Patents by Inventor Andreas Pfeiffer

Andreas Pfeiffer 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: 20240092113
    Abstract: Proposed is a security element, preferably in the form of a security stripe, security thread, or a security patch, comprising a machine-readable code and an optically variable security feature, which has a visual appearance that depends on the viewing angle. The machine-readable code is a magnetic encoding, which is produced by printing at least one opaque magnetic printing ink containing magnetic pigments, with the magnetic printing ink being incorporated or applied in at least one defined code region such that the visual appearance of the optically variable security feature is determined at least in part by the at least one incorporated or applied magnetic printing ink. The optically variable security feature comprises a micro-optical micro-lens arrangement, which covers the at least one code region in which the at least one magnetic printing ink has been incorporated or applied.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Matthias PFEIFFER, Stefan BICHLMEIER, Christoph MENGEL, Andreas HOLZMEISTER
  • Publication number: 20240081593
    Abstract: A collecting bag is for receiving material to be collected and has a receiving space delimited by a woven-fabric cloth and is delimited by outer edges of the collecting bag. The woven-fabric cloth of the collecting bag is at least partially air-permeable. The receiving space has an inlet opening for a conveying airflow which supplies the material to be collected, and an outlet opening for at least partially discharging the conveying airflow into the environment. The inlet opening is provided on a first edge of the collecting bag, and the emptying opening is provided on a second edge. The first and second edges are opposite one another at a spacing and are interconnected via longitudinal edges of the collecting bag. The outlet opening for at least partially discharging the conveying airflow is disposed in a side wall of the collecting bag, between the emptying opening and the inlet opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Hocquel, Alexander Fuchs, Andreas Rieger, Markus Oesterle, Markus Pfeiffer
  • Patent number: 11828632
    Abstract: An ultrasonic sensor arrangement. The ultrasonic sensor arrangement may comprise a housing with a container which is open at the top, a disc-shaped, piezoelectric element and a coupling element in the interior of the container, wherein the coupling element has a bearing surface, on which the piezoelectric element is arranged, and is provided on the underside of the container, wherein the container and the coupling element are integrally formed, and wherein at least the piezoelectric element is covered with a potting compound, and to a measuring apparatus comprising such an ultrasonic sensor arrangement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: Sensus Spectrum LLC
    Inventors: Frank Müller, Andreas Pfeiffer
  • Patent number: 11796360
    Abstract: A measuring device for determining the flow rate of a fluid which flows through a pipe portion. The measuring device comprises a measuring pipe with a pipe wall, at least one ultrasonic sensor for transmitting an acoustic signal and/or receiving an acoustic signal having an ultrasonic sensor upper surface and a holding element. In the pipe wall, at least one opening of a first type is provided, into which the at least one ultrasonic sensor can be inserted, and wherein the measuring device has an assembled state in which the holding element surrounds the measuring pipe in an annular manner and is positioned on the at least one ultrasonic sensor inserted into the opening of a first type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Sensus Spectrum LLC
    Inventors: Carsten Bertram, Andreas Pfeiffer
  • Publication number: 20230091306
    Abstract: An electric/electronic architecture for a motor vehicle includes an electronic computing device for communicating with at least one actuator of the motor vehicle. The electric/electronic architecture has an interface controller which is contacted by at least one sensor device of the motor vehicle and the electronic computing device, wherein the at least one actuator directly communicates with the electronic computing device, and the at least one sensor device directly communicates with the interface controller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 18, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Tobias LORENZ, Andreas PFEIFFER, Martin SCHAEFER
  • Publication number: 20210356303
    Abstract: A measuring device for determining the flow rate of a fluid which flows through a pipe portion. The measuring device comprises a measuring pipe with a pipe wall, at least one ultrasonic sensor for transmitting an acoustic signal and/or receiving an acoustic signal having an ultrasonic sensor upper surface and a holding element. In the pipe wall, at least one opening of a first type is provided, into which the at least one ultrasonic sensor can be inserted, and wherein the measuring device has an assembled state in which the holding element surrounds the measuring pipe in an annular manner and is positioned on the at least one ultrasonic sensor inserted into the opening of a first type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2019
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Carsten Bertram, Andreas Pfeiffer
  • Publication number: 20210270648
