Patents by Inventor Alexander Herold

Alexander Herold 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: 11953173
    Abstract: An illumination apparatus for vehicles having a light source, a support plate for receiving the light source, and an optical unit arranged in front of the light source in the main emission direction to deflect light emitted by the light source onto a roadway in front of the vehicle in accordance with a predetermined light distribution. The light source has a light-emitting surface and a light source frame surrounding the same. The light source is surrounded by a shielding frame with a wall that is raised in the main emission direction and encloses an intermediate space between the light source and the optical unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Hella GmbH & CO. KGAA
    Inventors: Herbert Cramer, Florian Herold, Christian Schimon, Alexander Schwan, Dirk Schwemin
  • Publication number: 20240084988
    Abstract: An illumination device for vehicles is provided, and includes a headlamp with an imaging unit for generating a multitude of light pixels that can be actuated individually. The headlamp also includes a lens unit containing a lens arrangement with a number of lenses arranged in a fixed manner to each other. The light pixels of the imaging unit can be mapped to focused light spots at a specified distance. The headlamp also includes an actuator unit for actuating the imaging unit. A first lens unit of a first headlamp is different from a second lens unit of a second headlamp such that the light pixels of the imaging unit of the first headlamp and the second headlamp are mapped to be focused at different distances.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Sebastian Gatsios, Florian Herold, Dirk Kliebisch, Ingo Möllers, Alexander Schwan, Patrick Vogel
  • Patent number: 11913461
    Abstract: A fan is described, with the aid of which a volume flow and/or a mass flow of a medium moved by the fan (1) can be determined. This fan comprises an electric motor (2) and an impeller (3) driven by the electric motor (2), wherein the impeller (3) moves a gaseous medium in a media flow from an inflow side (5) to an outflow side (7). The fan additionally comprises a pressure sensor system, a speed ascertainment system, and an evaluation unit. The pressure sensor system is designed to ascertain an actual pressure difference (?p*) between a first region (10) and a second region (13), wherein the first region (10) and/or the second region (13) is/are formed in the electric motor (2), wherein a pressure (pA) prevails in the first region (10), which corresponds to a pressure (p1) present on the inflow side, wherein a pressure (pB) prevails in the second region (13), which corresponds to a pressure (p2) present on the outflow side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: ZIEHL-ABEGG SE
    Inventors: Raphael Simon Obst, Matthias Carsten Kammerer, Mato Mathias Krcmar, Frieder Loercher, Alexander Herold
  • Publication number: 20240035487
    Abstract: A fan having an impeller comprising blades, an electric motor driving the impeller, and a scroll housing, wherein a flow channel is formed by the inner contour of the scroll housing, wherein an inlet nozzle, designed as a rotating body in an embodiment, is provided on the inflow side, and wherein the flow channel guides the air aspirated by the inlet nozzle via the impeller to an outlet, is characterized in that the inlet nozzle is surrounded by an inflow area having an inflow surface, which expands the inlet nozzle essentially in the radial direction, i.e., transversely to the impeller axis. A scroll housing is designed accordingly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Frieder LOERCHER, Alexander HEROLD, Matthias GOELLER
  • Fan
    Patent number: 11768090
    Abstract: A fan, in particular axial fan and preferably backward-curved radial fan, having an impeller equipped with blades, an electric motor for rotating the impeller and a device for determining the airflow when the impeller is rotating. The device for determining the airflow includes a volume flow measuring wheel arranged in the air flow, which is arranged upstream of the impeller on the inflow side. The air volume flow is calculated or derived from the rotational speed of the volume flow measuring wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: ZIEHL-ABEGG SE
    Inventors: Frieder Loercher, Alexander Herold
  • Patent number: 11703065
    Abstract: Disclosed fans include an impeller and a guide device. The impeller is configured to generate an air flow path having an upstream direction and a downstream direction, and the guide device is positioned in the flow path located on an upstream side of the impeller. The guide device is configured as an intake grid having flat webs having branches and node points, and the webs form a plurality of flow channels configured as grid cells. The webs extend either between two branches or between one branch and a border area and each branch may include three webs that meet. In one configuration, flow channels include channels having a honeycomb cross section. In other example, flow channels may have a rectangular, pentagonal, and/or hexagonal shape. The fan further includes an inlet nozzle having an inlet area, and the guide device is located upstream from the inlet area of the inlet nozzle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: ZIEHL-ABEGG SE
