Patents by Inventor Matthias Bauer

Matthias Bauer 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: 20240146133
    Abstract: An electric machine has a stator and a rotor which is rotatably mounted relative to the stator. The rotor has a rotor shaft and a rotor body which is rotationally fixed to the rotor shaft. The rotor shaft has a hydraulic channel which extends in the axial direction, can be filled with a hydraulic fluid, and from which a first radial fluid channel extends outwards in the radial direction. At least one ring disc-shaped cover element is rotationally fixed to the rotor body on an axial end face of the rotor body, and the cover element together with the axial end face of the rotor body forms at least one first cooling channel which is open on both sides and which can be hydraulically coupled to the first radial fluid channel such that a hydraulic fluid can be conveyed out of the hydraulic channel of the rotor shaft and through the radial fluid channel and the first cooling channel in the radial direction in a centrifugal force-supported manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Florian Nachtmann, Laurent Ineichen, Matthias Bauer, Kay Juckelandt
  • Patent number: 11889965
    Abstract: A mechanism for the door of a domestic electrical appliance, for example a dishwasher, is described. The mechanism includes a door latch for holding the door closed, a latch opener mechanism, an electrically controlled actuator for displacing the latch opener mechanism, a movably arranged pusher, and a spring device for providing a spring force which acts on the pusher. The latch opener mechanism functions such that, when the door is closed, it can be transferred from an inactive position into an active position while at least partially overcoming a holding-closed action of the door latch. The movably arranged pusher is separate from the latch opener mechanism and is decoupled therefrom in terms of movement. After the holding-closed action of the door latch has been overcome, the spring drive allows the door to be pushed open by the pusher.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 6, 2024
    Assignee: EMZ-HANAUER GMBH & CO. KGAA
    Inventors: Albert Dirnberger, Josef Bauriedl, Matthias Bauer, Georg Spießl
  • Publication number: 20230292980
    Abstract: A domestic dishwashing machine includes a machine body having a dishwashing chamber formed therein, a door that is held on the machine body so as to be pivotable about a horizontal pivot axis, and a door latch. The door latch includes a latch assembly arranged on the machine body and which has a movably arranged closing member and a closing spring arrangement, and an engagement structure arranged on the door, wherein, on closing of the door, the closing member comes into closing engagement with the engagement structure, and a pulling-shut action can be exerted on the door by relaxation of the closing spring arrangement. The door has an internal door lining made of sheet-metal material which extends to a door top edge. The door lining has a first lining wall portion arranged adjacent to the door top edge and extending substantially parallel to the door plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Inventors: Albert Dirnberger, Matthias Bauer, Benjamin Schemela
  • Publication number: 20230119079
    Abstract: A door latch for an electrical appliance includes a rotary gripper movably disposed between a gripping position and a release position with rotational displaceability and having a gripping mouth delimited between a pair of jaws. The rotary gripper is adapted to hold captive a striker in the gripping mouth for holding closed a door of the electrical appliance in the gripping position and to permit release of the striker for opening the door in the release position. The gripping position and the release position correspond to different rotational positions of the rotary gripper. A spring arrangement in the gripping position of the rotary gripper exerts on the rotary gripper a bias which counteracts a movement of the rotary gripper towards the release position. An opener mechanism for opening the closed door includes a movably arranged opening element separate from the striker and a drive unit for driving the opening element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Albert Dirnberger, Benjamin Schemela, Georg SpieBl, Matthias Bauer
  • Patent number: 11543166
    Abstract: An ice maker includes a carriage, an ice mold defining a plurality of cavities that is movably coupled to the carriage such that the ice mold is movable relative to the carriage between a home position and a harvest position, and a detection lever movably coupled to the carriage such that the detection lever is movable between a retracted position and an extended position, the detection member being biased toward the extended position. The ice maker further includes a retention mechanism configured to retain the detection lever in the retracted position when the ice mold is in the harvest position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: Electrolux Home Products, Inc.
