Patents by Inventor Matthias Burger

Matthias Burger 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: 20240304538
    Abstract: A power semiconductor module arrangement includes: a substrate having a dielectric insulation layer and a first metallization layer arranged on a first surface of the dielectric insulation layer; at least one semiconductor body arranged on and attached to the first metallization layer by an electrically conductive connection layer; and at least one electrically conducting element arranged on the first metallization layer. The first metallization layer is a structured layer having a plurality of different sub-sections. The first metallization layer has a uniform thickness in a vertical direction, the vertical direction being perpendicular to the first surface of the dielectric insulation layer. Each electrically conducting element is arranged on and covers a subarea of a sub-section, thereby increasing a cross-sectional area of the subarea of the respective sub-section. Each electrically conducting element includes an electrically conductive connection layer without a semiconductor body arranged thereon.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventors: Christoph Bayer, Matthias Bürger, Ulrich Nolten, Mark Essert
  • Patent number: 10425243
    Abstract: The invention provides a commissioning device for commissioning building technology devices, in particular operating devices for lighting means, the commissioning device comprising at least one optical sensor, in particular a 3D camera, configured to obtain images containing spatial information of three dimensions and to receive optical communication signals emitted from a building technology device, at least one processing unit configured to process received optical communication signals and to process the spatial images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignees: TRIDONIC GMBH & CO KG, ZUMTOBEL LIGHTING INC.
    Inventors: Matthias Burger, Karl Jonsson, Christan Moormann, Stephane Vasse
  • Patent number: 10285210
    Abstract: Methods and systems are presented for remotely controlling a motor vehicle by mobile communication terminal. One method includes displaying motor vehicles by the mobile communication terminal, with which the mobile communication terminal had been previously coupled using a prior wireless connection. Based on an ability to establish a wireless connection concurrently with more than one of the motor vehicles, the method includes: establishing a wireless connection between one of the motor vehicle and the mobile communication terminal in response to detecting that the one of the motor vehicles has been selected, and prohibiting establishment of the new wireless connection between the mobile communication terminal and one of the motor vehicles until the one of the motor vehicles has been selected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Matthias Burger, Markus Schwierz
  • Publication number: 20180212793
    Abstract: The invention provides a commissioning device for commissioning building technology devices, in particular operating devices for lighting means, the commissioning device comprising at least one optical sensor, in particular a 3D camera, configured to obtain images containing spatial information of three dimensions and to receive optical communication signals emitted from a building technology device, at least one processing unit configured to process received optical communication signals and to process the spatial images.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2016
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicants: TRIDONIC GMBH & CO KG, ZUMTOBEL LIGHTING INC.
    Inventors: Matthias Burger, Karl Jonsson, Christan Moormann, Stephane Vasse
  • Patent number: 9988683
    Abstract: Provided are methods and nucleic acids for detecting, differentiating or distinguishing between colon cell proliferative disorders by analysis of one or more of the genes Versican, TPEF, H-Cadherin, Calcitonin, and EYA4. Further provided are novel nucleic acid sequences useful for the cell proliferative disorder specific analysis of said genes as well as methods, assays and kits thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2010
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: EPIGENOMICS AG
    Inventors: Peter Adorjan, Matthias Burger, Sabine Maier, Ralf Lesche, Susan Cottrell, Suzanne Mooney
  • Patent number: 9752483
    Abstract: A method of operating a dosing device. A dosing valve is provided with low-pressure and high-pressure chambers delimited by a piston whose travel is limited to a predefined maximum stroke. A pump operates to deliver the liquid at pre-delivery pressure. The dosing valve actuates under direction of a control unit by opening a 2/2 directional valve to direct the pumped liquid into the low-pressure chamber, and in response, the piston initiates a stroke. The liquid is injected from the high-pressure chamber into the exhaust-gas stream during the stroke of the piston, and the injection stops when the piston reaches maximum stroke. The control unit holds the directional valve open for longer than the piston requires to perform its maximum stroke so that the dosing valve delivers a predetermined volumetric dose of the liquid into the exhaust-gas stream, the predetermined volumetric dose corresponding directly to the maximum stroke of the piston.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Matthias Burger
  • Publication number: 20170215219
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and system for remotely controlling a motor vehicle by means of a mobile communication terminal with the steps: Displaying all motor vehicles by means of the mobile communication terminal, with which the mobile communication terminal had already been coupled before in the form of a wireless connection; if a wireless connection can be established instantaneously with more than one of the displayed motor vehicles: once it has been detected that one of these vehicles has been selected: establishing a wireless connection between the selected motor vehicle and the mobile communication terminal; as long as none of said motor vehicles has been selected: prohibiting the automatic establishing of a wireless connection between the mobile communication terminal and said motor vehicles. The invention also relates to a system for remotely controlling a motor vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2015
