Patents by Inventor Thomas Gerhards
Thomas Gerhards 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).
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Patent number: 11935755Abstract: A semiconductor laser includes a substrate having a semiconductor layer sequence with an active layer that generates light during operation of the semiconductor laser, and a contact layer on a bottom side of the substrate opposite the semiconductor layer sequence, wherein the contact layer has at least one first partial region and at least one second partial region which are formed contiguously, the at least one first partial region is annealed, and the at least one second partial region is unannealed.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 2020Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: OSRAM OLED GmbHInventors: Alfred Lell, Georg Brüderl, John Brückner, Sven Gerhard, Muhammad Ali, Thomas Adlhoch
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Publication number: 20240067623Abstract: [1-Pheny1)-5-(heteroaryl)-1H-pyrazol-3-yl)oxy] acetic acid derivatives and salts thereof, crop protection compositions comprising them, processes for preparing them, use thereof and plant protection compositions. The present invention relates to crop protection compounds and to compositions which comprise specific compounds as safeners for reducing phytotoxic effects of agrochemicals, especially herbicides. The invention relates more particularly to certain [1-(phenyl)-5-(heteroaryl)-1H-pyrazol-3-yl)oxy]acetic acid derivatives of the general formula (I) and their salts, to processes for preparing them and to their use as plant protection compounds (safeners).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2021Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Thomas MÜLLER, Estella BUSCATO ARSEQUELL, Hendrik HELMKE, Harald JAKOBI, Michael Gerhard HOFFMANN, Jan DITTGEN
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Patent number: 11917913Abstract: The invention relates to materials, to electroluminescence devices comprising said materials and to the use thereof.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2019Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Merck Patent GmbHInventors: Amir Hossain Parham, Arne Buesing, Philipp Stoessel, Anja Gerhard, Christof Pflumm, Thomas Eberle, Anja Jatsch, Jonas Valentin Kroeber, Lars Dobelmann-Mara
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Publication number: 20240041622Abstract: The present invention relates to an implant for implanting in a body, in particular in a hollow organ or a vessel of a body, the implant being composed of a filament which comprises at least one polymeric matrix material in which a magnetically heatable filler is arranged, the filament having a cross section with a core-sheath structure characterized in that the core forms a polymeric reinforcing structure, and in that the sheath comprises the polymeric matrix material in which the magnetically heatable filler is disposed, the loading of the filler being greater in the sheath than in the core.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2021Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: RHEINISCH-WESTFÄLISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE (RWTH) AACHENInventors: Benedict BAUER, Thomas Gerhard GRIES, Jeanette ORTEGA, loana SLABU, Thomas SCHMITZ-RODE, Benedikt MUES
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Patent number: 11723555Abstract: The invention provides a seismocardiograph system, which includes an accelerometer, adapted to obtain accelerometer data from user, and a bandpass filter, adapted to filter the accelerometer data. The system further includes an envelope filter, adapted to suppress S2 peaks in the band pass filtered accelerometer data, wherein the envelope filter comprises: a low-pass filter; and a comb filter, wherein the delay of the comb filter is tuned to a left ventricle ejection time (LVET).Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2018Date of Patent: August 15, 2023Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Rene Martinus Maria Derkx, Thomas Gerhard Emmrich
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Patent number: 11440588Abstract: A chassis for an electrically powered vehicle, including a front wheel suspension and a rear wheel suspension, each having longitudinal control arms arranged on both sides and a torsion spring actively connected to the longitudinal control arms. The chassis includes a battery housing receiving a propulsion battery. A front transverse carrier extends between the respective longitudinal control arms of the front wheel suspension, and a rear transverse carrier extends between the respective longitudinal control arms of the rear wheel suspension. The respective transverse carriers are rigidly connected to the battery housing and couple the longitudinal control arms and the torsion spring.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2021Date of Patent: September 13, 2022Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Thomas Gerhards, Ralf Hintzen, Daniel Mainz, Friedrich Peter Wolf-Monheim
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Patent number: 11370259Abstract: A bearing eye for a leaf spring for sprung support of a vehicle component on a vehicle body of a vehicle may include a through opening and a torsion spring therein, and a first catch. The bearing eye may provide pivotable mounting of the leaf spring on the vehicle body. The torsion spring is twistable relative to the bearing eye and connectable non-rotatably to the vehicle body. The first catch may project radially inwardly into the through opening, and the torsion spring has a second catch that projects radially outwardly into the through opening. The first and second catches may form a locking engagement which, depending on a degree of relative twisting between the bearing eye and the torsion spring, stops the relative twisting.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2020Date of Patent: June 28, 2022Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Jacopo Palandri, Rainer Souschek, Ralf Hintzen, Alberto Girelli Consolaro, Friedrich Peter Wolf-Monheim, Bjoern Reff, Thomas Gerhards, Paul Zandbergen
