Patents by Inventor Eric Berger

Eric Berger 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).

  • Publication number: 20240142208
    Abstract: Provided is an ammunition canister system that includes a can with an open interior and a mounting plate. A first and a second interior divider form three interior ammunition storage bays, while a three-to-one transition feed tray transitions belted ammunition contained in the bays to a single feed chute. The base of the can further includes loading pins, quick release locks, and lock pins, while the mounting plate includes mounting apertures, loading guides, quick release lock pin receiving apertures, and pin accepting apertures on the second side. The loading pins interface with the loading guides, the quick release locks interface with the quick release lock pin receiving apertures, and the lock pins interface with the pin accepting apertures to secure the ammunition canister to the mounting plate. The mounting plate enables the can to be mounted to the deck of helicopter or another vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2023
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Applicant: The United States of America, as represented by the Secretary of the Navy
    Inventors: Paul Denesha, Michael L. Holzmeyer, James G. Buechler, Eric S. Gilham, Anthony Berger
  • Patent number: 11934998
    Abstract: The invention relates to the monitoring of products by means of active radio tags. According to the invention, packagings of products are provided with an active radio tag that detects at least one environmental condition and/or at least one packaging state, and which emits a signal at time intervals, which provides information about a unique identifier and at least one state in which the respective product is found. The signal is picked up by a receiver that extracts the unique identifier and the state information and transmits same together with location information to an external server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: BAYER AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Christof Backhaus, Katharina Berger, Uwe Schenkel, Jürgen Schmidt, Walter Speth, Klaus Glismann, Eric Willms, Markus Storz, Arne Wendt, Gregory James Dibble
  • Patent number: 11934997
    Abstract: The invention relates to the monitoring of products by means of active radio tags. According to the invention, packagings of products are provided with an active radio tag that detects at least one environmental condition and/or at least one packaging state, and which emits a signal at time intervals, which provides information about a unique identifier and at least one state in which the respective product is found. The signal is picked up by a receiver that extracts the unique identifier and the state information and transmits same together with location information to an external server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: BAYER AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Christof Backhaus, Katharina Berger, Uwe Schenkel, Jürgen Schmidt, Walter Speth, Klaus Glismann, Eric Willms, Markus Storz, Arne Wendt, Gregory James Dibble
  • Patent number: 11934996
    Abstract: The invention relates to the monitoring of products by means of active radio tags. According to the invention, packagings of products are provided with an active radio tag that detects at least one environmental condition and/or at least one packaging state, and which emits a signal at time intervals, which provides information about a unique identifier and at least one state in which the respective product is found. The signal is picked up by a receiver that extracts the unique identifier and the state information and transmits same together with location information to an external server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: BAYER AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Christof Backhaus, Katharina Berger, Uwe Schenkel, Jürgen Schmidt, Walter Speth, Klaus Glismann, Eric Willms, Markus Storz, Arne Wendt, Gregory James Dibble
  • Patent number: 11934999
    Abstract: The invention relates to the monitoring of products by means of active radio tags. According to the invention, packagings of products are provided with an active radio tag that detects at least one environmental condition and/or at least one packaging state, and which emits a signal at time intervals, which provides information about a unique identifier and at least one state in which the respective product is found. The signal is picked up by a receiver that extracts the unique identifier and the state information and transmits same together with location information to an external server.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: BAYER AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Christof Backhaus, Katharina Berger, Uwe Schenkel, Jürgen Schmidt, Walter Speth, Klaus Glismann, Eric Willms, Markus Storz, Arne Wendt, Gregory James Dibble
  • Publication number: 20240071796
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are systems and methods relating to a transfer chamber for an electronic device processing system. The transfer chamber can include a first magnetic levitation track having a face-up orientation and a second magnetic levitation track spaced from the first magnetic levitation track and having a face-down orientation. The system can include substrate carriers that move along the first and second magnetic levitation tracks where each substrate carrier includes a magnet on a bottom portion to interact with a first magnetic field and a second magnet on a top portion to interact with a second magnetic field. The system also can include at least one lift pin assembly to move the substrate carriers in a vertical direction between the first and second magnetic levitation tracks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Alex Berger, Jeffrey Hudgens, Eric Englhardt
  • Patent number: 11643806
    Abstract: A building block comprises a rigid housing defining a chamber and plant fibers contained within the chamber. A construction system comprises a plurality of such building blocks, selectively stackable to form a wall. A method of construction comprises obtaining a plurality of such building blocks, inserting plant fibers into the chamber, and stacking the plurality of building blocks to form one or more walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Inventors: Eric Berger, Regan Berger
