Patents by Inventor Tobias Schmidt

Tobias Schmidt 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: 10422485
    Abstract: A luminous means is disclosed, the luminous means having LEDs on a substrate, an outer bulb in which the substrate having the LEDs is arranged, and a cap, wherein at least two partial surfaces of the substrate are folded out with respect to the remaining substrate around a bridge area in each case, via which the particular partial surface is connected to the remaining substrate, and are thus set obliquely with respect to the remaining substrate which is flat per se, wherein, for each side surface of the remaining substrate, which side surfaces are opposite one another with respect to a thickness direction of the remaining substrate, at least one partial surface is folded out in each case, and wherein at least one of the LEDs is arranged on each of the partial surfaces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: LEDVANCE GMBH
    Inventors: Krister Bergenek, Florian Bösl, Andreas Dobner, Tobias Schmidt, Andreas Kloss, Frank Vollkommer
  • Publication number: 20190277510
    Abstract: A household appliance includes an operating region for controlling the household appliance, and an operating element configured for attachment on the operating region by magnetic force and removal therefrom and being movable relative to the operating region. The operating element includes an outer element and an inner element which is rotatable relative to the outer element. The inner element includes a user interface element and a magnetic body, by which the inner element can be aligned relative to the outer element by a predefined magnetic field.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2017
    Publication date: September 12, 2019
    Inventors: Thomas Eric Beliveau, Tobias Schmidt, Elena Leinmüller
  • Patent number: 10408465
    Abstract: A cooking appliance includes a housing having a stowage compartment, a door for closing a cooking chamber, and a door opening mechanism constructed to automatically move the door at least in a section of an entire movement path between a closed position and an open position of the door, in which open position the door is retractable into the stowage compartment of the housing. The door opening mechanism includes an actuation unit which is configured to automatically tilt the door from the closed position into an intermediate position located such that any further movement of the door from the intermediate position into the open position is implemented automatically under the force of gravity of the door.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Grobleben, Tobias Schmidt, Thomas Rembold
  • Patent number: 10408387
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a luminous means comprising an enveloping bulb, a base, a first LED and a second LED, which are assembled on a planar printed circuit board, to be precise on the opposite side thereof in relation to a thickness direction, wherein a first diverging lens is mounted on the first side of the printed circuit board in a manner assigned to the first LED and a second diverging lens is mounted on the second side of the printed circuit board in a manner assigned to the second LED for the purposes of homogenizing the light distribution generated by the luminous means, and the light emitted by the respective LED has a widened luminous intensity distribution downstream of the respective diverging lens in comparison with upstream of the respective diverging lens.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2019
    Assignee: LEDVANCE GMBH
    Inventors: Krister Bergenek, Florian Bösl, Andreas Dobner, Tobias Schmidt, Andreas Kloss, Frank Vollkommer
  • Publication number: 20190271474
    Abstract: A cooking appliance includes a housing having a stowage compartment, a door for closing a cooking chamber, and a door opening mechanism constructed to automatically move the door at least in a section of an entire movement path between a closed position and an open position of the door, in which open position the door is retractable into the stowage compartment of the housing. The door opening mechanism includes an actuation unit which is configured to automatically tilt the door from the closed position into an intermediate position located such that any further movement of the door from the intermediate position into the open position is implemented automatically under the force of gravity of the door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Ralf Grobleben, Tobias Schmidt, Thomas Rembold
  • Patent number: 10386056
    Abstract: An illuminant with at least two LEDs mounted on mutually opposite sides of a support plate and a reflection surface formed as a concave mirror, in which concave mirror the LEDs are arranged, wherein a housing part of the illuminant made of a transparent housing material is provided, which housing part at the same time forms an in relation to the main propagation direction lateral external surface of the illuminant and supports a reflecting layer forming the reflection surface at an internal surface opposite to the external surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: LEDVANCE GMBH
