Patents by Inventor Florian Butscher

Florian Butscher 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: 12095151
    Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle, comprising an antenna apparatus inserted at least in regions into an antenna opening of a vehicle roof of the vehicle. The antenna apparatus having at least one fastening device. The fastening device having a locking lever locking the antenna apparatus to the vehicle roof in a predetermined locking position of the locking lever and thereby fixing the antenna apparatus on the vehicle roof in a predetermined final assembly position. The fastening device having a spring device which acts on the locking lever with a restoring force acting in the direction of the predetermined locking position of the locking lever and holding the locking lever in the predetermined locking position. The spring device engaging around the vehicle roof in the predetermined final assembly position with a latching edge on an edge of the antenna opening and holding the antenna apparatus at least indirectly on the vehicle roof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2024
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Florian Butscher, Johann Frisch
  • Publication number: 20230369739
    Abstract: A glass pane, in particular glass roof or rear window or side window or windshield, of a motor vehicle, with a pixel matrix arranged in the glass pane, in which pixel matrix at least one antenna structure is producible by means of a rheological material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: Continental Automotive Technologies GmbH
    Inventor: Florian Butscher
  • Publication number: 20220393342
    Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle, comprising an antenna apparatus inserted at least in regions into an antenna opening of a vehicle roof of the vehicle. The antenna apparatus having at least one fastening device. The fastening device having a locking lever locking the antenna apparatus to the vehicle roof in a predetermined locking position of the locking lever and thereby fixing the antenna apparatus on the vehicle roof in a predetermined final assembly position. The fastening device having a spring device which acts on the locking lever with a restoring force acting in the direction of the predetermined locking position of the locking lever and holding the locking lever in the predetermined locking position. The spring device engaging around the vehicle roof in the predetermined final assembly position with a latching edge on an edge of the antenna opening and holding the antenna apparatus at least indirectly on the vehicle roof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2020
    Publication date: December 8, 2022
    Inventors: Florian Butscher, Johann Frisch
  • Patent number: 10164314
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an antenna module for installing at an opening of a vehicle roof, wherein the antenna module can be arranged at the opening and can be latched there via at least one spring element, wherein the fastening of the antenna module can be secured to the vehicle roof via a locking element which, in its locking position, blocks a resilient backward movement of the spring element out of the latched position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 25, 2018
    Assignee: Kathrein SE
    Inventors: Florian Butscher, Simon Stachler, Johann Frisch, Gerhard Vogt
  • Publication number: 20160172746
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an antenna module for installing at an opening of a vehicle roof, wherein the antenna module can be arranged at the opening and can be latched there via at least one spring element, wherein the fastening of the antenna module can be secured to the vehicle roof via a locking element which, in its locking position, blocks a resilient backward movement of the spring element out of the latched position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2015
    Publication date: June 16, 2016
    Inventors: Florian BUTSCHER, Simon STACHLER, Johann FRISCH, Gerhard VOGT
  • Patent number: 9270018
    Abstract: An improved rooftop antenna is characterized, inter alia, by the following features: the base (7) has a protruding base foot part (17) on the base lower side (7e) of said base; the base foot part (17) is formed integrally with the remaining part of the base (7) or connected thereto and is electrically conductive or coated, together with the base (7), with an electrically conductive layer; the base foot part (17) has a channel (117), which passes through the foot part (17) transversely and preferably perpendicular to the base (7) in a plug-in and joining direction (Z) for accommodating the at least one coaxial line (21); and the coaxial line (21) is inserted into the at least one channel (117) of the base foot part (17) in such a way that at least one section of the outer circumference of the outer conductor (27) of the coaxial line (21) is pressed mechanically with the electrically conductive inner wall of the channel (117) of the base foot part (17) and DC contact is thereby made therewith.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: KATHREIN-WERKE KG
    Inventors: Frank Mierke, Gerhard Stadler, Florian Butscher, Gerhard Vogt, Johann Frisch
  • Patent number: 9178272
    Abstract: A multiband shark fin antenna for a vehicle may include at least one transmitting and one receiving antenna element from the group consisting of AM/FM antennas, telephone and RKE antennas, GPS antenna, SDARS antenna, stacked patch antenna, DAP antenna, WLAN antenna, WIMAX antenna or DRM antenna. The antenna elements are disposed beneath a joint shark fin-shaped outer cover on the exterior of the vehicle. On the inside, the shark fin-shaped outer cover includes an antenna circuit board having the antenna elements disposed thereon. Electronic adjustment or amplifier circuits including a transceiver, tuner or receiver are disposed on both the upper and lower faces of the antenna circuit board. Shielding plates, which shield the adjustment or amplifier circuits with respect to the antenna elements, are disposed on the upper side of the antenna circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2015
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Guy-Aymar Chakam, Martin Schürmeier, Florian Butscher, Frank Mierke
  • Publication number: 20140028507
    Abstract: An improved rooftop antenna is characterized, inter alia, by the following features: the base (7) has a protruding base foot part (17) on the base lower side (7e) of said base; the base foot part (17) is formed integrally with the remaining part of the base (7) or connected thereto and is electrically conductive or coated, together with the base (7), with an electrically conductive layer; the base foot part (17) has a channel (117), which passes through the foot part (17) transversely and preferably perpendicular to the base (7) in a plug-in and joining direction (Z) for accommodating the at least one coaxial line (21); and the coaxial line (21) is inserted into the at least one channel (117) of the base foot part (17) in such a way that at least one section of the outer circumference of the outer conductor (27) of the coaxial line (21) is pressed mechanically with the electrically conductive inner wall of the channel (117) of the base foot part (17) and DC contact is thereby made therewith.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: KATHREIN-WERKE KG
    Inventors: Frank Mierke, Gerhard Stadler, Florian Butscher, Gerhard Vogt, Johann Frisch
  • Publication number: 20120274519
    Abstract: A multiband shark fin antenna for a vehicle may include at least one transmitting and one receiving antenna element from the group consisting of AM/FM antennas, telephone and RKE antennas, GPS antenna, SDARS antenna, stacked patch antenna, DAP antenna, WLAN antenna, WIMAX antenna or DRM antenna. The antenna elements are disposed beneath a joint shark fin-shaped outer cover on the exterior of the vehicle. On the inside, the shark fin-shaped outer cover includes an antenna circuit board having the antenna elements disposed thereon. Electronic adjustment or amplifier circuits including a transceiver, tuner or receiver are disposed on both the upper and lower faces of the antenna circuit board. Shielding plates, which shield the adjustment or amplifier circuits with respect to the antenna elements, are disposed on the upper side of the antenna circuit board. In addition, at least one digital data connection is present on said multiband antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Publication date: November 1, 2012
    Inventors: Guy-Aymar Chakam, Martin Schürmeier, Florian Butscher, Frank Mierke