    Abstract: An ultrasonic sensor arrangement. The ultrasonic sensor arrangement may comprise: a housing with a container which is open at the top, a disc-shaped, piezoelectric element and a coupling element in the interior of the container, wherein the coupling element has a bearing surface, on which the piezoelectric element is arranged, and is provided on the underside of the container, wherein the container and the coupling element are integrally formed, and wherein at least the piezoelectric element is covered with a potting compound, and to a measuring apparatus comprising such an ultrasonic sensor arrangement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2019
    Publication date: September 2, 2021
    Inventors: Frank Müller, Andreas Pfeiffer
  • Patent number: 10065642
    Abstract: A motor vehicle includes a distance related speed control system, wherein if the motor vehicle is following a vehicle driving in front, a target distance from the vehicle driving in front chosen by the driver is generally set, and wherein for a distance-shortening turn signal effect time when a turn signal is set, a shortened target distance is set. The motor vehicle further has a lane departure warning system, wherein a warning that is generally activated if there is a risk of an unintentional lane departure is suppressed for a specified warning-suppressing turn signal effect time after the setting of the turn signal. The warning-suppressing turn signal effect time begins simultaneously with the distance-shortening turn signal effect time, wherein these two turn signal effect times are specified to have the same length.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2018
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Pfeiffer, Thomas Burtsche
  • Patent number: 9754127
    Abstract: An apparatus, a method and a product for transferring security-critical medical data records via a public network are disclosed. In order to be able to transmit security-critical data sections in pseudonymized form, a pseudonymization function is adaptively applied to the data records. The pseudonymization function is in each case calculated dynamically on the basis of a processing context that has been read in and that takes account of the planned user role, the planned intended use of the data processing and an application context.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2017
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Helmut König, Andreas Pfeiffer, Vladyslav Ukis
  • Patent number: 9400494
    Abstract: A communication device for a motor vehicle includes a first control unit (BDC), a second control unit (SAS), a control unit arrangement (SGA), a first data bus (SB), to which the first control unit (BDC) and the control unit arrangement (SGA) are connected for the exchange of data, as well as a second data bus (AB), to which the second control unit (SAS) and the control unit arrangement (SGA) are connected for the exchange of data. The control unit arrangement includes at least a first sensor control unit (SSG1) for controlling a first sensor and a second sensor control unit (SSG2) for controlling a second sensor. The first and the second sensor have mutually overlapping sensor acquisition ranges. The first and the second sensor control unit can exchange at least preprocessed sensor data by way of a third data bus (PB). The first and the second sensor control unit are constructed to be operated in a master-slave operation with respect to at least one functionality.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2016
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christoph Mayser, Andreas Pfeiffer
  • Publication number: 20160016584
    Abstract: A motor vehicle includes a distance related speed control system, wherein if the motor vehicle is following a vehicle driving in front, a target distance from the vehicle driving in front chosen by the driver is generally set, and wherein for a distance-shortening turn signal effect time when a turn signal is set, a shortened target distance is set. The motor vehicle further has a lane departure warning system, wherein a warning that is generally activated if there is a risk of an unintentional lane departure is suppressed for a specified warning-suppressing turn signal effect time after the setting of the turn signal. The warning-suppressing turn signal effect time begins simultaneously with the distance-shortening turn signal effect time, wherein these two turn signal effect times are specified to have the same length.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Inventors: Andreas PFEIFFER, Thomas BURTSCHE
  • Publication number: 20150348418
    Abstract: In a driver assistance system for assisting a driver of a motor vehicle when leaving a determined lane by use of a lane departure warning system, which is connected to at least one lane detection unit and to a warning and/or transversal guidance unit, the lane departure warning system executes a warning and/or a transversal guidance intervention, if the motor vehicle moves too close to a defined boundary of the lane. The lane departure warning system records and uses information about a defined driving situation of the pertaining motor vehicle such that a currently determined lane may be changed by shifting at least one defined boundary depending on the driving situation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventors: Andreas PFEIFFER, Thomas BURTSCHE
  • Publication number: 20140379377
    Abstract: An apparatus, a method and a product for transferring security-critical medical data records via a public network are disclosed. In order to be able to transmit security-critical data sections in pseudonymized form, a pseudonymization function is adaptively applied to the data records. The pseudonymization function is in each case calculated dynamically on the basis of a processing context that has been read in and that takes account of the planned user role, the planned intended use of the data processing and an application context.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2014
