Patents by Inventor Thomas Rosch
Thomas Rosch 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: 11932985Abstract: A heat-exchange device (2) for a laundry treatment machine includes a first heat exchanger (4) and a second heat exchanger (6) that are disposed successively along a flow path (10) of process air in an operating state of the heat-exchange device (2), and are connected to each other by a connecting plate (8). The first heat exchanger (4) includes a first side plate (12), and the second heat exchanger (6) includes a second side plate (14), wherein the first and the second side plates (12, 14) are each disposed on a side of the heat-exchange device (2) opposite the connecting plate (8) and are disconnected at least in a pre-installation state of the heat-exchange device (2). A base module is configured to fix the relative position of the first and second heat exchangers (4, 6) with respect to each other.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2021Date of Patent: March 19, 2024Assignee: MIELE & CIE. KGInventors: Ingrid Zunker, Jürgen Rösch, Thomas Vartmann, Christof Kruschinski
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Patent number: 11112788Abstract: The present disclosure, in one aspect, provides a method for monitoring a vehicle environment. The method may include determining environmental data of a vehicle with an environmental sensor system, transmitting the environmental data to a mobile unit, determining a local position of the mobile unit with respect to the vehicle, and selecting a subset of the environmental data based on the local position of the mobile unit and depicting the subset of the environmental data on the mobile unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2015Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Michael Burkhart, Thomas Rösch
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Patent number: 10414221Abstract: The disclosure relates to a pivot angle detection device and a method for detecting a pivot angle between a vehicle and a trailer coupling device that is coupled to the vehicle. A transmitter is hereby provided, which is designed for producing an electromagnetic field, as well as a receiver which is designed to detect a field strength of the electromagnetic field, whereby the transmitter and receiver are arranged towards each other on the vehicle and trailer coupling device in such a way that a change of the pivot angle produces a dependent change in the field strength that is detected by the receiver. Additionally, an evaluation device for determining the pivot angle based on the detected field strength is also provided. The disclosure also relates to a transmitter, a receiver and an evaluation device, that are designed for this purpose.Type: GrantFiled: June 2, 2015Date of Patent: September 17, 2019Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Michael Burkhart, Thomas Rösch, Georges Halsdorf
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Publication number: 20180264934Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a fluid tank for storing fluid for use in a motor vehicle. The fluid tank may include a fluid tank shell that defines a chamber of the fluid tank; a heating device in the chamber of the fluid tank and configured to heat the fluid in the fluid tank; and a plastic jacket that encloses at least a portion of the heating device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Thomas Rösch, Wilfried Moh
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Publication number: 20180264936Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a liquid tank to accommodate liquid for use in a vehicle. The liquid tank may include a liquid tank shell including a concavity formed in the liquid tank shell that is accessible from an outer area of the liquid tank shell; and a heater disposed within the concavity and configured to heat the liquid tank shell.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2018Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Thomas Rösch, Wilfried Moh
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Publication number: 20170136839Abstract: The disclosure relates to a pivot angle detection device and a method for detecting a pivot angle between a vehicle and a trailer coupling device that is coupled to the vehicle. A transmitter is hereby provided, which is designed for producing an electromagnetic field, as well as a receiver which is designed to detect a field strength of the electromagnetic field, whereby the transmitter and receiver are arranged towards each other on the vehicle and trailer coupling device in such a way that a change of the pivot angle produces a dependent change in the field strength that is detected by the receiver. Additionally, an evaluation device for determining the pivot angle based on the detected field strength is also provided. The disclosure also relates to a transmitter, a receiver and an evaluation device, that are designed for this purpose.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2015Publication date: May 18, 2017Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Michael Burkhart, Thomas Rösch, Georges Halsdorf
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Publication number: 20170131713Abstract: The present disclosure, in one aspect, provides a method for monitoring a vehicle environment. The method may include determining environmental data of a vehicle with an environmental sensor system, transmitting the environmental data to a mobile unit, determining a local position of the mobile unit with respect to the vehicle, and selecting a subset of the environmental data based on the local position of the mobile unit and depicting the subset of the environmental data on the mobile unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 2, 2015Publication date: May 11, 2017Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Michael Burkhart, Thomas Rösch
