Patents by Inventor Stefan Martin

Stefan Martin 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).

  • Patent number: 11993156
    Abstract: A temperature-control device of an energy store, e.g., in a motor vehicle, is disclosed. The temperature-control device includes a first circuit, in which a first heat transfer unit and the energy store to be temperature-controlled are arranged and connected to one another in a heat-transferring manner via a first heat transfer medium, and a second circuit, in which a second heat transfer unit and the first heat transfer unit are arranged and connected to one another in a heat-transferring manner via a second heat transfer medium. In at least one line of the first circuit and/or at least one line of the second circuit a predetermined breaking point and/or a predetermined bending point is arranged which upon a predefined force effect interrupts a flow of fluid therethrough.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBH
    Inventors: Stefan Jauss, Thomas Kalmbach, Hans-Martin Ruppert, Dietmar Wilhelm
  • Patent number: 11977664
    Abstract: A System-on-Chip (SoC) includes first and second voltage supply pins configured to receive first and second supply voltages, respectively, a first supply path beginning at the first supply pin, and a supply proportion checker. The first supply path includes a first plurality of voltage supply nodes and a supply switch coupled between adjacent voltage supply nodes, wherein each node is configured to provide a corresponding internal voltage supply to a corresponding portion of the SoC. The supply proportion checker is coupled to receive the corresponding internal voltage supply from each voltage supply node, and configured to determine whether a first internal voltage supply supplied by a first supply node of the first plurality of nodes has a legitimate proportion to a second internal voltage supply supplied by a second supply node of the first plurality of nodes, wherein the legitimacy is checked using only resistors which do not require trimming.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: NXP USA, Inc.
    Inventors: Markus Regner, Hubert Martin Bode, Stefan Doll
  • Patent number: 11975791
    Abstract: An adjustable seat post arrangement, including a seat post, a pneumatic cylinder, a pressure vessel, a control valve and a valve actuating means, wherein the seat post is operatively connected to a cylinder barrel of the pneumatic cylinder, wherein the pneumatic cylinder includes a first chamber, which is situated on one side of a piston, and includes an open second chamber, which is situated on an opposite side of the piston, wherein the control valve is actuatable by the valve actuating means, wherein compressed air can be fed from the pressure vessel via lines and the control valve to the first chamber, wherein a first line leads from the control valve to the first chamber, and wherein a pressure spring which acts on the piston is provided in the open second chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: BMC SWITZERLAND AG
    Inventors: Stefan Christ, Jean-Martin Poncet, Peter Stämpfli
  • Publication number: 20240118771
    Abstract: A proximity sensor including a structure suspending at least one lens above a circuit board, light emitters operable to project light beams through the lens along a common projection plane, light detectors operable to detect amounts of light arriving through the lens at the detector, wherein an object in the projection plane reflects light from an emitter to one or more of the detectors, and wherein each emitter-detector pair, including one of the emitters and one of the detectors, when synchronously activated, is expected to generate a greater detection signal at the activated detector than the other detectors, were they to be synchronously activated with any of the emitters, when the object is located at a specific 2D location in the projection plane corresponding to the emitter-detector pair, and a processor identifying gestures performed by the object based on amounts of light detected by the detector of each emitter-detector pair.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2023
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Stefan Johannes Holmgren, Jan Tomas Hartman, Tom Richard Berglind, Lars Bertil Sparf, Jonas Daniel Justus Hjelm, Jon Elis Gõsta Karlsson, Per Carl Sture Rosengren, Gunnar Martin Frõjdh, Joseph Shain, Xiatao Wang, Clarence Ray King, III, Oscar Ritzén Praglowski de Radwan
  • Publication number: 20240120420
    Abstract: Structures including a ferroelectric field-effect transistor and methods of forming a structure including a ferroelectric field-effect transistor. The structure comprises a semiconductor substrate, a semiconductor layer, a dielectric layer arranged between the semiconductor layer and the semiconductor substrate, and first and second wells in the semiconductor substrate. The first well has a first conductivity type, and the second well has a second conductivity type opposite to the first conductivity type. A ferroelectric field-effect transistor comprises a gate structure on the semiconductor layer over the first well and the second well. The gate structure includes a ferroelectric layer comprising a ferroelectric material.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 5, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Stefan Dünkel, Dominik Martin Kleimaier, Zhixing Zhao, Halid Mulaosmanovic
  • Publication number: 20240100140
    Abstract: The disclosure provides synthetic (e.g. recombinant) pneumococcal saccharide comprising one or more repeat unit(s) ?4)-?-D-Glcp-(1?3)-[[?-L-Rhap-(1?2)]-[Gro-(2?P?3)]-?-D-Galp-(1?4)]-?-L-Rhap-(1?. Also provided are conjugates comprising a ?4)-?-D-Glcp-(1?3)-[[?-L-Rhap-(1?2)]-[Gro-(2?P?3)]-?-D-Galp-(1?4)]-?-L-Rhap-(1?, immunogenic compositions, vaccines and their use in preventing or treating infection by Streptococcus pneumoniae.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: GLAXOSMITHKLINE BIOLOGICALS SA
    Inventors: Amirreza FARIDMOAYER, Rainer FOLLADOR, Stefan Jochen KEMMLER, Michael Thomas KOWARIK, Gerd Martin LIPOWSKY, Gerald Johann POSCH, Fabio SERVENTI
  • Patent number: 11931970
