Patents by Inventor Andreas Kruger
Andreas Kruger 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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Publication number: 20240090791Abstract: In a method for masking one or more regions surrounding an anatomical region of interest for each of one or more MRI images obtained from MRI imaging data, the one or more regions surrounding the anatomical region of interest are masked based on control data determined for identifying the anatomical region of interest in the MRI imaging data. The MRI imaging data may be obtained during an MRI exam of a patient for a measurement volume including the anatomical region of interest. The anatomical region of interest may be ascertained before performing the MRI exam.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicants: Siemens Healthcare GmbH, Dentsply Sirona Inc., SIRONA Dental Systems GmbHInventors: Andreas Greiser, Johannes Ulrici, Kim Burzan, Gunnar Krüger, Lars Lauer, Daniel Rinck, Carmel Hayes
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Patent number: 7711355Abstract: In the current state of the art there are a number of operable devices 11, 12, 13 known that have an operating panel 14 through which a user of the device 11, 12, 13 can produce and/or change-existing operating states, Because of the fact that manual operation is often very complex and can also result in the distraction of the user in situations that require the full the attention of a user to be directed elsewhere, the invention increases the ease of operation and simultaneously reduces the amount of attention required to be paid to the devices 11, 12, 13. The invention uses a decision unit 15 that blocks or releases certain operating states of the operable device 11, 12, 13 based on the data received. The invention can be implemented, for example, so that a mobile telephone 11 installed in a vehicle 10 does not “transfer” any telephone calls or suppresses the making of telephone calls from within the vehicle 10 when the vehicle 10 is moving faster than a certain speed.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2000Date of Patent: May 4, 2010Assignee: Nokia Mobile Phones, Ltd.Inventors: Andreas Krüger, Hans Hansen, Wolfgang Theimer, Klaus Kespohl, Mika Leppinen, Turkka Keinonen, Maximiliano Roque-Cerna, Anne Koppinen, Anne Kirjavainen
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Patent number: 7062891Abstract: A box-closing apparatus has a hanger link having one end pivoted about a fixed link axis on a stationary housing adjacent a station holding a box blank and another end defining a movable link axis. A two-arm main lever pivoted generally centrally at the movable link axis on the link has a pusher arm extending from the movable link axis and carrying a pusher block engageable with the flap of the box blank in the station and an actuating arm extending from the movable link axis and having an outer end. A drive lever pivoted at a fixed drive axis on the housing has an outer end pivoted at an outer drive axis on the outer end of the actuating arm of the main lever. The pusher block moves generally through a 0°–90° sinusoidal trajectory to press an outer flap against a glue flap of the blank in the station.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2004Date of Patent: June 20, 2006Assignee: Uhlmann Pac-Systeme GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Andreas Krüger, Norbert Demler, Armin Stibe
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Patent number: 7040479Abstract: A supply holds a flattened box blank above a conveyor passing having a succession of box seats, and a planet carrier is rotated by its own drive about a sun axis between the supply and the conveyor. A single planetary element on the carrier offset from the sun axis is rotatable about a planet axis parallel to and offset from the sun axis. A grab on the planetary element is engageable with the blank in the supply and in the conveyor seats. A planet drive wheel is fixed to the planetary element, a sun wheel is rotatable about the sun axis, and the wheels are coupled together for joint synchronous rotation. A separate planetary drive connected to the sun wheel rotates the planetary element independently of the carrier such that the grab moves while orbiting about the sun axis through a closed asymmetric path having only two outer points.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2003Date of Patent: May 9, 2006Assignee: Uhlmann Pac-Systeme GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Fritz Fochler, Andreas Krüger
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Patent number: 6948485Abstract: The invention is relative to an ignition unit for internal combustion engines that comprises a primary circuit with a first switch for a primary winding for generating inductions in a secondary winding of a secondary circuit with a starter gap and that comprises a load circuit with the primary winding and comprises a second switch for a load.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2002Date of Patent: September 27, 2005Assignee: Dolmar GmbHInventors: Andreas Krüger, Bernhard Auler
