Patents by Inventor Claus Peter

Claus Peter 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: 11938008
    Abstract: The invention relates to a disposable absorbent pant comprising a central chassis and elasticized front and rear belt. The central chassis comprises an absorbent core with an absorbent layer. The absorbent layer comprises a continuous channel formed therein.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Carsten Heinrich Kreuzer, Ernesto Gabriel Bianchi, Bruno Johannes Ehrnsperger, Ling Tong, Claus Peter Stoelzel
  • Patent number: 11932199
    Abstract: A transportation vehicle having a BLUETOOTH® Low Energy (BLE) system to send and receive BLE advertising signals, BLE connection request signals and BLE data signals via at least one antenna, a central locking system to lock or unlock at least one vehicle door of the transportation vehicle, and a control unit to activate the BLE system and to activate the central locking system based on the BLE data signals. Also disclosed is an electronic vehicle radio key and a system for passive access to a transportation vehicle including a transportation vehicle, an electronic vehicle radio key and a smartphone. The system allows a user passive access to the transportation vehicle, both with the aid of the electronic vehicle radio key and with the aid of the smartphone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Claus-Peter Brückner
  • Patent number: 11919619
    Abstract: An aircraft-floor element comprising a first cladding element configure to be swung from a first position to a second position. In the first position, the first cladding element is arranged parallel to a main plane of the aircraft-floor element and on a side of the aircraft-floor element which is directed towards a passenger cabin. In the second position, the first cladding is arranged at an angle to the main plane of the aircraft-floor element, wherein it forms a cladding for a cargo space. An aircraft zone having an aircraft-floor element and an aircraft having such an aircraft zone are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventor: Claus-Peter Gross
  • Publication number: 20240039383
    Abstract: A bistable rotary magnet is proposed, comprising a rotor, wherein the rotor comprises a permanent magnet having differently polarized magnetic poles opposed with respect to the axis of rotation, wherein the stator comprises two pole shoes extending along the axis of rotation, wherein the permanent magnet includes a first pole surface and a second pole surface at each magnetic pole and each of the two pole shoes includes a first pole surface and a second pole surface, wherein in the first end position the first pole surfaces of the permanent magnet are aligned in parallel to the adjacent first pole surfaces of the pole shoes and in the second end position the second pole surfaces of the permanent magnet are aligned in parallel to the adjacent second pole surfaces of the pole shoes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2023
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Florian Rauch, Claus Peter Hasel, Karin Kohler
  • Patent number: 11884399
    Abstract: A storage compartment arrangement for a cabin of a vehicle has a storage compartment, housing, storage compartment opening, lower compartment, and upper compartment. The compartments are directly above each other and separated by an intermediate base pivotable at least in sections into the upper compartment. Items of luggage can be placed onto a lower horizontal pivoting edge and pushed into the lower compartment. Adjacent to a lower delimitation of the upper compartment, when the intermediate base is not pivoted, an upper horizontal pivoting edge is formed, onto which items of luggage can be placed and pushed into the upper compartment. The upper compartment has an upper opening edge adjoined by an auxiliary surface extending over the upper compartment, is at an angle in a range of 10° to 50° to the intermediate base and, as the distance from the upper delimitation increases, encloses an increasing distance from the intermediate base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Claus-Peter Gross
  • Publication number: 20230406475
    Abstract: A panel for covering a part of a structure in an interior space of an aircraft is disclosed including a main panel section having an interior side and an exterior side, and at least one attachment device coupled with the exterior side. The main panel section is exclusively made from a single thermoplastic material, and the at least one attachment device is adapted for attaching the panel to the respective interior structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Inventor: Claus-Peter GROSS
  • Patent number: 11840342
    Abstract: A storage compartment arrangement for a vehicle cabin having a storage compartment, housing, closable storage compartment opening, lower compartment section in the housing, and upper compartment section in the housing. The storage compartment opening extends over the structural heights of both compartment sections. Items of luggage can be placed onto a lower horizontal pivoting edge and pushed into the lower compartment section. An upper horizontal pivoting edge is provided onto which items of luggage can be placed and can be pushed into the upper compartment section. The storage compartment opening has an upper opening edge facing an upper side of the upper compartment section and is adjoined by an auxiliary surface extending over the upper compartment section, is at an angle in a range of 10° to 50° to the separating plane, and, as the distance from the upper delimitation increases, encloses an increasing distance from the separating plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventor: Claus-Peter Gross
