Patents by Inventor Cédric LANGLAIS

Cédric LANGLAIS 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).

  • Publication number: 20240149798
    Abstract: A sensor module to be mounted on a motor vehicle in a length-adaptive manner, the sensor module may have a first module component unit, which preferably has at least one first environment sensor, at least one second module component unit, which has at least one second environment sensor, and at least one intermediate element, via which the first module component unit is coupled to the second module component unit, the intermediate element being configured to be adjustable in length as a function of a mounting position on the motor vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Michael HUELSEN, Magnus SVIBERG, Alexander KILIAS, Cédric LANGLAIS
  • Patent number: 11951913
    Abstract: A roof module for forming a vehicle roof on a motor vehicle has a panel component whose outer surface at least partially forms the roof skin of the vehicle roof, the roof module has at least one environment sensor, and the environment sensor being configured to send and/or receive electromagnetic signals for detecting the vehicle environment, and the panel component being made of a material which is impermeable to the electromagnetic signals of the environment sensor. The panel component has at least one cutout through which the electromagnetic signals of the environment sensor can pass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Michael Huelsen, Cèdric Langlais, Michael Mailhamer, Juraj Lehotsky, Dirk Legler, Michael Deppe, Max Huber
  • Publication number: 20240042835
    Abstract: A vehicle having at least one roof rail and window, the window connected to the roof rail, and a roof module for forming a vehicle roof of the motor vehicle. The roof module has a frame, connected to or partially forms the one roof rail, a panel component, which at least partially forms a roof skin of the vehicle roof, the roof skin serving as an outer sealing surface of the roof module, and which is connected to the roof module frame, an environment sensor configured to send and/or receive electromagnetic signals through a panel see-through area in the panel component so as to detect a vehicle environment, and a cleaning feature which has at least one cleaning nozzle and is configured to clean the see-through area. The at least one window and the roof module frame and/or the panel component overlap so that an installation space is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Inventors: Maximilian EHRMANN, Magnus SVIBERG, Cédric LANGLAIS, Michael HÜLSEN
  • Publication number: 20240019557
    Abstract: A see-through assembly for an environment sensor of a motor vehicle, the see-through assembly having at least one see-through area, a control feature, and a cleaning feature for cleaning the see-through area. The cleaning feature has a membrane spaced apart from an outer surface of the see-through area by a layer, or the see-through area has a shape-changing and/or volume-changing and/or thickness-changing excitation layer at least on its outer surface, the control feature being configured to cause the membrane to move in a predetermined manner relative to the outer surface of the see-through area or to cause the shape-changing and/or volume-changing and/or thickness-changing excitation layer to move in a predetermined manner so that foreign particles located on an outer surface of the membrane can be loosened and/or detached and/or removed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Michael HUELSEN, Magnus SVIBERG, Maximilian EHRMANN, Cédric LANGLAIS
  • Patent number: 11851106
    Abstract: A roof module for a motor vehicle may have a roof skin, a roof frame on a vehicle body and have at least one transverse frame part extending in the transverse roof direction and a longitudinal frame part extending in the longitudinal roof direction on either side of a longitudinal center roof plane, and a roof opening system having a lid element configured to be displaced on guide rails, which are part of the longitudinal frame parts of the roof frame, in the longitudinal roof direction relative to the roof frame, and/or a solid roof element having a transparent see-through portion and being rigidly connected to the roof frame, having a sensor system comprising at least one sensor module which has at least one environmental sensor and is located outside of the roof opening and/or outside of the transparent see-through portions and is covered by a cover element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Michael Huelsen, Johannes Thannheimer, Dirk Legler, Max Huber, Thomas Lindner, Michael Deppe, Thomas Rudolph, Cedric Langlais, Michael Mailhamer, Juraj Lehotsky, Achim Holzwarth, Michael Respondek, Alexander Kilias
  • Publication number: 20230399057
    Abstract: A motor vehicle having a vehicle body, a windshield and/or a rear window, and a roof module disposed on the vehicle body as a structural unit and at least partially forming a vehicle roof of the motor vehicle, the roof module having a see-through area, a panel component which at least partially forms a roof skin of the vehicle roof, the roof skin serving as an outer sealing surface, and at least two environment sensors for detecting a vehicle environment. One of the at least two environment sensors is attached to the roof module and configured to send and/or receive electromagnetic signals through the windshield or the rear window in detect a vehicle environment, and another one of the at least two environment sensors is attached to the roof module and configured to send and/or receive electromagnetic signals through the see-through area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2023
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Inventors: Magnus SVIBERG, Maximilian EHRMANN, Cèdric LANGLAIS, Michael HUELSEN
  • Publication number: 20230382204
