Abstract: Absolute position data (605) of a machine are determined for respective multiple times (t.1, t.3, t.5, t.8, t.11), and odometry position data of the machine are also determined. A pose graph (661) is generated, wherein edges (672) of the pose graph (661) correspond to the odometry position data, and nodes (671) of the pose graph (661) correspond to the absolute position data (605). The pose graph (661) is optimized to obtain an estimated position. Optionally, the odometry can also be estimated. A driver assistance functionality of the machine, for example a motor vehicle, can be controlled optionally on the basis of the estimated position. For example, the driver assistance functionality can relate to autonomous driving.
Abstract: The invention describes is a method (27) for controlling a coolant-conveying pump (7) in a charge gas cooling circuit (3) in order to cool a charge gas (9) for an internal combustion engine, whereby the method involves: maintaining (29) an inlet temperature (51) of the charge gas (9) in a heat exchanger (13) that is configured to exchange heat between the charge gas (9) and the coolant; ascertaining (31) a target cooling output (21) on the basis of the inlet temperature (51, T21) of the charge gas (9) and on the basis of a target outlet temperature (T22target) of the charge gas (15) coming from the heat exchanger (13); determining (33) a change (23) of the target cooling output (21) over time, and providing (35) an actuation signal (25) for the pump (7) based on the target cooling output (21) and on the change (23) of the target cooling output over time.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 14, 2016
Publication date:
October 25, 2018
Applicant:
VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Inventors:
Hauke HORN, Jan EGERMANN, Dietter MANNIGEL
Abstract: A control method for a power tool for rotary tools provides the following: A tool holder is rotated continuously in a forward direction about a working axis by a rotary drive when an operating switch is actuated. The continuous rotation in the forward direction is interrupted by a protective process when a protective device senses blocking of the tool holder. During the protective process, one or more cycles are executed, in which the rotary drive is actuated successively in accordance with an unimpeded rotary movement in a reverse direction and in accordance with an unimpeded rotary movement in the forward direction. The rotary drive is supplied with a first amount of energy for the rotary movement in the reverse direction and with a second amount of energy for the rotary movement in the forward direction. The first amount of energy is smaller than the second amount of energy.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 15, 2016
Publication date:
October 25, 2018
Applicant:
Hilti Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Roland SCHAER, Thomas KINKELDEI, Peter HRICKO, Manuel GUT, Michael WIERER
Abstract: Method for configuring a production plant designed for performing at least one chemical reaction, wherein the production plant has at least one plant module, and a plant module for configuring the production plant, which plant module is chosen from a module database running on a first server system and/or is combined from a component database running on a second server system.
Type:
Application
Filed:
November 20, 2015
Publication date:
October 25, 2018
Applicant:
BAYER AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Inventors:
CHRISTOPH FLEISCHER-TREBES, BOJAN NIKO BROETZ
Abstract: A fire-resistant two-component mortar system, which includes a component A and a component B, which is in an aqueous-phase for initiating a curing process. Component A includes water, aluminous cement, a mineral filler, a plasticizer, and a blocking agent selected from phosphoric acid, metaphosphoric acid, phosphorous acid, and a phosphonic acid.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 19, 2016
Publication date:
October 25, 2018
Applicant:
HILTI AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Inventors:
ARMIN PFEIL, Anna SHARMAK, Gregor GIESSMANN
Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for determining arrangement information for a vehicle (10). The arrangement information comprises a position of the vehicle (10) and an orientation of the vehicle (10) with respect to a stationary coordinate system. In the method, a local driving lane arrangement in the surroundings of the vehicle (10) is detected with sensors (14) of the vehicle (10). A first driving lane arrangement is determined with respect to the stationary coordinate system in dependence on the local driving lane arrangement and a previously determined arrangement information item for the vehicle. A second driving lane arrangement is determined with respect to the stationary coordinate system in dependence on predefined map material.