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for producing a film-covered component, having at least one assembly nest with at least one component section, on which a component to be covered can be arranged includes operating a film severing device. The film severing device is arranged on the assembly nest and has a severing element. The film severing device surrounds the component section at least partially laterally at a distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Torsten Voigt, Aydemir Kaplangiray, Stefan Martin Buerger
  • Publication number: 20240067510
    Abstract: Transporting loads is a fundamental component of intralogistics. Autonomous industrial trucks can be used for this. The autonomous industrial truck claimed according to the invention is able, by means of the implemented navigation, load receiving and load placing methods, to ensure efficient transporting of loads. The invention relates to an autonomous industrial truck having a rearwardly-directed sensor unit for detecting the load and the loading environment and implemented process sequences for approaching the load, receiving the load and placing the load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Stefan Ulbrich, Andreas Bley, Erik Wolf, Benjamin Fischer, Christian Martin, Johannes Trabert, Ahmed I Syleiman, Christian Sternitzke
  • Publication number: 20240068544
    Abstract: A motor vehicle transmission (1) has a drive input shaft (15), a drive output shaft (16) and a first planetary gearset (P1), and a second planetary gearset (P2), where the drive input shaft (15) is provided for coupling to a drive machine. In addition, a first shifting element (A) and a second shifting element (B) are provided, at least functionally. Also disclosed are a drive unit (5), a motor vehicle drivetrain, a hybrid or electric vehicle, and a method for operating a motor vehicle transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Johannes Kaltenbach, Thomas Martin, Kai Bornträger, Johannes Glückler, Stefan Renner
  • Publication number: 20240066971
    Abstract: A motor vehicle transmission (1) has a drive input shaft (15), a drive output shaft (16), a first planetary gearset (P1), and a second planetary gearset (P2). The drive input shaft (15) is provided for coupling to a drive machine. In addition, a first shifting element (A) and a second shifting element (B) are provided, at least functionally. Also disclosed is a drive unit (5), a motor vehicle drivetrain, a hybrid or electric vehicle, and a method for operating a motor vehicle transmission.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Johannes Kaltenbach, Thomas Martin, Mladjan Radic, Kai Bornträger, Johannes Glückler, Stefan Renner
  • Publication number: 20230173993
    Abstract: A module for a vehicle having an interior element and a display element having a screen area and connected to the interior element via an adjusting mechanism for adjusting the display element between an erect position, in which the screen area is arranged on a display side with respect to a horizontal displacement axis, and a lowered position, displaced, relative to the erect position, downwards with respect to the vertical axis of the vehicle and towards the display side with respect to the displacement axis and the screen area is pivoted downwards away from the vertical axis. The adjusting mechanism has a lower arm and an upper arm, each connected to the display element via a display pivot axis and to the interior element at least indirectly via at least one interior pivot axis, wherein in the erect position, the lower arm is lower than the upper arm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2022
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Torsten Voigt, Martin Dawid, Stefan Martin Buerger
  • Publication number: 20220316074
    Abstract: A method for electrochemical hydrogen compression. The method includes: providing hydrogen gas having a relative humidity RH of 100%; providing inert gas having a relative humidity RH of 100%; mixing the humidified hydrogen gas and the humidified inert gas; electrochemically oxidizing the hydrogen gas at an anode; transporting the protons obtained as a result of the oxidation and at least a portion of the humidified inert gas through a membrane; and electrochemically reducing the protons at a cathode into hydrogen.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2020
    Publication date: October 6, 2022
    Inventors: Andreas Gehrold, Dietmar Steiner, Stefan Martin
  • Patent number: 11449646
    Abstract: A method is provided for the creation of an addendum for use in the design and production of sheet metal formed components, which method uses a sectionless approach. In a preferred approach, elevation curve (EC) lines are established relating to the component (ECc) and binder (ECb), and it is these lines which are used to design the addendum. Additional EC lines (EC1, EC2, EC3, etc.) can be added to modify or optimize the addendum design. The spaces between the EC lines are filled using various parameterized filling techniques so as to provide the addendum design. Optimization of the addendum can be achieved by modification of the various EC lines, so as to modify or control the various design parameters, in accordance with various quality or design criteria. A more rapid, and less complicated approach to addendum design is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 1, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Assignee: HEXAGON MANUFACTURING INTELLIGENCE CANADA LIMITED
    Inventors: Victor Apanovitch, Stefan Martin Walter Huhn, Yongguo Wu, Derek Edward George Peeling, Dong Zhao
  • Patent number: 11354182
    Abstract: According to some embodiments, a system comprises a computer system comprising a processing unit, an interrupt controller, an internal watchdog, and a computer system reset interface. The system further comprises a watchdog controller comprising a secondary watchdog timer. Expiry of the computer system internal watchdog triggers the interrupt controller to cause the processing unit to collect debug information and triggers the watchdog controller to start a secondary watchdog timer. Expiry of the secondary watchdog timer triggers the watchdog controller to reset the computer system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: CISCO TECHNOLOGY, INC.
