Patents by Inventor Stefan Vogel

Stefan Vogel 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: 20240134917
    Abstract: In an implementation, a request for one or more attachments stored in an application document store is received from a requestor and by an application agent associated with an application. For each attachment identified in the request, the application agent: 1) requests the attachment from a data privacy integration (DPI) kernel service; 2) receives a download link to an attachment in the application document store; 3) downloads, using the download link, the attachment from the application document store; 4) informs the DPI kernel service that a download of the attachment is complete; and 5) receives a message from the DPI kernel service that the download link has been deactivated. The application agent returns the one or more attachments to the requestor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Stefan Hesse, Matthias Vogel
  • Patent number: 11946789
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for a radar-based fill level measurement according to the pulse transit time method. Also disclosed a fill level measuring device for carrying out said method. On the basis of an evaluation signal, the relation between the clock rate and the sampling rate, and a predefined target relation, an evaluation curve is generated. The fill level is thereby determined on the basis of said evaluation curve. The evaluation curve is generated by means of temporal expansion or compression of the evaluation signal, wherein the compression or the expansion is carried out as a function of a ratio between the measured relation and the target relation. Any deviation of the sampling rate from the setpoint value of the sampling rate, for example due to faulty control, is compensated. Thus, the potentially attainable accuracy of the fill level measurement is increased due to the invention.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser SE+Co. KG
    Inventors: Ghislain Daufeld, Stefan Gorenflo, Alexey Malinovskiy, Jens Merle, Markus Vogel
  • Publication number: 20230062976
    Abstract: A glass unit for an illuminated vehicle roof has a glass pane, a plastic film and an outer and an inner polyurethane layer. These components are stacked one on top of the other in a planar manner in the following order: glass pane, inner polyurethane layer, plastic film, outer polyurethane layer. Furthermore, the plastic film has a lower refractive index than the adjacent outer polyurethane layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Publication date: March 2, 2023
    Inventors: Joachim ROEDER, Stefan VOGEL, Tobias THEOBALD, Ahmet TEKIN
  • Patent number: 11584204
    Abstract: A multi-part frame (10) for a sliding roof of a vehicle or a tilt-and-slide roof of a vehicle for guiding and holding a movable cover element allocated to a corresponding roof opening is specified, with a support component (12) formed as a plastic injection-moulded part, in which open cable channels (24) are moulded, in order to guide drive cables for moving the cover element, which are in drive engagement with a drive device, displaceably in a compression-resistant manner, wherein the cable channels (24) are configured such that they can be closed by at least one cover (14) likewise formed as a plastic injection-moulded part and fastenable to the support component (12), and wherein the fastening of the cover (14) to the support component (12) is configured such that an installation direction during fastening of the cover (14) to the support component (12) runs in the horizontal direction. Furthermore, a method for installing a multi-part frame (10) is specified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Roof Systems Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Juergen Schmidt, Stefan Vogel, Joachim Roeder
  • Patent number: 10590844
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine for a motor vehicle included a crankshaft, at least one piston coupled to the crankshaft for performing strokes in a cylinder as a consequence of a rotation of the crankshaft. An eccentric shaft is coupled to the crankshaft and to the piston in such a manner that through it strokes of the piston are extendable. The internal combustion engine further includes a phase adjuster for adjusting a phase of the coupling of the eccentric shaft to the crankshaft and/or a stroke adjuster for adjusting strokes of the piston, in particular an extension of strokes of the piston by the eccentric shaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 17, 2020
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Stefan Vogel, Stefan Lindner
  • Publication number: 20200011106
    Abstract: A multi-part frame (10) for a sliding roof of a vehicle or a tilt-and-slide roof of a vehicle for guiding and holding a movable cover element allocated to a corresponding roof opening is specified, with a support component (12) formed as a plastic injection-moulded part, in which open cable channels (24) are moulded, in order to guide drive cables for moving the cover element, which are in drive engagement with a drive device, displaceably in a compression-resistant manner, wherein the cable channels (24) are configured such that they can be closed by at least one cover (14) likewise formed as a plastic injection-moulded part and fastenable to the support component (12), and wherein the fastening of the cover (14) to the support component (12) is configured such that an installation direction during fastening of the cover (14) to the support component (12) runs in the horizontal direction. Furthermore, a method for installing a multi-part frame (10) is specified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2019
