Patents by Inventor Andreas Weber

Andreas Weber 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: 20250242288
    Abstract: A gas filter system including a housing, a first filter element having a first filter medium and a second filter element having a second filter medium, the first and second filter elements being arranged inside the housing and the first filter medium and the second filter medium surrounding a common longitudinal axis, wherein a flexible sealing lip protrudes in the axial direction from the first filter medium, wherein the housing has a first sealing surface for sealing abutment against the sealing lip, wherein a rigid sealing rib protrudes from the second filter element, the sealing rib having a second sealing surface for sealing abutment against the sealing lip, wherein the sealing lip is compressed between the first sealing surface and the second sealing surface, and wherein the second sealing surface faces radially outwardly.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2025
    Publication date: July 31, 2025
    Inventors: Pascal NEEF, Christoph WITTMERS, Andreas WEBER, Dennis STARK, Mario RIEGER, Markus HANSELMANN, Peter PEKNY, Eva HALLBAUER, Daniel SCHMID, Steffen GERLACH, Friedrich KUPFER, Philipp HETTKAMP, Johannes GRAD, Pedro Miguel PEREIRA MADEIRA, Dieter WEISS
  • Patent number: 12367361
    Abstract: This invention provides a system and method for detecting and acquiring one or more in-focus images of one or more barcodes within the field of view of an imaging device. A measurement process measures depth-of-field of barcode detection. A plurality of nominal coarse focus settings of a variable lens allow sampling, in steps, of a lens adjustment range corresponding to allowable distances between the one or more barcodes and the image sensor, so that a step size of the sampling is less than a fraction of the depth-of-field of barcode detection. An acquisition process acquires a nominal coarse focus image for each nominal coarse focus setting. A barcode detection process detects one or more barcode-like regions and respective likelihoods. A fine focus process fine-adjusts, for each high-likelihood barcode, the variable lens near a location of the barcode-like regions. The process acquires an image for decoding using the fine adjusted setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2024
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Cognex Corporation
    Inventors: Ivan A. Bachelder, Chen Gao, Francisco Azcona Guerrero, Jose Fernandez Dorado, Esther Oteo Lozano, Andreas Weber
  • Publication number: 20250222384
    Abstract: A filter element has two filter bellows adjoining each other in an interface region between the outflow surface of one of the filter bellows and the inflow surface of the other. A circumferential seal in the interface region connects the filter bellows by material fusion. In transverse direction to the flow direction, one filter bellows has a small extension and the other a large extension larger than the small extension. The filter bellows are arranged such that, along an edge of the filter bellows with large extension, a free space in the interface region of the filter bellows with the large extension is not covered by the filter bellows with the small extension. In the free space region, the seal is connected by material fusion to the filter bellows with the large extension. A filter device with a two-part housing contains such a filter element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2025
    Publication date: July 10, 2025
    Inventors: Matthias STARZER, Joachim-Paul KRIEGER, Johannes GRAD, Thomas VILSMAIER, Michael WANK, Volkmar CHOWANIETZ, Andreas WEBER, Daniel SCHMID
  • Publication number: 20250214019
    Abstract: A gas filter system including an outer filter element having a first filter medium arranged between a first end cap and a second end cap, and an inner filter element having a second filter medium arranged between a third end cap and a fourth end cap, wherein the first filter medium is arrangeable to surround the second filter medium, wherein the first, third and fourth end caps are open, wherein the outer filter element is closed at the second end cap, wherein the outer filter element has an axial protrusion at the second end cap that protrudes into the inner filter element and exhibits a radially outward facing sealing surface, and wherein the fourth end cap of the inner filter element has a second sealing section for sealing abutment against the sealing surface of the protrusion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2025
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Inventors: Pascal NEEF, Christoph WITTMERS, Andreas WEBER, Dennis STARK, Mario RIEGER, Markus HANSELMANN, Peter PEKNY, Eva HALLBAUER, Daniel SCHMID, Steffen GERLACH, Friedrich KUPFER, Philipp HETTKAMP, Johannes GRAD, Pedro Miguel PEREIRA MADEIRA, Dieter WEISS
  • Publication number: 20250214016
