Patents by Inventor Steffen Schott

Steffen Schott 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: 9985378
    Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid extraction module (1) for extracting liquid from a liquid tank, in particular of an exhaust-gas aftertreatment system of a motor vehicle, having an insert part (2) which is produced at least substantially from plastic and which has at least one extraction opening (5) and at least one plug connector (14) for the electrical contacting of an electrical consumer (10, 7) of the liquid extraction module (1). It is provided that a housing (16) of the plug connector (14) is formed separately and has at least one encapsulated undercut (22, 32) for fastening to the insert part (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ewgenij Landes, Steffen Schott
  • Patent number: 9702287
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tank insert module (1) for extracting liquid from a vehicle tank, comprising a basic body (2) composed of a plastic, on which basic body are arranged a liquid extraction device (23), which comprises an extraction opening (4) which can be assigned to the tank interior space, and at least one electric heating element (7), wherein the electric heating element (7) comprises a heating body (8) with an extrusion-coated plastic encapsulation (9). It is provided here that the plastic encapsulation (9) has a plastic which can be welded to the basic body, in particular high-density polyethylene, and/or the same plastic as the basic body (2), and also at least one filler material with high thermal conductivity, and is welded to the basic body (2) at at least one contact point (17). The invention also relates to a liquid tank for vehicles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ewgenij Landes, Steffen Schott
  • Patent number: 9546034
    Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid extraction module (1) for extracting liquid from a liquid tank, in particular of an exhaust-gas aftertreatment system of a motor vehicle, comprising a basic body (2) which can be arranged in and/or on the vehicle tank and which bears a liquid extraction device (6) with an extraction orifice (5) that can be assigned to the tank interior, and at least one electric heating element (20). According to the invention, at least one heat-conducting element (18) is provided, said element having at least one first portion (24) assigned to the heating element (20) and one second portion (25) assigned to the extraction orifice (5), in order to transport the heat from the heating element (20) to the extraction orifice (5). The invention further relates to a liquid tank for a vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ewgenij Landes, Steffen Schott
  • Patent number: 8680879
    Abstract: A chuck for supporting and retaining a test substrate includes a device for supporting and retaining a calibration substrate. The chuck comprises a first support surface for supporting a test substrate and a second support surface, which is laterally offset to the first support surface, for supporting a calibration substrate. The calibration substrate has planar calibration standards for calibration of a measuring unit of a prober, and dielectric material or air situated below the calibration substrate at least in the area of the calibration standard. In order to be able to take the actual thermal conditions on the test substrate and in particular also on known and unknown calibration standards and thus the thermal influence on the electrical behavior of the calibration standard used into consideration, the second support surface is equipped for temperature control of the calibration substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2014
    Assignee: Cascade Microtech, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrej Rumiantsev, Stojan Kanev, Steffen Schott, Karsten Stoll
  • Publication number: 20130280958
    Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid extraction module (1) for extracting liquid from a liquid tank, in particular of an exhaust-gas aftertreatment system of a motor vehicle, having an insert part (2) which is produced at least substantially from plastic and which has at least one extraction opening (5) and at least one plug connector (14) for the electrical contacting of an electrical consumer (10, 7) of the liquid extraction module (1). It is provided that a housing (16) of the plug connector (14) is formed separately and has at least one encapsulated undercut (22, 32) for fastening to the insert part (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Publication date: October 24, 2013
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Ewgenij Landes, Steffen Schott
  • Publication number: 20130263939
    Abstract: The invention relates to a liquid extraction module (1) for extracting liquid from a liquid tank, in particular of an exhaust-gas aftertreatment system of a motor vehicle, comprising a basic body (2) which can be arranged in and/or on the vehicle tank and which bears a liquid extraction device (6) with an extraction orifice (5) that can be assigned to the tank interior, and at least one electric heating element (20). According to the invention, at least one heat-conducting element (18) is provided, said element having at least one first portion (24) assigned to the heating element (20) and one second portion (25) assigned to the extraction orifice (5), in order to transport the heat from the heating element (20) to the extraction orifice (5). The invention further relates to a liquid tank for a vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2011
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Ewgenij Landes, Steffen Schott
  • Publication number: 20130263941
    Abstract: The invention relates to a tank insert module (1) for extracting liquid from a vehicle tank, comprising a basic body (2) composed of a plastic, on which basic body are arranged a liquid extraction device (23), which comprises an extraction opening (4) which can be assigned to the tank interior space, and at least one electric heating element (7), wherein the electric heating element (7) comprises a heating body (8) with an extrusion-coated plastic encapsulation (9). It is provided here that the plastic encapsulation (9) has a plastic which can be welded to the basic body, in particular high-density polyethylene, and/or the same plastic as the basic body (2), and also at least one filler material with high thermal conductivity, and is welded to the basic body (2) at at least one contact point (17). The invention also relates to a liquid tank for vehicles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2011
