Patents by Inventor Robert Gruber
Robert Gruber 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: 8322799Abstract: A brake system, in particular a dual circuit brake system, for a motor vehicle, includes brakes which can be activated by a brake pedal operatively connected to a brake servo. Each brake engages one wheel. The brake system is designed such that a brake servo is assigned to each brake of at least one brake circuit, and the brake servos can be activated by the brake pedal.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2009Date of Patent: December 4, 2012Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventors: Robert Trimpe, Johann Baumgartner, Robert Gruber, Aleksandar Pericevic, Stephan Pitzing, Steffen Geissler
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Publication number: 20120290558Abstract: Embodiments of the invention provide a system and method for searching and reporting on semistructured data that can include dynamic metadata. One embodiment can comprise providing a user interface to a user based on an object type definition for an object type that allows the user to specify search criteria associated with a set of metadata, mapping the user search criteria to a query that comprises at least one structured query constraint and at least one unstructured query constraint, processing the query to search a set of data objects containing semistructured data associated with the object type according to the query and returning a set of results to the user. The search results can be returned to a user based on user-specified reporting parameters. Additionally, the reporting definition can be saved as an object for future execution.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2012Publication date: November 15, 2012Inventor: Thomas Robert Gruber
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Publication number: 20120265528Abstract: A virtual assistant uses context information to supplement natural language or gestural input from a user. Context helps to clarify the user's intent and to reduce the number of candidate interpretations of the user's input, and reduces the need for the user to provide excessive clarification input. Context can include any available information that is usable by the assistant to supplement explicit user input to constrain an information-processing problem and/or to personalize results. Context can be used to constrain solutions during various phases of processing, including, for example, speech recognition, natural language processing, task flow processing, and dialog generation.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2011Publication date: October 18, 2012Applicant: APPLE INC.Inventors: Thomas Robert Gruber, Christopher Dean Brigham, Daniel S. Keen, Gregory Novick, Benjamin S. Phipps
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Patent number: 8286759Abstract: A pneumatically actuatable disc brake has a caliper straddling a brake disc. One brake pad on an application side being actuatable by a rotary lever of a brake application device. A brake cylinder, which can be pressurized using air pressure, is attached to a flange of calliper. The brake cylinder engages into the rotary lever via a cylinder plunger and has a return spring for returning the cylinder plunger to an unstressed initial position. The return spring abuts against the base of a cover supported on the flange. The disc brake is configured such that a self-energizing device is provided having a self-energizing factor selected such that the brake automatically releases itself after braking. The flange forms an abutment for the return spring.Type: GrantFiled: December 30, 2010Date of Patent: October 16, 2012Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventors: Johann Baumgartner, Robert Gruber, Aleksandar Pericevic, Steffen Geissler, Robert Trimpe
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Publication number: 20120245944Abstract: The intelligent automated assistant system engages with the user in an integrated, conversational manner using natural language dialog, and invokes external services when appropriate to obtain information or perform various actions. The system can be implemented using any of a number of different platforms, such as the web, email, smartphone, and the like, or any combination thereof. In one embodiment, the system is based on sets of interrelated domains and tasks, and employs additional functionally powered by external services with which the system can interact.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 9, 2012Publication date: September 27, 2012Applicant: Apple Inc.Inventors: Thomas Robert Gruber, Adam John Cheyer, Dag Kittlaus, Didier Rene Guzzoni, Christopher Dean Brigham, Richard Donald Giuli, Marcello Bastea-Forte, Harry Joseph Saddler
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Patent number: 8260764Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a system and method for searching and reporting on semistructured data that can include dynamic metadata. One embodiment can comprise providing a user interface to a user based on an object type definition for an object type that allows the user to specify search criteria associated with a set of metadata, mapping the user search criteria to a query that comprises at least one structured query constraint and at least one unstructured query constraint, processing the query to search a set of data objects containing semistructured data associated with the object type according to the query and returning a set of results to the user. The search results can be returned to a user based on user-specified reporting parameters. Additionally, the reporting definition can be saved as an object for future execution.Type: GrantFiled: March 4, 2005Date of Patent: September 4, 2012Assignee: Open Text S.A.Inventor: Thomas Robert Gruber
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Patent number: 8250968Abstract: A wort copper and a method of boiling wort, with the wort copper having an external boiler arranged outside of the wort copper, which cyclically heats wort from the wort copper, wherein the heated wort is re-supplied to the wort copper, and comprises an infeed tube and a rising pipe, through which wort heated by the external boiler rises upwards in the wort copper, as well as at least one intake opening is provided in the rising line for sucking in wort from a wort reservoir of the wort copper, wherein the cross-sectional surface of the rising pipe enlarges at least section-wise towards the upper end of the rising pipe.Type: GrantFiled: March 6, 2007Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: Krones AGInventors: Dietmar Lohner, Christian Wetzl, Robert Gruber
