Patents by Inventor Andreas Heber

Andreas Heber 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: 10300590
    Abstract: A hand-held power tool which includes a shiftable transmission that is shiftable at least between a first gear and a second gear via a shifting member, in which the shifting member is coupled to a spring element, which for the gear shifting is indirectly or directly actuatable at least via a first and a second shifting element. A coupling element which is coupleable to the spring element is associated with the first shifting element, and the coupling element is configured for allowing gear shifting by actuating the first shifting element only for the case that the second shifting element is in a predefined gear shift position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Jens Brennenstuhl, Heiko Roehm, Andreas Heber
  • Patent number: 10183392
    Abstract: A hand-held power tool includes: a shiftable transmission for driving a drive shaft, which transmission is situated in a gear housing and is shiftable at least between a first gear and a second gear via a shifting member; and a pivotably supported actuating element, which is configured as a bistable spring element and situated, at least in sections, in the area between the shifting member and the gear housing, is associated with the shifting member. The bistable spring element is actuatable for the gear shifting, and assumes a stable shift position in at least one shift position of the shifting member associated with the first or second gear, and assumes an unstable position in an intermediate position of the shifting member which is situated between shift positions of the shifting member associated with the first and second gears.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Jens Brennenstuhl, Heiko Roehm, Andreas Heber
  • Patent number: 9580941
    Abstract: A handle module is provided for fastening an outer door handle to a motor vehicle door with a modular basic body that in a final assembly state with its outer door handle protrudes through an opening in the outer door panel and comes to lie on the inside of the outer door panel. A giver is mounted on the modular basic body in a manner allowing pivoting or turning can be brought in operational connection with a taker of the door lock via an actuation rod. A shielding device is provided that at least partially encloses the giver at least in some regions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2017
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Andreas Heberer, Winfried Langendorf, Mark Rosenau, Peter Eduard Schuessler, Joerg Gschweng, Thorsten Luedtke
  • Patent number: 9483889
    Abstract: A method for controlling an electronically secured device by means of a transponder has the following procedural steps: a) Access authorization information is sent from an electrical access management system to the transponder via a mobile communications link, b) The access authorization information is received by the transponder, c) The access authorization information is transmitted from the transponder to the device, and d) A function of the device is activated if the received access authorization information matches reference information belonging to the device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Matthias Notheis, Andreas Heberer
  • Patent number: 9422752
    Abstract: A motor vehicle door is provided with a supporting door structure and with a door lock as well as with an actuating unit, which, spaced from the door lock, is arranged on the door structure and mechanically coupled to the door lock with at least one connecting link, and with a holding part supporting itself on the door structure, which is designed in order to limit a position change of the actuating unit caused due to external application of force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Mark Rosenau, Peter Eduard Schuessler, Andreas Heberer, Winfried Langendorf, Joerg Gschweng
  • Publication number: 20160121473
    Abstract: A hand-held power tool which includes a shiftable transmission that is shiftable at least between a first gear and a second gear via a shifting member, in which the shifting member is coupled to a spring element, which for the gear shifting is indirectly or directly actuatable at least via a first and a second shifting element. A coupling element which is coupleable to the spring element is associated with the first shifting element, and the coupling element is configured for allowing gear shifting by actuating the first shifting element only for the case that the second shifting element is in a predefined gear shift position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Publication date: May 5, 2016
    Inventors: Jens Brennenstuhl, Heiko Roehm, Andreas Heber
  • Publication number: 20160102762
    Abstract: A hand-held power tool includes: a shiftable transmission for driving a drive shaft, which transmission is situated in a gear housing and is shiftable at least between a first gear and a second gear via a shifting member; and a pivotably supported actuating element, which is configured as a bistable spring element and situated, at least in sections, in the area between the shifting member and the gear housing, is associated with the shifting member. The bistable spring element is actuatable for the gear shifting, and assumes a stable shift position in at least one shift position of the shifting member associated with the first or second gear, and assumes an unstable position in an intermediate position of the shifting member which is situated between shift positions of the shifting member associated with the first and second gears.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 3, 2014
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: Jens Brennenstuhl, Heiko Roehm, Andreas Heber
  • Patent number: 9145717
    Abstract: A locking system is provided for a motor vehicle door. The locking system includes, but is not limited to a door lock, an internal actuation unit having a pickup that is mechanically linked to the door lock and alternately transferable into a locked position and an unlocked position. In the locked position, actuation of the pickup is inactive with respect to the lock. The locking system further includes, but is not limited to a detection unit configured to detect an approach of a hand and also configured to unlock the door lock if a distance falls below a predefined distance to the internal actuation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2015
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Peter Eduard Schuessler, Mario Tassotto, Andreas Heberer, Oliver Roettel
  • Patent number: 9045917
    Abstract: A side door of a motorized vehicle is provided that includes, but is not limited to a latch mechanism being adapted to cooperate and to engage with a latch member disposed at a door frame. The side door assembly further has an actuator for unlatching the latch mechanism. Further, the latch mechanism and the actuator are mechanical interconnected by a coupling being adapted to transfer an unlatching motion from the actuator to the latch mechanism. Additionally, the side door assembly comprises an impact member that is adapted to at least locally deform the coupling in such a way that the arising deformation counteracts the unlatching motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Jörg Gschweng, Andreas Heberer, Peter Eduard Schuessler, Thorsten Luedtke, Winfried Langendorf
