Patents by Inventor Florian Hoffmann
Florian Hoffmann 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: 20240151075Abstract: The invention relates to a module component (100) for a movable part (201) of a vehicle (200), comprising: a support housing (10) for fastening the module component (100) to the movable part (201) of the vehicle (200), a key device (20) for actuating the movable part (201) of the vehicle (200), wherein the key device (20) comprises a key cap (21) configured to receive an activation action, in particular a touch and/or force, of a user, wherein an activation element (24) is arranged on the key cap (21) to be able to detect a presence and/or an activation action of the user, and an electronic device (30) for providing lighting functions and/or sensor functions when the movable part (201) of the vehicle (200) is actuated, wherein the electronic device (30) is fastened to the support housing (10), wherein the electronic device (30) comprises a sensor device (31, 32) for a presence detection and/or an activation action detection at the activation element (24), and wherein the electronic device (30) comprises atType: ApplicationFiled: March 9, 2022Publication date: May 9, 2024Inventors: Ingo Bott, Andreas Beck, Florian Knubben, Andreas Hoffmann
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Publication number: 20240132679Abstract: The invention relates to composite materials (organosheets) containing a thermoplastic molding compound, at least one continuous reinforcing fiber layer and at least one inorganic filler material. According to the invention, a sheet material consisting of continuous reinforcing fibers in a matrix composition comprising the molding compound is used, the thermoplastic molding compound containing at least one polyolefin, and optionally at least one further, polarity-functionalized polymer. The invention also relates to a process for produci2023ng the claimed composite material and to uses thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2021Publication date: April 25, 2024Inventors: Felix KLAUCK, Pierre JUAN, Norbert NIESSNER, Eike JAHNKE, Andre LUECK, Florian PIOTT, Dietmar DRUMMER, Leo HOFFMANN
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Patent number: 11874207Abstract: A method for laser microdissection includes: processing a microscopic examination object by a laser beam using tuples of coordinate values which respectively indicate positions of target points on the examination object at least in a first spatial direction and a second spatial direction orthogonal to the first spatial direction, positions of at least three reference points being ascertained beforehand in each case in the first and second spatial directions and also in a third spatial direction orthogonal to the first and second spatial directions; defining a reference plane based on the positions of the reference points; and determining, for the target points, further coordinate values indicating an expected position of the target points on the examination object in the third spatial direction in each case, as determined further coordinate values, the determining of the further coordinate values being performed depending on the defined reference plane.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS GMBHInventors: Florian Hoffmann, Falk Schlaudraff
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Publication number: 20240004179Abstract: A sample manipulation device includes a manipulation light source configured to emit manipulation light, an objective configured to focus the manipulating light onto the sample to form a manipulation light beam, a scanning unit configured to move the manipulation light beam within a field of view of the objective, a sample positioning unit configured to move the sample relative to an optical axis of the objective, and a controller configured to receive manipulation data comprising at least one manipulation path, upon determining that the manipulation path is entirely outside the predetermined area, control the manipulation light source and the scanning unit such that the sample is manipulated along the manipulation path, and upon determining that at least a part of the manipulation path is inside the predetermined area, control the sample positioning unit to move the sample such that the manipulation path is entirely outside the predetermined area.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 19, 2023Publication date: January 4, 2024Inventors: Falk SCHLAUDRAFF, Florian HOFFMANN
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Publication number: 20230202771Abstract: Disclosed is a container treatment device with a transport device for transporting containers along a predetermined transport path, wherein the transport device has at least one transport device for transporting the containers and at least one container treatment device for treating the containers in a predetermined manner, wherein this transport device includes a preferably rotatable carrier, on which a plurality of holding devices for holding at least one container are arranged, these holding devices being movable relative to the carrier in such a way that a distance between two containers immediately following one another on the transport path can be varied, wherein the container-handling device is arranged in such a way that it can handle the containers transported by the transport device.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Michael NEUBAUER, Thomas KIENDL, Martin KAMMERL, Konrad SENN, Andreas EICHENSEHER, Florian HOFFMANN, Alexander FEIGL, Wolfgang SCHOENBERGER, Florian FUCHS, Andreas VORNEHM, Viktor GETTE, Andreas PENSE, Stefan KORNPROBST, Josef KNOTT