    Publication date: October 10, 2013
    Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Ewgenij Landes, Steffen Schott
  • Patent number: 8250909
    Abstract: A pressure measuring device suitable for disposition in a chamber of an internal combustion engine. The pressure measuring device has a housing, a force transmitting element that is effectively connected to a pressure sensor, and a sensor cage that surrounds the pressure sensor. The sensor cage is connected to the housing by a circumferential weld seam only at one connection segment of the housing. In this way, it is possible to achieve a defined pre-tensioning of a metal diaphragm that is connected on the one hand to the sensor cage and on the other hand to the force transmitting element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2012
    Assignees: Robert Bosch GmbH, Kistler Holding AG
    Inventors: Christoph Kern, Reinhold Hess, Reiko Zach, Michael Kleindl, Peter Wolfer, Steffen Schott, Claudio Cavalloni, Pavlo Saltikov, Michael Mueller, Andrea Bertola
  • Publication number: 20110291680
    Abstract: A chuck for supporting and retaining a test substrate includes a device for supporting and retaining a calibration substrate. The chuck comprises a first support surface for supporting a test substrate and a second support surface, which is laterally offset to the first support surface, for supporting a calibration substrate. The calibration substrate has planar calibration standards for calibration of a measuring unit of a prober, and dielectric material or air situated below the calibration substrate at least in the area of the calibration standard. In order to be able to take the actual thermal conditions on the test substrate and in particular also on known and unknown calibration standards and thus the thermal influence on the electrical behavior of the calibration standard used into consideration, the second support surface is equipped for temperature control of the calibration substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: Cascade Microtech, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrej Rumiantsev, Stojan Kanev, Steffen Schott, Karsten Stoll
  • Patent number: 8003917
    Abstract: A glow plug for a combustion chamber of a self-igniting internal combustion engine has a ceramic heating element designed as a sheathed-element glow plug, which is surrounded by a supporting tube. The ceramic heating element is sealed with respect to the combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine by a seal in the supporting tube. The seal is designed as a sealing element made of an FeNi alloy having an Invar effect.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Kern, Ewgenji Landes, Reiko Zach, Michael Kleindl, Christian Doering, Steffen Schott, Pavlo Saltikov
  • Patent number: 7994690
    Abstract: The invention relates to a component for installation in force or pressure sensors, in particular in a glow plug. The component comprises a disc-type or punched-disc type measuring element consisting of a piezoelectric material, punched-disc type or disc-type electrodes that lie on either side of the measuring element. The electrodes have contact points for contacting conductors. The component comprises in addition a respective transmission body or several transmission bodies that are located outside the electrodes, on either side of the latter. The measuring element, electrodes and transmission bodies are held together mechanically by an external, electrically insulating film.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2011
    Assignee: Kistler Holding AG
    Inventors: Peter Wolfer, Claudio Cavalloni, Reinhold Hess, Michael Mueller, Andrea Bertola, Christoph Kern, Steffen Schott, Pavlo Saltikov, Michael Kleindl, Reiko Zach
  • Patent number: 7954382
    Abstract: A pressure-measuring device is situated in a chamber of an internal combustion engine. The pressure-measuring device has a housing, a force-transmitting element that protrudes partly from the housing at a chamber-side opening of the housing, and a pressure sensor that is situated in an interior space of the housing. The pressure sensor stands in effective connection to the force-transmitting element. In addition, a diaphragm is provided that seals the interior space of the housing, in which the pressure sensor is situated, against the chamber-side opening. The diaphragm, which is preferably fashioned as a metal diaphragm, has a force-transmitting segment that is oriented in an axial direction of the force-transmitting element. Moreover, the pressure sensor stands in effective connection with the force-transmitting element via the force-transmitting segment of the diaphragm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Kern, Ewgenij Landes, Reiko Zach, Michael Schuettoff, Michael Kleindl, Christian Doering, Steffen Schott, Pavlo Saltikov
  • Publication number: 20110005308
    Abstract: A pressure measuring device suitable for disposition in a chamber of an internal combustion engine. The pressure measuring device has a housing, a force transmitting element that is effectively connected to a pressure sensor, and a sensor cage that surrounds the pressure sensor. The sensor cage is connected to the housing by a circumferential weld seam only at one connection segment of the housing. In this way, it is possible to achieve a defined pre-tensioning of a metal diaphragm that is connected on the one hand to the sensor cage and on the other hand to the force transmitting element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 12, 2007
    Publication date: January 13, 2011
    Inventors: Christoph Kern, Reinhold Hess, Reiko Zach, Michael Kleindl, Peter Wolfer, Steffen Schott, Claudio Cavalloni, Pavlo Saltikov, Michael Mueller, Andrea Bertola
  • Publication number: 20100300186
