Patents by Inventor Andreas A. Meyer

Andreas A. Meyer 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).

  • Publication number: 20200291666
    Abstract: The invention relates to a frame element (10) comprising a frame pipe (12) into which a threaded spindle (16) is partly introduced at one end. The threaded spindle (16) is guided in the frame pipe (12) by at least one spindle positioning groove (24, 26, 28), in particular multiple spindle positioning grooves (24, 26, 28). The frame pipe (12) is mechanically reinforced by the spindle positioning groove(s) (24, 26, 28) in the region of the threaded spindle (16) received in the frame pipe (12). At the same time, the maximum inclination of the threaded spindle (16) in the frame pipe (12) is reduced by the spindle positioning grooves (24, 26, 28). Overall, a force can thus be substantially more strongly applied to the frame element (10) in the direction of the longitudinal axis (23b) of the frame pipe (12). At the other end, the frame pipe (12) has at least one pin positioning groove (40, 42), in particular multiple pin positioning grooves (40, 42).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2017
    Publication date: September 17, 2020
    Inventors: Andreas Meyer, Erzad Mikic, Andrew Read, Rudolf Specht
  • Publication number: 20200282991
    Abstract: A method for operating a motor vehicle having an adaptive cruise control system with a stop-and-go function, having the steps of: bringing the motor vehicle to a stop upon detecting that a vehicle in front has stopped, providing a start signal within a predetermined first time period upon starting of the vehicle in front, reading safety-relevant data after the first time period has ended and if the vehicle in front is still stopped, and suppressing a start signal if the safety-relevant data indicate a hazardous traffic situation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Maus, Andreas Meyer, Guido Weitkus, Goetz-Philipp Wegner, Armin Mueller-Lerwe, Samantha Medenbach
  • Publication number: 20200266606
    Abstract: A cooling device (1) for cooling an electrical component (4), in particular a laser diode, including a base body (2) with at least one outer face (20) and at least one integrated cooling channel (5), in particular a micro-cooling channel, a connecting surface (21) on the outer face (20) of the base body (2) for connecting the electrical component (4) to the base body (2) and a first stabilising layer (11), wherein the first stabilising layer (11) and the connecting surface (21) are arranged at least partially one above the other along a primary direction (P), and wherein the first stabilising layer (11) is offset relative to the outer face (20) towards the interior of the base body (2) by a distance (A) along a direction parallel to the primary direction (P).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2018
    Publication date: August 20, 2020
    Inventors: Nico Kuhn, Manfred Götz, Andreas Meyer, Vitalij Gil, Johannes Wiesend
  • Publication number: 20200251795
    Abstract: An assembly includes a plurality of electrically interconnected battery cells in a housing. An electrically insulating coolant fluid that directly surrounds the plurality of electrically interconnected battery cells flows around the plurality of electrically interconnected battery cells in the housing. An aircraft having an assembly of this type is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2018
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Inventors: Agnieszka Makowska, Andreas Meyer
  • Patent number: 10688996
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method and system to operate a motor vehicle with a congestion assistant. The congestion assistant enters sensor data, which serves as input data of the congestion assistant. The sensor data is evaluated, via an evaluation unit, in order to define a value representing a signal roughness of the sensor data. The value is compared, via a comparison unit, with a threshold value. A suppression signal is generated, via a signal detection unit, to prevent automatic activation of the congestion assistant if the value is greater than the threshold value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 23, 2020
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Guido Weitkus, Andreas Meyer, Manuel Merz, Benjamin Maus, Mohamed Benmimoun, Fabian Kuzaj
  • Publication number: 20200001876
    Abstract: A computer includes a processor and a memory, the memory storing instructions executable by the processor to move a vehicle within a roadway lane according to an emergency lane procedure to form an emergency lane when a longitudinal speed of the vehicle is below a specified speed and end the emergency lane procedure when the longitudinal speed is at least a second specified speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2019
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Andreas Puetz, Guido Weitkus, Andreas Meyer, Mohamed Benmimoun
  • Publication number: 20190391211
    Abstract: In order to determine the charging capacity state and the state of health of an electrical energy store of a battery system (BS1; BS2) with little effort, a measuring device (ME) is proposed, which measuring device injects, into a drive train which is available for first or second loads (VR1; VR2) and has an AC/DC converter (ADC) or a DC/DC controller (DDC) on the DC side of the AC/DC converter (ADC) or of the DC/DC controller (DDC), a sinusoidal voltage harmonic with a varied frequency or a sinusoidal current with a varied frequency as a particular measurement signal which is transmitted to the battery system (BS1; BS2). The current response or voltage response, which has been purged of unwanted influences, is then determined for each measurement signal at the battery system (BS1; BS2), from which response phase shifts are determined in each case, and parameters for a statement relating to the charging capacity state or the state of health of the battery system (BS1; BS2) are in turn determined therefrom.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2017