  • Patent number: 11834000
    Abstract: A method for operating a locking system of a transportation vehicle in which time-of-flight measurements are made using at least one interior transceiver situated in an interior of the transportation vehicle, and using at least one exterior transceiver situated outside the interior; the time-of-flight measurements are used to determine a position of a key device relative to the transportation vehicle; and an operating function of the locking system is performed based on the relative position determined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Inventor: Claus-Peter Brückner
  • Patent number: 11827176
    Abstract: An electronic door locking system of a motor vehicle is disclosed, comprising at least one receiver for the transmission signals of an electronic key, at least one control device for mechanically locking and unlocking at least one motor vehicle door, at least one contact element, accessible from outside the motor vehicle, for connecting an external voltage source, wherein the at least one control device for mechanically locking and unlocking at least one motor vehicle door and/or at least one additional control device has an emergency power supply algorithm, wherein the electronic door locking system is designed to detect an emergency power supply mode and to activate the emergency power supply algorithm, wherein the emergency power supply algorithm is designed to deactivate at least one function of a normal mode and/or, in the case of a function, to access previously defined data of deactivated components or to ignore said data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Martin Wagener, Claus-Peter Brückner
  • Publication number: 20230219525
    Abstract: A transportation vehicle having a BLUETOOTH® Low Energy (BLE) system to send and receive BLE advertising signals, BLE connection request signals and BLE data signals via at least one antenna, a central locking system to lock or unlock at least one vehicle door of the transportation vehicle, and a control unit to activate the BLE system and to activate the central locking system based on the BLE data signals. Also disclosed is an electronic vehicle radio key and a system for passive access to a transportation vehicle including a transportation vehicle, an electronic vehicle radio key and a smartphone. The system allows a user passive access to the transportation vehicle, both with the aid of the electronic vehicle radio key and with the aid of the smartphone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2023
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventor: Claus-Peter BRÜCKNER
  • Publication number: 20230184382
    Abstract: In order to enlarge a tank volume of a hydrogen powered aircraft, an aircraft tank for storing cryogenic H2 is configured as a non-circular dorsal tank. The aircraft tank may be configured as a conformal fuel tank fitted to an outer contour of an aircraft fuselage. Further, an aircraft is provided with such an aircraft tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2022
    Publication date: June 15, 2023
    Inventor: Claus-Peter GROSS
  • Publication number: 20230158690
    Abstract: An apparatus for gripping an object includes a base element and at least three gripping arms which are mounted on the base element. The at least three gripping arms are each movable independently of one another relative to the base element and the object can be picked up by the at least three gripping arms. The at least three gripping arms each have a hook-shaped gripping tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2021
    Publication date: May 25, 2023
    Inventors: Christian AUER, Claus-Peter Baumann, Alois DOBLER, Martin ENDRES, Reinhold HACKL, Franz KORBER, Martin KUHN, Mario MEINHARDT, Maximilian RAINER, Markus SIEBER, Franz STOCKNER
  • Patent number: 11643050
    Abstract: A transportation vehicle having a BLUETOOTH® Low Energy (BLE) system to send and receive BLE advertising signals, BLE connection request signals and BLE data signals via at least one antenna, a central locking system to lock or unlock at least one vehicle door of the transportation vehicle, and a control unit to activate the BLE system and to activate the central locking system based on the BLE data signals. Also disclosed is an electronic vehicle radio key and a system for passive access to a transportation vehicle including a transportation vehicle, an electronic vehicle radio key and a smartphone. The system allows a user passive access to the transportation vehicle, both with the aid of the electronic vehicle radio key and with the aid of the smartphone.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Inventor: Claus-Peter Brückner
  • Publication number: 20230097795
    Abstract: Disclosed is a wearable article comprising a front elastic belt region, a back elastic belt region, each of the front and back elastic belt region comprises a laminate comprising an inner sheet, an outer sheet, and a plurality of elastic members running in the transverse direction, the longitudinal dimension between adjacent elastic members forming an elastic spacing; wherein the laminate is bonded by heat at the side edges to form side seams, the side seams existing no distant than about 20 mm from the side edges, and the remainder of the laminate is substantially free of heat bonds, wherein the article has a Belt Elastic Bonding Percentage of less than about 25%, and an Individual Elastic Bonding Percentage of from about 10% to about 75%, according to the measurements herein.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2022
