Patents by Inventor Frank Niemann

Frank Niemann 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: 20150136353
    Abstract: Disclosed is a front-end module of a vehicle, including a vehicle front-end element which has at least one fresh air opening, an air channel which connects the fresh air opening with an engine compartment of the vehicle, a heat exchanger of a vehicle air-conditioning system, the heat exchanger being arranged in the air channel and being adapted for air to flow through it and being adapted to be selectively employed as a refrigerant condenser or a refrigerant evaporator, and a fan arranged in the air channel for acting upon the heat exchanger with air, the fan being configured to be reversible and, in a first operating mode, delivering fresh air from the fresh air opening toward the engine compartment and, in a second operating mode, delivering air from the engine compartment Toward the fresh air opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 19, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Frank Niemann, Hans-Joachim Lilge, Frank Adam