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Patent number: 11209278Abstract: A method is disclosed for determining a route taken by a user at a decision point in a navigable network in an area covered by an electronic map. The map comprises a plurality of segments representing navigable segments of the navigable network in the area covered by the electronic map. A user is travelling along a main route from an origin to a destination. An upcoming decision point is identified, and one or more alternative routes between the decision point and the destination generated. Data indicative of each route is stored in a route pool, associated with data indicative of the outgoing segment at the decision point that forms part of the route. Each route passes along a different outgoing segment, and which segments are all different to an outgoing segment included in a continuation of the main route. When the user has passed through the decision point, it is determined whether the current position of the user lies on the outgoing segment forming the continuation of the main route.Type: GrantFiled: October 20, 2015Date of Patent: December 28, 2021Assignee: TOMTOM INTERNATIONAL B.V.Inventors: Felix Godafoss König, Michael Marte, Jose F. Santiago Nunez, Kees Wesselius, Stanislav Zheltov, Thomas Gerhard Helmut Schickinger, William Breen
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Publication number: 20210253169Abstract: A chassis for an electrically powered vehicle, including a front wheel suspension and a rear wheel suspension, each having longitudinal control arms arranged on both sides and a torsion spring actively connected to the longitudinal control arms. The chassis includes a battery housing receiving a propulsion battery. A front transverse carrier extends between the respective longitudinal control arms of the front wheel suspension, and a rear transverse carrier extends between the respective longitudinal control arms of the rear wheel suspension. The respective transverse carriers are rigidly connected to the battery housing and couple the longitudinal control arms and the torsion spring.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2021Publication date: August 19, 2021Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Thomas Gerhards, Ralf Hintzen, Daniel Mainz, Friedrich Peter Wolf-Monheim
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Publication number: 20210198811Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a multicomponent fiber, wherein the fiber is formed from a plurality of filaments, where the filaments each have a core and a thermoplastic sheath, and where the sheath is generated during the production of the filaments by in situ polymerization of monomers or oligomers of the thermoplastic on the surface of the core, and also to multicomponent fibers produced accordingly and to organosheets produced therefrom.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2018Publication date: July 1, 2021Inventors: Wolfgang Bremser, Oliver Ingolf Strube, David Wedegärtner, Thomas Gerhard Gries, Davide Pico, Alexander Lüking, Robert Brüll
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Publication number: 20210155064Abstract: A bearing eye for a leaf spring for sprung support of a vehicle component on a vehicle body of a vehicle may include a through opening and a torsion spring therein, and a first catch. The bearing eye may provide pivotable mounting of the leaf spring on the vehicle body. The torsion spring is twistable relative to the bearing eye and connectable non-rotatably to the vehicle body. The first catch may project radially inwardly into the through opening, and the torsion spring has a second catch that projects radially outwardly into the through opening. The first and second catches may form a locking engagement which, depending on a degree of relative twisting between the bearing eye and the torsion spring, stops the relative twisting.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2020Publication date: May 27, 2021Inventors: Jacopo Palandri, Rainer Souschek, Ralf Hintzen, Alberto Girelli Consolaro, Friedrich Peter Wolf-Monheim, Bjoern Reff, Thomas Gerhards, Paul Zandbergen
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Patent number: 11008040Abstract: A chassis for an electrically powered vehicle including a front wheel suspension and a rear wheel suspension each having longitudinal control arms arranged on both sides and a torsion spring actively connected to the longitudinal control arms. The chassis includes a battery housing receiving a propulsion battery. A front transverse carrier extends between the respective longitudinal control arms of the front wheel suspension and a rear transverse carrier extends between the respective longitudinal control arms of the rear wheel suspension. The respective transverse carriers are rigidly connected to the battery housing and couple the longitudinal control arms and the torsion spring.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2019Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Thomas Gerhards, Ralf Hintzen, Daniel Mainz, Friedrich Peter Wolf-Monheim
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Patent number: 11007835Abstract: The disclosure concerns a spring assembly with a leaf spring. The leaf spring extends in a vehicle longitudinal axis, supports a vehicle axle and is connected at least indirectly to a vehicle superstructure at a front end and at a rear end. In order to provide a wheel suspension with advantageous springing and damping behavior that is optimized with regard to weight and complexity, according to the disclosure it is provided that at least one damping region, which is at least partially fluid-filled, is integrated in the leaf spring.Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2018Date of Patent: May 18, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Ralf Hintzen, Daniel Mainz, Rainer Souschek, Thomas Gerhards, Paul Zandbergen, Alberto Girelli Consolaro, Friedrich Peter Wolf-Monheim
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Patent number: 11001113Abstract: An axle suspension for a vehicle includes a spring assembly with a leaf spring and a connecting arm, wherein the leaf spring supports a vehicle axle and, on an end side, is pivotably connected to a vehicle structure and pivotably connected to the connecting arm. In order to provide an optimized axle suspension with two-stage suspension, the spring assembly in a region of the connecting arm has a first stop element and the vehicle structure has a second stop element, which stop elements under normal load of the vehicle are spaced apart from one another and, when a limit load is exceeded, contact one another, whereby at least one stop element is elastically deformable.Type: GrantFiled: October 16, 2018Date of Patent: May 11, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Marc Simon, Thomas Gerhards, Ralf Hintzen, Rainer Souschek, Nicole Zandbergen
