Patents by Inventor Dirk Schönfeld

Dirk Schönfeld 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: 20240025425
    Abstract: A calibration device for calibrating a driver assistance system. The calibration device includes a calibration board and two optically active elements, which make it possible to determine the position and/or the alignment of a motor vehicle with respect to the calibration device. The two optically active elements are attached at two mutually opposing ends of a holding device. The holding device has a longitudinal axis, which essentially extends in the horizontal direction. An acceleration sensor is attached at each of the two mutually opposing ends of the holding device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Mauro Disaro, Alfons Doerr, Buelent Barcin, Dirk Schoenfeld, Georg Wagner, Hans Mai, Reinhard Hoss
  • Publication number: 20220274036
    Abstract: A filter device having a filter housing (1), in which a replaceable filter element (7) is accommodated and which has a cover part (2), wherein the element material (9) of the filter element (7) extends between two end caps (13, 14) of the latter, is characterized in that the filter housing (1), which is formed as an outlet pipe (3), extends between both end caps (13, 14) as well.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Gerhard STEHLE, Michael SAKRASCHINSKY, Sven Peter WOZNIAK, Dirk SCHÖNFELD, John OTTO, Alexander WOHLERS, Alexander BACKES, Klaus MORGENS, Florentin VAN UFFELEN, Marco TASSONE, Markus Stefan WALEK
  • Patent number: 10478759
    Abstract: A filter element has a preferably multilayer structure of a pleated filter medium (3) with a plurality of individual filter pleats (5, 7). Due to an alternating sequence of filter pleats (5) with a first pleat height (h1) and filter pleats (7) with a second pleat height (h2), more effective filter surfaces are available than with filter pleats with a uniform pleat height. Upon throughflow by a fluid to be filtered, a lower surface load for the filter medium (30 and lower passage speed of the fluid are present during filtration. A static loading of the filter medium (3) during operation of the filter is then reduced. A hydraulic circuit has such a filter element (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: RT-FILTERTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Frank Oberli, Dirk Schoenfeld
  • Publication number: 20190143250
    Abstract: A filter element has a preferably multilayer structure of a pleated filter medium (3) with a plurality of individual filter pleats (5, 7). Due to an alternating sequence of filter pleats (5) with a first pleat height (h1) and filter pleats (7) with a second pleat height (h2), more effective filter surfaces are available than with filter pleats with a uniform pleat height. Upon throughflow by a fluid to be filtered, a lower surface load for the filter medium (30 and lower passage speed of the fluid are present during filtration. A static loading of the filter medium (3) during operation of the filter is then reduced. A hydraulic circuit has such a filter element (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2019
    Publication date: May 16, 2019
    Inventors: Frank OBERLI, Dirk SCHOENFELD
  • Patent number: 10213709
    Abstract: A filter element has a preferably multilayer structure of a pleated filter medium (3) with a plurality of individual filter pleats (5, 7). Due to an alternating sequence of filter pleats (5) with a first pleat height (h1) and filter pleats (7) with a second pleat height (h2), more effective filter surfaces are available than with filter pleats with a uniform pleat height. Upon throughflow by a fluid to be filtered, a lower surface load for the filter medium (30 and lower passage speed of the fluid are present during filtration. A static loading of the filter medium (3) during operation of the filter is then reduced. A hydraulic circuit has such a filter element (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: RT-FILTERTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Frank Oberli, Dirk Schönfeld
  • Patent number: 9557245
    Abstract: A test station for testing a fluid pump and/or a fluid injector has a fluid-pump receiving device for accommodating a fluid pump, a fluid-injector receiving device for accommodating a fluid injector, a fluid line which hydraulically connects the fluid-pump receiving device to the fluid-injector receiving device and which enables a fluid flow from the fluid pump to the fluid injector during operation, a sealed cooling circuit through which coolant is circulating during operation, and a first heat exchanger, which is developed and disposed in the fluid line so as to have the fluid flow and the coolant flow pass through it during operation such that a heat transfer takes place between the fluid flow and the coolant flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk Schoenfeld, Karl Kastner, Kurt Blank
  • Patent number: 9528768
