Patents by Inventor Andreas Menge

Andreas Menge 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: 20240051011
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a cable tray component which is made of metal and designed, for example, as a cable tray (1) or cable tray cover and has a sequence of beads (5) along its longitudinal extent, which beads are stamped into the workpiece (14) used to form the cable tray component (1) by means of a stamping process, wherein, for the process of bead stamping, the workpiece (14) is clamped in a hold-down element (N) adjacent to or in the transition to a bead (5) to be created. A special feature according to a first embodiment of the method is that the workpiece (14) is held in the hold-down element (N) by a form fit which acts in the radial direction towards the bead (5) to be created and is produced by at least one form-fitting edge (16, 17) pressed into the surface of the workpiece (14), as a result of which at least one indentation following the shape of the bead (5) is introduced into the material of the workpiece (14) by the hold-down element (N) before the bead (5) is formed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2022
    Publication date: February 15, 2024
    Inventors: Wolfang GUTT, Robert KNOSSALLA, Andreas MENGE, Kevin KUTSCHELIS
  • Patent number: 9857187
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a one-to-many route searching method comprising searching map data to select links to form a plurality of routes from a departure node according to a cost function, and determining an extent of each route according to an objective function, wherein the searching of the map data is performed to a search boundary based upon a cost of an unreachable node.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: TOMTOM NAVIGATION B.V.
    Inventors: Andreas Profous, Johannes Robert Fischer, Andreas Menge
  • Publication number: 20150149078
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention provide a one-to-many route searching method comprising searching map data to select links to form a plurality of routes from a departure node according to a cost function, and determining an extent of each route according to an objective function, wherein the searching of the map data is performed to a search boundary based upon a cost of an unreachable node.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2013
    Publication date: May 28, 2015
    Inventors: Andreas Profous, Johannes Robert Fischer, Andreas Menge