Patents by Inventor Andreas Kurtz

Andreas Kurtz 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: 20240005580
    Abstract: An avatar apparatus that is adapted to represent a person and to process personal data of the person comprises an AI processor device that is adapted for machine learning of individual mental response characteristics of the person by way of data training, wherein the AI processor device is configured to generate semantic answers in response to questions in a manner dependent on the mental response characteristics, a first storage device that is coupled to the AI processor device and is adapted to store the mental response characteristics of the person, an input device that is coupled to the AI processor device and is adapted to interact with the person and/or to receive questions relating to the person, and an output device that is configured to output signals that represent the answers generated by the AI processor device. An avatar system with multiple avatar apparatuses, uses of the avatar apparatus, and an avatar method for operating the avatar apparatus, are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Heiko ZIMMERMANN, Andreas KURTZ, Antonie FUHR
  • Publication number: 20240004887
    Abstract: A method for processing search queries directed at a database containing medical sample data and/or samples from a multiplicity of samples of persons comprises the steps: entering a search query, with a request profile directed at retrieving at least one sample with sample data that have predetermined queried search parameters, into an AI processor device, searching for at least one selected sample using the AI processor device, the at least one selected sample satisfying the request profile at least with a specified probability, and outputting identification data of the at least one selected sample. A search platform apparatus that is configured to process search queries directed at a database containing medical sample data and/or samples from a multiplicity of samples of persons is also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2020
    Publication date: January 4, 2024
    Inventors: Heiko ZIMMERMANN, Andreas KURTZ, Antonie FUHR
  • Patent number: 10601294
    Abstract: A linear stepper motor includes a stator, a rotor, a cover and a longitudinally displaceable actuating rod. The stator is formed as a fully overmoulded stator assembly. The stator assembly includes a stator overmould. The rotor is received in the stator and includes a spindle. The cover is coupled to the stator assembly on the drive side of the linear stepper motor. The actuating rod is guided by the stator assembly. The spindle is only supported by its tips between two bearing balls between a stator recess of the stator overmould and a cover recess in the cover. A device and a method for manufacturing the linear stepper motor are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Gerd Howack, Daniel Gerhard Barthel, Andreas Kurtz, Günter Albrecht
  • Patent number: 10530226
    Abstract: A stator for a linear stepper motor includes four stator sheets and two stator windings. The four stator sheets are oriented towards each other, provided with bent polar arms, and have two inner stator sheets each defining a sheet recess and two outer stator sheets that are arranged in an offset manner. THE four stator sheets are joined into an integral coil body by a stator overmold. One of the stator windings is wound onto the coil body between one inner stator sheet and one outer stator sheet and connected with connector pins. The four stator sheets and the stator overmold including a stator flange and a pin socket are integrally formed such that radial envelope surfaces of the at least four stator sheets are free from the stator overmold. A stator recess inside the stator is arranged centrically in the stator overmold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2020
    Assignee: JOHNSON ELECTRIC INTERNATIONAL AG
    Inventors: Gerd Howack, Daniel Gerhard Barthel, Andreas Kurtz
  • Patent number: 10106043
    Abstract: The invention relates to a charging device for an electric vehicle that can be driven by an electrical energy store. The charging device has a charging interface outside the electric vehicle, which can be fed by a three-phase alternating current from an external three-phase alternating current network. The charging device provides a charging current at the output that can be fed via a charging cable to the electric vehicle in order to charge the electrical energy store. The charging interface comprises a converter device configured to convert the three-phase alternating current into a single-phase alternating current as the charging current, and to distribute a phase load on the conduction phase of the single-phase alternating current substantially uniformly onto the three conduction phases of the three-phase alternating current during operation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Weber, Andreas Kurtz
  • Publication number: 20180226863
    Abstract: A stator for a linear stepper motor includes four stator sheets and two stator windings. The four stator sheets are oriented towards each other, provided with bent polar arms, and have two inner stator sheets each defining a sheet recess and two outer stator sheets that are arranged in an offset manner. THE four stator sheets are joined into an integral coil body by a stator overmold. One of the stator windings is wound onto the coil body between one inner stator sheet and one outer stator sheet and connected with connector pins. The four stator sheets and the stator overmold including a stator flange and a pin socket are integrally formed such that radial envelope surfaces of the at least four stator sheets are free from the stator overmold. A stator recess inside the stator is arranged centrically in the stator overmold.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Gerd Howack, Daniel Gerhard Barthel, Andreas Kurtz
  • Publication number: 20180226871