    Inventors: Jose Carlos Trejo Olvera, Thomas W. McCollough, Matthias Bauer, Georg Spiessl
  • Patent number: 11537151
    Abstract: Implementations of the present disclosure generally relate to one or more flow ratio controllers and one or more gas injection inserts in the semiconductor processing chamber. In one implementation, an apparatus includes a first flow ratio controller including a first plurality of flow controllers, a second flow ratio controller including a second plurality of flow controllers, and a gas injection insert including a first portion and a second portion. The first portion includes a first plurality of channels and the second portion includes a second plurality of channels. The apparatus further includes a plurality of gas lines connecting the first and second pluralities of flow controllers to the first and second pluralities of channels. One or more gas lines of the plurality of gas lines are each connected to a channel of the first plurality of channels and a channel of the second plurality of channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventor: Matthias Bauer
  • Publication number: 20220364229
    Abstract: Embodiments described herein include processes and apparatuses relate to epitaxial deposition. A method for epitaxially depositing a material is provided and includes positioning a substrate on a substrate support surface of a susceptor within a process volume of a chamber body, where the process volume contains upper and lower chamber regions. The method includes flowing a process gas containing one or more chemical precursors from an upper gas inlet on a first side of the chamber body, across the substrate, and to an upper gas outlet on a second side of the chamber body, flowing a purge gas from a lower gas inlet on the first side of the chamber body, across the lower surface of the susceptor, and to a lower gas outlet on the second side of the chamber body, and maintaining a pressure of the lower chamber region greater than a pressure of the upper chamber region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Tetsuya ISHIKAWA, Swaminathan T. SRINIVASAN, Matthias BAUER, Manjunath SUBBANNA, Ala MORADIAN, Kartik Bhupendra SHAH, Errol Antonio C SANCHEZ, Michael R. RICE, Peter REIMER, Marc SHULL
  • Publication number: 20220364261
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to a process chamber for processing of semiconductor substrates. The process chamber includes an upper lamp assembly, a lower lamp assembly, a substrate support, an upper window disposed between the substrate support and the upper lamp assembly, a lower window disposed between the lower lamp assembly and the substrate support, an inject ring, and a base ring. Each of the upper lamp assembly and the lower lamp assembly include vertically oriented lamp apertures for the placement of heating lamps therein. The inject ring includes gas injectors disposed therethrough and the base ring includes a substrate transfer passage, a lower chamber exhaust passage, and one or more upper chamber exhaust passages. The gas injectors are disposed over the substrate transfer passage and across from the lower chamber exhaust passage and the one or more upper chamber exhaust passages.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Tetsuya ISHIKAWA, Swaminathan T. SRINIVASAN, Kartik Bhupendra SHAH, Ala MORADIAN, Manjunath SUBBANNA, Matthias BAUER, Peter REIMER, Michael R. RICE
  • Publication number: 20220364231
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to gas inject apparatus for a process chamber for processing of semiconductor substrates. The gas inject apparatus include one or more gas injectors which are configured to be coupled to the process chamber. Each of the gas injectors are configured to receive a process gas and distribute the process gas across one or more gas outlets. The gas injectors include a plurality of pathways, a fin array, and a baffle array. The gas injectors are individually heated. A gas mixture assembly is also utilized to control the concentration of process gases flown into a process volume from each of the gas injectors. The gas mixture assembly enables the concentration as well as the flow rate of the process gases to be controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Tetsuya ISHIKAWA, Swaminathan T. SRINIVASAN, Matthias BAUER, Ala MORADIAN, Manjunath SUBBANNA, Kartik Bhupendra SHAH, Errol Antonio C. SANCHEZ, Sohrab ZOKAEI, Michael R. RICE, Peter REIMER
  • Publication number: 20220367216
    Abstract: The present disclosure generally relates to an epitaxial chamber for processing of semiconductor substrates. In one example, the epitaxial chamber has a chamber body assembly. The chamber body assembly includes a lower window and an upper window, wherein chamber body assembly, the lower window and the upper window enclose an internal volume. A susceptor assembly is disposed in the internal volume. The epitaxial chamber also has a plurality of temperature control elements. The plurality of temperature control elements include one or more of an upper lamp module, a lower lamp module, an upper heater, a lower heater, or a heated gas passage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Publication date: November 17, 2022
