Patents by Inventor Carsten Weber
Carsten Weber 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).
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Patent number: 11774080Abstract: A lighting device comprises a support comprising a mounting section having at least one mounting face. The at least one mounting face has an arrangement direction and comprising at least two contact sections along the arrangement direction. The support further comprises a body section adjacent to the mounting section. The support further comprises a plurality of layered conductors connecting the body section to the at least one mounting face. The lighting device comprises at least one light-emitting element mounted along the arrangement direction of the at least one mounting face such that the at least one light-emitting element is in electrical contact to the at least two contact sections.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: LUMILEDS LLCInventors: Matthias Epmeier, Carsten Weber, Petra Wellmeier, Frank Giese
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Patent number: 11629763Abstract: The disclosure relates to a clutch assembly for a manual transmission of a motor vehicle, having an axially running transmission input shaft which, by way of a clutch having a central release mechanism disposed on the transmission input shaft, is able to be coupled to a motor output shaft. The transmission input shaft has at least one ferromagnetic measuring portion. The magnetization of the ferromagnetic measuring portion is able to be influenced in a magnetoelastic manner by a torsion of the transmission input shaft. Portions of the central release mechanism surround the at least one measuring portion and has a sensor device which is specified for measuring a variable as a function of the magnetization of at least one measuring portion.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2021Date of Patent: April 18, 2023Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Andreas Tissot, Carsten Weber, Frank Kraemer, Bernhard Mueller
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Patent number: 11408334Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a turbocharger system. In one example, a system comprises an actuator configured to adjust a position of a plurality of guide vanes and a position of a coolant valve configured to adjust coolant flow through a turbine coolant jacket or a compressor coolant jacket.Type: GrantFiled: December 2, 2020Date of Patent: August 9, 2022Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Franz J. Brinkmann, Ludwig Stump, Carsten Weber, Stefan Quiring, Kai Kuhlbach, Jan Mehring
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Publication number: 20220196233Abstract: A lighting device comprises a support comprising a mounting section having at least one mounting face. The at least one mounting face has an arrangement direction and comprising at least two contact sections along the arrangement direction. The support further comprises a body section adjacent to the mounting section. The support further comprises a plurality of layered conductors connecting the body section to the at least one mounting face. The lighting device comprises at least one light-emitting element mounted along the arrangement direction of the at least one mounting face such that the at least one light-emitting element is in electrical contact to the at least two contact sections.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 10, 2022Publication date: June 23, 2022Applicant: LUMILEDS LLCInventors: Matthias EPMEIER, Carsten Weber, Petra Wellmeier, Frank Giese
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Patent number: 11326549Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for an oil gallery of a piston. In one example, a system for a piston comprising an internal oil gallery. The internal oil gallery comprises one or more of a funnel shaped inlet, a funnel shaped outlet, and a plurality of tongues extending along a circumference of the internal oil gallery.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2021Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Anselm Hopf, Frank Kraemer, Carsten Weber, Paul Turner, Klaus-Peter Heinig, Loic Wendling, Marek Behr, Kai-Martin Mayer, Guenter Bartsch, Kai Kuhlbach, Bernd Steiner, Guenter Grosch
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Patent number: 11274819Abstract: A support for light-emitting elements is disclosed. The support comprises a mounting section comprising at least one mounting face. The at least one mounting face has an arrangement direction and is configured to accommodate at least one light-emitting element along the arrangement direction. The support comprises a body section adjacent to the mounting section and having a length that extends parallel to the arrangement direction. The body section protrudes sidewards from the at least one mounting face. The support comprises a plurality of conductors connecting the body section to the at least one mounting face. Each contact section corresponds to a conductor. The plurality of conductors are a layered structure of conductors. An extension direction of the layered structure of the conductors extends substantially perpendicular to the arrangement direction of the at least one mounting face. The layered structure of conductors comprises an angled section.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2020Date of Patent: March 15, 2022Assignee: LUMILEDS LLCInventors: Matthias Epmeier, Carsten Weber, Petra Wellmeier, Frank Giese