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Inventors: Chunmin CHENG, Koichi MORIMOTO, Mark Thomas STILLWAGON, Qilei YIN, Claus Peter STOELZEL
  • Publication number: 20230016471
    Abstract: A method of permanently joining composite parts made from thermoplastic material includes providing a first composite part and a second composite part, both made from thermoplastic material, wherein an orifice is provided in at least one of the composite parts, positioning both composite parts such that a portion of the composite part which includes the orifice is adjacent to a portion of the other composite part, injecting melted thermoplastic material through the orifice to contact the first and the second composite part in a contact area, whereby surfaces of the first and the second composite part in that contact area melt together; and solidifying the thermoplastic material in the orifice and in the contact area to permanently join the first composite part to the second composite part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Inventor: Claus-Peter Gross
  • Publication number: 20230009079
    Abstract: A device for gripping an object includes a base element and at least two gripping arms held on the base element. The at least two gripping arms are movable relative to one another and the base element into a configuration suitable for gripping and picking up the object. Preferably at least three gripping arms are provided, with each arm being able to move independently of one another relative to the base element, and a sensor such as a camera provides signals to electronics which can determine the position of the at least three gripping arms and control movement of the gripping arms into position to grip and pick up the object. A method for gripping and picking up an object using the gripping device is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 17, 2020
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Christian AUER, Claus-Peter BAUMANN, Alois DOBLER, Martin ENDRES, Reinhold HACKL, Franz KORBER, Martin KUHN, Maximilian RAINER, Markus SIEBER, Franz STOCKNER, Stefan WEINMANN
  • Publication number: 20230002062
    Abstract: A mounting rail arrangement for an aircraft floor, floor structure and aircraft having the same. To allow full floor structural decoupling for monuments and/or cabin attendant seats, a mounting rail arrangement includes two mounting rails having mounting holes distributed along their longitudinal direction. A mounting bolt is inserted into the mounting holes and an attachment bolt for fixing a cabin monument and/or a cabin attendant seat is inserted into the mounting bolt. As a result, the cabin monument and/or cabin attendant seat may be installed on at different locations and/or with different orientations using all kinds of configurations enabled by the mounting holes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2022
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventor: Claus-Peter Gross
  • Publication number: 20220406450
    Abstract: The invention relates to a novel method for scoring sleep stages of a mammal subject, comprising extracting features from polysomnography data using the continuous wavelet transform; grouping the extracted features into clusters that are assigned to different sleep stages; and scoring the sleep stages based on the clusters. The method does not require prior visual knowledge of sleep stages nor supervised training.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Claus-Peter Richter, Minh Ha Tran, Bharat Bhushan
  • Patent number: 11473078
    Abstract: The present invention concerns a novel method for the modification and/or custom-made design of artificial non-ribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPSs) from naturally available NRPSs. The artificial NRPSs are of predetermined length and amino acid composition and sequence. Via fusion of well-defined NRPS units (so-called “exchange units”) in a certain manner, using a specific sequence motif in the linker areas it is possible to construct artificial and/or modified NRPS assembly lines, which have the ability of synthesizing peptides of a desired structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: JOHANN WOLFGANG GOETHE-UNIVERSITAT
    Inventors: Claus-Peter Niesert, Helge B. Bode, Kenan Bozhueyuek, Florian Fleischhacker
  • Patent number: 11471931
    Abstract: A die (1) for mounting in an associated die holder (20) for the production of heads on elongate bodies such as nails or screws. The die has a body (2) with a top surface (3) provided with a through-going groove (4) for receiving and holding an elongate body longitudinally in said groove. Furthermore, the die has a recess (5) on one side merging into the groove (4) at one end of the groove (4) suitable for forming the head of a nail or screw. The die has a side surface portion, e.g. conical, shaped for press fit by contact with a corresponding inner surface portion of a bore or hole (30) in the associated die holder. Further, a second side surface portion (9), e.g. a plane portion, of the die serves to engage with a corresponding inner surface portion of the bore or hole of the die holder. Hereby, it is ensured, that angular orientation of the groove (4) is fixed relative to the die holder (20), and it has been proven that the two different side surface portions of the die, e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: Enkotec A/S
    Inventors: Claus Peter Matzen, Kenn Christian Prinds