Patents by Inventor Michael Heim

Michael Heim 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: 20150075127
    Abstract: An air filter device for a motor vehicle, having a filter element received in a filter housing which, at least in sections, is surrounded by an encompassing frame part. A support bead is held on the filter housing which protrudes over the directly adjacent filter housing wall, wherein a sealing element on the frame is supported by the support bead on the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Daniel Schmid, Guenter Goerg, Timo Dirnberger, Ralf Dietz, Michael Heim
  • Patent number: 8979964
    Abstract: Filter element or air filter in the configuration of a multiple bellows filter with an increased efficiency for use in internal combustion engines, wherein a folded filter bellows is arranged radially inwardly of another folded filter bellows and the inner folded filter bellows has a greater or deeper fold depth than the outer folded filter bellows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2015
    Assignee: Mann+Hummel GmbH
    Inventors: Karlheinz Muenkel, Markus Kolczyk, Stefan Becker, Michael Heim
  • Publication number: 20150013282
    Abstract: A filter element, in particular a flat filter element (10) for installation in a filter housing of a filter for a fluid, in particular an air filter, in particular for an internal combustion engine, in particular in a motor vehicle, and a filter are described. The filter element (10) comprises open filter bellows (16) made of a filter medium (18), which has an oncoming flow side (28) and an outgoing flow side (30) for the fluid to be filtered. The filter element (10) has at least two hand grip elements (46) for gripping the filter element (10).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 13, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Nadine SORGER, Michael HEIM, Gelase MBADINGA MOUANDA, Pascal NEEF, Mario RIEGER, Werner BLOSSEY, Robert HASENFRATZ
  • Publication number: 20150013542
    Abstract: Disclosed are an air filter element, a filter housing, and an air filter in which the air filter elements have a high filtering capacity and a long service life by increasing the filter surface of an air filter element taking into account structural requirements for the air filter housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Robert Hasenfratz, Mario Rieger, Joerg Menssen, Michael Harenbrock, Duc Cuong Nguyen, Pascal Neef, Werner Blossey, André Roesgen, Thomas Jessberger, Pedro Miguel Pereira Madeira, Michael Heim, Mike Schmid, Martin Schmid, Gelase Mbadinga-Mouanda, Andreas Weber, Christian Thalmann
  • Publication number: 20150007732
    Abstract: Disclosed are an air filter element, a filter housing, and an air filter in which the air filter elements have a high filtering capacity and a long service life by increasing the filter surface of an air filter element taking into account structural requirements for the air filter housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Robert Hasenfratz, Mario Rieger, Joerg Menssen, Michael Harenbrock, Duc Cuong Nguyen, Pascal Neef, Werner Blossey, André Roesgen, Thomas Jessberger, Pedro Miguel Pereira Madeira, Michael Heim, Mike Schmid, Martin Schmid, Gelase Mbadinga-Mouanda, Andreas Weber, Christian Thalmann
  • Publication number: 20150007535
    Abstract: Disclosed are an air filter element, a filter housing, and an air filter in which the air filter elements have a high filtering capacity and a long service life by increasing the filter surface of an air filter element taking into account structural requirements for the air filter housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 14, 2014
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Inventors: Robert Hasenfratz, Mario Rieger, Joerg Menssen, Michael Harenbrock, Duc Cuong Nguyen, Pascal Neef, Werner Blossey, André Roesgen, Thomas Jessberger, Pedro Miguel Pereira Madeira, Michael Heim, Mike Schmid, Martin Schmid, Gelase Mbadinga-Mouanda, Andreas Weber, Christian Thalmann
  • Patent number: 8790431
    Abstract: Air filter having a preseparator with an optimized intake geometry, wherein an outflow geometry of a preseparator is matched to an intake geometry of a filter element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2014
    Assignee: Mann & Hummel GmbH
    Inventors: Karlheinz Muenkel, Markus Kolczyk, Stefan Becker, Michael Heim
  • Patent number: 8685127
    Abstract: A compact filter has a compact filter element for exchangeable use in a filter housing and the compact filter element has a filter body of a web-shaped filter medium. The web-shaped filter medium has at least one flat filter medium web and one corrugated filter medium web that are placed onto each other and at least partially connected to each other by ultrasonic welding. At least one of the flat and corrugated filter medium webs is a composite filter medium web of at least two components, wherein at least one component is a synthetic material and one component is a non-synthetic material. The non-synthetic material is a plant-derived material and forms a support of the composite filter medium web and the synthetic material is a synthetic layer applied on the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2014