    Abstract: A gas filter system comprising an outer filter element having a first filter medium arranged between a first end cap and a second end cap, and an inner filter element having a second filter medium arranged between a third end cap and a fourth end cap, the first filter medium being arrangeable to surround the inner filter medium, wherein the first, second, third and fourth end caps are open.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2025
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Inventors: Pascal NEEF, Christoph WITTMERS, Andreas WEBER, Dennis STARK, Mario RIEGER, Markus HANSELMANN, Peter PEKNY, Eva HALLBAUER, Daniel SCHMID, Steffen GERLACH, Friedrich KUPFER, Philipp HETTKAMP, Johannes GRAD, Pedro Miguel PEREIRA MADEIRA, Dieter WEISS
  • Publication number: 20250215857
    Abstract: A transmission which may find particular utility in wind turbine application, but may also be used in other applications. The transmission comprises a fixed gear ring, a first drive member rotationally supported within the fixed gear ring, the first drive member defining a plurality of radially arranged apertures or bores, each of which accommodates a tooth element. The tooth elements have a tooth tip and a tooth base, and the first drive member further comprises a radially outer face and a radially inner face, and wherein the tooth tips of the tooth elements engage a corresponding gear profile defined by the fixed gear ring. A second drive member is rotationally supported such that it extends within the first drive member, and defines a cam profile which engages the tooth base of each of the plurality of tooth elements,. At least one of the tooth elements define an interior chamber.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2023
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Inventors: Andreas Weber, Christian Bager, Heiko Schreiber
  • Publication number: 20250214022
    Abstract: A gas filter system including a housing with a sealing projection and a housing groove; an outer filter element having a first filter medium with a first end cap and a second end cap; and an inner filter element having a second filter medium with a third end cap and a fourth end cap, wherein the first end cap has a first axial end cap projection and the third end cap has a second axial end cap projection, the end cap projections being arranged in the housing groove; the first and second end cap projections forming a common groove into which the sealing projection protrudes for sealing abutment against the first end cap and the third end cap at the common groove. The use of an outer filter element and/or an inner filter element in the gas filter system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2025
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Inventors: Pascal NEEF, Christoph WITTMERS, Andreas WEBER, Dennis STARK, Mario RIEGER, Markus HANSELMANN, Peter PEKNY, Eva HALLBAUER, Daniel SCHMID, Steffen GERLACH, Friedrich KUPFER, Philipp HETTKAMP, Johannes GRAD, Pedro Miguel PEREIRA MADEIRA, Dieter WEISS
  • Publication number: 20250214018
    Abstract: A gas filter system including an outer filter element having a first filter medium arranged between a first end cap and a second end cap, and an inner filter element having a second filter medium arranged between a third end cap and a fourth end cap, wherein the first, second and third end caps are open, the inner filter element is closed at the fourth end cap, the first filter medium is arrangeable to surround the second filter medium, such that the first end cap of the outer filter element surrounds the third end cap of the inner filter element, the first and third end caps are sealed against each other, and such that the second end cap of the outer filter element surrounds the fourth end cap of the inner filter element, and the second and fourth end caps are sealed against each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2025
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Inventors: Pascal NEEF, Christoph WITTMERS, Andreas WEBER, Dennis STARK, Mario RIEGER, Markus HANSELMANN, Peter PEKNY, Eva HALLBAUER, Daniel SCHMID, Steffen GERLACH, Friedrich KUPFER, Philipp HETTKAMP, Johannes GRAD, Pedro Miguel PEREIRA MADEIRA, Dieter WEISS
  • Publication number: 20250214021
    Abstract: A gas filter system including an outer filter element having a first filter medium arranged between a first end cap and a second end cap, and an inner filter element having a second filter medium arranged between a third end cap and a fourth end cap, wherein the first, third and fourth end caps are open, wherein the outer filter element is closed at the second end cap, wherein the first filter medium is arrangeable to surround the second filter medium, such that the outer filter element is sealed against the inner filter element between the second end cap and the fourth end cap.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 18, 2025
    Publication date: July 3, 2025
    Inventors: Pascal NEEF, Christoph WITTMERS, Andreas WEBER, Dennis STARK, Mario RIEGER, Markus HANSELMANN, Peter PEKNY, Eva HALLBAUER, Daniel SCHMID, Steffen GERLACH, Friedrich KUPFER, Philipp HETTKAMP, Johannes GRAD, Pedro Miguel PEREIRA MADEIRA, Dieter WEISS
  • Publication number: 20250198387
