Patents Assigned to Siemens
  • Patent number: 9286124
    Abstract: Embodiments of the invention relate to a method, system, computer-program product, and/or storage medium for simulating the performance of a medical-engineering procedure which includes performing a multiplicity of applications, with its being intended for the applications to be performed in a multi-client environment in parallel on a plurality of clients. Simulating is based on performing the application in a single-client environment. Runtime and resource requirements are therein measured and fed to the simulating process as input variables. A latency for the runtime and the resource requirements for running in the multi-client environment are fed out as the result of simulating.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Edgar Maass
  • Patent number: 9283132
    Abstract: A patient positioning apparatus is provided. The patient positioning apparatus includes a positioning table, a transfer plate, which is arranged on the positioning table so as to be moveable relative to the positioning table, and a positioning unit for a positioning of a surgical head securing unit on the transfer plate, wherein the positioning unit exhibits a joint unit with at least one first rotational joint unit, wherein the at least one first rotational joint unit exhibits a predetermined stop position for a rotational movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Patrick Gross, Martin Ringholz
  • Patent number: 9286183
    Abstract: A monitoring and diagnostic system for a fluid energy machine system includes a central processing unit to which each sub-system and each system component of the fluid energy machine system is connected via standardized bi-directional interfaces and via one or more data lines, for data communication. Each sub-system and system component has a sensor element for determining status information thereof. The sensor elements are controlled by a control device. A memory device stores the status information determined for the respective sub-system and the respective system component and the comparison data for operating the fluid energy machine system. A comparator unit compares the status information with defined threshold values for each sub-system and system component. A display device displays the status information as well as an alarm in the event of an undershoot or overshoot of a threshold value in the case of a sub-system or a system component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Gerd Klöppner
  • Patent number: 9286436
    Abstract: Methods for product data management and corresponding systems and computer-readable mediums. A method includes receiving a three-dimensional CAD model in the data processing system, the CAD model including a plurality of geometries. The method includes identifying equivalence relationships between multiple ones of the geometries and receiving at least one Relationship Implication (RI) definition. Each RI definition defines a relationship implication according to a plurality of the geometries and at least one type of the equivalence relationships. The method includes applying each RI definition to the geometries to produce groups of geometries corresponding to each RI definition and selecting a representative geometry for each group. The method includes filtering out geometric relationships for each geometry in each group other than the representative geometry and manipulating the CAD model without the filtered-out geometric relationships.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Siemens Product Lifecycle Management Software Inc.
    Inventors: Yanong Zhu, Douglas Joseph King, Howard Charles Duncan Mattson
  • Patent number: 9287015
    Abstract: A method is provided for producing first and second radioactive isotopes using an accelerated particle beam that is directed to a first material and the first radioactive isotope is produced by a first nuclear reaction based on the interaction of the particle beam with the first material, said particle beam is also slowed down and subsequently directed to a second material, and the second radioactive isotope is produced by a second nuclear reaction based on the interaction of the particle beam with the second material. The effective cross-section for the induction of the first nuclear reaction at a first peak for a first particle energy is higher than an effective cross-section for the induction of the second nuclear reaction at a second peak for a second particle energy. A corresponding device includes an acceleration unit, a first exposure target having the first material and a second exposure target having the second material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 26, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Arnd Baurichter, Oliver Heid, Timothy Hughes
  • Patent number: 9287061
    Abstract: A rotor is shown for an electromechanical switching device, includes: a rotor housing; two contact bridges having in each case two contact portions; an intermediate element disposed between the two contact bridges and mounted so as to be rotatable about a rotation axis; and first spring pins and second spring pins; first spring elements and second spring elements. In an embodiment, the spring pins, the spring elements, and the intermediate element are operationally connected, and at least one of the first and second spring pins is disposed on the intermediate element and/or on the contact bridges such that the spring pin by rotating the rotor is tiltable between the two states in relation to the rotation axis. An embodiment furthermore relates to an electromechanical switching device including the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Pawel Biedunkiewicz, Jörg-Uwe Dahl
