors: Joern Froehling, Karl Schlesinger, Gerald Richter, Balthasar Schillemeit, Marc Graaf, Frank Schmitz, Roberto Della Rovere
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Patent number: 9069263Abstract: The invention relates to a method for improving the imaging properties of a micro lithography projection objective, wherein the projection objective has a plurality of lenses between an object plane and an image plane, a first lens of the plurality of lenses being assigned a first manipulator (ml, Mn) for actively deforming the lens, the first lens being deformed for at least partially correcting an aberration, at least one second lens of the plurality of lenses furthermore being assigned at least one second manipulator, and the second lens being deformed in addition to the first lens. Furthermore, a method is described for selecting at least one lens of a plurality of lenses of a projection objective as actively deformable element, and a projection objective.Type: GrantFiled: July 14, 2010Date of Patent: June 30, 2015Assignee: Carl Zeiss SMT GmbHInventors: Olaf Conradi, Heiko Feldmann, Gerald Richter, Sascha Bleidistel, Andreas Frommeyer, Toralf Gruner, Wolfgang Hummel
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Patent number: 8959936Abstract: A method for operating an HVAC system includes the steps of adjusting a heating temperature of a heat exchanger disposed in a first flow passage, directing a first partial air mass flow through the first flow passage, directing a second partial air mass flow through a second flow passage, and directing the first partial air mass flow and the second partial air mass flow downstream of the first flow passage and the second flow passage, wherein the heating temperature of the heat exchanger required to at least one of achieve and maintain a desired climate in the passenger compartment of the vehicle is set as a maximum heating temperature for the heat exchanger, and wherein only an amount of energy required to at least one of achieve and maintain a desired climate in the passenger compartment of the vehicle is added to the HVAC system.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2011Date of Patent: February 24, 2015Assignee: Halla Visteon Climate Control CorporationInventors: Gerald Richter, Tobias Haas, Marc Graaf
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Patent number: 8940066Abstract: A blower air suction device of a motor vehicle air conditioner includes a blower with a vertical arrangement including a blower motor, a blower rotor, and a blower opening, wherein the blower is ensheathed by a blower scroll, and an air inlet housing with a fresh air opening formed in a front wall and with an ambient air opening. The installation of blower is suspended, that is, with the blower rotor under the blower motor, and the air inlet housing is arranged in the process beneath the blower.Type: GrantFiled: June 29, 2012Date of Patent: January 27, 2015Assignee: Halla Visteon Climate Control CorporationInventors: Gerald Richter, Juergen Hoppen, Raymond Ambs
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Publication number: 20150021858Abstract: Disclosed herein is a bulkhead sealing assembly including, a sealing-function group having a base plate, an outer sealing portion, and at least one inner sealing portion. The bulkhead sealing assembly further includes an elastic tolerance compensation member and a receiving memberformed as a flange surface of a housing of a vehicle air-conditioning system. The bulkhead sealing assembly has a tolerance compensation function for at least one connector through-portion which penetrates a vehicle bulkhead.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 17, 2014Publication date: January 22, 2015Inventors: Gerald Richter, Gerd Vondahlen, Johannes Stausberg, Ralph Wiesmann, Thomas Alberternst
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Publication number: 20140331710Abstract: The invention relates to a compact vehicle HVAC system including an evaporator unit, a condenser unit, and a component unit, as well as a refrigerant circuit. The evaporator unit and the condenser unit each are provided with air-passed heat exchangers and a fan in a casing. Further circuit components are displaced within the component unit. The casings of the evaporator unit, the condenser unit, and the component unit advantageously establish a connected compact casing arrangement. The heat exchangers are displaced within the compact casing arrangement. The refrigerant circuit is established for a combined refrigeration plant and heat pump operation as well as an afterheating operation, whereby in the afterheating operational mode the heating power of the afterheater established as condenser/gas cooler and the cooling power of the evaporator are controllable independently of each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 25, 2014Publication date: November 13, 2014Inventors: Jörn Fröhling, Marc Graaf, Felix Girmscheid, Gerald Richter, Gerd Vondahlen, Florian Wieschollek, Tobias Haas
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Patent number: 8757245Abstract: A vehicle air conditioner is disclosed having means to cool and heat air with three air paths, of which, two outer air paths have a common first temperature and an inner air path has a second temperature, wherein a means for controlling the air volume flow through the outer air paths and the inner air path is provided by two control elements which are configured jointly to be able to move in opposing directions.Type: GrantFiled: July 10, 2009Date of Patent: June 24, 2014Assignee: Halla Visteon Climate Control CorporationInventors: Gerald Richter, Jürgen Hoppen, Mario Opiela
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Publication number: 20140141706Abstract: An air intake of an air conditioning system a motor vehicle having a fresh air duct configured to receive fresh air, a recirculated air duct configured to receive air from a passenger area of the motor vehicle, and an air outlet configured to channel the fresh air or the air from a passenger area of the motor vehicle to a blower. The air intake also has a valve disposed in the housing and rotates about a rotational axis between a first position and a second position.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 12, 2013Publication date: May 22, 2014Inventors: Gerald Richter, Martin Paul Nowak
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Publication number: 20140075974Abstract: The invention concerns an air conditioning system for conditioning the air of a passenger compartment of a motor vehicle including a housing with a first flow channel and a second flow channel for conducting air and a refrigerant circuit with an evaporator and a condenser. The evaporator is arranged in the first flow channel and the condenser in the second flow channel. The air conditioning system is designed for cooling and heating the passenger compartment and for a reheat operation. The setting of the operating mode is done only via the controlling of air guidance mechanisms. One of the heat exchangers evaporator or condenser is arranged with a part of the heat transfer surface in both the first and the second flow channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2013Publication date: March 20, 2014Inventors: Torsten Klein, Roberto Della Rovere, Marc Graaf, Gerald Richter, Felix Girmscheid
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Publication number: 20140060103Abstract: The invention relates to an air conditioning system for a motorized vehicle with means for conveying, for cooling, and for heating of air. The air conditioning system comprises a housing with flow guide devices and air vents, an evaporator, and a heat exchanger. The housing is developed with an air distribution element and a range of variation. The flow guide devices of the air vents are arranged within the air distribution element, and the heat exchanger is arranged within the range of variation. With the arrangement of the heat exchanger, it is possible to change the outer dimensions of the range of variation and therefore of the air conditioning system while maintaining unchanged functionality and by using identical components such that the air conditioning system can be adapted to the installation space of different motorized vehicle types.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2013Publication date: March 6, 2014Applicant: VISTEON GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Gerald Richter, Sezgin Gökcen
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Publication number: 20130042637Abstract: A modular vehicle air-conditioning unit for heating and cooling air includes a housing having at least one blower and a plurality of flaps for setting air flow paths and a refrigerant circuit in fluid communication with the housing. The refrigerant circuit includes a condenser, an evaporator, a compressor, and an expansion device. An evaporator air flow path through the evaporator and a condenser air flow path through the condenser are formed in the housing. At least one of the evaporator air flow path and the condenser air flow path receives air from at least one of an environment, a passenger compartment of a vehicle, and any mixture of thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 16, 2012Publication date: February 21, 2013Applicant: VISTEON GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Gerald Richter, Marc Graaf, Florian Wieschollek