Patents by Inventor Stefan A. Schmitt

Stefan A. Schmitt 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: 20240125362
    Abstract: A pulsation damper for damping pressure medium vibrations in a hydraulic system, has a membrane within a bore of a housing, which membrane is exposed to the pressure medium on its one side and faces a gas-filled cavity inside the housing on its other side, the bore of which is closed by means of a plug. The membrane, in conjunction with the plug and a hollow-cylindrical support body, forms an independently handleable, functionally pre-testable assembly, for which purpose the membrane is substantially cup-shaped, and the support body extends into it.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2020
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Uwe Greiff, Volker Grings, Axel Hinz, Christoph Wagner, Stefan Schmitt, Petra Fischbach-Borazio
  • Patent number: 11950362
    Abstract: A method for producing a film composite for electrical connection inside a power electronic switching device has the steps: A) forming a film composite having an electrically insulating insulant film with a first and a second main face. A first electrically conductive metal film, forms conductor tracks insulated from one another on the first main face, and having a second electrically conductive metal film forming conductor tracks arranged insulated from one another on the second main face of the insulant film; B) folding the film composite on a fold line, so that a first contact face of a first conductor track lies on a first contact face of a second conductor track of the first main face, and a second contact face of this first conductor track of the first main face lies on a second contact face of the second conductor track of the first main.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: SEMIKRON ELEKTRONIK GMBH CO., KG
    Inventor: Stefan Schmitt
  • Patent number: 11945353
    Abstract: There is shown and described, inter alia, a holder for supporting a headrest, which holder can be fixed in a retaining structure of a vehicle by insertion in a first mounting direction, wherein the holder is formed with a guide passage for receiving a retaining rod of the headrest, and wherein the holder has fixing means for fixing to a retaining structure of the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: GRAMMAR AG
    Inventors: Sebastian Schmitt, Stefan Bergler
  • Publication number: 20240010539
    Abstract: A method of making glass products includes: heating material to obtain a glass melt; heating the glass melt in a melting tank having a melting tank bottom, the glass melt having a melt volume, a melt surface, and a viscosity of 102 dPas at a temperature above 1580° C. The glass melt is heated such that at least some of the glass melt has a viscosity of 102.5 dPas or less. An amount of thermal energy introduced directly into the melt volume is more than 60% of a total amount of thermal energy introduced into the glass melt. A maximum difference between a temperature at a location on the melt surface and a temperature at a location at the melting tank bottom vertically underneath the location on the melt surface is such that a difference in glass melt densities is less than 0.05 g/cm3 per meter distance between the locations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: January 11, 2024
    Applicant: Schott AG
    Inventors: Hildegard Römer, Michael Hahn, Stefan Rosner, Volker Trinks, Rainer Eichholz, Christoph Bergmann, Armin Vogl, Jörg Hessenkemper, Horst Blei, Klaus Schönberger, Sybille Haas, Guido Räke, Stefan Schmitt, Christoph Berndhäuser, Olaf Claussen, Christopher Klein, Wolfgang Schmidbauer
  • Publication number: 20230315880
    Abstract: Building and using a smart contract in order to resolve the isolation between database users and service operators for hyper-protect database as a service (DBaaS). The use of the smart contract in the hyper-protect DBaaS environment allows the service operator to perform operations on sensitive and secure data in the database owned by a user without necessarily revealing the content of the sensitive and secure data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2022
    Publication date: October 5, 2023
    Inventors: Peng Hui Jiang, Timo Kussmaul, Stefan Schmitt, Xiang Dong Hu
  • Patent number: 11692606
    Abstract: A vibration damper includes at least one adjustable damping valve having an outer housing connected to one end of an outer receptacle of the vibration damper. A longitudinal axis of the adjustable damping valve and a longitudinal axis of the vibration damper run parallel. The outer housing of the adjustable damping valve has a clamping surface for an axle connection part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Thomas Manger, Lukas Ruhmann, Stefan Schmitt, Manuel Gumpert, Thomas Solf, Bernd Zeissner
  • Publication number: 20230199948
    Abstract: A method for producing a film composite for electrical connection inside a power electronic switching device has the steps: A) forming a film composite having an electrically insulating insulant film with a first and a second main face. A first electrically conductive metal film, forms conductor tracks insulated from one another on the first main face, and having a second electrically conductive metal film forming conductor tracks arranged insulated from one another on the second main face of the insulant film; B) folding the film composite on a fold line, so that a first contact face of a first conductor track lies on a first contact face of a second conductor track of the first main face, and a second contact face of this first conductor track of the first main face lies on a second contact face of the second conductor track of the first main.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Applicant: SEMIKRON ELECKRONIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Stefan SCHMITT
