Patents by Inventor Joachim Schäfer

Joachim Schäfer 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: 20230110195
    Abstract: A system for implanting a medical implant in the human or animal body, comprising: a wire-like element for connecting the system to the medical implant, a double-lumen guide tube for the wire-like element, and a handle for handling the system, wherein the medical implant is arranged at the proximal end of the guide tube and the handle is arranged at the distal end of the guide tube, and wherein the wire-like element is fixed with a first end to the handle, is guided through a first lumen of the double-lumen guide tube to the medical implant, engages with a connecting device of the medical implant and is guided through a second lumen of the double-lumen guide tube to the handle and is detachably fixed to the handle with a second end.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventor: Joachim SCHAEFER
  • Publication number: 20210369423
    Abstract: A dental cleaning system (2) comprising a holder (12) for dental floss (18), which includes two mutually spaced brackets (19) and dental floss (18) held between the two brackets (19), and an, in particular U-shaped or annular, base body (1) to be slid onto a finger, which includes a recess (4) situated in the longitudinal direction (3) of the base body (1) for accommodating a fingertip. Essentially, the brackets (19) extend transversely to the longitudinal direction (3) of the base body (1). A first grip surface (9) is situated at least on each of the two sides of the base body (1), which is provided for controlling the movement of dental floss (18) in the mouth with the aid of the fingers adjacent to the base body (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2019
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Tomás Alberto Joachim Schaefer, Stefan Josef Gibisch
  • Patent number: 10993723
    Abstract: The invention relates to a medical implant for closure of a defect aperture, a vessel, an organ path or another aperture in a human or animal body, comprising a base body and at least one fibre, wherein the base body can be reversibly transformed against elastic material forces from a secondary shape into a primary shape, wherein in the primary shape the base body has an elongated shape and in the secondary shape is at least partially coiled and comprises a cone shape, which is characterized in that the at least one fibre is connected to the base body such that the fibre in the secondary shape of the base body extends at least once, preferably a plurality of times, transversely through the cone shape.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: PFM MEDICAL AG
    Inventor: Joachim Schaefer
  • Patent number: 10413433
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system for connecting a medical implant to an insertion aid, comprising: a first spiral connecting device at the proximal end of the medical implant, a second spiral connecting device at the distal end of the insertion aid, a core wire, which in a first operating state of the system fixes the first spiral connecting device and the second spiral connecting device in relation to one another, wherein in the first operating state the first spiral connecting device and the second spiral connecting device at least partially engage in one another and the core wire extends through the first spiral connecting device and the second spiral connecting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 17, 2019
    Assignee: PFM MEDICAL AG
    Inventor: Joachim Schaefer
  • Publication number: 20180125498
    Abstract: The invention relates to a medical implant for closure of a defect aperture, a vessel, an organ path or another aperture in a human or animal body, comprising a base body and at least one fibre, wherein the base body can be reversibly transformed against elastic material forces from a secondary shape into a primary shape, wherein in the primary shape the base body has an elongated shape and in the secondary shape is at least partially coiled and comprises a cone shape, which is characterized in that the at least one fibre is connected to the base body such that the fibre in the secondary shape of the base body extends at least once, preferably a plurality of times, transversely through the cone shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2016
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventor: Joachim SCHAEFER
  • Patent number: 9545953
    Abstract: An instrument panel for a vehicle is provided. The instrument panel has a visible side and a rear side. The rear side has at least one free-space portion and at least one fastening portion, and the instrument panel can be fastened in the fastening portion to a vehicle structure of the vehicle. The instrument panel comprises at least one foam body, and the foam body is formed to be elastically deformable. The foam body is arranged between the visible side and the rear side and forms elastically deformable regions on the visible side, and the foam body forms additional elastically deformable regions in the at least one free-space portion on the rear side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Stefan Wolff, Joachim Schaefer, Stephan Walter
  • Publication number: 20170000632
