Patents by Inventor Marco Schmidt

Marco Schmidt 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: 20190308654
    Abstract: A motor-adjustable steering column for a motor vehicle, includes a support unit, which can be mounted on a vehicle body, and by which an actuator unit is held, in which a steering spindle is rotatably mounted about a longitudinal axis. An adjusting drive is connected to the support unit and to the actuator unit, and by which the actuator unit can be adjusted relative to the support unit. The adjusting drive includes a drive unit and a threaded spindle engaging in a spindle nut with a threaded spindle axis, wherein the threaded spindle can be driven in rotation or in translation by the drive unit. The drive unit is connected to a component of the steering column such that it is movable in a transverse direction transversely to the threaded spindle axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 8, 2018
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicants: THYSSENKRUPP PRESTA AG, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: René Marco SCHMIDT, Samuel GOMEZ REDONDO
  • Patent number: 10385757
    Abstract: A cooling device for an internal combustion engine is provided. During assembly, the radiator and the cooler are connected by first connecting the radiator and the cooler via a lower plug-in connection as a result of a vertical joining motion and then bringing the radiator and the cooler into a slightly tilted position. The position is achieved via limited swiveling mobility of the lower plug-in connection, whereby the required degree of freedom is created so that the required distance of the radiator and of the cooler for attaching the upper first plug-in connection can be set. The upper-first plug-in connection is then attached in a final assembly step via an attachment device that is substantially orthogonal to the plane of the cooler. The limited mobility ensures that thermal or production-related tolerances due to the different operating temperatures of the radiator and the cooler are compensated during operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Joerg Ohlhoff, Bernd Schiemann, Marco Schmidt
  • Patent number: 10374458
    Abstract: A method of inductive power transmission by a transmitter and a receiver of an electrically operated device, the transmitter having at least one transmitter coil and the receiver having at least one receiver coil, a control for the power to be transmitted is provided in the transmitter, a minimum power is transmitted by the transmitter through the control at the start of a power transmission, the minimum transferring power is sufficiently dimensioned to activate a controller of the receiver of the electrically operated device. By influencing the field of the transmitter coil, the controller supplies data packets to the control that contain information about the electrically operated device so that an optimal power adapted to the power class of the device is transmitted by the transmitter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2019
    Assignee: Witech GmbH
    Inventors: Maik-Julian Büker, Jörg Rainer Euskirchen, Marco Schmidt
  • Patent number: 10259300
    Abstract: A tailgate support is arranged in a sealing channel between an inner panel of the lid bodyshell and a lateral covering of the rear lights.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Anika Stahl, Marco Schmidt, Andreas Koenig, Steffen Buchwald, Matthias Pfaeffle
  • Publication number: 20180250671
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device (1), a method, and a kit for analysing liquid samples. The device (1) comprises a sample layer (111) having a plurality of liquid permeable test sites (112) separated by a liquid impermeable barrier region (113), and an inlet part (2) comprising a plurality of inlet channels (211), which lead to respective test sites (112) of the sample layer (111), such that a flow connection between said inlet channels (211) and said respective test sites (112) is established or can be established, wherein said inlet channels (211) comprise first openings (218) and second openings (219), wherein a second surface area defined by the positions of said second openings (219) is smaller than a first surface area defined by the positions of said first openings (218) The invention further relates to a method for functionalizing a sample layer (111).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Applicant: ETH Zürich
    Inventors: Victoria DE LANGE, Janos VÖRÖS, Marco HABEGGER, Marco SCHMIDT
  • Publication number: 20180048186
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method of inductive current transmission via at least one transmission coil subjected with electrical power by an amplifier, wherein the amplifier is operated in a zero voltage switching (ZVC) and zero current switching (ZCV) mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Publication date: February 15, 2018
    Applicant: WiTech GmbH
    Inventors: Maik-Julian Büker, Jörg Rainer Euskirchen, Marco Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20180013322
    Abstract: A method of inductive power transmission by a transmitter and a receiver of an electrically operated device, the transmitter having at least one transmitter coil and the receiver having at least one receiver coil, a control for the power to be transmitted is provided in the transmitter, a minimum power is transmitted by the transmitter through the control at the start of a power transmission, the minimum transferring power is sufficiently dimensioned to activate a controller of the receiver of the electrically operated device. By influencing the field of the transmitter coil, the controller supplies data packets to the control that contain information about the electrically operated device so that an optimal power adapted to the power class of the device is transmitted by the transmitter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2016
