Patents by Inventor Bernd Kraemer

Bernd Kraemer 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: 11525378
    Abstract: A filter arrangement may include a filter element and a gasket element. The gasket element may include a substantially circular flow-through opening and a locking collar. The locking collar may be arranged along a circumference of the flow-through opening with respect to a circumferential direction. The locking collar may form a hollow cylindrical installation space. The filter element may include a filter element body and a substantially hollow-cylindrical counter locking collar. The counter locking collar may include an open axial side and a covered axial side which may be spaced apart from each other with respect to an axial axis. The covered axial side of the counter locking collar may be covered by said filter element body. The counter locking collar may be at least partially inserted into the hollow cylindrical installation space of the locking collar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Inventors: Bhushan Dahake, Sabine Dreizler, Christian Heneka, Bernd Kraemer, Predrag Panic, Lucas Weithoff
  • Publication number: 20210254523
    Abstract: A filter arrangement may include a filter element and a gasket element. The gasket element may include a substantially circular flow-through opening and a locking collar. The locking collar may be arranged along a circumference of the flow-through opening with respect to a circumferential direction. The locking collar may form a hollow cylindrical installation space. The filter element may include a filter element body and a substantially hollow-cylindrical counter locking collar. The counter locking collar may include an open axial side and a covered axial side which may be spaced apart from each other with respect to an axial axis. The covered axial side of the counter locking collar may be covered by said filter element body. The counter locking collar may be at least partially inserted into the hollow cylindrical installation space of the locking collar.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Bhushan Dahake, Sabine Dreizler, Christian Heneka, Bernd Kraemer, Predrag Panic, Lucas Weithoff
  • Patent number: 10883773
    Abstract: A heat exchanger may include a tubular housing, a flange ring, two bases, and heat exchanger tubes running through the housing and respectively held at a longitudinal end side in the bases, a first flow channel formed therein, and a second flow channel formed between the tubes and the housing. The housing may be formed from first and second housing parts each being pot-shaped and having a housing portion, an outwardly widened flange ring portion, and a base. The housing parts may be connected to one another via the flange ring portions that may delimit an annular space. On the first housing part, inlet and outlet connecting-pieces for coolant may be provided. Between the housing and the heat exchanger tubes, at least one separator may be arranged, on which at least one blade may be provided, the blade engaging at least partly into the annular space and at least reducing a circumferential flow therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Inventors: Christian Faber, Simon Hund, Bernd Kraemer, Albrecht Siegel
  • Patent number: 10724800
    Abstract: An exhaust gas heat exchanger may include a housing and a heat exchanger block arranged therein, the heat exchanger block including tube plates and a tube bundle having a plurality of flat tubes held at longitudinal ends of the flat tubes in rim holes formed in a complementary manner thereto in the tube plates. A first flow path for exhaust gas may extend in the flat tubes, and a second flow path for coolant may extend around the flat tubes and within the housing. The housing may include a plurality of latching contours, which interact with a plurality of counterpart latching contours arranged on an associated tube plate to fix the tube plates and the heat exchanger block on the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBH
    Inventors: Karsten Emrich, Vahid Havaldar, Bernd Kraemer, Gaelle Schmidgall
  • Publication number: 20180372031
    Abstract: A heat exchanger may include a heat exchanger block and a diffusor connected thereto. At least one connecting pin may be integrally molded to a surface of the heat exchanger block. At least one passage opening, through which the at least one connecting pin may engage when the heat exchanger is mounted, may be arranged on the diffusor. The at least one connecting pin may have a widened head via which the diffusor may be secured to the heat exchanger block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Karsten Emrich, Vahid Havaldar, Bernd Kraemer, Gaelle Schmidgall
  • Publication number: 20180335263
    Abstract: A heat exchanger may include a tubular housing, a flange ring, two bases, and heat exchanger tubes running through the housing and respectively held at a longitudinal end side in the bases, a first flow channel formed therein, and a second flow channel formed between the tubes and the housing. The housing may be formed from first and second housing parts each being pot-shaped and having a housing portion, an outwardly widened flange ring portion, and a base. The housing parts may be connected to one another via the flange ring portions that may delimit an annular space. On the first housing part, inlet and outlet connecting-pieces for coolant may be provided. Between the housing and the heat exchanger tubes, at least one separator may be arranged, on which at least one blade may be provided, the blade engaging at least partly into the annular space and at least reducing a circumferential flow therein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Inventors: Christian Faber, Simon Hund, Bernd Kraemer, Albrecht Siegel
  • Patent number: 9927180
