Patents by Inventor Falk Bahr

Falk Bahr 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: 12084172
    Abstract: A method for operating an eVTOL multirotor aircraft having distributed actuators activated by controllers that each determines an associated manipulated variable signal at least for a subset of actuators and provides it for the relevant actuator. The method provides that for an actuator: i) assigning a different priority ranking for each controller; ii) determining, by way of a given controller having a given priority ranking, at least one manipulated variable signal for the actuator and transmitting the signal identified by the given priority ranking to the relevant actuator and to a controller having a successive priority ranking; iii) receiving, via a given controller having a given priority ranking, manipulated variable signals from controllers having higher priority ranking and relaying these signals to the actuator and to a controller having a successive priority ranking; and iv) activating the actuator using the manipulated variable signal identified by the highest priority ranking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: Volocopter GmbH
    Inventors: Benjamin Kirsch, Falk Bahr, Jan Zwiener, Alexander Klingspor
  • Publication number: 20220089274
    Abstract: A method for operating an eVTOL multirotor aircraft having distributed actuators activated by controllers that each determines an associated manipulated variable signal at least for a subset of actuators and provides it for the relevant actuator. The method provides that for an actuator: i) assigning a different priority ranking for each controller; ii) determining, by way of a given controller having a given priority ranking, at least one manipulated variable signal for the actuator and transmitting the signal identified by the given priority ranking to the relevant actuator and to a controller having a successive priority ranking; iii) receiving, via a given controller having a given priority ranking, manipulated variable signals from controllers having higher priority ranking and relaying these signals to the actuator and to a controller having a successive priority ranking; and iv) activating the actuator using the manipulated variable signal identified by the highest priority ranking.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2021
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: Volocopter GmbH
    Inventors: Benjamin KIRSCH, Falk BAHR, Jan ZWIENER, Alexander KLINGSPOR
  • Publication number: 20140347046
    Abstract: The invention concerns the field of electrical, materials and mechanical engineering and relates to the use of flexible magnetic thin layer sensor elements, which can be used for measuring magnetic flux density in electromagnetic energy converters and magnetomechanical energy converters. The aim of the invention is to specify the use of flexible magnetic thin layer sensor elements in electric machines and magnetic bearings, which can be placed in air gaps without substantially limiting the air gap widths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2012
    Publication date: November 27, 2014
    Inventors: Falk Bahr, Henry Barth, Wilfried Hofmann, Denys Makarov, Michael Melzer, Ingolf Moench, Martin Oppermann, Oliver G. Schmidt, Thomas Zerna