Patents by Inventor Helmut Hartl

Helmut Hartl 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: 11955257
    Abstract: A join is provided that has an electrically insulating component and two joining partners secured to one another and electrically insulated from one another by the electrically insulating component. The electrically insulating component has a surface that extends between the two joining partners. The surface defines a structure selected from a group consisting of an elevation, a depression, and any combinations thereof. The structure elongates a direct path along the surface. The structure completely surrounds at least one of the two joining partners. The electrically insulating component and/or the structure includes a glass that is at least partially crystallized.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Ina Mitra, Christian Mix, Björn Ramdohr, Helmut Hartl, Mark Stronczek
  • Publication number: 20240047100
    Abstract: A feedthrough in a housing component that is subject to thermal loading for a functional assembly includes: an inner conductor; an outer conductor having a sleeve assigned to or formed on the outer conductor that retains or makes it possible to fasten the feedthrough to the housing component; and an electrically insulating component between the outer conductor and the inner conductor, the electrically insulating component retaining the inner conductor relative to the outer conductor in an electrically insulated fashion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2023
    Publication date: February 8, 2024
    Applicant: Schott AG
    Inventors: Helmut Hartl, Reinhard Ecker, Christian Mix
  • Publication number: 20230208073
    Abstract: An electrical feed-through includes: a feed-through component having an opening; at least one conductor sealed into the opening of the feed-through component in a glass material or a glass ceramic material; and at least one guide component connected to the feed-through component, the at least one guide component including a material that is a plastic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Applicant: Schott AG
    Inventor: Helmut Hartl
  • Publication number: 20230198111
    Abstract: A housing part for an electrical storage installation includes: a main body including a through-opening, which includes a side; a fixing material; a first connector terminal assembly including a connector pin which is routed through the through-opening and, by way of the fixing material, is fixed so as to be electrically isolated in the through-opening, the connector pin including a projecting part which on the side projects beyond the through-opening; an insulation material; and a terminal pad on the side, the terminal pad including an opening, the projecting part engaging in the opening and being electrically connected to the terminal pad, the pad by way of the insulation material being fastened so as to be electrically isolated on the main body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: Schott AG
    Inventor: Helmut Hartl
  • Publication number: 20230156937
    Abstract: A housing part for attachment to a housing includes: at least one opening for at least one conductor embedded in a glass or a glass-ceramic material that is fed into the at least one opening providing a glass-metal seal (GTMS); an elevated area and/or a recess area configured to center the housing part within a structure of the housing and/or enhance the resilience against bending, the at least one opening being provided in the elevated area and/or the recess area, the elevated area and/or the recess area being situated in a glassing area plane; and at least two bores situated in a plane different from the glassing area plane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2023
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: Schott AG
    Inventor: Helmut Hartl
  • Patent number: 11591730
    Abstract: Extensible nonwoven fabrics having improved elongation, extensibility, abrasion resistance and toughness. In particular, embodiments of the invention are directed to extensible spunbond fabrics comprising a polymeric blend of a metallocene catalyzed polypropylene, polyethylene, and a third polymer component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignees: Fitesa Nonwoven, Inc., Fitesa Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Stephen O. Chester, Albert Witarsa, Stefanie Streich, Helmut Hartl, Harald Siebner, Daniel Kong, David D. Newkirk
  • Publication number: 20230021960
    Abstract: An electrical device includes: a housing part made of a metal and including a feedthrough therethrough, an opening of the feedthrough, a first region, and a second region, the opening receiving a conductive material or a conductor in a glass material or a glass-ceramic material, wherein: (i) the conductive material has a first coefficient of expansion ?1, the glass material or the glass-ceramic material has a second coefficient of expansion ?2, and the housing part has a third coefficient of expansion ?3, the third coefficient of expansion ?3 being always greater than the second coefficient of expansion ?2; or (ii) the first region including a width W that is substantially perpendicular to the axis of the at least one opening, the width W of the first region being always greater than a thickness D2 and a thickness DE of the second region; or (iii) a combination of (i) and (ii).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: Schott AG