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wind turbine comprising: a nacelle provided on the top of a tower, a rotor including a hub and a number of blades, a main shaft configured to be driven by the rotor about a main axis and supported on the nacelle, a generator having a generator rotor and generator stator, and a gear system arranged to increase the rotational speed between said rotor and said generator rotor. The gear system comprises: a fixed ring gear, an input member coupled to or driven by the main shaft having a plurality of radially movable tooth segments carried in guiding slots and engageable at outer ends with the ring gear, a central output member within the input member having an outer eccentric profile acted on and driven by inner ends of radially movable tooth segments, whereby rotary movement of the input member drives the radially movable tooth segments through engagement with the ring gear and effects rotation of the central output member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 29, 2022
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventor: Andreas Weber
  • Publication number: 20250189029
    Abstract: A drive device for an electrified vehicle axle of a vehicle, including an electric machine, which acts via a transmission on flange shafts which are guided to vehicle wheels, and a cooling/lubrication module, which provides the electric machine and/or the transmission with coolant/lubricant. The drive device has a modular housing design in which a module housing of the cooling/lubricating module, a stator housing of the electric machine and a transmission housing are joined together as separate cast metal parts, in particular diecast parts, to form a unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Publication date: June 12, 2025
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Andreas WEBER, Harald GLOEDE, Frank RÖTHLINGSHÖFER, Korbinian WEBER, Christian HOLZAPFEL
  • Publication number: 20250177898
    Abstract: A liquid separator for separating a liquid from a fluid flow includes a housing, a flow-conducting region arranged inside the housing and including an inner tube and an outer tube adjoining the inner tube, the inner tube being arranged downstream of the outer tube in a flow direction, a fluid conduit connected to the flow-conducting region and having a first diameter, the fluid conduit including a swirl generator for generating a swirl of the fluid flow, a separation region arranged at a radial outer side of the inner tube and the outer tube, a fluid outlet connected to the separation region and extending at a slant to an axial direction, and a flow-calmed region arranged between the separation region and the fluid outlet and including a flow-calming element for calming the fluid flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 13, 2025
    Publication date: June 5, 2025
    Inventor: Andreas WEBER
  • Publication number: 20250162592
    Abstract: A road quality monitoring system is able to identify and display to end users, e.g. dispatchers and supervisors, road segments that are in need of repair. Each road segment may be given a road quality score based on suspension loading data, such as strut pressure data, from trucks traversing the road segment or by launch velocity data from trucks leaving a mine site, such as a shovel or a dumping zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2023
    Publication date: May 22, 2025
    Applicant: TECK RESOURCES LIMITED
    Inventors: Aliakbar Soleymani Koohbanani, Mohammad Tabesh, Carlos Viejo, Mohammad Babaei, Andreas Weber
  • Publication number: 20250158095
    Abstract: A conduit for discharging exhaust air from a fuel cell system, includes a fluid line including an inlet and an outlet configured to discharge the exhaust air into an environment, a turbine arranged at or in the inlet and configured to supply the exhaust air into the fluid line, a water discharge device arranged between the outlet and the inlet and configured to prevent an accidental ingress of water from the outlet into the inlet, and a drainage valve connected in fluid communication to the water discharge device. The water discharge device includes a siphon including a siphon wall having an upper edge positioned at a level higher than an installation level of the turbine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2025
    Publication date: May 15, 2025
    Inventors: Jürgen TILG, Andreas WEBER
  • Patent number: 12283862
    Abstract: To control movement of a transport unit of a linear motor, a quality functional J(SG) with quality terms JTk(SG) is used as a function of manipulated variables (SG) of active drive coils. The quality functional J(SG) controlling movement of the transport unit along the stator is optimized with regard to the manipulated variable (SG) to determine optimal manipulated variables (SGopt) for the relevant time step of the control of movement, active drive coils are energized according to the determined optimal manipulated variables (SGopt), and at least two movement phases are provided during the movement of the transport unit along the stator. In the at least two novement phases, different quality functionals J(SG) are used for determining the optimal manipulated variables (SGopt), the different quality functionals J(SG) differing by the number k of the quality terms JTk(SG) used and/or by the quality terms JTk(SG) and/or by the weighting factors kk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2025