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Patent number: 11266017Abstract: A lighting device, a method of manufacturing a lighting device and a support are described. A support includes a layered structure of alternating conductors and insulating layers. The layered structure includes a mounting section and a body section adjacent the mounting section. The mounting section includes at least one mounting face that has an arrangement direction and at least three alternating contact sections along the arrangement direction. Each contact section is electrically coupled to one of the conductors and separated from a neighboring one of the contact sections by one of the insulating layers. The body section has a width that protrudes sidewards from the at least one mounting face and a length that extends substantially parallel to the arrangement direction.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: Lumileds LLCInventors: Matthias Epmeier, Michael Deckers, Frank Giese, Petra Wellmeier, Carsten Weber, Georg Henninger
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Publication number: 20220010005Abstract: The invention provides a liquid aqueous pharmaceutical formulation comprising a human anti-TNFa antibody, or antigen-binding portion thereof, which reduces pain associated with injection in a subject by at least about 50% when compared to injecting an otherwise identical formulation comprising at least one salt and/or at least one buffer. The invention also provides a liquid aqueous pharmaceutical formulation comprising a human anti-TNFa antibody, or antigen-binding portion thereof, having increased bioavailability upon subcutaneous administration into a subject. The formulation may comprise a therapeutic protein, such as a human anti-TNF-alpha antibody, or an antigen-binding portion thereof, or a biosimilar thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 16, 2021Publication date: January 13, 2022Inventors: Michael Neu, Markus Tschoepe, Carsten Weber, Wolfgang Fraunhofer, Laura Redden, Martin Gastens, Alexander Feick, Susan K. Paulson, Tong Zhu
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Publication number: 20210222744Abstract: The disclosure relates to a clutch assembly for a manual transmission of a motor vehicle, having an axially running transmission input shaft which, by way of a clutch having a central release mechanism disposed on the transmission input shaft, is able to be coupled to a motor output shaft. The transmission input shaft has at least one ferromagnetic measuring portion. The magnetization of the ferromagnetic measuring portion is able to be influenced in a magnetoelastic manner by a torsion of the transmission input shaft. Portions of the central release mechanism surround the at least one measuring portion and has a sensor device which is specified for measuring a variable as a function of the magnetization of at least one measuring portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Andreas Tissot, Carsten Weber, Frank Kraemer, Bernhard Mueller
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Publication number: 20210222646Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for an oil gallery of a piston. In one example, a system for a piston comprising an internal oil gallery. The internal oil gallery comprises one or more of a funnel shaped inlet, a funnel shaped outlet, and a plurality of tongues extending along a circumference of the internal oil gallery.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 21, 2021Publication date: July 22, 2021Inventors: Anselm Hopf, Frank Kraemer, Carsten Weber, Paul Turner, Klaus-Peter Heinig, Loic Wendling, Marek Behr, Kai-Martin Mayer, Guenter Bartsch, Kai Kuhlbach, Bernd Steiner, Guenter Grosch
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Publication number: 20210164385Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a turbocharger system. In one example, a system comprises an actuator configured to adjust a position of a plurality of guide vanes and a position of a coolant valve configured to adjust coolant flow through a turbine coolant jacket or a compressor coolant jacket.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 2, 2020Publication date: June 3, 2021Inventors: Franz J. Brinkmann, Ludwig Stump, Carsten Weber, Stefan Quiring, Kai Kuhlbach, Jan Mehring
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Patent number: 10999936Abstract: A method for applying at least one electronic component to a surface is described. The method includes placing a component stencil on a support. At least one electronic component is arranged in a corresponding opening of the component stencil with a top surface of the electronic component on the support. A contact material stencil is positioned on the component stencil such that at least one opening in the contact material stencil is over a corresponding contact region on the bottom surface of the at least one electronic component. A contact material is applied on the at least one contact region of the at least one electronic component within the corresponding opening of the contact material stencil. The contact material stencil is removed from the component stencil. The component stencil is removed from the support. The at least one electronic component is applied to the surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2019Date of Patent: May 4, 2021Assignee: Lumileds LLCInventors: Matthias Epmeier, Petra Wellmeier, Frank Giese, Carsten Weber, Michael Deckers, Georg Henninger
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Publication number: 20210010666Abstract: A support for light-emitting elements is disclosed. The support comprises a mounting section comprising at least one mounting face. The at least one mounting face has an arrangement direction and is configured to accommodate at least one light-emitting element along the arrangement direction. The support comprises a body section adjacent to the mounting section and having a length that extends parallel to the arrangement direction. The body section protrudes sidewards from the at least one mounting face. The support comprises a plurality of conductors connecting the body section to the at least one mounting face. Each contact section corresponds to a conductor. The plurality of conductors are a layered structure of conductors. An extension direction of the layered structure of the conductors extends substantially perpendicular to the arrangement direction of the at least one mounting face. The layered structure of conductors comprises an angled section.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2020Publication date: January 14, 2021Applicant: LUMILEDS HOLDING B.V.Inventors: Matthias EPMEIER, Carsten WEBER, Petra WELLMEIER, Frank GIESE
