Patents by Inventor Hanns Stoffregen

Hanns Stoffregen 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).

  • Method for producing a housing enclosing at least one component under pre-tension
    Patent number: 9668392
    Abstract: A method for producing a housing structure at least partially enclosing at least one component, wherein the housing structure is produced with a construction process utilizing at least one of repeated layered deposition and solidification of material, which is interrupted at least once before completion of the housing structure, and during at least one interruption at least one component, which is not produced by the construction process, is joined to or disposed in a partially finished housing structure, and the construction process is then continued after the interruption until the housing is completed, wherein at least one of an actuator and sensor comprising at least partially a transformer material selected as the at least one component to be joined to or disposed in the housing structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignees: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FORDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V., TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DARMSTADT
    Inventors: Matthias Rauschenbach, David Flaschentraeger, Tobias Melz, Eberhard Abele, Jakob Fischer, Hanns Stoffregen
  • Method for producing a housing structure at least partially enclosing at least one component and housing structure produced by said method
    Publication number: 20140165381
    Abstract: A method for producing a housing structure at least partially enclosing at least one component, wherein the housing structure is produced with a construction process utilizing at least one of repeated layered deposition and solidification of material, which is interrupted at least once before completion of the housing structure, and during at least one interruption at least one component, which is not produced by the construction process, is joined to or disposed in a partially finished housing structure, and the construction process is then continued after the interruption until the housing is completed, wherein at least one of an actuator and sensor comprising at least partially a transformer material selected as the at least one component to be joined to or disposed in the housing structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2012
    Publication date: June 19, 2014
    Inventors: Matthias Rauschenbach, David Flaschentraeger, Tobias Melz, Eberhard Abele, Jakob Fischer, Hanns Stoffregen