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Patent number: 10933707Abstract: A leaf spring assembly resiliently supporting a wheel carrier on a vehicle body of a motor vehicle. The leaf spring assembly including first and second spring leaves and a clamp having a clamping part exerting a clamping force whereby the first and second spring leaves are held together by the clamp. A bridging part arranged between the first spring leaf and the clamping part transmits at least part of the clamping force from the clamping part to the first spring leaf bridging the second spring leaf and reducing the clamping force exerted thereon.Type: GrantFiled: January 10, 2019Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Thomas Gerhards, Alberto Girelli Consolaro, Ralf Hintzen, Daniel Mainz, Rainer Souschek, Friedrich Peter Wolf-Monheim, Nicole Zandbergen
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Patent number: 10933708Abstract: A longitudinal leaf spring device for suspending a motor vehicle body or chassis on a vehicle axle thereof. Leaf spring device including an elongated leaf spring unit, a coupling device connecting the leaf spring unit to the vehicle axle, and suspension unit arranged in a substantially vertical direction between a chassis and the axle. The suspension unit including suspension elements providing a spring-back force in the vertical direction and producing an active connection between the chassis and the axle when the distance between the chassis and axle exceeds a predetermined first deflection depth.Type: GrantFiled: December 3, 2018Date of Patent: March 2, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Wolfgang David, Paul Zandbergen, Thomas Gerhards, Ralf Hintzen, Marc Simon, Friedrich Peter Wolf-Monheim
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Patent number: 10894455Abstract: A motor vehicle rear suspension includes left and right trailing links mounted, at respective forward ends thereof, to a vehicle body for pivoting movement about a transversely-extending axis. The trailing links extend rearward from the axis, and each has a wheel carrier attached thereto adjacent a rear end thereof. Left and right leaf springs are fixed, at respective forward ends thereof, to the vehicle body and extend rearward therefrom alongside and generally parallel with their respective trailing links. Rear ends of the leaf springs contact their respective trailing links and applying spring-force thereto.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2018Date of Patent: January 19, 2021Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Thomas Gerhards, Ralf Hintzen, Daniel Mainz, Rainer Souschek, Friedrich Peter Wolf-Monheim, Paul Zandbergen
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Patent number: 10864791Abstract: A suspension for a wheeled vehicle include an axle with a mid-section and an end comprising an upper portion and a lower portion defining a space therebetween, a leaf spring having forward and rear ends attached to vehicle structure and a mid-section retained in the space and secured between the upper and lower portions, and a closure element attached to the axle end and at least partially closing an outboard end of the space. The upper and lower axle portions may be formed integrally with the axle mid-section or may be a separately-formed component secured to the axle. The space tapers from a greater vertical dimension at the outboard end thereof to a smaller vertical dimension at an inboard end thereof, and the leaf spring mid-section is wedged into the space. An intermediate element is disposed between the mid-section and at least one of the upper and lower axle portions.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2018Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Thomas Gerhards, Alberto Girelli Consolaro, Ralf Hintzen, Daniel Mainz, Rainer Souschek
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Patent number: 10836230Abstract: A RevoKnuckle-type suspension for a wheeled vehicle has a hub mounted to a bearing carrier for rotation relative thereto about a steering axis, and a shock absorber connected non-rotatably to the bearing carrier. The shock absorber has an outer cylinder having an axially-extending guide hole defined therein, and a piston and attached piston rod retained for axial reciprocation in the guide hole. The guide hole and at least one of the piston and the piston rod retained therein have respective complementary-shaped, non-circular cross-sectional shapes which engage one another to resist axial rotation of the piston and/or the piston rod within the guide hole. The carrier is therefore restrained against rotation relative to the vehicle sprung structure without the need for any additional component(s) such as a control arm or stabilizer, as required in a traditional RevoKnuckle-type suspension.Type: GrantFiled: October 18, 2018Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Ralf Hintzen, Thomas Gerhards
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Patent number: 10807426Abstract: The invention relates to a multi-link rear suspension for a motor vehicle, having at least one transverse leaf spring arranged on the motor vehicle to extend in the transverse vehicle direction and having ends which operatively act on left and right wheel carriers to cushion a vehicle structure of the motor vehicle with respect to the wheel-carriers. The transverse leaf spring also serves as a stabilizer, thereby replacing dedicated stabilizer. In order to provide a multi-link rear suspension which is optimized in terms of structural space and which is lightweight, the multi-link rear has exclusively transverse links for guiding the wheel-carriers.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2018Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Alberto Girelli Consolaro, Paul Zandbergen, Daniel Mainz, Friedrich Peter Wolf-Monheim, Thomas Gerhards, Ralf Hintzen, Rainer Souschek, Brian Chen