Patents by Inventor Jonathan ZIMMERMANN

Jonathan ZIMMERMANN 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: 20240174274
    Abstract: A method for obstacle detection for a rail vehicle includes determining a monitoring region in front of the vehicle based on position and course of a track which the vehicle travels and position and dimensions of a monitoring profile of the vehicle. During the determination, sensor data for determining position and orientation of the vehicle are captured and position and course of the track which the vehicle travels are determined based on alignment of the determined position and orientation of the vehicle with digital map data. Objects in the vehicle environment are captured by sensors of the vehicle. Which objects are potential collision obstacles is determined by checking whether and to what extent they overlap with the monitoring region. A reaction to the objects categorized as potential obstacles is determined based on geometric and kinetic attributes of the objects. An obstacle detection device and a vehicle are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2022
    Publication date: May 30, 2024
    Inventors: Andrew Palmer, Egzone Ademi, Christian Wendt, Wolfgang Waizenegger, Andreas Wiratanaya, Christoph Zimmermann, Jost Schnee, Jonathan Pilborough
  • Publication number: 20240169624
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that modify digital images via scene-based editing using image understanding facilitated by artificial intelligence. For instance, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems generate utilizing a segmentation neural network, an object mask for each object of a plurality of objects of a digital image. The disclosed systems detect a first user interaction with an object in the digital image displayed via a graphical user interface. The disclosed systems surface, via the graphical user interface, the object mask for the object in response to the first user interaction. The disclosed systems perform an object-aware modification of the digital image in response to a second user interaction with the object mask for the object.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2022
    Publication date: May 23, 2024
    Inventors: Jonathan Brandt, Scott Cohen, Zhe Lin, Zhihong Ding, Darshan Prasad, Matthew Joss, Celso Gomes, Jianming Zhang, Olena Soroka, Klaas Stoeckmann, Michael Zimmermann, Thomas Muehrke
  • Publication number: 20240150982
    Abstract: A piste grooming vehicle having at least one piste grooming device for preparing a piste. The piste grooming vehicle has a detection device configured to detect an actual topography of a piste section, positioned in front of the piste grooming vehicle in the forward travel direction thereof, of the piste, a determining device connected to the detection device and configured to determine at least one differential value between coordinates of the actual topography and coordinates of a reference topography of the piste, and a control device connected to the determining device and configured to actuate the at least one piste grooming device in accordance with the at least one determined differential value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2024
    Publication date: May 9, 2024
    Inventors: Peter BETZ, Olivier HARGOAA, Michael KUHN, Jens ROTTMAIR, Jonathan ZIMMERMANN
  • Patent number: 11970828
    Abstract: The invention relates to a piste grooming vehicle having at least one piste grooming device for preparing a piste and to a method for operating such a piste grooming vehicle. Use in grooming ski pistes or snowboard pistes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: KÄSSBOHRER GELÄNDEFAHRZEUG AG
    Inventors: Peter Betz, Olivier Hargoaa, Michael Kuhn, Jens Rottmair, Jonathan Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 11396056
    Abstract: A method for providing teeth on working gears by cutting, wherein the working gear and the cutting tool are driven in rotation at a predetermined speed ratio along axes oriented at an intersection angle. The flanks of the cutting teeth form edges having flank cutting sections arranged on the edges of a gap between two adjacent teeth and extend along a first contour line, and which as a result of an advance in the direction of the working gear engage in a cutting manner to produce teeth having a flank contour predetermined by the shape of the cutting edge. Each of the flank cutting sections is adjoined by a tip cutting section which extends along a second contour line in the region of the base of the cutting tooth gap, wherein the second contour line is curved such that at least partially rounded tooth tips are produced on the teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: Profilator GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Jonathan Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 11029370
    Abstract: A sensor configured to generate a sensor output signal at a sensor output coupled to a pull up voltage through a pull up resistor includes a sensing element configured to generate a sensing element output signal indicative of a sensed parameter and a processor responsive to the sensing element output signal and configured to generate a processor output signal indicative of the sensed parameter. A digital output controller is responsive to the processor output signal and to a digital feedback signal and is configured to generate a controller output signal. An analog output driver is responsive to the controller output signal and configured to generate the sensor output signal at a first predetermined level or at a second predetermined level and a feedback circuit coupled between the sensor output and the digital output controller is configured to generate the digital feedback signal in response to the sensor output signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 8, 2021
    Assignee: Allegro MicroSystems, LLC
    Inventors: Jonathan Zimmermann, Steven E. Snyder, Pablo Daniel Pareja Obregón
  • Publication number: 20210069808
    Abstract: A method for cutting teeth into working gears using a tool, the tool main part of which has a plurality of cutting teeth which are arranged about a rotational axis and which protrude radially from the tool main part, the cutting teeth forming an end face, two tooth flanks which point away from each other, and cutting edges. The cutting edges are formed from the tooth flank edges adjoining the end face. In a first method step, tooth gaps which form tooth flanks are produced in the working gear by means of the cutting edges using a machining process in a first position of the tool relative to the working gear, and in a second method step, the working gear tooth flanks produced by the cutting edges are fine-machined by an abrasive tool surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Publication date: March 11, 2021
    Inventor: Jonathan Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 10898961
