Patents by Inventor Alexander Mueller

Alexander Mueller 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: 9753459
    Abstract: In a method for operating a motor vehicle which is configured to autonomously drives to a predefined travel destination, a driver's line of view is detected, and the autonomous driving operation is influenced as a function of the detected driver's line of view.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventor: Alexander Mueller
  • Publication number: 20170246808
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for unpacking a component 16 manufactured by means of a generative manufacturing process, from a particulate material fill 18. In the method, an auxiliary frame 20 having a vertical circumferential wall structure 22, open downward, is arranged above a vertical circumferential wall structure 12 of a construction box 10. In addition, a construction platform 14 of the construction box 10 is displaced upward, so that the particulate material fill 18 containing the component 16 is transferred from the construction box 10 to the auxiliary frame 20. In addition, the auxiliary frame 20 with the particulate material fill 18 containing the component, and the construction box 10 are moved away from each other, and the component 16 is unpacked from the particulate material fill 18 at least in part and is removed from the auxiliary frame 20.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: Rainer Höchsmann, Alexander Müller, Sven Klaua, Maximilian Baumann, Wolfgang Seeger, Renate Ratzenberger, Lisa Huber
  • Publication number: 20170218470
    Abstract: A burner-lance unit (1) includes at least two gas connections (2a, 2b, 2c), a burner tube (3), and a lance tube (4) that is placed concentrically in the burner tube (3). The burner tube (3) and the lance tube (4) both have a gas inlet end and a gas outlet end (15). The lance tube (4) has a de Laval nozzle (4a) at the gas outlet end thereof. The de Laval nozzle (4a) is releasably connected to the lance tube (4). The burner tube (3) has a burner nozzle (3a) which is releasably connected to the burner tube (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2015
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: Primetals Technologies Austria GmbH
    Inventors: Markus ABEL, Hannes BEILE, Markus DORNDORF, Alexander MÜLLER, Ralf PITZ
  • Patent number: 9715880
    Abstract: The present document relates to audio coding systems. In particular, the present document relates to efficient methods and systems for parametric multi-channel audio coding. An audio encoding system (500) configured to generate a bitstream (564) indicative of a downmix signal and spatial metadata for generating a multi-channel upmix signal from the downmix signal is described. The system (500) comprises a downmix processing unit (510) configured to generate the downmix signal from a multi-channel input signal (561); wherein the downmix signal comprises m channels and wherein the multi-channel input signal (561) comprises n channels; n, m being integers with m<n. Furthermore, the system (500) comprises a parameter processing unit (520) configured to determine the spatial metadata from the multi-channel input signal (561).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Dolby International AB
    Inventors: Tobias Friedrich, Alexander Mueller, Karsten Linzmeier, Claus-Christian Spenger, Tobias R. Wagenblass
  • Patent number: 9707970
    Abstract: A method for operating a motor vehicle, and to a control device for carrying out the method and a computer program product having program code for carrying out the method. In order to improve the safety of use of the motor vehicle, it is provided that functions of the motor vehicle are enabled as a function of stored data relating to the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Alexander Mueller, Thomas Kropf
  • Patent number: 9687899
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for processing a workpiece, said device including the following features: a punch on one side of the workpiece, a die on the opposite side of the workpiece, and a conductive electric heating system for generating an electric current that flows through the workpiece starting from a component situated on one side of the workpiece outside of the punch to a component situated on the opposite side of the workpiece outside of the die.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Allgaier Werke GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Wolf, Matthias Mihm, Alexander Müller, Ottmar Lehr
  • Publication number: 20170174229
    Abstract: A method is described for monitoring or regulating a driving task transfer in an autonomous vehicle. The method includes a step of reading in a piece of driving task transfer information from an interface assigned to a vehicle seat of the vehicle, the piece of driving task transfer information representing an intended transfer of the driving task by an occupant of the vehicle, a step of reading in a piece of sensor information about an occupancy state of the vehicle seat and/or an occupant sitting on the vehicle seat, and a step of using the piece of driving task transfer information and the piece of sensor information to release or regulate the driving task transfer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2016