    Abstract: A test stand for testing a fluid injection pump and/or a fluid injector has a device for conditioning a test fluid used for the testing. The device has a tank to accommodate and store the test fluid, a first fluid removal line to withdraw test fluid from the tank and to convey it to the fluid injection pump, and a cooling circuit for cooling the test fluid stored inside the tank. The cooling circuit has a second fluid removal line and a return line. The fluid removal line is to withdraw test fluid from the tank and is connected to a heat exchanger, which cools the test fluid withdrawn from the tank. The return line is connected to the heat exchanger and returns the test fluid from the heat exchanger back into the tank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk Schoenfeld, Kurt Blank, Karl Kastner, Daniel Strack
  • Publication number: 20150290562
    Abstract: A filter element with a preferably multilayer structure of a pleated filter medium (3) with a plurality of individual filter pleats (5, 7) is characterised in that, due to an alternating sequence of filter pleats (5) with a first pleat height (h1) and filter pleats (7) with a second pleat height (h2), more effective filter surfaces are available than with filter pleats with a uniform pleat height, and therefore, upon throughflow by a fluid to be filtered, there is a lower surface load for the filter medium (3) and lower passage speed of the fluid during filtration, with the consequence that a static loading of the filter medium (3) during operation of the filter is reduced. The invention also relates to a hydraulic circuit with such a filter element (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 24, 2012
    Publication date: October 15, 2015
    Applicant: RT- Filtertechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Oberli, Dirk Schönfeld
  • Publication number: 20130186605
    Abstract: A test stand for testing a fluid injection pump and/or a fluid injector has a device for conditioning a test fluid used for the testing. The device has a tank to accommodate and store the test fluid, a first fluid removal line to withdraw test fluid from the tank and to convey it to the fluid injection pump, and a cooling circuit for cooling the test fluid stored inside the tank. The cooling circuit has a second fluid removal line and a return line. The fluid removal line is to withdraw test fluid from the tank and is connected to a heat exchanger, which cools the test fluid withdrawn from the tank. The return line is connected to the heat exchanger and returns the test fluid from the heat exchanger back into the tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Inventors: Dirk Schoenfeld, Kurt Blank, Karl Kastner, Daniel Strack
  • Publication number: 20130174655
    Abstract: A test station for testing a fluid pump and/or a fluid injector has a fluid-pump receiving device for accommodating a fluid pump, a fluid-injector receiving device for accommodating a fluid injector, a fluid line which hydraulically connects the fluid-pump receiving device to the fluid-injector receiving device and which enables a fluid flow from the fluid pump to the fluid injector during operation, a sealed cooling circuit through which coolant is circulating during operation, and a first heat exchanger, which is developed and disposed in the fluid line so as to have the fluid flow and the coolant flow pass through it during operation such that a heat transfer takes place between the fluid flow and the coolant flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2011
    Publication date: July 11, 2013
    Inventors: Dirk Schoenfeld, Karl Kastner, Kurt Blank
  • Publication number: 20030141475
    Abstract: A solenoid valve for controlling a fuel injector of an internal combustion engine, including an electromagnet 29, a displaceable armature having an armature plate 28 and an armature pin 27, and a control valve element 25 which is displaced with the armature and which cooperates with a valve seat 24 for opening and closing a fuel discharge channel 17 of a control pressure chamber 14 of the fuel injector 1. The armature plate 28 is mounted on the armature pin 27 so as to be slidably displaceable in opposition to the tensioning force of a restoring spring 35 acting on the armature plate 28 under the influence of the inert mass of the armature plate in the closing direction of the control valve element 25, and is pressed by the restoring spring 35 in its rest state against a stop part 26 attached to the armature pin 27. The stop part 26 is designed to encircle the periphery of the armature pin 27 by more than 180° in a plane perpendicular to the direction of movement of the armature pin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2002
    Publication date: July 31, 2003
    Inventors: Siegfried Ruthardt, Holger Rapp, Dirk Schoenfeld
  • Patent number: RE49220
    Abstract: A filter element (1) has an inner body (12) and an outer body (11). One casing body (12) has a cross section deviating from circularity. Body contact surfaces (20, 21) face one another for the contact of essentially all filter folds (18a-18f, 18I-18III) of a pleated filter web (10). The filter folds (18a-18f, 18I-18III), in terms of fold height (h), are divided into individual groups (I, II) each having several filter folds (18I-18II) of a common fold height (hmax, hmin) alongside one another in sections. Between two adjacent filter folds (18a-18f, 18I-18III) of different groups (I, II) filter folds are arranged (18b-18e; 18m) of at least one third group (III).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: RT-FILTERTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Gerhard Stehle, Dirk Schoenfeld