    Inventors: Tetsuya ISHIKAWA, Swaminathan T. SRINIVASAN, Matthias BAUER, Ala MORADIAN, Manjunath SUBBANNA, Kartik Bhupendra SHAH, Kostiantyn ACHKASOV, Errol Antonio C. SANCHEZ, Michael R. RICE, Marc SHULL, Ji-Dih HU
  • Publication number: 20220354336
    Abstract: A cover assembly for mounting in a domestic dishwasher, for example, is proposed. The cover assembly includes a pivoting cover which is mounted on a support component and is to close an opening, wherein the pivoting cover has a cover part and a closure part which is movable relative to the cover part. The cover part has sealing faces which, on closing of the pivoting cover, come into sealing contact with sealing counter-faces encircling the opening. There are formed on the closure part engagement formations which, in a closed pivot position of the pivoting cover, can be brought into and out of holding-closed engagement with engagement counter-formations by relative movement between the closure part and the support component. The cover part is mounted on the closure part and is supported via the closure part on the support component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2022
    Publication date: November 10, 2022
    Inventors: Albert Dirnberger, Johann Kleber, Matthias Bauer, Georg Spießl
  • Publication number: 20220320318
    Abstract: Electronic devices and methods of forming electronic devices with gate-all-around non-I/O devices and finlike structures for I/O devices are described. A plurality of dummy gates is etched to expose a fin comprising alternating layers of a first material and a second material. The second material layers are removed to create openings and the first material layers remaining are epitaxially grown to form a finlike structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2022
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Colombeau, Matthias Bauer, Naved Ahmed Siddiqui, Phillip Stout
  • Patent number: 11434662
    Abstract: A door latch for an electrical domestic appliance includes a rotary member arranged to be rotationally movable between a closing rotational position and a release rotational position and is spring-biased in the direction towards the release rotational position, a movably arranged catch that is in an arresting engagement with the rotary member when the rotary member is in the closing rotational position, and a locking assembly that includes a movable locking member movable between an unlocking position and a locking position. The arresting engagement is releasable by an overlifting rotational movement of the rotary member. The rotary member is rotationally movable between a closing rotational position and a release rotational position and is spring-biased in the direction towards the release rotational position. The locking member, when transferred from the unlocking position into the opening position, causes the arresting engagement of the catch with the rotary member to be released.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: EMZ-HANAUER GMBH & CO. KGAA
    Inventors: Albert Dirnberger, Georg Spiessl, Matthias Bauer
  • Publication number: 20220273157
    Abstract: A mechanism for the door of a domestic electrical appliance, for example a dishwasher, is described. The mechanism includes a door latch for holding the door closed, a latch opener mechanism, an electrically controlled actuator for displacing the latch opener mechanism, a movably arranged pusher, and a spring device for providing a spring force which acts on the pusher. The latch opener mechanism functions such that, when the door is closed, it can be transferred from an inactive position into an active position while at least partially overcoming a holding-closed action of the door latch. The movably arranged pusher is separate from the latch opener mechanism and is decoupled therefrom in terms of movement. After the holding-closed action of the door latch has been overcome, the spring drive allows the door to be pushed open by the pusher.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Albert Dirnberger, Josef Bauriedl, Matthias Bauer, Georg Spießl
  • Patent number: 11393916
    Abstract: Electronic devices and methods of forming electronic devices with gate-all-around non-I/O devices and finlike structures for I/O devices are described. A plurality of dummy gates is etched to expose a fin comprising alternating layers of a first material and a second material. The second material layers are removed to create openings and the first material layers remaining are epitaxially grown to form a finlike structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Benjamin Colombeau, Matthias Bauer, Naved Ahmed Siddiqui, Phillip Stout
  • Publication number: 20220199804