  • Patent number: 9282942
    Abstract: In this device and the associated method, a connection unit that can be attached to an arm bearing an x-ray source and an x-ray receiver is fashioned such that said connection unit compensates for a pivot movement of the arm so that a compression unit arranged at the connection unit remains stationary during a pivot movement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 11, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Thomas Mertelmeier, Ralf Nanke
  • Patent number: 9285440
    Abstract: A local coil for a magnetic resonance tomography system includes an upper section and a lower section. The upper section is hingeable in relation to the lower section.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Daniel Driemel
  • Patent number: 9287740
    Abstract: A pole shoe arrangement for a rotor or a stator of an electrical machine having an air gap between the stator and the rotor is disclosed. The pole shoe arrangement has a pole shoe element having an inner end and an outer end opposing the inner end. The inner end lies opposite the air gap when the pole shoe element is in an assembled state. The pole shoe element has a receiving surface for receiving a permanent magnet between the inner end and the outer end. The pole shoe arrangement has a guiding facility to guide the permanent magnet in a radial direction from the outer end to the inner end and to limit a movement of the permanent magnet at right angles to the radial direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Silvio Semmer, Xavier Tourde, Adriana Cristina Urda
  • Patent number: 9287747
    Abstract: A wind power generator with a closed internal cooling circuit has a stator that is implemented as sheet metal and includes a winding system which forms winding heads at the end faces of the stator. The stator is enclosed by a cooling jacket at least in the region of the laminated core, wherein permanent magnets of a rotor are disposed on a magnet wheel jacket embodied as a hollow shaft. The magnet wheel jacket is connected in a rotationally fixed manner to a shaft or shaft stubs by way of support elements at its end faces, wherein in its interior the hollow shaft has at least one tube whose lateral surface area runs at an equidistant clearance from the magnet wheel jacket. Blowers are mounted at the end faces of the rotor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2010
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Christoph Balzer, Karsten Brach, Christian Meyer, Axel Möhle, Andre Schlawitz, Frank Seibicke
  • Patent number: 9285448
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for calculating an MR image of a target layer from an examination object, wherein the MR image is calculated using iterative reconstruction. In at least one embodiment, the method includes: acquiring MR data from an initial layer of the examination object, determining information produced by the examination object from the acquired MR data of the initial layer, determining a penalty term from the information produced by the examination object, and performing the iterative reconstruction of the MR image for the target layer taking into account the determined penalty term.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Jana Hutter, Peter Schmitt
  • Patent number: 9285447
    Abstract: In an imaging method and device for water/fat separation in MRI using a two-point Dixon FSE sequence, each refocusing RF pulse corresponds to two readout gradients of the same polarity, each being center-divided into a smaller rear part and a larger front part, and one rephasing gradient of opposite polarity. In running the FSE sequence, each echo signal acquired is subjected to an FFT, to reconstruct an image with water and fat in phase and an image with water and fat in opposed phases. Data of each echo signal are subjected to a partial Fourier transform; and the in-phase water/fat image and the opposite-phase water/fat image are subjected to a water/fat separation algorithm, to obtain a pure water image and a pure fat image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventor: Cong Zhao
  • Patent number: 9285116
    Abstract: A method and apparatus convert carbon dioxide into chemical starting materials. Carbon dioxide is isolated from flue gas emitted by a combustion system. An electropositive metal is burned in an atmosphere of isolated carbon dioxide to reduce the carbon dioxide into chemical starting materials.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Günter Schmid, Dan Taroata, Elena Arvanitis, Manfred Baldauf, Frank Walachowicz
  • Patent number: 9283863
    Abstract: In a charging management system for electrical vehicles, a maximum charging current for a plurality of charging operations, e.g., for a plurality of charging stations and/or a plurality of electrical vehicles, is coordinated in a centralized or a decentralized manner while complying with predefined flexibly adjustable secondary conditions. The secondary conditions can include economic and/or technical stipulations. In addition to a centralized load management system, a decentralized load management facility carries out a load distribution via a master charging station or autonomously by each charging station itself. If the master charging station fails, a changeover is made to a backup master charging station. The method can be used, for example, in electrical mobility, in particular the electrification of individual traffic.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Kolja Eger, Alexander Kepka, Andreas Zwirlein
