Patents by Inventor Bernhard Schmid

Bernhard Schmid 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: 12606920
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a gas diffusion electrode comprising: a metal M selected from the group consisting of: Ag, Au, Cu, and Pd; a binder; hydrophilic and hydrophobic pores and/or channels; and an anion transport material in the pores and/or channels.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2026
    Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY GLOBAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Ralf Krause, Christian Reller, Günter Schmid, Bernhard Schmid, Frank Steinbacher
  • Patent number: 12427934
    Abstract: A molded part, in particular to an interior trim part of a motor vehicle, consists of a pressed carrier, formed from a fiber-plastic composite, a carrier structure made of a plastic for fixedly arranging the molded part on a motor vehicle, and a light source. The carrier structure is molded with an injection molding method to a surface of a rear side of the pressed carrier such that the carrier structure lies flat directly against the surface, in particular the entire surface, of the rear side of the pressed carrier. The pressed carrier is at least translucent, and the carrier structure is opaque. The carrier structure has at least one cutout, which forms a through opening to the surface of the pressed carrier. The light source is arranged for backlighting purposes on the rear side of the pressed carrier such that, with appropriate use, light is visible on a viewing side of the pressed carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2025
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Philipp Gruhn, Renate Korn, Marlies Michel, Bernhard Schmid
  • Publication number: 20250182981
    Abstract: An electronically switching rail-mounted device for a mounting or top hat rail with an insulating material housing having a front side, a fastening side opposite the front side, and first and second narrow and broad sides connecting the front and securing side. A controller with a power electronics system in a first receiving space formed in the insulating material housing configured to electronically interrupt an electrical line. A cooling unit in a second receiving space formed in the insulating material housing for cooling the power electronics system. The second receiving space having a first boundary surface directly adjacent to the first receiving space and a second boundary surface, different from the first boundary surface, formed by the securing side and/or one of the broad sides. The heat generated by the power electronics system is directly received by the cooling unit and discharged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Inventors: Alexander Hager, Thomas Lohr, Bernhard Schmid, Sebastian Siegert
  • Patent number: 12280639
    Abstract: A shading device includes a shading curtain and a drawing device. The shading curtain includes a first and second shading layer that have at least two types of light transmission areas with different light transmission properties. The drawing device includes a first and second drawing member. The first drawing member is connected with the first shading layer and is configured to draw the first shading layer. The second drawing member is connected with the second shading layer and is configured to draw the second shading layer. The first and second drawing members are movable relative to each other between a first relative position and a second relative position. The first and the second shading layers parallelly move relative to each other. In the first relative position, the shading curtain has a first light transmission property, and in the second relative position, the shading curtain has a second light transmission property.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Bernhard Schmid, Yongpeng Xia, Xiaofei Yang
  • Patent number: 12263714
    Abstract: An apparatus ventilates the passenger compartment of a motor vehicle. The apparatus has a source for producing an open or free jet of moving air, and a deflecting body, wherein the deflecting body is spaced apart from the source and one of the surfaces of the deflecting body is, according to the designated use, an impact face against which the open jet impinges, and the impact face is a deformable face which is integrated steplessly into a surrounding surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Bernhard Schmid
  • Patent number: 12240368
    Abstract: A storage compartment for installation in a motor vehicle includes a storage volume which is bounded laterally by an at least partially encircling storage wall. At least one elastic compartment divider, which has a macroscopically elastic material at least in a central region of a longitudinal extent of the compartment divider, is provided such that the compartment divider can be transferred between a first divider position and a second divider position and which, at the first divider position, divides the storage volume into a first partial compartment and a second partial compartment and, at the second divider position, forms part of the storage wall of the storage volume. Two spaced-apart divider receptacles are arranged on the storage wall and at which in each case one of two longitudinal ends of the compartment divider is accommodated. The compartment divider is mounted on each of the divider receptacles so as to be rotatable about a divider longitudinal axis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 6, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Bernhard Schmid
  • Patent number: 12151556
    Abstract: A vehicle has a display screen designed to be moved between an observation position and a reflection position. The display screen has a display screen surface, wherein, when in the observation position, the display screen surface can be directly observed by a user of the vehicle from a user position of the vehicle. The vehicle has a reflecting surface, wherein, in the reflecting position, the display screen surface faces the reflecting surface such that an image displayed on the display screen surface generates a mirror image on the reflecting surface, which mirror image is visible to a user of the vehicle from the user position of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Bernhard Schmid
  • Patent number: 12071403
    Abstract: The present invention describes compounds modulating the function of mitochondrial complex I (NADH-quinone oxidoreductase) having formula (I)
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Date of Patent: August 27, 2024
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH
    Inventors: Kai Gerlach, Christian Eickmeier, Jan Magnus Kriegl, Lothar Kussmaul, Klaus Rudolf, Bernhard Schmid
  • Publication number: 20240270180
    Abstract: A cladding part for a vehicle, in particular for an interior of a vehicle, includes a base support and a fastening element for fastening the base support to a vehicle part of the vehicle. The fastening element is designed to pivot into a fastening position. A vehicle has a cladding part of this kind.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2024
