Patents by Inventor Peter Schmidt
Peter Schmidt 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: 10965152Abstract: An uninterruptible power supply adapted to be connected between an AC line and a load, comprising a battery system, an inverter, and a transformer, and a controller. The battery system stores battery power. The inverter is operatively connected to the battery system. The transformer is operatively connected to the AC line, the load, and an inverter winding operatively connected to the inverter. The controller controls the inverter to supply power to the primary winding using battery power stored in the battery system based on a cost value indicative of reduction of life of the battery system.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2019Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: ALPHA TECHNOLOGIES SERVICES, INC.Inventors: Jim Heidenreich, Toby Peck, Craig E. Paoli, Peter Schmidt, Greg Thomas, John Rodgers
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Patent number: 10930825Abstract: A method of fabricating closely spaced pcLEDs arranged in a matrix array of perpendicular rows and columns comprises an initial phosphor deposition step in which phosphor is deposited at alternating locations (pixels) in the matrix array in a checkerboard pattern, so that the locations in the array at which phosphor is deposited are not adjacent to each other. In a subsequent phosphor deposition step phosphor is deposited at the alternating locations at which phosphor was not deposited in the first deposition step. In between the two phosphor deposition steps, reflective or scattering structures may be fabricated on sidewalls of the phosphor pixels to optically isolate pcLEDs in the resulting array from each other.Type: GrantFiled: December 26, 2018Date of Patent: February 23, 2021Assignee: Lumileds LLCInventors: Marcel Rene Bohmer, Jacques Heuts, Ken Shimizu, Peter Schmidt
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Patent number: 10921288Abstract: A consumption meter, e.g. a water or heat meter, for measuring a flow rate of a fluid supplied in a flow tube. First and second ultrasonic transducers are arranged at the flow tube for transmitting and receiving ultrasonic signals transmitted through the fluid and operated by a flow measurement sub-circuit for generating a signal indicative of the flow rate of the fluid. A noise measurement sub-circuit operates a sensor arranged at the flow tube for detection of acoustic signals of the flow tube, and being arranged to generate a signal indicative of a noise level of the flow tube accordingly. This sensor may comprise a separate transducer, or the sensor may be constituted by one or both of the first and second ultrasonic transducers. The consumption meter may communicate data representative of the noise level via a communication module along with data consumed amount of water, heat etc.Type: GrantFiled: July 4, 2016Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: Kamstrup A/SInventors: Søren Tønnes Nielsen, Peter Schmidt Laursen, Jens Lykke Sørensen, René Gajda Kristensen, Martin Christian Høj Petersen
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Publication number: 20210003531Abstract: A consumption meter, e.g. a water or heat meter, for measuring a flow rate of a fluid supplied in a flow tube. First and second ultrasonic transducers are arranged at the flow tube for transmitting and receiving ultrasonic signals transmitted through the fluid and operated by a flow measurement sub-circuit for generating a signal indicative of the flow rate of the fluid. A noise measurement sub-circuit operates a sensor arranged at the flow tube for detection of acoustic signals of the flow tube, and being arranged to generate a signal indicative of a noise level of the flow tube accordingly. This sensor may comprise a separate transducer, or the sensor may be constituted by one or both of the first and second ultrasonic transducers. The consumption meter may communicate data representative of the noise level via a communication module along with data consumed amount of water, heat etc.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 23, 2020Publication date: January 7, 2021Inventors: Søren Tønnes Nielsen, Peter Schmidt Laursen, Jens Lykke Sørensen, René Gajda Kristensen, Martin Christian Høj Petersen
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Patent number: 10873011Abstract: The invention describes a semiconductor die comprising at least a first light-emitting diode and a second light-emitting diode, wherein the first light-emitting diode comprises a first diode formed in a first die area and a first phosphor layer deposited over the first die area; the second light-emitting diode comprises a second diode and a second phosphor layer deposited over the second die area; the first diode and the second diode are electrically connected in anti-parallel; and wherein the optical properties of the second phosphor layer differ from the optical properties of the first phosphor layer.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2019Date of Patent: December 22, 2020Assignee: Lumileds LLCInventors: Arjen Van Der Sude, Nicola Pfeffer, Pieter Johannes Quintus Van Voorst Vader, Peter Schmidt
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Patent number: 10830625Abstract: The invention relates to a water meter platform and a housing component for a water meter platform. The housing component providing a flow tube, a sealable main compartment adapted to house a meter unit for measuring a flow of a fluid flowing through the flow tube and a flow channel interface in fluid communication with the flow tube adapted for mounting additional functional units.Type: GrantFiled: April 28, 2017Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Kamstrup A/SInventors: Anders Skallebæk, Peter Schmidt Laursen