    Assignee: Mann + Hummel GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Heim, Thomas Sieber, Josef Rohrmeier, Klaus Gehwolf, Joachim-Paul Krieger, Sven Epli, Tanja Majer, Andrés Moreno Linares, Jobst Eisengraeber-Pabst
  • Publication number: 20140053521
    Abstract: Filter element or air filter in the configuration of a multiple bellows filter with an increased efficiency for use in internal combustion engines, wherein a folded filter bellows is arranged radially inwardly of another folded filter bellows and the inner folded filter bellows has a greater or deeper fold depth than the outer folded filter bellows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Publication date: February 27, 2014
    Inventors: Karlheinz Muenkel, Markus Kolczyk, Stefan Becker, Michael Heim
  • Publication number: 20130305693
    Abstract: An exhaust gas recirculation device for an internal combustion engine includes a return line, which branches off an exhaust tract and leads into an intake tract. A separator component is arranged in the return line. Downstream of the separator component, a gas line, via which additional gas can be supplied, leads into the return line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2013
    Publication date: November 21, 2013
    Applicant: MANN+HUMMEL GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Heim, Andrew Glynn
  • Publication number: 20130255203
    Abstract: Air filter comprising a preseparator with an optimized intake geometry, wherein an outflow geometry of a preseparator is matched to an intake geometry of a filter element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2009
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Inventors: Karlheinz Muenkel, Marku Kolczyk, Stefan Becker, Michael Heim
  • Publication number: 20130232928
    Abstract: A filter element for an air inlet system includes a filter medium supported on a central tube. An inflow protection element is for flow deflection is arranged in an inflow area of the filter medium. The inflow protection element as well as the central tube and an axial end of the filter medium are embedded into a terminal disk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: MANN+HUMMEL GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Heim, Pascal Neef, Arthur Sudermann, Werner Blossey, Torsten Fritzsching
  • Publication number: 20130187490
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electric motor, in particular an electronically commutated electric motor. The electric motor has a stator, a rotor and a housing, which accommodates at least the stator and the rotor in a cavity. The electric motor also has a power output stage, which is connected to the stator and is designed to energize the stator in order to induce a rotating magnetic field. The power output stage has at least one power semiconductor with a thermal contact area, wherein the thermal contact area is thermally conductively connected to the housing, with the result that heat generated in the power semiconductor can be dissipated to the housing. According to the invention, the housing has a housing cup, which at least partially surrounds the cavity and is preferably thermally conductive and which has a cup wall, wherein the cup wall has a mating contact area corresponding to the thermal contact area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2011
    Publication date: July 25, 2013
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Hennecke, Michael Heim, Hans Irion, Gerhard Braun, Frank Wehrmann, Georg Voegele, Sigmund Braun, Johannes Hirschle, Alexander Fink
  • Patent number: 8436280
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a drinks dispenser with a heating device for the heating of a liquid and with at least one electric accumulator for the energy supply of the drinks dispenser, more preferably of its heating device, which compared with the charge power has a higher discharge power which is greater than 500 watt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2013
    Assignee: WMF Wurttembergische
    Inventors: Heinz Albert, Sebastian Casado Gomez, Jochen Gussmann, Michael Heim, Alexander Kiefer, Manfred Ostowski, Armin Startz
  • Publication number: 20130069427
    Abstract: The invention relates to a circuit arrangement (1) comprising an electrical and/or electronic circuit unit (10), which comprises a circuit carrier (14), on which at least one electrical and/or electronic component (12) is arranged, and at least one connection region (5) with at least one contact unit (14.2) for electrically contact-connecting the electrical and/or electronic circuit unit (10) to other electrical and/or electronic structural units, wherein at least one region of the circuit unit (10) is arranged in a housing unit (20) sealed relative to the surroundings. According to the invention, the housing unit (20) comprises a protective compound which surrounds the at least one region of the circuit unit (10) in a sealing fashion and surrounds the at least one connection region (5) in such a way that the at least one contact unit (14.2) is embedded at least at its side areas into the protective compound (22).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Publication date: March 21, 2013