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Juergen SCHMIDT, Stefan VOGEL, Joachim ROEDER
  • Patent number: 10449931
    Abstract: A lock system for access authorization in a motor vehicle, having a first device which has at least two states and is embodied as a control device, and having an associated second device which is embodied in the manner of an electronic key, an ID signal transmitter, a chip card or the like. The two devices have transmitters and/or receivers for electromagnetic signals. At least one of the signals transmitted between the second device and the first device is an encoded operating signal for authenticating the second device, with the result that after a positive evaluation of the transmitted operating signal when the second device is authorized it is possible to bring about a change in the state of the first device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Marquardt GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Mueller, Wolfgang Stehle, Stefan Vogel
  • Patent number: 10358973
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes a crankshaft and at least one piston coupled to the crankshaft for executing strokes in a cylinder as a result of rotation of the crankshaft. An eccentric shaft is coupled to the crankshaft and to the piston in such a way that strokes of the piston are adjusted by the eccentric shaft. A phase adjuster adjusts a phase of the coupling of the eccentric shaft to the crankshaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2019
    Assignee: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Stefan Vogel
  • Publication number: 20190017434
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine for a motor vehicle included a crankshaft, at least one piston coupled to the crankshaft for performing strokes in a cylinder as a consequence of a rotation of the crankshaft. An eccentric shaft is coupled to the crankshaft and to the piston in such a manner that through it strokes of the piston are extendable. The internal combustion engine further includes a phase adjuster for adjusting a phase of the coupling of the eccentric shaft to the crankshaft and/or a stroke adjuster for adjusting strokes of the piston, in particular an extension of strokes of the piston by the eccentric shaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 11, 2018
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Stefan Vogel, Stefan Lindner
  • Publication number: 20180118166
    Abstract: A lock system for access authorization in a motor vehicle, having a first device which has at least two states and is embodied as a control device, and having an associated second device which is embodied in the manner of an electronic key, an ID signal transmitter, a chip card or the like. The two devices have transmitters and/or receivers for electromagnetic signals. At least one of the signals transmitted between the second device and the first device is an encoded operating signal for authenticating the second device, with the result that after a positive evaluation of the transmitted operating signal when the second device is authorized it is possible to bring about a change in the state of the first device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Publication date: May 3, 2018
    Applicant: Marquardt GmbH
    Inventors: Karl MUELLER, Wolfgang STEHLE, Stefan VOGEL
  • Publication number: 20180080372
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine includes a crankshaft and at least one piston coupled to the crankshaft for executing strokes in a cylinder as a result of rotation of the crankshaft. An eccentric shaft is coupled to the crankshaft and to the piston in such a way that strokes of the piston are adjusted by the eccentric shaft. A phase adjuster adjusts a phase of the coupling of the eccentric shaft to the crankshaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2017
    Publication date: March 22, 2018
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Stefan VOGEL
  • Patent number: 9764627
    Abstract: A sliding roof system is shown having a pair of guide rails, a slide in each guide rail, the slide being displaceably mounted therein, a functional component which is displaceably received in the guide rail and can be fixed in a raised position by means of a latching hook, the latching hook being shiftable between a release position and a latching position, the latching hook when in the latching position engaging in an opening of the guide rail, and a cover which can be opened from a closed position by displacement of the slide, a retaining lever being provided which can mechanically hold the latching hook in the latching position, wherein the retaining lever is adapted to be pivoted about a pivot pin between the release position and the retaining position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: ROOF SYSTEMS GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Stefan Vogel, Stefan Kunkel, Rainer Arnold
  • Publication number: 20170225451
    Abstract: For accelerated setting of a quantity of ink in an inking unit of an offset printing unit, it is proposed to maximise the quantity of ink transported out of an ink duct of the inking unit over an ink duct roller (1) and a lifting roller (6) into the inking unit during the adjustment of ink metering elements (3) which determine the metering of the ink in terms of the quantity thereof on the ink duct roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2015
    Publication date: August 10, 2017
    Applicant: manroland sheetfed GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Klassert, Lothar Kuehlmeyer, Stefan Vogel
  • Patent number: 9505292
