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).

  • Publication number: 20240068898
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: 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
  • Patent number: 11841283
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2023
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: 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
  • Publication number: 20230393009
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2021
    Publication date: December 7, 2023
    Inventors: 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
  • Patent number: 11619559
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Elmar Kroner, Friedhelm Guenter, Ingo Kesel, Joachim Friedl, Philipp Scheiner, Robert Kuells
  • Patent number: 11359658
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Assignee: Leibniz-Institut für Neue Materialien gemeinnützige GmbH
    Inventors: Elmar Kroner, Paula Yagüe Isla
  • Publication number: 20220155171
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Inventors: 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
  • Publication number: 20210341346
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2021
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Elmar Kroner, Friedhelm Guenter, Ingo Kesel, Joachim Friedl, Philipp Scheiner, Robert Kuells
  • Patent number: 10046541
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Leibniz-Institut fuer Neue Materialien gemeinnuetzige GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Simon Schneider, Elmar Kroner, Jessica Kaiser, Mareike Frensemeier, Eduard Arzt
  • Publication number: 20180223886
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2015
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Applicant: Leibniz-Institut für Neue Materialien gemeinnützige GmbH
    Inventors: Elmar Kroner, Paula Yagüe Isla
  • Patent number: 10005103
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Leibniz-Institut fuer Neue Materialien gemeinnuetzige GmbH
    Inventors: 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
  • Publication number: 20150344755
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2013
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Applicant: Leibniz-Institut fuer Neue Materialien gemeinnuetzige GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Simon Schneider, Elmar Kroner, Jessica Kaiser, Mareike Frensemeier, Eduard Arzt
  • Publication number: 20130101796
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 6, 2011
    Publication date: April 25, 2013
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventors: 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