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Publication number: 20230202822Abstract: A container treatment apparatus includes a transport apparatus for transporting containers along a predetermined transport path, wherein the transport apparatus has at least one transport device (100) for transporting the containers (100) and at least one container treatment device (150) for treating the container in a predetermined manner, wherein the transport devices include a rotatable carrier on which a plurality of holding elements (40) for holding at least one container is arranged. The container treatment device is arranged to treat the containers transported by the transport device and the holding element is rotatable such that the container held by the holding element is rotatable with respect to its longitudinal direction and the container treatment apparatus includes a monitoring device for monitoring the rotational movement of the containers.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Stefan KORNPROBST, Andreas PENSE, Konrad SENN, Alexander FEIGL, Viktor GETTE, Andreas EICHENSEHER, Michael NEUBAUER, Andreas VORNEHM, Florian HOFFMANN, Wolfgang SCHOENBERGER, Florian FUCHS, Josef KNOTT
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Publication number: 20230202821Abstract: Disclosed is a container treatment apparatus for transporting plastic containers and in particular plastic preforms along a predetermined transport path, wherein the container treatment apparatus has at least one transport device having a plurality of holding elements, wherein the transport device is a pitch distribution starwheel having a movement device configured to allow movement of the holding elements in at least two planes.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Michael NEUBAUER, Thomas KIENDL, Martin KAMMERL, Florian FUCHS, Stefan KORNPROBST, Florian HOFFMANN, Wolfgang SCHOENBERGER, Josef KNOTT, Andreas EICHENSEHER, Andreas PENSE, Konrad SENN, Andreas VORNEHM, Viktor GETTE, Alexander FEIGL
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Publication number: 20230202820Abstract: Disclosed is a container treatment apparatus and treatment method, in particular a container sterilisation apparatus, having a plurality of transport devices for transporting a container along a predetermined transport path, at least one of the transport devices having at least one holding device for holding at least one container during container treatment and/or transport along the transport path, the transport device having a rotatable carrier and a plurality of holding elements arranged on this carrier, wherein a holding element in a first sector, in which a container is received, having a height with respect to a perpendicular projection of the transport path which is different from that in a second sector in which a container is dispensed, and wherein a sector in which an at least partial compensation of the height difference of the holding elements takes place lies along a direction of rotation of the carrier after the second sector and before the first sector.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Viktor GETTE, Konrad SENN, Andreas PENSE, Florian FUCHS, Alexander FEIGL, Wolfgang SCHOENBERGER, Andreas EICHENSEHER, Florian HOFFMANN, Josef KNOTT, Andreas VORNEHM, Michael NEUBAUER, Stefan KORNPROBST
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Publication number: 20230202819Abstract: Disclosed is a container treatment apparatus, in particular a container sterilisation apparatus, having a plurality of transport devices for transporting a container along a predetermined transport path, at least one of the transport devices having at least one holding device for holding at least one container during container treatment and/or transport along the transport path , the transport device having a rotatable carrier and a plurality of holding elements arranged on this carrier, wherein a holding element in a first sector, in which a container is received, having a height with respect to a perpendicular projection of the transport path which is different from that in a second sector in which a container is dispensed, and wherein a sector in which an at least partial compensation of the height difference of the holding elements takes place lies along a direction of rotation of the carrier after the second sector and before the first sector.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2022Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Michael NEUBAUER, Thomas KIENDL, Martin KAMMERL, Florian HOFFMANN, Andreas PENSE, Florian FUCHS, Alexander FEIGL, Wolfgang SCHOENBERGER, Stefan KORNPROBST, Andreas EICHENSEHER, Viktor GETTE, Andreas VORNEHM, Konrad SENN, Josef KNOTT, Harald EFFENBERGER
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Publication number: 20230037764Abstract: A device (1) for producing a photoactive system (10), in particular a deactivated photoactive system (10), characterised by: an imaging device (2) having at least one imaging arrangement (20), wherein the at least one imaging arrangement (20) has a beam passage plane (SE) and an optical axis (O), and the at least one imaging arrangement (20) is designed to generate electromagnetic beams which extend along a beam path and pass through the imaging arrangement (20) on the beam passage plane (SE) and to reflect the electromagnetic beams along the beam path at the photoactive arrangement (11) in order to image, on a first focal plane (B1) of the imaging arrangement (20), an evaluation image of a photoactive arrangement (11) of the photoactive system (10) to be produced, and the electromagnetic beams of the beam path are captured on the first focal plane (B1) in order to capture the evaluation image of the photoactive arrangement (11); and a first holding device (3a) having a first holding plane (Ha), on the firstType: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2020Publication date: February 9, 2023Inventors: Sebastian HAAG, Florian HOFFMANN, Jörn ROSENKRANZ
