Patents by Inventor Markus Halm

Markus Halm 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: 12553586
    Abstract: A lighting device includes a housing with a translucent cover panel and one or more flexible light guides arranged at least partly in the housing. Each light guide contains one or more fibers which extend between two ends of the respective light guide. A lighting apparatus for supplying light is provided at one end of each light guide, and the supplied light produces light emission out of the respective light guide. At least one part of the emitted light exits the lighting device via the cover panel. A specified section of the respective light guide is held in a support in the interior of the housing by a profiled section having a translucent receiving section in which the specified section is received and fixed. The lighting device also includes a securing section which extends from the receiving section into a depression of the support and is fixed in the depression.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2026
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Markus Halm, Fabio Leone
  • Publication number: 20250376107
    Abstract: A fastening arrangement of a lighting device is provided, which is designed for lighting at least a partial region of an environment of a vehicle, on a structural element of the vehicle, in which the lighting device is fastened to the structural element via a fastening device. The fastening device has a first through opening of the structural element, the first through opening of which is penetrated by the lighting device such that a first partial region of the lighting device is arranged on a rear side of the structural element facing away from the environment and a second partial region of the lighting device is arranged on a front side of the structural element facing the environment. A clamping element is provided which is arranged on the rear side, is connected to the first partial region, and is clamped against the rear side, as a result of which the second partial region is clamped against the front side.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2025
    Publication date: December 11, 2025
    Inventors: Nicholas ALDERSLEY, Bastian BICK, Markus HALM
  • Patent number: 12181124
    Abstract: A tail light includes a housing with a translucent cover panel and one or more flexible light guides at least partly arranged in the housing. Each light guide contains one or more fibers which extend between two ends of the respective light guide in the longitudinal direction thereof. One or more laser light sources are provided at one end of each light guide, and the supplied light produces an emission of light out of the respective light guide along the longitudinal direction thereof. At least one part of the emitted light exits the tail light via the cover panel as a first light emission. An additional lighting device with one or more LEDs is at least partly arranged in the housing and is configured such that light originating from the LED(s) exits the tail light via the cover panel as a second light emission.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Markus Halm
  • Publication number: 20240271772
    Abstract: A lighting device includes a housing with a translucent cover panel and one or more flexible light guides arranged at least partly in the housing. Each light guide contains one or more fibers which extend between two ends of the respective light guide. A lighting apparatus for supplying light is provided at one end of each light guide, and the supplied light produces light emission out of the respective light guide. At least one part of the emitted light exits the lighting device via the cover panel. A specified section of the respective light guide is held in a support in the interior of the housing by a profiled section having a translucent receiving section in which the specified section is received and fixed. The lighting device also includes a securing section which extends from the receiving section into a depression of the support and is fixed in the depression.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Publication date: August 15, 2024
    Inventors: Markus HALM, Fabio LEONE
  • Publication number: 20240218999
    Abstract: A tail light includes a housing with a translucent cover panel and one or more flexible light guides at least partly arranged in the housing. Each light guide contains one or more fibers which extend between two ends of the respective light guide in the longitudinal direction thereof. One or more laser light sources are provided at one end of each light guide, and the supplied light produces an emission of light out of the respective light guide along the longitudinal direction thereof. At least one part of the emitted light exits the tail light via the cover panel as a first light emission. An additional lighting device with one or more LEDs is at least partly arranged in the housing and is configured such that light originating from the LED(s) exits the tail light via the cover panel as a second light emission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Publication date: July 4, 2024
    Inventor: Markus HALM
  • Publication number: 20230256179
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for single administration of a medicinal product. The apparatus has a housing and a second component arranged for movement relative to the housing. During the administration of the medicinal product, the second component shifts from a first position relative to the housing into a second position relative to the housing. Fixed on the housing is a first magnetic element, and arranged on the moveable component is a second magnetic element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Publication date: August 17, 2023
    Inventors: Markus HALM, Armin HOSSEINI
  • Patent number: 11351309
    Abstract: A medicament injection device is disclosed comprising a housing containing a medicament cartridge holder; a rotatable cap assembly; a needle holder holding a needle, the needle holder being releasably supported by the cap assembly, a pre-stressed spring coupled to the medicament cartridge holder; wherein the cap assembly is arranged so that rotation thereof releases the pre-stressed spring, causing the medicament cartridge holder to move axially in a distal direction towards the needle. A method of operating the device is also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH
    Inventor: Markus Halm
  • Patent number: 10881810
    Abstract: A drug delivery device comprises a cap releasably secured to a main body of the drug delivery device and a needle assembly retained within the cap. The drug deliver device also includes a pre-stressed biasing element disposed between the cap and the needle assembly and configured to bias the needle assembly in a distal direction with respect to the drug delivery device while the cap is secured to the main body. The drug delivery device further comprises one or more locking elements each having a locked position and an unlocked position. In the locked position, the locking elements prevent the needle assembly from engaging with a cartridge retained within the main body. In an initial position, the cap is configured to retain the locking elements in the locked position. In an intermediate position, the cap is configured to release the locking elements to allow the needle assembly to engage with the cartridge.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2021
    Assignee: Sanofi-Aventis Deutschland GMBH
    Inventor: Markus Halm
  • Publication number: 20200054839
