Patents by Inventor Steffen Kernbach

Steffen Kernbach 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: 10215142
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes an injector for an internal combustion engine which includes an injector housing, a piezo-actuator control unit having a first set of terminals, a connecting plug on a head of the injector housing, the connecting plug having a second set of terminals, and an electrical connection between the control unit and the connecting plug within the injector housing. The electrical connection comprises a contact element with conductor tracks integrated into an insulating body. The conductor tracks are connected to the terminals of the control unit and of the connecting plug. A first end of the insulating body abuts the control unit or the connecting plug and a second end is spaced from the connecting plug or the control unit. The contact element includes an elastic device by means of which the insulating body is braced against the component it abuts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Emanuel Sanftleben, Martin Ploetz, Martin Simmet, Steffen Kernbach
  • Publication number: 20160281664
    Abstract: The present disclosure describes an injector for an internal combustion engine which includes an injector housing, a piezo-actuator control unit having a first set of terminals, a connecting plug on a head of the injector housing, the connecting plug having a second set of terminals, and an electrical connection between the control unit and the connecting plug within the injector housing. The electrical connection comprises a contact element with conductor tracks integrated into an insulating body. The conductor tracks are connected to the terminals of the control unit and of the connecting plug. A first end of the insulating body abuts the control unit or the connecting plug and a second end is spaced from the connecting plug or the control unit. The contact element includes an elastic device by means of which the insulating body is braced against the component it abuts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Publication date: September 29, 2016
    Applicant: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Emanuel Sanftleben, Martin Ploetz, Martin Simmet, Steffen Kernbach
  • Publication number: 20040087833
    Abstract: The invention relates to a retractor (10) with a carrier ring (20) and L-shaped valves (30), which can be attached with an arm (32) which runs parallel to the carrier ring plane to the carrier ring (20), whereby its free end points outward, and whose other arm (34) is oriented perpendicularly with a respect to the carrier ring plane and presents, in cross section, a convex curvature toward the external margin of the carrier ring (20), where the arm of (32) [sic; arm (32)] of the valves (30), which is attached to the carrier ring (20), is guided in radically oriented guides (22) on the carrier ring (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2003
    Publication date: May 6, 2004
    Inventors: Thomas Bauer, Carsten Geister, Steffen Kernbach, Gerd Haimerl, Sara Lozano, Norbert Gut