Patents by Inventor Thomas Wahl

Thomas Wahl 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: 20240067426
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a container comprising fibers, wherein the container further comprises a coating that is biodegradable. The disclosure further relates to a method for coating a container comprising fibers for producing the container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Thomas ALBRECHT, Martina BIRK, Patrick ENGELHARD, Sandra BREITSCHAEDEL, Angelika GROSSER, Jörg ZACHARIAS, Michael NEUBAUER, Matthias WAHL, Frank WINZINGER, Ulrich LAPPE
  • Publication number: 20240066765
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a fiber material for producing a container, wherein the fiber material comprises fiber structures for ensuring a predetermined stability of a container produced from the fiber material. Furthermore, the disclosure relates to a method for producing a container using the fiber material, and container comprising the fiber material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Jörg ZACHARIAS, Thomas ALBRECHT, Matthias WAHL, Frank WINZINGER, Patrick ENGELHARD, Michael NEUBAUER, Angelika GROSSER
  • Patent number: 11719240
    Abstract: A rotary pump, preferably a vane cell pump or a pendulum slider pump, includes a stator and a rotor which rotates about a rotational axis within the stator. The rotor includes multiple delivery elements which move radially in relation to the rotational axis, and two adjacent delivery elements limit a delivery cell together with the outer surface area of the rotor and the inner surface area of the stator. At least two delivery cells, preferably two adjacent delivery cells, exhibiting a first maximum cell volume form a first delivery cell group and at least two other delivery cells, preferably two other adjacent delivery cells, exhibiting a second maximum cell volume form a second delivery cell group. The first maximum cell volume of the delivery cells of the first delivery cell group is larger than the second maximum cell volume of the delivery cells of the second delivery cell group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: Schwäbische Hüttenwerke Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Fabian Eisele, Thomas Wahl, Sven Peters, Gerd Jäggle, Igor Pekrul
  • Publication number: 20230141341
    Abstract: A rotary pump includes a housing featuring a delivery space which the housing surrounds and axially delineates on the end sides; an inner rotor rotatable in the delivery space; an outer rotor rotatable about a pump rotational axis in the delivery space and forming delivery cells with the inner rotor; and a circumferential bearing wall which mounts and surrounds the outer rotor rotatably about the pump rotation axis in radial sliding contact. The circumferential bearing wall includes multiple blind pockets which are radially open towards the outer rotor and/or the outer rotor includes multiple blind pockets which are radially open towards the circumferential bearing wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2022
    Publication date: May 11, 2023
    Inventors: Gerd Jäggle, Bernd Schobel, Holger Braasch, Thomas Wahl, Johannes Gnann, Michael Ehringer
  • Publication number: 20230032977
    Abstract: A rotary pump including: a pump housing including a delivery chamber, having an inlet and an outlet for a fluid; a delivery member which can be rotated about a rotational axis in the delivery chamber in order to deliver the fluid; a setting structure which can be moved translationally back and forth in the pump housing relative to the delivery member in and counter to a setting direction in order to adjust the delivery volume of the rotary pump; a setting device for generating a setting force which acts on the setting structure in the setting direction; a restoring spring for exerting a restoring force which acts on the setting structure counter to the setting direction; and an additional spring for exerting an additional force which acts on the setting structure in or counter to the setting direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2022
    Publication date: February 2, 2023
    Inventors: Sven Peters, Igor Pekrul, Thomas Wahl
  • Patent number: 11486399
    Abstract: An internal gear pump for forward and reverse operations, including: a pump housing which includes a first fluid port and a second fluid port, wherein in a first rotational direction, the first fluid port is formed as a fluid outlet and the second fluid port is formed as a fluid inlet, and in a second rotational direction, the first fluid port is formed as a fluid inlet and the second fluid port is formed as a fluid outlet; an internal gear and an external gear which together form delivery cells in order to deliver a fluid; a first rotary bearing which mounts the internal gear; and a second rotary bearing which mounts the external gear; and includes a lubricant feed which sets a fluid flow between the fluid ports through the two rotary bearings in both rotational directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Schwäbische Hüttenwerke Automotive GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Wahl
  • Publication number: 20210293238
    Abstract: A rotary pump, preferably a vane cell pump or a pendulum slider pump, includes a stator and a rotor which rotates about a rotational axis within the stator. The rotor includes multiple delivery elements which move radially in relation to the rotational axis, and two adjacent delivery elements limit a delivery cell together with the outer surface area of the rotor and the inner surface area of the stator. At least two delivery cells, preferably two adjacent delivery cells, exhibiting a first maximum cell volume form a first delivery cell group and at least two other delivery cells, preferably two other adjacent delivery cells, exhibiting a second maximum cell volume form a second delivery cell group. The first maximum cell volume of the delivery cells of the first delivery cell group is larger than the second maximum cell volume of the delivery cells of the second delivery cell group.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2021
