Patents by Inventor Frank Bartel

Frank Bartel 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: 20240083427
    Abstract: A safety system for vehicle lateral control for a Steer-by-Wire steering system of a motor vehicle with a main operating level for transmitting a steering wheel angle to at least one wheel of the motor vehicle, and with a Safety level for transmitting a steering wheel angle to at least one wheel of the motor vehicle. The safety level may be configured to become active if the main operating level fails. An emergency operating level is provided for vehicle lateral control, the emergency operating level being arranged to become active in the event of a failure of the main operating level and/or safety level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Leon Salzwedel, Arne Bartels, Frank Bärecke
  • Publication number: 20240075218
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of inhalation devices for liquids. In particular, the invention relates to an improved seal construction for an inhalation device having a nebulizing nozzle and a piston which moves relative to a pumping chamber in order to generate pumping pressure and to an inhalation device comprising such seal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Frank Bartels, Juergen Rawert
  • Publication number: 20240050732
    Abstract: The invention relates to a valve, in particular for a device for administering a liquid medicament, with a valve body (1) which has an interior (2) for receiving a liquid (20), wherein the valve body (1) has a liquid inlet (3) and an opposite liquid outlet (4) which both open into the interior (2), wherein the interior (2) accommodates a large number of micro channels (5) which extend in connection direction (x) between the liquid inlet (3) and the liquid outlet (4). A corresponding device for administering a liquid medicament is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2023
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Frank BARTELS, Jurgen Rawert
  • Publication number: 20240024593
    Abstract: The inhalation device for medically active liquids (F) for generation of an aerosol comprises a housing (1), a reservoir (2), a pumping device with a pumping chamber (3), and a nozzle (6), wherein the interior volume of the pumping chamber (3) is changeable by means of linear relative motion of the pumping chamber to the riser pipe (5). Said linear relative motion can be effected by a relative rotation of a rotatable part (1A) which is part of, or connected to, the housing (1) with respect to a second part (1B) of said housing (1), in that said relative rotation can be transferred by means of a gear mechanism into said relative translational motion. A means for the storage of potential energy (7) is provided which is chargeable by means of said relative rotation, and wherein said energy is releasable to said pumping device when released by activation of a release means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2023
    Publication date: January 25, 2024
    Inventors: Frank Bartels, Juergen Rawert
  • Patent number: 11819655
    Abstract: The invention relates to a valve, in particular for a device for administering a liquid medicament, with a valve body (1) which has an interior (2) for receiving a liquid (20), wherein the valve body (1) has a liquid inlet (3) and an opposite liquid outlet (4) which both open into the interior (2), wherein the interior (2) accommodates a large number of micro channels (5) which extend in connection direction (x) between the liquid inlet (3) and the liquid outlet (4). A corresponding device for administering a liquid medicament is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: SOFTHALE NV
    Inventors: Frank Bartels, Jürgen Rawert
  • Patent number: 11793947
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of inhalation devices for liquids. In particular, the invention relates to an improved seal construction for an inhalation device having a nebulizing nozzle and a piston which moves relative to a pumping chamber in order to generate pumping pressure and to an inhalation device comprising such seal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: SOFTHALE NV
    Inventors: Frank Bartels, Jürgen Rawert
  • Publication number: 20230277784
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of inhalation devices for liquids. In particular, the invention relates to an inhalation device having improved flow characteristics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2023
    Publication date: September 7, 2023
    Inventors: Frank BARTELS, Jürgen RAWERT
  • Publication number: 20230248924
    Abstract: The invention provides for device for clamping a fluidic component which is subjected to a fluctuating fluid pressure, said fluidic component having a downstream end, an opposite upstream end and an outer contour, said device comprising a holder, an elastomeric shaped part and a mating part, wherein the elastomeric shaped part comprises at least one compensating surface, and wherein the at least one compensating surface in the assembled state does not contact the mating part or the at least one projection of the mating part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2021
    Publication date: August 10, 2023
    Inventors: Frank Bartels, Juergen Rawert
  • Patent number: 11717620
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of inhalation devices for liquids. In particular, the invention relates to a pumping chamber for such an inhalation device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: SOFTHALE NV
    Inventors: Frank Bartels, Jürgen Rawert
  • Patent number: 11717622
    Abstract: The inhalation device for medically active liquids (F) for generation of an aerosol comprises a housing (1), a reservoir (2), a pumping device with a pumping chamber (3), and a nozzle (6), wherein the interior volume of the pumping chamber (3) is changeable by means of linear relative motion of the pumping chamber to the riser pipe (5). Said linear relative motion can be effected by a relative rotation of a rotatable part (1A) which is part of, or connected to, the housing (1) with respect to a second part (1B) of said housing (1), in that said relative rotation can be transferred by means of a gear mechanism into said relative translational motion. A means for the storage of potential energy (7) is provided which is chargeable by means of said relative rotation, and wherein said energy is releasable to said pumping device when released by activation of a release means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: SOFTHALE NV
    Inventors: Frank Bartels, Jürgen Rawert
  • Publication number: 20230218837
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of inhalation methods and inhalation devices for liquids. In particular, the invention relates to an inhalation method using an inhalation device adapted to separately eject at least two liquid compositions each having different properties, and to a method for the generation of an aerosol of at least two medicinal formulations by means of such inhalation device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2021