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Publication number: 20120198926Abstract: A measuring arrangement measures the application force of a disc brake. The arrangement includes two disc brake components displaceable relative to each other upon application of the force; an application force sensor having a housing; a measuring object formed by one of the two components and having a metal end face for interacting with the application force sensor in a contact-free manner, and an evaluation unit. The application force sensor is an eddy current sensor for capturing a displacement along the path. The evaluation unit converts the captured displacement into a measurement variable as a measure for the application force. The application force sensor and the measurement object are removably mounted on the respective component.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 15, 2012Publication date: August 9, 2012Applicant: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventors: Johann BAUMGARTNER, Steffen Geissler, Robert Gruber
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Publication number: 20120037463Abstract: A wet-running multi-disc brake includes stator discs, which are arranged in parallel to and at a distance from each other in a rotationally fixed manner, and a rotatable rotor disc positioned in each case between the stator discs. The radially extending stator discs and rotor discs can be pressed against one another during braking by way of a brake application device while overcoming a clearance. The wet-running multi-disc brake is designed such that the brake application device can be mechanically actuated and, via an actuating unit, engages a self-energizing device, which includes a pressure ring that can be pressed towards the rotor discs during braking independently from the rotational direction of the rotor discs.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2011Publication date: February 16, 2012Applicant: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventors: Johann Baumgartner, Aleksandar Pericevic, Robert Gruber, Steffen Geissler
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Publication number: 20120022872Abstract: A user interface for a system such as a virtual assistant is automatically adapted for hands-free use. A hands-free context is detected via automatic or manual means, and the system adapts various stages of a complex interactive system to modify the user experience to reflect the particular limitations of such a context. The system of the present invention thus allows for a single implementation of a complex system such as a virtual assistant to dynamically offer user interface elements and alter user interface behavior to allow hands-free use without compromising the user experience of the same system for hands-on use.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 30, 2011Publication date: January 26, 2012Applicant: APPLE INC.Inventors: Thomas Robert Gruber, Harry J. Saddler
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Publication number: 20120016678Abstract: An intelligent automated assistant system engages with the user in an integrated, conversational manner using natural language dialog, and invokes external services when appropriate to obtain information or perform various actions. The system can be implemented using any of a number of different platforms, such as the web, email, smartphone, and the like, or any combination thereof. In one embodiment, the system is based on sets of interrelated domains and tasks, and employs additional functionally powered by external services with which the system can interact.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 10, 2011Publication date: January 19, 2012Applicant: APPLE INC.Inventors: Thomas Robert Gruber, Adam John Cheyer, Dag Kittlaus, Didier Rene Guzzoni, Christopher Dean Brigham, Richard Donald Giuli, Marcello Bastea-Forte, Harry Joseph Saddler
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Publication number: 20110209952Abstract: A pneumatic disc brake includes a caliper which straddles a brake disc, brake pads pressable against the brake disc and a rotary lever actuated brake application device, and a self-energizing mechanism. The brake lever is pivotable about an eccentric axis by a broke cylinder plunger. A self-energizing factor is selected to ensure that the brake automatically releases after braking events. The brake lever is supported on a spherical bearing element mounted to the caliper and forming the eccentric axis. The brake lever bears against a bearing ball which is arranged above the bearing element in the direction of the plunger engagement point, which bearing ball is positioned in a brake ram coupled to the brake pad.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2011Publication date: September 1, 2011Applicant: KNORR-BREMES System fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventors: Johann Baumgartner, Robert Gruber, Aleksandar Pericevic, Steffen Geissler, Robert Trimpe
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Publication number: 20110209951Abstract: A pneumatic disc brake has a caliper which straddles a brake disc, brake pads pressable against the brake disc, wherein a brake-application-side brake pad can be actuated by a brake lever of a brake application device pivotable about an eccentric axis. Against the end side, the brake lever bears a brake ram which is coupled at the other side to the brake pad or to a guide plate coupled thereto. Two pressure rams are aligned in the same direction and spaced apart from the brake ram. The pressure rams are connected in each case to the caliper and to the brake pad or to the guide plate and have a self-energizing device. The caliper has spherical-cap-shaped bearing receptacles in which rest corresponding plain bearing elements, by which the brake lever, and the pressure rams are supported on the caliper.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2011Publication date: September 1, 2011Applicant: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventors: Johann BAUMGARTNER, Robert Gruber, Aleksandar Pericevic, Steffen Geissler, Robert Trimpe
