Patents by Inventor Stephan Wetzel
Stephan Wetzel 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: 20240122620Abstract: The invention is a needle guide for performing intracorporeal location of a puncture needle to be percutaneously introduced into a patient, comprising an upper plate element, which face away from the patient, and a lower plate element, which faces the patient. The plate elements are rigidly spaced apart from one another and each provide through holes through which the puncture needle is guided. The invention has an upper and lower plate element which is separatable into at least two plate element parts, which, when joined together, commonly surround all of the through holes for each plate element.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 11, 2022Publication date: April 18, 2024Inventors: Stephan WETZEL, Rafael MOKRY-HOSTETTLER
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Patent number: 11654751Abstract: A laminated vehicle glass has an outer glass, an intermediate layer arrangement, an inner glass, a first color carrier and a second color carrier. The outer glass is at least partly adhesively bonded to the inner glass via the intermediate layer arrangement. The first color carrier is formed as a print with a first printing ink on the inner side of the outer glass. The second color carrier is formed as a print with a printing ink or as a film and has a second color. The second color carrier is provided in at least some regions on the side of the first color carrier that faces away from the outer glass. The first color and second color are different, at least in some regions. The second color is provided in a frame-like region of the laminated vehicle glass.Type: GrantFiled: April 1, 2020Date of Patent: May 23, 2023Inventors: Stephan Wetzel, Markus Alexander Bauer
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Patent number: 11179202Abstract: A method is described for planning intracorporeal positioning of a puncture needle to be introduced percutaneously into a patient on the basis of a puncture plan, said method comprising the following steps: a) arranging a needle guide means in a spatially fixed manner on the patient; b) generating and storing a series of cross-sectional images, each containing spatially resolved image information of the patient and of the needle guide means attached in a spatially fixed manner to the patient in a first coordinate system, using an imaging diagnostic method; c) selecting and visually displaying at least one cross-sectional image or a numerically generated cross-sectional image from the series of stored cross-sectional images; d) superimposing a virtual, positionally variable linear trajectory on the basis of the selected cross-sectional image; e) positioning the virtual linear trajectory on the basis of the puncture plan to obtain a target linear trajectory, in which the virtual linear trajectory traverses theType: GrantFiled: May 8, 2017Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: MEDICAL TEMPLATES AGInventors: Rafael Hostettler, Stephan Wetzel
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Publication number: 20210146588Abstract: A method for producing a film for a composite pane of a motor vehicle, which film serves as an intermediate layer of the composite pane, comprising the following steps: providing a polyvinyl butyral (PVB) film base material or an ethylene vinyl acetate copolymer (EVA) film base material; providing at least one colorant; mixing the PVB or EVA film base material with the at least one colorant; liquefying the mixture of the PVB or EVA film base material and the at least one colorant; extruding the film from the liquefied mixture of the PVB or EVA film base material and the at least one colorant; treating the extruded film section by section by irradiating the film in order to form sections of different light transmissivity.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 17, 2020Publication date: May 20, 2021Inventors: Marek Patschger, Stephan Wetzel
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Patent number: 10962963Abstract: A robot is adapted to pick up and transport objects and comprises a base plate, a drive unit, a pick up unit and a shelf unit, wherein the drive unit, the pick up unit and the shelf unit are positioned on the base plate. In addition, a method of transporting at least one object, comprising: providing the robot, the robot going to a first storing location where a first object is stored, the robot picking up the first object, and the robot transporting the first object to a first destiny location.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2017Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: MAGAZINO GMBHInventors: Lukas Zanger, Timo Flamm, Daniel Schwab, Joachim Steven, Stephan Wetzel, Kai Franke
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Publication number: 20200324627Abstract: A laminated vehicle glass has an outer glass, an intermediate layer arrangement, an inner glass, a first color carrier and a second color carrier. The outer glass is at least partly adhesively bonded to the inner glass via the intermediate layer arrangement. The first color carrier is formed as a print with a first printing ink on the inner side of the outer glass. The second color carrier is formed as a print with a printing ink or as a film and has a second color. The second color carrier is provided in at least some regions on the side of the first color carrier that faces away from the outer glass. The first color and second color are different, at least in some regions. The second color is provided in a frame-like region of the laminated vehicle glass.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 1, 2020Publication date: October 15, 2020Applicant: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche AktiengesellschaftInventors: Stephan Wetzel, Markus Alexander Bauer
