Patents by Inventor Michael Roehrig

Michael Roehrig 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: 20240094444
    Abstract: Various embodiments of an optical construction and an electronic device that includes such optical construction are disclosed. The optical construction includes a lens film having an outermost structured first major surface and an opposing outermost substantially planar second major surface. The structured first major surface includes a plurality of microlenses. The optical construction further includes a mask disposed adjacent to the second major surface of the lens film, where the mask includes a polymeric layer, a metal layer, and a plurality of laser-ablated openings disposed through the mask and aligned to the microlenses in a one-to-one correspondence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Neeraj Sharma, Przemyslaw P. Markowicz, Michael W. Bench, Timothy J. Reddy, Mark A. Roehrig, Tri D. Pham, Zhaohui Yang
  • Patent number: 11110766
    Abstract: A wheel suspension for a motor vehicle wheel for damping NVH effects, wherein the NVH effects are transmitted from an automatic transmission to the driven wheel via the drive train at idle. The NVH effects can potentially be transmitted from the wheel to the vehicle structure via the wheel suspension. The wheel suspension having at least one elastic element, the stiffness of which in a vertical direction of deflection has a softer stiffness characteristic in a deflection range close to the zero point than in deflection ranges more remote from the zero point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2021
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Egemen Altinova, Marc Alexander Mendel, Michael Roehrig
  • Publication number: 20210084786
    Abstract: A device having an electronics unit and a housing. The housing has at least one first housing part and a second housing part, which are developed and joined in such a way that the housing encloses the electronics unit, the first housing part and/or the second housing part being developed as a foil. A method for producing a device is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2018
    Publication date: March 18, 2021
    Inventors: Jens Bunert, Michael Roehrig
  • Patent number: 9738029
    Abstract: A method for producing a molded body includes providing a composite including a first plate having a polymer film pressed into its surface, providing a third plate including roughened areas on at least part of one of its surfaces, placing the third plate opposite the polymer film without the third plate touching the composite, heating the third plate to a temperature above the glass transition temperature Tg of the polymer of the polymer film without heating the composite and without the heated third plate coming into contact with the surface of the polymer film, and structuring the surface of the polymer film facing the third plate by a relative movement which removes the third plate from the first plate while the polymer film remains soft and is thus extended lengthwise, thereby forming a modified composite that comprises the molded body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2017
    Assignee: KARLSRUHER INSTITUT FUER TECHNOLOGIE
    Inventors: Michael Roehrig, Hendrik Hoelscher, Marc Schneider, Matthias Worgull, Andreas Hopf
  • Publication number: 20160361963
    Abstract: A wheel suspension for a motor vehicle wheel for damping NVH effects, wherein the NVH effects are transmitted from an automatic transmission to the driven wheel via the drive train at idle. The NVH effects can potentially be transmitted from the wheel to the vehicle structure via the wheel suspension. The wheel suspension having at least one elastic element, the stiffness of which in a vertical direction of deflection has a softer stiffness characteristic in a deflection range close to the zero point than in deflection ranges more remote from the zero point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Egemen Altinova, Marc Alexander Mendel, Michael Roehrig
  • Publication number: 20150306813
    Abstract: A method for producing a molded body includes providing a composite including a first plate having a polymer film pressed into its surface, providing a third plate including roughened areas on at least part of one of its surfaces, placing the third plate opposite the polymer film without the third plate touching the composite, heating the third plate to a temperature above the glass transition temperature Tg of the polymer of the polymer film without heating the composite and without the heated third plate coming into contact with the surface of the polymer film, and structuring the surface of the polymer film facing the third plate by a relative movement which removes the third plate from the first plate while the polymer film remains soft and is thus extended lengthwise, thereby forming a modified composite that comprises the molded body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventors: Michael ROEHRIG, Hendrik HOELSCHER, Marc SCHNEIDER, Matthias WORGULL, Andreas HOPF
  • Publication number: 20130000589
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine in a vehicle is described herein. The internal combustion engine may include two outer pistons, each of the pistons arranged in a separate cylinder and positioned in an in-line configuration in which a straight line extends through each of the axes of the pistons, a crankshaft including a plurality of crank throws, each crank throw coupled to a separate piston, and a flywheel coupled to a first end of the crankshaft. The engine may further include a belt pulley coupled to a second end of the crankshaft and a balancing arrangement including a first balancing mass coupled to a belt pulley and a second balancing mass coupled to a flywheel, the relative separation between the first balancing mass and the second balancing mass measured on a plane perpendicular to a rotational axis of the crankshaft is less than 170°.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2012
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Michael Roehrig
  • Publication number: 20120199094
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a multi-cylinder in-line internal combustion engine for a motor vehicle, comprising a crankshaft which rotates about a crankshaft axis during operation of the internal combustion engine, a plurality of crank throws which succeed one another in an axial direction, each of which crank throws is associated with a respective cylinder in the internal combustion engine, and a compensating arrangement for at least partially compensating the inertial forces generated on the crankshaft by revolving masses. The multi-cylinder in-line internal combustion engine has a device for varying the position of at least one of the compensating masses relative to the crankshaft as a function of engine speed. The present disclosure further relates to a method for operating such a multi-cylinder in-line internal combustion engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2012
    Publication date: August 9, 2012
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Michael Roehrig, Stefan Quiring