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Publication number: 20220276136Abstract: A method for obtaining dissectates from a microscopic sample using a laser microdissection system having a laser unit includes: a) at least partially circumcising and releasing from the sample dissectate regions of the sample as the dissectates using laser pulses provided by the laser unit; b) transferring the dissectates, by being released from the sample, along dissectate trajectories into receptacles of a dissectate collection unit; and c) positioning the receptacles of a dissectate collection unit using a positioning unit to collect the dissectates. The positioning of the receptacles of the dissectate collection unit using the positioning unit is automatically performed based on estimates of the dissectate trajectories, the estimates of the dissectate trajectories being obtained in a learning mode, the learning mode including obtaining dissectates by repeatedly performing at least steps a) and b). Parameters of the dissectate trajectories are determined for a plurality of dissectates.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 9, 2022Publication date: September 1, 2022Inventors: Falk Schlaudraff, Florian Hoffmann, Christoph Greb
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Publication number: 20220136936Abstract: A method for laser microdissection includes: processing a microscopic examination object by a laser beam using tuples of coordinate values which respectively indicate positions of target points on the examination object at least in a first spatial direction and a second spatial direction orthogonal to the first spatial direction, positions of at least three reference points being ascertained beforehand in each case in the first and second spatial directions and also in a third spatial direction orthogonal to the first and second spatial directions; defining a reference plane based on the positions of the reference points; and determining, for the target points, further coordinate values indicating an expected position of the target points on the examination object in the third spatial direction in each case, as determined further coordinate values, the determining of the further coordinate values being performed depending on the defined reference plane.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2020Publication date: May 5, 2022Inventors: Florian HOFFMANN, Falk SCHLAUDRAFF
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Publication number: 20200158242Abstract: The invention relates to a seal device for hydraulically sealing off sealing faces of components which are movable relative to each other in a translational or rotational relative movement, said device having a tough, elastic sealing device seal body (1) with at least one sliding face (10) which is assigned to at least one sealing face of one of the components, a plurality of cavities (2; 2a, 2b; 22) being formed in the at least one sliding face (10), said cavities having closed contours which are delimited from one another towards the sliding face (10). The contours of the cavities (2; 2a, 2b; 22) have a longer dimension (x) in a contour longitudinal direction (X) and a shorter dimension (y) in a contour transverse direction (Y).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 9, 2018Publication date: May 21, 2020Applicant: NIDEC GPM GMBHInventors: Marcel BERNER, Paul LUDWIG, Sebastian EGERMEIER, Florian HOFFMANN
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Patent number: 10621411Abstract: A method for laser microdissection includes detecting at least a portion of an object to be dissected in an image-producing manner in a laser microdissection system and generating a first digital object image. A first processing specification is defined based on the first digital object image. In a first processing step, the object is processed using a laser beam of the laser microdissection system in accordance with the first processing specification. At least a portion of the object is detected in an image-producing manner and a second digital object image is generated. A second processing specification is defined during execution of the first processing step based on the second digital object image. In a second processing step, the object is processed using the laser beam of the laser microdissection system in accordance with the second processing specification.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2015Date of Patent: April 14, 2020Assignee: LEICA MICROSYSTEMS CMS GMBHInventors: Falk Schlaudraff, Andrew Lee, Florian Hoffmann
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Patent number: 10503808Abstract: Disclosed is an improved system for performing intelligent text reduction on text strings for optimal display in a variety of user interface display elements. The system includes a smart text reduction algorithm that can shorten text strings as necessary in response to resizing the user interface or elements therein. The system also includes a design time user interface for application developers (or other users) to design graphical user interfaces in a collaborative workspace. The design time user interface incorporates the smart text reduction algorithm to enable designers to modify user interface display elements and run the text reduction algorithm on any text strings that no longer fit within the modified display elements. The described embodiments can also translate text strings of user interface display elements and can execute the smart text shortening algorithm on the translated text strings accordingly.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2016Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: SAP SEInventors: Michail Vasiltschenko, Ralph Debusmann, Florian Hoffmann, Iuliia Konstantinova, Christian Lieske, Charles Monte