    Abstract: A sliding roof system is shown having a pair of guide rails, a slide in each guide rail, the slide being displaceably mounted therein, a functional component which is displaceably received in the guide rail and can be fixed in a raised position by means of a latching hook, the latching hook being shiftable between a release position and a latching position, the latching hook when in the latching position engaging in an opening of the guide rail, and a cover which can be opened from a closed position by displacement of the slide, a retaining lever being provided which can mechanically hold the latching hook in the latching position, wherein the retaining lever is adapted to be pivoted about a pivot pin between the release position and the retaining position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: ROOF SYSTEMS GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Stefan Vogel, Stefan Kunkel, Rainer Arnold
  • Publication number: 20160325610
    Abstract: A method of attaching functional components to a roof element of a vehicle, including applying a curable material in a low-viscosity state which is molded in sections by means of a first mold surface, wherein a second mold surface is used which serves for shaping further sections of the curable material, an opening remaining accessible towards the environment through which the curable material can be introduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2016
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Inventors: Joachim ROEDER, Stefan VOGEL, Martin NISCACK, Pavol HURBAN, Andre SCHARPER, Andreas KUNZE, Charles WASSEN
  • Patent number: 9370988
    Abstract: A sliding roof system is shown having a pair of guide rails, a slide in each guide rail, the slide being displaceably mounted therein, a functional component which is displaceably received in the guide rail and can be fixed in a raised position by means of a latching hook, the latching hook being shiftable between a release position and a latching position, the latching hook when in the latching position engaging in an opening of the guide rail, and a cover which can be opened from a closed position by displacement of the slide, a retaining lever being provided which can mechanically hold the latching hook in the latching position, wherein the retaining lever is adapted to be pivoted about a pivot pin between the release position and the retaining position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 21, 2016
    Assignee: ROOF SYSTEMS GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Stefan Vogel, Stefan Kunkel, Rainer Arnold
  • Patent number: 9308804
    Abstract: A method of attaching functional components to a roof element of a vehicle is provided. The method including the steps of: applying a curable material in a low-viscosity state which is molded in sections by a first mold surface, wherein a second mold surface is used for further shaping sections of the curable material, and wherein an opening remains accessible towards an environment through which the curable material is introduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2016
    Assignee: ROOF SYSTEMS GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Joachim Roeder, Stefan Vogel, Martin Niscack, Pavol Hurban, Andre Schaper, Andreas Kunze, Charles Wassen
  • Patent number: 9227492
    Abstract: A sliding roof system is shown having a pair of guide rails, a slide in each guide rail, the slide being displaceably mounted therein, a functional component which is displaceably received in the guide rail and can be fixed in a raised position by means of a latching hook, the latching hook being shiftable between a release position and a latching position, the latching hook when in the latching position engaging in an opening of the guide rail, and a cover which can be opened from a closed position by displacement of the slide, a retaining lever being provided which can mechanically hold the latching hook in the latching position, wherein the retaining lever is adapted to be pivoted about a pivot pin between the release position and the retaining position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: ROOF SYSTEMS GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Stefan Vogel, Stefan Kunkel, Rainer Arnold
  • Patent number: 9227490
    Abstract: A guide rail (10) for a vehicle sliding roof system, having a guide (22) which can receive a sliding element (18) for shifting motion that is coupled to a cover of the sliding roof system, the guide (22) including a shifting section (17) that extends in a substantially straight line, and the guide rail (10) being made of metal, in particular of an aluminum alloy, is characterized in that it includes a lifting section (16) which integrally adjoins the shifting section (17) and extends obliquely to the direction of extent of the shifting section (17). Also described is a method of producing a guide rail for a vehicle sliding roof system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2016
    Assignee: DAIMLER AG
    Inventors: Stefan Vogel, Rainer Grimm, Stefan Kunkel, Jürgen Schrader
  • Patent number: 9102216
    Abstract: A guide rail (10) for a vehicle sliding roof system, having a guide (22) which can receive a sliding element (18) for shifting motion that is coupled to a cover of the sliding roof system, the guide (22) including a shifting section (17) that extends in a substantially straight line, and the guide rail (10) being made of metal, in particular of an aluminum alloy, is characterized in that it includes a lifting section (16) which integrally adjoins the shifting section (17) and extends obliquely to the direction of extent of the shifting section (17). Also described is a method of producing a guide rail for a vehicle sliding roof system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: DAIMLER AG
    Inventors: Stefan Vogel, Rainer Grimm, Stefan Kunkel, Jürgen Schrader