    Inventors: Frieder Loercher, Alexander Herold
  • Publication number: 20230213042
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to a housing for a fan that is constructed by cutting, bending, and/or folding a single sheet of metal. A disclosed housing is configured to house a fan having a motor that is configured to rotate around an axial direction. The housing includes a first plate that is oriented in a plane that is perpendicular to the axial direction and substantially flat wall regions extending away from the first plate so as to be non-coplanar with the first plate. The housing further includes a second plate having an air intake nozzle, the second plate oriented perpendicularly to the axial direction and thereby oriented parallel to the first plate and located a first distance along the axial direction from the first plate, with the first distance being determined by a length of the wall regions. The wall regions are configured to include air flow openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Inventors: Frieder LOERCHER, Matthias GOELLER, Alexander HEROLD
  • FAN
    Publication number: 20220397121
    Abstract: A fan, in particular axial fan and preferably backward-curved radial fan, having an impeller equipped with blades, an electric motor for rotating the impeller and a device for determining the airflow when the impeller is rotating. The device for determining the airflow includes a volume flow measuring wheel arranged in the air flow, which is arranged upstream of the impeller on the inflow side. The air volume flow is calculated or derived from the rotational speed of the volume flow measuring wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Frieder LOERCHER, Alexander HEROLD
  • Publication number: 20220235781
    Abstract: A fan is described, with the aid of which a volume flow and/or a mass flow of a medium moved by the fan (1) can be determined. This fan comprises an electric motor (2) and an impeller (3) driven by the electric motor (2), wherein the impeller (3) moves a gaseous medium in a media flow from an inflow side (5) to an outflow side (7). The fan additionally comprises a pressure sensor system, a speed ascertainment system, and an evaluation unit. The pressure sensor system is designed to ascertain an actual pressure difference (?p*) between a first region (10) and a second region (13), wherein the first region (10) and/or the second region (13) is/are formed in the electric motor (2), wherein a pressure (pA) prevails in the first region (10), which corresponds to a pressure (p1) present on the inflow side, wherein a pressure (pB) prevails in the second region (13), which corresponds to a pressure (p2) present on the outflow side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 7, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Raphael Simon OBST, Matthias Carsten KAMMERER, Mato Mathias KRCMAR, Frieder LOERCHER, Alexander HEROLD
  • Publication number: 20210262487
    Abstract: Disclosed embodiments relate to a housing for a fan that is constructed by cutting, bending, and/or folding a single sheet of metal. A disclosed housing is configured to house a fan having a motor that is configured to rotate around an axial direction. The housing includes a first plate that is oriented in a plane that is perpendicular to the axial direction and substantially flat wall regions extending away from the first plate so as to be non-coplanar with the first plate. The housing further includes a second plate having an air intake nozzle, the second plate oriented perpendicularly to the axial direction and thereby oriented parallel to the first plate and located a first distance along the axial direction from the first plate, with the first distance being determined by a length of the wall regions. The wall regions are configured to include air flow openings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Frieder LOERCHER, Matthias GOELLER, Alexander HEROLD
  • Publication number: 20210164495
    Abstract: Disclosed fans include an impeller and a guide device. The impeller is configured to generate an air flow path having an upstream direction and a downstream direction, and the guide device is positioned in the flow path located on an upstream side of the impeller. The guide device is configured as an intake grid having flat webs having branches and node points, and the webs form a plurality of flow channels configured as grid cells. The webs extend either between two branches or between one branch and a border area and each branch may include three webs that meet. In one configuration, flow channels include channels having a honeycomb cross section. In other example, flow channels may have a rectangular, pentagonal, and/or hexagonal shape. The fan further includes an inlet nozzle having an inlet area, and the guide device is located upstream from the inlet area of the inlet nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2019
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Frieder LOERCHER, Alexander HEROLD
  • Patent number: 8276428
