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).

  • Patent number: 11851170
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventor: Fabian Oberndorfer
  • Patent number: 11054842
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 6, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Fabian Oberndorfer, Wolfgang Rottner, Stefan Klar
  • Patent number: 10981672
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: Intel Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Achtelik, Klaus Doth, Daniel Gurdan, Jan Stumpf, Markus Luetzenburger, Fabian Oberndorfer, Martin Stobbe
  • Publication number: 20210001977
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2020
    Publication date: January 7, 2021
    Inventor: Fabian Oberndorfer
  • Patent number: 10787249
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 29, 2020
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Fabian Oberndorfer, Klaus Doth, Martin Stobbe
  • Patent number: 10780979
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 22, 2020
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventor: Fabian Oberndorfer
  • Patent number: 10633083
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: INTEL IP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Fabian Oberndorfer, Stefan Klar
  • Publication number: 20200012296
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Daniel Gurdan, Mika Ritamaeki, Fabian Oberndorfer, Tobias Gurdan, Evgeny Kalugin, Soren Friis
  • Publication number: 20190212755
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2019
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Inventors: Fabian Oberndorfer, Wolfgang Rottner, Stefan Klar
  • Publication number: 20190092459
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Publication date: March 28, 2019
    Inventors: Fabian Oberndorfer, Stefan Klar
  • Patent number: 10212809
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Intel Corporation
    Inventors: Fabian Oberndorfer, Klaus Doth, Raffael Lustig, Jan Nicolaas Zelhorst
  • Publication number: 20180134378
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventor: Fabian Oberndorfer
  • Publication number: 20180099741
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Inventors: Fabian Oberndorfer, Klaus Doth, Martin Stobbe
  • Publication number: 20180103543
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Inventors: Fabian Oberndorfer, Klaus Doth, Raffael Lustig, Jan Nicolaas Zelhorst
  • Patent number: D834655
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Intel IP Corporation
    Inventors: Fabian Oberndorfer, Markus Luetzenburger