Patents by Inventor Christoph GANTHALER

Christoph GANTHALER 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: 20220289020
    Abstract: A tank shell for a motor vehicle tank, exhibiting a tank shell inner surface facing towards the tank volume surrounded by it and a tank shell outer surface facing away from the tank volume surrounded by it, where a tank shell wall exhibits at least section-wise a multilayer layer structure, where the layer structure having at least one interior wall section produced by injection molding and located nearer to the tank shell inner surface, at least one exterior wall section produced by injection molding and located nearer to the tank shell outer surface, and a barrier film located between the interior wall section and the exterior wall section, where the tank shell wall exhibits at least one aperture penetrating through the tank shell wall along an aperture path, where a section of the barrier film is exposed in the region of the aperture; the section of the barrier film exposed in the region of the aperture is configured integrally with the barrier film in the tank shell wall and for contacting by a sealing ar
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2022
    Publication date: September 15, 2022
    Inventors: Dieter Kerschbaumer, Christoph Ganthaler
  • Patent number: 11420864
    Abstract: A filling head, which includes: A filling head housing for conveying operating fluid in a supply sense from a supply-intake region, which is configured for introducing operating fluid into the filling head, to an outlet port, A venting structure which allows the conveying of gas in a venting sense which is opposite to the supply sense, Where the supply-intake region exhibits a hollow plug-in connector extending along a virtual nozzle path with a plug-in orifice through which an intake space connected fluid-mechanically with the outlet port is accessible, Where an inner nozzle wall bordering the intake space exhibits functional formations projecting into the intake space as part of the venting structure, Where on the external side of the plug-in connectors there is provided an active formation which is configured to interact with an internal thread of a supply device for the latter's positional stabilization at the plug-in connector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christoph Ganthaler, Dieter Kerschbaumer
  • Publication number: 20220080825
    Abstract: A filling head for introducing operating fluid into an operating fluid tank of a motorized vehicle, where the filling head includes: A filling head housing, where the filling head housing exhibits a delivery-accommodation region for accommodating delivery devices, A venting structure, which during a transmission of operating fluid through the filling head housing allows transmission of gas, Where the delivery-accommodation region exhibits a plug-in nozzle extending along a virtual nozzle path with a plug-in orifice through which an accommodating space is accessible, Where in the filling head housing, at an axial magnet distance from the plug-in orifice, there is arranged a magnet arrangement, Where the venting structure includes a channel arrangement which is bounded by an inner wall of the plug-in nozzle and by an outer wall of the plug-in nozzle, wherein from the plug-in orifice as far as and into the extension region of the magnet arrangement there proceeds a gas-impermeable boundary surface which bound
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Inventors: Dieter Kerschbaumer, Christoph Ganthaler
  • Publication number: 20220073339
    Abstract: A filling head, which includes: A filling head housing for conveying operating fluid in a supply sense from a supply-intake region, which is configured for introducing operating fluid into the filling head, to an outlet port, A venting structure which allows the conveying of gas in a venting sense which is opposite to the supply sense, Where the supply-intake region exhibits a hollow plug-in connector extending along a virtual nozzle path with a plug-in orifice through which an intake space connected fluid-mechanically with the outlet port is accessible, Where an inner nozzle wall bordering the intake space exhibits functional formations projecting into the intake space as part of the venting structure, Where on the external side of the plug-in connectors there is provided an active formation which is configured to interact with an internal thread of a supply device for the latter's positional stabilization at the plug-in connector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Inventors: Christoph Ganthaler, Dieter Kerschbaumer
  • Patent number: 11162626
    Abstract: A preform that is embodied for manufacture of a combined heating and anti-surge apparatus for automotive operating fluid tanks, in particular for automotive reservoir tanks for aqueous urea solution, encompasses a planar plastic component having at least one electrical resistance heating trace provided thereon and having anti-surge baffles embodied integrally with the planar plastic component and standing off therefrom, the planar plastic component including as functional portions a heating portion having at least one electrical resistance heating trace provided thereon and an anti-surge portion, two functional portions of the plastic component being connected to one another movably relative to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 2, 2021
