Patents by Inventor Fabian Oberndorfer
Fabian Oberndorfer 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: 11851170Abstract: Disclosed is a drone rotor cage. The drone rotor cage may include a motor housing, a plurality of spars, and a plurality of ribs. The plurality of spars may extend from the motor housing. Each of the plurality of spars may have a spar height and a spar thickness. The spar height may be greater than the spar thickness. Each of the ribs may extend from a respective one of the plurality of spars. Each of the plurality of ribs may have a rib height and a rib thickness. The rib height may be greater than the rib thickness. The plurality of spars and the plurality of ribs may define a space sized to allow a rotor to spin freely when the rotor cage is attached to a drone.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: Intel CorporationInventor: Fabian Oberndorfer
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Patent number: 11054842Abstract: Methods and devices are presented for controlling or reducing amount of downwash generated by a drone. A drone including a plurality of arms including rotors may be configured to operate and fly with arms in an elevated position with respect to a horizontal plane. The elevated arms may allow a drone to fly with reduced vertical downwash.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2019Date of Patent: July 6, 2021Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Fabian Oberndorfer, Wolfgang Rottner, Stefan Klar
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Patent number: 10981672Abstract: A ground station device for a plurality of unmanned aircraft, comprising an upper face, which comprises a plurality of receptacles for positioning a plurality of unmanned aircraft, a data interface for connecting the ground station device to a control unit, and a power supply device for charging the unmanned aircraft. The ground station device is designed to be stackable so as to form a stack with at least one other ground station device.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2016Date of Patent: April 20, 2021Assignee: Intel Deutschland GmbHInventors: Michael Achtelik, Klaus Doth, Daniel Gurdan, Jan Stumpf, Markus Luetzenburger, Fabian Oberndorfer, Martin Stobbe
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Publication number: 20210001977Abstract: Disclosed is a drone rotor cage. The drone rotor cage may include a motor housing, a plurality of spars, and a plurality of ribs. The plurality of spars may extend from the motor housing. Each of the plurality of spars may have a spar height and a spar thickness. The spar height may be greater than the spar thickness. Each of the ribs may extend from a respective one of the plurality of spars. Each of the plurality of ribs may have a rib height and a rib thickness. The rib height may be greater than the rib thickness. The plurality of spars and the plurality of ribs may define a space sized to allow a rotor to spin freely when the rotor cage is attached to a drone.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2020Publication date: January 7, 2021Inventor: Fabian Oberndorfer
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Patent number: 10787249Abstract: Multi-stage reduction of impact forces are disclosed. An example apparatus to reduce impact energy of an aircraft during landing includes a rotatable landing leg having a proximal end near an axis of rotation and a distal end opposite the proximal end, a first flexible portion of the proximal end, where the first flexible portion is to engage a first engaging portion at a first rotation angle of the rotatable landing leg, and a second flexible portion of the distal end, where the second flexible portion is to engage a second engaging portion at a second rotation angle of the rotatable landing leg.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2017Date of Patent: September 29, 2020Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Fabian Oberndorfer, Klaus Doth, Martin Stobbe
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Patent number: 10780979Abstract: Disclosed is a drone rotor cage. The drone rotor cage may include a motor housing, a plurality of spars, and a plurality of ribs. The plurality of spars may extend from the motor housing. Each of the plurality of spars may have a spar height and a spar thickness. The spar height may be greater than the spar thickness. Each of the ribs may extend from a respective one of the plurality of spars. Each of the plurality of ribs may have a rib height and a rib thickness. The rib height may be greater than the rib thickness. The plurality of spars and the plurality of ribs may define a space sized to allow a rotor to spin freely when the rotor cage is attached to a drone.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2017Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: Intel IP CorporationInventor: Fabian Oberndorfer
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Patent number: 10633083Abstract: According to various aspects, an unmanned aerial vehicle may include one or more electric drive motors. Each drive motor of the one or more electric drive motors may include a first drive rotor structure; a second drive rotor structure, the first drive rotor structure being coaxially aligned with the second drive rotor structure, the first drive rotor structure including a first magnetic arrangement and the second drive rotor structure including a second magnetic arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: September 28, 2017Date of Patent: April 28, 2020Assignee: INTEL IP CORPORATIONInventors: Fabian Oberndorfer, Stefan Klar
