Patents by Inventor Andreas Unger

Andreas Unger 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: 11802855
    Abstract: A plug unit for connecting capillary tubes includes a plug housing that has an axial borehole, a plug capillary tube that projects through the axial borehole, and a sealing element that surrounds the plug capillary tube. The front end of the plug capillary tube is sealed by an elastic and/or plastic deformation of the sealing element against the capillary tube receptacle opening of a bushing unit. A hollow cylindrical pressure piece is provided that surrounds the sealing element in an axial region facing away from the end surface of the plug capillary tube, and the pressure piece has a rearward end side that faces away from the end surface of the plug capillary tube and that can be loaded by the plug housing with an axial pressure force when the plug unit and bushing unit are connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: Dionex Softron GmbH
    Inventors: Hermann Hochgraeber, Adolf Satzinger, Daniel Buerger, Andreas Unger
  • Patent number: 11760365
    Abstract: An active chassis control for a motor vehicle with an adaptive control circuit for reducing body vibrations (Aactual) of the motor vehicle, in which a control unit is integrated, which, depending on a current body vibration (Aactual) or a parameter correlating therewith (a), controls a chassis actuator. The control unit is followed by an adaptive unit which adapts an actuating signal (S) generated by the control unit with a driving speed-dependent scaling factor (f(v)), in particular by generating an adapted actuating signal (S?) with which the chassis actuator can be controlled. Depending on the situation, a factor allowance (?f) can be added to the driving speed-dependent scaling factor (f(v)) in the event of a significantly greater body vibration (Ao) in order to effectively dampen the significantly greater body vibration (Ao).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Andreas Unger
  • Publication number: 20230210356
    Abstract: The present invention, a handheld intraoral dental 3D camera comprising: a hand-held housing which includes: an optical unit comprising: an illuminating means for producing light, and a projecting means for projecting the light produced by the illuminating means onto a region of a tooth surface of a patient; a sensing unit for sensing an image of the projected light reflected by the region, characterized in that the illuminating means comprises a semiconductor laser for producing the light; and the projection means comprises phosphor which is arranged to receive the light produced by the semiconductor laser, wherein the projection means is further adapted to project the fluorescing light from the phosphor onto the region of the tooth surface of the patient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2021
    Publication date: July 6, 2023
    Applicant: DENTSPLY SIRONA Inc.
    Inventors: Michael TEWES, Andreas UNGER
  • Publication number: 20230166744
    Abstract: An active chassis control for a motor vehicle with an adaptive control circuit for reducing body vibrations (Aactual) of the motor vehicle, in which a control unit is integrated, which, depending on a current body vibration (Aactual) or a parameter correlating therewith (a), controls a chassis actuator. The control unit is followed by an adaptive unit which adapts an actuating signal (S) generated by the control unit with a driving speed-dependent scaling factor (f(v)), in particular by generating an adapted actuating signal (S?) with which the chassis actuator can be controlled. Depending on the situation, a factor allowance (?f) can be added to the driving speed-dependent scaling factor (f(v)) in the event of a significantly greater body vibration (Ao) in order to effectively dampen the significantly greater body vibration (Ao).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Andreas UNGER
  • Publication number: 20230141704
    Abstract: A method for operating a chassis of a motor vehicle according to the principle of a skyhook control, the chassis having at least one adjustable damper according to which body movements of the motor vehicle body resulting from road bumps are damped using the skyhook damping value (dsky). When driving over a road bump, a classification is made as to whether a critical body movement of the motor vehicle body is to be expected, and that in case of a classification as a critical body movement, the critical classified body movement is compensated for using a stored critical skyhook damping value (dsky-crit) which is greater than the skyhook damping value (dsky).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Andreas UNGER
  • Publication number: 20230123439
    Abstract: A wire guide module for an ultrasonic wire bonder, comprising a body made of a thermally stable metallic and/or ceramic material, wherein an elongated wire feed-through channel having a wire inlet opening and having a wire outlet opening is provided on the body, and comprising a guide tube provided in the wire feed-through channel. In addition, the invention relates to a thermosonic wire bonder having a wire guide module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Hesse GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas UNGER, Frank WALTHER, Michael BROEKELMANN, Matthias HUNSTIG
  • Publication number: 20230073311
    Abstract: A vehicle having an active chassis system with curve tilting function, comprises a control unit, which when negotiating a curve determines a vehicle tilting angle on the basis of a current vehicle transverse acceleration or a correlated driving operation parameter, by which the vehicle transverse acceleration can be reduced, wherein the control unit uses the vehicle tilting angle so determined to trigger actuators of a suspension/shock absorbing system in order to adjust the vehicle tilting angle. The curve tilting function incorporates a prediction unit which provides the curve negotiation data for an upcoming curve. The vehicle tilting angle is set in consideration of the curve negotiation data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Andreas Unger, Michael Jall, Philipp Knuth, Hanno Stingl, Tobias Templer
