Patents by Inventor Andrea Graf
Andrea Graf 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).
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Patent number: 11954612Abstract: A method includes receiving a first query by a computing device and assigning the first query to a plurality of cognitive engines, wherein each of the plurality of cognitive engines include different characteristics for processing data. The method also includes, responsive to receiving a response from each of the plurality of cognitive engines for the first query, comparing the received responses from the plurality of cognitive engines. The method also included responsive to determining a difference between a first response from a first cognitive engine and a second response from a second cognitive engine is above a predetermined threshold value, performing a response mediation process until the difference is below the predetermined threshold value. The method also includes selecting a first final response from the received responses for the first query and the second query and displaying the first final response to a user.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2017Date of Patent: April 9, 2024Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Andrea Giovannini, Florian Graf, Stefan Ravizza, Tim U. Scheideler
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Patent number: 11537953Abstract: An approach is provided for proactive booking of a shared vehicle. A routing platform determines that a user is leaving a location for a destination. The routing platform calculates a probability that the user will use a transport mode employing the shared vehicle for a route segment to the destination based on a context and a profile of the user. The routing platform initiates a creation of a proactive reservation of the shared vehicle based on determining that the probability meets or exceeds a threshold value. The proactive reservation is created without intervention of the user.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2018Date of Patent: December 27, 2022Assignee: HERE GLOBAL B.V.Inventors: Jerome Beaurepaire, Jens Unger, Sven Krome, Andreas Graf
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Publication number: 20200175429Abstract: An approach is provided for proactive booking of a shared vehicle. A routing platform determines that a user is leaving a location for a destination. The routing platform calculates a probability that the user will use a transport mode employing the shared vehicle for a route segment to the destination based on a context and a profile of the user. The routing platform initiates a creation of a proactive reservation of the shared vehicle based on determining that the probability meets or exceeds a threshold value. The proactive reservation is created without intervention of the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2018Publication date: June 4, 2020Inventors: Jerome BEAUREPAIRE, Jens UNGER, Sven KROME, Andreas GRAF
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Patent number: 10591057Abstract: An assembly (12) for actuating a transmission brake (1) that has a transmission brake cylinder (7), at least one control valve (16, 17) for controlling pressurizing and/or exhausting of the transmission brake cylinder (7), and at least one pressure line (14) via which the at least one control valve (16, 17) is connected to the transmission brake cylinder (7) to supply a pressure medium (10) to and discharge the pressure medium (10) from a pressure chamber (9) of the transmission brake cylinder (7). The assembly (12) includes a quick-exhaust valve (15), which is arranged in the pressure line (14) between the transmission brake cylinder (7), and the at least one control valve (16, 17).Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2017Date of Patent: March 17, 2020Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AGInventors: Markus Ulbricht, Andreas Graf, Martin Rist
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Publication number: 20180172153Abstract: An assembly (12) for actuating a transmission brake (1) that has a transmission brake cylinder (7), at least one control valve (16, 17) for controlling pressurizing and/or exhausting of the transmission brake cylinder (7), and at least one pressure line (14) via which the at least one control valve (16, 17) is connected to the transmission brake cylinder (7) to supply a pressure medium (10) to and discharge the pressure medium (10) from a pressure chamber (9) of the transmission brake cylinder (7). The assembly (12) includes a quick-exhaust valve (15), which is arranged in the pressure line (14) between the transmission brake cylinder (7), and the at least one control valve (16, 17).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 13, 2017Publication date: June 21, 2018Inventors: Markus ULBRICHT, Andreas GRAF, Martin RIST
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Patent number: 9301539Abstract: A vegetable-based food product comprising at least 50 wt % protein, wherein the protein is gluten or is proteinaceous material derived from gluten, and wherein the product has the texture of minced meat. A method for preparing a vegetable-based food product including fermenting a gluten-based material with a mould and then processing the fermented product into a vegetable-based food product for use as a replacement for minced meat.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2012Date of Patent: April 5, 2016Assignee: Nestec S.A.Inventors: Daniel Sebastian Appel, Andrea Graf, Sheldon Fernandes, Pieter Berends
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Publication number: 20140342036Abstract: A vegetable-based food product comprising at least 50 wt % protein, wherein the protein is gluten or is proteinaceous material derived from gluten, and wherein the product has the texture of minced meat. A method for preparing a vegetable-based food product including fermenting a gluten-based material with a mould and then processing the fermented product into a vegetable-based food product for use as a replacement for minced meat.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2012Publication date: November 20, 2014Applicant: NESTEC S.A.Inventors: Daniel Sebastian Appel, Andrea Graf, Sheldon Femandes, Pieter Berends