    Abstract: A roof assembly for forming a vehicle roof on a motor vehicle, the roof assembly has a panel component which forms at least sections of a roof cladding of the vehicle roof, the roof cladding acting as an outer sealing surface, and a roof opening system having a lid part which is configured to selectively open or close a roof opening provided in the panel component, and at least one electric and/or electronic and/or electromagnetic component and an air conditioner, via which waste heat released by the electronic component and/or heat introduced from outside are able to be dissipated, wherein the roof opening system has at least one water gutter via which at least one cooling channel of the air conditioner is formed, the waste heat of the component and/or the heat introduced from outside being able to be dissipated from the roof assembly via cooling channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2023
    Publication date: November 30, 2023
    Inventors: Magnus SVIBERG, Maximilian EHRMANN, Cèdric LANGLAIS, Michael HÜLSEN, Juraj LEHOTSKY, Fabian WILL, Thomas PODOLSKI
  • Publication number: 20230373443
    Abstract: A roof assembly for forming a vehicle roof of a motor vehicle. The roof assembly may have a panel component at least partially forming a roof skin of the vehicle roof, the roof skin serving as an outer sealing surface, at least one environment sensor configured to send and/or receive electromagnetic signals through a see-through area to detect a vehicle environment, and at least one cleaning feature. The cleaning feature may have a window wiper assembly having two wiper elements which have a common pivot axis, the one wiper element being configured to clean a windshield or a rear window and the other wiper element being configured to clean the see-through area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Maximilian EHRMANN, Magnus SVIBERG, Cèdric LANGLAIS, Michael HÜLSEN
  • Publication number: 20230365073
    Abstract: A roof module for forming a vehicle roof on a motor vehicle, the roof module having a panel component, which forms at least sections of a roof cladding of the vehicle roof, and having an opening in which at least one environment sensor is disposed within a casing, the environment sensor being able to transmit and/or receive electromagnetic signals for charting the vehicle environment and being displaceable between a retracted position and an extracted position, wherein the roof module may have a sealing assembly which surrounds the opening and has a sealing area which extends in a movably flexible manner between the panel component and at least one section of the casing and is injection-molded on one side on the panel component and/or the casing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Lorenz MÜLLER, Giedrius MIKUTIS, Cédric LANGLAIS, Nikolaus LINNER
  • Patent number: 11813992
    Abstract: A roof module for forming a vehicle roof on a motor vehicle, the roof module having a panel component whose outer surface at least partially forms the roof skin of the vehicle roof, the roof module having at least one environment sensor configured to send and/or receive electromagnetic signals for detecting the vehicle surroundings. The environment sensor can be disposed below the roof skin formed by the panel component, the roof module having at least one support module, and at least two environment sensors being jointly mounted on the support module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: WEBASTO SE
    Inventors: Michael Huelsen, Cédric Langlais, Michael Mailhamer, Juraj Lehotsky
  • Publication number: 20230278637
    Abstract: A roof module having a panel component which at least partially forms a roof skin of a vehicle roof, the roof skin serving as an outer sealing surface of the roof module, and at least one electrical and/or electronic and/or electromagnetic component. The roof module may have at least one vehicle body rail configured to form at least part of a vehicle body roof frame when the roof module is disposed on a vehicle body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Magnus SVIBERG, Maximilian EHRMANN, Cèdric LANGLAIS, Michael HUELSEN
  • Publication number: 20230278503
    Abstract: A roof sensor module having a panel component which forms at least sections of a roof cladding of a vehicle roof, the roof cladding functioning as an outer sealing surface of the roof sensor module, at least one environment sensor for charting a vehicle environment which is connected to at least one cable, and at least one channel-shaped carrier structure. The at least one cable is guided along the channel-shaped carrier structure within a hollow cross section thereof and/or an in particular channel-shaped guide profile is formed at the channel-shaped carrier structure, the at least one cable being guided along the channel-shaped guide profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Magnus SVIBERG, Maximilian EHRMANN, Cèdric LANGLAIS, Michael HUELSEN
  • Publication number: 20230256797
    Abstract: A roof assembly having a roof skin having at least one roof opening; at least one roof panel element configured to selectively open or close the roof opening and/or forming a fixed roof element having an at least partially transparent see-through area and filling the roof opening; and a roof headliner disposed below and spaced apart from the roof skin, thus limiting an installation space together with the roof skin, and having a cover element covering at least part of an edge area around the roof opening inside the vehicle. At least one functional feature is disposed on the cover element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Magnus SVIBERG, Maximilian EHRMANN, Cèdric LANGLAIS, Michael HUELSEN
  • Publication number: 20230256941