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Publication number: 20050081486Abstract: A box-closing apparatus has a hanger link having one end pivoted about a fixed link axis on a stationary housing adjacent a station holding a box blank and another end defining a movable link axis. A two-arm main lever pivoted generally centrally at the movable link axis on the link has a pusher arm extending from the movable link axis and carrying a pusher block engageable with the flap of the box blank in the station and an actuating arm extending from the movable link axis and having an outer end. A drive lever pivoted at a fixed drive axis on the housing has an outer end pivoted at an outer drive axis on the outer end of the actuating arm of the main lever. The pusher block moves generally through a 0°-90° sinusoidal trajectory to press an outer flap against a glue flap of the blank in the station.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2004Publication date: April 21, 2005Inventors: Andreas Kruger, Norbert Demler, Armin Stibe
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Publication number: 20040089517Abstract: A supply holds a flattened box blank above a conveyor passing having a succession of box seats, and a planet carrier is rotated by its own drive about a sun axis between the supply and the conveyor. A single planetary element on the carrier offset from the sun axis is rotatable about a planet axis parallel to and offset from the sun axis. A grab on the planetary element is engageable with the blank in the supply and in the conveyor seats. A planet drive wheel is fixed to the planetary element, a sun wheel is rotatable about the sun axis, and the wheels are coupled together for joint synchronous rotation. A separate planetary drive connected to the sun wheel rotates the planetary element independently of the carrier such that the grab moves while orbiting about the sun axis through a closed asymmetric path having only two outer points.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 5, 2003Publication date: May 13, 2004Applicant: UHLMANN Pac-Systeme GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Fritz Fochler, Andreas Kruger
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Patent number: 6702223Abstract: A winding head of a cheese-producing textile machine, having a device for the accurate determination of the length of yarn traveling through a measuring head (7), and having an evaluating device for accumulating the yarn lengths that have passed. The winding head has a device for determining yarn length portions which are removed in the course of a yarn connecting process. The evaluation device is adapted to subtract the removed yarn lengths from the total length of the yarn (2) which has passed through the measuring head.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2002Date of Patent: March 9, 2004Assignee: W. Schlafhorst AG & Co.Inventors: Andreas Krüger, Christian Sturm
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Patent number: 6582180Abstract: An object-sorting system has a conveyor having a horizontally extending stretch, a plurality of pushers fixed on and spaced along the conveyor and extending upward from the stretch thereof, and an upright chute adapted to hold a stack of objects and having a downwardly open outlet spaced above an upstream end of the conveyor stretch. An elongated support surface extends horizontally above the stretch and has an upstream end below the outlet port. A drive advances the stretch and thereby displaces the pushers downstream past the outlet so that the pushers engage at least a lowermost object of the stack in the chute and move the engaged object(s) downstream along the support surface. The support surface can pivot about an axis at the support-surface downstream end and thereby change a vertical spacing between the support surface upstream end and the outlet port.Type: GrantFiled: January 18, 2002Date of Patent: June 24, 2003Assignee: Uhlmann Pac-Systeme GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Fritz Fochler, Andreas Krüger, Wolfgang Rodi
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Patent number: 6580813Abstract: A method and apparatus of detecting residual yarn on spinning cop tubes, wherein a spinning cop tube is exposed to a suitable light source; the light reflected by the spinning cop tube is detected by a suitable means, e.g., via a camera or other picture-taking device, and two-dimensional picture signals of the spinning cop tube are generated thereby on the basis of the reflected light detected in order to generate a picture matrix comprising picture data in digital form; and the picture signals thusly generated are evaluated by means of performing an edge filtering of the digital picture data in order to segment image edges corresponding to brightness transitions in the picture matrix, from which the presence of residual yarn on the spinning cop tube can be assessed based on the edge filtering.Type: GrantFiled: August 9, 1999Date of Patent: June 17, 2003Assignee: W. Schlafhorst AG & Co.Inventors: Ferdinand-Josef Hermanns, Andreas Krüger, Harald Müllers
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Publication number: 20030051706Abstract: The invention is relative to an ignition unit for internal combustion engines that comprises a primary circuit with a first switch for a primary winding for generating inductions in a secondary winding of a secondary circuit with a starter gap and that comprises a load circuit with the primary winding and comprises a second switch for a load.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2002Publication date: March 20, 2003Inventors: Andreas Kruger, Bernhard Auler
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Publication number: 20020148920Abstract: A winding head of a cheese-producing textile machine, having a device for the accurate determination of the length of yarn traveling through a measuring head (7), and having an evaluating device for accumulating the yarn lengths that have passed. The winding head has a device for determining yarn length portions which are removed in the course of a yarn connecting process. The evaluation device is adapted to subtract the removed yarn lengths from the total length of the yarn (2) which has passed through the measuring head.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2002Publication date: October 17, 2002Inventors: Andreas Kruger, Christian Sturm
