Patents by Inventor Tobias GOEPFERT

Tobias GOEPFERT 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: 20240110427
    Abstract: Described is an actuating mechanism for actuating a cover of a vehicle. The cover is reversibly movable between a closed position where the cover is arranged flush with a vehicle outer shell and an open position where the cover is arranged at least partially or regionally behind the vehicle outer shell. The actuating mechanism comprises a movement mechanism operatively connected to the rear side of the cover. In order to transition the cover from the closed position into the open position proceeding from the closed position of the cover, the movement mechanism moves the cover initially into an intermediate position in a rotational and translational movement in which intermediate position the cover is pivoted relative to the closed position of the cover about a first axis of rotation and is at least partially or regionally offset in comparison to the closed position backwards towards the interior of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Tobias GÖPFERT, Matthias HEGWEIN, Thomas LECHNER-WATZLIK, Joachim OBERST, Roland OCH
  • Patent number: 11920835
    Abstract: A method for operating a cooling device, a cooling device and a test chamber having a cooling device, a temperature of at least ?80° C. or lower being established at the heat exchanger by means of the cooling device having a cooling circuit comprising a refrigerant, a heat exchanger, an internal heat exchanger, a compressor, a condenser and a controllable expansion element of the cooling device, the refrigerant undergoing a phase transition in the heat exchanger, the refrigerant of a high-pressure side of the cooling circuit being cooled by means of the internal heat exchanger, the cooling of the refrigerant of the high-pressure side by means of the internal heat exchanger being used to reduce an evaporation temperature at the expansion element, a zeotropic refrigerant being used as refrigerant, the expansion element being controlled by means of a control device of the cooling device in such a manner that the refrigerant partially freezes during an expansion at the expansion element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: Weiss Technik GmbH
    Inventors: Murat Aydin, Tobias Goepfert, Christian Haack
  • Publication number: 20240060343
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an actuating mechanism (100) for actuating covers (102) for vehicles. The actuation mechanism (110) includes: a drive having a drive shaft; and at least one lever arm (101), which is connectable to the cover (102) and is configured so as to tap a rotational movement from the drive shaft when the drive is actuated and convert it into a movement of the cover (102). The lever arm (101) includes a drive surface (111), which communicates with the drive shaft such that a rotation of the drive shaft via the drive surface (111) is transferred to the lever arm (101).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Tobias GÖPFERT, Matthias HEGWEIN, Thomas LECHNER-WATZLIK, Joachim OBERST, Roland OCH
  • Patent number: 11584875
    Abstract: A refrigerant for a cooling device (10) comprising a cooling circuit (11) with at least one heat exchanger, in which the refrigerant undergoes a phase transition, the refrigerant being a refrigerant mixture composed of a mass fraction of carbon dioxide and a mass fraction of at least one other component, wherein the mass fraction of carbon dioxide in the refrigerant mixture is 10 to 50 mass percent, preferably 30 to 50 mass percent, the other component being pentafluoroethane and/or difluoromethane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: WEISS TECHNIK GMBH
    Inventors: Tobias Goepfert, Ullrich Hesse, Christian Haack
  • Publication number: 20210247113
    Abstract: A method for operating a cooling device, a cooling device and a test chamber having a cooling device, a temperature of at least ?80° C. or lower being established at the heat exchanger by means of the cooling device having a cooling circuit comprising a refrigerant, a heat exchanger, an internal heat exchanger, a compressor, a condenser and a controllable expansion element of the cooling device, the refrigerant undergoing a phase transition in the heat exchanger, the refrigerant of a high-pressure side of the cooling circuit being cooled by means of the internal heat exchanger, the cooling of the refrigerant of the high-pressure side by means of the internal heat exchanger being used to reduce an evaporation temperature at the expansion element, a zeotropic refrigerant being used as refrigerant, the expansion element being controlled by means of a control device of the cooling device in such a manner that the refrigerant partially freezes during an expansion at the expansion element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2021
    Publication date: August 12, 2021
    Inventors: Murat Aydin, Tobias Goepfert, Christian Haack
  • Publication number: 20210040366
    Abstract: A refrigerant for a cooling device (10) comprising a cooling circuit (11) with at least one heat exchanger, in which the refrigerant undergoes a phase transition, the refrigerant being a refrigerant mixture composed of a mass fraction of carbon dioxide and a mass fraction of at least one other component, wherein the mass fraction of carbon dioxide in the refrigerant mixture is 10 to 50 mass percent, preferably 30 to 50 mass percent, the other component being pentafluoroethane and/or difluoromethane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Inventors: Tobias GOEPFERT, Ullrich HESSE, Christian HAACK