    Abstract: A heat exchanger is provided that includes a housing and an exchanger region which is arranged in the housing and has tubes and at least one base, wherein the tubes are connected to the at least one base, wherein the housing is manufactured from a plastic and has a housing inner surface, wherein the housing inner surface is covered at least in regions or in sections by at least one metallic element for protecting the housing from a thermal load. The invention further relates to a method for producing a heat exchanger.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: MAHLE International GmbH
    Inventors: Karsten Emrich, Matthias Schuele, Bernd Kraemer, Albrecht Siegel, Gaelle Schmidgall
  • Publication number: 20170205148
    Abstract: An exhaust gas heat exchanger may include a housing and a heat exchanger block arranged therein, the heat exchanger block including tube plates and a tube bundle having a plurality of flat tubes held at longitudinal ends of the flat tubes in rim holes formed in a complementary manner thereto in the tube plates. A first flow path for exhaust gas may extend in the flat tubes, and a second flow path for coolant may extend around the flat tubes and within the housing. The housing may include a plurality of latching contours, which interact with a plurality of counterpart latching contours arranged on an associated tube plate to fix the tube plates and the heat exchanger block on the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2017
    Publication date: July 20, 2017
    Inventors: Karsten Emrich, Vahid Havaldar, Bernd Kraemer, Gaelle Schmidgall
  • Publication number: 20160223263
    Abstract: A heat exchanger is provided that includes a housing and an exchanger region which is arranged in the housing and has tubes and at least one base, wherein the tubes are connected to the at least one base, wherein the housing is manufactured from a plastic and has a housing inner surface, wherein the housing inner surface is covered at least in regions or in sections by at least one metallic element for protecting the housing from a thermal load. The invention further relates to a method for producing a heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2016
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Applicant: MAHLE International GmbH
    Inventors: Karsten EMRICH, Matthias SCHUELE, Bernd KRAEMER, Albrecht SIEGEL, Gaelle SCHMIDGALL
  • Publication number: 20140299294
    Abstract: An exhaust gas cooler for a motor vehicle is provided that includes a first collector box on an inlet side and a second collector box on an outlet side, and a plurality of exchanger tubes extending between the collector boxes for exhaust gas to flow through. Air can flow around the exchanger tubes so as to cool the exhaust gas. At least one supporting member is attached to at least one of the collector boxes, a force produced by the thermal expansion of the exchanger tubes being passed into the supporting member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2014
    Publication date: October 9, 2014
    Inventors: Klaus IRMLER, Bernd KRAEMER
  • Patent number: 8794300
    Abstract: An exhaust gas cooler for a motor vehicle is provided that includes a first collector box on an inlet side and a second collector box on an outlet side, and a plurality of exchanger tubes extending between the collector boxes for exhaust gas to flow through. Air can flow around the exchanger tubes so as to cool the exhaust gas. At least one supporting member is attached to at least one of the collector boxes, a force produced by the thermal expansion of the exchanger tubes being passed into the supporting member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 10, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2014
    Assignee: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Klaus Irmler, Bernd Kraemer
  • Publication number: 20100218914
    Abstract: An exhaust gas cooler for a motor vehicle is provided that includes a first collector box on an inlet side and a second collector box on an outlet side, and a plurality of exchanger tubes extending between the collector boxes for exhaust gas to flow through. Air can flow around the exchanger tubes so as to cool the exhaust gas. At least one supporting member is attached to at least one of the collector boxes, a force produced by the thermal expansion of the exchanger tubes being passed into the supporting member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2010
    Publication date: September 2, 2010
    Applicant: Behr GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Klaus IRMLER, Bernd KRAEMER
  • Patent number: 7134717
    Abstract: The backrest of a vehicle seat having a headrest, which may be displaced from an in-use position to a safety position by the effect of a force generation device, and which is fixed, by means of retaining elements extending into the backrest. The retaining elements may be displaced relative to the backrest, under the effect of the force generating device, by means of at least one connector guide, from a connector into a connector side block. The connector slide block is preferably lockable in the connector on the displacement from the in-use position to the safety position. One embodiment includes a rectangular connector slide block which performs a turning movement on the displacement, as a result of which the radial extent of the above relative to the connector is increased thus locking the connector slide block in the connector with a positive or non-positive fit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 6, 2002
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2006
    Assignee: Johnson Controls GmbH
    Inventors: Jan Thunnissen, Bernd Kraemer, Silvio Hartlaub
  • Publication number: 20050077762
    Abstract: In the case of a head restraint which is connected to the backrest (5) of a vehicle seat, a padded segment (9) which can be changed in position relative to the basic body (1) of the head restraint can be shifted, in the event of an accident, under the action of a force-generating device from the use position toward the seat occupant's head (10) into a safety position and can be locked therein by means of a fixing device. According to the invention, the fixing device comprises a telescope (11) which, on the one hand, is supported on the basic body (1) and, on the other hand, is connected to the shiftable padded segment (9), it being possible for the resetting forces (FR) which act on the padded element to be introduced into the telescope in a direction deviating from the telescope axis (X).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2003
