Patents Assigned to Siemens
  • Patent number: 8700203
    Abstract: Four basic measurements are performed when calibrating a spherical measurement probe fastened to a tool spindle having a fixed longitudinal position along the spindle axis. Moving the measurement probe transversely towards the calibration sphere yields a basic position of the tool spindle relative to an element with an attached calibration sphere, when measurement probe touches the calibration sphere. The measurement probe is rotated about the spindle axis from one basic measurement to the next by the same angle, whereas the orientation of the calibration sphere is maintained for all four basic measurements. Based on the basic positions, a reference position of the tool spindle relative to the element, at which the tool spindle is located above the calibration sphere and the spindle axis goes through a central point of the calibration sphere, is determined and taken into account in further calibration of the measurement probe.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Haase, Holger Kretschmar
  • Patent number: 8699772
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for scanning a cyclically moved examination object using a contrast agent within the scope of a preliminary examination by way of a CT scanner, in which measurement data is recorded at a sequence of recording times. A first image is reconstructed at every recording time from the measurement data, from which a time profile of a concentration of the contrast agent is established. The recording times for respectively recording a certain phase of the motion are synchronized with a motion signal from the examination object. A second image with a time offset with respect to the first image is reconstructed from the measurement data at each recording time. A motion curve representing a time profile of an intensity of the cyclical motion is established by comparing the first image and the second image at each recording time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Allmendinger, Jörg Hausleiter, Heiko Mehldau, Carsten Thierfelder
  • Patent number: 8700980
    Abstract: An embodiment of the invention relates to a contactless switching system and an embodiment relates to a method for encoding same with at least one sensor and at least one signal generator, where the signal generator sends at least one data sequence and the sensor receives the data sequence. In at least one embodiment, an aim is to specify a technical teaching for encoding a contactless switching system inexpensively and in a versatile fashion. To this end, at least one embodiment of the invention proposes anchoring user-implementable encoding in the checksum of the data sequence or the checksum computation code, so that the checksum which the data sequence contains is used to check the quality of the data transmission and at the same time to implement the encoding.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Hammer, Gerhard Metz, Claus Seisenberger
  • Patent number: 8700192
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a dynamic view in a modeling of an automation system. A first portion of the model may be described in a first sequence description and a second portion of the model may be described in a second sequence description. The sequence descriptions are linked together. In one embodiment, the links are visually provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rainer Heller, Venkata Prasad Mukka, Oswin Noetzelmann, Prithvi Raju, Dirk Schaumburg, Edward Slavin
  • Patent number: 8699735
    Abstract: The invention relates to an identification element for a hearing device unit of a hearing device system, with the hearing device system comprising a hearing device unit provided for the left ear of a wearer and a hearing device unit provided for the right ear of a wearer, with the identification element) visibly identifying the hearing device unit from the outside, characterized in that the identification element visibly identifies the hearing device unit as a left or right hearing device unit and comprising a means for assigning a function as a left or right hearing device unit to a signal processing facility of the hearing device unit. The assigning means can be mechanical, electrical and/or magnetic assigning means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2007
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Audiologische Technik GmbH
    Inventors: Holger Kral, Frank Wagner
  • Patent number: 8700904
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for planning an automation system project, a method for authenticating a user during access to an automation device in an automation system, an automation system and a computer program for planning an automation system project. To improve the security concept in automation systems, the provision of a single sign-on authentication method for an automation system is proposed. A user is thus able to simultaneously register at all automation devices within an automation project using a single authentication. A fundamental part of the invention is thus to centrally project plan the single sign-on method. In other words, the basic provision of the basis for the subsequent authentication already takes place during the project planning of the automation project based on a project database. This procedure allows the realization of a single sign-on method for the complete projected automation system and thus simultaneously for all automation devices contained in the automation system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 2, 2005
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Talanis, Thomas Tröster, Frank Volkmann
  • Patent number: 8696577
    Abstract: Tongue imaging is provided in medical diagnostic ultrasound. Ultrasound data is processed to enhance the information from the tongue. The enhancement increases signal from the tongue, decreases other signals, or both. The resulting image may more clearly present the tongue or tongue surface for feedback to a patient or review by a speech therapist.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Medical Solutions USA, Inc.
