Patents by Inventor Oliver Küpfer

Oliver Küpfer 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: 20230040852
    Abstract: The invention relates to a module housing made of plastic, in particular a thermosetting polymer, with an embedded cooling element and at least one screw sleeve, which has a collar with an exposed mounting surface with which the module housing can be mounted on a support functioning as an external heat sink. The cooling element and the at least one screw sleeve form a monolithic element with which heat can be conducted from the cooling element to the support via at least the mounting surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Michael Singer, Oliver Küpfer, Thomas Schober
  • Patent number: 11563287
    Abstract: An arrangement for electrical contacting of a current connector (3) with a circuit arrangement (1) is provided. The current connector (3) includes at least one contact spring wire (5, 6) with an end contact (5a, 6a), which is configured for spring-loading, and the circuit arrangement (1) includes at least one contact point. The end contact (5a, 6a) and the contact point each form a spring pressure contact, and the end contact (5a, 6a) of the contact spring wire (5, 6) is configured as a bracket with an outer contact surface and at least one cutting edge arranged proximate the contact surface, which is engaged with the contact point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 24, 2023
    Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Heinz Reichert, Tobias Nusser, Oliver Küpfer
  • Patent number: 11417971
    Abstract: An assembly element for establishing an electrical contact to an actuator for a vehicle transmission may include a base plate and two electrical circuit points projecting on one side of the base plate for the assembly element. The assembly element has a shavings protection device provided at least partially between the electrical circuit points, which is designed to at least partially impede a short circuit between the contacts when the assembly element is in contact with the actuator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2022
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Florian Pawlak, Tobias Nusser, Karlheinz Mayr, Oliver Küpfer, Markus Moosmann
  • Publication number: 20210320447
    Abstract: An arrangement for electrical contacting of a current connector (3) with a circuit arrangement (1) is provided. The current connector (3) includes at least one contact spring wire (5, 6) with an end contact (5a, 6a), which is configured for spring-loading, and the circuit arrangement (1) includes at least one contact point. The end contact (5a, 6a) and the contact point each form a spring pressure contact, and the end contact (5a, 6a) of the contact spring wire (5, 6) is configured as a bracket with an outer contact surface and at least one cutting edge arranged proximate the contact surface, which is engaged with the contact point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 10, 2019
    Publication date: October 14, 2021
    Inventors: Heinz Reichert, Tobias Nusser, Oliver Küpfer
  • Publication number: 20200274266
    Abstract: An assembly element for establishing an electrical contact to an actuator for a vehicle transmission may include a base plate and two electrical circuit points projecting on one side of the base plate for the assembly element. The assembly element has a shavings protection device provided at least partially between the electrical circuit points, which is designed to at least partially impede a short circuit between the contacts when the assembly element is in contact with the actuator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 21, 2020
    Publication date: August 27, 2020
    Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Florian Pawlak, Tobias Nusser, Karlheinz Mayr, Oliver Küpfer, Markus Moosmann
  • Publication number: 20170218989
    Abstract: A module mount having at least one module that can be mounted on the module mount, wherein the module can be mounted on the module mount via at least one caulking element, such that the respective caulking element, which is composed of a thermoplastic, extends through a hole in a section of the respective module that can be mounted on the module mount made of a thermoplastic or thermoset, and is hot-caulked at an end projecting out of the hole, wherein at least one projection is formed on the section of the respective module that can be mounted on the module mount in the region of the respective hole of the section of the respective module that can be mounted on the module mount made of the thermoplastic or thermoset, which projection is engaged in a press fit with the hot-caulked end of the respective caulking element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Thomas Schober, Oliver Küpfer