Patents by Inventor Oliver Berger

Oliver Berger 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: 11837758
    Abstract: A humidification system for a fuel cell system is provided, comprising a feed line for supplying cathode gas which is to be or is humidified, to a heat exchanger, further comprising a liquid supply and an eddy generator, located upstream of the liquid supply, for generating eddies in the flowing cathode gas. A fuel cell system comprising a humidification system is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignees: Volkswagen AG, Audi AG
    Inventors: Christian Lucas, Oliver Berger
  • Patent number: 11757112
    Abstract: A humidifier has a plurality of humidifier modules that are clamped between end plates by tie rods and have a membrane that is permeable to water vapor, in which on both sides of the membrane there is respectively arranged a flow field frame having a multiplicity of webs defining a flow field. The tie rods are configured as hollow rods forming coolant tubes for a coolant to be led through. A fuel cell device and a motor vehicle having such a humidifier are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignees: Volkswagen AG, Audi AG
    Inventors: Oliver Berger, Rune Staeck, Christian Lucas
  • Patent number: 11728495
    Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a combined cooling circuit for a motor vehicle that provides a method of cooling a fuel cell of a fuel cell system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignees: AUDI AG, Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Jan-Christoph Albrecht, Jan-Philipp Brinkmeier, Oliver Berger, Frank Jürgen Engler, Carsten Wachsmuth
  • Publication number: 20230056281
    Abstract: A fuel cell comprises a polymer electrolyte membrane, an anode electrode being associated with said membrane on the first side thereof and a cathode electrode being associated with said membrane on the second side thereof, wherein a gas diffusion layer is associated with each of the electrodes on the side thereof that faces away from the polymer electrolyte membrane, and wherein a flow field plate having a flow field for distributing the reactants is associated with each of the gas diffusion layers on the side thereof that faces away from the polymer electrolyte membrane, characterized in that at least one conducting line formed from a hygroscopic and/or capillary-active material is provided for conducting water and thus for moistening the polymer electrolyte membrane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Dirk JENSSEN, Rune STAECK, Oliver BERGER
  • Patent number: 11469425
    Abstract: A humidifier comprises at least one humidifier module, which has a membrane permeable to water vapor and respectively on both sides of the membrane, a flow field frame with at least two walls defining a flow channel. A thermal bridge with an increased thermal conductivity compared to the membrane protrudes through the membrane. A fuel cell device comprises such a humidifier and a motor vehicle includes a fuel cell device comprising such a humidifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AG
    Inventors: Rune Staeck, Christian Lucas, Oliver Berger
  • Publication number: 20220052358
    Abstract: A humidifier comprises at least one humidifier module, which has a membrane permeable to water vapor and respectively on both sides of the membrane, a flow field frame with at least two walls defining a flow channel. A thermal bridge with an increased thermal conductivity compared to the membrane protrudes through the membrane. A fuel cell device comprises such a humidifier and a motor vehicle includes a fuel cell device comprising such a humidifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Rune STAECK, Christian LUCAS, Oliver BERGER
  • Publication number: 20210320311
    Abstract: A humidifier has a plurality of humidifier modules that are clamped between end plates by tie rods and have a membrane that is permeable to water vapor, in which on both sides of the membrane there is respectively arranged a flow field frame having a multiplicity of webs defining a flow field. The tie rods are configured as hollow rods forming coolant tubes for a coolant to be led through. A fuel cell device and a motor vehicle having such a humidifier are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Oliver BERGER, Rune STAECK, Christian LUCAS
  • Publication number: 20210265642
    Abstract: A fuel cell system includes a combined cooling circuit for a motor vehicle that provides a method of cooling a fuel cell of a fuel cell system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 5, 2019
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Jan-Christoph ALBRECHT, Jan-Philipp BRINKMEIER, Oliver BERGER, Frank Jürgen ENGLER, Carsten WACHSMUTH
  • Patent number: 11048962
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and to a device for determining the articulation angle of a combination, consisting of a towing vehicle and a trailer attached using a tongue, by identifying the hitch tongue using a digital back-up camera with variable exposure times, the following steps being carried out: a) recording a first color image of the rear environment of the towing vehicle, the color image being based on the HSY color space, b) analyzing the hue values, saturation values and brightness values of adjacent surfaces of a vehicle-environment region that is to be evaluated, c) determining the tongue from the first color image using an edge detection method in order to determine the articulation angle if the hue values, saturation values and brightness values of adjacent surfaces in the region that is to be evaluated are substantially equal, “substantially equal” meaning that the values of hue, saturation and brightness of adjacent surfaces differ by at most a first threshold in percent, d) recording a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Marco Jähnisch, Oliver Berger, Christoph Erfurth
  • Publication number: 20210166051
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and to a device for determining the articulation angle of a combination, consisting of a towing vehicle and a trailer attached using a tongue, by identifying the hitch tongue using a digital back-up camera with variable exposure times, the following steps being carried out: a) recording a first color image of the rear environment of the towing vehicle, the color image being based on the HSY color space, b) analyzing the hue values, saturation values and brightness values of adjacent surfaces of a vehicle-environment region that is to be evaluated, c) determining the tongue from the first color image using an edge detection method in order to determine the articulation angle if the hue values, saturation values and brightness values of adjacent surfaces in the region that is to be evaluated are substantially equal, “substantially equal” meaning that the values of hue, saturation and brightness of adjacent surfaces differ by at most a first threshold in percent, d) recording a
