Patents by Inventor Michael Kausch

Michael Kausch 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: 11979033
    Abstract: A device and a method for detecting living objects for inductive charging devices, the inductive charging device having a resonator coil, which is configured to generate an electromagnetic field, and a plurality of living object sensors, which are configured to detect a living object. The method has steps for determining a critical magnetic field limit of the electromagnetic field by magnetic field limit sensors, the critical magnetic field limit being defined in that a magnetic field strength outside the critical magnetic field limit falls below a limit value; and for detecting a living object within the determined, critical magnetic field limit of the electromagnetic field by the living object sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Vitesco Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Kausche, Anselm Schwarte
  • Patent number: 11352972
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a method for actuating a piezo actuator of an injection valve of a fuel injection system comprising: determining actuation signals for the piezo actuator using a stored current/voltage characteristic curve for carrying out an injection process; detecting the profile of the current flowing through the piezo actuator during the injection process and the profile of the voltage applied to the piezo actuator during the injection process; adapting the stored current/voltage characteristic curve based at least in part on the detected current profile and the detected voltage profile; and determining actuation signals for the piezo actuator using the stored, adapted current/voltage characteristic curve for carrying out a subsequent injection process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Katzenberger, Michael Kausche, Manfred Kramel
  • Publication number: 20220109332
    Abstract: A device and a method for detecting living objects for inductive charging devices, the inductive charging device having a resonator coil, which is configured to generate an electromagnetic field, and a plurality of living object sensors, which are configured to detect a living object. The method has steps for determining a critical magnetic field limit of the electromagnetic field by magnetic field limit sensors, the critical magnetic field limit being defined in that a magnetic field strength outside the critical magnetic field limit falls below a limit value; and for detecting a living object within the determined, critical magnetic field limit of the electromagnetic field by the living object sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 11, 2019
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Inventors: Michael Kausche, Anselm Schwarte
  • Patent number: 10989131
    Abstract: Various embodiments includes a method for determining energization data for an actuator of an injection valve of a motor vehicle comprising: receiving input data at a control unit; and determining the energization data based on the received input data into account with the control unit. Determining the energization data includes using a polynomial regression model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: VITESCO TECHNOLOGIES GMBH
    Inventors: Tany Gargiso, Michael Kausche, Hans-Jörg Wiehoff
  • Patent number: 10920710
    Abstract: A method for identifying faulty components of a fuel injection system is disclosed, wherein a secondary injection is performed individually by each injector during a test routine, after the secondary injection several predefined parameters of the fuel injection system are determined, and a combined assessment of the determined parameters is used to draw conclusions about whether or not components of the fuel injection system are faulty.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: Vitesco Technologies GMBH
    Inventors: Robert Hoffmann, Peter Matthias Ruße, Tany Gargiso, Michael Kausche
  • Publication number: 20190331046
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a method for actuating a piezo actuator of an injection valve of a fuel injection system comprising: determining actuation signals for the piezo actuator using a stored current/voltage characteristic curve for carrying out an injection process; detecting the profile of the current flowing through the piezo actuator during the injection process and the profile of the voltage applied to the piezo actuator during the injection process; adapting the stored current/voltage characteristic curve based at least in part on the detected current profile and the detected voltage profile; and determining actuation signals for the piezo actuator using the stored, adapted current/voltage characteristic curve for carrying out a subsequent injection process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2017
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Applicant: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Katzenburger, Michael Kausche, Manfred Kramel
  • Publication number: 20190136781
    Abstract: Various embodiments includes a method for determining energization data for an actuator of an injection valve of a motor vehicle comprising: receiving input data at a control unit; and determining the energization data based on the received input data into account with the control unit. Determining the energization data includes using a polynomial regression model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Applicant: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Tany Gargiso, Michael Kausche, Hans-Jörg Wiehoff
  • Publication number: 20180171920
    Abstract: A piezo-driven fuel injector is modeled by measuring the actuation current and the actuation voltage of the piezo injector, transforming the actuation current and the actuation voltage into the frequency domain, forming a complex conductance from the actuation current transformed into the frequency domain and the actuation voltage transformed into the frequency domain, and determining one or more parameters of the piezo injector from the complex conductance. Once the complex conductance is determined it is used to detect a fault in the piezo injector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2016
    Publication date: June 21, 2018
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Tany Gargiso, Michael Kausche, Peter Matthias Ruße, Robert Hoffmann
  • Publication number: 20180156154
    Abstract: A method for identifying faulty components of a fuel injection system is disclosed, wherein a secondary injection is performed individually by each injector during a test routine, after the secondary injection several predefined parameters of the fuel injection system are determined, and a combined assessment of the determined parameters is used to draw conclusions about whether or not components of the fuel injection system are faulty.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 2, 2018
