Patents by Inventor Stefan Weiss

Stefan Weiss 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: 9935032
    Abstract: A power electronics arrangement has a power semiconductor module, with a contact spring, with a load connecting element and with a mounting device which is embodied as part of an electrically operated vehicle. The power semiconductor module has a load connection element which preferably projects outwards from the interior of the power semiconductor module, and preferably has there a first external contact face for external connection, and the load-connecting element has a second contact face. An electrically conductive pressure contact connection is embodied between the first contact face and the second contact face by a contact spring, wherein the pressure on the contact spring which is necessary for this is implemented by connecting the power semiconductor module in a frictionally locking fashion to the mounting device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: SEMIKRON ELEKTRONIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Frank, Christian Walter, Stefan Weiss, Thomas Ziegler
  • Patent number: 9875874
    Abstract: An apparatus for suppression of arcs in an electron beam generator including: a first module providing an operating voltage; a second module including a coil suitable for a voltage of at least 10 kV, and at least one free-wheeling diode connected in parallel to the coil; a third module including a first circuit component configured to detect a first actual value for electric voltage, and a first signal is producible when the first actual value falls below a first threshold value, a second circuit component by which a second actual value for electric current is detectable, and a second signal is generated when the second actual value exceeds a second threshold value, a control logic, which optionally links the first and second signals and a resultant output signal is producible; a semiconductor-based switch suitable for the voltage of at least 10 kV, which is opened based on the output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Rainer Labitzke, Severin Dominok, Gösta Mattausch, Stefan Weiss
  • Publication number: 20170301600
    Abstract: A power electronics arrangement has a power semiconductor module, with a contact spring, with a load connecting element and with a mounting device which is embodied as part of an electrically operated vehicle. The power semiconductor module has a load connection element which preferably projects outwards from the interior of the power semiconductor module, and preferably has there a first external contact face for external connection, and the load-connecting element has a second contact face. An electrically conductive pressure contact connection is embodied between the first contact face and the second contact face by a contact spring, wherein the pressure on the contact spring which is necessary for this is implemented by connecting the power semiconductor module in a frictionally locking fashion to the mounting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 14, 2017
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Applicant: SEMIKRON ELEKTRONIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Thomas FRANK, Christian WALTER, Stefan WEISS, Thomas ZIEGLER
  • Patent number: 9744296
    Abstract: For the administering of medicaments, an adapter is provided for connection to a haemodialysis tube set, which makes possible the direct connection of a standard injection vial to the extracorporeal circuit, avoiding the introduction of air into the circuit. The adapter has two conduit pathways. The conduit pathway for the application of medicament contains a gas-blocking element. The second conduit pathway serves for the aeration of the injection vial.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 29, 2017
    Assignee: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Massimo Fini, Stefan Weiss, Andreas Terpin, Alain Veneroni
  • Publication number: 20170133191
    Abstract: An apparatus for suppression of arcs in an electron beam generator including: a first module providing an operating voltage; a second module including a coil suitable for a voltage of at least 10 kV, and at least one free-wheeling diode connected in parallel to the coil; a third module including a first circuit component configured to detect a first actual value for electric voltage, and a first signal is producible when the first actual value falls below a first threshold value, a second circuit component by which a second actual value for electric current is detectable, and a second signal is generated when the second actual value exceeds a second threshold value, a control logic, which optionally links the first and second signals and a resultant output signal is producible; a semiconductor-based switch suitable for the voltage of at least 10 kV, which is opened based on the output signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2016
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Inventors: Rainer Labitzke, Severin Dominok, Gösta Mattausch, Stefan Weiss
  • Publication number: 20170122680
    Abstract: A tube bottom for a heat exchanger, with a bottom region having slot-type openings, wherein the slot-type openings are rimmed by eyelets and the tube bottom has an attached rim region. Formed between the eyelets and the attached rim region is a U-shaped trough as a receiving region for the foot of a box-like cover. The U-shaped trough has an inner first wall, the attached rim region and a second wall forming the trough bottom, wherein the inner first wall has at least one hump-like raised portion in the continuation of an eyelet on a side oriented toward the U-shaped trough, which bounds the breadth of the U-shaped trough between the attached rim region and the first wall and extends from the trough bottom to that end region of the eyelet oriented toward the U-shaped trough. A depression is formed in the hump-like raised portion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2017
    Publication date: May 4, 2017
    Applicant: MAHLE International GmbH
    Inventors: Harald BRONNER, Volker KURZ, Stefan WEISS
  • Publication number: 20160344160
    Abstract: A diode laser bar assembly is formed to exhibit a relatively low thermal resistance, which also providing an increased range of conditions over which the internal stress conditions may be managed. In particular, the submount configuration of the prior art is replaced by a pair of platelets, disposed above and below the diode laser bar so as to form a “sandwich” structure. The bottom platelet is disposed between the heatsink (cooler) and the diode laser bar. Thus, the bottom platelet may be relatively thin, creating a low thermal resistance configuration. The combination of the top and bottom platelets provides the ability to create various configurations and designs that best accommodate stress conditions for a particular situation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: II-VI Laser Enterprise GmbH
    Inventors: Jürgen Müller, Rainer Bättig, Reinhard Brunner, Stefan Weiss
  • Publication number: 20160341496
    Abstract: A cooling module in a motor vehicle may include at least one heat exchanger block and at least one holding device. The at least one holding device may secure the cooling module on the vehicle body. The at least one holding device may be designed as a cast component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2016
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: Mahle International GmbH
    Inventors: Artur Waesch, Stefan Weiss, Dirk Andritter, Stefan Weise
  • Publication number: 20160324010