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Patent number: 10773817Abstract: A ram air system for an aircraft having an engine and a fuselage with an outer mold line. The ram air system includes an engine air pathway having an opening in the outer mold line defining an engine inlet. The engine air pathway is configured to supply operating air for combustion in the engine. An auxiliary air pathway includes a first intake disposed inside the outer mold line in the engine inlet and a second intake disposed externally to the engine air pathway. The auxiliary air pathway is configured to draw in cooling air to cool ancillary aircraft components from at least one of the first intake and the second intake based on the airspeed of the aircraft.Type: GrantFiled: March 8, 2018Date of Patent: September 15, 2020Assignee: NORTHROP GRUMMAN SYSTEMS CORPORATIONInventors: Peter A. Brennen, Chris K. Lee, Peter Schmidt
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Publication number: 20200238628Abstract: Techniques for evaluating support for an object to be fabricated via an additive fabrication device are provided. In some embodiments, a three-dimensional representation of the object is obtained and a plurality of voxels corresponding to the representation of the object is generated. A first supportedness value may be assigned to a first voxel of the plurality of voxels based on an amount of support provided by a support structure to the first voxel, and a second supportedness value determined for a second voxel of the plurality of voxels, wherein the second voxel neighbors the first voxel, and wherein the second supportedness value is determined based on the first supportedness value of the first voxel and a weight value representing a transmission rate of supportedness through voxels of the plurality of voxels.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 29, 2020Publication date: July 30, 2020Applicant: Formlabs, Inc.Inventors: Shane Wighton, Maxim Lobovsky, Peter Schmidt-Nielsen
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Publication number: 20200212270Abstract: A method of fabricating closely spaced pcLEDs arranged in a matrix array of perpendicular rows and columns comprises an initial phosphor deposition step in which phosphor is deposited at alternating locations (pixels) in the matrix array in a checkerboard pattern, so that the locations in the array at which phosphor is deposited are not adjacent to each other. In a subsequent phosphor deposition step phosphor is deposited at the alternating locations at which phosphor was not deposited in the first deposition step. In between the two phosphor deposition steps, reflective or scattering structures may be fabricated on sidewalls of the phosphor pixels to optically isolate pcLEDs in the resulting array from each other.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 26, 2018Publication date: July 2, 2020Inventors: Marcel Rene BOHMER, Jacques Heuts, Ken SHIMIZU, Peter SCHMIDT
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Patent number: 10696435Abstract: A cutter cassette for a packaging machine, the cutter cassette includes a blade shaft on which at least one longitudinal cutting blade is arranged. The blade shaft can be transferred in a reversible manner from a transporting position into an operating position by lowering the blade shaft relative to a housing. The lowering of the blade shaft takes place under gravitational force.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2016Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: GEA FOOD SOLUTIONS GERMANY GMBHInventor: Gerd Peter Schmidt
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Patent number: 10650994Abstract: A switching device arrangement has an encapsulation housing and also a drive device. The drive device is supported on the encapsulation housing. The drive device is arranged at a distance from the encapsulation housing via a spacer device. A receiving space is delimited by the spacer device.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2017Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Sascha Bauer, Frank Ehrlich, Andreas Groiss, Rico Rademacher, Ingolf Reiher, Peter Schmidt
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Publication number: 20200141491Abstract: An oil scraper piston ring which includes a running face region formed by at least two running face lands, an inner circumferential surface, and upper and lower flank surfaces extending between the running face region and the inner circumferential surface, also includes a joint and oil passage openings extending radially between the running face lands from the outside to the inside, optionally operatively connected to a spring element, wherein the joint is formed by at least two spaced slotted regions having a predefinable shape and dimensions, which are not directly connected to one another, so that each slotted region formed by a slot extends, proceeding from the associated flank surface, at least into one oil passage opening provided between at least two running face lands.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 17, 2018Publication date: May 7, 2020Inventors: Peter SCHMIDT, Sabine BALKE
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Patent number: 10584793Abstract: A piston ring for an internal combustion engine is provided, having at least one indentation provided on a ring edge of the piston ring, wherein the at least one indentation in the circumferential direction of the piston ring has a varying depth profile.Type: GrantFiled: July 7, 2016Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: Federal-Mogul Burscheid GmbHInventor: Peter Schmidt
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Patent number: 10576689Abstract: Techniques for generating a support structure for an object are provided. In some embodiments, one or more regions of the object are identified as one or more regions to which mechanical support is to be provided and one or more support points within at least a first region of the one or more regions are identified. A support structure may be generated for the object that comprises one or more support tips coupled to the object at the one or more support points, where the support tips being generated based at least in part on a direction normal to the surface of the object at the respective support point. Techniques for providing visual feedback to a user relating to an amount of support that a support structure is expected to provide during fabrication are also provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2018Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: Formlabs, Inc.Inventors: Shane Wighton, Maxim Lobovsky, Peter Schmidt-Nielsen