  • Patent number: 11299143
    Abstract: An operating method for a power train of a hybrid vehicle having an internal combustion engine, an electric drive machine and a rechargeable electric energy storage unit configured to supply the electric drive machine with energy, includes controlling the power train in a zero emission mode in which the internal combustion engine is deactivated and in which the electric drive machine serves to drive the hybrid vehicle, and in an emission mode in which the internal combustion engine is operated in a fired operation. The method also includes determining, for a system initiated change of operating mode from the zero emission mode into the emission mode, a starting command for the internal combustion engine. The change of operating mode from the zero emission mode into the emission mode is blocked for one of a predefinable delay time, a predefinable quantity of energy extracted from the electric energy storage unit, or a predefinable travel distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Eric Berger, Arthur Huelsmann, Daniel Mau, Ferdinand Wiesbeck
  • Publication number: 20220018115
    Abstract: A building block comprises a rigid housing defining a chamber and plant fibers contained within the chamber. A construction system comprises a plurality of such building blocks, selectively stackable to form a wall. A method of construction comprises obtaining a plurality of such building blocks, inserting plant fibers into the chamber, and stacking the plurality of building blocks to form one or more walls.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2021
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: ERIC BERGER, REGAN BERGER
  • Patent number: 10933860
    Abstract: A method and a device operate a hybrid vehicle having an electric energy store, an electric propulsion system and an internal combustion engine. A special operating strategy that can be initiated for the internal combustion engine allows the state of charge of the energy store to be increased when predefined acoustic conditions are met. The special operating strategy has a performance-enhancing effect by raising the load point until acoustic limits are reached which are ascertained in real time, can be predefined in a variable manner and are defined in accordance with ascertained potentials for masking specific acoustic events.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 2, 2021
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ferdinand Wiesbeck, Arthur Huelsmann, Eric Berger, Johann Engl
  • Publication number: 20190263390
    Abstract: An operating method for a power train of a hybrid vehicle having an internal combustion engine, an electric drive machine and a rechargeable electric energy storage unit configured to supply the electric drive machine with energy, includes controlling the power train in a zero emission mode in which the internal combustion engine is deactivated and in which the electric drive machine serves to drive the hybrid vehicle, and in an emission mode in which the internal combustion engine is operated in a fired operation. The method also includes determining, for a system initiated change of operating mode from the zero emission mode into the emission mode, a starting command for the internal combustion engine. The change of operating mode from the zero emission mode into the emission mode is blocked for one of a predefinable delay time, a predefinable quantity of energy extracted from the electric energy storage unit, or a predefinable travel distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Eric Berger, Arthur Huelsmann, Daniel Mau, Ferdinand Wiesbeck
  • Publication number: 20190061736
    Abstract: A method and a device operate a hybrid vehicle having an electric energy store, an electric propulsion system and an internal combustion engine. A special operating strategy that can be initiated for the internal combustion engine allows the state of charge of the energy store to be increased when predefined acoustic conditions are met. The special operating strategy has a performance-enhancing effect by raising the load point until acoustic limits are reached which are ascertained in real time, can be predefined in a variable manner and are defined in accordance with ascertained potentials for masking specific acoustic events.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Ferdinand WIESBECK, Arthur HUELSMANN, Eric BERGER, Johann ENGL
  • Patent number: 9987884
    Abstract: Tire tread having a central part (I) made from at least one first rubber compound and having at least one circumferential rib (121-123) formed of a plurality of blocks (1210) separated by sipes; a first and a second lateral part (II and III) made of at least a second and third rubber compound, and having a circumferential rib (131,141) formed by a plurality of blocks (1310,1410), separated by sipes, wherein the at least one second and third rubber compounds have a value of tan ? at 23° C.—at a frequency of 10 Hz and an elongation of 10% —of less than 0.25, wherein the complex modulus G*(T) of the at least one first rubber compound is greater than the complex moduli G*(T) of at least one second and third rubber compounds for all temperatures T greater than or equal to 0° and less than or equal to 60° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN
    Inventors: Bernard Guerinon, Eric Berger, Melaine Guillou, Bertrand Boisdon, Christine Nourry
  • Patent number: 9669663
    Abstract: Tyre comprising a tread, this tread including a rolling surface (12) intended to come into contact with the ground, at least one circumferential row of upstanding elements (11), these upstanding elements (11) being separated from one another in the circumferential direction by incisions (20) of transverse or substantially transverse orientation, each incision (20) of transverse or substantially transverse orientation leading onto the rolling surface (12) and having a depth P, each incision (20) forming, on the rolling surface of the tyre when new, two facing edges (21, 22), these edges (21, 22) delimiting at least one narrow portion (30) of the incision, i.e. a portion having a mean width LE less than or equal to 2 mm, and at least one wide portion (40) of the incision, i.e.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignees: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.