    Abstract: A linear stepper motor includes a stator, a rotor, a cover and a longitudinally displaceable actuating rod. The stator is formed as a fully overmoulded stator assembly. The stator assembly includes a stator overmould. The rotor is received in the stator and includes a spindle. The cover is coupled to the stator assembly on the drive side of the linear stepper motor. The actuating rod is guided by the stator assembly. The spindle is only supported by its tips between two bearing balls between a stator recess of the stator overmould and a cover recess in the cover. A device and a method for manufacturing the linear stepper motor are also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 15, 2018
    Publication date: August 9, 2018
    Inventors: Gerd Howack, Daniel Gerhard Barthel, Andreas Kurtz, Günter Albrecht
  • Patent number: 9726660
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for testing different selected materials and/or surface structures for the culture of cells and/or microorganisms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Helmholtz-Zentrum Geesthacht Zentrum Fur Material und Kustenforschung GMBH
    Inventors: Frank Klein, Thomas Weigel, Karl Kratz, Friedrich Jung, Bernhard Hiebl, Andreas Lendlein, Karola Lützow, Andreas Kurtz, Petra Reinke, Andy R•mhild
  • Publication number: 20150375627
    Abstract: The invention relates to a charging device for an electric vehicle that can be driven by an electrical energy store. The charging device has a charging interface outside the electric vehicle, which can be fed by a three-phase alternating current from an external three-phase alternating current network. The charging device provides a charging current at the output that can be fed via a charging cable to the electric vehicle in order to charge the electrical energy store. The charging interface comprises a converter device configured to convert the three-phase alternating current into a single-phase alternating current as the charging current, and to distribute a phase load on the conduction phase of the single-phase alternating current substantially uniformly onto the three conduction phases of the three-phase alternating current during operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2015
    Publication date: December 31, 2015
    Inventors: Martin WEBER, Andreas KURTZ
  • Publication number: 20130053276
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for testing different selected materials and/or surface structures for the culture of cells and/or microorganisms, said method comprising the following steps: i) providing a plurality of different selected materials and/or surface structures to be tested in the form of beaker-shaped inserts, wherein the beaker-shaped inserts are dimensioned in such a way that a beaker-shaped insert can be inserted in a substantially accurately fitting manner into a well of a multiwell plate suitable for cell culture, wherein each beaker-shaped insert has walls, a base, and an opening in the side facing away from the base, wherein the walls and base of the beaker-shaped inserts are liquid-tight, and wherein each beaker-shaped insert has a selected material and/or a selected surface structure, at least on the inner face of the base; ii) inserting the beaker-shaped inserts into wells of multiwell plates of appropriate dimensioning so that the outer face of the beaker base points towards
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 24, 2010
    Publication date: February 28, 2013
    Inventors: Frank Klein, Thomas Weigel, Karl Kratz, Friedrich Jung, Bernhard Hiebl, Andreas Lendlein, Karola Lützow, Andreas Kurtz, Petra Reinke, Andy Römhild
  • Patent number: 8227949
    Abstract: The invention relates to a linear actuator (1), at least including a stator (3) that is placed within a cartridge-like casing (2), a bearing ring (4) with a bearing seat for mounting a rotor (5) with an antifriction bearing (6), a spindle (7) that on its drive side (7.1) is together with the rotor (5) designed as motion transformer to transform the rotary motion into a translatory motion and a flange (9) that closes the casing (2) on the output side (8) of the linear actuator (1), the flange (9) being equipped with an anti-rotation locking device for the spindle output side (7.2) that penetrates the flange (9). According to the invention the cartridge-like casing (2) is provided with several formed bending tongues (10.1, 10.2), whereby in assembled condition first bending tongues (10.1) engage with groove-like recesses (11) of the bearing ring (4) of the antifriction bearing (6) and second bending tongues (10.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2012
    Assignee: Saia-Burgess Dresden GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Müller, Andreas Kurtz, Klaus Bachmann
  • Publication number: 20100213776
    Abstract: The invention relates to a linear actuator (1), at least including a stator (3) that is placed within a cartridge-like casing (2), a bearing ring (4) with a bearing seat for mounting a rotor (5) with an antifriction bearing (6), a spindle (7) that on its drive side (7.1) is together with the rotor (5) designed as motion transformer to transform the rotary motion into a translatory motion and a flange (9) that closes the casing (2) on the output side (8) of the linear actuator (1), the flange (9) being equipped with an anti-rotation locking device for the spindle output side (7.2) that penetrates the flange (9). According to the invention the cartridge-like casing (2) is provided with several formed bending tongues (10.1, 10.2), whereby in assembled condition first bending tongues (10.1) engage with groove-like recesses (11) of the bearing ring (4) of the antifriction bearing (6) and second bending tongues (10.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 9, 2010
    Publication date: August 26, 2010
    Applicant: SAIA-BURGESS DRESDEN GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Müller, Andreas Kurtz, Klaus Bachmann