Patents by Inventor Bengt Meier

Bengt Meier 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: 11530813
    Abstract: An evaporator subassembly for mobile heating devices, in particular for a motor vehicle, having the following: an evaporator, an evaporator receptacle which is constructed to receive the evaporator, a glow plug and a combustion chamber, wherein the glow plug extends or is constructed to be extensible obliquely relative to a main surface of the evaporator into the combustion chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: Webasto SE
    Inventors: Bengt Meier, Vitali Dell, Klaus Moesl, Andreas Rutsche, Thorsten Pannwitz, Verena Arends
  • Patent number: 11198347
    Abstract: An evaporator assembly (10), in particular for a fuel-operated vehicle heater (12), comprising a pot-like evaporator reception (14), an evaporator body (16) inserted into the pot-like evaporator reception (14), a plate-like designed hold-down element (18), which is fixed to the evaporator reception (14) and fixes the evaporator body (16) in the evaporator reception (14), and wherein the plate-like designed hold-down element (18) has at least one retaining claw (22), which has an upper part (26) on an upper side (24) of the plate-like designed hold-down element (18) and a lower part (30) on a lower side (28) of the plate-like designed hold-down element (18), wherein the upper part (26) and the lower part (30) point away from the plate-like designed hold-down element (18).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Klaus Mösl, Bengt Meier, Vitali Dell, Jan Steffens
  • Publication number: 20210215335
    Abstract: An evaporator subassembly for mobile heating devices, in particular for a motor vehicle, having the following: an evaporator, an evaporator receptacle which is constructed to receive the evaporator, a glow plug and a combustion chamber, wherein the glow plug extends or is constructed to be extensible obliquely relative to a main surface of the evaporator into the combustion chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2019
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Bengt Meier, Vitali Dell, Klaus Moesl, Andreas Rutsche, Thorsten Pannwitz, Verena Arends
  • Publication number: 20210168910
    Abstract: An electrical fluid heater, in particular water heater, preferably for a motor vehicle, including at least one fluid accommodating container and at least one heating conductor having a conductive polymer structure, for heating fluid, in particular water, accommodated in the fluid accommodating container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: CHRISTOPH JÖRG, VOLODOMYR ILCHENKO, VITALI DELL, NIKOLAUS GERHARDT, BENGT MEIER, MICHAEL SCHWANECKE, MARTIN ZOSKE
  • Publication number: 20210136873
    Abstract: An electrical heating device, in particular for a vehicle, includes a heat exchanger body, with a heat transfer surface and an at least partially closed cavity. The at least partially closed cavity has a wall section that at least partially delimits the at least partially closed cavity that is adjacent to the heat transfer surface. A pyrotechnical charge is arranged in the at least partially closed cavity, and the at least partially closed cavity has a further wall section delimiting the at least partially closed cavity at least partially and to which an electrical connection line of the electrical heating device is adjacent.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2018
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: MARTIN ZOSKE, VOLODOMYR ILCHENKO, UWE STRECKER, NIKOLAUS GERHARDT, MICHAEL SCHWANECKE, VITALI DELL, BENGT MEIER
  • Publication number: 20200384832
    Abstract: An evaporator assembly (10), in particular for a fuel-operated vehicle heater (12), comprising a pot-like evaporator reception (14), an evaporator body (16) inserted into the pot-like evaporator reception (14), a plate-like designed hold-down element (18), which is fixed to the evaporator reception (14) and fixes the evaporator body (16) in the evaporator reception (14), and wherein the plate-like designed hold-down element (18) has at least one retaining claw (22), which has an upper part (26) on an upper side (24) of the plate-like designed hold-down element (18) and a lower part (30) on a lower side (28) of the plate-like designed hold-down element (18), wherein the upper part (26) and the lower part (30) point away from the plate-like designed hold-down element (18).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2018
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventors: KLAUS MÖSL, BENGT MEIER, VITALI DELL, JAN STEFFENS
  • Publication number: 20200224926