    Inventor: Helmut Hartl
  • Publication number: 20230014877
    Abstract: A housing part for an electrical device, which is an electrical storage device, a sensor housing, a battery, a microbattery, or a capacitor, the housing part including: a feedthrough, the housing part or a base body which is a part of the housing part including the feedthrough, the feedthrough having at least one opening, the at least one opening having a wall with a reduced enclosure length ELred, the at least one opening configured for receiving a conductive material or a conductor in a glass material or a glass-ceramic material, the reduced enclosure length ELred being in a range of 0.05 mm to 0.6 mm, 0.1 mm to 0.5 mm, 0.1 mm to 0.4 mm, or 0.15 mm to 0.2 mm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 16, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: Schott AG
    Inventors: Helmut Hartl, Björn Ramdohr
  • Patent number: 11462789
    Abstract: A base body includes at least one opening through which at least one functional element surrounded by a glass or glass ceramic material is fed through the opening of the base body for connection with a housing comprising a light metal, in particular aluminum. The base body consists at least partially of a light metal, such as a light metal alloy which has a yield point greater than 40N/mm2 when heated to temperatures higher than 520° C. to a maximum of 560° C. for longer than 1 to 60 minutes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 4, 2022
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventor: Helmut Hartl
  • Publication number: 20220113221
    Abstract: A sensor component for application temperatures above 700° C., especially electrical and/or electrochemical sensor component is provided. The sensor component has a feedthrough element, the feedthrough element having a through-hole with a through-hole inner wall extending from one surface of the feedthrough element to the other surface of the feedthrough element, wherein an insulation element is located within a through-hole of the feedthrough element, the through-hole has a diameter Da, the insulation element has a Volume V and a height H which are compact.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 14, 2022
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Christian MIX, Mark STRONCZEK, Helmut HARTL
  • Patent number: 11205610
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to components, such as base bodies, for feed-through elements including a metallic base body, at least one through-opening for receiving a functional element in a fixing material, such as an electrically insulating fixing material, and at least one conductor, which is connected electrically conductively to the base body by a soldered connection. The soldered connection includes a metallic solder material that covers a surface region of the base body and thus forms a soldering region on a surface of the base body. The base body has, at least in the soldering region, a microstructuring that includes at least depressions in the surface of the base body. The present disclosure similarly relates to methods for producing such base bodies and to applications thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Helmut Hartl, Reinhard Ranftl
  • Patent number: 11150060
    Abstract: A base body for a metal-sealing material-feedthrough subject to high pressures in an igniter for an airbag or a belt tensioning device. The base body for the metal-sealing material feedthrough is an element formed by a process of cold forming and having a ring-shape or a plate-like shape. The element includes a feedthrough opening extending from a front side of the element towards a rear side of the element. There is a metallurgic section in the element of the base body with structure-lines or flow-lines that are bent due to a reshaping process of the process of cold-forming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Helmut Hartl, Thomas Pfeiffer
  • Publication number: 20210280934
    Abstract: An electrical device, having a feedthrough through a housing part which has a material thickness T of the housing of the device and is made of metal. The metal being iron, iron alloys, iron-nickel alloys, iron-nickel-cobalt alloys, KOVAR, steel, high-grade steel, aluminum, aluminum alloys, AlSiC, magnesium, magnesium alloys, titanium or titanium alloys. The housing part having at least one opening, wherein the opening receives a contact element, being a conductor consisting of a conductive material in a glass or glass ceramic material. The housing part has a collar in the region of the opening and thus forms an inner wall of the feedthrough opening having a height H, which is greater than material thickness T, wherein glazing length EL of the glass or glass ceramic material preferably corresponds to height H.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 24, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventor: Helmut Hartl
  • Publication number: 20210239443
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a connector pin, in particular a metal pin, for feedthroughs, in particular glass-metal feedthroughs, with at least one first, elongated portion, as well as at least one adjoining end portion, and the end portion has a rounding with at least radius R. The disclosure is further characterized in that the cone and/or radius R is preferably a cone and/or radius according to a specification and is obtained by means of a material-removing method and/or a non-material-removing method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 22, 2021