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Patent number: 8214109Abstract: The invention relates to a seat control electronic system for controlling a drive of a motor vehicle seat which is configured for detecting a characteristic variable of the drive during several short actuations of the drive, and to evaluate variables respectively associated with several short actuations, and to determine a blocking function according to the evaluations.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2007Date of Patent: July 3, 2012Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co.Inventors: Markus Schüssler, Thomas Rösch
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Patent number: 8084978Abstract: The invention relates to a control device of a vehicle seat for controlling a first drive and a second drive and for detecting jamming of a body part or of an object by means of an adjusting movement of an adjusting part, which can be adjusted in a first adjusting direction by means of the first drive and in a second adjusting direction by means of the second drive, of the vehicle seat, wherein the control device is configured to detect the jamming by means of a combined evaluation of at least one first force variable which is dependent on the adjusting movement and of a second force variable which is dependent on the adjusting movement.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2006Date of Patent: December 27, 2011Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co.Inventors: Jürgen Buhlheller, Markus Schüssler, Thomas Rösch
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Patent number: 7786689Abstract: In order to reliably detect a jamming situation, in particular in a seat adjusting means, provision is made for a total loading exerted by the drive during a start phase to be determined and for this to be fixed as the basic loading. The existence or non-existence of a jamming situation is finally determined during a monitoring phase by comparing the basic loading and the total loading that varies during operation of the adjusting apparatus.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2007Date of Patent: August 31, 2010Assignee: Brose Fahzeugteile GmbH & Co.Inventor: Thomas Rösch
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Patent number: 7699036Abstract: To provide an assembly, comprising an exhaust gas turbocharger and an intercooler for an internal combustion engine and a hot-side charge-air line connecting the exhaust gas turbocharger to a charge-air inlet of the intercooler, which assembly allows the movements to be equalised between the exhaust gas turbocharger and the intercooler and is simple to produce and assemble, it is proposed that the hot-side charge-air line comprises a one-piece plastics material tube which is formed from a material containing polytetrafluoroethylene and/or modified polytetrafluoroethylene and has at least one flexible zone.Type: GrantFiled: February 22, 2008Date of Patent: April 20, 2010Assignees: ElringKlinger AG, Veritas AGInventors: Stefan Bock, Roland Schray, Thomas Rösch, Andreas Seyler
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Publication number: 20100025983Abstract: The invention relates to a coupling device for connecting line devices, preferably quick connector, having a coupling housing comprising a connecting device that can be connected to an end section of a line device or of a second connecting device, and a valve body which can be transferred from a closed position to an open position when the end section of the line device or of the second connecting device is brought together with the coupling housing. The valve body can be actuated by means of a force deflecting device by bringing the end section of the line device or of the second connecting device together with the coupling housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2005Publication date: February 4, 2010Applicant: Veritas AGInventors: Thomas Rösch, Bernhard Beck, Werner Hempel
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Patent number: 7654614Abstract: Lumbar support and control device of a lumbar support and method for controlling a lumbar support of a motor vehicle. An electric control device is provided for a lumbar support which has a drive coupled mechanically to an adjusting mechanism for setting the seat contour of the lumbar support. The control device has at least one computer unit which controls a massaging movement of the lumbar support whereby the massaging movement is characterized through several predefinable ideal speeds. Several ideal speeds for one or more adjusting directions of the lumbar support are controllable through the computer unit. For control by the ideal speeds a drive moment of the drive is adapted to an actual load of the drive so that the massaging movement can be controlled substantially independent of the actual time-changeable or locally variable load. The drive moment is consequently changeable through the control device.Type: GrantFiled: May 29, 2008Date of Patent: February 2, 2010Assignee: Brose Fahrzeugteile GmbH & Co. KG, CoburgInventors: Markus Schüβler, Thomas Rösch, Ingo Carl