    Publication date: December 25, 2014
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Helmut KÖNIG, Andreas PFEIFFER, Vladyslav UKIS
  • Patent number: 8849507
    Abstract: A driver assistance system for driver assistance for consumption controlled driving combines tactile and visual feedback functions, especially in the form of a drive configuration, a display concept and/or a deceleration assistant, wherein the emphasis is, on the one hand, on a modified accelerator pedal characteristic and, on the other hand, on providing ECO tips for an interactive output of efficient driving instructions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 30, 2014
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Popp, Norman Wiebking, Henrik Wigermo, Andreas Pfeiffer
  • Publication number: 20140288786
    Abstract: A communication device for a motor vehicle includes a first control unit (BDC), a second control unit (SAS), a control unit arrangement (SGA), a first data bus (SB), to which the first control unit (BDC) and the control unit arrangement (SGA) are connected for the exchange of data, as well as a second data bus (AB), to which the second control unit (SAS) and the control unit arrangement (SGA) are connected for the exchange of data. The control unit arrangement includes at least a first sensor control unit (SSG1) for controlling a first sensor and a second sensor control unit (SSG2) for controlling a second sensor. The first and the second sensor have mutually overlapping sensor acquisition ranges. The first and the second sensor control unit can exchange at least preprocessed sensor data by way of a third data bus (PB). The first and the second sensor control unit are constructed to be operated in a master-slave operation with respect to at least one functionality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Publication date: September 25, 2014
    Inventors: Christoph MAYSER, Andreas PFEIFFER
  • Patent number: 8532364
    Abstract: Apparatus for inspecting a semiconductor wafer (8) has a plurality of light sensors (2) arranged relative to a light source (1) and wafer inspection platform (4), so that images of different angle views of a surface of the wafer can be received and compared with corresponding images taken of a reference wafer to automatically detect defects based on image comparison. The light sensors (2) may receive superposed images of light (7) reflected directly from the light source (1) off the wafer surface and light (6) indirectly reflected off the wafer surface after first reflecting off a dome (3) with a diffusely reflecting inner surface (5) positioned over the platform (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 11, 2010
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2013
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Urban, Peter Schaeffler, Andreas Pfeiffer, Holger Schwekendiek
  • Patent number: 8170763
    Abstract: A method is provided for controlling a drive system and/or a wheel braking system of a vehicle, in which a total braking power to be exerted on the wheels of a motor vehicle is composed of a drive braking power and/or a wheel braking power. The instantaneously set drive braking power is frozen when, starting from a steady state operating mode, the gradient of the required total braking power exceeds a predetermined threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2012
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Pfeiffer, Peter Wanner
  • Publication number: 20120078468
    Abstract: A driver assistance system for driver assistance for consumption controlled driving combines tactile and visual feedback functions, especially in the form of a drive configuration, a display concept and/or a deceleration assistant, wherein the emphasis is, on the one hand, on a modified accelerator pedal characteristic and, on the other hand, on providing ECO tips for an interactive output of efficient driving instructions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2011
    Publication date: March 29, 2012
    Applicant: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian POPP, Norman Wiebking, Henrik Wigermo, Andreas Pfeiffer
  • Publication number: 20110262939
    Abstract: Subject of the present invention is an in vitro-method for classifying a foodstuff and/or beverage and/or diet and/or nutrition regimen and/or medicament in view of an effect on the cardiovascular system of a subject, comprising determining the relative level of one or more cardiovascular markers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2009
    Publication date: October 27, 2011
    Applicant: B.R.A.H.M.S GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Bergmann, Andreas Pfeiffer, Natalia Rudovich
  • Patent number: 7904228
    Abstract: A distance-related cruise control system and method for a motor vehicle performs a speed control to a predefined desired speed during free travel of the motor vehicle and performs a distance regulation to a predefined distance to the vehicle traveling ahead during following travel. After deactivation of the distance regulation during following travel, the system performs a speed control, not to the previously defined speed, but rather to the current speed of the motor vehicle at the instant of the deactivation of the distance regulation as the desired speed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2011
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Andreas Pfeiffer, Joachim Steinle, Martin Brandstaeter