  • Publication number: 20220193816
    Abstract: An ultrasonic tool comprising a first end face and a second end face, which is opposite the first end face, as well as a tool cover surface connecting the first end face and the second end face, wherein the ultrasonic tool is elongated in a longitudinal direction of the tool, wherein at least the first end face is formed as a connecting contact surface, which is arranged for pressing the ultrasonic tool against a connecting component, and wherein the ultrasonic tool comprises an end region comprising the connecting contact surface, which extends from the connecting contact surface in the longitudinal direction of the tool over 15 mm, but at most extends one third of the length of the ultrasonic tool in the direction of the opposite end face, and wherein in the end region, a first partial surface of the tool cover surface is formed as a surface-structured absorption surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: Hesse GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas UNGER, Michael BROEKELMANN, Matthias HUNSTIG, Hans-Juergen HESSE
  • Publication number: 20220193815
    Abstract: A bonding arrangement comprising a bonding tool, having a tool shank which is designed to extend in a longitudinal direction of the tool, and a tool tip which connects to the tool shank. A first end side of the bonding tool is provided on the tool tip, which is designed to come into contact with a connection part. A second end side of the bonding tool is provided on the tool shank. The bonding tool has a casing surface connecting the first end side and the second end side, said bonding arrangement comprising a laser generator for providing a laser beam and comprising a light guide designed to guide the laser beam to the bonding tool. A functional recess is formed on the bonding tool on the casing side and the light guide is associated with the bonding too on the casing side from the outside and at a distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: Hesse GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas UNGER, Michael BROEKELMANN, Matthias HUNSTIG, Hans-Juergen HESSE
  • Publication number: 20220193814
    Abstract: An ultrasonic tool including a first end face and a second end face opposite the first end face. A tool lateral surface connects the first and second end face. The ultrasonic tool is elongate in a longitudinal direction of the tool, wherein at least the first end face is designed as a connection contact surface that is arranged for pressing the ultrasonic tool against a connection component, wherein the ultrasonic tool has an end region having the connection contact surface, which end region extends from the connection contact surface in the longitudinal direction of the tool over 15 mm, but at most one third of a length of the ultrasonic tool, toward the opposite end face, and wherein a pocket-shaped and/or blind-hole-like recess having a recess lateral surface and having a recess floor facing the connection contact surface is formed at the tool lateral surface in the end region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: Hesse GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas UNGER, Michael BROEKELMANN, Matthias HUNSTIG, Hans-Juergen HESSE
  • Publication number: 20220193811
    Abstract: An apparatus for detecting the temperature of a bonding tool during laser-assisted ultrasonic bonding, comprising an automatic bonding machine having the bonding tool, having a displacement and/or positioning module for the bonding tool and having a device for exciting the bonding tool to ultrasonically vibrate, comprising a laser generator for providing a laser beam, and comprising an optical waveguide for guiding the laser beam from the laser generator to the bonding tool, wherein the optical waveguide has a multi-part design, that a deflecting and beam-splitting unit is provided between at least two adjacent parts of the optical waveguide and that furthermore a temperature sensor is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: Hesse GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas UNGER, Michael BROEKELMANN, Matthias HUNSTIG, Hans-Juergen HESSE
  • Publication number: 20220193812
    Abstract: A device for heating and determining the actual temperature of a bonding tool of an ultrasonic bonder, comprising the bending tool, which has a first end face, a second end face, a lateral surface, which connects the first end face to the second end face, and an absorption region, comprising a temperature measuring unit for determining an actual temperature of the bonding tool at a temperature measuring point, which is provided on the lateral surface of the bonding tool and preferably at a tip of the bonding tool, and comprising a laser generator, a laser beam being provided with the aid of the laser generator, and the laser beam striking the bonding tool in the absorption region, and the bonding tool being heated as a result of the absorption of the laser beam.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: Hesse GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas UNGER, Michael BROEKELMANN, Matthias HUNSTIG, Hans-Juergen HESSE
  • Publication number: 20220194014
    Abstract: A method for producing an electrically conductive connection between a contact surface of a functional component and a connection component. The connection component is pressed against the contact surface of the functional component with a normal force using a bonding tool. The bonding tool and the connection component are brought in contact with same to vibrate ultrasonically. A laser beam is generated by a laser generator and directed onto the bonding tool, and preferably onto a tip of the bonding tool, whereby the tip of the bonding tool is heated. An actual temperature of the tip is contactlessly measured and the laser generator is operated intermittently and/or with an adjustable laser output such that a predefined target temperature is adjusted at the tip of the bonding tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2022