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Juergen Rawert, Frank Bartels, Steven Dudley
  • Patent number: 11612704
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of inhalation devices for liquids. In particular, the invention relates to an inhalation device having improved flow characteristics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: Softhale NV
    Inventors: Frank Bartels, Jürgen Rawert
  • Patent number: 11464919
    Abstract: An atomiser, in particular an inhaler, for atomising a liquid active agent to form an aerosol, having, inter alia, an active agent reservoir, an atomiser nozzle and a pump arrangement, wherein a suction side of the pump arrangement leads into the active agent reservoir and a pressure side of the pump arrangement leads into the atomiser nozzle, and wherein the pump arrangement has a plunger that can be adjusted in a cylinder in the axial direction of the cylinder. A corresponding method is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: SOFTHALE NV
    Inventors: Frank Bartels, Jürgen Rawert
  • Patent number: 11434893
    Abstract: A micropump and its use, the micropump including a vibration unit with piezo actuator, which is arranged on an vibration diaphragm, a vibration plate arranged opposite the vibration diaphragm and having a blower opening, as well as a wall arranged between the vibration diaphragm and the vibration plate, so that a blower chamber is formed, and a housing, in which the vibration unit is mounted, with an suction opening, as well as an output opening, which lies opposite the blower opening. The housing forms a closed space and has at least one suction opening arranged radially, or on an underside opposite the vibration unit, with a suction channel leading into a pump chamber located between the vibration plate and the inside of the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: BARTELS MIKROTECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Frank Bartels, Anja Strube, Florian Siemenroth
  • Publication number: 20220203082
    Abstract: The invention relates to a valve, in particular for a device for administering a liquid medicament, with a valve body (1) which has an interior (2) for receiving a liquid (20), wherein the valve body (1) has a liquid inlet (3) and an opposite liquid outlet (4) which both open into the interior (2), wherein the interior (2) accommodates a large number of micro channels (5) which extend in connection direction (x) between the liquid inlet (3) and the liquid outlet (4). A corresponding device for administering a liquid medicament is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventors: Frank BARTELS, Jürgen RAWERT
  • Publication number: 20220143328
    Abstract: Inhalation device for generation of an aerosol of a medically active liquid, said inhalation device comprising a check valve (4); a housing (1), inside this housing (1) a reservoir (2) for storing said medically active liquid (L), downstream this reservoir (2) a pumping unit (3) for generation of a pressure connected to a means for the delivery of mechanical energy (6) to said pumping unit (3), and downstream said pumping unit (3) a nozzle (5); wherein the pumping unit (3) comprises a hollow cylindrical part (3A) and a piston (3B), the cylindrical part (3A) having an interior space (3C) configured to receive an end portion (3B?) of said piston (3B), wherein said cylindrical part (3A) and said piston (3B) are linearly moveable relative to one another such as to form a pumping chamber (3D) having a variable volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Frank Bartels, Juergen Rawert
  • Patent number: 11224734
    Abstract: The invention relates to a valve, in particular for a device for administering a liquid medicament, with a valve body which has an interior for receiving a liquid, wherein the valve body has a liquid inlet and an opposite liquid outlet which both open into the interior, wherein the interior accommodates a large number of micro channels which extend in a connection direction between the liquid inlet and the liquid outlet. A corresponding device for administering a liquid medicament is also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2022
    Assignee: SOFTHALE NV
    Inventors: Frank Bartels, Jürgen Rawert
  • Publication number: 20210388922
    Abstract: A miniaturized hydraulic valve having a valve chamber arranged in a housing having an inlet and an outlet, wherein a wall includes a shifting member movable in the direction of the inlet and/or the outlet, and wherein a fluid-filled drive chamber is arranged on an opposite side of the wall, which is connected to a micropump in such a way that the shifting member can be actively deflected by fluid which can be pressurized by means of the micropump, so that its position can be changed relative to the inlet and/or outlet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Frank Bartels, Carmen Streich
  • Publication number: 20210340969
    Abstract: The micropump including a pump chamber which can be fluidly filled or emptied both by means of a passage opening and an inlet, the pump chamber being covered with a disk-shaped actuator so that the volume of the pump chamber can be changed by deflecting the actuator, the passage opening being arranged in a side of the pumping chamber opposite the actuator, and the inlet has a smaller or similar flow resistance compared to the through opening. An entrance to the passage opening can be closed by means of the deflected actuator, so that a valve is formed in the basic state, or closed by means of the undeflected actuator, so that a valve is formed in the basic state. The micropump can have a second pump chamber with an actuator and inlet, the passage opening of which is connected to that of the first pump chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2019
    Publication date: November 4, 2021
    Inventors: Frank Bartels, Monika Kremer, Florian Siemenroth, Anja Strube
  • Publication number: 20210290863
    Abstract: The invention relates to the field of inhalation devices for medically active liquids. In particular, the invention relates to an inhalation device providing a particularly high pressure for nebulization. The inhalation device comprises a housing (1), a reservoir (2), a pumping unit connected (3) to a means for the delivery of mechanical energy (4) to said pumping unit (3), and a nozzle (5). The pumping unit (3) comprises a hollow cylindrical part (3A) and a piston (3B), the cylindrical part (3A) having an interior space (3C) with a defined first cross section (A1) configured to receive an upstream end portion (3B?) of said piston (3B), wherein said cylindrical part (3A) and said piston (3B) are linearly moveable relative to one another such as to form a pumping chamber having a variable volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Frank Bartels, Juergen Rawert