    Publication date: January 11, 2018
    Inventors: Maik-Julian BÜKER, Jörg Rainer EUSKIRCHEN, Marco SCHMIDT
  • Publication number: 20170334273
    Abstract: A tailgate support is arranged in a sealing channel between an inner panel of the lid bodyshell and a lateral covering of the rear lights.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Anika Stahl, Marco Schmidt, Andreas Koenig, Steffen Buchwald, Matthias Pfaeffle
  • Patent number: 9600023
    Abstract: A method for providing a timestamp in a real-time system, whereby the real-time system has an FPGA and a CPU, which cooperate with one another, and at least one register, which contains a system time, is implemented in the FPGA. The method includes the steps of providing a CPU counter for the system time, which is driven by a clock signal of the CPU, providing a synchronization counter in the CPU, whereby the synchronization counter is driven by a clock signal of the CPU, reading of the counter for providing the system time by a real-time application, querying the synchronization counter in the real-time application, and synchronizing the counter with the system time in the real-time application, when the synchronization counter outputs a value that corresponds to more than a predefined time period since the last synchronization of the CPU counter with the system time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: dSPACE digital signal processing and control engineering GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Grosse Boerger, Marco Schmidt
  • Patent number: 9463825
    Abstract: A motor vehicle steering gear with a gear rack and a drive pinion that meshes with it, which drive pinion comprises a rigidly attached drive projection in a rotational bearing that is on a front face and eccentric to the pinion teething for coupling a motor vehicle steering spindle, said rotational bearing being guided in a direction transverse and parallel to a diametrical plane formed by the pinion teething, such that when the pinion is rotating, compensation strokes for the rotational bearing are specified in a direction transverse to the gear rack, said compensation strokes being caused by the eccentric attachment of the drive projection, a retaining projection rigidly attached at a front face concentrically to the pinion teeth, the retaining projection being rotatably in engagement with the retaining piece that is guided within a gear housing parallel to the gear rack teeth, is and that during pinion rotation compensation strokes parallel with and at a constant distance to the gear rack teeth are specifi
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2016
    Assignee: SchmitterGroup AG
    Inventors: Friedhelm Gunther, Marco Schmidt, Ralf Dirscherl
  • Patent number: 9340187
    Abstract: A method, and related device, for operating a brake device of a vehicle with brake slip regulation (ABS) on roadways with different friction coefficients on different sides, as a result of which a braking yaw moment is imparted to the vehicle during braking, characterized in that, on at least one axle of the vehicle, an absolute brake pressure difference between the brake pressure at the wheel with the higher friction coefficient and the brake pressure at the wheel with the lower friction coefficient is adapted as a function of a steer input, intended to produce a yaw moment acting counter to the braking yaw moment, by the driver and/or by an automatically intervening auxiliary steering system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2016
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUER NUTZFAHRZEUGE GMBH
    Inventors: Falk Hecker, Marco Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20160001351
    Abstract: A method for producing a tubular, hollow drive shaft, in particular a cardan shaft, from a pre-tube, in particular a longitudinally welded, normalized steel tube, which is extended by having the wall thickness thereof reduced at least sectionally by way of single or multiple ironing or another cold forming operation and/or by having the inner diameter and/or outer diameter thereof changed, wherein at least one pre-tube end or shaft end is configured into a flange that is integrated in one piece by to way of cold forming.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2012
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventors: Friedhelm GUNTHER, Ralf DIRSCHERL, Marco SCHMIDT
  • Publication number: 20150377315
    Abstract: A method for producing a cylinder tube (2), which is closed at the end so as to be fluid-tight, from a tubular blank (30). The blank (30) is formed into the cylinder tube (2) with the aid of a cold forming method in such a way that on an end region (6) of the cylinder tube (2) an opening (8) remains in the cylinder tube (30), a mounting region (12) is produced in the radially outer edge region (10) of the end region (6) and the cylinder tube (2) is closed by fluid-tight attachment on the mounting region (12) of an end piece (14) which closes the opening (8). A cylinder tube (2) comprises the cylinder tube (2) cold formed from the blank (30) having an opening (8) at the end, the mounting region (12) and an end piece (14) attached to the mounting region (12) so as to be fluid-tight.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Applicant: SchmitterGroup AG
    Inventors: Friedhelm Gunther, Marco Schmidt, Ralf Dirscherl
  • Publication number: 20150361227