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Fabian Eisele, Thomas Wahl, Sven Peters, Gerd Jäggle, Igor Pekrul
  • Publication number: 20200248693
    Abstract: An internal gear pump for forward and reverse operations, comprising: a pump housing (2) which comprises a first fluid port (21) and a second fluid port (22), wherein in a first rotational direction, the first fluid port (21) is formed as a fluid outlet and the second fluid port (22) is formed as a fluid inlet, and in a second rotational direction, the first fluid port (21) is formed as a fluid inlet and the second fluid port (22) is formed as a fluid outlet; an internal gear (4) and an external gear (5) which together form delivery cells (3?) in order to deliver a fluid; a first rotary bearing (D1) which mounts the internal gear (4); and a second rotary bearing (D2) which mounts the external gear (5); and comprising a lubricant feed which sets a fluid flow between the fluid ports (21, 22) through the two rotary bearings (D1, D2) in both rotational directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2020
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventor: Thomas Wahl
  • Patent number: 10578101
    Abstract: A rotary pump with a rotational direction which can be switched, including: a housing which has a pump space featuring an inlet into a low-pressure region of the pump space for a medium to be pumped and an outlet out of a high-pressure region of the pump space for the medium to be pumped; at least one rotor; at least one bearing for the at least one rotor; at least one sealing stay which axially faces the rotor and separates the low-pressure region from the high-pressure region in the rotational direction of the rotor; and a lubricant feed which feeds a lubricant from the pump space to at least the bearing, wherein the lubricant feed is formed in the sealing stay.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2020
    Assignee: Schwäbische Hüttenwerke Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Ehringer, Sven Peters, Gerd Jäggle, Thomas Wahl
  • Patent number: 10473100
    Abstract: A pump which exhibits an adjustable delivery volume, the pump including (a) a pump housing comprising a delivery chamber; (b) a delivery rotor which can be rotated about a rotary axis within the delivery chamber, for delivering the fluid; (c) an adjusting device, including: (c1) an adjusting member which can be adjusted in the pump housing in order to adjust the delivery volume of the pump; (c2) a first setting chamber for generating a first setting pressure for adjusting the adjusting member; (c3) and a second setting chamber for generating a second setting pressure for adjusting the adjusting member; (d) a fluidically operable valve for adjusting the setting pressure of the first setting chamber; (e) and an electromagnetic valve, comprising: a pressure port for a setting fluid which is diverted from the high-pressure side; and a relief port for the setting fluid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: Schwäbische Hüttenwerke Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Sven Peters, Stefan Küchle, Thomas Wahl, Fabian Eisele, Thomas Finsterle, Volker Stöhr
  • Patent number: 9863559
    Abstract: An exhaust component assembly includes a first pipe that defines a center axis and has a first end, and a second pipe that has a second end inserted into the first end of the first pipe such that an outer surface of the second end is in contact with an inner surface of the first end. At least one axial weld connects the first and second ends together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies, USA, LLC
    Inventors: Kwin Abram, Thomas Wahl
  • Publication number: 20170306950
    Abstract: A rotary pump with a rotational direction which can be switched, including: a housing which has a pump space featuring an inlet into a low-pressure region of the pump space for a medium to be pumped and an outlet out of a high-pressure region of the pump space for the medium to be pumped; at least one rotor; at least one bearing for the at least one rotor; at least one sealing stay which axially faces the rotor and separates the low-pressure region from the high-pressure region in the rotational direction of the rotor; and a lubricant feed which feeds a lubricant from the pump space to at least the bearing, wherein the lubricant feed is formed in the sealing stay.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2017
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Michael Ehringer, Sven Peters, Gerd Jäggle, Thomas Wahl
  • Publication number: 20170167484
    Abstract: A pump which exhibits an adjustable delivery volume, the pump including (a) a pump housing comprising a delivery chamber; (b) a delivery rotor which can be rotated about a rotary axis within the delivery chamber, for delivering the fluid; (c) an adjusting device, including: (c1) an adjusting member which can be adjusted in the pump housing in order to adjust the delivery volume of the pump; (c2) a first setting chamber for generating a first setting pressure for adjusting the adjusting member; (c3) and a second setting chamber for generating a second setting pressure for adjusting the adjusting member; (d) a fluidically operable valve for adjusting the setting pressure of the first setting chamber; (e) and an electromagnetic valve, comprising: a pressure port for a setting fluid which is diverted from the high-pressure side; and a relief port for the setting fluid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2016
    Publication date: June 15, 2017
    Inventors: Sven Peters, Stefan Küchle, Thomas Wahl, Fabian Eisele, Thomas Finsterle, Volker Stöhr