    Inventors: Tobias Schmidt, Krister Bergenek, Frank Vollkommer, Philipp Erhard, Andreas Kloss
  • Patent number: 10352521
    Abstract: In various embodiments, a vehicle lamp is provided. The vehicle lamp includes at least one semiconductor light source, at least one light emission body, and a concentrator arranged between the at least one semiconductor light source and the respective light emission body. A larger light entrance area of the concentrator is separated from the at least one semiconductor light source by a gap. The concentrator at its smaller light exit area transitions into the light emission body. The light emission body has at least one region covered with a partly transmissive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: OSRAM GmbH
    Inventors: Tobias Schmidt, Stephan Malkmus
  • Patent number: 10332814
    Abstract: A bonded system includes a reconstituted wafer including a hygroscopic material. A moisture barrier layer is arranged over a surface of the reconstituted wafer. An adhesive layer is arranged over a surface of the moisture barrier opposite the reconstituted wafer. A carrier is arranged over a surface of the adhesive layer opposite the moisture barrier. The adhesive layer adhesively bonds the reconstituted wafer and the carrier together.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Claus Von Waechter, Christian Altschaeffl, Holger Doepke, Uwe Hoeckele, Franz Xaver Muehlbauer, Daniel Porwol, Tobias Schmidt, Christian Schweiger, Carsten Von Koblinski
  • Publication number: 20190178379
    Abstract: A pot-shaped, cold-formed steel brake piston as a pot which is open on one side includes a base and a wall including inner and outer walls, a radially inwardly configured groove is open in a radially outward direction and forms, radially at the inside, a groove bead projection. The open side of the pot ends as a bearing for a friction pad backplate. Interfaces integrated at the inside on the end side serve a) for the fixing between friction pad and steel brake piston and b) as support bearing for spring mounting the friction pad. An aspect is a further improved steel brake piston of the new generation. The minimum inner diameter dimin is axially set back in the direction of the base by a multiple of the length of a wall thickness s, and the minimum piston inner diameter dimin is formed by the groove bead projection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 27, 2017
    Publication date: June 13, 2019
    Inventors: Tobias Schmidt, Matthias Würz, Norbert Leidecker, Martin Klacik, Matthias Müller, Uwe Zeibig, Ulrich Lorenz, Rico Bauersfield
  • Publication number: 20190154205
    Abstract: The invention relates to an optoelectronic lamp with improved omni-directionality by using a reflector cap having an opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Tobias Schmidt, Christopher Wiesmann, Stephan Malkmus
  • Publication number: 20190125078
    Abstract: A mounting device for mounting a domestic appliance in or on a piece of furniture is configured to selectively mount the domestic appliance in or on the piece of furniture in a first installation situation, in which the mounting device is arranged flush with a front side of the piece of furniture, a second installation situation, in which the mounting device protrudes beyond the front side of the piece of furniture, or a third installation situation, in which the mounting device is set back behind the front side of the piece of furniture.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Thomas Knoeller, Tobias Schmidt, Ralf Grobleben, Claudia Valenti-Zendel, Verena Busalt, Jacob Lechner
  • Publication number: 20190032885
    Abstract: A luminaire comprising: a light source in the form of at least one LED and a reflector, wherein a peripheral edge of the reflector defines a light exit opening on a side opposite the light source, wherein arranged in the light exit opening is a planar translucent cover wherein microstructures configured to direct and/or scatter light are distributed over the planar translucent cover. The planar translucent cover extends inwards in the direction of the light source, relative to an imaginary plane defined by the peripheral edge of the reflector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Inventors: Tobias Schmidt, Alexander Faller, Stephan Lukanow
  • Patent number: 10190728
    Abstract: The invention relates to an optoelectronic lamp with improved omni-directionality by using a reflector cap having an opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2019
    Assignee: LEDVANCE GMBH
    Inventors: Tobias Schmidt, Christopher Wiesmann, Stephan Malkmus
  • Publication number: 20190006311