    Abstract: An electric air heating device for a vehicle, specifically a motor vehicle, preferably a private car or a heavy goods vehicle, including at least a first heating element around which the air to be heated flows, wherein the first heating element comprises a preferably electrically-insulating substrate and at least one electrically-conductive carbon-based coating, specifically a polymer coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Publication date: July 16, 2020
    Inventors: MARTIN ZOSKE, VOLODYMYR ILCHENKO, UWE STRECKER, BENGT MEIER, NIKOLAUS GERHARDT, MICHAEL SCHWANECKE, MANFRED GRUBER, CHRISTIAN KUSSMANN
  • Publication number: 20200200435
    Abstract: An electrical liquid heating device, in particular water heating device, preferably for a motor vehicle, including at least a first conductive layer, in particular a first metal layer, a second conductive layer, in particular a second metal layer, and a polymer layer which contains a polymer component and a conductive carbon component and is arranged between the first and the second conductive layer, wherein liquid channels for conducting the liquid, in particular water, being heated are provided which extend from a first side of the polymer layer facing the first conductive layer to a second side of the polymer layer facing the second conductive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Publication date: June 25, 2020
    Inventors: Martin ZOSKE, Volodomyr ILCHENKO, Uwe STRECKER, Bengt MEIER, Nikolaus GERHARDT, Michael SCHWANECKE, Gerd FRITSCH
  • Publication number: 20200196395
    Abstract: A method for producing an electric heating device, preferably fluid- or air-heating device, in particular for a motor vehicle, wherein at least one conductive polymer structure is produced by primary forming, said polymer structure containing a polymer component and a conductive component, in particular carbon component, wherein fluid channels for conducting the fluid to be heated are introduced into the polymer structure during the primary-forming manufacturing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Publication date: June 18, 2020
    Applicant: Webasto SE
    Inventors: Martin ZOSKE, Michael SCHWANECKE, Volodymyr ILCHENKO, Bengt MEIER, Christoph JÖRG, Vitali DELL
  • Publication number: 20200173688
    Abstract: An electric heating appliance, particularly a liquid or air heating appliance, particularly for a motor vehicle, comprising a first heating element with a corresponding main body and at least one second heating element with a corresponding main body. A clearance is formed between the heating elements through which fluid can flow for its heating. The heating elements are joined together by at least one spacer arranged between them, particularly a conductive spacer. The spacer is a fixed component of the first heating element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Applicant: Webasto SE
    Inventors: Martin ZOSKE, Bengt MEIER, Christoph JÖRG, Harald BACHMANN, Peter NEIDENBERGER
  • Publication number: 20200166242
    Abstract: A method for producing an electric heating device, preferably liquid or air heating device, in particular for a motor vehicle, wherein at least one first conductive polymer layer which contains a first polymer component and a first conductive component, in particular carbon component, is applied to an, in particular, insulating, first substrate in order to form a first heating element and is crosslinked there by means of radiation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: MARTIN ZOSKE, MICHAEL SCHWANECKE, VOLODYMYR ILCHENKO, BENGT MEIER, CHRISTOPH JÖRG, VITALI DELL, NIKOLAUS GERHARDT
  • Publication number: 20200113019
    Abstract: An electric heating apparatus, in particular a liquid or air heating apparatus, in particular for a motor vehicle, including a first heating element and at least one second heating element. The heating elements comprise in each case one, in particular insulating, substrate and one polymer layer which contains a polymer component and a conductive component, in particular a carbon component. An intermediate space through which the fluid is capable of passing for heating said fluid is configured between the heating elements. The heating elements are connected to one another by one or a plurality of, in particular conductive, spacer(s) disposed therebetween, and/or one or more, in particular conductive, positioning element(s) that penetrate (a) respective clearance(s) and/or openings of the heating elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: MARTIN ZOSKE, VOLODYMYR ILCHENKO, UWE STRECKER, BENGT MEIER, NIKOLAUS GERHARDT, MICHAEL SCHWANECKE
  • Publication number: 20200094655