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Patent number: 8656808Abstract: A transmission system for either a manual shift transmission, an automatic transmission or an automated transmission in which the electrical connections and the pneumatic connections including any ventilation port, for the internal components of the transmission are combined with one another so as to exit the transmission housing via a single unified connection formed in the housing wall of the transmission.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2007Date of Patent: February 25, 2014Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Josef Bader, Gerhard Birkenmaier, Andreas Graf, Kim Führer, Kai Heinrich, Frank Gessler, Klaus Wöhr, Hubert König, Manfred Vetter, Gerhard Höring, Ludger Ronge, Henrik Schuh, Markus Ulbricht, Mario Steinborn, Karl-Fritz Heinzelmann, Bernhard Walter
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Publication number: 20130152839Abstract: A system of floating and weight-stabilized wind turbine towers with separately floodable compartments and aerodynamic overwater encasement and the appertaining semisubmersible mooring structures including anchorage on the seabed, a horizontally floating underwater mooring meshwork and an actinomorphic buoy-cable-mooring to the wind turbine towers. Also, a method to transport wind turbine towers from the manufacturing plants on-shore to the final off-shore destination by towing the vented towers in a horizontal position with towboats. Further, a method to erect the wind turbine towers at the final destination, including the assembly of the wind turbines. The worldwide potentials of off-shore wind farming in deep waters to produce electricity in an ecologically and economically sound way in order both to satisfy men's requirements and to help to reduce the need to rely on critical fossil and nuclear resources being immense.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2012Publication date: June 20, 2013Inventor: Andreas Graf
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Patent number: 8444528Abstract: A method of operating a drivetrain of a motor vehicle. The drivetrain comprises a transmission arranged between a drive assembly and an axle drive, such that an input shaft of the transmission is connected, via a controllable separator clutch, to the drive assembly and an output shaft of the transmission is connected to the axle drive, and such that the transmission comprises at least one shifting element formed as a claw clutch. To reduce the probability that a tooth-on-tooth position may occur in a shifting element formed as a claw clutch, a torque is applied thereto by at least one transmission-internal assembly and/or at least one transmission-external assembly so that a speed difference at the claw clutch approaches a predetermined nominal value, and engagement of the claw clutch is only started when the speed difference of the claw clutch reaches the nominal value.Type: GrantFiled: May 5, 2010Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Martin Miller, Mario Steinborn, Jochen Breuer, Josef Bader, Andreas Graf, Thomas Hafen
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Patent number: 7976431Abstract: A method for shifting an automated transmission situated in a drive train of a motor vehicle between an engine and a drive axle and having at least one multi-speed main transmission and a two-speed range change group rear-mounted thereon. The main transmission has at least one counter shaft with a transmission brake. A clutch engages the prime mover and the main transmission and the range change group is shifted via unsynchronized dog clutches which are combined in pairs in a common shift set and have two shift positions and one neutral position such that, during a range change gear shift both in the main transmission and the range change group a change between two ratio stages occurs. A range change up-shift includes synchronizing the input shaft and the target gear utilizing the transmission brake and passively synchronizing the dog shifted transmission parts by the edge beveling of the concerned dog clutches.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2008Date of Patent: July 12, 2011Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Josef Bader, Andreas Graf, Martin Miller, Mario Steinborn, Thomas Hafen
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Patent number: 7878942Abstract: A method for shifting an automated transmission situated in a drive train of a motor vehicle between an engine and a drive axle and having at least one multi-speed main transmission and a two-speed range change group rear-mounted thereon. The main transmission has at least one counter-shaft with an transmission brake. A clutch engages the prime mover and the main transmission and the range change group is shifted via unsynchronized dog clutches, which are combined in pairs in a common shift set having two shift positions and one neutral position such that during a range change gearshift, both in the main transmission and in the range change group, a change between two ratio stages occurs. A range change up-shift and down-shift each include active synchronization of the dog clutch by way of the transmission brake and of the separating clutch.Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2008Date of Patent: February 1, 2011Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Josef Bader, Andreas Graf, Martin Miller, Mario Steinborn, Thomas Hafen
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Publication number: 20100285921Abstract: A method of operating a drivetrain of a motor vehicle. The drivetrain comprises a transmission arranged between a drive assembly and an axle drive, such that an input shaft of the transmission is connected, via a controllable separator clutch, to the drive assembly and an output shaft of the transmission is connected to the axle drive, and such that the transmission comprises at least one shifting element formed as a claw clutch. To reduce the probability that a tooth-on-tooth position may occur in a shifting element formed as a claw clutch, a torque is applied thereto by at least one transmission-internal assembly and/or at least one transmission-external assembly so that a speed difference at the claw clutch approaches a predetermined nominal value, and engagement of the claw clutch is only started when the speed difference of the claw clutch reaches the nominal value.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 5, 2010Publication date: November 11, 2010Applicant: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AGInventors: Martin Miller, Mario Steinborn, Jochen Breuer, Josef Bader, Andreas Graf, Thomas Hafen
