Patents by Inventor Martin Küppers

Martin Küppers 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: 20240075863
    Abstract: A tray assembly for a vehicle has a steering wheel rim and a plate-shaped tray unit arranged on the steering wheel rim. The steering wheel rim is mounted to be pivotable about a horizontal pivot axis between a steering position and a tray position arranged at a smaller angle of inclination than in the steering position. In order to provide a tray assembly which can be handled in a manner which is reliable in operation and user-friendly, an edge of the tray unit is matched to a profile of the steering wheel rim such that the tray unit arranged on the steering wheel rim located in the tray position partially or completely covers the steering wheel rim from above, without projecting beyond the steering wheel rim on the outside.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 25, 2023
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Martin Fassbender, Sascha Kaatz, Philipp Kuepper
  • Patent number: 11912334
    Abstract: A method for releasing a tilt mechanism for a steering element of a vehicle, wherein the steering element is mounted pivotably around a tilt axis between a steering position and at least one non-steering position, wherein the steering element has at least one releasable locking arrangement, which fixes the steering element in the steering position and the at least one non-steering position. The locking arrangement can adopt at least one locking state in which the release of the locking arrangement is prevented and can adopt at least one release state in which the release of the locking arrangement is enabled. A corresponding steering arrangement and a corresponding vehicle are provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Philipp Kuepper, Martin Faßbender, Bruno Alves, Klemens Degle, Lukas Loehmann
  • Publication number: 20220044175
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a method for designing a traffic infrastructure on the basis of height data provided by a height monitoring object comprising: a) evaluating the height data detected by a sensor unit of the height monitoring object and generating an evaluation dataset; b) identifying a component of the traffic infrastructure from the evaluation dataset; c) identifying a user of the traffic infrastructure from the evaluation dataset; and d) determining a utilization of the component by the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2019
    Publication date: February 10, 2022
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Matthias Huber, Martin Küppers, Nils Namockel