    Assignee: B&R INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION GMBH
    Inventors: Christian Krämer, Wolfgang Kemmetmüller, Andreas Kugi, Andreas Weber, Manuel Plainer, Michael Reinthaler, Engelbert Grünbacher
  • Publication number: 20250122068
    Abstract: The invention relates to a treatment head (1) for treating kegs (3), each of which is equipped with at least one keg fitting (2). The treatment head (1) has a treatment head housing (4), as well as at least one plunger (5), which is held in the treatment head housing (4) so as to be displaceable in the axial direction of a treatment head axis (BA), for opening the keg fitting (2) of the keg (3) which is to be treated and is disposed in a sealing position on the treatment head (1). At least one fluid space (6) as well as flow paths or conduits (SK1, SK2) which communicate controllably with the fluid space (6) are formed in the treatment head (1). The flow paths or conduits (SK1, SK2) can be connected to the interior (3.1) of the keg (3) to be treated when the keg fitting (2) is open.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 17, 2025
    Inventors: Volker Damerow, Sebastian Eckes, Maximilian Weindorf, Christian Pedersen, Manfred Wahl, Andreas Weber, Olaf Muszinski
  • Publication number: 20250115298
    Abstract: A subframe for a vehicle, with a unit mounting, in which a unit support is pivotably connected to a unit bearing on the subframe about a bearing axis. The unit bearing is axially fastened on both sides to a respective bracket wing of a bearing bracket of the subframe. The unit bearing is arranged in an inner corner region of the subframe, at which a first subframe member and a second subframe member converge. One of the bracket wings is formed directly by a wall of the first subframe member.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 6, 2023
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Marek BUJAK, Jörg EICKSTÄDT, Dominik MOHRLOCK, Stefan RUGIES, Andreas WEBER
  • Publication number: 20250115467
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system (10) for treating kegs (12), comprising: at least two treatment modules (14a-14g), each of which has—a keg receiving area (35) for receiving at least one keg (12) during the treatment process, —a treatment head (36) for treating the keg (12), and—at least one interface (41) for a discharge and for at least one cleaning medium line and/or for at least one filling product line; and a controller (30) for controlling the treatment modules (14a-14g), wherein at least one of the treatment modules (14a-14g) is designed to treat kegs (12) of a first type and/or of a first size, and at least one other treatment module of the treatment modules (14a-14g) is designed to treat kegs (12) of a second type and/or of a second size.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2022
    Publication date: April 10, 2025
    Inventors: Volker Damerow, Sebastian Eckes, Maximilian Weindorf, Christian Pedersen, Manfred Wahi, Andreas Weber, Olaf Muszinski
  • Publication number: 20250100816
    Abstract: In order to accurately and reliably detect a new mover transferred to an electromagnetic transport device with less effort compared to the known prior art, an introduction area which extends over a part of a stator of the electromagnetic transport device and comprises at least one position sensor is defined, the new mover is moved through the introduction area, a new sensor response which is detected by the at least one position sensor arranged in the introduction area when the new mover is moved through the introduction area is monitored, and a control of drive coils of the electromagnetic transport device, which interact with the new mover to move the new mover, is started when the new sensor response reaches or exceeds a predefined activation criterion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2024
    Publication date: March 27, 2025
    Inventors: Alexander Almeder, Andreas Weber, Stefan Flixeder
  • Patent number: 12257894
    Abstract: A drive device for an electrically operated vehicle axle of a two-track vehicle, with a drive unit in which an electric machine drives vehicle wheels via a gearbox. The electric machine is arranged transversely in the vehicle axle, and a stator housing of the electric machine is axially extended in the vehicle transverse direction with a gearbox housing. The drive unit is supported in a three-point bearing via three unit bearings in the vehicle body. The three-point bearing has two gearbox-side unit bearings via which the gearbox housing is supported in the vehicle body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 25, 2025
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Andreas Weber, Harald Gloede, Frank Röthlingshöfer, Korbinian Weber, Christian Holzapfel