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Publication number: 20200368445Abstract: The disclosure refers to a packaging container (81, 281) comprising a tubular housing (83, 283) and a plunger stopper (82, 282) moveable within the housing (83, 283), wherein at least a section of an outer surface of the plunger stopper (82, 282) being in contact with an inner surface of the housing (83, 283) comprises a silicone-free coating (88, 288) which reduces break loose and/or gliding forces. The disclosure further describes a system comprising this packaging container (81, 281) and a formulation (87, 287) within the packaging container containing one or more pharmaceutically active compound and/or carrier as well as a drug delivery device comprising this system.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 17, 2019Publication date: November 26, 2020Inventors: Carsten Weber, Daniel Wagner, Désirée Frick, Sebastian Thiel, Sebastian Gaca
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Patent number: 10767594Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for coatings of a portion of an engine block shaping a combustion chamber. In one example, the engine block includes a first coating with a thermal conductivity higher than a conductivity of the engine block arranged in an upper region of the combustion chamber and a second coating with a thermal conductivity lower than the conductivity of the engine block arranged in a lower region of the combustion chamber, and where the second coating touches the first coating.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2019Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Carsten Weber, Paul Turner, Urban Morawitz, Clemens Maria Verpoort
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Patent number: 10690136Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a turbocharger. In one example, the turbocharger may include one or more cooling devices for cooling a compressor. The cooling devices may include a ventilation system arranged in a compressor impeller and shaft, the ventilation system configured to allow ambient air to flow into the shaft without being compressed.Type: GrantFiled: October 30, 2017Date of Patent: June 23, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Martin Wirth, Vanco Smiljanovski, Jan Linsel, Frank Kraemer, Carsten Weber, Jan Mehring
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Publication number: 20200084893Abstract: A method for applying at least one electronic component to a surface is described. The method includes placing a component stencil on a support. At least one electronic component is arranged in a corresponding opening of the component stencil with a top surface of the electronic component on the support. A contact material stencil is positioned on the component stencil such that at least one opening in the contact material stencil is over a corresponding contact region on the bottom surface of the at least one electronic component. A contact material is applied on the at least one contact region of the at least one electronic component within the corresponding opening of the contact material stencil. The contact material stencil is removed from the component stencil. The component stencil is removed from the support. The at least one electronic component is applied to the surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2019Publication date: March 12, 2020Applicant: Lumileds Holding B.V.Inventors: Matthias EPMEIER, Petra WELLMEIER, Frank GIESE, Carsten WEBER, Michael DECKERS, Georg HENNINGER
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Publication number: 20200084889Abstract: A lighting device, a method of manufacturing a lighting device and a support are described. A support includes a layered structure of alternating conductors and insulating layers. The layered structure includes a mounting section and a body section adjacent the mounting section. The mounting section includes at least one mounting face that has an arrangement direction and at least three alternating contact sections along the arrangement direction. Each contact section is electrically coupled to one of the conductors and separated from a neighboring one of the contact sections by one of the insulating layers. The body section has a width that protrudes sidewards from the at least one mounting face and a length that extends substantially parallel to the arrangement direction.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2019Publication date: March 12, 2020Applicant: LUMILEDS HOLDING B.V.Inventors: Matthias EPMEIER, Michael DECKERS, Frank GIESE, Petra WELLMEIER, Carsten WEBER, Georg HENNINGER
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Patent number: 10557399Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a ventilation arrangement. In one example, a system may include a compact ventilation arrangement arranged within a space between an intake manifold and a cylinder head. A pump of the ventilation arrangement arrange adjacent the cylinder head.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2018Date of Patent: February 11, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Bernd Steiner, Hans Guenter Quix, Carsten Weber, Jan Mehring
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Patent number: 10543899Abstract: An adjustable, or all-moving, horizontal stabiliser for an aircraft, the stabiliser having a leading edge, a trailing edge, a root and a tip, and a strake fixed with respect to the stabiliser and attached to, or integrally formed with, the stabiliser leading edge adjacent the root.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2010Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignees: AIRBUS OPERATIONS LIMITED, AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH, AIRBUS OPERATIONS SASInventors: Ian Roy Whitehouse, Carsten Weber, Markus Fischer, Alain Tanguy