Patents by Inventor Joerg SIEME

Joerg SIEME 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: 11703204
    Abstract: An air guide is provided for cooling an illumination device of a vehicle. A single, essentially rigid air channel with an air inlet opening and at least one air outlet opening is provided. The air inlet opening is allocated to a blower and the at least one air outlet opening is allocated to at least one chamber or at least one chamber area of the illumination device. In order to improve the cooling of an illumination device of a vehicle, air channel is a free-form air channel, where the flow resistance of the free-form channel between the air inlet opening and each of the at least one air outlet opening is designed to be so low as to make it possible to deploy a blower in the form of an axial fan.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Joerg Sieme
  • Publication number: 20230175288
    Abstract: An example lock apparatus includes a shackle including an engagement portion, and a lock head operable to selectively engage the engagement portion to thereby retain the lock apparatus in a closed condition. The lock head includes a housing, a slider, and a detent mechanism. The slider is mounted for sliding movement relative to the housing between a first position and a second position. One of the first position or the second position is a closed position in which the slider prevents removal of the engagement portion from the lock head, and the other of the first position or the second position is an open position in which the slider permits removal of the engagement portion from the lock head. The detent mechanism is configured to selectively resist movement of the slider from the first position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Joerg Sieme, Arno Winter
  • Patent number: 11566764
    Abstract: A holding device of a lighting module of a lighting unit of a vehicle, comprising a securing section for securing the holding device to the rest of the lighting module and a bearing section for supporting the holding device on a bearing pin of the lighting unit, wherein the bearing section has at least one lock which forms a locking connection together with the bearing pin when the holding device is assembled, and wherein the lock is designed such that the locking connection simultaneously forms a joint which enables the lighting module to rotate about a longitudinal axis of the bearing pin. A lighting module and a lighting unit of a vehicle are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Paul Friesen, Joerg Sieme
  • Publication number: 20220324529
    Abstract: An exemplary mounting bracket is configured for releasably securing a bicycle lock to a bicycle, and generally includes a housing, a pair of opposing arms, a pinion, a latch, and a manual actuator. The arms are movably mounted to the housing for movement between inward positions and outward positions, and each arm includes a rack gear. The pinion is engaged with each rack gear and correlates movement of the arms such that the arms move with one another between the outward positions and the inward positions. The latch has a latching position in which the latch is operable to maintain the arms in the inward position, and has an unlatching position in which the arms are free to move from the inward position to the outward position. The manual actuator is operable to move the latch between the latching position and the unlatching position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2019
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Joerg Sieme, Arno Winter, Ramamohan Bhaskar Shettigar
  • Patent number: 11435048
    Abstract: A light module of a light unit of a vehicle, having a light generating unit, an optical system, a cover plate, a cover frame and a carrier, wherein in an assembled state of the light module, the light generating unit, the optical system and the cover plate are arranged in the aforementioned order between the carrier and the cover frame, and wherein the cover frame has a plurality of positioner for positioning the light generating unit, the optical system and the cover plate relative to the cover frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Paul Friesen, Joerg Sieme
  • Publication number: 20220186905
    Abstract: An air guide is provided for cooling an illumination device of a vehicle. A single, essentially rigid air channel with an air inlet opening and at least one air outlet opening is provided. The air inlet opening is allocated to a blower and the at least one air outlet opening is allocated to at least one chamber or at least one chamber area of the illumination device. In order to improve the cooling of an illumination device of a vehicle, air channel is a free-form air channel, where the flow resistance of the free-form channel between the air inlet opening and each of the at least one air outlet opening is designed to be so low as to make it possible to deploy a blower in the form of an axial fan.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 4, 2020
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventor: Joerg Sieme
  • Publication number: 20210404623
    Abstract: A light module of a light unit of a vehicle, having a light generating unit, an optical system, a cover plate, a cover frame and a carrier, wherein in an assembled state of the light module, the light generating unit, the optical system and the cover plate are arranged in the aforementioned order between the carrier and the cover frame, and wherein the cover frame has a plurality of positioner for positioning the light generating unit, the optical system and the cover plate relative to the cover frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: HELLA GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Paul FRIESEN, Joerg SIEME
  • Publication number: 20210404619
    Abstract: A holding device of a lighting module of a lighting unit of a vehicle, comprising a securing section for securing the holding device to the rest of the lighting module and a bearing section for supporting the holding device on a bearing pin of the lighting unit, wherein the bearing section has at least one lock which forms a locking connection together with the bearing pin when the holding device is assembled, and wherein the lock is designed such that the locking connection simultaneously forms a joint which enables the lighting module to rotate about a longitudinal axis of the bearing pin. A lighting module and a lighting unit of a vehicle are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2021
    Publication date: December 30, 2021
    Applicant: HELLA GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Paul FRIESEN, Joerg SIEME
  • Patent number: 11148580
    Abstract: A receiving assembly for a headlight range adjusting device for a lighting module in a headlight of a vehicle, with a receiving area for the headlight range adjusting device and with thermal compensator to compensate for a temperature-related displacement of a connection point for the lighting module in an adjustment axis of the headlight range adjusting device. The compensator has at least one profiled receiving area which extends in the adjustment axis and which is made of a first material with a first coefficient of thermal expansion, and the compensator has at least one receiving slide which extends in the adjustment axis and which is made of a second material with a second coefficient of thermal expansion, which is received in the profiled receiving area in the adjustment axis so as to be displaceable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 19, 2021
    Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventor: Joerg Sieme
  • Publication number: 20200353860
    Abstract: A receiving assembly for a headlight range adjusting device for a lighting module in a headlight of a vehicle, with a receiving area for the headlight range adjusting device and with thermal compensator to compensate for a temperature-related displacement of a connection point for the lighting module in an adjustment axis of the headlight range adjusting device. The compensator has at least one profiled receiving area which extends in the adjustment axis and which is made of a first material with a first coefficient of thermal expansion, and the compensator has at least one receiving slide which extends in the adjustment axis and which is made of a second material with a second coefficient of thermal expansion, which is received in the profiled receiving area in the adjustment axis so as to be displaceable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2020
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: HELLA GMBH & CO. KGAA
    Inventor: Joerg SIEME
  • Patent number: 10563836
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus for vehicles having a light source unit containing a number of light sources, having an optical unit disposed in front of the light source unit in the main emission direction and containing a number of optical elements for imaging the light source according to a predetermined light distribution, having an additional element containing a cutout for the light source, wherein the additional element is designed as an adjustment screen and the cutout as a screen opening, wherein the adjustment screen extends in a screen plane extending perpendicular to an optical axis of the optical unit between a light input face of the optical unit and a light source plane accommodating the light source, the light source has a contour, extending in the light source plane with light source edges which delimit a light-emitting face of the light source.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2020
    Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Bernd Fischer, Paul Friesen, Joerg Sieme
  • Publication number: 20190301696
    Abstract: A lighting apparatus for vehicles having a light source unit containing a number of light sources, having an optical unit disposed in front of the light source unit in the main emission direction and containing a number of optical elements for imaging the light source according to a predetermined light distribution, having an additional element containing a cutout for the light source, wherein the additional element is designed as an adjustment screen and the cutout as a screen opening, wherein the adjustment screen extends in a screen plane extending perpendicular to an optical axis of the optical unit between a light input face of the optical unit and a light source plane accommodating the light source, the light source has a contour, extending in the light source plane with light source edges which delimit a light-emitting face of the light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Applicant: HELLA GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Bernd FISCHER, Paul FRIESEN, Joerg SIEME
  • Patent number: 9384745
    Abstract: Embodiments of an article of manufacture, a system for processing audio signals and a computer-readable storage medium containing program instructions for processing audio signals are described. In one embodiment, an article of manufacture comprising at least one non-transitory, tangible machine readable storage medium containing executable machine instructions for processing audio signals, where execution of the executable machine instructions by a processing device causes the processing device to perform steps, which include estimating a spectral difference between a first audio signal and a second audio signal that carry the same audio content, transforming the second audio signal based on the spectral difference and generating an output audio signal based on the transformed second audio signal. Other embodiments are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Joerg Siemes
  • Publication number: 20160049155
    Abstract: Embodiments of an article of manufacture, a system for processing audio signals and a computer-readable storage medium containing program instructions for processing audio signals are described. In one embodiment, an article of manufacture comprising at least one non-transitory, tangible machine readable storage medium containing executable machine instructions for processing audio signals, where execution of the executable machine instructions by a processing device causes the processing device to perform steps, which include estimating a spectral difference between a first audio signal and a second audio signal that carry the same audio content, transforming the second audio signal based on the spectral difference and generating an output audio signal based on the transformed second audio signal. Other embodiments are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2014
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Applicant: NXP B.V.
    Inventor: Joerg Siemes
  • Patent number: 9115861
    Abstract: A module assembly (1) for arrangement in a headlamp of a vehicle with a carrier frame (10) on which at least one light module (11) is supported. The light module (11) comprises at least one heat sink (12) on which at least one semiconductor light source (13) is supported for the emission of light (14). Two mounting journals (16) extending in a common axis (15) are arranged on the heat sink (12), so that the light module (11) can pivot about the axis (15) on the carrier frame (10). The light module (11) has a clamping unit (17) with which the light module (11) can be clamped in its pivot position about the axis (15) on the carrier frame (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Hella KGaA Hueck & Co.
    Inventor: Jörg Sieme
  • Publication number: 20140321144
    Abstract: A module assembly (1) for arrangement in a headlamp of a vehicle with a carrier frame (10) on which at least one light module (11) is supported. The light module (11) comprises at least one heat sink (12) on which at least one semiconductor light source (13) is supported for the emission of light (14). Two mounting journals (16) extending in a common axis (15) are arranged on the heat sink (12), so that the light module (11) can pivot about the axis (15) on the carrier frame (10). The light module (11) has a clamping unit (17) with which the light module (11) can be clamped in its pivot position about the axis (15) on the carrier frame (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2014
    Publication date: October 30, 2014
    Inventor: Jörg Sieme