    Publication date: June 22, 2017
    Inventor: Alexander Mueller
  • Patent number: 9662814
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for generating a porous material having homogeneous, gas-containing inclusions in the micrometer and sub-micrometer range, and also to the material produced by such process.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: SUMTEQ GMBH
    Inventors: Reinhard Strey, Alexander Müller
  • Publication number: 20170108925
    Abstract: A method for transmitting information to a driver of a motor vehicle, with at least two information channels being provided to transmit information, includes presenting the information via at least a first information channel for the driver, determining a perception quantity representing perception by the driver with regard to the information presented, and defining a transmission of the information via a further information channel on the basis of the perception quantity determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2016
    Publication date: April 20, 2017
    Inventor: Alexander Mueller
  • Patent number: 9616620
    Abstract: A plant (100) for the layered construction of a molded body comprises a coating device (400) and a coating device cleaner (600). The coating device is movable horizontally across a construction field for applying a uniform layer of construction material to be solidified to the construction field and has an elongate metering shaft (410), at the lower side of which a longitudinal slot (412) is provided for outputting the construction material as the metering shaft (410) moves across the construction field. The coating device cleaner (600) is mounted on a construction frame (150) of the plant and serves for cleaning the metering shaft (410). The coating device cleaner (600) comprises an elongate wiper element (610) that is received under the metering shaft (410) of the coating device (400) at least in part in a construction material collection container (620).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: ExOne GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Hoechsmann, Alexander Mueller
  • Publication number: 20170097083
    Abstract: The invention relates to a gear assembly (12) comprising a fixed gear (13) having a first radial toothing (16) and an idler (14) having a second radial toothing (17), the first radial toothing (16) being disposed at least approximately at the same radial height as the second radial toothing (17), and the fixed gear (13) further comprises a first axial end face(18) and the idler (14) comprises a second axial end face (19) and the fixed gear (13) is connected to the idler (14) by means of at least one elastic connecting element (21), for which purpose the elastic connecting element (21) is connected on the one hand to the first axial end face (18) of the fixed gear (13) and on the other hand to the second axial end face (19) of the idler (14).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2016
    Publication date: April 6, 2017
    Applicants: Miba Sinter Austria GmbH, Metaldyne International Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Christian DUMANSKI, Wolfgang SIESSL, Alexander MUELLER, Karl DICKINGER, Juergen DEPP
  • Patent number: 9611766
    Abstract: A gas exchange valve of an internal combustion engine may include a hollow valve stem and a valve disc. The valve disc may include a valve bottom and a hollow valve cone which is connected to an outer edge of said valve bottom. The hollow valve cone may taper with increasing distance from the valve bottom. The valve stem may pass through the hollow valve cone. The valve stem may be fixedly connected on the one hand to the valve bottom and on the other hand to the tapered end of the valve cone. The valve stem may include a first hollow space which is fluidically separated from a second hollow space arranged in the valve disc. The first hollow space and the second hollow space may have a different cooling agent filling level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: Mahle International GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Kroos, Christoph Luven, Alexander Mueller, Alexander Puck
  • Publication number: 20170064254
    Abstract: A technique processes an initial recording of a meeting. The technique involves receiving the initial recording of the meeting, and performing a content classification operation that electronically classifies the initial recording of the meeting into a set of relevant conference portions and a set of irrelevant conference portions. The technique further involves, based on the initial recording of the meeting, providing a shortened recording of the meeting. The shortened recording includes the set of relevant conference portions and omits the set of irrelevant conference portions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Alexander Mueller, Martin Unzner, Mathias Buhr, Paul Elsner, Steffen Schulze
  • Patent number: 9564791