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventor: Helmut Hartl
  • Patent number: 11071220
    Abstract: A feedthrough assembly includes a housing part having at least two openings, respectively through which at least one conductor embedded in a glass or a glass ceramic material is fed. The conductor, in the region of a glazing area, has a substantially round cross section, and in a first and/or second region above and/or below the glazing area has a substantially rectangular cross section to form a part of a flat conductor having rectangular regions. The parts of the flat conductor arranged above and/or below the glazing area are joined adjacent to one another, resulting in a cumulative flat conductor having a rectangular common cross section with a total width expansion that extends over the at least two openings. The diameter of the openings is smaller than a width of the rectangular regions of the respective part of the flat conductor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 20, 2021
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventor: Helmut Hartl
  • Publication number: 20210140745
    Abstract: A metal fixing material leadthrough for igniters of airbags and/or belt tighteners includes at least one metal pin fused into a glass or glass-ceramic fixing material in a through-opening of a main body. The metal is present in a post-heated state, with an interface between the fixing material and the metal pin and an additional interface between the fixing material and an inner surface of the through-opening. The at least one metal pin, at least in its core region, consists of stainless steel, such as a chromium-containing stainless steel, the stainless steel having a thermal expansion coefficient.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Thomas Pfeiffer, Helmut Hartl, Reinhard Ranftl, Ondrej Rousek, Susumu Nishiwaki, Robert Hettler
  • Patent number: 10751831
    Abstract: A feed-through component for a conductor feed-through which passes through a part of a housing, for example a battery housing, is embedded in a glass or glass ceramic material and has at least one conductor, for example an essentially pin-shaped conductor, and a head part. The surface, in particular the cross-sectional surface, of the head part is greater than the surface, in particular the cross-sectional surface, of the conductor, for example of the essentially pin-shaped conductor. The head part is embodied such that is can be joined to an electrode-connecting component, for example an electrode-connecting part, which may be made of copper, a copper alloy CuSiC, an aluminum alloy AlSiC or aluminum, with a mechanically stable and non-detachable connection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Frank Kroll, Helmut Hartl, Andreas Roters, Hauke Esemann, Dieter Goedeke, Ulf Dahlmann, Sabine Pichler-Wilhelm, Martin Landendinger, Linda Johanna Backnaes
  • Patent number: 10684102
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a ring-shaped or plate-like element, in particular for a metal-sealing material-feedthrough, in particular for devices which are subjected to high pressures, for example igniters for airbags or belt tensioning devices, whereby a blank, especially in the embodiment of a wire-shaped material is provided and the blank is subjected to processing so that a feedthrough-opening can be incorporated into a ring-shaped or plate-like element created from the blank.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Helmut Hartl, Thomas Pfeiffer
  • Patent number: 10541392
    Abstract: A feed-through through a housing part of a housing, for example of a battery or a capacitor made of a metal, wherein the housing part has at least one opening, through which at least one conductor is fed in a glass or glass ceramic material, and wherein the conductor has at least two sections in the axial direction, a first section made of a first material, e.g. aluminium, and a second section made of a second material, e.g. copper, as well as a transition from the first to the second material, and wherein the transition from the first to the second material is located in the region of the glass or glass ceramic material, said glass or glass ceramic material being adapted to the metal of the housing in such a way that a compression glass-to-metal seal is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2020
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventor: Helmut Hartl
  • Patent number: 10454079
    Abstract: A component has a component thickness and at least one feedthrough opening, wherein a conductor, such as a substantially pin-shaped conductor, is inserted through the feedthrough opening in a glass or glass ceramic material having a glass material outside dimension and a glazed length, wherein the component has a reinforcement in the region of the feedthrough opening with a component feedthrough opening thickness, wherein the component feedthrough opening thickness is greater than the component thickness and wherein the reinforcement has a reinforcement material outside dimension.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventor: Helmut Hartl