  • Patent number: 8924087
    Abstract: A motor vehicle has a plurality of doors, each secured by a lock, peripheral control units, each connected to one of said locks, for sending a command signal to an actuator of the lock, a central control unit for sending command signals to the actuators of the locks, and an accident detector. If the accident detector has detected an accident, at least one of the actuators is switchable from a central operating mode in which it executes command signals of the central control unit and its associated peripheral control unit into a peripheral operating mode in which it executes only command signals from its peripheral control unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Andreas Heberer, Jeffrey L. Konchan, Frank J. Arabia, Jr., Matthias Ruehr, David T. Proefke, Jeffrey James Hoorn, Peter Eduard Schuessler, Richard J. Lange
  • Publication number: 20140353986
    Abstract: An electronic locking system for a vehicle door is disclosed. The locking system includes an actuating device for actuating the locking system by a user. The actuating device brings about a movement of an actuating element of the actuating device. The locking system also includes a generator for generating electric energy from the movement energy of the actuating element, and an electric motor for actuating the locking system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2014
    Publication date: December 4, 2014
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Matthias Notheis, Andreas Heberer
  • Publication number: 20140159396
    Abstract: A motor vehicle door is provided with a supporting door structure and with a door lock as well as with an actuating unit, which, spaced from the door lock, is arranged on the door structure and mechanically coupled to the door lock with at least one connecting link, and with a holding part supporting itself on the door structure, which is designed in order to limit a position change of the actuating unit caused due to external application of force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2013
    Publication date: June 12, 2014
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Mark Rosenau, Peter Eduard Schuessler, Andreas Heberer, Winfried Langendorf, Joerg Gschweng
  • Patent number: 8686842
    Abstract: A door locking system is provided for a motor vehicle. The door locking system includes, but is not limited to a mechanical door opening safety catch and a warning unit configured to generate a first warning signal that is exclusively suppressed by a manual activation of the mechanical door opening safety catch. A motor vehicle is provided that includes, but is not limited to a vehicle body, a rear vehicle door that is linked on the vehicle body and facing away from a vehicle travel direction, the rear vehicle door configured to pivot, a door opening safety catch configured to be mechanically activate upon the pivot of the rear vehicle door, and a warning unit configured to generate a first warning signal that is exclusively suppressed by the mechanical activation of the door opening safety catch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Peter Eduard Schuessler, Andreas Heberer, Mario Tassotto, Oliver Roettel, Joachim Schuberth
  • Publication number: 20140024489
    Abstract: A planetary gear set for a power tool is described, in particular for an electrically operated hand-held power tool. The planetary gear set has multiple gear stages, the planetary wheels of a gear stage, to which a movable annulus gear is assigned, being at least supported on shafts via rolling elements, the rolling elements being held on an assigned planet carrier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 2, 2011
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Inventors: Andreas Heber, Oliver Drews
  • Publication number: 20140020210
    Abstract: A handheld tool add-on handle includes: a coupling arrangement provided to produce a detachable connection to a handheld tool; and at least two rotary form-locking elements provided to produce a coupling in the rotational direction. The coupling arrangement has at least one guiding form-locking element which is at least provided to produce a coupling in the axial direction, and which is situated between the rotary form-locking elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2013
    Publication date: January 23, 2014
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Jens BRENNENSTUHL, Juergen LUGINSLAND, Thomas DAHLER, Marco BRAUN, Andreas HEBER
  • Patent number: 8360486
    Abstract: A side door of a motorized vehicle is provided that includes, but is not limited to a latch mechanism adapted to cooperate with a latch member disposed at a door frame, an actuator for locking and/or unlocking the latch mechanism and a coupling means for mechanically coupling (i.e., a mechanical coupling) the actuator and the latch mechanism. A disengagement apparatus is adapted to mechanically disengage the coupling between the actuator and the latch mechanism in response to an external force effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Jörg Gschweng, Andreas Heberer, Peter Eduard Schuessler, Thorsten Luedtke, Winfried Langendorf, Scott Charnesky, Eric Smith
  • Patent number: 8113921
    Abstract: The invention relates to a grinding disk for an eccentric grinding machine. In order to operate the grinding disk (22) having different disks diameters on one and the same eccentric grinding machine for achieving grinding results at optimum quality, without any loss of smoothness and handling quality, the disk mass of the grinding disk has a fixed predetermined value that is independent of the disk diameter selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 14, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Bernhard Krauss, Christian Funke, Heiko Roehm, Andreas Heber
  • Patent number: 8105132
    Abstract: An eccentric grinder has a drive which is arranged in a housing and the drive shaft of which drives a supporting shaft of a back-up pad by way of an eccentric mounting. Also provided is a friction braking device, which comprises a friction braking element on the housing and a friction surface on the back-up pad. The friction surface slopes down in the radial direction from the inside to the outside with respect to a horizontal plane that is perpendicular to the axis of rotation of the back-up pad.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Heiko Roehm, Andreas Heber
  • Patent number: 8025558
    Abstract: Portable sander, in particular an orbital sander, having an abrasive sheet carrier (1) and having clamping means (3) for firmly clamping opposite abrasive sheet ends of an abrasive sheet (21) which can be supported on the abrasive sheet carrier (1), wherein first clamping means (3) together with an abrasive sheet end clamped thereon can be moved away from the other abrasive sheet end, clamped by means of second clamping means (3), for tensioning the abrasive sheet (21), and the first clamping means (3) have spring elasticity. Provision is made for the first clamping means (3) to come against a rigid stop element (9) with prestress in an end clamping position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Carsten Prause, Heiko Roehm, Daniel Vesenmaier, Andreas Heber
  • Patent number: D856281
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jens Brennenstuhl, Heiko Roehm, Andreas Heber