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Applicant: Audi AG
    Inventors: Matthias BURGER, Markus SCHWIERZ
  • Publication number: 20170058739
    Abstract: A method for operating a reagent metering system which meters a reagent into an exhaust duct of an internal combustion engine upstream of an SCR catalytic converter, in which, after the metering operation is ended, at least part of the reagent metering system is emptied by back-suction by means of a reciprocating pump. The procedure according to the invention is distinguished in that during the back-suction, a stop determination determines the flight time of a reciprocating piston of the reciprocating pump from a starting time as far as the stop time, in that a comparator compares the flight time determined with a flight time threshold value, and in that the activation power of the reciprocating pump is reduced if the flight time determined is less than the flight time threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventor: Matthias Burger
  • Patent number: 9574477
    Abstract: A method for operating a reagent metering system which meters a reagent into an exhaust duct of an internal combustion engine upstream of an SCR catalytic converter, in which, after the metering operation is ended, at least part of the reagent metering system is emptied by back-suction by means of a reciprocating pump. The procedure according to the invention is distinguished in that during the back-suction, a stop determination determines the flight time of a reciprocating piston of the reciprocating pump from a starting time as far as the stop time, in that a comparator compares the flight time determined with a flight time threshold value, and in that the activation power of the reciprocating pump is reduced if the flight time determined is less than the flight time threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Matthias Burger
  • Patent number: 9556768
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device and method for metering a liquid, in particular a fuel, into an exhaust gas tract of an internal combustion engine, wherein the device comprises at least one injection valve that can be closed by a closing member and that has cooling circuit for regulating the temperature in the injection valve, and wherein a throttle element is connected upstream of the injection valve to control, by closed loop or open loop, the quantity of a volume flow of the liquid through the injection valve, in particular through the cooling circuit of the injection valve, wherein the injection valve opens when the throttle element de-throttles the volume flow of the liquid to the injection valve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Matthias Burger
  • Patent number: 9517769
    Abstract: A motor vehicle has a control device to control automated longitudinal and/or transverse guidance of the motor vehicle within the scope of a specific driving maneuver. The motor vehicle also has an operator control element to communicate with the control device and to transfer control information, relating to the at least partially automated longitudinal and/or transverse guidance, to the control device. The control device is configured in such a way that activation or deactivation of the longitudinal and/or transverse guidance can be controlled by means of an operator-side first operator-control action at the operator-control element, and at least one driving parameter which influences the longitudinal and/or transverse guidance of the motor vehicle, controlled by the control device, can be modified by means of an additional operator-side, second operator-control action at the operator-control element, which second operator-control action is in particular different from the first operator-control action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Erwin Roth, Rudolf Leinfelder, Matthias Burger, Ulrich Hammes, Chao Chen, David Lenz, Pascal Minnerup
  • Publication number: 20160201536
    Abstract: A method of operating a dosing device. A dosing valve is provided with low-pressure and high-pressure chambers delimited by a piston whose travel is limited to a predefined maximum stroke. A pump operates to deliver the liquid at pre-delivery pressure. The dosing valve actuates under direction of a control unit by opening a 2/2 directional valve to direct the pumped liquid into the low-pressure chamber, and in response, the piston initiates a stroke. The liquid is injected from the high-pressure chamber into the exhaust-gas stream during the stroke of the piston, and the injection stops when the piston reaches maximum stroke. The control unit holds the directional valve open for longer than the piston requires to perform its maximum stroke so that the dosing valve delivers a predetermined volumetric dose of the liquid into the exhaust-gas stream, the predetermined volumetric dose corresponding directly to the maximum stroke of the piston.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 21, 2016
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventor: Matthias Burger
  • Publication number: 20160194006