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Publication number: 20090239314Abstract: Methods of manufacturing a semiconductor device and an apparatus for the manufacturing of semiconductor devices are provided. An embodiment regards providing a process which changes the volume of at least one layer of a semiconductor substrate or of at least one layer deposited on the semiconductor substrate, and measuring a change in volume of such at least one layer using fluorescence. In another embodiment, a change in volume of such at least one layer is measured using reflection of electromagnetic waves.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 20, 2008Publication date: September 24, 2009Inventors: Martin Haberjahn, Sascha Dieter, Andrea Graf, Christoph Noelscher, Dirk Manger, Stephan Wege
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Publication number: 20090235770Abstract: A shift device (13) for a manual transmission having actuation mechanisms for shifting and selecting in which the selection motion is carried out by way of a selector actuator (10), which is connected to a driving lug (5) of a selector plate (4). An anchor (1) of the selector actuator (10) consists of a permanent magnet (2). End stops (3) of the selector actuator (10) are configured of ferromagnetic material, where the anchor (1) of the selector actuator (10) is fixed in a defined position for the installation of the selector actuator (10).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2007Publication date: September 24, 2009Applicant: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AGInventors: Josef Bader, Gerhard Birkenmaier, Kim Führer, Frank Gessler, Andreas Graf, Kai Heinrich, Karl-Fritz Heinzelmann, Gerhard Höring, Hubert König, Ludger Ronge, Henrik Schuh, Mario Steinborn, Markus Ulbricht, Manfred Vetter, Bernhard Walter, Klaus Wöhr
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Publication number: 20090181825Abstract: A release system (1) for a clutch and/or an accelerating coupling (2) in a motor vehicle, which automatically compensates for wear on the clutch and/or accelerating coupling (2). The release system (1) includes of a piston-cylinder unit (24), which is arranged concentrically with a transmission input shaft (12) and features a cylinder (13) and two pistons (14, 17) that delimit two pressure chambers (16, 19). The piston-cylinder unit is controlled both pneumatically and hydraulically.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2007Publication date: July 16, 2009Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Josef Bader, Andreas Graf, Karl-Fritz Heinzelmann
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Publication number: 20090071274Abstract: A method for shifting an automated transmission situated in a drive train of a motor vehicle between an engine and a drive axle and having at least one multi-speed main transmission and a two-speed range change group rear-mounted thereon. The main transmission has at least one counter-shaft with an transmission brake. A clutch engages the prime mover and the main transmission and the range change group is shifted via unsynchronized dog clutches, which are combined in pairs in a common shift set having two shift positions and one neutral position such that during a range change gearshift, both in the main transmission and in the range change group, a change between two ratio stages occurs. A range change up-shift and down-shift each include active synchronization of the dog clutch by way of the transmission brake and of the separating clutch.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2008Publication date: March 19, 2009Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Josef BADER, Andreas Graf, Martin Miller, Mario Steinborn, Thomas Hafen
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Publication number: 20090071277Abstract: A method for shifting an automated transmission situated in a drive train of a motor vehicle between an engine and a drive axle and having at least one multi-speed main transmission and a two-speed range change group rear-mounted thereon. The main transmission has at least one counter shaft with a transmission brake. A clutch engages the prime mover and the main transmission and the range change group is shifted via unsynchronized dog clutches which are combined in pairs in a common shift set and have two shift positions and one neutral position such that, during a range change gear shift both in the main transmission and the range change group a change between two ratio stages occurs. A range change up-shift includes synchronizing the input shaft and the target gear utilizing the transmission brake and passively synchronizing the dog shifted transmission parts by the edge beveling of the concerned dog clutches.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 9, 2008Publication date: March 19, 2009Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Josef BADER, Andreas Graf, Martin Miller, Mario Steinborn, Thomas Hafen
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Patent number: 7403730Abstract: A printer or copier system with at least one of a pre-processing unit and a post-processing unit, comprises a printing unit that generates a print image on a carrier material. An operating unit is connected via a data line with the printing unit. The operating unit outputs at least one graphical user interface on a display for operation of the printing unit. At least one processing unit is connected with at least one of the printing unit and the operating unit for processing of the carrier material such that data are transferable between the processing unit and at least one of the printing unit and the operating unit. In the processing unit, data are stored that are transferred to at least one of the printing unit and the operating unit with which the graphical user interface is activated at least for operation of the processing unit.Type: GrantFiled: May 23, 2007Date of Patent: July 22, 2008Assignee: Oce Printing Systems GmbHInventors: Ulrich Bardolatzy, Albin Stoderschnig, Bernd Sorgenfrei, Michael Flexeder, Andreas Gräf, Alexander Kammerlocher, Andreas Schwarzmüller, Gerhard Schwaiger, Thomas Meder, Andreas Hirn
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Publication number: 20080006635Abstract: A transmission system for either a manual shift transmission, an automatic transmission or an automated transmission in which the electrical connections and the pneumatic connections including any ventilation port, for the internal components of the transmission are combined with one another so as to exit the transmission housing via a single unified connection formed in the housing wall of the transmission.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2007Publication date: January 10, 2008Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventors: Josef Bader, Gerhard Birkenmaier, Andreas Graf, Kim Fuhrer, Kai Heinrich, Frank Gessler, Klaus Wohr, Hubert Konig, Manfred Vetter, Gerhard Horing, Ludger Ronge, Henrik Schuh, Markus Ulbricht, Mario Steinborn, Karl-Fritz Heinzelmann, Bernhard Walter