    Publication date: April 14, 2005
    Inventors: Bernd Kraemer, Alfred Scholi, Jan Thunnissen
  • Publication number: 20040239160
    Abstract: The backrest of a vehicle seat having a headrest, which may be displaced from an in-use position to a safety position by the effect of a force generation device, and which is fixed, by means of retaining elements extending into the backrest. The retaining elements may be displaced relative to the backrest, under the effect of the force generating device, by means of at least one connector guide, from a connector into a connector side block. The connector slide block is preferably lockable in the connector on the displacement from the in-use position to the safety position. One embodiment includes a rectangular connector slide block which performs a turning movement on the displacement, as a result of which the radial extent of the above relative to the connector is increased thus locking the connector slide block in the connector with a positive or non-positive fit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2004
    Publication date: December 2, 2004
    Inventors: Jan Thunnissen, Bernd Kraemer, Silvio Hartlaub
  • Patent number: 6763746
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for adjusting a relative position between two components, having a support part which is fastened to the one component and has a through-opening in a holder section. The device includes a setting screw which has an external thread that engages in the region of its one end in an internal thread firmly arranged on the other component. The setting screw has rotary actuating means on its other end, has a radially projecting, fixed collar between its ends, and passes through the through-opening on a side of the collar remote from the other component. The setting screw carries a lock nut on a side of the holder section remote from the other component, the collar and lock nut axially restraining the holder section between them for fixing a relative position between setting screw and support part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2002
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2004
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventors: Benjamin Bayer, Roland Gamisch, Bernd Kraemer
  • Patent number: 6643605
    Abstract: A method and a device for determining an enthalpy of wet steam, in particular of wet steam at an outlet of a steam turbine. A part volume flow of the wet steam is mixed with a reference gas to form a mixture, so that the liquid constituents of the part volume flow evaporate completely. An enthalpy of the reference gas and an enthalpy of the mixture is then determined by measured physical variables and an enthalpy of the wet steam is calculated from these enthalpies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2000
    Date of Patent: November 4, 2003
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hans-Joachim Endries, Helmut Herbig, Hans-Bernd Krämer
  • Publication number: 20030010164
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for adjusting a relative position between two components, having a support part which is fastened to the one component and has a through-opening in a holder section. The device includes a setting screw which has an external thread that engages in the region of its one end in an internal thread firmly arranged on the other component. The setting screw has rotary actuating means on its other end, has a radially projecting, fixed collar between its ends, and passes through the through-opening on a side of the collar remote from the other component. The setting screw carries a lock nut on a side of the holder section remote from the other component, the collar and lock nut axially restraining the holder section between them for fixing a relative position between setting screw and support part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2002
    Publication date: January 16, 2003
    Inventors: Benjamin Bayer, Roland Gamisch, Bernd Kraemer
  • Patent number: 6291681
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a process for the production of 2-oxo-1,3-dibenzyl-cis-4,5-imidazolidinedicarboxylic acid and of 2-oxo-1,3-dibenzyl-cis-4,5-imidazolidinedicarboxylic acid anhydride, starting from meso-2,3-bis(benzylamino)succinic acid dialkali metal salt. The process involves reacting meso-2,3-bis(benzylamino)succinic acid dialkali metal salt with phenyl chloroformate in a monophasic solvent system consisting of an about 2:1 to 1:1 mixture of a water-miscible ether and an aqueous alkali metal hydroxide solution, at a temperature not exceeding about 40° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2001
    Assignee: Roche Vitamins Inc.
    Inventors: Juergen Fleckenstein, Bernd Kraemer, Joachim Veits
  • Publication number: 20010020101
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a process for the production of 2-oxo-1,3-dibenzyl-cis-4,5-imidazolidinedicarboxylic acid and of 2-oxo-1,3-dibenzyl-cis-4,5-imidazolidinedicarboxylic acid anhydride, starting from meso-2,3-bis(benzylamino)succinic acid dialkali metal salt. The process involves reacting meso-2,3-bis(benzylamino)succinic acid dialkali metal salt with phenyl chloroformate in a monophasic solvent system consisting of an about 2:1 to 1:1 mixture of a water-miscible ether and an aqueous alkali metal hydroxide solution, at a temperature not exceeding about 40° C.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2001
    Publication date: September 6, 2001
    Applicant: F. Hoffmann-La Roche AG
    Inventors: Juergen Fleckenstein, Bernd Kraemer, Joachim Veits