Patents by Inventor André Hackel

André Hackel 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: 20190242512
    Abstract: A motor vehicle fluid line for conducting at least one fluid medium, in particular for conducting urea solutions for SCR catalytic converter systems, at least one fluid-carrying pipe and at least one fluid-carrying connector that is connected to the pipe being provided. The pipe comprises a fluid-carrying outer line and a fluid-carrying inner line that is received in the outer line over at least part of its length L. The connector comprises a first connecting branch that is in fluid communication with the outer line, and comprises a second connecting branch that is in fluid communication with the inner line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Inventor: Andre HÄCKEL
  • Publication number: 20190178429
    Abstract: A connector for connection between two fluid-conveying elements, in particular for connection between two motor vehicle pipes, with a female plug-in part and a male plug-in part which is insertable into the female plug-in part. A retainer is connected to the female plug-in part, the retainer allowing the male plug-in part to be fixed, in the inserted state, to the female plug-in part. The retainer may be pivoted from an open position to a fixing position—and vice versa—about a pivot axis arranged in the region of the outer surface of the female plug-in part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Reiner ROHDE, Iris BARTHEL, Kay BUBE, Andre HÄCKEL, Alexander BOL, Gerd FISCHBACH, Harald Knobloch
  • Publication number: 20190003630
    Abstract: A connector comprising a connection part, an assembly aid and an encapsulation. The connection part comprises two connection ends, wherein an inner channel connects the connection ends to each other for the purpose of the passage of a fluid medium. The connection part has a middle section between the connection ends, wherein the assembly aid is arranged at least in a partial region of the middle section on the outside of the connection part. A heating means is arranged on the assembly aid, wherein the encapsulation covers at least a portion of the heating means. The assembly aid is arranged on the connection part by means of force-fitting.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: TI Automotive (Fuldabrück) GmbH
    Inventors: Iris BARTHEL, Kay BUBE, Andre HÄCKEL, Michael WEISSING, Harald KNOBLOCH
  • Publication number: 20180363824
    Abstract: Heatable motor vehicle conduit for transmission of a fluid medium, wherein the conduit includes an inner channel as well as a tube wall surrounding the inner channel. At least one heating channel extending in the longitudinal direction of the conduit is provided inside the tube wall. At least one heating element extending along the heating channel is disposed in the heating channel. The heating element is surrounded by the inner wall of the heating channel and by the material of the tube wall over at least 85% of its circumference.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2016
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Inventors: Michael WEISSING, Andre HÄCKEL
  • Publication number: 20180252345
    Abstract: A connection unit having a connector and at least one fluid line that is connected to the connector, wherein the connector has at least two connection ends and a connector section that connects the connection ends to one another. A fluid line end of a fluid line engages with at least one connection end of the connector. At least one compensation element is connected to the fluid line in the area of the fluid line end of the fluid line, the compensation element being supportable on at least one support stop via at least one spring element. Due to a pressure increase in the connector section, the compensation element is movable against the restoring force of the spring element in the direction of the support stop, with an increase in the internal volume of the connector section.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Inventors: Andre HÄCKEL, Frank WACHSMUTH
  • Patent number: 10012336
    Abstract: Connector assembly, and/or motor-vehicle connector assembly, with at least one connector and at least one media line connected to the connector. The media line is electrically heated, a heat-conducting element being arranged in the transition region between connector and media line. The heat-conducting element extends with a first heat-conducting section into the media line and with a second heat-conducting section into the connector. By means of the electric heating of the media line, the heat-conducting element is heated, and/or indirectly heated, and in particular is heated and/or indirectly heated as far as the region of the connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2018
    Assignee: TI Automotive (Fuldabrück) GmbH
    Inventors: Andre Häckel, Gerd Fischbach, Iris Barthel, Kay Bube, Michael Weissing
  • Patent number: 9943221
    Abstract: A medical, in particular dental, diagnostic device having means for image capture and a hand piece that has a window located in the optical path of the means for image capture, wherein there are means for heating the window formed by a resistance heater.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 17, 2018
    Assignee: KALTENBACH & VOIGT GMBH
    Inventors: Sven Erdmann, Andre Hackel
  • Publication number: 20170241582
    Abstract: Connector assembly, and/or motor-vehicle connector assembly, with at least one connector and at least one media line connected to the connector. The media line is electrically heated, a heat-conducting element being arranged in the transition region between connector and media line. The heat-conducting element extends with a first heat-conducting section into the media line and with a second heat-conducting section into the connector. By means of the electric heating of the media line, the heat-conducting element is heated, and/or indirectly heated, and in particular is heated and/or indirectly heated as far as the region of the connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2017
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Applicant: TI Automotive (Fuldabrück) GmbH
    Inventors: Andre Häckel, Gerd Fischbach, Iris Barthel, Kay Bube, Michael Weissing
  • Patent number: 9603530
    Abstract: A dental system may trans-illuminate teeth using a light source for producing examination radiation by directing the examination radiation at a tooth to be examined. An optical image of the tooth illuminated by the examination radiation may be acquired. The light source may include a light-guiding and/or light-deflecting element that faces the tooth to be examined being embedded in a transparent. The light-guiding and/or light-deflecting element may be embedded in a transparent, flexible coupling body that is provided to rest on the tooth or the gingiva of the tooth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2017
    Assignee: KALTENBACH & VOIGT GMBH
    Inventors: André Hackel, Hans Heckenberger, Sven Erdmann
  • Publication number: 20160310009