    Abstract: A finFET device includes a doped source and/or drain extension that is disposed between a gate spacer of the finFET and a bulk semiconductor portion of the semiconductor substrate on which the n-doped or p-doped source or drain extension is disposed. The doped source or drain extension is formed by a selective epitaxial growth (SEG) process in a cavity formed proximate the gate spacer. After formation of the cavity, advanced processing controls (APC) (i.e., integrated metrology) is used to determine the distance of recess, without exposing the substrate to an oxidizing environment. The isotropic etch process, the metrology, and selective epitaxial growth may be performed in the same platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Colombeau, Tushar Mandrekar, Patricia M. Liu, Suketu Arun Parikh, Matthias Bauer, Dimitri R. Kioussis, Sanjay Natarajan, Abhishek Dube
  • Patent number: 11358707
    Abstract: A flow guide body for an aircraft includes a main body having an outer aerodynamic surface having a plurality of outlet openings, and flow control devices, each having an inlet, an interaction chamber, a first outlet and a second outlet. A first control inlet is connected to the interaction chamber at the first side of the chamber axis. The outlets are each connected to outlet openings in the aerodynamic surface. Each outlet has a control outlet. A second flow control device is arranged such that one outlet is connected with the inlet of the first flow control device. One of the control outlets of the first flow control device is connected to the first control inlet of the first flow control device, and the other of the control outlets of the first flow control device is connected to the first control inlet of the second flow control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Inventors: Bruno Stefes, Matthias Bauer, Jakob Lohse
  • Publication number: 20220175212
    Abstract: A domestic dishwashing machine includes a dishwashing container, a door, pivotably mounted on the dishwashing container, for closing a dishwashing chamber formed in the dishwashing container, and a dosing system, arranged at the door, for a solid detergent, for example, in tablet form. The dosing system may include an annular magazine having a rotatably arranged rotor which delimits a plurality of radially outwardly open storage compartments, distributed in the circumferential direction, which are each to receive a detergent tablet. In some embodiments, a chute is arranged beneath the rotor, and the chute allows a detergent tablet which has fallen into the chute to fall freely to an outlet opening at which the detergent tablet can pass into the dishwashing chamber. By rotation of the rotor, a storage compartment filled with a detergent tablet can move into a position radially opposite a dosing opening, at which the chute begins.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2021
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Albert Dirnberger, Johann Kleber, Matthias Bauer, Georg Spießl
  • Patent number: 11309404
    Abstract: A finFET device includes a doped source and/or drain extension that is disposed between a gate spacer of the finFET and a bulk semiconductor portion of the semiconductor substrate on which the n-doped or p-doped source or drain extension is disposed. The doped source or drain extension is formed by a selective epitaxial growth (SEG) process in a cavity formed proximate the gate spacer. After formation of the cavity, advanced processing controls (APC) (i.e., integrated metrology) is used to determine the distance of recess, without exposing the substrate to an oxidizing environment. The isotropic etch process, the metrology, and selective epitaxial growth may be performed in the same platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Benjamin Colombeau, Tushar Mandrekar, Patricia M. Liu, Suketu Arun Parikh, Matthias Bauer, Dimitri R. Kioussis, Sanjay Natarajan, Abhishek Dube
  • Publication number: 20220065008
    Abstract: A domestic dishwashing machine includes a machine body having a dishwashing chamber formed therein, a door for closing the dishwashing chamber, which door is mounted on the machine body so as to be pivotable about a horizontal pivot axis close to the floor, and a door latch for holding the door closed, having a latch assembly installed in a body roof above the dishwashing chamber and includes a one-piece closing member arranged to be movable between an open position and a closed position, and a closing spring arrangement supported on the closing member and which, in the open position of the closing member, urges the closing member into blocking engagement with a blocking surface that prevents relaxation of the closing spring arrangement, and comes into gripping engagement with an engagement structure arranged on the door and pulls the door shut under the action5 of the relaxing closing spring arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Applicant: emz-Hanauer GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Matthias Bauer