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Publication number: 20200012296Abstract: An unmanned aerial vehicle comprises an image sensor, configured to detect electromagnetic radiation and to generate image sensor data representing the detected electromagnetic radiation; a filter, configured to pass image sensor data representing one or more first wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation and to block image sensor data representing one or more second wavelengths of electromagnetic radiation; and one or more processors configured to determine from the passed image sensor data an origin of the detected electromagnetic radiation; and control the unmanned aerial vehicle to travel toward the determined origin.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2019Publication date: January 9, 2020Inventors: Daniel Gurdan, Mika Ritamaeki, Fabian Oberndorfer, Tobias Gurdan, Evgeny Kalugin, Soren Friis
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Publication number: 20190212755Abstract: Methods and devices are presented for controlling or reducing amount of downwash generated by a drone. A drone including a plurality of arms including rotors may be configured to operate and fly with arms in an elevated position with respect to a horizontal plane. The elevated arms may allow a drone to fly with reduced vertical downwash.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2019Publication date: July 11, 2019Inventors: Fabian Oberndorfer, Wolfgang Rottner, Stefan Klar
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Publication number: 20190092459Abstract: According to various aspects, an unmanned aerial vehicle may include one or more electric drive motors. Each drive motor of the one or more electric drive motors may include a first drive rotor structure; a second drive rotor structure, the first drive rotor structure being coaxially aligned with the second drive rotor structure, the first drive rotor structure including a first magnetic arrangement and the second drive rotor structure including a second magnetic arrangement.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 28, 2017Publication date: March 28, 2019Inventors: Fabian Oberndorfer, Stefan Klar
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Patent number: 10212809Abstract: Flexible printed circuit boards and related methods are disclosed herein. An example printed circuit board includes a controller interface coupled to a surface of the printed circuit board between a first end of the printed circuit board and a second end of the printed circuit board. The example printed circuit board includes a connector coupled to the surface proximate to the first end. The example printed circuit board includes a notch formed between the controller interface and the connector. The notch is to form a narrowed portion of the printed circuit board to enable the printed circuit board to bend at the narrowed portion.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2017Date of Patent: February 19, 2019Assignee: Intel CorporationInventors: Fabian Oberndorfer, Klaus Doth, Raffael Lustig, Jan Nicolaas Zelhorst
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Publication number: 20180134378Abstract: Disclosed is a drone rotor cage. The drone rotor cage may include a motor housing, a plurality of spars, and a plurality of ribs. The plurality of spars may extend from the motor housing. Each of the plurality of spars may have a spar height and a spar thickness. The spar height may be greater than the spar thickness. Each of the ribs may extend from a respective one of the plurality of spars. Each of the plurality of ribs may have a rib height and a rib thickness. The rib height may be greater than the rib thickness. The plurality of spars and the plurality of ribs may define a space sized to allow a rotor to spin freely when the rotor cage is attached to a drone.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2017Publication date: May 17, 2018Inventor: Fabian Oberndorfer
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Publication number: 20180099741Abstract: Multi-stage reduction of impact forces are disclosed. An example apparatus to reduce impact energy of an aircraft during landing includes a rotatable landing leg having a proximal end near an axis of rotation and a distal end opposite the proximal end, a first flexible portion of the proximal end, where the first flexible portion is to engage a first engaging portion at a first rotation angle of the rotatable landing leg, and a second flexible portion of the distal end, where the second flexible portion is to engage a second engaging portion at a second rotation angle of the rotatable landing leg.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2017Publication date: April 12, 2018Inventors: Fabian Oberndorfer, Klaus Doth, Martin Stobbe
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Publication number: 20180103543Abstract: Flexible printed circuit boards and related methods are disclosed herein. An example printed circuit board includes a controller interface coupled to a surface of the printed circuit board between a first end of the printed circuit board and a second end of the printed circuit board. The example printed circuit board includes a connector coupled to the surface proximate to the first end. The example printed circuit board includes a notch formed between the controller interface and the connector. The notch is to form a narrowed portion of the printed circuit board to enable the printed circuit board to bend at the narrowed portion.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2017Publication date: April 12, 2018Inventors: Fabian Oberndorfer, Klaus Doth, Raffael Lustig, Jan Nicolaas Zelhorst
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Patent number: D834655Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2016Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Intel IP CorporationInventors: Fabian Oberndorfer, Markus Luetzenburger