  • Publication number: 20230082588
    Abstract: A method of making a glass product includes the steps of: melting a batch of a plurality of glass raw materials in a melting tank to form a glass melt; heating at least one of the plurality of glass raw materials and the glass melt using at least one fuel burner by reacting hydrogen and oxygen; withdrawing the glass melt from the melting tank; obtaining a glass product, the glass product having an Fe2+ to Fe3+ ratio of less than 0.2 or less than 0.05 and having at least one of less than 80 bubbles in a size range of from 0.1 mm to 0.2 mm per 10 kg of glass and less than 2 bubbles of a size larger than 0.2 mm per 10 kg of a glass.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: Schott AG
    Inventors: Stefan Knoche, Matthias Kaffenberger, Stefan Bauer, Stefan Schmitt, Michael Hahn, Volker Ohmstede, Ralph Seuwen
  • Publication number: 20230021281
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for melting and refining glass, glass ceramic, or ceramizable to form glass ceramic are provided. The method and apparatus refine the materials such that less than 1 bubble/kg is included in the molten and refined material and the direct CO2 emissions amount to less than 100 kg per ton of molten material during the melting and refining.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2022
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: SCHOTT AG
    Inventors: Hildegard RÖMER, Wolfgang SCHMIDBAUER, Michael HAHN, Stefan SCHMITT, Klaus SCHÖNBERGER
  • Publication number: 20220316546
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a vibration damper comprising two adjustable damping valve devices, wherein a damping valve device is connected to a piston-rod-side working chamber via a fluid connection and a damping valve device is connected to a working chamber spaced apart from a piston rod within a cylinder filled with damping medium. A fluid connection between the damping valve device and the working chamber occurs via at least one tube element. Both adjustable damping valve devices are connected to a common balancing chamber for receiving the damping medium displaced out of the working chambers by the piston rod. A line block is connected to the cylinder, which forms a first fluid connection to the damping valve device for one of the working chambers and forms an intermediate tube, encasing the cylinder, for a second fluid connection to the damping valve device for the other of the two working chambers. The second fluid connection is also connected to the line block.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Stefan Schmitt, Bernd Zeissner, Lukas Ruhmann
  • Publication number: 20220266770
    Abstract: A sound- and heat-insulating enclosure of a pedal mount of a motor vehicle has at least one pedal mounted pivotably thereon. The enclosure has retaining contours, by which fixing on the pedal mount is possible. A pedal-independent high-quality sealing concept can be implemented by shifting a sealing plane between an interior of a cockpit and a footwell from the pedals toward the pedal mount.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2021
    Publication date: August 25, 2022
    Applicant: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stefan Schmitt, Klaus Wagner
  • Patent number: 11365637
    Abstract: A method for profiling blades of an axial turbomachine includes preparing a geometric model of a blade profile; determining an oscillation mode of the geometric model; calculating a time profile of a position-dependent disruptive pressure in a channel between two adjacent blade profiles over an oscillation period of the oscillation belonging to the oscillation mode, changing the geometric model and determining a different oscillation mode for the modified geometric model; and determining the damping of the oscillation using the disruptive pressure profile calculated previously and accepting the modified geometric model for the case that the damping of the oscillation turns out to be greater than calculated, otherwise repeating the last two steps with another modified geometric model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2022
    Assignee: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christian Peeren, Stefan Schmitt, Heinrich Stüer
  • Patent number: 11345212
    Abstract: The invention relates to an air-conditioning device for a motor vehicle, comprising a refrigerant circuit (100) including a compressor (34), an indoor heat-exchanger (WÜ) arrangement connected to the outlet of the compressor and comprising a first and a second air/refrigerant-heat exchanger segment (21, 22), a first expansion valve (Exp.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Stefan Schmitt, Gregor Homann
  • Patent number: 11319815
    Abstract: A bladed rotor system includes first and second sets of blades with respective airfoils each having at least one internal cavity. The airfoils of both the first and second sets of blades have identical outer shapes defined by an outer surface of an outer wall of the respective airfoils. The airfoils of the first set of blades are distinguished from the airfoils of the second set of blades by a geometry and/or position of at the least one internal cavity, which is unique to blades of a given set. The natural frequency of a blade of the first set differs from the natural frequency of a blade of the second set by a predetermined amount. The blades of the first set and the second set are alternately arranged in a periodic fashion in said circumferential row, to provide a frequency mistuning to stabilize flutter of the blades.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Daniel M. Eshak, Susanne Kamenzky, Daniel Vöhringer, Stefan Schmitt, Heinrich Stüer, Yuekun Zhou, Samuel R. Miller, Jr.