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Bernhard SCHMID, Fredrik SVEDBERG
  • Patent number: 12059988
    Abstract: A body-adaptable arm rest arrangement includes an arm rest having an actuation unit for adjusting different arm rest positions, and a base. The arm rest is connected to the base via the actuation unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Bernhard Schmid
  • Patent number: 12018393
    Abstract: An electrolysis cell, includes a cathode space with a cathode, an anode space with an anode, and a salt bridge space, which is arranged between the cathode and the anode, wherein the cathode space and the salt bridge space are delimited from one another by the cathode and the salt bridge space and the anode space are delimited from one another by the anode, and the cathode and the anode are formed as a gas diffusion electrode. An electrolysis plant has a corresponding electrolysis cell and a method for carries out electrochemical reactions with the electrolysis cell or electrolysis plant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Bernhard Schmid, Christian Reller, Günter Schmid
  • Publication number: 20240190515
    Abstract: A vehicle cockpit of modular design for a motor vehicle, with a dashboard lower part and with a dashboard upper part and with a technology carrier which is arranged between the dashboard lower part and the dashboard upper part. The vehicle cockpit extends along a vehicle transverse axis from a left-hand A-pillar to a right-hand A-pillar. The vehicle cockpit can be fastened to a supporting tube. The technology carrier extends over between 60% and 90% of a width of the vehicle cockpit along the vehicle transverse axis and is replaceable. On account of the design of the vehicle cockpit, a simple replacement of operating and/or display elements for an update to the latest state of the art is possible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 19, 2022
    Publication date: June 13, 2024
    Inventor: Bernhard SCHMID
  • Publication number: 20240150285
    Abstract: The present invention describes compounds modulating the function of mitochondrial complex I (NADH-quinone oxidoreductase) having formula (I)
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Kai GERLACH, Christian EICKMEIER, Jan Magnus KRIEGL, Lothar KUSSMAUL, Klaus RUDOLF, Bernhard SCHMID
  • Publication number: 20240139230
    Abstract: dsRNAi oligonucleotides can be used in methods for the treatment of NASH, preferably the advanced fibrotic and/or cirrhotic stages thereof, using dosage regimens comprising a loading phase followed by a maintenance phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Jens Markus BORGHARDT, Marc ABRAMS, Andre BROERMANN, Bob Dale BROWN, Kevin CRAIG, Henryk T. DUDEK, Saskia ERBEL, Boris FERGER, Felix JOST, Martin Lee KOSER, Jihye PARK, Utsav SAXENA, Bernhard SCHMID, Florian SOMMER, Stephan TENBAUM, Ingo UPHUES
  • Patent number: 11932954
    Abstract: Various embodiments include an electrolysis cell comprising: a cathode space housing a cathode; a first ion exchange membrane including an anion exchanger and adjoining the cathode space; an anode space housing an anode; a second ion exchange membrane including a cation exchanger and adjoining the anode space; and a salt bridge space disposed between the first ion exchange membrane and the second ion exchange membrane. The cathode comprises: a gas diffusion electrode having a porous bound catalyst structure of a particulate catalyst on a support; a coating of a particulate catalyst on the first and/or second ion exchange membrane; and a porous conductive support impregnated with a catalyst.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY GLOBAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Bernhard Schmid, Christian Reller, Günter Schmid
  • Patent number: 11846031
    Abstract: An electrode, which includes at least one tetragonally crystallized compound containing at least one element selected from the group of Cu and Ag, the crystal lattice of the compound being of the space group I41/amd type. An electrolysis cell includes the electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignee: SIEMENS ENERGY GLOBAL GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Nemanja Martic, Christian Reller, Günter Schmid, Bernhard Schmid, David Reinisch
  • Patent number: 11827170
    Abstract: A support apparatus includes a gas-fillable support that is connectable to a gas generator. The gas-fillable support is securable to a body of a motor vehicle and has a first operating state which exists before the gas generator is activated and which has a first volume. The gas-fillable support has a second operating state which exists after the gas generator is activated and which has a second volume which is greater than the first volume. The gas-fillable support in the second operating state is contactable against a first portion which is operationally connected to the body and is contactable against a second portion which is operationally connected to the body and which is remote from the first end portion. A first mechanical strength of the gas-fillable support in the first operating state is less than a second mechanical strength of the gas-fillable support in the second operating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Juergen Girisch, Bernhard Schmid
  • Patent number: 11795147
    Abstract: The present invention describes compounds modulating the function of mitochondrial complex I (NADH-quinone oxidoreductase) having formula (I)
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH
    Inventors: Kai Gerlach, Christian Eickmeier, Jan Magnus Kriegl, Lothar Kussmaul, Klaus Rudolf, Bernhard Schmid
  • Publication number: 20230116705
    Abstract: A shading device includes a shading curtain and a drawing device. The shading curtain includes a first and second shading layer that have at least two types of light transmission areas with different light transmission properties. The drawing device includes a first and second drawing member. The first drawing member is connected with the first shading layer and is configured to draw the first shading layer. The second drawing member is connected with the second shading layer and is configured to draw the second shading layer. The first and second drawing members are movable relative to each other between a first relative position and a second relative position. The first and the second shading layers parallelly move relative to each other. In the first relative position, the shading curtain has a first light transmission property, and in the second relative position, the shading curtain has a second light transmission property.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Bernhard SCHMID, Yongpeng XIA, Xiaofei YANG
  • Patent number: D1118541
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2024
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2026
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jesco Doyen, Alexander Hager, Thomas Lohr, Bernhard Schmid