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system for connecting a medical implant to an insertion aid, comprising: a first spiral connecting device at the proximal end of the medical implant, a second spiral connecting device at the distal end of the insertion aid, a core wire, which in a first operating state of the system fixes the first spiral connecting device and the second spiral connecting device in relation to one another, wherein in the first operating state the first spiral connecting device and the second spiral connecting device at least partially engage in one another and the core wire extends through the first spiral connecting device and the second spiral connecting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2014
    Publication date: January 5, 2017
    Inventor: Joachim SCHAEFER
  • Patent number: 9296428
    Abstract: A motor vehicle body is provided. The motor vehicle body includes a plate-like, three-dimensionally shaped cross member, of which a first flange supports a front, lower edge region of a windshield, and a second flange is supported against a structural element of the body. The cross member further encompasses a spacer that joins the two flanges and is elongated in the transverse direction of the vehicle, and which exhibits a sectional profile that extends horizontally along a straight line over the entire length of the cross member.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2016
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Stefan Wolff, Joachim Schaefer, Uwe Schmitz
  • Patent number: 9056632
    Abstract: A motor vehicle has a windshield and a radiator tank assembly that acts on the lower edge of the windshield and exhibits a guide pad extending on an interior side of the windshield. The guide pad is divided into a central and two lateral sections. The lateral sections are more flexible than the central section during exposure to a pressure acting on the windshield from outside.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Joachim Schaefer, Uwe Schmitz, Stefan Wolff
  • Publication number: 20150137550
    Abstract: An instrument panel for a vehicle is provided. The instrument panel has a visible side and a rear side. The rear side has at least one free-space portion and at least one fastening portion, and the instrument panel can be fastened in the fastening portion to a vehicle structure of the vehicle. The instrument panel comprises at least one foam body, and the foam body is formed to be elastically deformable. The foam body is arranged between the visible side and the rear side and forms elastically deformable regions on the visible side, and the foam body forms additional elastically deformable regions in the at least one free-space portion on the rear side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2014
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Stefan Wolff, Joachim Schaefer, Stephan Walter
  • Patent number: 8979165
    Abstract: A motor vehicle having a windshield, A-pillars laterally enclosing the windshield and a window cross member connected to the A-pillars is provided. The window cross member supports a lower edge of the windshield in that it comprises a support section touching the windshield. The window cross member includes a point of action fastened to the A-pillar, which is offset in the direction of a surface normal of the windshield against the support section. The window cross member also includes a compressible section that connects the point of action with the support section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Stefan Wolff, Uwe Schmitz, Joachim Schaefer
  • Patent number: 8967313
    Abstract: A front hood is provided for a motor vehicle that includes, but is not limited to damping element of plastic arranged between a top structure and a bottom structure. The damping element is glued to the top structure and the bottom structure. In the event of a head impact on the front hood the deformation of the top structure is retarded by the damping element. The damping element in the process supports itself on the bottom structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 6, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Uwe Schmitz, Bernd Dreyer, Grace Thompson, Joachim Schaefer, Joerg Fuge, Anett Kilian
  • Patent number: 8926002
    Abstract: A motor vehicle body includes, but is not limited to a front hood, a windshield rising from a rear edge of the front hood and a cross member substantially extending over the width of the windshield, of which a front edge supports a front lower edge of the windshield and a rear edge is supported on a structural element of the body. A top side of the cross member faces the passenger cell and a bottom side faces the engine compartment. Between the front edge and the rear edge the cross member comprises at least one first region, in which the top side is concavely curved in a section plane running in vehicle longitudinal direction and which yields to a load by intensifying the curvature along an apex line yielding towards the engine compartment and pivoting of two zones extending on both sides of the apex line towards each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 6, 2015
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Joachim Schaefer, Uwe Schmitz, Stefan Wolff, Stephan Walter
  • Patent number: 8770654