    Abstract: The present invention relates to particulate microcapsule compositions comprising microcapsules and an emulsion polymer, obtainable via spray drying of an aqueous microcapsule dispersion, where the microcapsules comprise a capsule core and a polymer as capsule wall and the polymer is composed of from 30 to 90% by wt. of one or more monomers (monomers I) from the group consisting of C1-C24-alkyl esters of acrylic and/or methacrylic acid, acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, and maleic acid, from 10 to 70% by wt. of one or more ethylenically unsaturated monomers having two, three, four, or more ethylenically unsaturated moieties (monomers II), and from 0 to 40% by wt. of one or more other monomers (monomers III), based in each case on the total weight of the monomers, with use of an aqueous dispersion of one or more emulsion polymers which comprises in copolymerized form from 50 to 99.9% by wt.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2014
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Marco SCHMIDT, Tina SCHROEDER-GRIMONPONT, Regina KLEIN, Joachim PAKUSCH
  • Publication number: 20150343506
    Abstract: Method for producing a container tube (15), in particular a supporting means for a motor vehicle strut, with longitudinal sections of tube (I-IV) of different wall thicknesses and/or inner and/or outer diameters, following one after the other in the longitudinal direction, starting from a hollow and/or tubular blank (1), by means of repeated drawing and wall ironing by means of at least one drawing and wall ironing female die (6, 13, 16), applied to the outside of the blank, towards a male die (9, 19, 22), for example a punch or mandrel, in contact with the inside of the blank, wherein, for at least some of the longitudinal sections (I-IV), a change of the male die is carried out before they are drawn and wall ironed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Friedhelm Gunther, Marco Schmidt, Ralf Dirscherl
  • Patent number: 9181466
    Abstract: Microcapsules of the present invention have a core and a wall. The wall is made of a polymer, which by weight is from 40 to 90% C1-C24-alkyl ester of acrylic acid, methacrylic acid, or both (“first monomer”); from 10 to 60% an ethylenically unsaturated crosslinker; and from 0 to 30% an ethylenically monounsaturated monomer different from the first monomer. At least 80% of the crosslinker is has three or more ethylenically unsaturated radicals. The core is made of a paraffin composition, which by weight has from 35 to 98% n-octadecane; from 1 to 10% C20-C24-aliphatic, diisopropylnaphthalene, or both; from 1 to 5% wax with a melting point >40° C.; and from 0 to 50% n-hexadecane. The present invention also relates to a process for preparing the microcapsules and to their use in binding construction materials, textiles, and heat transfer liquids.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Tina Schröder-Grimonpont, Hans Willax, Britta Katz, Jutta Brust, Stephan Altmann, Marco Schmidt
  • Patent number: 8957122
    Abstract: A thermoplastic molding composition is provided, which comprises A) from 30 to 90% by weight of at least one thermoplastic polymer, B) from 10 to 70% by weight of microcapsules with a capsule core made of latent-heat-accumulator material and a polymer as capsule wall, where the latent-heat-accumulator material has its solid/liquid phase transition in the temperature range from ?20° C. to 120° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Stephan Altmann, Dirk Opfermann, Tina Schroeder-Grimonpont, Marco Schmidt
  • Patent number: 8957133
    Abstract: The present invention relates to polyamide moldings obtainable via anionic polymerization of a lactam comprising microcapsules with a capsule core made of latent-heat-accumulator material and a polymer as capsule wall, to a process for producing the same, and also to the use of the same in motor-vehicle construction, as battery housing, as housing for small electronic devices, and for heat-retention systems for foods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Philippe Desbois, Tina Schröder-Grimonpont, Stephan Altmann, Marco Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20150040693
    Abstract: A motor vehicle steering gear with a gear rack and a drive pinion that meshes with it, which drive pinion comprises a rigidly attached drive projection in a rotational bearing that is on a front face and eccentric to the pinion teething for coupling a motor vehicle steering spindle, said rotational bearing being guided in a direction transverse and parallel to a diametrical plane formed by the pinion teething, such that when the pinion is rotating, compensation strokes for the rotational bearing are specified in a direction transverse to the gear rack, said compensation strokes being caused by the eccentric attachment of the drive projection, a retaining projection rigidly attached at a front face concentrically to the pinion teeth, the retaining projection being rotatably in engagement with the retaining piece that is guided within a gear housing parallel to the gear rack teeth, is and that during pinion rotation compensation strokes parallel with and at a constant distance to the gear rack teeth are specifi
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2013
    Publication date: February 12, 2015
    Inventors: Friedhelm Gunther, Marco Schmidt, Ralf Dirscherl
  • Publication number: 20130245147
    Abstract: A thermoplastic molding composition is provided, which comprises A) from 30 to 90% by weight of at least one thermoplastic polymer, B) from 10 to 70% by weight of microcapsules with a capsule core made of latent-heat-accumulator material and a polymer as capsule wall, where the latent-heat-accumulator material has its solid/liquid phase transition in the temperature range from ?20° C. to 120° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2011
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: Stephan Altmann, Dirk Opfermann, Tina Schroeder-Grimonpont, Marco Schmidt