    Abstract: Method for producing a stator winding (18) of an electric machine (10), in particular an AC generator, wherein the stator winding (18) has at least n phase windings (120, 121, 122, 123, 124), and one phase winding (120, 121, 122, 123, 124) has a plurality of successive wound coils (82) with coil sides (88) and coil side connectors (91), wherein the coils (82) are divided into first coils (82.1) and second coils (82.2), with a forming tool (100), in which slots (105, 106) are provided which are suitable for accommodating the coils (82), wherein a first coil (82.1) is arranged in a slot (105), and a second coil (82.2) is arranged in the same slot (105).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 7, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Gert Wolf, Klaus Herbold, Gerlinde Weber, Christoph Schwarzkopf, Eberhard Rau, Alexander Mueller, Helmut Kreuzer, Kurt Reutlinger
  • Publication number: 20170016479
    Abstract: The invention relates to a split bearing arrangement (1) with a bearing block (2) comprising counter clamping surfaces (5) and a bearing cover (3) comprising clamping surfaces (4), wherein the bearing cover (2) is connected to the bearing block (3) by means of bolt-like connecting elements mounted in bores (8) in the clamping surfaces (4) and/or comprising at least one projection (13) per clamping surface (4), which can be pushed into the counter clamping surface (5) of the bearing block (2), wherein the clamping surfaces (4) of the bearing cover (2) or the counter clamping surfaces (5) of the bearing block (2) are oriented obliquely at an angle not equal to 90° to the longitudinal extension of the connecting elements and/or the projections (13) are arranged respectively at a distance (16) of at least 150% of a maximum height (17) of the projections (19) over the clamping surfaces (4) from the bore (8) and/or a side wail of the bearing cover (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Applicant: Miba Sinter Austria GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang SIESSL, Alexander MUELLER, Martin KARLSBERGER, Karl DICKINGER
  • Patent number: 9540765
    Abstract: A dye mixture, comprising at least one blue dyeing dye of the formula (1), wherein Q1 represents a bivalent radical of formula (4a), (4b) or (4c), wherein X1 denotes chlorine or fluorine, R1 is hydrogen or C1-C8 alkyl, R2 is hydrogen, C1-C8alkyl, C1-C4alkoxy or sulfo, Y1 is vinyl or a radical —CH2—CH2—U and U is a leaving group removable under alkaline conditions, R3 is hydrogen or C1-C8alkyl that is unsubstituted or substituted by hydroxy, sulfo, sulfato, cyano, carboxy, C1-C4alkoxy or phenyl, r and s are each independently of the other the number 0 or 1, and t is the number 0, 1 or 2, and the sum of r, s and t is 2 or 3 and at least one yellow or red dyeing reactive dye is suitable especially for the dichromatic or trichromatic dyeing or printing of natural or synthetic polyamide fibre materials and yield dyeings or prints having good reproducibility and good all-round fastness properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2017
    Assignee: HUNTSMAN INTERNATIONAL LLC
    Inventors: Alexander Mueller, Rainer Hildebrand, Sandra Da Silva Saraiva, Wolfgang Mundle, Markus Kneubuehler
  • Patent number: 9506550
    Abstract: A gear is described for a spur gear stage without play having a hub (1) and a sprocket (2), which is divided along its axis-normal division plane into two partial sprockets, namely into a hub-fixed sprocket part (3) and a sprocket ring (4) which is mounted so it is coaxially rotatable in relation thereto, and which forms springs (6) sectionally enclosing the hub (1) in the circumferential direction, which are integrally connected at their bases (11) to the sprocket ring (4) and which are supported with their free ends (7) protruding toward the hub (1) on stops (8) of the hub (1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Miba Sinter Austria GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Dickinger, Anton Kokoska, Alexander Mueller
  • Patent number: 9500528
    Abstract: A temperature of a metal melt in a furnace is maintained after blowing away slag from a surface of the metal melt by the flow of oxygen and switching over from oxygen to an inert gas, such as nitrogen. A measured temperature of the metal melt is accepted as a metal melt temperature only when the inert gas flow is in a laminar state and after the measured temperature has fluctuated by a maximum of 1% over a period of at least 2 seconds.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2010
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2016
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Markus Abel, Alexander Müller, Domenico Nardacchione
  • Publication number: 20160325696
    Abstract: A self-adjusting latching connection include a first component having a latching projection, and a second component having an opening into which the latching projection can be inserted in a mating direction and latched in a final position on a base, on which one of the two components is movably guided transverse to the mating direction between a resting position and a locking position. A spring acts on the one component in the direction of the resting position, and a bolt detachably fixes the one component in the locking position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2016
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Andreas ROGGE, Alexander MUELLER
  • Patent number: D773405
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Daubenmerkl, Philip Fuerstenhöfer, Stephan Huehne, Oliver Joehnβen, Alexander Mueller, Tobias Reese, Ulrich Ringer, Heinrich Schlichting, Torsten Vogt, Gerd Webermann