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Publication number: 20020098075Abstract: An object-sorting system has a conveyor having a horizontally extending stretch, a plurality of pushers fixed on and spaced along the conveyor and extending upward from the stretch thereof, and an upright chute adapted to hold a stack of objects and having a downwardly open outlet spaced above an upstream end of the conveyor stretch. An elongated support surface extends horizontally above the stretch and has an upstream end below the outlet port. A drive advances the stretch and thereby displaces the pushers downstream past the outlet so that the pushers engage at least a lowermost object of the stack in the chute and move the engaged object(s) downstream along the support surface. The support surface can pivot about an axis at the support-surface downstream end and thereby change a vertical spacing between the support surface upstream end and the outlet port.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 18, 2002Publication date: July 25, 2002Applicant: UHLMANN Pac-Systeme GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Fritz Fochler, Andreas Kruger, Wolfgang Rodi
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Patent number: 5857638Abstract: A friction roller of a winding station of a winding machine is driven at a base angular velocity and is alternately accelerated and braked when the winding ratio is otherwise within a predetermined range of a selected whole number for causing slippage between the friction roller and a yarn package whereby the winding ratio is changed between values above and below the preselected range of the whole number. An evaluation device that calculates acceleration and braking values and a motor responsive to the evaluation device for driving the friction roller control the accelerating and decelerating of the friction roller when the winding ratio would otherwise be within the predetermined range of the selected whole number. Pattern windings of the yarn package are thus avoided.Type: GrantFiled: March 3, 1997Date of Patent: January 12, 1999Assignee: W. Schlafhorst AG & Co.Inventors: Ferdinand-Josef Hermanns, Andreas Kruger, Torsten Forche, Stefan Terorde, Heinrich Weingarten
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Patent number: 5826815Abstract: A yarn package (both conical and cylindrical) is produced at a winding station of a textile winding machine by alternately: accelerating the friction roller driving the yarn package with slippage between the friction roller and the entire surface of the yarn package; and decelerating the friction roller driving the yarn package without slippage between the friction roller and at least part of the surface of the yarn package, e.g., the neutral zone of a conical package. The periods (and thus the frequencies and angular velocities) of the friction roller and the yarn package are detected by sensors which communicate the detected values to a control and evaluation device. Based on the detected values during at least one phase of deceleration, the control and evaluation device estimates the yarn package radius during an acceleration phase.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 1997Date of Patent: October 27, 1998Assignee: W. Schlafhorst AG & Co.Inventors: Ferdinand Hermanns, Andreas Kruger, Urs Meyer
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Patent number: 5816515Abstract: In connection with a device for retracting and advancing a thread processing element in relation to a threadline it is provided that the retracting and renewed advancing is caused solely by switching on a drive motor in a direction opposite its normal operational direction of rotation. For this purpose a drive member, which is maintained fixed against relative rotation in this direction of rotation, and another drive member which can be rotated in this direction of rotation in relation to the first by way of a drive motor, are provided, which change a rotating movement into an axial movement.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 1996Date of Patent: October 6, 1998Assignee: W. Schlafhorst AG & Co.Inventors: Andreas Kruger, Franz-Josef Flamm, Jochen Cuppers, Joachim Stiller, Reinhard Marquardt
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Patent number: 5301887Abstract: A heat sensor which detects the heat generated from sliding frictional contact with a traveling yarn in a textile machine and generates control signals therefrom for the controlling of a yarn winding operation. A temperature-sensitive electric resistor, especially a thin-layer resistor or a film thermometer, serves as the heat sensor. The heat sensor is connected e.g. via a signal converter to control devices, e.g. to a controllable yarn brake and/or to a drive motor for yarn take-up. When the measured temperature rises above a limit value, the braking force of the yarn brake can be first lowered and then the speed of the drive motor can be reduced.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 1991Date of Patent: April 12, 1994Assignee: W. Schlafhorst AG & Co.Inventors: Ulrich Wirtz, Andreas Kruger
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Patent number: D898619Type: GrantFiled: August 30, 2019Date of Patent: October 13, 2020Assignee: AUDI AGInventors: Jakob Hirzel, Andreas Krüger