    Abstract: A motor vehicle has a control device to control automated longitudinal and/or transverse guidance of the motor vehicle within the scope of a specific driving maneuver. The motor vehicle also has an operator control element to communicate with the control device and to transfer control information, relating to the at least partially automated longitudinal and/or transverse guidance, to the control device. The control device is configured in such a way that activation or deactivation of the longitudinal and/or transverse guidance can be controlled by means of an operator-side first operator-control action at the operator-control element, and at least one driving parameter which influences the longitudinal and/or transverse guidance of the motor vehicle, controlled by the control device, can be modified by means of an additional operator-side, second operator-control action at the operator-control element, which second operator-control action is in particular different from the first operator-control action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2014
    Publication date: July 7, 2016
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Erwin ROTH, Rudolf LEINFELDER, Matthias BURGER, Ulrich HAMMES, Chao CHEN, David LENZ, Pascal MINNERUP
  • Patent number: 9371824
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dosing valve and to a dosing device (15) for introducing a liquid medium into an exhaust-gas stream of an internal combustion engine (1) of a motor vehicle. The dosing device (15) has a pump (23) for delivering the liquid medium. The medium is injected into the exhaust-gas stream by means of a dosing valve (13) which can be controlled by way of an electromagnet (65). The dosing device (13) comprises a housing (33) with a stepped bore (34, 34.1, 34.2, 34.3, 34.4), wherein a pump sleeve (47) is guided sealingly in one portion (34.4) of the stepped bore (34). A hollow-bored piston (49) is guided sealingly in a central bore (48) of the pump sleeve (47). In a low-pressure chamber (61), an armature (69) is fastened to the piston (49), and furthermore a magnet sleeve (67) is fastened to the housing (33).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Matthias Burger
  • Patent number: 9239320
    Abstract: A method for verifying the plausibility of a measuring device for determining a quality of an aqueous urea solution in a reservoir of an SCR catalyst system comprises determining whether a filling of the reservoir has taken place, determining the quality of the aqueous urea solution in the reservoir and detecting whether an error of the measuring device is present or whether the reservoir was filled with an aqueous urea solution, the quality of which deviates from a default value consisting of a filling status of the reservoir and the quality of the aqueous urea solution in said reservoir.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Klenk, Matthias Burger, Reinold Weinmann, Wilhelm Dueck
  • Publication number: 20150275312
    Abstract: The present invention relates to modified and genomic sequences, to oligonucleotides and/or PNA-oligomers for detecting the cytosine methylation state of genomic DNA, as well as to a method for ascertaining genetic and/or epigenetic parameters of genes for use in the differentiation, diagnosis, treatment and/or monitoring of colon cell proliferative disorders, or the predisposition to colon cell proliferative disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2014
    Publication date: October 1, 2015
    Inventors: Peter Adorjan, Matthias Burger, Sabine Maier, Inko Nimmrich, Evelyne Becker, Ralf Lesche, Tamas Rujan, Armin Schmitt
  • Publication number: 20150082775
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dosing valve and to a dosing device (15) for introducing a liquid medium into an exhaust-gas stream of an internal combustion engine (1) of a motor vehicle. The dosing device (15) has a pump (23) for delivering the liquid medium. The medium is injected into the exhaust-gas stream by means of a dosing valve (13) which can be controlled by way of an electromagnet (65). The dosing device (13) comprises a housing (33) with a stepped bore (34, 34.1, 34.2, 34.3, 34.4), wherein a pump sleeve (47) is guided sealingly in one portion (34.4) of the stepped bore (34). A hollow-bored piston (49) is guided sealingly in a central bore (48) of the pump sleeve (47). In a low-pressure chamber (61), an armature (69) is fastened to the piston (49), and furthermore a magnet sleeve (67) is fastened to the housing (33).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Publication date: March 26, 2015
    Inventor: Matthias Burger
  • Publication number: 20150034189
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dosing device (15) for introducing a liquid medium into an exhaust gas flow of an internal combustion engine (1) of a motor vehicle. The dosing device (15) has a pump (23) to deliver the liquid medium and injects said medium into the exhaust gas flow via a controllable dosing valve (13). The dosing device (15) has a 2/2 directional valve (17) which is arranged in a delivery line (19) between the pump (23) and a first low pressure chamber (47) of the dosing valve (13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2013
    Publication date: February 5, 2015
    Inventor: Matthias Burger
  • Patent number: 8864054
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fuel injector and, in particular, to a common-rail injector for injecting fuel into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine with a multi-part injection valve element, which can be adjusted between an open position and a closed position. A first part and a second part of the injection valve element are coupled to one another via a hydraulic coupler, which is bounded radially by a first guide for the first part and by a second guide for the second part. According to the invention, at least some sections of the first and the second guide are surrounded at their outer radii by fuel under high pressure, and the pressure realized in the hydraulic coupler is lower than the pressure radially outside the guides.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: October 21, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Burger, Hans-Christoph Magel
  • Patent number: D803269
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2017
    Assignee: Karl Storz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Manfred Schmidt, Peter Ruh, Matthias Burger, Andreas Jansche