    Abstract: A method for forming an electrically conductive structure on a plastic substrate is provided. An ink, which contains electrically conductive solid particles, is printed on the plastic substrate, where copper particles are used as electrically conductive solid particles. After the printing of the ink, only the surface regions of the plastic substrate on which the electrically conductive structure is to be formed are swept over within a vacuum chamber by means of an electron beam having a first energy per unit length, causing sintering of the copper particles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Matthias Fahland, Benjamin Graffel, Gösta Mattausch, Falk Winckler, Stefan Weiss, Sindy Mosch, Robert Jurk
  • Patent number: 9354281
    Abstract: A magnetic field sensor for measuring a magnetic field at a sensor location has a printed circuit board, including electrically insulating material; a magnetic field sensor element situated on the printed circuit board and connected via electrical contacts to first printed conductors provided on the printed circuit board; and at least one second printed conductor for generating a test magnetic field, the second printed conductor being provided on the printed circuit board and generating a predetermined test magnetic field when a calibration current is applied at the sensor location.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 3, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Gerhard Lammel, Stefan Weiss
  • Patent number: 9316703
    Abstract: An apparatus for measuring a magnetic field is described, which comprises a core and an exciter coil for remagnetizing the core material. The remagnetizable core material is embodied as a layer or as multiple layers disposed at a distance from one another, and the core has a maximum total extension G where 2.5 mm?G?0.2 mm, a ratio of length to width that is greater than or equal to a value of twenty, and a thickness D where 2 ?m?D?0.2 ?m. Also described is a corresponding method for measuring a magnetic field.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2016
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Frank Schatz, Paul Farber, Stefan Weiss, Gerhard Lammel, Fouad Bennini
  • Publication number: 20150337858
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turbine casing (1) of an exhaust-gas turbocharger (62), having an inlet connection piece (2) adjoined by a spiral (3), and having an outlet connection piece (4), characterized by an insulating device (5) for reducing the input of heat into the inlet connection piece (2), the spiral (3) and/or the outlet connection piece (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2015
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: VOLKER JOERGL, TIMM KIENER, THOMAS KRITZINGER, STEFAN WEISS, SYLVIA WUEST
  • Patent number: 9097121
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turbine casing (1) of an exhaust-gas turbocharger (62), having an inlet connection piece (2) adjoined by a spiral (3), and having an outlet connection piece (4), characterized by an insulating device (5) for reducing the input of heat into the inlet connection piece (2), the spiral (3) and/or the outlet connection piece (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: BorgWarner Inc.
    Inventors: Volker Joergl, Timm Kiener, Thomas Kritzinger, Stefan Weiss, Sylvia Wuest
  • Publication number: 20140360360
    Abstract: The invention relates to a piston accumulator (1) and a method for determining a position of a piston (5) that can be moved inside a housing (3) of the piston accumulator (1). One or more inductive sensors (15) are arranged on an exterior surface (21) of the housing (3) and configured to detect a movement of the piston (5) inside the housing (3) caused by electromagnetic induction. In this way, a determination of the current position of the piston (5), which is technically simple to realise and contact-free, can be implemented and used, for example, to monitor a charge state of the piston pressure accumulator (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2012
    Publication date: December 11, 2014
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Richard Bauer, Christoph Weisser, Ingo Bork, Stefan Weiss, Bernhard Zickgraf, Susanne Spindler
  • Patent number: 8818747
    Abstract: A method for calibrating a triaxial magnetic field sensor includes steps for determining an offset of recorded measured values of the magnetic field sensor using a superposed signal and for determining the sensitivity of the magnetic field sensor along the first measuring axes. The determination of the sensitivity includes steps for determining the sensitivity of the magnetic field sensor along a first measuring axis and for determining the sensitivity of the magnetic field sensor along the other measuring axes based on the sensitivity of the first measuring axis and the determined offset.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 26, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Weiss, Julian Bartholomeyczik, Sergej Scheiermann
  • Patent number: 8692339
    Abstract: In a method for manufacturing a micromechanical component, a cavity is produced in the substrate from an opening at the rear of a monocrystalline semiconductor substrate. The etching process used for this purpose and the monocrystalline semiconductor substrate used are controlled in such a way that a largely rectangular cavity is formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 3, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jochen Reinmuth, Michael Saettler, Stefan Weiss, Arnim Hoechst
  • Publication number: 20140077796
    Abstract: An apparatus for measuring a magnetic field is described, which comprises a core and an exciter coil for remagnetizing the core material. The remagnetizable core material is embodied as a layer or as multiple layers disposed at a distance from one another, and the core has a maximum total extension G where 2.5 mm?G?0.2 mm, a ratio of length to width that is greater than or equal to a value of twenty, and a thickness D where 2 ?m?D?0.2 ?m. Also described is a corresponding method for measuring a magnetic field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 23, 2012
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Inventors: Frank Schatz, Paul Farber, Stefan Weiss, Gerhard Lammel, Fouad Bennini
  • Patent number: 8621929
    Abstract: A micromechanical component comprising a displaceable mass made of a substrate material having at least one actuator plate electrode and one first insulating layer between the displaceable mass and the at least one actuator plate electrode, a mounting having a frame, which at least partially encloses the displaceable mass, at least one contact terminal of the at least one actuator plate electrode, and at least one stator plate electrode, and at least one spring component, via which the displaceable mass is connected to the mounting, one of the actuator plate electrodes being connected to the assigned contact terminal in each case via the assigned spring component, wherein the frame of the mounting is made of the substrate material of the displaceable mass and wherein one of the actuator plate electrodes is configured in one piece with the assigned contact terminal and the assigned spring component in each case.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Weiss, Arnim Hoechst
  • Patent number: D709192
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: KARL STORZ GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Christian Czupalla, Stefan Weiss
  • Patent number: D745731
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 15, 2015
    Assignee: KARL STORZ GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Fabian Zimmerli, Stefan Weiss