Patents by Inventor Wilhelm Vogt

Wilhelm Vogt 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: 10197251
    Abstract: A fastening element for fastening a first component, like a circuit board fitted with LEDs, including a pass through opening with a second component, like a lamp element which includes a recess like e.g. a dead hole or a pass through opening, the fastening element including a shaft which includes at least one spring elastic support element which anchors the fastening element at the second component, a shaft head which has a larger diameter than the shaft, wherein the shaft head is arranged at one end of the shaft, a clamping element which clamps the first component against the second component with a defined contact pressure, wherein the clamping element is formed by a spring elastic clamping arm that is displace able in a spring elastic manner and which forms a portion of the shaft head and which contacts the first component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 5, 2019
    Assignee: BJB GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Olaf Baumeister, Herbert Beleke, Karl-Wilhelm Vogt, Detlef Scholz
  • Patent number: 10151458
    Abstract: A fastening element including a shaft; a shaft head arranged at an end of the shaft, wherein the shaft head has a larger diameter than the shaft, wherein the fastening element is provided for arranging a first component and a second component at each other, wherein the first component is provided as a circuit board provided with a LED and the second component is provided as a heat dissipating lamp element, wherein the shaft is insertable through a pass through opening of the first component and the shaft head is configured at least for an indirect contact at the first component, wherein the shaft is arrangeable in a recess of the second component, wherein the shaft is fixable at least through friction locking in the recess of the second component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2018
    Assignee: BJB GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Olaf Baumeister, Herbert Beleke, Karl-Wilhelm Vogt, Detlef Scholz
  • Publication number: 20160230794
    Abstract: A fastening element for fastening a first component, like a circuit board fitted with LEDs, including a pass through opening with a second component, like a lamp element which includes a recess like e.g. a dead hole or a pass through opening, the fastening element including a shaft which includes at least one spring elastic support element which anchors the fastening element at the second component, a shaft head which has a larger diameter than the shaft, wherein the shaft head is arranged at one end of the shaft, a clamping element which clamps the first component against the second component with a defined contact pressure, wherein the clamping element is formed by a spring elastic clamping arm that is displace able in a spring elastic manner and which forms a portion of the shaft head and which contacts the first component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2015
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Inventors: Olaf Baumeister, Herbert Beleke, Karl-Wilhelm Vogt, Detlef Scholz
  • Publication number: 20160230967
    Abstract: A fastening element including a shaft; a shaft head arranged at an end of the shaft, wherein the shaft head has a larger diameter than the shaft, wherein the fastening element is provided for arranging a first component and a second component at each other, wherein the first component is provided as a circuit board provided with a LED and the second component is provided as a heat dissipating lamp element, wherein the shaft is insertable through a pass through opening of the first component and the shaft head is configured at least for an indirect contact at the first component, wherein the shaft is arrangeable in a recess of the second component, wherein the shaft is fixable at least through friction locking in the recess of the second component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Inventors: Olaf Baumeister, Herbert Beleke, Karl-Wilhelm Vogt, Detlef Scholz
  • Publication number: 20160234958
    Abstract: A fastening element for fastening a first component at a second component, the fastening element including a shaft which includes at least one spring elastic support element which anchors the fastening element at the second component; a shaft head which has a larger diameter than the shaft and which is arranged at a first end of the shaft; and a clamping element which clamps the first component against the second component with a defined contact pressure, wherein the first component is a circuit board which is fitted with LEDs and includes a first pass through opening and the second component is a lamp element which includes a recess which is configured as a dead hole or a second pass through opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 6, 2015
    Publication date: August 11, 2016
    Inventors: Olaf Baumeister, Herbert Beleke, Karl-Wilhelm Vogt, Detlef Scholz
  • Publication number: 20140217381
    Abstract: Illustrated and described is an illuminant, including at least one organic light emitting diode which is applied to a carrier material that is vapor deposited with a metal layer which metal layer supplies the at least one organic light emitting diode with voltage and is connectable with connecting conductors, wherein at least one connecting contact is bonded on one side at least to the metal layer and on another side directly fixated in an insulating material housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Inventors: Karl-Wilhelm Vogt, Marco Ludwig
  • Patent number: 8668363
    Abstract: A lamp socket for supporting a light source provided with an LED, the lamp socket including a cooling element; a socket housing which includes socket contacts for electrically connecting the light source; and a lamp base which supports an LED connected to a heat conducting element and is insertable in the socket housing and includes base contacts which are connectable with the socket contacts through a contact force for providing power to the LED, wherein the cooling element on the socket side is connected with the heat conducting element on the base side with a contact pressure that promotes heat transfer, wherein the contact pressure is provided through a pressing force in order for the cooling element to absorb heat generated by the LED, wherein the electric contact between the socket contacts and the base contacts is provided so that it does not provide forces opposite to the pressing force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 11, 2014