    Publication date: December 26, 2019
    Inventor: Andreas Meyer
  • Patent number: 10448504
    Abstract: A method for producing a composite material comprising a planar base material to which an additional layer is applied on one side or both sides via a solder layer, characterized by: providing the base material, wherein the base material has a first surface on at least one side; providing the additional layer and arranging the solder layer between a second surface of the additional layer and the first surface such that when the additional layer is deposited on the first surface, the first surface of the base material is covered by the solder layer in a planar manner; wherein a thickness of the solder layer between the base material and the additional layer is smaller than 12 ?m; heating the base material and the additional layer on the first surface to at least partially melt the solder layer; and connecting the base material to the at least one additional layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2019
    Assignee: ROGERS GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Meyer, Stefan Britting, Dieter Knöchel, David Bierwagen
  • Publication number: 20190283138
    Abstract: A method for the thermal treatment of a component, in particular a metal powder injection molded component (MIM component) including a nickel base alloy, wherein, after sintering, in particular immediately after sintering, in the injection molding process, the component is exposed for a predetermined holding time to at least one treatment temperature below the sintering temperature. A component, in particular an MIM component, and to an aircraft engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2019
    Publication date: September 19, 2019
    Inventors: Naicheng SHENG, Andreas MEYER, Katharina HORKE, Robert SINGER
  • Publication number: 20190241187
    Abstract: It is determined that (a) a first vehicle is driving on a curve on a first road or, (b) by detecting a second road, a road boundary of the first road. It is further determined that there is (c) parallel traffic by determining that a second vehicle is moving in a lane of the second road adjacent to the first road, or (d) tangential traffic by detecting a third vehicle is moving tangentially to the curve. Upon determining that there is simultaneously at least one of (a) the first vehicle driving on the curve on the first road or (b) the road boundary of the first road, and at least one of (c) parallel traffic or (d) tangential traffic, then it is determined that the first vehicle is driving on an on-ramp.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Publication date: August 8, 2019
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin Maus, Guido Weitkus, Andreas Meyer, Peter W.A. Zegelaar, Christoph Schlaug
  • Patent number: 10351477
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a metal-ceramic substrate including first and second metallizations and at least one ceramic layer incorporated between the first and second metallizations. Advantageously, first and second metal layers and the at least one ceramic layer are stacked superposed, and in such a way that the free edge sections, of the first and second metal layers respectively, project beyond the edges of the at least one ceramic layer and the first and second metal layers are deformed toward each other in the region of the projecting free edge sections and directly connected to each other in order to form a gas-tight, sealed metal container enclosing a container interior for receiving the at least one ceramic layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 28, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: ROGERS GERMANY GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Meyer, Fabian Hierstetter
  • Publication number: 20190170674
    Abstract: A measurement arrangement for measuring process and structure parameters of a fiber composite material along a measuring path includes a fiber material, a matrix material which surrounds the fiber material at least in regions, and an electrical sensor element that includes at least two signal transmission lines twisted together and aligned along the measuring path in and/or at the fiber material such that the signal transmission lines are surrounded at least in portions by the matrix material, wherein the electrical sensor element is configured to measure the process and structure parameters on the basis of the behavior of electromagnetic signals that are fed into the signal transmission lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 29, 2018
    Publication date: June 6, 2019
    Inventors: Christian Weimer, Christopher Buchmann, Henning Becker, Richard Hesse, Andreas Meyer-Giesow
  • Patent number: 10260771
    Abstract: A control cabinet cooling device (1) includes a housing (2) which comprises a hot air inlet (3) and a cooling air outlet (4), wherein the air to be cooled is suctioned by means of at least one fan (5) in the housing (2) via the hot air inlet (3) into the housing (2), led through an air-refrigerant heat exchanger (6) in the housing (2) and blown out as cooled air via the cooling air outlet (4), wherein a droplet separator (7) is arranged downstream of the air-refrigerant heat exchanger (6) in the air flow direction through the housing (2), wherein at least one lower end (8) of the droplet separator (7) in vertical direction is enclosed by an encapsulation (9) which, on the side thereof facing the droplet separator (7), comprises a condensate collection reservoir (10), into which a condensate discharge (11) of the droplet separator (7) leads.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2019
    Assignee: Rittal GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Andreas Meyer, Thomas Klaner, Dieter Becker, Sebastian Chmura
  • Publication number: 20190079520