    Abstract: A motor vehicle includes a front hood, a front window supported on a lower edge by a window support, and a water box below a gap between the front window and the front hood. A water box cover is fastened to the window support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 8, 2014
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventor: Joachim Schaefer
  • Patent number: 8739682
    Abstract: A pneumatic actuator is provided for an active hood and includes a cylinder and a piston, which is movable in the cylinder between a lower terminal position, in which the volume of a chamber delimited by piston and cylinder, which may be impinged using compressed gas, is minimal, and an upper terminal position, in which the volume of the chamber is maximal. The piston is lockable in the lower terminal position by a detent body engaging in first recesses of the cylinder and the piston. A slider is displaceable by impingement using the compressed gas out of an idle position, in which it fixes the detent body in the first recesses, into a triggering position, in which a second recess of the slider overlaps with one of the first recesses and is capable, together with a single one of the first recesses of accommodating the detent body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 3, 2014
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Bernd Dreyer, Joachim Schaefer, Erik Wiesinger
  • Patent number: 8720978
    Abstract: A motor vehicle body with a front hood, a front window rising from a rear edge of the front hood, and an elongated cross member is provided. The elongated cross member includes a middle region curved channel-like in section in a vehicle longitudinal direction. A contact zone of the elongated cross member supports a lower edge of the front window and a longitudinal end supports the elongated cross member. A transition region is between the longitudinal end and the middle region and, in section in the vehicle longitudinal direction, is less curved than the middle region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 13, 2014
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventors: Joachim Schaefer, Uwe Schmitz, Stefan Wolff
  • Patent number: 8656716
    Abstract: A pneumatic actuator includes, but is not limited to a pressurized gas source, a cylinder, and a piston which is moveable between a rest position and an extended position. Together with the cylinder, the piston borders a first working chamber which is connected with the pressurized gas source via a first inlet opening and which can be pressurized with a first portion of the pressurized gas of the pressurized gas source for moving the piston out of the rest position, and a second working chamber which is connected with the pressurized gas source via a second inlet opening for moving the piston into the rest position and which can be pressurized in a delayed manner with a second portion of the pressurized gas.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2006
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2014
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventor: Joachim Schäfer
  • Patent number: 8622463
    Abstract: A front region of a vehicle is provided that includes, but is not limited to an upper front region, a middle front region, and a lower front region. The upper front region includes, but is not limited to an engine hood, front regions of mudguards headlamps or driving direction indicators. The middle front region includes, but is not limited to an impact energy-absorbing region and has molding elements in driving direction. The molding elements interact with impact energy-absorbing, yielding structures. The yielding structures are plastically deformable. The lower front region includes, but is not limited to a molding apron. The lower front region is elastically deformable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLC
    Inventor: Joachim Schaefer
  • Publication number: 20130341964
    Abstract: A motor vehicle body is provided. The motor vehicle body includes a front bonnet, a front window rising out of a rear margin of the front bonnet and a cross member extending in width direction of the front window. A front flange of the cross member supports a front lower margin of the front window, a rear flange being supported on a structural element of the body, and a first intermediate piece extends from an upper rear margin of the front flange towards the rear flange. The rear flange is widened towards the front by a second intermediate piece beyond a support area of the structural element. The intermediate pieces are linked via a bending zone that is convex towards the engine compartment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Stefan WOLFF, Joachim SCHAEFER
  • Publication number: 20130341968
    Abstract: A motor vehicle body is provided. The motor vehicle body includes a plate-like, three-dimensionally shaped cross member, of which a first flange supports a front, lower edge region of a windshield, and a second flange is supported against a structural element of the body. The cross member further encompasses a spacer that joins the two flanges and is elongated in the transverse direction of the vehicle, and which exhibits a sectional profile that extends horizontally along a straight line over the entire length of the cross member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Publication date: December 26, 2013
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Stefan WOLFF, Joachim SCHAEFER, Uwe SCHMITZ