    Assignee: BJB GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Karl-Wilhelm Vogt, Markus Pieper
  • Patent number: 8620575
    Abstract: The invention relates to a route guidance method and a system for implementing such a method, and a corresponding computer-readable storage medium, which in particular may be used for an adaptive route guidance, the travel routes being selected that offer the highest safety when following the required driving maneuvers. For this purpose, it is recommended to output driving recommendations as a function of the risk of calculated routes. To this end, information about the current traffic situation in the surroundings of the vehicle is evaluated, the risk of the driving maneuvers resulting from calculated routes is evaluated using the results of the evaluation by at least one computer program, and driving instructions are output as a function of the evaluation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wilhelm Vogt, Axel Varchmin, Kerstin Mai
  • Publication number: 20130034989
    Abstract: A lamp socket for supporting a light source provided with an LED, the lamp socket including a cooling element; a socket housing which includes socket contacts for electrically connecting the light source; and a lamp base which supports an LED connected to a heat conducting element and is insertable in the socket housing and includes base contacts which are connectable with the socket contacts through a contact force for providing power to the LED, wherein the cooling element on the socket side is connected with the heat conducting element on the base side—optionally through a device that promotes heat transfer, such as heat conducting foil or heat conducting paste—with a contact pressure that promotes heat transfer, wherein the contact pressure provided through a pressing force produced through a suitable device in order for the cooling element to absorb heat generated by the LED during operations, wherein the electric contact between the socket contacts and the base contacts is provided through a contact con
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2012
    Publication date: February 7, 2013
    Inventors: Karl-Wilhelm Vogt, Markus Pieper
  • Patent number: 8111917
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for subdividing the road pattern in digital road maps into segments, in which, starting from the digital road maps in which the road pattern is subdivided into successive segments, new segment borders are established via new segment starting points and segment end points, by selecting the segment starting points and the segment end points in such a way that the shape of the segments between the segment starting points and the segment end points does not change. The invention also relates to the computation of the road pattern with the aid of digital road maps, in which the road is subdivided into successive segments, to each of which one segment starting point and one segment end point is assigned.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2005
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2012
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Wilhelm Vogt, Ulrich Kersken, Axel Varchmin
  • Patent number: 8007300
    Abstract: A bipin fluorescent-lamp holder has a housing formed with an outwardly open housing mouth and a rotor rotatable in the housing adjacent the mouth about an axis and having a diametrally throughgoing rotor slot. The rotor is rotatable between an installation position with the rotor slot aligned with the slot and an angularly offset contact position with the slot not aligned with the mouth. The rotor and housing are so dimensioned as to receive the pins extending parallel to the axis and to move the pins in a circular orbit centered on the axis on rotation of the rotor in the housing, and contacts in the housing diametrally flanking the axis each having a main part lying outside the orbit and a contact part engageable into the orbit. The contacts pins are aligned with the slot and project into ends of the slot and into engagement with the pins only in the contact position of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 30, 2011
    Assignee: BJB GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Karl-Wilhelm Vogt, Hartmut Greschner, Markus Nasse
  • Patent number: 7828557
    Abstract: A printed circuit board having an upper face provided with contact traces and pads with a light-emitting diode fixed to the board and connected to the traces. A connector juxtaposed is with the pads and carries a contact element having a leg bearing with spring force on one of the pads and formations gripping a hookup wire. At least one fastener engages through the connector and circuit board with a heat-sink base and presses the connector against the circuit board and the circuit board against the base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 9, 2010
    Assignee: BJB GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Karl-Wilhelm Vogt, Daniel Tauber, Freddi Plikun
  • Patent number: 7736163
    Abstract: A bipin fluorescent-lamp holder has a housing formed with an outwardly open housing mouth and a rotor rotatable in the housing adjacent the mouth about an axis and having a diametrally throughgoing rotor slot. The rotor is rotatable between an installation position with the rotor slot aligned with the slot and an angularly offset contact position with the slot not aligned with the mouth. The rotor and housing are so dimensioned as to receive the pins extending parallel to the axis and to move the pins in a circular orbit centered on the axis on rotation of the rotor in the housing, and contacts in the housing diametrally flanking the axis each having a main part lying outside the orbit and a contact part engageable into the orbit. The contacts pins are aligned with the slot and project into ends of the slot and into engagement with the pins only in the contact position of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: BJB GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Karl-Wilhelm Vogt, Hartmut Greschner, Markus Nasse
  • Publication number: 20100133982
    Abstract: The invention relates to an assembly of a lamp and a lamp holder. The invention also relates' to a lamp' for use in an assembly of a lamp and a lamp holder. The invention further relates to a lamp holder for use in an assembly of a lamp and a lamp holder.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2008
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS ELECTRONICS N.V.