    Assignee: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Fabrizio Chini, Elmar Pichler, Ivan De Metri, Francesca Brunori, Christoph Ganthaler
  • Publication number: 20190203868
    Abstract: A preform that is embodied for manufacture of a combined heating and anti-surge apparatus for automotive operating fluid tanks, in particular for automotive reservoir tanks for aqueous urea solution, encompasses a planar plastic component having at least one electrical resistance heating trace provided thereon and having anti-surge baffles embodied integrally with the planar plastic component and standing off therefrom, the planar plastic component including as functional portions a heating portion having at least one electrical resistance heating trace provided thereon and an anti-surge portion, two functional portions of the plastic component being connected to one another movably relative to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2018
    Publication date: July 4, 2019
    Inventors: Fabrizio Chini, Elmar Pichler, Ivan De Metri, Francesca Brunori, Christoph Ganthaler
  • Patent number: 10086695
    Abstract: A liquid tank includes a tank wall enclosing a tank volume and at least one relief structure facing the tank volume on an inner side of the tank wall. The relief structure is formed as one-piece with the tank wall. Two shell parts can be joined along a joining surface to make a section of the tank wall. One of the shell parts can include a tank bottom. At least one part of the relief structure can be formed on the tank bottom. The relief structure can include projections protruding into the tank volume along a local direction of projection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christoph Ganthaler, Walter Kral
  • Patent number: 10023048
    Abstract: An automotive service liquid tank for receiving a service liquid of a motor vehicle, in particular an aqueous urea solution, has a tank wall that encloses a tank volume on the inside of the tank, wherein the tank has locally, by comparison with at least one other tank region, at least one region with enhanced thermal insulation, in order to influence a freezing behavior of the service liquid received in the tank in such a way that the service liquid, when the outside temperature drops, freezes later in the tank region with enhanced thermal insulation than in the at least one other tank region without enhanced thermal insulation. According to the invention it is provided that the enhanced thermal insulation is formed integrally with the tank wall.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: RÖCHLING AUTOMOTIVE SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Christoph Ganthaler, Ferdinand Di Pauli
  • Publication number: 20180170318
    Abstract: An operating fluid storage system for a motor vehicle having a reservoir with a filling opening and a closure cover which closes the filling opening and which can be removed from said filling opening to release the filling opening, and with at least one operating fluid outlet opening, to which an operating fluid conveyor line can be connected, for the output of operating fluid to a consumer, the system having a need sensor assembly and an output device, the need sensor assembly determines a filling need of the reservoir and outputs a corresponding need signal to the output device which acoustically, visually and/or haptically outputs a signal indicating the filling need; on the reservoir, an identification device is provided, which can be switched between at least two functional states and which is connected to the need sensor assembly via signal transmission, and which, when the need sensor assembly determines a filling need of the reservoir, is actuated by a corresponding need signal of the need sensor asse
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2017
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Inventors: Walter Kral, Christoph Ganthaler, Claudio Nava, Michael Purps
  • Publication number: 20170334289
    Abstract: An automotive service liquid tank for receiving a service liquid of a motor vehicle, in particular an aqueous urea solution, has a tank wall that encloses a tank volume on the inside of the tank, wherein the tank has locally, by comparison with at least one other tank region, at least one region with enhanced thermal insulation, in order to influence a freezing behavior of the service liquid received in the tank in such a way that the service liquid, when the outside temperature drops, freezes later in the tank region with enhanced thermal insulation than in the at least one other tank region without enhanced thermal insulation. According to the invention it is provided that the enhanced thermal insulation is formed integrally with the tank wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2017
    Publication date: November 23, 2017
    Inventors: Christoph Ganthaler, Ferdinand Di Pauli
  • Publication number: 20160361996
    Abstract: On a liquid tank (10) for motor vehicles a relief structure (40) facing the tank volume (32) is at least sectionally provided on an inner side (30a) facing the tank volume (32). The relief structure (40) is inventively as configured one-piece with the tank wall (30).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Applicant: Röchling Automotive SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christoph GANTHALER, Walter KRAL