  • Patent number: 11242907
    Abstract: An adjustable vibration damper includes at least one adjustable damping valve, with a piston at a piston rod that divides a cylinder into a work chamber on the piston rod side and a work chamber on the side remote of the piston rod. The cylinder is at least partially enclosed by an intermediate tube that forms a fluid connection between one of the work chambers and the adjustable damping valve. A hydraulic apparatus is connected to the fluid connection of the one work chamber via a first line and to the other work chamber via a second line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 8, 2022
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Lukas Ruhmann, Thomas Manger, Stefan Schmitt, Bernd Zeissner, Thomas Solf
  • Publication number: 20210381570
    Abstract: An adjustable vibration damper has at least one adjustable damping valve, a piston at a piston rod that divides a cylinder into a work chamber on the piston rod side and a work chamber on the side remote of the piston rod. A hydraulic device is connected via a first line to the at least one adjustable damping valve connected to one of the work chambers and via a second line at least indirectly to the other working chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Publication date: December 9, 2021
    Inventors: Bernd ZEISSNER, Lukas RUHMANN, Thomas MANGER, Stefan SCHMITT, Thomas SOLF
  • Publication number: 20210300151
    Abstract: The invention relates to an air-conditioning device for a motor vehicle, comprising a refrigerant circuit (100) including a compressor (34), an indoor heat-exchanger (WÜ) arrangement connected to the outlet of the compressor and comprising a first and a second air/refrigerant-heat exchanger segment (21, 22), a first expansion valve (Exp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2017
    Publication date: September 30, 2021
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stefan SCHMITT, Gregor HOMANN
  • Publication number: 20210164533
    Abstract: A vibration damper with adjustable damping force, having an inner cylinder, which has a working chamber and a flow connection to a damping valve device situated outside forming an outer cylinder. The flow connection is made in a component separate from the inner cylinder, and the separate component is formed by an adapter sleeve, which forms a part of the working chamber and has a connection piece to the damping valve device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2018
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Inventors: Bernd ZEISSNER, Stefan SCHMITT, Thomas MANGER
  • Publication number: 20210054900
    Abstract: A vibration damper includes at least one adjustable damping valve having an outer housing connected to one end of an outer receptacle of the vibration damper. A longitudinal axis of the adjustable damping valve and a longitudinal axis of the vibration damper run parallel. The outer housing of the adjustable damping valve has a clamping surface for an axle connection part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2019
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas MANGER, Lukas RUHMANN, Stefan SCHMITT, Manuel GUMPERT, Thomas SOLF, Bernd ZEISSNER
  • Publication number: 20210010375
    Abstract: A bladed rotor system includes first and second sets of blades with respective airfoils each having at least one internal cavity. The airfoils of both the first and second sets of blades have identical outer shapes defined by an outer surface of an outer wall of the respective airfoils. The airfoils of the first set of blades are distinguished from the airfoils of the second set of blades by a geometry and/or position of at the least one internal cavity, which is unique to blades of a given set. The natural frequency of a blade of the first set differs from the natural frequency of a blade of the second set by a predetermined amount. The blades of the first set and the second set are alternately arranged in a periodic fashion in said circumferential row, to provide a frequency mistuning to stabilize flutter of the blades.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 13, 2018
    Publication date: January 14, 2021
    Inventors: Daniel M. Eshak, Susanne Kamenzky, Daniel Vöhringer, Stefan Schmitt, Heinrich Stüer, Yuekun Zhou, Samuel R. Miller, Jr.