Patents by Inventor Bjorn Klein

Bjorn Klein 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: 10272892
    Abstract: A hydraulic unit for producing brake pressure for a hydraulic motor-vehicle brake system, including a main body, a cavity arranged in the main body and having at least one first bore segment with a defined target diameter, in which a cylindrical piston moveable in the axial direction is arranged, which, in the cavity, bounds at least one pressure chamber filled with a hydraulic fluid, for producing brake pressure in a brake circuit, and at least a first and a second sealing element for sealing off the cylindrical piston, which sealing elements are arranged at an axial distance from each other. In order to provide a hydraulic unit that can be produced more effectively and economically while the technical requirements nevertheless remain fulfilled, the material of the main body in a surface layer of an inner wall of the cavity in the bore segment has a material microstructure that is work-hardened.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2019
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Lothar Brandt, Mike Cichy, Björn Klein, Jörg Loke, Erkan Sarac
  • Publication number: 20180170336
    Abstract: A hydraulic unit for producing brake pressure for a hydraulic motor-vehicle brake system, including a main body, a cavity arranged in the main body and having at least one first bore segment with a defined target diameter, in which a cylindrical piston moveable in the axial direction is arranged, which, in the cavity, bounds at least one pressure chamber filled with a hydraulic fluid, for producing brake pressure in a brake circuit, and at least a first and a second sealing element for sealing off the cylindrical piston, which sealing elements are arranged at an axial distance from each other. In order to provide a hydraulic unit that can be produced more effectively and economically while the technical requirements nevertheless remain fulfilled, the material of the main body in a surface layer of an inner wall of the cavity in the bore segment has a material microstructure that is work-hardened.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Lothar Brandt, Mike Cichy, Björn Klein, Jörg Loke, Erkan Sarac
  • Patent number: 9410811
    Abstract: The invention relates to an automated guided vehicle, a system with a computer and an automated guided vehicle, a method of planning a virtual track and a method of operating an automated guided vehicle. The automated guided vehicle is to move automatically along a virtual track within an environment from a start point to an end point. The environment comprises sections connecting the start point the end point, and the intermediate point. A graph is assigned to the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: KUKA Roboter GmbH
    Inventors: Patrick Pfaff, Bjorn Klein
  • Patent number: 9244463
    Abstract: The invention relates to an automated guided vehicle and a method for operating an automated guided vehicle. Upon arriving at a destination, then the automated guided vehicle is moved, based on a comparison of signals or data assigned to the environment detected by at least one sensor with signals or data which are assigned to a target position or to a target position and orientation of the automated guided vehicle at the destination, such that the actual position or the actual position and orientation is the same as the target position or target position and orientation at least within a pre-specified tolerance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: KUKA Roboter GmbH
    Inventors: Patrick Pfaff, Bjorn Klein, Christoph Bick
  • Publication number: 20150285644
    Abstract: The invention relates to an automated guided vehicle, a system with a computer and an automated guided vehicle, a method of planning a virtual track and a method of operating an automated guided vehicle. The automated guided vehicle is to move automatically along a virtual track within an environment from a start point to an end point. The environment comprises sections connecting the start point the end point, and the intermediate point. A graph is assigned to the environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 28, 2014
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicant: KUKA LABORATORIES GMBH
    Inventors: Patrick Pfaff, Bjorn Klein
  • Publication number: 20140371973
    Abstract: The invention relates to an automated guided vehicle and a method for operating an automated guided vehicle. Upon arriving at a destination, then the automated guided vehicle is moved, based on a comparison of signals or data assigned to the environment detected by at least one sensor with signals or data which are assigned to a target position or to a target position and orientation of the automated guided vehicle at the destination, such that the actual position or the actual position and orientation is the same as the target position or target position and orientation at least within a pre-specified tolerance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Publication date: December 18, 2014
    Inventors: Patrick Pfaff, Bjorn Klein, Christoph Bick