    Inventors: Mathew L. Bembridge, Eckhardt H.M. Schraven, Markus Pieper, Karl-Wilhelm Vogt
  • Publication number: 20100138146
    Abstract: A routing method and an arrangement for executing such a method, as well as a corresponding computer program and a corresponding processor-readable storage medium, which can be used in particular in combination with a navigation system in order to provide a user (vehicle driver, or pedestrian, bicyclists, etc.) with comprehensive information relating to route planning, as well as corresponding decision possibilities. For this purpose, it is provided that motor vehicles using a vehicle navigation system are guided, maneuver recommendations and/or orientation recommendations being outputted for at least two driving routes by the vehicle navigation system, and that this is also provided for mobile non-vehicle systems.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Inventors: Wilhelm Vogt, Heiner Schepers, Axel Varchmin, Ulrich Kersken
  • Publication number: 20100120279
    Abstract: A bipin fluorescent-lamp holder has a housing formed with an outwardly open housing mouth and a rotor rotatable in the housing adjacent the mouth about an axis and having a diametrally throughgoing rotor slot. The rotor is rotatable between an installation position with the rotor slot aligned with the slot and an angularly offset contact position with the slot not aligned with the mouth. The rotor and housing are so dimensioned as to receive the pins extending parallel to the axis and to move the pins in a circular orbit centered on the axis on rotation of the rotor in the housing, and contacts in the housing diametrally flanking the axis each having a main part lying outside the orbit and a contact part engageable into the orbit. The contacts pins are aligned with the slot and project into ends of the slot and into engagement with the pins only in the contact position of the rotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2010
    Publication date: May 13, 2010
    Inventors: Karl-Wilhelm VOGT, Hartmut GRESCHNER, Markus NASSE
  • Publication number: 20100042314
    Abstract: The invention relates to a route guidance method and a system for implementing such a method, and a corresponding computer-readable storage medium, which in particular may be used for an adaptive route guidance, the travel routes being selected that offer the highest safety when following the required driving maneuvers. For this purpose, it is recommended to output driving recommendations as a function of the risk of calculated routes. To this end, information about the current traffic situation in the surroundings of the vehicle is evaluated, the risk of the driving maneuvers resulting from calculated routes is evaluated using the results of the evaluation by at least one computer program, and driving instructions are output as a function of the evaluation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2007
    Publication date: February 18, 2010
    Inventors: Wilhelm Vogt, Axel Varchmin, Kerstin Mai
  • Patent number: 7641517
    Abstract: A lamp base has a projection that carries lamp contacts and has an outer surface formed with retaining formations arrayed with irregular spacing. A socket forms a recess into which the projection can be inserted with play and apertures provided with contacts engageable with the lamp contacts. Retaining formations in the socket fit with the lamp-base retaining formations in only one defined angular alignment of the lamp base and the socket. The projection has a central plug projecting toward the socket and forming a lamp key coded for a predetermined lamp wattage. The socket has a hole corresponding to the plug and itself forming a socket key coded for the maximally admissible lamp wattage for the socket. The lamp base only fits into the socket when the lamp wattage indicated by the lamp key does not exceed the maximally admissible lamp wattage defined by the socket key.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 5, 2010
    Assignees: BJB GmbH & Co. KG, Osram Sylvania Inc.
    Inventors: Karl-Wilhelm Vogt, Tobias Brown, Markus Pieper, Albert M. Cavallaro, Roger B. Hunt, Jr., Dennis S. Holt
  • Patent number: D627296
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 16, 2010
    Assignee: BJB GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Karl-Wilhelm Vogt, Manfred Neuhaus
  • Patent number: D651173
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 30, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2011
    Assignees: Toshiba Lighting & Technology Corp., BJB GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Takeshi Osada, Shigeru Osawa, Yuichiro Takahara, Toshifumi Masuda, Karl-Wilhelm Vogt, Freddi Plikun