    Abstract: A method for producing an electric device with a multi-layer contact is disclosed. In an embodiment, a method includes providing a carrier, the carrier having a metallic layer disposed on its surface, providing a semiconductor substrate, forming a layer stack on the semiconductor substrate and attaching the layer stack of the semiconductor substrate to the metallic layer of the carrier so that an intermetallic phase is formed between the metallic layer and the solder layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Alexander Heinrich, Michael Juerss, Konrad Roesl, Oliver Eichinger, Kok Chai Goh, Tobias Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20180350683
    Abstract: A method for handling a product substrate includes bonding a carrier to the product substrate by: applying a layer of a temporary adhesive having a first coefficient of thermal expansion onto a surface of the carrier; and bonding the carrier to the product substrate using the applied temporary adhesive. A surface of the temporary adhesive is in direct contact to a surface of the product substrate. The temporary adhesive includes or is adjacent a filler material having a second coefficient of thermal expansion which is smaller than the first coefficient of thermal expansion, so that stress occurs inside the temporary adhesive layer or at an interface to the product substrate or the carrier during cooling down of the temporary adhesive layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2018
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Georg Meyer-Berg, Claus von Waechter, Michael Bauer, Holger Doepke, Dominic Maier, Daniel Porwol, Tobias Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20180338519
    Abstract: A printing unit for printing a food includes a printing head, which has a printing-head body and a cartridge carrier and which can be positioned over a printing surface. The cartridge carrier holds at least one removable cartridge for edible printing mass. The cartridge has a plunger, a cartridge body, and a cartridge bottom with a cartridge nozzle. The printing-head body has a cartridge motor for pressing the plunger of a cartridge that is inserted in the cartridge carrier toward the cartridge bottom of the inserted cartridge from above in order to press printing mass onto the printing surface via the cartridge nozzle. The printing unit has a positioning device for moving the printing head to different positions. A control unit controls the positioning device and the cartridge motor in order to print a food with the printing mass from the cartridge.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2016
    Publication date: November 29, 2018
    Inventors: MICHAELA ALBERT, TOBIAS SCHMIDT
  • Publication number: 20180328593
    Abstract: A cooking appliance includes a housing having a stowage compartment, a door for closing a cooking chamber, and a door opening mechanism constructed to automatically move the door at least in a section of an entire movement path between a closed position and an open position of the door, in which open position the door is retractable into the stowage compartment of the housing. The door opening mechanism includes an actuation unit which is configured to automatically tilt the door from the closed position into an intermediate position located such that any further movement of the door from the intermediate position into the open position is implemented automatically under the force of gravity of the door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2016
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Ralf Grobleben, Tobias Schmidt, Thomas Rembold
  • Publication number: 20180269375
    Abstract: The invention relates to a piezoceramic multi-layer actuator with a moisture-repellant protective layer and a method for producing same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Hans-Jürgen SCHREINER, Tanja EINHELLINGER-MÜLLER, Tobias SCHMIDT, Ralf MOOS, Michael SCHUBERT, Reiner BINDIG
  • Publication number: 20180248108
    Abstract: The invention relates to a layer having piezoelectric properties and a method for producing a layer having piezoelectric properties, in particular by means of aerosol deposition method (ADM).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Publication date: August 30, 2018
    Inventors: Hans-Jürgen SCHREINER, Tanja EINHELLINGER-MÜLLER, Tobias SCHMIDT, Ralf MOOS, Michael SCHUBERT
  • Patent number: 10056295
    Abstract: A method for handling a product substrate includes bonding a carrier to the product substrate. A layer of a permanent adhesive is applied onto a surface of the carrier. A structured intermediate layer is provided. The applied permanent adhesive bonds the carrier to the product substrate. The structured intermediate layer is arranged between the product substrate and the carrier. A surface of the structured intermediate layer and a surface of the permanent adhesive are in direct contact to a surface of the product substrate. The structured intermediate layer decreases a bonding strength between the product substrate and the carrier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 21, 2018
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Georg Meyer-Berg, Claus von Waechter, Michael Bauer, Holger Doepke, Dominic Maier, Daniel Porwol, Tobias Schmidt