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Robert Hoffmann, Peter Matthias Ruße, Tany Gargiso, Michael Kausche
  • Patent number: 6844039
    Abstract: The invention describes elastane packages on cylindrical tubes which are provided with a finishing oil content varying over the filament length, and a method for the production thereof. Instead of being applied uniformly along the filament, the finishing oil is distinctly increased on the outermost part, constituting in particular at least 3%, of the filament wound onto the tubes such that the oil coat in this region is at least 1.2 times higher than in the remaining region of the package. This gives rise to a finishing coat gradient of the package from the outside (high) inwards (low).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: January 18, 2005
    Assignee: Bayer Faser GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Kausch, Wolfgang Klein, Christine Soenksen
  • Patent number: 6284371
    Abstract: The invention relates to a spinning process, more particularly a dry spinning process, for the production of elastane fibers in which 0.8 to 2% by weight of polydimethylsiloxane with a viscosity of 50 to 300 cSt and 0.2 to 0.6% by weight of ethoxylated polydimethylsiloxane with a viscosity of 20 to 150 cSt are added to the elastane spinning solution before it is spun.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2000
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2001
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Kausch, Karl-Heinz Wolf, Wolfgang Klein, Konrad Schmitz
  • Patent number: 6123885
    Abstract: The invention relates to a spinning process, more particularly a dry spinning process, for the production of elastane fibers in which 0.8 to 2% by weight of polydimethylsiloxane with a viscosity of 50 to 300 cSt and 0.2 to 0.6% by weight of ethoxylated polydimethylsiloxane with a viscosity of 20 to 150 cSt are added to the elastane spinning solution before it is spun.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 1994
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2000
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Kausch, Karl-Heinz Wolf, Wolfgang Klein, Konrad Schmitz
  • Patent number: 5032664
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for the production of highly concentrated and, surprisingly, viscosity-stable solutions of segmented polyurethane urea elastomers in highly polar solvents, such as dimethyl formamide and dimethyl acetamide, having little or no tendency to turn to paste, characterized by the use of certain primary and secondary cycloaliphatic monoamines or cycloaliphatic monisocyanates as chain-extending agents/blocking agents in the reaction of NCO prepolymers based on relatively high molecular weight dihydroxy compounds and (preferably aromatic) diisocyanates with aliphatic and and/or cycloaliphatic diamine chain-extending agents. The chain terminators according to the invention also show unexpected iprovements in the color of the elastomer solution and also in the stability of the end products, preferably filaments, to light and noxious gases.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 1990
    Date of Patent: July 16, 1991
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Beatrix Frauendorf, Michael Kausch, Rolf-Volker Meyer
  • Patent number: 4877825
    Abstract: The invention relates to elasthane fibers which are protected against harmful environmental influences, particularly sunlight and combustion gases, by a synergistic stabilizer combination of(a) highly alkylated, phenolic antioxidants corresponding to the following formula ##STR1## in which R.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are C.sub.1 -C.sub.3 alkyl radicals, in addition to which R.sup.3 may be C.sub.4 -C.sub.6 alkyl radicalsand(b) oligomeric, (cyclo)aliphatic phosphorous acid esters (oligomeric phosphites) obtained by reaction of pentaerythritol, perhydrobisphenol A and, optionally, a mono- alcohol with monomeric trialkyl or triaryl phosphites.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1989
    Date of Patent: October 31, 1989
    Assignee: Bayer Akteingesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Kausch, Hans-Josef Buysch, Hans Schroer, Carlhans Suling
  • Patent number: 4791187
    Abstract: The invention relates to essentially linear polyurethane elastomers, having improved properties, made from polyester or polyether diols, diisocyanates and chain extenders, the latter having liquid-crystalline properties; and also films and, in particular, fibres which are prepared on the basis of such liquid-crystalline polyurethane components and are shaped thermoplastically (via melting) or from solutions (by solution spinning processes). The invention furthermore relates to an appropriate process for the preparation of the polyurethane elastomers, particularly of PU elastomer fibres (Elasthan and Spandex fibres).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 1987
    Date of Patent: December 13, 1988
    Assignee: Bayer Akteingesellschaft
    Inventors: Carlhans Suling, Michael Kausch, Rudi Dauscher
  • Patent number: 4772677
    Abstract: This invention relates to highly stretchable elasthane fibres (Spandex fibres) based on segmented polyurethane(urea)s with improved elastic properties and high resistance to microbial degradation, characterized in that the polyurethane(urea)s used for the synthesis of the elasthanes are prepared from mixtures of relatively high molecular weight copolyester diols in the molecular weight range of from 2,500 to 4,000 and relatively high molecular polytetrahydrofurandiols in the molecular weight range of from 1,500 to 3,000.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 1987
    Date of Patent: September 20, 1988
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Kausch, Carlhans Suling, Hans Schroer, Karlheinz Wolf, Rudi Dauscher
  • Patent number: 4725636
    Abstract: In the production of elasthane threads by solution spinning of polyurea polyurethanes by conventional spinning processes, excellent stabilization against light and noxious gases are obtained if at least one component of the system to be spun contains tertiary amino groups and the substances used as antioxidizing agents are phenols of the kind which do not form colored nitro compounds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1986
    Date of Patent: February 16, 1988
    Assignee: Bayer Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Michael Kausch, Hans Schroer, Karl-Heinz Wolf, Heinz Gall, Carlhans Suling, Rudi Dauscher