Patents by Inventor Stefan Schäckel

Stefan Schäckel 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: 11938906
    Abstract: A cleaning apparatus, optimized for cleaning optical and optoelectronic sensor devices in motor vehicles, comprising a housing, and a reciprocating piston movable in a pressure-controlled manner in the housing and movable from a retracted position into a deployed position along an actuation axis is disclosed. The reciprocating piston has an inner channel to transport a cleaning fluid through the reciprocating piston to a spray nozzle. A miniaturized, easily and inexpensively producible cleaning apparatus which makes possible exact and precise orientation of the cleaning jet, quick operational readiness, reduced tendency for follow-up flow of the cleaning fluid, and improved adaptability to different installation positions, is also disclosed. In an embodiment at least the cleaning apparatus has at least one guide to prevent rotation of the reciprocating piston about the actuation axis during its entire stroke, the at least one guide means arranged at least regionally in the inner channel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Dirk Ringler, Stefan Schäckel, Reiner Krauße, Ilja Prygunkov
  • Publication number: 20220048476
    Abstract: Disclosed is a cleaning device for a washing apparatus arranged in a vehicle, comprising a housing with a chamber which is formed in the housing, is configured to be filled with cleaning fluid and is hydraulically connectable to at least one spray nozzle for the cleaning fluid, and with at least one heatable heating wire protruding at least in sections into the chamber. To obtain high functional reliability even at low temperatures and to permit particularly rapid and reliable deicing, a heat-conducting element is arranged in the chamber to enlarge a heat-transferring convection surface, said heat-conducting element absorbing the heat from the heating wire, and being at least partially, and preferably completely, surrounded by the cleaning fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2019
    Publication date: February 17, 2022
    Inventors: Heiko Weitzel, Andreas Rehs, Stefan Schäckel, Reiner Krauße
  • Publication number: 20220024420
    Abstract: A cleaning apparatus, optimized for cleaning optical and optoelectronic sensor devices in motor vehicles, comprising a housing, and a reciprocating piston movable in a pressure-controlled manner in the housing and movable from a retracted position into a deployed position along an actuation axis is disclosed. The reciprocating piston has an inner channel to transport a cleaning fluid through the reciprocating piston to a spray nozzle. A miniaturized, easily and inexpensively producible cleaning apparatus which makes possible exact and precise orientation of the cleaning jet, quick operational readiness, reduced tendency for follow-up flow of the cleaning fluid, and improved adaptability to different installation positions, is also disclosed. In an embodiment at least the cleaning apparatus has at least one guide to prevent rotation of the reciprocating piston about the actuation axis during its entire stroke, the at least one guide means arranged at least regionally in the inner channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2019
    Publication date: January 27, 2022
    Inventors: Dirk Ringler, Stefan Schäckel, Reiner Krauße, Ilja Prygunkov
  • Patent number: 10752219
    Abstract: Cleaning device for cleaning a transparent cover of a camera, in particular a lens of the camera, comprising at least one cleaning agent feed line and at least two cleaning agent spraying elements.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: CONTI TEMIC MICROELECTRONIC GMBH
    Inventors: Dirk Ringler, Torsten Hahn, Stefan Schäckel, Thomas Werner, Johannes Frölich, David Lässle
  • Publication number: 20180201232
    Abstract: Cleaning device for cleaning a transparent cover of a camera, in particular a lens of the camera, comprising at least one cleaning agent feed line and at least two cleaning agent spraying elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Applicants: Conti Temic microelectronic GmbH, CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventors: Dirk Ringler, Torsten Hahn, Stefan Schäckel, Thomas Werner, Johannes Frölich, David Lässle