Patents Assigned to Fraunhofer Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten
Forschung
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Publication number: 20240053263Abstract: A method and testing device for the non-destructive testing of at least partial regions of an insulation of a stator winding of an electric machine, in particular a generator of a high-voltage motor, wherein the non-destructive testing is carried out in situ at the installation site of the electric machine using terahertz measurement technology.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2021Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicants: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Maris Bauer, Fabian Friederich, Daniel Hansmann, Joachim Jonuscheit, Stefan Krane, Andrey Mashkin, Friedhelm Pohlmann, Claus Rohr
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Publication number: 20240053237Abstract: The invention relates to a device and a method for separating particles of different sizes in a liquid. The invention additionally relates to applications of the device according to the invention. The device according to the invention and the method according to the invention involve the capability of modifying the diameter of the pores of the at least one filter element of the device in a controlled manner (e.g., the pore diameter can be increased or decreased). The device and method have the advantage that particles of different sizes (e.g., biological cells and/or endosomes) of a liquid can be separated from one another with a high degree of separation efficiency, and the particles are separated in a simple, quick, and inexpensive manner. High yields can be produced, and the separated particles can be provided in a therapeutically applicable liquid (e.g., blood plasma).Type: ApplicationFiled: December 23, 2021Publication date: February 15, 2024Applicant: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.Inventor: Florian SCHMIEDER
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Patent number: 11901285Abstract: Embodiments provide a method for manufacturing a microelectronic arrangement. The method includes a step of providing a chip-film module with a semiconductor chip and a film substrate having arranged thereon the semiconductor chip, wherein the chip-film module includes at least one coupling element spaced apart from the semiconductor chip and electrically coupled to at least one terminal of the semiconductor chip. Furthermore, the method includes a step of embedding the chip-film module into a printed circuit board, wherein, in embedding the chip-film module into the printed circuit board, the at least one coupling element of the chip-film module is coupled vertically [e.g. in the vertical direction [e.g. in relation to the printed circuit board]] [e.g. perpendicular to a surface of the printed circuit board] to at least one coupling counter element of the printed circuit board.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Christof Landesberger, Christoph Kutter, Peter Ramm
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Patent number: 11899104Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a navigation system which, on the one hand, is arranged on sides of the underwater vehicle/AUV and, on the other hand, includes a surface transmitter as a counterpart. The two units communicate with each other such that the surface transmitter emits its signal directed to the position of the underwater vehicle and/or that the surface transmitter follows the underwater vehicle to improve the position determination capability.Type: GrantFiled: February 9, 2023Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.Inventors: Gunnar Brink, Edwin Devassykutty, Christian Langen
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Patent number: 11900955Abstract: An apparatus for generating loudspeaker signals includes an object metadata processor configured to receive metadata, to calculate a second position of the audio object depending on the first position of the audio object and on a size of a screen if the audio object is indicated in the metadata as being screen-related, to feed the first position of the audio object as the position information into the object renderer if the audio object is indicated in the metadata as being not screen-related, and to feed the second position of the audio object as the position information into the object renderer if the audio object is indicated in the metadata as being screen-related. The apparatus further includes an object renderer configured to receive an audio object and to generate the loudspeaker signals depending on the audio object and on position information.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2022Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Simone Fueg, Jan Plogsties, Sascha Dick, Johannes Hilpert, Julien Robilliard, Achim Kuntz, Andreas Hoelzer
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Patent number: 11899252Abstract: An optical device has a light path for guiding a light beam along a circular arc. The light path has at least one light path segment having a number of light path elements arranged tangentially along the light path. Each of the light path elements is at least partially limited in a radial direction by a first interface. The first interfaces of a respective light path segment are each configured to reflect at least light incident from the light path at an angle of incidence greater than a predetermined angle onto the respective first interface to keep a light beam propagating along the light path in a direction of travel predetermined for the respective light path segment on the light path. A first tangential end of the first interfaces is spaced radially further apart from the center of the circular arc than a second tangential end.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.Inventor: Tobias Schneider