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method for capturing a traffic lane. A traffic lane data set is evaluated to capture an abrupt change of the traffic lane. The traffic lane data set is divided into a new traffic lane data set that represents a new traffic lane boundary and an old traffic lane data set that represents an old traffic lane boundary. A difference data set is determined between the old traffic lane data set and the new traffic lane data set. The difference data set is added to the new traffic lane data set to form a resulting data set, wherein the difference data set is weighted with a plurality of weighting factors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 12, 2018
    Publication date: March 14, 2019
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Andreas MEYER, Guido WEITKUS, Patrick GLET, Benjamin MANUS, Manuel MERZ
  • Publication number: 20190023280
    Abstract: A method is disclosed to operate a motor vehicle using a driver assistance system. The driver assistance system includes, for at least one driver assistance system function, at least one criterion relating to a vehicle environment. The at least one criterion is defined for an adaptation of the driver assistance system function, a number of features of the environment of the vehicle are detected, a probability of the occurrence of at least one criterion is estimated on the basis of a combination of the detected features, and the driver assistance system function is adapted on the basis of the estimated probability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Publication date: January 24, 2019
    Applicant: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Benjamin MAUS, Reid James STEIGER, Andreas MEYER, Manuel MERZ, Guido WEITKUS
  • Publication number: 20180368798
    Abstract: A method and device for acquiring at least a part of an x-ray data set with at least one x-ray device. The x-ray data set includes at least one first x-ray image data set and at least one second x-ray image data set acquired separated in time that are to be evaluated together. Both x-ray image data sets show a region of interest of a patient that is subject to heart motion at different phases of a heart cycle. The second x-ray image data set is acquired triggered at a beginning of each heart cycle covered by the acquisition and with an acquisition rate such that the phases of the acquired x-ray image data set match phases of the first x-ray image data set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventor: Andreas Meyer
  • Publication number: 20180334168
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a method and system to operate a motor vehicle with a congestion assistant. The congestion assistant enters sensor data, which serves as input data of the congestion assistant. The sensor data is evaluated, via an evaluation unit, in order to define a value representing a signal roughness of the sensor data. The value is compared, via a comparison unit, with a threshold value. A suppression signal is generated, via a signal detection unit, to prevent automatic activation of the congestion assistant if the value is greater than the threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Publication date: November 22, 2018
    Applicant: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventors: Guido WEITKUS, Andreas MEYER, Manuel MERZ, Benjamin MAUS, Mohamed BENMIMOUN, Fabian KUZAJ
  • Publication number: 20180213639
    Abstract: A method for producing a composite material comprising a planar base material to which an additional layer is applied on one side or both sides via a solder layer, characterised by: providing the base material, wherein the base material has a first surface on at least one side; providing the additional layer and arranging the solder layer between a second surface of the additional layer and the first surface such that when the additional layer is deposited on the first surface, the first surface of the base material is covered by the solder layer in a planar manner; wherein a thickness of the solder layer between the base material and the additional layer is smaller than 12 ?m; heating the base material and the additional layer on the first surface to at least partially melt the solder layer and connecting the base material to the at least one additional layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2016
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Applicant: Rogers Germany GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas MEYER, Stefan BRITTING, Dieter KNÖCHEL, David BIERWAGEN
  • Publication number: 20180200990
    Abstract: The invention relates to a substrate (1) for electrical circuits comprising at least one first composite layer (2) which is produced by means of roll cladding and, after said roll cladding, has at least one copper layer (3) and an aluminium layer (4) attached thereon, wherein at least the surface side of the aluminium layer (4) facing away from the copper layer (3) is anodized for the generation of an anodic or insulating layer (5) made of aluminium oxide, and wherein the anodic or insulating layer (5) made of aluminium oxide is connected to a metal layer (7) or at least one second composite layer (2?) or at least one paper-ceramic layer (11) via at least one adhesive layer (6, 6?).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventors: Andreas MEYER, Karsten SCHMIDT
  • Publication number: 20180200989
    Abstract: A substrate (1, 10) for electrical circuits, comprising at least one metal layer (2,3, 14) and a paper ceramic layer (11), which is joined face to face with the at least one metal layer (2,3, 14) and has a top side and bottom side (11a, 11b), wherein the paper ceramic layer (11) has a large number of cavities in the form of pores. Especially advantageously, the at least one metal layer (2, 3, 14) is connected to the paper ceramic layer (11) by means of at least one glue layer (6, 6a, 6b), which is produced by applying at least one glue (6a?, 6a?, 6b?, 6b?) to the metal layer (2,3, 14) and/or to the paper ceramic layer (11), wherein the cavities in the form of pores in the paper ceramic layer (11) are filled at least at the surface by means of the applied glue (6a?, 6a?, 6b?,6b?).
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2016
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventors: Andreas MEYER, Karsten SCHMIDT