    Inventor: Paul Donald Freiburger
  • Patent number: 8696248
    Abstract: A plurality of piles is arranged in frame elements in an axially displaceable manner. Hammers are positioned on the piles. After driving of the piles into a seabed, the hammers are connected to the frame elements, wherein the frame elements together with the hammers are lifted to the surface of the water and to the seaborne vessel by a crane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Henrik Fomsgaard Lynderup, Thomas Oestergaard
  • Patent number: 8700712
    Abstract: Data characterizing the presence state of a user registered to use a communication service is sent to a server for the management of presence data in order to provide presence data allocated to the user of a communication service. The data sent to the server is stored as presence data allocated to the user and is made available for predefinable first users. The user is provided with presence data allocated to predefinable second users. The predefinable first and second users are determined by means of an activated service profile allocated to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Enterprise Communications GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Karl Klug, Thomas Lederer, Harald Müller
  • Patent number: 8698353
    Abstract: A method for safely detecting in two redundantly-configured output modules a possible wire break of a load, wherein during a switch-off test of a first module, a current test is performed in the respective other module and a binary test is performed in the switched-off module. The binary test determines whether the voltage switched off through the respective other module is also reaching the module with the binary tests over corresponding connection paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Fichtlscherer, Tobias Gramolla, Mario Maier
  • Patent number: 8699775
    Abstract: In a magnetic resonance method and apparatus to determine an examination image data set describing the temperature distribution within an examination subject (in particular a patient) using magnetic resonance an absolute temperature image data set of an examination region of the subject is acquired by magnetic resonance temperature imaging, a normal temperature data set of the examination region is determined, and the examination image data set is determined in a computerized processor by a comparison of the absolute temperature image data set with the normal temperature data set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 25, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Joerg Roland, Sebastian Schmidt, Anke Weissenborn
  • Patent number: 8698361
    Abstract: An arrangement for cooling of an electrical machine is disclosed. The electrical machine includes a stator-arrangement and a rotor-arrangement. The stator-arrangement is mounted on an outer surface of a support-structure. At least one cooling channel is arranged between the stator-arrangement and the support-structure in a way that the cooling-channel is pressed between the stator-arrangement and the support structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Henrik Stiesdal
  • Patent number: 8699823
    Abstract: The present embodiments relate to a method for registering medical image data. The method includes providing a registration parameter set for each of a plurality of different application cases, each of the plurality of different application cases being defined by at least one feature. Each registration parameter set contains registration parameters predefined for the associated application case. The method also includes providing first image data and second image data, which are to be registered onto one another. In response to the specification of an application case for the first image data and the second image data to be registered, a registration parameter set is automatically selected from the provided registration parameter sets in accordance with the specified application case. The method includes automatically performing a registration of the first image data onto the second image data using the selected registration parameter set.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 30, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Boettger, Mark Hastenteufel
  • Patent number: 8700189
    Abstract: A method for maintaining a technical plant including several components is provided. The method provides a system for planning the use of an enterprise resources system and a control system, with the enterprise resource system connected to the control system and structures of the technical plant are automatically set up in the enterprise resource system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Dürr, Paul Herrmann, Wilfried Sicking, Michael Unkelbach
  • Patent number: 8699394
    Abstract: A method and radio communication system for the transmit useful information as a service to several user stations with at least one radio network controller, at least one base station and at least one user station. The radio network controller is connected to an access device in a core network. The useful information is provided to several users as a service, whereby the user stations of the users are informed before the transmission of the useful information. According to the invention, the notification for the user stations of the users at least partly comprises a request for a response and the transmission of the useful information at least partly occurs after receipt of the response.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengellschaft
    Inventors: Norbert Kroth, David Randall, Jörg Schniedenharn, Alexander Vesely
  • Patent number: 8698800
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for the smoothing of a mesh surface is disclosed whereby neighboring vertices of a target vertex are identified, for example, by identifying the neighboring vertices within a desired distance from the target vertex. A normal of the target vertex is determined as a function of, for example, the features of a set of neighbor triangles corresponding to the set of neighboring vertices. A local coordinate system is then established. Unknowns in a quadratic surface function are then solved as a function of the position of the neighboring vertices with respect to the local coordinate system and new x and y coordinates in the local coordinate system are determined for the target vertex. These new x and y coordinates are entered into the quadratic surface function to obtain a new smoothed z coordinate for the target vertex.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2006
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Corporation
    Inventors: Hui Xie, Jin Zhou, Tong Fang
  • Patent number: 8698650
    Abstract: A method of optimizing the traffic control at a traffic signal-controlled intersection in a road traffic network. The vehicle traffic in entrances to the intersection are controlled by signal groups of a traffic signal system according to associated signal times. For vehicles approaching the signal group, traffic parameters are determined from traffic data using a traffic model according to the signal times, and in order to determine optimal signal times, the traffic parameters are weighted and added up and the target function formed in such a way is optimized by varying the signal times. By individually determining the traffic parameters for each vehicle and individually weighting the traffic parameters according to the strategic relevance thereof for the implementation of a specified traffic strategy, an improved implementation of the specified traffic strategy is made possible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Bunz, Jürgen Mück, Andreas Poschinger, Reinhold Tannert
  • Patent number: 8695342
    Abstract: A turbine for converting thermal energy into mechanical work. The turbine includes a heating system, wherein the heating system is adapted for heating the turbine in a power off state and/or a start-up phase of the turbine. The heating system may include an electrical heating device and/or a steam heating device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Mikael Fredriksson, Torbjörn Johansson, Tommy Larsson, Oskar Mazur
  • Patent number: 8695509
    Abstract: A reinforced longitudinal beam for railway vehicles includes a first partial beam and a second partial beam. The first partial beam is connected to a second assembly of the railway vehicle and the second partial beam is connected to a first assembly of the railway vehicle. Particular surfaces are provided on the first partial beam for forming a welded connection to the second partial beam, and particular surfaces are provided on the second partial beam for forming a welded connection to the first partial beam, wherein one of the partial beams comprises an end facing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2011
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens AG Österreich
    Inventor: Robert Nedelik
  • Patent number: D702647
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 15, 2014
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jin Jin Liu, Hai Jun Wang, Min Xu, Yu Hao Zhu