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Patent number: 11901063Abstract: The present invention includes a method for representing a plurality of pre-calculated solutions in radiation therapy that are stored in a database and displayed in a manner controllable by a user. Arrays of DVH curves provide the user with essential information on the ‘quality of a plan’. A DVH diagram is displayed as a main diagram, wherein only one of the solutions is visually represented at a time. By selecting a first starting point on a selected DVH curve as the main diagram, a first straight axis extending through the first starting point is placed. A first region, located around the first starting point and on the first straight axis, is highlighted as a first control region for controllable visualization of the plurality of currently non-displayed solutions stored in the database, the DVH curves of which correspond to the selected DVH curve and intersect the first straight axis.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.Inventors: Alexander Scherrer, Karl-Heinz Kuefer, Philipp Suess, Michael Bortz
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Patent number: 11902593Abstract: Interpolation between explicitly signaled CPB (or HRD) parameters at selected bit rates is used to achieve a good compromise between CPB parameter transmission capacity and CPB parametrization effectiveness and may be, particularly, made in an effective manner.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2023Date of Patent: February 13, 2024Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Yago Sánchez De La Fuente, Benjamin Bross, Robert Skupin, Cornelius Hellge, Thomas Schierl, Thomas Wiegand
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AUDIO DECODER, METHOD AND COMPUTER PROGRAM USING A ZERO-INPUT-RESPONSE TO OBTAIN A SMOOTH TRANSITION
Publication number: 20240046941Abstract: An audio decoder for providing a decoded audio information on the basis of an encoded audio information includes a linear-prediction-domain decoder configured to provide a first decoded audio information on the basis of an audio frame encoded in a linear prediction domain, a frequency domain decoder configured to provide a second decoded audio information on the basis of an audio frame encoded in a frequency domain, and a transition processor. The transition processor is configured to obtain a zero-input-response of a linear predictive filtering, wherein an initial state of the linear predictive filtering is defined depending on the first decoded audio information and the second decoded audio information, and modify the second decoded audio information depending on the zero-input-response, to obtain a smooth transition between the first and the modified second decoded audio information.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 19, 2023Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Emmanuel Ravelli, Guillaume Fuchs, Sascha Disch, Markus Multrus, Grzegorz Pietrzyk, Benjamin Schubert -
Publication number: 20240043745Abstract: The present invention relates to the use of specific eugenol derivatives as stabilizers of organic materials against oxidative, thermal and/or actinic degradation. The present invention also relates to stabilized organic material and to specific eugenol derivatives which are suitable as stabilizers.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2021Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.Inventors: Jannik MAYER, Elke METZSCH-ZILLIGEN, Rudolf PFAENDNER
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Publication number: 20240044943Abstract: A method for measurement of a sequence of recurring electronic signals (10) is proposed, wherein the sequence to be measured consists of n recurring electronic signals, wherein a time-to-digital converter (2) and a memory (5) are provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2021Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicants: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V., Friedrich-Schiller-Universität JenaInventors: Falk Eilenberger, Tobias Vogl
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Publication number: 20240042072Abstract: The invention relates to a modular irradiation device having a main module and at least one support cassette, the support cassette being insertable into a receptacle of the main module. The support cassette has at least one pump, and the main module has at least one pump actuator, these being arranged such that the pump is actuatable with the pump actuator when the support cassette is inserted into the receptacle of the main module.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2021Publication date: February 8, 2024Applicant: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.Inventors: Bastian STANDFEST, Martin THOMA
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Patent number: 11894002Abstract: An apparatus for processing an input audio signal relies on a cascade of filterbanks, the cascade having a synthesis filterbank for synthesizing an audio intermediate signal from the input audio signal, the input audio signal being represented by a plurality of first subband signals generated by an analysis filterbank, wherein a number of filterbank channels of the synthesis filterbank is smaller than a number of channels of the analysis filterbank. The apparatus furthermore has a further analysis filterbank for generating a plurality of second subband signals from the audio intermediate signal, wherein the further analysis filterbank has a number of channels being different from the number of channels of the synthesis filterbank, so that a sampling rate of a subband signal of the plurality of second subband signals is different from a sampling rate of a first subband signal of the plurality of first subband signals.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignees: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung, Dolby International ABInventors: Lars Villemoes, Per Ekstrand, Sascha Disch, Frederik Nagel, Stephan Wilde
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Patent number: 11890675Abstract: An arrangement for adjusting a powder flow in relation to the central longitudinal axis of an energy beam for a working head which is formed for powder application welding. There is a device for the two-dimensional or three-dimensional alignment of the powder supply in relation to the central longitudinal axis of the energy beam in a plane oriented at right angles to the central longitudinal axis of the energy beam. From one side, a linear beam is directed to the region in which the particles of the powdery material meet one another. At right angles thereto, there is arranged an optical detector array for locally resolved detection of intensities connected to an electronic evaluation unit designed to determine the shape, size and/or length of an irradiated region in which locally resolved intensities which exceed a predefinable threshold have been detected with the optical detector array.Type: GrantFiled: February 13, 2019Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignees: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V., TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITAET DRESDENInventors: Mirko Riede, Frank Brueckner, Rico Hemschik, Robin Willner