    Inventors: Gaurav Gupta, Sachin Naik, Stefan Martin Schaeckeler, Surajit Ghoshal, Titian Lau
  • Publication number: 20220157136
    Abstract: Systems and methods for surveillance of a facility including facility elements. The system includes a central computing unit providing a digital model of the facility providing topological or logical or functional relationships of the facility elements, surveillance sensors adapted for surveillance of a plurality of the facility elements and for generation of surveillance data, communication means for transmitting data from the surveillance sensors to the central computing unit, and state derivation means configured to analyse the surveillance data and derive a state of a respective facility element. The central computing unit is configured to record a state pattern by combining states of at least one facility element based on at least one relationship of the facility element provided by the facility model, provide a state pattern critical-noncritical classification model which considers relationships provided by the facility model, and perform a criticality-classification based on the relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER GMBH
    Inventors: Bernhard METZLER, Barbara HAUPT, Markus KÄCHELE, Bernd REIMANN, Stefan Martin Benjamin GÄCHTER TOYA, Alexandre HEILI
  • Publication number: 20220157137
    Abstract: Systems and methods for surveillance of a facility including facility elements. The system includes a central computing unit providing a digital model of the facility providing topological or logical or functional relationships of the facility elements, surveillance sensors adapted for surveillance of a plurality of the facility elements and for generation of surveillance data, communication means for transmitting data from the surveillance sensors to the central computing unit, and state derivation means configured to analyse the surveillance data and derive a state of a respective facility element. The central computing unit is configured to record a state pattern by combining states of at least one facility element based on at least one relationship of the facility element provided by the facility model, provide a state pattern critical-noncritical classification model which considers relationships provided by the facility model, and perform a criticality-classification based on the relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER GMBH
    Inventors: Bernhard METZLER, Barbara HAUPT, Markus KÄCHELE, Bernd REIMANN, Stefan Martin Benjamin GÄCHTER TOYA, Alexandre HEILI
  • Publication number: 20220157138
    Abstract: Systems and methods for surveillance of a facility including facility elements. The system includes a central computing unit providing a digital model of the facility providing topological or logical or functional relationships of the facility elements, surveillance sensors adapted for surveillance of a plurality of the facility elements and for generation of surveillance data, communication means for transmitting data from the surveillance sensors to the central computing unit, and state derivation means configured to analyse the surveillance data and derive a state of a respective facility element. The central computing unit is configured to record a state pattern by combining states of at least one facility element based on at least one relationship of the facility element provided by the facility model, provide a state pattern critical-noncritical classification model which considers relationships provided by the facility model, and perform a criticality-classification based on the relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2021
    Publication date: May 19, 2022
    Applicant: HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER GMBH
    Inventors: Bernhard METZLER, Barbara HAUPT, Markus KÄCHELE, Bernd REIMANN, Stefan Martin Benjamin GÄCHTER TOYA, Alexandre HEILI
  • Publication number: 20220150799
    Abstract: The disclosed implementations provide systems and methods for tracking a user device. The method includes receiving, from a respective application running on a first electronic device associated with a user, a request initiated by the user to affiliate with a second electronic device. In response to the request by the user to affiliate with the second electronic device, the method includes determining a wireless identifier of the first electronic device. After determining the wireless identifier of the first electronic device, the method includes receiving an indication that a second wireless access point, distinct from the first wireless access point, is in communication with the first electronic device of the user based on the second wireless access point detecting the wireless identifier of the first electronic device. The method further includes determining that the first electronic device of the user is proximal to the second wireless access point.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Jeffrey KINSEY, Ramsey Rolland MEYER, Stefan MARTIN
  • Publication number: 20220105691
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for producing a film-covered component, having at least one assembly nest with at least one component section, on which a component to be covered can be arranged includes operating a film severing device. The film severing device is arranged on the assembly nest and has a severing element. The film severing device surrounds the component section at least partially laterally at a distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 7, 2021
    Publication date: April 7, 2022
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Torsten Voigt, Aydemir Kaplangiray, Stefan Martin Buerger
  • Publication number: 20220005332
    Abstract: Systems and methods for surveillance of a facility including facility elements. The system includes a central computing unit providing a digital model of the facility providing topological or logical or functional relationships of the facility elements, surveillance sensors adapted for surveillance of a plurality of the facility elements and for generation of surveillance data, communication means for transmitting data from the surveillance sensors to the central computing unit, and state derivation means configured to analyse the surveillance data and derive a state of a respective facility element. The central computing unit is configured to record a state pattern by combining states of at least one facility element based on at least one relationship of the facility element provided by the facility model, provide a state pattern critical-noncritical classification model which considers relationships provided by the facility model, and perform a criticality-classification based on the relationship.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2018
    Publication date: January 6, 2022
    Applicant: HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER GMBH
    Inventors: Bernhard METZLER, Barbara HAUPT, Markus KÄCHELE, Bernd REIMANN, Stefan Martin Benjamin GÄCHTER TOYA, Alexandre HEILI