Patents by Inventor Andreas Löhner

Andreas Löhner 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: 10794486
    Abstract: A gear indicator illumination unit for a vehicle, particularly for an automatic vehicle, is shown. The gear indicator illumination unit provides basic lighting and individual spot lighting from a plurality of different lighting devices, particularly in the form of LEDs. The gear indicator illumination unit has a plurality of lighting devices for indicating the gear and a memory for saving parameters and/or characteristic curves of the lighting devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 6, 2020
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Bernhard Bley, Andreas Löhner, Henning Wöhl-Bruhn, Oliver Von Sehlen
  • Publication number: 20200271223
    Abstract: The invention relates to a shifting selection and parking lock system for a motor vehicle including a shifting selection device for engaging and disengaging transmission gears and/or for selecting at least one driving program, and a parking lock device for implementing a transmission parking lock mode. The shifting selection device has at least one gearshift lever unit with at least one gearshift lever. The parking lock device has at least one mechanical locking device and at least one electromechanical actuator that actuates the mechanical locking device. The gearshift lever unit and the electromechanical actuator are disposed in a common housing or the actuator is disposed in a separate housing and the gearshift lever unit is disposed directly on the separate housing of the actuator. The housing can be disposed in the region of the central console of the motor vehicle and/or integrated therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2016
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Ludger Rake, Joachim Spratte, Waldemar Merling, Henning Wöhl-Bruhn, Andreas Löhner, Bernhard Bley, Norbert Pelz, Oleg Semke
  • Publication number: 20200141489
    Abstract: The invention relates to a gear indicator illumination unit for a vehicle, particularly for an automatic vehicle. The gear indicator illumination unit with homogeneous basic lighting and individual spot lighting from a plurality of different lighting devices, particularly in the form of LEDs, can be realized in a simple and cost-effective manner in that the gear indicator illumination unit has a plurality of lighting devices for indicating the gear and a memory for saving parameters and/or characteristic curves of the lighting devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2018
    Publication date: May 7, 2020
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernhard Bley, Andreas Löhner, Henning Wöhl-Bruhn, Oliver Von Sehlen
  • Publication number: 20120181400
    Abstract: A holding device for a displaceable sensor is provided. The holding device has two or three motor-rotatable rings for accommodating a sensor, and the axes of rotation of the two or three motor-rotatable rings are oblique with respect to one another. The axes of rotation intersect at a virtual pivot point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2010
    Publication date: July 19, 2012
    Inventors: Horst Christof, Joerg Sander, Bartholomaeus Bichler, Andreas Loehner, Reiner Dittmar, Ulrich Rothmaier
  • Patent number: 7327305
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the evaluating a received signal of an SAR/MTI pulsed radar system that transmits SAR and MTI pulses with respective definable pulse repetition frequency PRF_SAR and PRF_MTI, such that the received signal is a superimposition consisting of echo pulse sequences of SAR and MTI echo pulse signals. According to the invention, in the received echo pulse sequence of the received signal, each SAR echo from an area of interest is evaluated SAR process. The remaining pulses of the received echo pulse sequence of the received signal are evaluated in using an MTI process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2004
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2008
    Assignee: EADS Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Loehner, Roland Drescher
  • Publication number: 20070096976
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the evaluating a received signal of an SAR/MTI pulsed radar system that transmits SAR and MTI pulses with respective definable pulse repetition frequency PRF_and PRF_MTI, such that the received signal is a superimposition consisting of echo pulse sequences of SAR and MIT echo pulse signals. According to the invention, in the received echo pulse sequence of the received signal, each SAR echo from an area of interest is evaluated SAR process. The remaining pulses of the received echo pulse sequence of the received signal are evaluated in using an MTI process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2004
    Publication date: May 3, 2007
    Applicant: EADS Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Loehner, Roland Drescher
  • Patent number: 6773369
    Abstract: The invention relates to a control device (1) for an automatically and manually shiftable gearbox in a motor vehicle. The inventive control device comprises a selector lever (2) for adjusting at least the forward position (D), neutral (N), reverse (R), parking position (P) and a position (M) for manual shifting. A first and a second tip switch (3a, 3c) can be actuated in the position (M) for manual shifting. Signals for manually shifting up or down with regard to the gear ratio are supplied to a control device (7) for controlling the gearbox by means of position sensors (5) and control lines (6). Failure of the position sensors (5) and/or the control lines (6) that are allocated to said sensors can be detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2004
    Assignee: Volkswgen AG
    Inventors: Manfred Altenkirch, Bernhard Ott, Andreas Löhner
  • Patent number: 6542110
    Abstract: The invention describes a device and a method for increasing the angular resolution in a radar system looking in the direction of motion and laterally thereto, wherein the doppler frequency shift of the transmitted signal is evaluated in order to increase the angular resolution. For this purpose, a plurality of adjacent, narrow regions are sampled sequentially by means of pencil-beam antenna characteristics during movement of the antennas. Relative to the total area, this is equivalent to illumination with a broad-beam antenna characteristic. The results from the simulation of this broad-beam illumination are combined with the results of the pencil-beam sampling processes in order to achieve an increase of the angular resolution of the antenna array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2001
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2003
    Assignee: Eads Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Löhner, Wolfgang Rieck