Abstract: An alignment assembly of a first connector part for aligning a first fiber ferrule of the first connector part with a second fiber ferrule of a second connector part during mating of the first connector part with the second connector part. The alignment assembly includes a ferrule carrier to which the first fiber ferrule is mounted. The ferrule carrier is mounted to the first connector part by a support structure. The support structure is configured to allow a movement of the ferrule carrier relative to the first connector part in at least a lateral direction that is substantially perpendicular to an engagement direction of the first fiber ferrule with the second fiber ferrule. A first guiding structure is mounted to or forms part of the ferrule carrier. The first guiding structure is configured to mechanically interact with a complementary second guiding structure that is provided in the second connector part.
Abstract: A temperature-control arrangement has an electrical energy store, a thermal device, a cooling device and a coolant circuit with coolant lines, which coolant lines are at least partially activatable and deactivatable by means of controllable valves. The temperature-control arrangement is designed to permit at least a first state and a second state of the coolant circuit through actuation of the controllable valves, wherein the coolant circuit is designed to, in the first state, permit a coolant flow from the cooling device both to the thermal device and to the electrical energy store, and from these back to the cooling device, in order to cool the thermal device and the electrical energy store, and wherein the coolant circuit is designed to, in the second state, permit a coolant flow from the thermal device to the electrical energy store, and from the latter back to the thermal device, in order to heat the electrical energy store.
Type:
Application
Filed:
April 12, 2018
Publication date:
October 25, 2018
Applicant:
Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft
Abstract: The invention provides a method of transferring patient specific data (PSD) between a first location and a second location, and a corresponding system for doing the same. The first location may be on board an emergency medical services (EMS) vehicle and the second location may be a treatment site for the patient, such as a hospital. The method comprises collecting the patient specific data (PSD) from a patient in the first location with an electronic monitoring system (16) associated with a gas cylinder system (14) at the first location. The electronic monitoring system is further operable to monitor cylinder specific data (CSD) associated with the cylinder system. The patient specific data (PSD) is then transmitted from the electronic monitoring system (16), optionally along with the cylinder specific data (CSD), via an electronic communication channel (12) to a computer system (20) at the second location.
Type:
Application
Filed:
June 14, 2016
Publication date:
October 25, 2018
Applicant:
Linde Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Wolfgang SCHMEHL, Wolfgang DELFS, Helmut FRANZ
Abstract: The invention relates to a shifting device for the selection of rotationally fixed non-rotational couplings of a plurality of coaxial shafts of a motor-vehicle transmission, comprising a displacement sleeve, which can be axially displaced in relation to a housing and which has internal teeth having two axial toothed sections spaced apart from each other by an axial gap, and which coaxially surrounds a plurality of toothed elements that are arranged axially adjacent to each other and that are each non-rotationally connected to one of the shafts and that each have external teeth corresponding to the internal teeth of the displacement sleeve, wherein the displacement sleeve has a first sleeve part and a second sleeve part that are connected to each other in a manner that is axially fixed and rotationally decoupled, wherein the first sleeve part is a carrier of the first axial toothed section and the second sleeve part is a carrier of the second axial toothed section.
Type:
Application
Filed:
October 18, 2016
Publication date:
October 25, 2018
Applicant:
VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Inventors:
Rainer PETERSEN, Jörg MÖCKEL, Andreas LUTZ, Hendrik SCHRÖDER, Christian MEISSNER
Abstract: In a connection panel for electronic components comprising a plurality of insulating layers and conductive layers and further comprising an electronic sensor, the sensor is comprised of at least one flexure member formed by a flexure layer, the flexure member protruding from the flexure layer and into a clearance within the flexure layer and carrying at least a part of a flexure sensing device.
Type:
Application
Filed:
September 19, 2016
Publication date:
October 25, 2018
Applicant:
AT&S AUSTRIA TECHNOLOGIE & SYSTEMTECHNIK AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Inventors:
Alexander Kasper, Sandra Grabmaier, Markus Leitgeb
Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling a technical apparatus in which a time profile (E(t)) for a power requirement (E) for the technical apparatus is ascertained over at least one period and an operating state of the technical apparatus is matched to the ascertained power requirement (E) on the basis of time.