  • Patent number: 9484400
    Abstract: A super junction semiconductor device is formed by forming at least a portion of a drift layer on a doped layer of a first conductivity type, implanting first dopants of a first conductivity type and second dopants of a second conductivity type into the drift layer using one or more implant masks with openings to form stripe-shaped first implant regions of the first conductivity type and stripe-shaped second implant regions of the second conductivity type in alternating order, and performing a heat treatment for controlling a diffusion of dopants from the implant regions to form stripe-shaped first regions of the first conductivity type and stripe-shaped second regions of the second conductivity type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies Austria AG
    Inventors: Armin Willmeroth, Franz Hirler, Hans Weber, Markus Schmitt, Thomas Wahls, Rolf Weis
  • Publication number: 20160104768
    Abstract: A super junction semiconductor device is formed by forming at least a portion of a drift layer on a doped layer of a first conductivity type, implanting first dopants of a first conductivity type and second dopants of a second conductivity type into the drift layer using one or more implant masks with openings to form stripe-shaped first implant regions of the first conductivity type and stripe-shaped second implant regions of the second conductivity type in alternating order, and performing a heat treatment for controlling a diffusion of dopants from the implant regions to form stripe-shaped first regions of the first conductivity type and stripe-shaped second regions of the second conductivity type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: Armin Willmeroth, Franz Hirler, Hans Weber, Markus Schmitt, Thomas Wahls, Rolf Weis
  • Patent number: 9184277
    Abstract: A super junction semiconductor device may include one or more doped zones in a cell area. A drift layer is provided between a doped layer of a first conductivity type and the one or more doped zones. The drift layer includes first regions of the first conductivity type and second regions of a second conductivity type, which is the opposite of the first conductivity type. In an edge area that surrounds the cell area, the first regions may include first portions separating the second regions in a first direction and second portions separating the second regions in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The first and second portions are arranged such that a longest second region in the edge area is at most half as long as a dimension of the edge area parallel to the longest second region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 10, 2015
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies Austria AG
    Inventors: Armin Willmeroth, Franz Hirler, Hans Weber, Markus Schmitt, Thomas Wahls, Rolf Weis
  • Publication number: 20150159787
    Abstract: An exhaust component assembly includes a first pipe that defines a center axis and has a first end, and a second pipe that has a second end inserted into the first end of the first pipe such that an outer surface of the second end is in contact with an inner surface of the first end. At least one axial weld connects the first and second ends together.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Applicant: Faurecia Emissions Control Technologies, USA, LLC
    Inventors: Kwin Abram, Thomas Wahl
  • Patent number: 8921738
    Abstract: A heating device for a sensor element of a gas sensor, in particular for use in exhaust gas analysis of internal combustion engines, has a heating element, which has an electrical resistor layer. The heating element is electrically insulated from at least one solid electrolyte layer by a layer containing barium and/or strontium and/or calcium. For this purpose, the heating element is embedded in a first insulator, which is adjoined by a second insulator. The first insulator has a higher barium and/or strontium and/or calcium content (expressed in weight percentage) than the second insulator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2003
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Detlef Heimann, Thomas Wahl, Lothar Diehl, Thomas Moser, Stefan Rodewald
  • Publication number: 20140261348
    Abstract: An exhaust gas sensor device for recording a concentration of at least one exhaust gas component in an exhaust system of an internal combustion engine includes at least one exhaust gas sensor with intrinsic signal amplification. The at least one exhaust gas sensor records the concentration of at least one exhaust gas component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Publication date: September 18, 2014
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Wahl, Richard Fix, Denis Kunz, Alexander Martin
  • Patent number: 8784625
    Abstract: A sensor element having a layered construction and configured to detect a physical property of a gas or a liquid includes a functional component situated in the interior, which functional component is connected electrically to a conductor element, which conductor element extends up to the outer surface or up into the surroundings of the sensor element. The sensor element has at least one sealing element which adjoins the functional component and/or the conductor element. The conductor element and the at least one sealing element are configured to be gas-tight at least regionally in the interior of the sensor element and are situated in such a way that the functional component is separated gas-tight from the surroundings of the sensor element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2014
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Wahl, Georg Rixecker, Steffen Polster, Uwe Glanz, Gudrun Oehler, Ulrich Eisele, Benjamin Hagemann, Alexander Bluthard, Frank Schnell, Jochen Rager, Petra Kuschel