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Patent number: 10550904Abstract: A disc brake for a commercial vehicle has a brake caliper, which straddles a brake disc and is designed as a sliding caliper and is fastened to a stationary brake carrier, two brake pads, which are arranged in the brake caliper and can be moved in opposite directions and which each have a backing plate and a friction lining fastened to the backing plate, of which brake pads an action-side brake pad can be pressed against the brake disc by an application device via a brake piston, and at least one restoring device, by which the brake caliper can be restored after a braking-related displacement and release of the brake. The disc brake is designed such that the restoring device has at least two rods, which lie against the brake pads with spring loading against the respective application directions of the brake pads, of which rods one is designed as a pulling rod and the other is designed as a pushing rod.Type: GrantFiled: December 14, 2017Date of Patent: February 4, 2020Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventors: Jens Fricke, Tobias Schoefberger, Philipp Adamczyk, Michael Peschel, Peter Schmidt, Kai Rieck
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Publication number: 20200028035Abstract: The invention describes a semiconductor die comprising at least a first light-emitting diode and a second light-emitting diode, wherein the first light-emitting diode comprises a first diode formed in a first die area and a first phosphor layer deposited over the first die area; the second light-emitting diode comprises a second diode and a second phosphor layer deposited over the second die area; the first diode and the second diode are electrically connected in anti-parallel; and wherein the optical properties of the second phosphor layer differ from the optical properties of the first phosphor layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 19, 2019Publication date: January 23, 2020Applicant: Lumileds Holding B.V.Inventors: Arjen VAN DER SIJDE, Nicola PFEFFER, Pieter Johannes Quintus VAN VOORST VADER, Peter SCHMIDT
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Patent number: 10541508Abstract: A diode laser comprising a plurality of laser bars. The laser bars are constructed as a laser stack with heat conducting bodies arranged between the bars. The laser bars are arranged in an interior of a housing. The housing is formed from a frame fitted on the multilayer substrate and a window. The empty volume is less than half of the total volume of the interior.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2018Date of Patent: January 21, 2020Assignee: JENOPTIK Optical Systems GmbHInventors: Sebastian Seidel, Peter Schmidt, Petra Hennig, Alexander Leser
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Publication number: 20200009547Abstract: The invention relates to a handheld fluid transfer apparatus, more particularly a pipette or repeater pipette, and a laboratory system comprising the handheld fluid transfer apparatus, which comprises: a control apparatus, which comprises a data processor capable to execute a control program for controlling at least one electronically controllable function of the handheld fluid transfer apparatus using input data, a user interface device for receiving a user input, the user interface device comprising a motion sensor device for measuring motion data of the handheld fluid transfer apparatus and for providing at least one motion data sequence, which contains subsequently measured motion data, a motion data memory for storing the at least one motion data sequence, an evaluation device being configured to determine the input data in dependence on the evaluation of the at least one motion data sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2018Publication date: January 9, 2020Inventors: Jens GERKEN, Christian EGGERT, Tobias DAVID, Wolfgang GOEMANN-THOSS, Peter SCHMIDT, Uwe DUNKER, Philip MULLER
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Patent number: 10503909Abstract: In remediating a computer vulnerability, operations to be performed to correct the vulnerability are identified. Remediation processors are scheduled to perform the operations. Whether the vulnerability has been corrected is determined by: determining whether the operations have been performed successfully; and determining whether the operations have been performed by authorized remediation processors.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2014Date of Patent: December 10, 2019Assignee: HEWLETT PACKARD ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT LPInventors: Peter Schmidt, Jeff Kalibjian
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Patent number: 10451453Abstract: A method and a system for calibrating a measuring arrangement on the basis of a 16-term error model determines a matrix (A) with measured scattering parameters (Sm) from different calibration standards (3) and with associated actual scattering parameters (Sa) of the calibration standards (3) and determines linear-in-T system errors (Ti) for the calibration of a network analyzer (1) by solving a linear equation system with the determined matrix (A). To solve the linear equation system, a first and a second linear-in-T system error (k, p) are freely selected in each case. With use of reciprocal calibration standards, the determined linear-in-T system errors are weighted with the freely selected first linear-in-T system error (Ti) or with a correct second linear-in-T system error pkor(k)) dependent upon the first linear-in-T system error (k).Type: GrantFiled: February 20, 2013Date of Patent: October 22, 2019Assignee: ROHDE & SCHWARZ GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Lorenz-Peter Schmidt, Marcus Schramm, Michael Hrobak, Jan Schür