    Inventors: Eric Berger, Julien Flament, Olivier Muhlhoff
  • Publication number: 20160303916
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a tire made of rubbery material comprising a tread comprising a shoulder region, and a graphic element. The graphic element is recessed into the shoulder region, and comprises a texture that contrasts with this shoulder region . The graphic element may be selected from a group of graphic elements comprising at least letters, numbers and symbols.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 5, 2014
    Publication date: October 20, 2016
    Applicants: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.
    Inventors: Eric Berger, Benoit GARDARIN, Bruno GUIMARD, Olivier MUHLHOFF
  • Patent number: 9393841
    Abstract: A tire tread having a plurality of ribs delimited by cut-outs, each having a generally parallelepipedal shape and having a length (L) and a width (W), the width (W) being determined between a first lateral face and a second lateral face of the rib, the width (W) being less than the length (L), at least one rib having at least one cavity placed inside the rib, the cavity extending mainly in the length (L) of the rib. The tread having an incision extending mainly in the length (L) of the rib, the incision emerging on the first lateral face of the rib and the incision emerging in the cavity while forming an opening, the length (Lo) of the opening determined in the length (L) of the rib corresponding at least to 80% of the length (Lc) of the cavity determined in the length (L) of the rib.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignees: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.
    Inventors: Eric Berger, Cyril Guichon
  • Publication number: 20160185163
    Abstract: The aspects disclosed herein relate to a tire composing elastomeric properties. The tire includes a sidewall and a texture. The texture may include a plurality of strands distributed in a graphic element at a density at most of five strands per square millimeter (mm2), each strand having a mean cross section of between 0.0007 mm2 and 0.06 mm2. The texture includes a plurality of substantially mutually parallel lamellae, the spacing of the lamellae being at most 0.5 mm, with, each lamella having a mean width of between 0.03 mm and 0.3 mm. The texture is recessed into the sidewall with the texture defining the graphic element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2014
    Publication date: June 30, 2016
    Applicants: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE S.A.
    Inventors: Olivier MUHLHOFF, Eric BERGER, Benoit GARDARIN, Bruno GUIMARD
  • Publication number: 20160158932
    Abstract: Systems and methods related to construction, configuration, and utilization of humanoid robotic systems and aspects thereof are described. A system may include a mobile base, a spine structure, a body structure, and at least one robotic arm, each of which is movably configured to have significant human-scale capabilities in prescribed environments. The one or more robotic arms may be rotatably coupled to the body structure, which may be mechanically associated with the mobile base and spine such that it may be deflectably elevated and rolled relative to the base simultaneously and independently. Aspects of the one or more arms may be counterbalanced with one or more spring-based counterbalancing mechanisms which facilitate backdriveability and payload features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2016
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicant: BOARD OF TRUSTEES OF LELAND STANFORD JUNIOR UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Keenan A. Wyrobek, Eric Berger, J. Kenneth Salsbury
  • Publication number: 20160152095
    Abstract: A tire made of rubber material having a sidewall and a marking. This marking is positioned in a housing recessed into the sidewall. The tire includes a texture having a plurality of strands distributed at a density at least equal to five strands per square millimeter (mm2), each strand having a mean cross section of between 0.0007 mm2 and 0.06 mm2 and/or the texture having a plurality of substantially mutually parallel lamellae, the spacing of the lamellae being at most equal to 0.5 mm, each lamella having a mean width of between 0.03 mm and 0.3 mm. The texture surrounds all or part of the marking in the housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2014
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Applicants: COMPAGNIE GENERALE DES ETABLISSEMENTS MICHELIN, MICHELIN RECHERCHE ET TECHNIQUE, S.A.
    Inventors: Eric BERGER, Benoit GARDARIN, Bruno GUIMARD, Olivier MUHLHOFF, Sylvain PETITJEAN
  • Patent number: D758730
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Carl Eric Berger, Ingrid Rivera, Catherine A. Smith