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Jens Nowotnick, Michael Heim, Stefan Keil, Peter Rehbein, Gerhard Braun, Georg Voegele, Sigmund Braun, Andreas Kulik
  • Publication number: 20130063903
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement comprising an electric and/or electronic module (10) and a circuit carrier (12), wherein at least one electric connecting line (14) of the electric and/or electronic module (10) can be accommodated in a recess (16) of the circuit carrier (12). The arrangement comprises at least one clamping element (18a, 18b, 18c, 18d) which immobilizes the at least one connecting line (14) in the recess (16) once it has been introduced into the recess (16).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2011
    Publication date: March 14, 2013
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Heim, Sigmund Braun
  • Publication number: 20130010442
    Abstract: The invention relates to a circuit arrangement comprising an electric and/or electronic circuit unit (10) which has a circuit carrier (14), on which at least one electric and/or electronic component (12) is arranged, and at least one connecting zone comprising a contact unit for electrically contacting the electric and/or electronic circuit unit (10) with other electric and/or electronic components. The invention also relates to a corresponding controller for a motor vehicle. The circuit carrier (14) is designed as at least one lead frame assembly having individual strip conductors (14.11, 14.12), the strip conductors (14.11, 14.12) being arranged in at least two different planes (14.3, 14.4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2011
    Publication date: January 10, 2013
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Heim, Stefan Keil, Gerhard Braun, Georg Voegele
  • Publication number: 20120279186
    Abstract: A compact filter has a compact filter element for exchangeable use in a filter housing and the compact filter element has a filter body of a web-shaped filter medium. The web-shaped filter medium has at least one flat filter medium web and one corrugated filter medium web that are placed onto each other and at least partially connected to each other by ultrasonic welding. At least one of the flat and corrugated filter medium webs is a composite filter medium web of at least two components, wherein at least one component is a synthetic material and one component is a non-synthetic material. The non-synthetic material is a plant-derived material and forms a support of the composite filter medium web and the synthetic material is a synthetic layer applied on the support.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2012
    Publication date: November 8, 2012
    Applicant: MANN+HUMMEL GMBH
    Inventors: Michael HEIM, Thomas SIEBER, Josef ROHRMEIER, Klaus GEHWOLF, Joachim-Paul KRIEGER, Sven EPLI, Tanja MAJER, Andrés MORENO LINARES, Jobst EISENGRAEBER-PABST
  • Patent number: 8223035
    Abstract: A method for start-up and/or operation of a communication system composed of at least one multivariable sensor, at least one converter unit and at least one receiving unit, which are connected with one another via a two-wire line. A wherein a primary measured value in the form of an analog signal and extra measured values in the form of an encoded digital signal modulated on the analog signal are provided from the multivariable sensor via the two-wire line, wherein only analog signals are received by the receiving unit. The extra measured values are scaled in the multivariable sensor into formatted values by means of a conversion algorithm, wherein at least the formatted values are requested and received by the converter unit, and wherein corresponding analog signals of the extra measured values are produced from the formatted values in the converter unit by a fixedly predetermined, unconfigurable, reconversion algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Endress + Hauser GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventors: Dietmar Spanke, Michael Heim, Martin Link
  • Patent number: 8208264
    Abstract: An electronic control device is described for controlling an automatic transmission, having a control circuit an integrated plug connector and an integrated position sensor in a housing, the position sensor including a stator and a rotor. In order to improve the production quality of the position sensor, the stator of the position sensor is enclosed by the material of the housing in a stationary manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Heim