    Abstract: An electrical air heater, in particular for a motor vehicle, including a first heating element and at least one second heating element The heating elements each include a first conductive layer, in particular a first metal layer, a second conductive layer, in particular a second metal layer (11a, 11b), and a polymer layer. The polymer layer contains a polymer component and a conductive carbon component. An interspace is formed between the heating elements, through which interspace air is able to flow for the heating thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: MARTIN ZOSKE, VOLODYMYR ILCHENKO, UWE STRECKER, BENGT MEIER, NIKOLAUS GERHARDT, MICHAEL SCHWANECKE
  • Publication number: 20200094654
    Abstract: A method for producing an electrical fluid heater, in particular an air heater for a motor vehicle, including at least one fluid guiding channel for the fluid to be guided through, wherein at least one conductive polymer structure containing a polymer component and a conductive component, in particular carbon component, is coated, in particular cohesively, with at least one metallic layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventors: MARTIN ZOSKE, VOLODOMYR ILCHENKO, CHRISTOPH JÖRG, BENGT MEIER, MINA KROMPIC, PATRICK SPIELBERGER
  • Patent number: 10408447
    Abstract: An evaporator arrangement (1) for evaporating liquid fuel for a mobile fuel-operated heating device, comprising: an evaporator unit (5) for distributing and evaporating liquid fuel; and at least one fuel supply line (6) for delivering liquid fuel to the evaporator unit (5). The evaporator unit (5) has at least one first section (B1) made of a metal wire mesh (8).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 26, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: Webasto SE
    Inventors: Klaus Moesl, Bengt Meier, Volodymyr Ilchenko, Michael Poehner
  • Publication number: 20180236847
    Abstract: A porous fuel treatment element (5) for an evaporation burner is provided, said porous fuel treatment element (5) having at least one first tier (8) of a textile planar structure which is formed from a plurality of fibers. The fibers in the first tier (8) comprise at least two different fiber types (10, 11) which differ in terms of the material, of the cross-sectional profile, of the surface structure, and/or of the thickness.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Publication date: August 23, 2018
    Inventors: KLAUS MOESL, BENGT MEIER, PETER NEIDENBERGER, VITALI DELL
  • Publication number: 20180202651
    Abstract: The invention relates to a porous fuel treatment element for an evaporation burner, comprising at least one layer (8) formed by fibers (10). Said fibers (10) comprise basalt fibers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2016
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Applicant: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: KLAUS MOESL, PETER NEIDENBERGER, VOLODYMYR ILCHENKO, BENGT MEIER
  • Patent number: 9759422
    Abstract: An evaporator burner for a mobile heating device is provided having a combustion chamber, an evaporator accommodation, and an evaporator element for evaporation of liquid fuel. The evaporator element is accommodated in the evaporator accommodation at the side facing the combustion chamber. At the side of the evaporator accommodation facing away from the combustion chamber, the evaporator burner comprises at least one combustion air guide element which is arranged such that a combustion air flow path extending at least along a portion of a base wall of the evaporator accommodation is formed between the combustion air guide element and the base wall of the evaporator accommodation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2017
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Darko Jozinovic, Bengt Meier, Andreas Winter, Vitali Dell
  • Publication number: 20140346242
    Abstract: An evaporator burner for a mobile heating device is provided having a combustion chamber, an evaporator accommodation, and an evaporator element for evaporation of liquid fuel. The evaporator element is accommodated in the evaporator accommodation at the side facing the combustion chamber. At the side of the evaporator accommodation facing away from the combustion chamber, the evaporator burner comprises at least one combustion air guide element which is arranged such that a combustion air flow path extending at least along a portion of a base wall of the evaporator accommodation is formed between the combustion air guide element and the base wall of the evaporator accommodation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2012
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventors: Darko Jozinovic, Bengt Meier, Andreas Winter, Vitali Dell