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: Hesse GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas UNGER, Michael BROEKELMANN, Matthias HUNSTIG, Hans-Juergen HESSE
  • Publication number: 20210178515
    Abstract: The invention relates to a bonding arrangement comprising a bonding tool including a tool shank, which is designed as elongated in a tool longitudinal direction, and including a tool tip, which adjoins the tool shank, and comprising a light guide designed to conduct a laser beam, the light guide being provided in a longitudinal recess of the bonding tool, the longitudinal recess extending from an end face of the bonding tool opposite the tool tip in the direction of the tool tip, a functional recess being formed on the lateral surface of the bonding tool, and the longitudinal recess being made to extend up to the functional recess. The invention further relates to a bonding tool having a functional application as well as the use of the bonding arrangement according to the invention and/or the bonding tool for ultrasonic bonding.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2021
    Publication date: June 17, 2021
    Applicant: Hesse GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas UNGER, Michael BROEKELMANN, Matthias HUNSTIG
  • Publication number: 20210146724
    Abstract: Wheel for a motor vehicle, including a rim and an air-filled tire mounted thereon, wherein, in the interior of the wheel, a material adsorbing molecules contained in the air is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Bastian SCHEURICH, Wolfgang SCHMID, Oliver SCHMIDT, Andreas UNGER, Kay-Uwe HENNING
  • Patent number: 11002539
    Abstract: A method for detecting a slope of a road on which a vehicle is traveling in at least one spatial direction. The vehicle has a body and a chassis with a plurality of wheels. An inclination of the vehicle body in the spatial direction is determined. For at least one wheel, a vertical distance to the vehicle body is detected. The distance so determined is used to calculate an inclination of the chassis in the spatial direction. The slope of the road in the spatial direction is determined from a difference between the inclination of the vehicle body in the spatial direction and the inclination of the chassis in the spatial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Andreas Unger
  • Patent number: 10882375
    Abstract: An active chassis for a two-track vehicle provided with a wheel suspension. A wheel carrier carrying a vehicle wheel is connected via connecting rod to the vehicle structure. The camber behavior of the vehicle wheel is defined by a mechanical camber curve of the vehicle wheels that is predetermined by the rigid kinematics of the connected rods, which defines a mechanical adjustment of the camber angle of the vehicle wheel depending on a spring path of the vehicle structure, and which is controllable with an actuator controller which can be controlled by a chassis control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Andreas Unger, Wolfgang Schmid, Uli Schaaf
  • Publication number: 20200116679
    Abstract: A plug unit for connecting capillary tubes includes a plug housing that has an axial borehole, a plug capillary tube that projects through the axial borehole, and a sealing element that surrounds the plug capillary tube. The front end of the plug capillary tube is sealed by an elastic and/or plastic deformation of the sealing element against the capillary tube receptacle opening of a bushing unit. A hollow cylindrical pressure piece is provided that surrounds the sealing element in an axial region facing away from the end surface of the plug capillary tube, and the pressure piece has a rearward end side that faces away from the end surface of the plug capillary tube and that can be loaded by the plug housing with an axial pressure force when the plug unit and bushing unit are connected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Hermann HOCHGRAEBER, Adolf SATZINGER, Daniel BUERGER, Andreas UNGER
  • Patent number: 10603972
    Abstract: A method for controlling an operating mode of a controller for at least one suspension component of an at least partially active suspension of a vehicle. In accordance with at least one control command provided by a user for steering the vehicle, a situation detection is carried out to detect a control situation in which the at least one suspension component of the suspension which should be at least partially actively controlled, can be potentially controlled, and in the event that a control situation is detected, at least one reactive controller for controlling the at least one suspension component is switched from a first operating mode to a second operating mode, the at least one reactive controller being switched into the second operating mode with an increased bandwidth and amplification when compared with the first operating mode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Andreas Unger
  • Patent number: 10486484
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling at least one actuator (16, 18) for a chassis of a motor vehicle, in which at least one sensor (10, 12, 14) of the motor vehicle determines values of at least one measurement variable for sensing an environment of the motor vehicle, wherein the determined values are preprocessed, wherein only the values needed to control the at least one actuator (16, 18) are transmitted from a control device (4) associated with the sensor to a control device (6) associated with the actuator and are temporally filtered by the control device (6) associated with the actuator, and wherein the control device (6) associated with the actuator uses the temporally filtered values to provide actuating signals for the at least one actuator (16, 18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Christoph Göhrle, Andreas Schindler, Andreas Unger, Oliver Sawodny