Patents by Inventor Heiko Söhner

Heiko Söhner 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).

  • DRIVE TRAIN FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE AND PRINTED CIRCUIT BOARD ARRANGEMENT FOR IT
    Publication number: 20180302999
    Abstract: A circuit board arrangement with a printed circuit board and with a circuit board carrier on which the printed circuit board is mounted, in particular for a motor vehicle drive train electronic module. The printed circuit board has a central region and a peripheral region. The printed circuit board is held in the central region on the circuit board carrier in a tangential direction in a positive-locking manner or with a first transverse force in a non-positive manner. The circuit board is held in the peripheral region on the circuit board carrier in a tangential direction with a second transverse force which is smaller than the first transverse force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2016
    Publication date: October 18, 2018
    Inventors: Heiko SÖHNER, Johann Kirchhoffer, Thomas BRANDT, Peter SCHROLL
  • Method and control device for a drive train component
    Patent number: 9449436
    Abstract: A method for actuating a component of a drive train of a motor vehicle. The component is mechanically prestressed into a safe state. The method has the steps: sensing a fault state; sensing whether the fault state is a first or second type of fault state; immediate interruption of the actuation of the component so that the component is passively transferred into the safe state by the mechanical prestress if the fault state, is of the first type of fault state, or actuation of the component in such a way that the component is actively transferred into the safe state if the fault state is of the second type of fault state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: GETRAG Getriebe-und Zahnradfabrik Hermann Hagenmeyer GmbH & Cie KG
    Inventors: Martin Seufert, Ralf Hettich, Tobias Kalisch, Michael Ludwig, Heiko Söhner
  • METHOD AND CONTROL DEVICE FOR A DRIVE TRAIN COMPONENT
    Publication number: 20140052326
    Abstract: A method for actuating a component of a drive train of a motor vehicle. The component is mechanically prestressed into a safe state. The method has the steps: sensing a fault state; sensing whether the fault state is a first or second type of fault state; immediate interruption of the actuation of the component so that the component is passively transferred into the safe state by the mechanical prestress if the fault state, is of the first type of fault state, or actuation of the component in such a way that the component is actively transferred into the safe state if the fault state is of the second type of fault state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2013
    Publication date: February 20, 2014
    Inventors: Martin Seufert, Ralf Hettich, Tobias Kalisch, Michael Ludwig, Heiko Söhner