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Patent number: 11895290Abstract: A video coding method and apparatus for codes a video in a data stream using block-based predictive coding by deriving a collection of one or more primitive predictions for a block using a set of primitive prediction modes adapted for predicting blocks of a picture of the video. Each primitive prediction in the collection of primitive predictions is derived using a respective primitive prediction mode from the set of primitive prediction modes. A composite prediction signal for the block is composed by combining primitive predictions from the collection of one or more primitive predictions, and the block is predicted using the composite prediction signal.Type: GrantFiled: March 21, 2022Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Foerderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Thomas Wiegand, Detlev Marpe, Heiko Schwarz, Martin Winken, Christian Bartnik, Jonathan Pfaff, Philipp Helle, Mischa Siekmann
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Patent number: 11891572Abstract: A method for producing a pyrolysis oil is described. In said method, a feedstock to be treated is first pyrolyzed in a pyrolysis zone, in which the feedstock is heated to a temperature of 250 degrees Celsius to 700 degrees Celsius; and pyrolyzed solids and pyrolysis vapors are formed. The pyrolysis vapors are then reformed at a temperature of 450 degrees Celsius to 1,200 degrees Celsius in a post-conditioning zone, in which the pyrolysis vapors are brought into contact with a catalyst bed, wherein the pyrolysis oil is formed. In this case, the catalyst comprises a pyrolyzed solid, which can be obtained according to the pyrolysis, described above. Finally the pyrolysis oil is separated from the additional pyrolysis products, which are formed, in a separation unit.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2021Date of Patent: February 6, 2024Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.Inventors: Andreas Hornung, Andreas Apfelbacher, Miloud Ouadi, Johannes Neumann
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Publication number: 20240039232Abstract: A fibre laser assembly includes a pump laser assembly for optical pumping of an active fibre with first pump radiation of a first pump wavelength and means for the generation of second pump radiation at a second pump wavelength, which lies between the first pump wavelength and the wavelength of the seed laser. Doping concentration, length of the active fibre, and power of the first pump radiation are coordinated such that the active fibre absorbs the first pump radiation in the first fibre portion to >90%, the radiation of the second pump wavelength in the first fibre portion is amplified by the first pump radiation to generate the second pump radiation, and the laser radiation of the seed laser is amplified in the remaining second fibre portion by the second pump radiation.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 1, 2022Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicants: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung E.V., Karlsruher Institut für TechnologieInventors: Clément ROMANO, Christelle KIELECK, Marc EICHHORN
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Publication number: 20240035959Abstract: The present invention relates to a spectrometer comprising a plurality of arrays of quantum dots, the arrays being arranged such that primary light emitted by a light source is incident thereon and excites the quantum dots such that the quantum dots emit secondary light such that the secondary light can be incident on a sample, the secondary light having a different spectral distribution to the primary light, at least one detector configured to receive the secondary light reflected or transmitted by the sample, and an evaluation device configured to determine spectral information of the secondary light received by the at least one detector. The invention also relates to a method for producing such a spectrometer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2021Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.Inventors: Hendrik SCHLICKE, Jan-Steffen NIEHAUS
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Publication number: 20240033220Abstract: A method and a device for producing a liquid containing liposomes is presented. The method comprises the conduction of a first liquid and a second liquid into a micromixer and to the output of the micromixer by gas pressure from at least one source of gas. The total flow rate of the liquids is adjusted in such a way that the total flow rate at the output of the micromixer is at least 10 mL/min. This allows the production of liquids, which contain liposomes having a narrow size distribution, on an industrial scale in a simple and reproducible manner. The embodiments also include a liquid containing liposomes having a narrow size distribution and to uses thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 19, 2023Publication date: February 1, 2024Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.Inventors: Regina Bleul, Raphael Thiermann
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Patent number: 11885612Abstract: An apparatus for three-dimensional measurement of an object includes a trigger configured to obtain image information from a measurement camera and to trigger, in dependence on image content of the image information, a measurement output or an evaluation of the image information by an evaluator for determining measurement results. Further, a respective method and a respective computer program are described.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2018Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.Inventors: Jens Döge, Christoph Hoppe, Willi Neudeck