    Abstract: A roof module for forming a vehicle roof on a motor vehicle, the roof module having a panel component, which at least partially forms a roof skin of the vehicle roof, the roof skin serving as an outer sealing surface of the roof module, at least one electrical and/or electronic and/or electromagnetic component, in particular an environment sensor and/or a light feature, configured to send and/or receive electromagnetic signals through a see-through area, and at least one cleaning feature having at least one cleaning nozzle configured to spray a cleaning fluid by means of which the see-through area is cleanable. The at least one component is in heat-transferring connection with the cleaning feature in such a manner that waste heat of the at least one component can be transferred to the cleaning fluid and/or the at least one cleaning nozzle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Magnus SVIBERG, Maximilian EHRMANN, Cèdric LANGLAIS, Michael HUELSEN
  • Publication number: 20230256798
    Abstract: A motor vehicle having a roof module having a panel component, which at least partially forms a roof skin of a vehicle roof, the roof skin serving as an outer sealing surface of the roof module; and a vehicle body. At least one electrical, electronic and/or electromagnetic component is disposed on the vehicle body, and the roof module comprises at least one functional feature configured to support and/or amplify at least one function of the at least one electrical, electronic and/or electromagnetic component and/or to extend a functional range of the at least one electrical, electronic and/or electromagnetic component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Magnus SVIBERG, Maximilian EHRMANN, Cèdric LANGLAIS, Michael HUELSEN
  • Publication number: 20230256916
    Abstract: A roof module having a panel component which forms at least sections of a roof cladding of a vehicle roof, which functions as an outer sealing surface of the roof module, and has a viewing area, wherein at least one transmitter and/or receiver apparatus of an environment sensor is disposed directly and without gaps at the viewing area and/or the panel component or is integrated therein and is configured to transmit and/or receive electromagnetic and/or optical signals directly via the viewing area and/or the panel component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Magnus SVIBERG, Maximilian EHRMANN, Cèdric LANGLAIS, Michael HUELSEN
  • Publication number: 20230123315
    Abstract: A motor vehicle roof module having a panel component whose outer surface at least partially forms the roof skin of the vehicle roof and serves as an outer sealing surface of the roof module, and at least one environmental sensor by means of which a vehicle environment can be detected during autonomous or semi-autonomous driving of the motor vehicle. The roof module has a kinematic system having a drive and configured to move the at least one environmental sensor from a retracted position into a deployed position, in which the at least one environmental sensor protrudes beyond the roof skin to detect the vehicle environment, and to fix the at least one environmental sensor at least in the deployed position in such a manner that the at least one environmental sensor cannot be moved by an external force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Michael HUELSEN, Cedric LANGLAIS, Maximilian EHRMAN, Juray LEHOTSKY, Heinrich WÜLLRICH, Thomas PODOLSKI, Nikolaus LINNER
  • Publication number: 20230075491
    Abstract: A roof module for forming a vehicle roof having a panel component whose external surface at least partially forms a roof skin of the vehicle roof, the roof skin functioning as an outer sealing surface of the roof module, the roof module having at least one module component, the roof module having a drive kinematic unit which is configured to displace the at least one module component from a retracted position to an extended position in which the at least one module component protrudes over the roof skin, and the roof module having at least one cleaning nozzle. The drive kinematic unit may be configured to also displace the at least one cleaning nozzle between a retracted position and an extended position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2022
    Publication date: March 9, 2023
    Inventors: Cedric LANGLAIS, Magnus SVIBERG, Nikolaus LINNER
  • Publication number: 20230033972
    Abstract: A roof for a motor vehicle, in particular for a passenger car, having a roof skin, a support structure, over which the roof skin engages, and at least one sensor module having at least one environment sensor for detecting the vehicle environment. The sensor module is mounted on the support structure and a tolerance-compensating element, which defines a relative position between the support structure and the sensor module, is disposed between the support structure and the sensor module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Michael HUELSEN, Cedric LANGLAIS, Michael MAILHAMER, Juraj LEHOTSKY
  • Publication number: 20230008767
    Abstract: A roof module for a motor vehicle roof having a panel component whose outer surface at least partially forms the roof skin of the vehicle roof and serves as an outer sealing surface of the roof module, at least one environment sensor configured to send and/or receive electromagnetic signals through a see-through area for detecting a vehicle environment around an optical axis of the environment sensor, and at least one cleaning nozzle configured to clean the see-through area. Viewed in the direction in which the optical axis of the environment sensor points, the at least one cleaning nozzle is disposed in such a manner in an area of the panel component in front of the see-through area that the at least one cleaning nozzle can be adjusted between a retracted position and a deployed position by means of at least one drive kinematics unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Cédric LANGLAIS, Nikolaus LINNER