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Publication number: 20190290362Abstract: A method is described for planning intracorporeal positioning of a puncture needle to be introduced percutaneously into a patient on the basis of a puncture plan, said method comprising the following steps: a) arranging a needle guide means in a spatially fixed manner on the patient; b) generating and storing a series of cross-sectional images, each containing spatially resolved image information of the patient and of the needle guide means attached in a spatially fixed manner to the patient in a first coordinate system, using an imaging diagnostic method; c) selecting and visually displaying at least one cross-sectional image or a numerically generated cross-sectional image from the series of stored cross-sectional images; d) superimposing a virtual, positionally variable linear trajectory on the basis of the selected cross-sectional image; e) positioning the virtual linear trajectory on the basis of the puncture plan to obtain a target linear trajectory, in which the virtual linear trajectory traverses theType: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2017Publication date: September 26, 2019Inventors: Rafael HOSTETTLER, Stephan WETZEL
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Publication number: 20190033837Abstract: A robot is adapted to pick up and transport objects and comprises a base plate, a drive unit, a pick up unit and a shelf unit, wherein the drive unit, the pick up unit and the shelf unit are positioned on the base plate. In addition, a method of transporting at least one object, comprising: providing the robot, the robot going to a first storing location where a first object is stored, the robot picking up the first object, and the robot transporting the first object to a first destiny location.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2017Publication date: January 31, 2019Applicant: MAGAZINO GMBHInventors: Lukas ZANGER, Timo FLAMM, Daniel SCHWAB, Joachim STEVEN, Stephan WETZEL, Kai FRANKE
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Patent number: 9418547Abstract: A driver assistance system for a vehicle includes a plurality of lights linearly arranged substantially around an interior perimeter of the vehicle. A controller is controllably coupled to the plurality of lights, such that the controller is operable to control the plurality of lights. A hazard detection system is communicatively coupled to the controller. The controller includes a non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions for causing the controller to illuminate at least one of the plurality of lights corresponding to a location of a hazard detected by the hazard detection system.Type: GrantFiled: January 6, 2014Date of Patent: August 16, 2016Assignee: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.Inventors: Zachary Joseph Bolton, Jeremy Jason McClain, Tejas Bhupendra Desai, Stephan Wetzel, Jorg Witthaus
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Publication number: 20140191883Abstract: A driver assistance system for a vehicle includes a plurality of lights linearly arranged substantially around an interior perimeter of the vehicle. A controller is controllably coupled to the plurality of lights, such that the controller is operable to control the plurality of lights. A hazard detection system is communicatively coupled to the controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2014Publication date: July 10, 2014Applicant: Continental Automotive Systems, Inc.Inventors: Zachary Joseph Bolton, Jeremy Jason McClain, Tejas Bhupendra Desai, Stephan Wetzel, Jorg Witthaus
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Publication number: 20080231028Abstract: In the case of a safety device for protecting occupants of a motor vehicle in the event of a rolling over of the vehicle, the motor vehicle passenger compartment has doors with side windows manufactured from glass in the region of the side walls. To reliably avoid occupants who are not wearing seat belts being flung out of the passenger compartment through the side windows, it is provided that the side windows are produced from a special laminated glass, for example with high-strength ionoplast interlayers, and that, in the event of a rolling over of the vehicle, the side windows are additionally assigned side impact protection devices integrated in the doors and/or seats.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2008Publication date: September 25, 2008Applicant: DR. ING. H.C. F. PORSCHE AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Hermann Brandsch, Stephan Wetzel, Martin Kane
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Publication number: 20060010779Abstract: A weatherstrip for use on a motor vehicle for sealing the space between a pivotable component, such as a door, and an adjoining fixed body structure is made of an elastic material and includes at least one longitudinally running tube profile. The form of the profile can be adjusted when the vehicle is in motion. To reduce the volume of pressurized fluid required for a good sealing function in this type of weatherstrip, the weatherstrip is designed to have only specific segments of the tube profile be inflatable when the vehicle is in motion.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 13, 2005Publication date: January 19, 2006Inventors: Reimund Schlachter, Stephan Wetzel
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Publication number: 20050067793Abstract: A radial shaft seal with a sealing element made of a non-woven fabric impregnated with an active material, particularly PTFE. The shaft seal is disposed between a stationary machine part and a rotating shaft. In the axial direction, the sealing element consists of at least one layer of non-woven fabric impregnated with a PTFE dispersion and laminated under pressure and heat.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2002Publication date: March 31, 2005Applicant: Carl Freeudenberg KGInventors: Thomas Klenk, Ulrich Liedtke, Frank Schultz, Eberhard Bock, Stephan Wetzel
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Patent number: D837370Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2017Date of Patent: January 1, 2019Inventors: Stephan Wetzel, Rafael Hostettler