    Abstract: A medicament injection device is disclosed comprising a housing containing a medicament cartridge holder; a rotatable cap assembly; a needle holder holding a needle, the needle holder being releasably supported by the cap assembly, a pre-stressed spring coupled to the medicament cartridge holder; wherein the cap assembly is arranged so that rotation thereof releases the pre-stressed spring, causing the medicament cartridge holder to move axially in a distal direction towards the needle. A method of operating the device is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2017
    Publication date: February 20, 2020
    Inventor: Markus Halm
  • Publication number: 20180344943
    Abstract: A drug delivery device comprises a cap releasably secured to a main body of the drug delivery device and a needle assembly retained within the cap. The drug deliver device also includes a pre-stressed biasing element disposed between the cap and the needle assembly and configured to bias the needle assembly in a distal direction with respect to the drug delivery device while the cap is secured to the main body. The drug delivery device further comprises one or more locking elements each having a locked position and an unlocked position. In the locked position, the locking elements prevent the needle assembly from engaging with a cartridge retained within the main body. In an initial position, the cap is configured to retain the locking elements in the locked position. In an intermediate position, the cap is configured to release the locking elements to allow the needle assembly to engage with the cartridge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventor: Markus Halm
  • Patent number: 9888757
    Abstract: An attachment for an epilator or an epilator having at least a clamping unit for clamping and plucking hairs that is arranged for driven movement relative to a housing along a hair capture direction is disclosed. The clamping unit has a moveable clamping element having a clamping surface and a hair guiding surface and a fixed clamping element having a clamping surface and a hair guiding surfaced. The moveable clamping element and the fixed clamping element are arranged to be cyclically moveable between an open position in which the two clamping surfaces have a minimal distance such that a gap for receiving hairs is formed between them and a closed position in which the two clamping surfaces abut on each other. The two hair guiding surfaces form a funnel in front of the gap in the open position with respect to the hair capture direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: Braun GmbH
    Inventors: Frieder Grieshaber, Tarik Mehaddene, Bernhard Kraus, Luis Burrell-Diez, Andreas Lennartz, Tobias Schwarz, Markus Halm
  • Patent number: 9073476
    Abstract: A multifunctional strip for a motor vehicle includes a panel element having a strip-shaped configuration and constructed for outputting first and second items of information which differ from one another; and at least one actuator for outputting an acoustic signal as one of the items of information. The multifunctional strip can be arranged on the outside of the body of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Benjamin Nikol, Markus Halm, Sebastian Schwartze, Christian Winkelmann, Robert Angermüller, Christian Brendel, Christoph Schmitz, Jens Dietmar Reuschel, Tobias Urban
  • Publication number: 20140114328
    Abstract: The present disclosure is concerned with an attachment for an epilator or an epilator having at least a clamping unit for clamping and plucking hairs. The clamping unit is arranged for driven movement relative to a housing of the attachment or the epilator along a hair capture direction. The clamping unit has a moveable clamping element having a clamping surface and a hair guiding surface and a fixed clamping element having a clamping surface and a hair guiding surface, wherein the moveable clamping element and the fixed clamping element are arranged to be cyclically moveable between an open position and a closed position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Publication date: April 24, 2014
    Applicant: Braun GmbH
    Inventors: Frieder Grieshaber, Tarik Mehaddene, Bernhard Kraus, Luis Burrell-Diez, Andreas Lennartz, Tobias Schwarz, Markus Halm
  • Publication number: 20140107670
    Abstract: An attachment for an epilator or an epilator having at least a clamping unit for clamping and plucking hairs that is arranged for driven movement relative to a housing of the attachment or the epilator along a hair capture direction is disclosed. The clamping unit has a first clamping element having a clamping surface and a hair guiding surface and a second clamping element having a clamping surface and a hair guiding surface. The first clamping element and the second clamping element are arranged to be cyclically first between an open position in which the two clamping surfaces have a minimal distance such that a gap for receiving hairs is formed between them and a closed position in which the two clamping surfaces abut on each other. The two hair guiding surfaces form a funnel in front of the gap in the open position with respect to the hair capture direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: Braun GmbH
    Inventors: Frieder Grieshaber, Tarik Mehaddene, Bernhard Kraus, Luis Burrell-Diez, Andreas Lennartz, Tobias Schwarz, Markus Halm
  • Publication number: 20140107669
    Abstract: An attachment for an epilator or an epilator having at least a clamping unit for clamping and plucking hairs that is arranged for driven movement relative to a housing along a hair capture direction is disclosed. The clamping unit has a moveable clamping element having a clamping surface and a hair guiding surface and a fixed clamping element having a clamping surface and a hair guiding surfaced. The moveable clamping element and the fixed clamping element are arranged to be cyclically moveable between an open position in which the two clamping surfaces have a minimal distance such that a gap for receiving hairs is formed between them and a closed position in which the two clamping surfaces abut on each other. The two hair guiding surfaces form a funnel in front of the gap in the open position with respect to the hair capture direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2013
    Publication date: April 17, 2014
    Applicant: Braun GmbH
    Inventors: Frieder Grieshaber, Tarik Mehaddene, Bernhard Kraus, Luis Burrell-Diez, Andreas Lennartz, Tobias Schwarz, Markus Halm
  • Publication number: 20130214915
    Abstract: A multifunctional strip for a motor vehicle includes a panel element having a strip-shaped configuration and constructed for outputting first and second items of information which differ from one another; and at least one actuator for outputting an acoustic signal as one of the items of information. The multifunctional strip can be arranged on the outside of the body of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Publication date: August 22, 2013
    Applicant: Audi AG
    Inventors: Benjamin Nikol, Markus Halm, Sebastian Schwartze, Christian Winkelmann, Robert Angermüller, Christian Brendel, Christoph Schmitz, Jens Dietmar Reuschel, Tobias Urban
  • Patent number: D763505
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2016
    Assignee: Braun GmbH
    Inventors: Frieder Grieshaber, Bjorn Kling, Tarik Mehaddene, Markus Halm, Tobias Schwarz
  • Patent number: D776347
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: Braun GmbH
    Inventors: Frieder Grieshaber, Bjorn Kling, Tarik Mehaddene, Markus Halm, Tobias Schwarz