Patents by Inventor Wolfram Bühler

Wolfram Bühler 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: 9067560
    Abstract: The method relates to a trim part with an airbag cover, in particular for use in a motor vehicle, comprising a carrier and a haptics layer which are weakened along a tear line delimiting the airbag cover, and a decor layer of leather which covers the carrier and the haptics layer, wherein additionally a reinforcement layer is arranged between the haptics layer and the decor layer. According to the invention, the decor layer and the reinforcement layer have a constant thickness. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing such a trim part.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2015
    Assignee: Faurecia Innenraum Systeme GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Walter, Wolfram Bühler
  • Patent number: 8957371
    Abstract: Producing images of a specimen includes introducing a specimen into a specimen chamber of a particle-beam device, selecting a specific position on the surface of the specimen, supplying a contrast-agent precursor on the specific position, providing a particle beam and/or a light beam, guiding the particle beam and/or the light beam onto the specific position, applying a contrast-agent layer to the specific position as a result of the interaction of the particle beam and/or the light beam with the contrast-agent precursor, leaving the contrast-agent layer on the surface of the specimen for a predetermined amount of time. During the predetermined amount of time, a first part of the contrast-agent layer diffuses into the specimen and a second part of the contrast-agent layer remains on the surface of the specimen. The specimen is imaged using an optical device and/or a particle-optical device and/or using the particle beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 17, 2015
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbH
    Inventors: Elke Haustein, Wolfram Bühler, Camille Stebler, Holger Dömer
  • Patent number: 8779381
    Abstract: An aperture unit for a particle beam device, in particular an electron beam device, is disclosed. Deposit supporting units are arranged at the aperture unit, with which deposit supporting units contaminations can be bound in such a way that the contaminations can no longer deposit at an aperture opening of the aperture unit. Coatings which can be arranged on the aperture unit make it possible to reduce interactions which cause contaminations to deposit at the aperture opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2014
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss NTS GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Lang, Ulrike Zeile, Michael Albiez, Wolfram Bühler
  • Publication number: 20140186567
    Abstract: The method relates to a trim part with an airbag cover, in particular for use in a motor vehicle, comprising a carrier and a haptics layer which are weakened along a tear line delimiting the airbag cover, and a decor layer of leather which covers the carrier and the haptics layer, wherein additionally a reinforcement layer is arranged between the haptics layer and the decor layer. According to the invention, the decor layer and the reinforcement layer have a constant thickness. The invention also relates to a method for manufacturing such a trim part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Applicant: Faurecia Innenraum Systeme GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Walter, Wolfram Bühler
  • Patent number: 8414016
    Abstract: An internal paneling part conceals a passage area of an airbag. The internal paneling part includes a planar carrier and a textile fabric covering at least part of the passage area. The textile fabric includes at least one initial weakening for tearing along a defined tear line to release the airbag. The defined tear line runs along an X direction, with the textile fabric having a further tearing force in the X direction that is less than in any other direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2013
    Assignee: Faurecia Innenraum Systeme GmbH
    Inventor: Wolfram Bühler
  • Publication number: 20120112089
    Abstract: An aperture unit for a particle beam device, in particular an electron beam device, is disclosed. Deposit supporting units are arranged at the aperture unit, with which deposit supporting units contaminations can be bound in such a way that the contaminations can no longer deposit at an aperture opening of the aperture unit. Coatings which can be arranged on the aperture unit make it possible to reduce interactions which cause contaminations to deposit at the aperture opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2011
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Inventors: Matthias Lang, Ulrike Zeile, Michael Albiez, Wolfram Bühler
  • Patent number: 7611163
    Abstract: Described is an interior trim part for covering an airbag, which may include a two-dimensional carrier, a surface decor and a foamed intermediate layer. A through-opening for the airbag is recessed in the carrier, and an inlay covering the through-opening is applied into the intermediate layer, such that the inlay projects beyond an edge of the through-opening on one side and there, in an overlapping region of the inlay and of the carrier, serves as a hinge for an airbag flap formed by the surface decor and the intermediate layer with the inlay. Furthermore, with a folding open of the airbag flap, an energy amount which is dependent on the intensity of an opening impact of the airbag, may be absorbed by way of a release of the intermediate layer with the inlay from the carrier, away from the edge in the overlapping region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 3, 2009
    Assignee: Faurecia Innenraum Systeme GmbH
    Inventors: Gordon Schweizer, Lars Melde, Wolfram Bühler, Thomas Jahn, Jürgen Zimmerle, Klaus Bamberg