  • Patent number: 9287749
    Abstract: A machine having a stator and a rotor having a rotor shaft supported in bearings, such that the rotor is rotatable about a rotation axis. The bearings are designed as active magnetic bearings in which the rotor is supported without contact. A respective back-up bearing is associated with each active magnetic bearing to catch the rotor when the respective active magnetic bearing fails. The respective back-up bearing has a bushing arranged on the rotor shaft and a sliding device arranged on the stator. The respective bushing has an inner ring arranged radially inside to fasten the bushing on the rotor shaft, and an outer ring that surrounds the inner ring radially outside and slides in the sliding device of the respective back-up bearing when the respective active magnetic bearing fails. The inner and outer rings are made of different materials and are connected to each other in a bonded manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Horst Kümmlee
  • Patent number: 9288822
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for advertising channel reservations by an advertisement in a wireless mesh network, the advertisement being adapted for at least partially advertising channel reservations known by a transmitting node. The method includes: mapping at least one channel reservation to an advertisement element identifier, the advertisement element identifier identifying an advertisement element; considering said advertisement element to contain a set of channel reservations assigned to said advertisement identification number; and advertising said reservation by transmitting said advertisement element characterized by said advertisement element identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Michael Bahr
  • Publication number: 20160066869
    Abstract: The patient transport system has a mobile patient transport device for docking at a medical device, an acquisition device for acquiring suitable information for docking, and a control device for docking control of the mobile patient transport device. An evaluation device is coupled to the acquisition device and used the information acquired by the acquisition device to establish a path of the patient transport device. An optical or acoustic designation device specifies the established path of the patient transport device by at least one optical marking and/or acoustic signals. The optical marking and/or the acoustic signals are detected and control information is derived therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Sultan Haider
  • Publication number: 20160073443
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for energy-optimized data transmission by OPC UA protocol in radio networks is disclosed. When OPC UA communication is operated in a mobile device, e.g. as mobile access to part of a plant for maintenance, monitoring, parameterization, transmission is frequently implemented by the OPC UA's own request-response based communication behavior. Since the device is rarely able to switch off the transmitter, the battery of the device is very quickly discharged. This poses a problem, particularly in the case of devices that are intended to respond promptly to infrequent warnings or events. However, when a client device is intended to provide notification in relation to one event only, the previous polling, i.e. the periodic interrogation is dispensed with and an alternative notification through means inherent in the mobile network is used. This method uses, for example, a mobile push service supplied by the network provider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: KARL-HEINZ DEIRETSBACHER, CHRISTIAN HOCK, GERALD KAEFER, FRANK VOLKMANN
  • Publication number: 20160069843
    Abstract: A sample disc for ultrasonic disc testing equipment includes a cut-out defining a lateral face extending along a radius of the sample disc and along an axis of symmetry of the sample disc. At least one planar sample defect is created through this lateral face of the disc.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Uwe Buechner, Werner Heinrich, Karsten Kolk, Hans-Peter Lohmann, Hubert Mooshofer, Johannes Vrana
  • Publication number: 20160069976
    Abstract: In a method for recording magnetic resonance data in a target region of a patient while the target region moves due to respiration a single-shot turbo spin echo sequence is used as a magnetic resonance sequence in a magnetic resonance apparatus. SPAIR fat saturation is used by emitting an inversion pulse at an inversion time before the data recording with the magnetic resonance apparatus. Multiple repetitions of the sequence of an inversion pulse, an inversion time and a data recording using the magnetic resonance sequence are triggered by a respiratory signal describing the respiratory cycle, each repetition occurring upon fulfillment of a recording criterion. At least one further inversion pulse is emitted in a waiting time between the sequences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2015
    Publication date: March 10, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Antje Kickhefel, Dominik Paul