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Patent number: 10409788Abstract: Systems and methods are provided herein for multi-pass duplicate identification using sorted neighborhoods. Data comprising a plurality of data records is received. Neighborhood records are generated by merging the plurality of data records with reference records stored in a remote data store. A resource identification field is assigned to each reference record. A pair distance, for each pair of neighborhood records having different resource identification fields, is determined by calculating a standard deviation of distances between each attribute of the pair scaled by a filled pairs quote value. Possible duplicate records are identified by evaluating each pair distance against a threshold, each possible duplicate having grouped attributes. Final duplicate records are identified by matching each group to a key.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2017Date of Patent: September 10, 2019Assignee: SAP SEInventors: Larissa Heissler, Andre Adam, Philipp Mail, Florian Hoffmann
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Patent number: 10140260Abstract: Disclosed is an improved system for performing intelligent text reduction on text strings for optimal display in a variety of user interface display elements. The system includes a smart text reduction algorithm that can shorten text strings as necessary in response to resizing the user interface or elements therein. The system also includes a design time user interface for application developers (or other users) to design graphical user interfaces in a collaborative workspace. The design time user interface incorporates the smart text reduction algorithm to enable designers to modify user interface display elements and run the text reduction algorithm on any text strings that no longer fit within the modified display elements. The described embodiments can also translate text strings of user interface display elements and can execute the smart text shortening algorithm on the translated text strings accordingly.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2016Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: SAP SEInventors: Michail Vasiltschenko, Ralph Debusmann, Florian Hoffmann, Iuliia Konstantinova, Christian Lieske, Charles Monte
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Patent number: 10089595Abstract: According to some embodiments, an event query to an item supply chain event database is processed such that a trace extraction algorithm will be executed to determine extracted trace data. A plurality of location nodes may then be graphically represented on an interactive user display based on the extracted trace data. Similarly, a plurality of item flow edges connecting location nodes may be graphically represented on the interactive user display based on the extracted trace data. According to some embodiments, a selection from a user is received via the interactive user display, the selection being associated with at least some of the graphically represented information. Responsive to the received selection, the graphical representation may be adjusted in accordance with the extracted trace data.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2015Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: SAP SEInventor: Florian Hoffmann
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Publication number: 20180210903Abstract: Systems and methods are provided herein for multi-pass duplicate identification using sorted neighborhoods. Data comprising a plurality of data records is received. Neighborhood records are generated by merging the plurality of data records with reference records stored in a remote data store. A resource identification field is assigned to each reference record. A pair distance, for each pair of neighborhood records having different resource identification fields, is determined by calculating a standard deviation of distances between each attribute of the pair scaled by a filled pairs quote value. Possible duplicate records are identified by evaluating each pair distance against a threshold, each possible duplicate having grouped attributes. Final duplicate records are identified by matching each group to a key.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 23, 2017Publication date: July 26, 2018Inventors: Larissa Heissler, Andre Adam, Philipp Mail, Florian Hoffmann
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Publication number: 20180137158Abstract: Provided are devices and methods for automated detection of foreign keys linking database tables together. In one example, a device includes a processor that receives a plurality of tables of data, and processes an automated foreign key learning application with respect to the plurality of tables. According to various embodiments, the foreign key learning application identifies at least one foreign key that links a list of columns of a first table to a list of columns of a second table. Furthermore, an output may display a user interface including an identification of the foreign key, the first table, and the second table. Based on the system and methods described herein, the detection of foreign keys may be performed automatically instead of by manual user input thus saving significant time and expense.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2016Publication date: May 17, 2018Inventors: Florian Hoffmann, José Prados