Patents by Inventor Sven Knefelkamp

Sven Knefelkamp 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: 10284282
    Abstract: A wireless aircraft network includes a plurality of aircrafts having transceiver devices for transceiving wireless communication, a plurality of ground-based network stations having transceiver devices for transceiving wireless communication, and a network operator station configured to store location data regarding the current geographical location of the plurality of aircrafts in a location data table of the network operator station and to determine a most efficient network path for each of the plurality of aircrafts to one of a plurality of ground-based network stations depending on the current geographical location of the plurality of aircrafts and the geographical location of the plurality of ground-based network stations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2019
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Nicholas E. Brownjohn, Stéphane Poulain, Sven Knefelkamp, Igor Ibáñez Martin
  • Patent number: 9369197
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for detecting a communication channel in whose frequency band radio signals are transmitted by different radio signal sources inside a cabin. In this case a wide band antenna receives the radio signals transmitted inside the cabin. Different demodulators are provided, each of which demodulate the radio signals received by the wide band antenna within an associated frequency range of the demodulator. A configuration logic establishes whether, in a frequency band within a demodulated frequency range, radio signals are being transmitted simultaneously by different radio signal sources. In the case of impermissible signal transmissions of a radio signal source, e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2016
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Sven Knefelkamp, Eric Duraz
  • Publication number: 20160050013
    Abstract: A wireless aircraft network includes a plurality of aircrafts having transceiver devices for transceiving wireless communication, a plurality of ground-based network stations having transceiver devices for transceiving wireless communication, and a network operator station configured to store location data regarding the current geographical location of the plurality of aircrafts in a location data table of the network operator station and to determine a most efficient network path for each of the plurality of aircrafts to one of a plurality of ground-based network stations depending on the current geographical location of the plurality of aircrafts and the geographical location of the plurality of ground-based network stations.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2015
    Publication date: February 18, 2016
    Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Nicholas E. Brownjohn, Stéphane Poulain, Sven Knefelkamp, Igor Ibáñez Martin
  • Patent number: 9031565
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a static mesh network in or for a cabin of a vehicle, in particular an aircraft, the cabin having a predetermined, known cabin layout, comprising at least three different network levels which are arranged hierarchically in relation to one another, respectively adjacent network levels in the hierarchy being in wireless communicative connection with one another, and comprising a plurality of network nodes which operate mutually independently and of which the position in the cabin layout is fixedly predetermined by the configuration of a respective network node, the network nodes within a respective network level having an equal logic. The present invention furthermore discloses an aircraft and a method for data communication using such a network in an aircraft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2015
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Sven Knefelkamp, Fabian Binternagel
  • Publication number: 20150077337
    Abstract: An interactive aircraft cabin window display system and a method for interactive visualization of information in an aircraft cabin are described. The display system includes a display assembly DA integratable into an aircraft cabin window, a passenger monitoring assembly PMA, an environment monitoring assembly EMA, and an information visualization assembly IVA. The DA is adapted for displaying variable images on a screen such as a semi-transparent screen integrated in the aircraft cabin window. The PMA may be implemented using for example an eye-tracking camera or a touch-screen and is adapted for detecting a direction into which a passenger is looking or pointing through the aircraft cabin window. The EMA is adapted for acquiring a representation such as an image of an environment outside the aircraft cabin window.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2014
    Publication date: March 19, 2015
    Inventors: Gerald COTO-LOPEZ, Johannes HERTEL, Sven KNEFELKAMP
  • Publication number: 20130109424
    Abstract: The present invention discloses a static mesh network in or for a cabin of a vehicle, in particular an aircraft, the cabin having a predetermined, known cabin layout, comprising at least three different network levels which are arranged hierarchically in relation to one another, respectively adjacent network levels in the hierarchy being in wireless communicative connection with one another, and comprising a plurality of network nodes which operate mutually independently and of which the position in the cabin layout is fixedly predetermined by the configuration of a respective network node, the network nodes within a respective network level having an equal logic. The present invention furthermore discloses an aircraft and a method for data communication using such a network in an aircraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Sven Knefelkamp, Fabian Binternagel
  • Patent number: 8224316
    Abstract: A control device that shields a room from incoming signals includes an interference device which is adapted for querying an interference signal for rendering a signal that enters a room unrecognizable by superposition with the interference signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Jan Mueller, Joerg Pump, Sven Knefelkamp
  • Publication number: 20110159798
    Abstract: A control device that shields a room from incoming signals includes an interference device which is adapted for querying an interference signal for rendering a signal that enters a room unrecognisable by superposition with the interference signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2010
    Publication date: June 30, 2011
    Applicant: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Jan Mueller, Joerg Pump, Sven Knefelkamp
  • Publication number: 20100272012
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method and an apparatus for detecting a communication channel in whose frequency band radio signals are transmitted by different radio signal sources inside a cabin. In this case a wide band antenna receives the radio signals transmitted inside the cabin. Different demodulators are provided, each of which demodulate the radio signals received by the wide band antenna within an associated frequency range of the demodulator. A configuration logic establishes whether, in a frequency hand within a demodulated frequency range, radio signals are being transmitted simultaneously by different radio signal sources. In the case of impermissible signal transmissions of a radio signal source, e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2008
    Publication date: October 28, 2010
    Inventors: Sven Knefelkamp, Eric Duraz
  • Publication number: 20100112933
    Abstract: A control device that shields a room from incoming signals includes a receiving device, an interference device and a transmitting device. By the receiving device transmission signals are received, from which an interference signal is determined in order to interfere with the transmission signal. This interference signal is emitted by way of the transmitting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 2, 2007
    Publication date: May 6, 2010
    Applicant: Airbus Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Jan Mueller, Joerg Pump, Sven Knefelkamp