Patents by Inventor Elmar Kroner
Elmar Kroner 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: 12196638Abstract: A method for manufacturing a sensor including a sensing element and a housing, the housing including an interior space, which is accessible through a housing opening, and the sensing element being situated in the interior space and being designed to detect a property and/or a composition of an ambient medium of the sensor. The method includes filling the interior space with a protective medium through the housing opening, the protective medium being designed to transfer the property and/or the composition of the ambient medium to the sensing element. The method includes fixing a preferably flexible diaphragm at or in the housing opening preferably for sealing the housing opening, the diaphragm including at least one diaphragm opening. The method includes sealing the at least one diaphragm opening.Type: GrantFiled: November 3, 2023Date of Patent: January 14, 2025Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Lars Sodan, Dorothee Nonnenmacher, Elmar Kroner, Friedhelm Guenter, Joachim Friedl, Joachin Kreutzer, Klaus-Volker Schuett, Michael Raedler, Patrick Stihler, Raschid Baraki, Steven Maul, Yang Zou
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Publication number: 20240068898Abstract: A method for manufacturing a sensor. The sensor includes a sensing element and a housing, the housing including an interior space, which is accessible through a housing opening, and the sensing element being situated in the interior space and being designed to detect a property and/or a composition of an ambient medium of the sensor. The method includes filling the interior space with a protective medium through the housing opening, the protective medium being designed to transfer the property and/or the composition of the ambient medium to the sensing element; fixing a preferably flexible diaphragm at or in the housing opening preferably for sealing the housing opening, the diaphragm including at least one diaphragm opening; and sealing the at least one diaphragm opening. A sensor, which is manufactured according to this method, is also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 3, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Lars Sodan, Dorothee Nonnenmacher, Elmar Kroner, Friedhelm Guenter, Joachim Friedl, Joachin Kreutzer, Klaus-Volker Schuett, Michael Raedler, Patrick Stihler, Raschid Baraki, Steven Maul, Yang Zou
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Patent number: 11841283Abstract: A method for manufacturing a sensor. The sensor includes a sensing element and a housing, the housing including an interior space, which is accessible through a housing opening, and the sensing element being situated in the interior space and being designed to detect a property and/or a composition of an ambient medium of the sensor. The method includes filling the interior space with a protective medium through the housing opening, the protective medium being designed to transfer the property and/or the composition of the ambient medium to the sensing element; fixing a preferably flexible diaphragm at or in the housing opening preferably for sealing the housing opening, the diaphragm including at least one diaphragm opening; and sealing the at least one diaphragm opening. A sensor, which is manufactured according to this method, is also described.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Lars Sodan, Dorothee Nonnenmacher, Elmar Kroner, Friedhelm Guenter, Joachim Friedl, Joachin Kreutzer, Klaus-Volker Schuett, Michael Raedler, Patrick Stihler, Raschid Baraki, Steven Maul, Yang Zou
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Publication number: 20230393009Abstract: A method for manufacturing a pressure sensor having a pressure-sensitive medium. The method includes: providing a pressure sensor having a pressure sensor element, which is arranged in a receiving space of a housing of the pressure sensor; filling the receiving space with a pressure-sensitive medium; applying a second medium, which is immiscible with the pressure-sensitive medium, to a surface of the pressure-sensitive medium; forming a membrane in a boundary region between the pressure-sensitive medium and the second medium by way of a phase-transfer reaction between a first reactant and a second reactant, at least the first reactant or the second reactant being dissolved in the pressure-sensitive medium or in the second medium. A pressure sensor manufactured by the method is also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2021Publication date: December 7, 2023Inventors: Dorothee Nonnenmacher, Elmar Kroner, Friedhelm Guenter, Joachim Friedl, Joachim Kreutzer, Klaus-Volker Schuett, Lars Sodan, Michael Raedler, Patrick Stihler, Raschid Baraki, Steven Maul, Yang Zou
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Patent number: 11619559Abstract: A method for producing a pressure sensor device. The method includes providing a vessel that includes a cavity having side walls, the cavity including a floor and the side walls each including an upper side, which face away from the floor; providing a pressure sensor and situating the pressure sensor in the cavity and on the floor; filling the cavity with an oil so that the oil fills the cavity up to the upper sides of the side walls; applying a membrane onto the surface of the oil that completely covers the oil, and at least in some regions onto the upper sides of the side walls so that the membrane covers, circumferentially around the cavity, those regions of the upper sides of the side walls that lie against the oil, the membrane including a liquid material when applied onto the oil; and curing the liquid material of the membrane.Type: GrantFiled: April 26, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Elmar Kroner, Friedhelm Guenter, Ingo Kesel, Joachim Friedl, Philipp Scheiner, Robert Kuells