Abstract: A production installation having at least two process modules (P1, . . . , Pn) that can be connected to one another for production engineering purposes and a communication network (2), wherein each process module (P1, . . . , Pn) has an electronic device by means of which the respective process module (P1, . . . , Pn) can be connected to the communication network (2) for communications engineering purposes and is set up to control and/or regulate the respective process module (P1, . . . , Pn) to independently carry out a particular process section of the production.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 6, 2013
Date of Patent:
October 23, 2018
Assignee:
BAYER AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Inventors:
Stefan Ochs, Stefan Schmitz, Gerd Jagusch, Carsten Meyer, Malik Busse
Abstract: In a method for monitoring a state of a safety bearing of a rotor shaft of a machine, with the rotor shaft being supported by a magnetic bearing and the safety bearing having an outer ring and an inner ring arranged for rotation with respect to the outer ring, the rotor shaft of the machine is caught with the safety bearing when the magnetic bearing of the machine fails. The magnetic bearing is witched off for monitoring the state of the safety bearing. The rotor shaft is rotated with the machine under control of a higher-ranking controller by using a defined motion sequence, and a physical variable of the safety bearing is measured with a sensor.
Abstract: A mounting device for mounting electronic components, wherein the mounting device comprises a stack, in particular a layer stack configured as alternating sequence of at least one support structure for providing mechanical support and a plurality of thermally conductive and electrically insulating structures.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 4, 2015
Date of Patent:
October 23, 2018
Assignee:
AT&S Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik Aktiengesellschaft
Abstract: The embodiments relate to a method for the computer-aided control and/or regulation of a technical system, particularly a power generation installation. The actions to be performed in the course of regulation or control are ascertained using a numerical optimization method (e.g., a particle swarm optimization). In this case, the numerical optimization method uses a predetermined simulation model that is used to predict states of the technical system and, on the basis thereof, to ascertain a measure of quality that reflects an optimization criterion for the operation of the technical system.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
August 5, 2014
Date of Patent:
October 23, 2018
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Siegmund Düll, Daniel Hein, Alexander Hentschel, Thomas Runkler, Steffen Udluft
Abstract: A vehicle control facility for the automated control of an electrical road vehicle for a route system with an energy-supply system that includes a lane-bound energy supply line, in particular an overhead line system. A position-determining unit determines a geographical position of the electrical road vehicle. A specific-lane-determining unit determines position data for a specific lane assigned to the lane-bound energy supply line. A communication interface transmits current relative positions of infrastructure features with respect to the electrical road vehicle to an external central specific-lane-determining facility and receives position data. A vehicle-control unit controls the electrical road vehicle with respect to the determined specific lane in dependence on the determined relative position of the specific lane.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
June 27, 2017
Date of Patent:
October 23, 2018
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Henrik Engdahl, Juergen Francke, Frank Gerstenberg, Oliver Graebner, Michael Lehmann, Goeran Saenger, Florian Buehs
Abstract: A sensor board for a detector module is disclosed. It includes, in a stack construction, at least one reader unit and a sensor layer arranged spaced from the reader unit in the direction of the stack. A gap formed by the spacing between the sensor layer and the reader unit is filled with a cured filling material such that at least one edge region of the sensor layer is free of the filling material. Furthermore, a method is disclosed for manufacturing a corresponding sensor board, and a detector module is disclosed for an X-ray detector having a number of sensor boards which are arranged to be mutually adjacent on a module carrier.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 24, 2015
Date of Patent:
October 23, 2018
Assignee:
SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
Inventors:
Ludwig Danzer, Harald Geyer, Miguel Labayen De Inza, Jan Wrege
Abstract: A method of reducing power consumption by components of an automated plant during a production stoppage. Control apparatus transmits stoppage time data to the plant components via a data network to initiate the stoppage. Each automated plant component automatically changes to a respective given target state at a respective given stoppage time if the stoppage time data received by that plant component includes that stoppage time for that target state and if at least one other plant component is in a respective operating state expected for this target state. The invention sets a coordinated combination of consumption-minimized plant-component states. The control apparatus transmits respective component-specific stoppage times to the plant components in the stoppage time data, said stoppage time being different from at least one stoppage time transmitted to another plant component. As a result, the component states can be matched to one another.
Type:
Grant
Filed:
November 5, 2015
Date of Patent:
October 23, 2018
Assignee:
Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
Inventors:
Matthias Himmler, Jörn Peschke, Patrick Volkmann