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 3, 2018
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Marco Jähnisch, Oliver Berger, Christoph Erfurth
  • Publication number: 20200373591
    Abstract: A humidification system for a fuel cell system is provided, comprising a feed line for supplying cathode gas which is to be or is humidified, to a heat exchanger, further comprising a liquid supply and an eddy generator, located upstream of the liquid supply, for generating eddies in the flowing cathode gas. A fuel cell system comprising a humidification system is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: Christian LUCAS, Oliver BERGER
  • Patent number: 10673083
    Abstract: A fuel cell device (1) having a fuel cell (2) with a housing (7) and, accommodated therein, a membrane-electrode assembly (6) with a cathode and an anode, having a cathode gas path (3) that serves to transport a cathode gas and that extends through the membrane-electrode assembly (6) on the cathode side, and having a flushing gas path (5) that serves to transport a flushing gas to flush the housing (7) during operation and that extends through the housing (7) is provided. It is provided that a section of the flushing gas path (5) runs through the cathode gas path (3). In this manner, the fuel cell device (1) has a compact structure of just a few parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Daniel Grundei, Oliver Berger, Oliver Kleppa
  • Patent number: 10207597
    Abstract: A fuel cell system including: a fuel cell stack; a cathode gas supply system including a cathode supply path for feeding cathode operating gas into the fuel cell stack and a cathode exhaust gas path for discharging cathode exhaust gas out of the fuel cell stack, and a fuel cell cooling system for cooling the fuel cell stack including a coolant path into which the fuel cell stack is integrated so as to transfer heat is provided. It is provided that the cathode gas supply system also includes a turbine arranged in the cathode exhaust gas path, and the coolant path of the fuel cell cooling system in the flow path of the cathode exhaust gas downstream from the turbine is in heat-transferring contact with the cathode exhaust gas path. This achieves a cooling of the coolant by the cathode exhaust gas and a heating of the cathode exhaust gas by the coolant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Audi AG
    Inventors: Daniel Grundei, Oliver Berger, Christian Lucas, Oliver Kleppa
  • Patent number: 9852385
    Abstract: Disclosed is a mechanism to process business object IDs in inbound and outbound processing. The mechanism takes into account a mapping table, matching capabilities, number ranges, inbound error and conflict handling, inbound processing, outbound processing, initial load, and data migration.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2017
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Knut Heusermann, Matthias Becker, Christian Hohmann, Sophie Kraut, Torsten Buecheler, Xenia Rieger, Dietmar Henkes, Guang Yang, Olga Kreindlina, Thomas Vogt, Walter Zimmermann, Oliver Berger, Martin Haerterich, Marcus Echter, Albert Neumueller, Stefan Moeller
  • Patent number: 9754000
    Abstract: According to one general aspect, a method may include replicating, to a software-as-a-service application, a plurality of pieces of master data from a physically remote master database. The method may also include converting the plurality of pieces of master data into one or more pieces of local data of the software-as-a-service application. The method may include changing one or more of either the pieces of master data or the pieces of local data. The method may further include synchronizing the changed pieces of either master data or local data between the remote master database and the software-as-a-service application.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Olga Kreindlina, Oliver Berger, Santhosh N, Karthik Narayanan Mohan, Walter Zimmermann, Torsten Buecheler, Sophie Kraut, Albert Neumueller, Steffen Witt, Dietmar Henkes, Guang Yang, Thomas Vogt, Matthias Becker, Martin Haerterich, Stefan Moeller, Kritesh Vasing, Knut Heusermann, Christian Hohmann, Marcus Echter, Xenia Rieger, Mohit V. Gadkari, Mukesh Kumar
  • Publication number: 20170187050
    Abstract: A fuel cell unit having at least one fuel cell, a cooling circuit and a deionization device (10). The deionization device includes a housing (16) and a deionizing agent (11) located therein A vehicle is also provided having such a fuel cell unit. It is provided that the deionization device (10) can be or is connected in a fluid-conveying manner to the cooling circuit (5) with a single connection unit (15) via a flow inlet (13) and a flow outlet (14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 22, 2015
    Publication date: June 29, 2017
    Applicant: Volkswagen AG
    Inventors: Peter WEISSBERGER, Oliver BERGER
  • Publication number: 20170117562
    Abstract: A fuel cell device (1) having a fuel cell (2) with a housing (7) and, accommodated therein, a membrane-electrode assembly (6) with a cathode and an anode, having a cathode gas path (3) that serves to transport a cathode gas and that extends through the membrane-electrode assembly (6) on the cathode side, and having a flushing gas path (5) that serves to transport a flushing gas to flush the housing (7) during operation and that extends through the housing (7) is provided. It is provided that a section of the flushing gas path (5) runs through the cathode gas path (3). In this manner, the fuel cell device (1) has a compact structure of just a few parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2014
    Publication date: April 27, 2017
    Inventors: Daniel Grundei, Oliver Berger, Oliver Kleppa
  • Patent number: D849713
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Iwan Hänggi, Niklas Galler, Oliver Berger
  • Patent number: D868029
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Iwan Hänggi, Niklas Galler, Oliver Berger
  • Patent number: D881156
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Sennheiser electronic GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Oliver Berger, Iwan Hänggi