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Publication number: 20110155519Abstract: A self-energizing disc brake includes a brake caliper held on a fixed brake carrier, an active-side and a reaction-side brake pad, which may be pressed against a brake disc, an actuating device with a self-energizing device and an adjuster device for compensating pad and/or disc wear. The self-energizing device has at least one pressure ram, in contact on the front face with the active-side pad by way of a split bearing and fixed by the end thereof facing the brake pad to a guide plate movably held in the brake carrier, designed such that the split bearing is enclosed by a seal arrangement when the self-energizing device is in a non-functioning state.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2010Publication date: June 30, 2011Applicant: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventors: Johann BAUMGARTNER, Robert GRUBER, Aleksandar PERICEVIC, Steffen GEISSLER, Robert TRIMPE
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Publication number: 20110147139Abstract: A pneumatically actuatable disc brake has a caliper straddling a brake disc. One brake pad on an application side being actuatable by a rotary lever of a brake application device. A brake cylinder, which can be pressurized using air pressure, is attached to a flange of calliper. The brake cylinder engages into the rotary lever via a cylinder plunger and has a return spring for returning the cylinder plunger to an unstressed initial position. The return spring abuts against the base of a cover supported on the flange. The disc brake is configured such that a self-energizing device is provided having a self-energizing factor selected such that the brake automatically releases itself after braking. The flange forms an abutment for the return spring.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 30, 2010Publication date: June 23, 2011Applicant: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventors: Johann BAUMGARTNER, Robert Gruber, Aleksandar Pericevic, Steffen Geissler, Robert Trimpe
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Patent number: 7958974Abstract: A self-boosting electromechanically actuable disc brake, having an application device for applying the brake pad, which application device has a rotary brake lever and a self-boosting device, wherein the rotary brake lever acts on an actuating plunger which acts on the application-side brake lining directly or via a pressure plate, is characterized in that the actuating plunger is pivotably mounted on the rotary brake lever and on the pressure plate or the application-side brake lining with an intersecting rotational axis.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2009Date of Patent: June 14, 2011Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventors: Johann Baumgartner, Robert Gruber, Robert Trimpe
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Patent number: 7950502Abstract: A self-boosting electromechanically actuable disc brake is characterized in that a component (pressure piston 9, 10), which is stationary during braking and which is connected to an adjusting device or is part of the adjusting device, of the self-boosting device is held, with slight play parallel to the brake disc rotational axis, between guide faces (29, 30) of that component (31) of the brake which is fixed with respect to the axle, in such a way that, during braking operations, the tangential forces which occur are supported directly by the stationary component of the self-boosting device on the component (31) of the brake which is fixed with respect to the axle.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2009Date of Patent: May 31, 2011Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme Fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventors: Johann Baumgartner, Robert Gruber, Robert Trimpe
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Publication number: 20110005871Abstract: A pneumatically actuated disc brake, includes a caliper, at least one brake application-side and one reaction-side brake lining, a brake disc, and a brake cylinder to which compressed air can be applied as a braking force generator. The brake cylinder acts on a brake application device for applying the brake lining, the brake application device having a rotary lever. At least the brake application-side brake lining can be moved both in a direction parallel to the brake disc rotation axis and parallel to the brake disc frictional surface, and a self-energizing device is provided which has a self-energizing factor that is selected such that the brake releases automatically after braking.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2010Publication date: January 13, 2011Applicant: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventors: Aleksandar PERICEVIC, Johann BAUMGARTNER, Robert GRUBER, Robert TRIMPE, Walter SAUTER
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Publication number: 20110005870Abstract: A method is provided for actuating a wet multiple disc brake, running with cooling oil, especially for a road vehicle. Stationary and rotating radially oriented discs are pressed against one another during braking while overcoming a clearance. The method is characterized in that once the brake is released, the discs associated with each other are separated from each other to such an extent as to form an oil-free or substantially oil-free clearance, wherein the clearance is minimized prior to braking by advancing the discs towards each another.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2010Publication date: January 13, 2011Applicant: KNORR-BREMSE Systeme Fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventors: Johann BAUMGARTNER, Steffen Geissler, Aleksandar Pericevic, Robert Trimpe, Robert Gruber
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Patent number: 7849977Abstract: An optimized disc brake includes two fixed mountings and one free mounting, and an assembly space optimized brake carrier and corresponding brake lining for a reaction side of the disc brake are provided.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2007Date of Patent: December 14, 2010Assignee: Knorr-Bremse Systeme fuer Nutzfahrzeuge GmbHInventors: Robert Gruber, Wlodzimierz Macke, Dietmar Knoop, Georg Kempinger, Wolfgang Pritz