    Abstract: A method for cutting teeth into working gears using a tool, the tool main part of which has a plurality of cutting teeth which are arranged about a rotational axis and which protrude radially from the tool main part, the cutting teeth forming an end face, two tooth flanks which point away from each other, and cutting edges. The cutting edges are formed from the tooth flank edges adjoining the end face. In a first method step, tooth gaps which form tooth flanks are produced in the working gear by means of the cutting edges using a machining process in a first position of the tool relative to the working gear, and in a second method step, the working gear tooth flanks produced by the cutting edges are fine-machined by an abrasive tool surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2021
    Assignee: Profilator GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Jonathan Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 10894293
    Abstract: A method for providing teeth on working gears by cutting, wherein the working gear and the cutting tool are driven in rotation at a predetermined speed ratio along axes oriented at an intersection angle. The flanks of the cutting teeth form edges having flank cutting sections arranged on the edges of a gap between two adjacent teeth and extend along a first contour line, and which as a result of an advance in the direction of the working gear engage in a cutting manner to produce teeth having a flank contour predetermined by the shape of the cutting edge. Each of the flank cutting sections is adjoined by a tip cutting section which extends along a second contour line in the region of the base of the cutting tooth gap, wherein the second contour line is curved such that at least partially rounded tooth tips are produced on the teeth.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: Profilator GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Jonathan Zimmermann
  • Publication number: 20200406383
    Abstract: A method for providing teeth on working gears by cutting, wherein the working gear and the cutting tool are driven in rotation at a predetermined speed ratio along axes oriented at an intersection angle. The flanks of the cutting teeth form edges having flank cutting sections arranged on the edges of a gap between two adjacent teeth and extend along a first contour line, and which as a result of an advance in the direction of the working gear engage in a cutting manner to produce teeth having a flank contour predetermined by the shape of the cutting edge. Each of the flank cutting sections is adjoined by a tip cutting section which extends along a second contour line in the region of the base of the cutting tooth gap, wherein the second contour line is curved such that at least partially rounded tooth tips are produced on the teeth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Publication date: December 31, 2020
    Inventor: Jonathan Zimmermann
  • Publication number: 20200109532
    Abstract: The invention relates to a piste grooming vehicle having at least one piste grooming device for preparing a piste and to a method for operating such a piste grooming vehicle. Use in grooming ski pistes or snowboard pistes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Inventors: Peter BETZ, Olivier HARGOAA, Michael KUHN, Jens ROTTMAIR, Jonathan ZIMMERMANN
  • Patent number: 10551439
    Abstract: An integrated circuit including a first multiplexor configured to receive one of a plurality of diagnostic signals from circuitry under test (DUT), the first multiplexor responsive to diagnostic signals provided thereto and configured to selectively output one of the diagnostic signals in response to a control signal, a second multiplexor configured to receive one of a plurality of reference signals from one of a plurality of nodes on a reference circuit, the second multiplexor configured to selectively output one of the diagnostic signals in response to a control signal, and a comparator configured to compare the diagnostic signal elicited from the first multiplexor with the reference signal elicited from the second multiplexor, the comparator further configured to output the result of the comparison between the diagnostic signal and the reference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Allegro MicroSystems, LLC
    Inventors: Mathew Drouin, Jonathan Zimmermann
  • Publication number: 20190061030
    Abstract: A method for cutting teeth into working gears using a tool, the tool main part of which has a plurality of cutting teeth which are arranged about a rotational axis and which protrude radially from the tool main part, the cutting teeth forming an end face, two tooth flanks which point away from each other, and cutting edges. The cutting edges are formed from the tooth flank edges adjoining the end face. In a first method step, tooth gaps which form tooth flanks are produced in the working gear by means of the cutting edges using a machining process in a first position of the tool relative to the working gear, and in a second method step, the working gear tooth flanks produced by the cutting edges are fine-machined by an abrasive tool surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2016
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventor: Jonathan Zimmermann
  • Publication number: 20190025374
    Abstract: An integrated circuit including a first multiplexor configured to receive one of a plurality of diagnostic signals from circuitry under test (DUT), the first multiplexor responsive to diagnostic signals provided thereto and configured to selectively output one of the diagnostic signals in response to a control signal, a second multiplexor configured to receive one of a plurality of reference signals from one of a plurality of nodes on a reference circuit, the second multiplexor configured to selectively output one of the diagnostic signals in response to a control signal, and a comparator configured to compare the diagnostic signal elicited from the first multiplexor with the reference signal elicited from the second multiplexor, the comparator further configured to output the result of the comparison between the diagnostic signal and the reference signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2017
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: Allegro MicroSystems, LLC
    Inventors: Mathew Drouin, Jonathan Zimmermann
  • Publication number: 20180036813
    Abstract: A method for providing teeth on working gears by cutting, wherein the working gear and the cutting tool are driven in rotation at a predetermined speed ratio along axes oriented at an intersection angle. The flanks of the cutting teeth form edges having flank cutting sections arranged on the edges of a gap between two adjacent teeth and extend along a first contour line, and which as a result of an advance in the direction of the working gear engage in a cutting manner to produce teeth having a flank contour predetermined by the shape of the cutting edge. Each of the flank cutting sections is adjoined by a tip cutting section which extends along a second contour line in the region of the base of the cutting tooth gap, wherein the second contour line is curved such that at least partially rounded tooth tips are produced on the teeth.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2015
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventor: Jonathan ZIMMERMANN