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Publication number: 20090240401Abstract: In order to draw a reliable conclusion about the existence of a jamming situation, in particular in a seat adjusting means, provision is made to distinguish between the following movement classes: a) running difficulty of the adjusting apparatus, b) jamming of an object, c) encountering an end stop, and d) sudden counter-reaction, with a decision criterion (c, c1, c2, M3) being derived from detected characteristic variables (u, i, n) of a motorized drive (2), and the current state of the adjusting apparatus being associated with one of the movement classes on the basis of said decision criterion.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2007Publication date: September 24, 2009Applicant: BROSE FAHRZEUGTEILE GMBH & CO KOMMANDITGESELLSCAFT, COBURGInventor: Thomas Rösch
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Publication number: 20090072176Abstract: The invention relates to a valve device, preferably for a line device or connecting device. Said valve device comprises a valve body that can be transferred from an open position to a closed position. Said valve body comprises movable sectored devices having sealing edges or sealing surfaces via which, in a closed position, a sealing contact of the sectored device to adjoining sealing edges or sealing surfaces can be established. The sectored devices can at least be in sections moved away in the radial direction from the centre axis when the valve body is transferred to the open position and release a flow area.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2005Publication date: March 19, 2009Inventors: Thomas Rosch, Bernhard Beck, Werner Hempel
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Publication number: 20090055055Abstract: The invention relates to a seat control electronic system for controlling a drive of a motor vehicle seat which is configured for detecting a characteristic variable of the drive during several short actuations of the drive) and to evaluate variables respectively associated with several short actuations, and to determine a blocking function according to the evaluations.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2007Publication date: February 26, 2009Applicant: BROSE FAHRZEUGTEILE GMBH & CO. KOMMANDITGESELLSCHAInventors: Markus Schussler, Thomas Rosch
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Publication number: 20090039814Abstract: In order to reliably detect a jamming situation, in particular in a seat adjusting means, provision is made for a total loading exerted by the drive during a start phase to be determined and for this to be fixed as the basic loading. The existence or non-existence of a jamming situation is finally determined during a monitoring phase by comparing the gasinc loading and the total loading that varies during operation of the adjusting apparatus.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2007Publication date: February 12, 2009Applicant: Brose Fahrzeugteile GMBH & Co. Kommaditgesellschaft, CoburgInventor: Thomas Rosch
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Publication number: 20090035055Abstract: The invention relates to a coupling device for the connection of pipes to a retaining device, which has an outer part and an inner part arranged in the outer part. This coupling device is characterised in that the outer part and the inner part can move relative to one another and in the longitudinal direction of the retaining device between a locking position and a release position, wherein at least one wedge surface, arranged sloping with respect to the longitudinal axis of the retaining device, is provided on the outer part, which interacts with at least one complementarily formed wedge surface, which is provided on the inner part.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2005Publication date: February 5, 2009Inventors: Thomas Rosch, Werner Hempel, Stefan Eich, Wolfgang Gunther
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Publication number: 20080284362Abstract: The invention relates to a control device of a vehicle seat for controlling a first drive and a second drive and for detecting jamming of a body part or of an object by means of an adjusting movement of an adjusting part, which can be adjusted in a first adjusting direction by means of the first drive and in a second adjusting direction by means of the second drive, of the vehicle seat, wherein the control device is configured to detect the jamming by means of a combined evaluation of at least one first force variable which is dependent on the adjusting movement and of a second force variable which is dependent on the adjusting movement.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2006Publication date: November 20, 2008Applicant: Brose Fahrzeugteile GMBH & Co. Kommanditgesellschaft, CoburgInventors: Jurgen Buhlheller, Markus Schussler, Thomas Rosch
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Publication number: 20080259510Abstract: Control apparatus for an actuating device in a motor vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle seat actuating device, having a sensor for determination of an actual speed of a drive movement of a drive for the actuating device, having a computation unit which is connected to the sensor, and having a power driver for passing current through the drive as a function of the control signal, with the computation unit being designed and configured to regulate the actuating speed of the drive movement as a function of the actual speed and of a predeterminable set speed by means of a control signal, and to stop or to reverse the drive movement as a function of an evaluation, associated with trapping, of the control signal.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2005Publication date: October 23, 2008Inventors: Markus Schussler, Thomas Rosch