    Abstract: A dental system may trans-illuminate teeth using a light source for producing examination radiation by directing the examination radiation at a tooth to be examined. An optical image of the tooth illuminated by the examination radiation may be acquired. The light source may include a light-guiding and/or light-deflecting element that faces the tooth to be examined being embedded in a transparent. The light-guiding and/or light-deflecting element may be embedded in a transparent, flexible coupling body that is provided to rest on the tooth or the gingiva of the tooth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: October 27, 2016
    Applicant: KALTENBACH & VOIGT GMBH
    Inventors: André Hackel, Hans Heckenberger, Sven Erdmann
  • Patent number: 9380943
    Abstract: A dental system may transilluminate teeth using a light source for producing examination radiation by directing the examination radiation at a tooth to be examined. An optical image of the tooth illuminated by the examination radiation may be acquired. The light source may include a light-guiding and/or light-deflecting element that faces the tooth to be examined. Light-guiding and/or light-deflecting elements may be embedded in a transparent, flexible coupling body that is provided to rest on the tooth or the gingiva of the tooth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: KALTENBACH & VOIGT GMBH
    Inventors: André Hackel, Hans Heckenberger, Sven Erdmann
  • Publication number: 20150292684
    Abstract: A medical luminaire, for example a dental treatment luminaire for the intraoral illumination of a surgical field, has at least one illuminating unit with light-producing means and with optical means for generating a field of light in an object plane, wherein a diffuser is provided that is designed to widen the field of light in the object plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Inventor: André Hackel
  • Patent number: 8780190
    Abstract: The invention relates to an intra-oral camera having an imaging system for depicting the object located in front of an observation window of the camera on a recording unit, wherein the imaging system has at least one focusing unit for setting a suitable focus and an aperture unit for forming a variable aperture. The setting of the aperture is carried out independently of the focus adjusted by the focusing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Kaltenbach & Voigt GmbH
    Inventors: Andre Hackel, Florian Bühs, Heinz Lehr, Stephen Schrader
  • Publication number: 20120130254
    Abstract: In a dental system for the transillumination of teeth having an elongate handpiece with a light source for producing examination radiation, irradiation means for directing the examination radiation at a tooth to be examined, and means for acquiring an optical image of the tooth illuminated by the examination radiation, there is arranged at the front end of the handpiece a removable attachment which contains at least part of the irradiation means, the handpiece having means for detecting the attachment arranged on the handpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Publication date: May 24, 2012
    Applicant: Kaltenbach & Voigt GmbH
    Inventors: André Hackel, Sven Erdmann
  • Publication number: 20120122053
    Abstract: In a dental system for the transillumination of teeth having a light source for producing examination radiation, irradiation means for directing the examination radiation at a tooth to be examined, and means for acquiring an optical image of the tooth illuminated by the examination radiation, the irradiation means includes light-guiding and/or light-deflecting elements, at least the light-guiding and/or light-deflecting element facing the tooth to be examined being embedded in a transparent, flexible coupling body that is provided to rest on the tooth or the gingiva of the tooth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: Kaltenbach & Voigt GmbH
    Inventors: André Hackel, Hans Heckenberger, Sven Erdmann
  • Publication number: 20120122051
    Abstract: In a dental device with a hand-held instrument at the front end of which there is arranged a removable attachment having at least one light source, the light source is arranged inside a closed housing in the attachment, with current transfer means acting between the attachment and the instrument for supplying power to the light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: Kaltenbach & Voigt GmbH
    Inventors: André Hackel, Sven Erdmann
  • Publication number: 20120122052
    Abstract: A medical, in particular dental, diagnostic device having an elongate handpiece with means for image acquisition as well as an optical system having at least one optical element for deflecting a light beam that is incident from the side of the handpiece to the means for image acquisition, wherein the angle of deflection of the optical element is smaller than 90°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2011
    Publication date: May 17, 2012
    Applicant: Kaltenbach & Voigt GmbH
    Inventor: André Hackel
  • Publication number: 20120034573
    Abstract: A medical, in particular dental, diagnostic device having means for image capture and a hand piece that has a window located in the optical path of the means for image capture, wherein there are means for heating the window formed by a resistance heater.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2010
    Publication date: February 9, 2012
    Applicant: Kaltenbach & voigt GmbH
    Inventors: Sven Erdmann, André Hackel
  • Publication number: 20110234781
    Abstract: The invention relates to an intra-oral camera having an imaging system for depicting the object located in front of an observation window of the camera on a recording unit, wherein the imaging system has at least one focusing unit for setting a suitable focus and an aperture unit for forming a variable aperture. The setting of the aperture is carried out independently of the focus adjusted by the focusing unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2009
    Publication date: September 29, 2011
    Applicant: Kaltenbach & Voigt GmbH
    Inventors: Andre Hackel, Florian Bühs, Heinz Lehr, Stephen Schrader
  • Patent number: 7331330
    Abstract: A device to suction fuel from a fuel injector and a device to attach a fuel return line to a fuel injector with a C-shaped main body partially encircling the fuel injector having two retaining arms which abut the fuel injector and grip it from the back at least to a small degree, with a connector coacting with a drain passage of the fuel injector and at least one connecting fitting for the fuel return line. The connecting fitting and the connector are fluidically connected. The free ends of the retaining arms have a first section in which they are angled towards each other and towards the base of the main body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 17, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2008
    Assignee: Cooper Standard Automotive, Inc
    Inventors: Sylvain Houy, Daniel Saxer, Thomas Vierneisel, Yan Kornatz, Valeri Arendt, André Häckel, Detlef Stuhldreier