Patents by Inventor Andreas Bernhardt

Andreas Bernhardt 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: 20220339990
    Abstract: A heating arrangement has a coolant housing with an inflow connection and an outflow connection for a coolant. Heating elements are arranged on opposite housing walls and include connections for the supply of power. Three circuit-board pieces of a circuit board are arranged in a row and connected to one another via flexible regions. Power electronic components and connections for connecting to the power-supply connections of the heating elements are arranged on the two edge circuit-board pieces. The circuit board is bent in flexible regions such that the two edge circuit-board pieces lie opposite one another. The coolant housing lies between the opposite edge circuit-board pieces. The power-supply connections of the heating elements and the connections on the edge circuit-board pieces are in electrical contact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Publication date: October 27, 2022
    Inventors: Andreas Bernhardt, Frank Baur
  • Publication number: 20220154973
    Abstract: The embodiment relates to a heating device having a plurality of electrical heating elements (1; 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d) composed of a cylindrical hollow body (2), electrical heating resistors being formed on the jacket of said hollow body and connection ports (3a, 3b; 3a1, 3b1, 3a2, 3b2, 3a3, 3b3, 3a4, 3b4) for the inflow and outflow of a fluid being arranged on the end faces of said hollow body. The heating elements (1; 1a, 1b, 1c, 1d) are arranged parallel to one another. Each connection port (3a1, 3b1, 3a2, 3b2, 3a3, 3b3, 3a4, 3b4) of a heating element (1a, 1b, 1c, 1d) is connected to a connection port (3a1, 3b1, 3a2, 3b2, 3a3, 3b3, 3a4, 3b4) of another heating element (1a, 1b, 1c, 1d) in such a way that the heating elements (1a, 1b, 1c, 1d) are connected in series in respect of fluid throughflow with a first connection port as a total inflow connection port (3a1) and a second connection port as a total outflow connection port (3a4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: Frank Baur, Andreas Bernhardt
  • Publication number: 20220037833
    Abstract: A contact arrangement with a flat contact element with an upper side and an underside, the thickness of which decreases toward three of its edges from the upper side to the underside, and with a connecting element, which is electrically and mechanically connected to the contact element and is further away from the underside of the contact element than from its upper side. Also disclosed is a device with a base plate and a contact arrangement arranged thereon and a conductor track, which is formed on the contact element and a region of the base plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Publication date: February 3, 2022
    Inventors: Frank Baur, Andreas Bernhardt
  • Patent number: 10952336
    Abstract: A housing for accommodating a single or multi-part printed circuit board includes an opening in a first housing side for inserting the printed circuit board, at least one guide rail having a groove for receiving the printed circuit board and being situated on at least one first housing side wall of a group of housing side walls running perpendicularly to the first housing side. The guide rail is configured to receive a peg disposed on one of the printed circuit board parts. The guide rail runs from the first housing side towards a second housing side opposite the first housing side, so that the end of the guide rail near the first housing side is further away than the other end of the guide rail from the housing side wall which is oriented perpendicularly to the first housing side wall and is closest to the guide rail.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Bernhardt, Manuel Fernando Lopera Diaz
  • Publication number: 20200045837
    Abstract: A housing for accommodating a single or multi-part printed circuit board includes an opening in a first housing side for inserting the printed circuit board, at least one guide rail having a groove for receiving the printed circuit board and being situated on at least one first housing side wall of a group of housing side walls running perpendicularly to the first housing side. The guide rail is configured to receive a peg disposed on one of the printed circuit board parts. The guide rail runs from the first housing side towards a second housing side opposite the first housing side, so that the end of the guide rail near the first housing side is further away than the other end of the guide rail from the housing side wall which is oriented perpendicularly to the first housing side wall and is closest to the guide rail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Publication date: February 6, 2020
    Inventors: ANDREAS BERNHARDT, MANUEL FERNANDO LOPERA DIAZ
  • Patent number: 10342152
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic device having a multi-part printed circuit board, the printed circuit board parts of which are connected to one another by current-carrying, flexible regions, having a support, around which the printed circuit board bent around the flexible regions of the printed circuit board is arranged and fixed, and having a housing in which the printed circuit board mounted on the support is fixed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Christian Harrer, Andreas Bernhardt
  • Publication number: 20180255659
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic device having a multi-part printed circuit board, the printed circuit board parts of which are connected to one another by current-carrying, flexible regions, having a support, around which the printed circuit board bent around the flexible regions of the printed circuit board is arranged and fixed, and having a housing in which the printed circuit board mounted on the support is fixed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2018
    Publication date: September 6, 2018
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Christian Harrer, Andreas Bernhardt
  • Patent number: 9185803
    Abstract: A circuit board for electric components has at least one current conductor, which is configured as a molded part, and at least one unhoused electric component affixed to the current conductor. The circuit board exhibits improved operating reliability.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Roland Brey, Andreas Bernhardt
  • Publication number: 20140085827
    Abstract: A circuit board for electric components has at least one current conductor, which is configured as a molded part, and at least one unhoused electric component affixed to the current conductor. The circuit board exhibits improved operating reliability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2012
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL AUTOMATIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Roland Brey, Andreas Bernhardt