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Thomas Nitsche — 22 Patents

Ford: 12 patents #1,503 of 17,473Top 9%
PKPilz Gmbh & Co. Kg: 8 patents #6 of 184Top 4%
Neuss, DE: #20 of 530 inventorsTop 4%
Overall (All Time): #189,202 of 4,157,543Top 5%
22 Patents All Time
Thomas Nitsche has been granted 22 US patents while listed as an inventor at Ford. The first was granted in 2008 and the most recent in July 2025. Thomas Nitsche ranks #189,202 of 4,157,543 US inventors in our database (top 4.6%). Patent records list Thomas Nitsche in Neuss, DE.

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Showing 1–22 of 22 patents

Patent #TitleCo-InventorsDateApprox Value ⓘ
12351015 Heat exchanger assembly for a motor vehicle Tobias Duffe, Maximilian Klein, Christian Jolk, Morten Pyroth 2025-07-08
12197482 Method and computer system for determining the relevance of a text Oxana Nitsche, Antonia Düker, Raphael HAHN, Maxim Nitsche Hahn 2025-01-14
11456495 Systems and methods for controlling the temperature of a battery and of other electric components of a vehicle Bernd Brinkmann, Julian Tietze, Christian Jolk, Bernhard Gralka 2022-09-27 $12,226,000
11447038 Motor vehicle cooling system and control for cooling a traction battery Bernd Brinkmann, Christian Jolk, Johann Wegers 2022-09-20 $20,820,000
11167635 Apparatus and method for controlling a temperature of a vehicle component by means of air guide means Bernd Brinkmann, Johann Wegers, Helmut Hoyer, Christian Jolk 2021-11-09 $25,423,000
10957951 Temperature control device for a battery of a vehicle, vehicle having such a temperature control device and method for controlling the temperature of a battery of a vehicle Bernd Brinkmann, Christian Jolk 2021-03-23 $9,186,000
10777793 Insulating system for a battery system and method for controlling such an insulating system Bernd Brinkmann, Julian Tietze 2020-09-15 $5,742,000
10697351 Apparatus for controlling the temperature of a vehicle component using an anti-icing unblocking unit Christian Jolk, Johann Wegers, Helmut Hoyer, Bernd Brinkmann 2020-06-30 $4,640,000
10358970 Cooling assembly for temperature control Bernd Brinkmann, Johann Wegers, Julian Tietze 2019-07-23 $10,370,000
10279677 Motor vehicle undertray trim panel having an air inlet Alberto Fontana 2019-05-07 $5,783,000
10189348 Motor vehicle undertray trim panel having an air inlet Harald Wendelmuth, Alberto Fontana, Morten Pyroth 2019-01-29 $4,361,000
9938914 Methods and systems for charge air cooler operation Bernd Brinkmann, Bernhard Gralka, Christian Jolk, Helmut Hoyer, Julian Tietze 2018-04-10 $4,546,000
9908399 Device for influencing an air flow in an engine compartment of a motor vehicle Bernd Brinkmann, Johann Wegers, Julian Tietze 2018-03-06 $6,725,000
9238427 Head restraint with an autoreactive framework structure Jens Baumgarten, Martin BUCHENBERGER, Damien Devolder, Tomas Barkow, Anne Cordes +1 more 2016-01-19
8212431 Safety switching apparatus Boris Kaufmann, Johannes Hopp, Rolf Dickhoff 2012-07-03
7948121 Safety switching apparatus Boris Kaufmann, Johannes Hopp, Rolf Dickhoff 2011-05-24
7933104 Safety switching apparatus for a failsafe disconnection of an electrical load Ralf Bauer, Guenter Hornung 2011-04-26
7898118 Safety switching apparatus and method for safely switching an electrical load on and off Udo Ratey, Christoph Zinser 2011-03-01
7705492 Arrangement for failsafe evaluation of a position encoder Juergen Pullmann, Guenter Hornung, Christoph Zinser 2010-04-27
7672109 Safety switching apparatus for safe disconnection of an electrical load Hans Schwenkel 2010-03-02
7548159 Method and device for reliably monitoring a closed position of two parts moveable relative to one another Juergen Pullmann, Christoph Zinser 2009-06-16
7439639 Safety switching apparatus for safe disconnection of an electrical load 2008-10-21