    Abstract: A pressure-measuring device is to be placed in a chamber of an internal combustion engine. The pressure-measuring device has a housing, a force-transmission element projecting out of the housing, and a pressure sensor disposed in an interior chamber of the housing. On the one hand, the pressure sensor is braced on a fixation element. On the other hand, to detect a pressure prevailing inside the chamber, the pressure sensor is operatively connected to the force-transmission element. The pressure sensor has a straight-through recess through which an electrical line is routed. In addition, a positioning element is provided, which has a straight-through recess in a guide region, the electrical line being routed through the straight-through recess, and the positioning element having a reduced thickness in the guide region. This makes it possible to reduce friction of the electrical line in the guide region at the straight-through recess, so that the pressure measurement is improved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 16, 2007
    Publication date: December 2, 2010
    Inventors: Christoph Kern, Ewgenij Landes, Michael Kleindl, Christian Doering, Steffen Schott, Pavlo Saltikov
  • Patent number: 7769555
    Abstract: A method is provided for calibration of a vectorial network analyzer, having n measurement ports (n>1) and at least m measurement sites with n+1<m<2n. Calibration includes measurement of three different n-port reflection standards connected between the measurement ports in any sequence, and measurement of different transmission standards connected between two measurement ports, and mathematical determination of the error coefficients of the network analyzer and the error-corrected scattering matrices [Sx] of the n-port calibration standards. The reflection standards, similar to shorts and opens, are unknown and the reflection standard implemented by wave terminations is known, but can be different at each n-fold one-port. The measurement of the transmission standards occurs on a transmission standard known in length and attenuation, which is implemented on each possible two-port by different combination of measurement ports.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: SUSS Microtec Test Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Andrej Rumiantsev, Steffen Schott, Stojan Kanev
  • Patent number: 7768271
    Abstract: Method for calibrating a vectorial network analyzer, with n measurement ports (n>2) and at least m measurement sites, where m>n+1 includes measurement of three different n-port reflection standards, connected between measurement ports in any desired order, and successive measurement of reflection and transmission parameters at different transmission standards, connected between two respective measurement ports, and computational determination of error coefficients and error-corrected scattering matrices [Sx] of the n-port standards. Reflection standards, Short and Open, are unknown, but physically identical at each n-fold one-port. Reflection standard, realized by wave terminations, is known, but can be different at each n-fold one-port. Transmission standards are measured at a transmission standard, having known length and attenuation at a two-port, and at unknown transmission standards, identical for incident and reflected waves at remaining two-ports, which can be connected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2007
    Date of Patent: August 3, 2010
    Assignee: SUSS Microtec Test Systems GmbH
    Inventors: Andrej Rumiantsev, Steffen Schott, Stojan Kanev
  • Patent number: 7712444
    Abstract: A sheathed-element glow plug is used to be situated in a chamber in an internal combustion engine. The sheathed-element glow plug has a housing, a pin-shaped heating element, which extends partially from the housing and a pressure sensor which is situated in an inner chamber of the housing. A prestressing sleeve is provided, in this context, which applies a prestressing to the pressure sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2010
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Kern, Reinhold Hess, Reiko Zach, Michael Kleindl, Peter Wolfer, Steffen Schott, Claudio Cavalloni, Pavlo Saltikov, Michael Mueller, Andrea Bertola
  • Publication number: 20100037698
    Abstract: A pressure-measuring device is situated in a chamber of an internal combustion engine. The pressure-measuring device has a housing, a force-transmitting element that protrudes partly from the housing at a chamber-side opening of the housing, and a pressure sensor that is situated in an interior space of the housing. The pressure sensor stands in effective connection to the force-transmitting element. In addition, a diaphragm is provided that seals the interior space of the housing, in which the pressure sensor is situated, against the chamber-side opening. The diaphragm, which is preferably fashioned as a metal diaphragm, has a force-transmitting segment that is oriented in an axial direction of the force-transmitting element. Moreover, the pressure sensor stands in effective connection with the force-transmitting element via the force-transmitting segment of the diaphragm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2007
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Inventors: Christoph Kern, Ewgenij Landes, Reiko Zach, Michael Schuettoff, Michael Kleindl, Christian Doering, Steffen Schott, Pavlo Saltikov
  • Publication number: 20100032423
    Abstract: In combustion chamber signal-based engine control in particular, a reliable and at the same time cost-effective option for detecting a combustion chamber pressure in compression-ignition internal combustion engines is required. A sheathed element glow plug is proposed, which has a glow plug module and a pressure measuring module connected to the glow plug module. The glow plug module has a heating element and a glow plug housing. The pressure measuring module has at least one force measuring element, which is integrated into the pressure measuring module. The at least one force measuring element is designed to generate an electrical signal as a function of a force. In the mounted state of the sheathed element glow plug, the at least one force measuring element is connected to the heating element in such a way that a force is transmittable to the at least one force measuring element via the heating element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2006
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Inventors: Christoph Kern, Steffen Schott, Pavlo Saltikov
  • Patent number: D923145
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: GOETZE KG ARMATUREN
    Inventors: Steffen Schott, David Braun, Jurgen Grimm, Pascal Joos