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Patent number: 11359658Abstract: A structured surface has at least two types of projections which differ from one another at least in terms of their vertical height. As a result, the adhesion of the structured surface can be switched between at least three different states.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2015Date of Patent: June 14, 2022Assignee: Leibniz-Institut für Neue Materialien gemeinnützige GmbHInventors: Elmar Kroner, Paula Yagüe Isla
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Publication number: 20220155171Abstract: A method for manufacturing a sensor. The sensor includes a sensing element and a housing, the housing including an interior space, which is accessible through a housing opening, and the sensing element being situated in the interior space and being designed to detect a property and/or a composition of an ambient medium of the sensor. The method includes filling the interior space with a protective medium through the housing opening, the protective medium being designed to transfer the property and/or the composition of the ambient medium to the sensing element; fixing a preferably flexible diaphragm at or in the housing opening preferably for sealing the housing opening, the diaphragm including at least one diaphragm opening; and sealing the at least one diaphragm opening. A sensor, which is manufactured according to this method, is also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2021Publication date: May 19, 2022Inventors: Lars Sodan, Dorothee Nonnenmacher, Elmar Kroner, Friedhelm Guenter, Joachim Friedl, Joachin Kreutzer, Klaus-Volker Schuett, Michael Raedler, Patrick Stihler, Raschid Baraki, Steven Maul, Yang Zou
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Publication number: 20210341346Abstract: A method for producing a pressure sensor device. The method includes providing a vessel that includes a cavity having side walls, the cavity including a floor and the side walls each including an upper side, which face away from the floor; providing a pressure sensor and situating the pressure sensor in the cavity and on the floor; filling the cavity with an oil so that the oil fills the cavity up to the upper sides of the side walls; applying a membrane onto the surface of the oil that completely covers the oil, and at least in some regions onto the upper sides of the side walls so that the membrane covers, circumferentially around the cavity, those regions of the upper sides of the side walls that lie against the oil, the membrane including a liquid material when applied onto the oil; and curing the liquid material of the membrane.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 26, 2021Publication date: November 4, 2021Inventors: Elmar Kroner, Friedhelm Guenter, Ingo Kesel, Joachim Friedl, Philipp Scheiner, Robert Kuells
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Patent number: 10046541Abstract: A surface with selectable adhesion is achieved by a shape memory alloy that is at least partly coated with a polymer forming a surface structure, thus allowing the adhesion force of the surface to be controlled.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2013Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: Leibniz-Institut fuer Neue Materialien gemeinnuetzige GmbHInventors: Andreas Simon Schneider, Elmar Kroner, Jessica Kaiser, Mareike Frensemeier, Eduard Arzt
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Publication number: 20180223886Abstract: A structured surface has at least two types of projections which differ from one another at least in terms of their vertical height. As a result, the adhesion of the structured surface can be switched between at least three different states.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2015Publication date: August 9, 2018Applicant: Leibniz-Institut für Neue Materialien gemeinnützige GmbHInventors: Elmar Kroner, Paula Yagüe Isla
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Patent number: 10005103Abstract: A method for producing finely structured surfaces, in particular in plastics, includes a) applying at least one coating compound on at least one substrate; b) forming a fine structure by a die, which has the negative of a fine structure, c) curing the resultant finely structured coating compound, obtaining a substantially cured coating; and d) separating the finely structured coating from the die, wherein steps d) and c) can also be carried out in the reverse order.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2011Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: Leibniz-Institut fuer Neue Materialien gemeinnuetzige GmbHInventors: Eduard Arzt, Elmar Kroner, Peter William de Oliveira, Ebru Devrim Sam, Florian Buesch, Dieter Urban, Reinhold Schwalm, Benedikt Blaesi, Michael Nitsche, Hannes Spiecker, Claas Mueller
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Publication number: 20150344755Abstract: A surface with selectable adhesion is achieved by a shape memory alloy that is at least partly coated with a polymer forming a surface structure, thus allowing the adhesion force of the surface to be controlled.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2013Publication date: December 3, 2015Applicant: Leibniz-Institut fuer Neue Materialien gemeinnuetzige GmbHInventors: Andreas Simon Schneider, Elmar Kroner, Jessica Kaiser, Mareike Frensemeier, Eduard Arzt
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Publication number: 20130101796Abstract: A method for producing finely structured surfaces, in particular in plastics, includes a) applying at least one coating compound on at least one substrate; b) forming a fine structure by a die, which has the negative of a fine structure, c) curing the resultant finely structured coating compound, obtaining a substantially cured coating; and d) separating the finely structured coating from the die, wherein steps d) and c) can also be carried out in the reverse order.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2011Publication date: April 25, 2013Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Eduard Arzt, Elmar Kroner, Peter William de Oliveira, Ebru Devrim Sam, Florian Buesch, Dieter Urban, Reinhold Schwalm, Benedikt Blaesi, Michael Nitsche, Hannes Spiecker, Claas Mueller