    Abstract: A device for manufacturing profiles from a sheet includes at least one work station with a base plate and two die halves, wherein the die halves and the base plate extend in the longitudinal direction of the profile to be manufactured, and the die halves are arranged on the base plate movable relative to one another perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the profile. A generic device and method for manufacturing profiles with which even heavily structured profiles can be economically produced with high flexibility, is provided by a punch for forming the sheet. The punch is movable perpendicular to the relative movement of the die halves and perpendicular to the longitudinal extension of the profile to be manufactured. The base plate has a die adapted to the punch, in which the sheet is formed, and the die of the base plate and the punch pertaining to it are exchangeable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2012
    Assignee: ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG
    Inventors: Michael Brüggenbrock, Thomas Flehmig, Mohamed Tohfa, Alexander Herold, Peter Münchenbach, Joachim Raps
  • Publication number: 20100251795
    Abstract: A device for manufacturing profiles from a sheet includes at least one work station with a base plate and two die halves, wherein the die halves and the base plate extend in the longitudinal direction of the profile to be manufactured, and the die halves are arranged on the base plate movable relative to one another perpendicular to the longitudinal direction of the profile. A generic device and method for manufacturing profiles with which even heavily structured profiles can be economically produced with high flexibility, is provided by a punch for forming the sheet. The punch is movable perpendicular to the relative movement of the die halves and perpendicular to the longitudinal extension of the profile to be manufactured. The base plate has a die adapted to the punch, in which the sheet is formed, and the die of the base plate and the punch pertaining to it are exchangeable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2008
    Publication date: October 7, 2010
    Applicant: ThyssenKrupp Steel Europe AG
    Inventors: Michael Brüggenbrock, Thomas Flehmig, Mohamed Tohfa, Alexander Herold, Peter Münchenbach, Joachim Raps
  • Patent number: 6400963
    Abstract: To effectively suppress harmonics in a dual band mobile phone with a power amplifier (10) outputting transmitting signals for different frequency bands (GSM; PCS, DCS) via a single output as described a power amplifier output circuit in which harmonics are filtered through impedance transformation of a turn-off impedance of a transmitter/receiver change over unit (36, 38). Hereby the desired filtering of harmonics may be achieved without almost no additional expenditure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 1999
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2002
    Assignee: Telefonaktiebolaget LM Ericsson (publ)
    Inventors: Roman Glöckler, Alexander Herold, Paul Johansson
  • Patent number: 6373787
    Abstract: A system for generating a humanly perceptible signal at one or more predetermined points in time, at which one or more medications must be taken or a time-dependent medical procedure must be implemented, includes a control unit at which the time or times are stored, and which includes a time measuring unit which provides a signal upon the occurrence of the time or times, and at least one signaling device disposed remote from said control unit, which receives a signal via a communication system from the control unit and which emits a visually perceptible reminder upon receipt of the signal. The control unit and the signal device are disposed in a building which is occupied, or can be occupied at times, by a patient, and the communication system is integrated as a part of the building.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2000
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2002
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Fritz Breimesser, Klaus Abraham-Fuchs, Thomas Birkhoelzer, Alexander Herold
  • Patent number: 6313743
    Abstract: In an autonomous emergency monitoring system, wherein the user need not carry any signaling devices whatsoever, an emergency situation can be reported to an external receiver by voice input via microphones via a communication interface. Further, a monitoring of the person can ensue via sensor systems that can likewise setup an external connection via the communication interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 6, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengellschaft
    Inventors: Klaus Abraham-Fuchs, Thomas Birkhoelzer, Alexander Herold, Helmut Reichenberger, Volker Schmidt, Henrich Seifert
  • Patent number: 6210301
    Abstract: A patient monitoring system, particularly for orthopedics, is designed for use by the medical layman and provides this person with information relating to the exercises or activities he performs. To this end, a sensor array produces sensor signals which are stored in a first memory and are compared to the contents of a second memory (ideal signal pattern). The comparison result is made available to the user via a display or as a biofeedback.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2001
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Klaus Abraham-Fuchs, Thomas Birkhoelzer, Alexander Herold