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: 20190361194
    Abstract: This invention provides a vision system having a housing and an interchangeable lens module is provided. The module is adapted to seat on a C-mount ring provided on the front, mounting face of the housing. The module is attached via a plurality of fasteners that pass through a frame of the module and into the mounting face. The module includes a connector in a fixed location, which mates with a connector well on the mounting face to provide power and control to a driver board that operates a variable (e.g. liquid) lens within the optics of the lens module. The driver board is connected to the lens body by a flexible printed circuit board (PCB), which also allows for axial motion of the lens body with respect to the frame. This axial motion can be effected by an adjustment ring that can include an indexed/lockable, geared, outer surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Laurens Nunnink, Rene Delasauce, Nicole Dippel, Andreas Weber
  • Publication number: 20190351091
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a device comprising at least one pathogen-reduced collection container, which is in fluid connection with at least one non-sterile waste disposal site (16) via at least one distributor comprising at least three attachment points for tubes and a method for using the this device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Peter SCHWAN, Stefan SIEVERS, Andreas VOGT, Martin LOBEDANN, Andreas WEBER
  • Publication number: 20190351361
    Abstract: A filter element for an air filter has a filter bellows with a filter medium folded multiple times. A recess is disposed in the filter bellows and is designed to receive a guiding rib of the air filter. The recess is curved at least in sections thereof along a length extension of the recess. The air filter has a housing and a guiding rib, wherein the filter element is arranged at least partially in the housing and the guiding rib is immersed at least partially in the recess of the filter element. In a method for producing the filter element, the recess in the filter bellows is formed with a computer-assisted separation method that forms the recess to be curved at least in sections thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Daniel Schmid, Timo Dirnberger, Andreas Weber, Markus Schmidl, Christoph Goldbrunner, Markus Hanselmann, Guenter Goerg
  • Patent number: 10476413
    Abstract: Linear motor and method to determine absolute position of a rotor movable with respect to a stationary part in a direction of movement, without movement of rotor, without additional permanent magnets, without a close arrangement of position sensors, and also during large movements of rotor, at least one edge area of an arrangement of drive magnets is determined, and rough position of rotor is derived, and using known geometry of rotor, specific drive magnet of the arrangement of drive magnets is determined whose magnetic field is detected by at least one of the position sensors in the area of the arrangement of drive magnets. At least one position sensor determines a relative position of measured drive magnet with respect to the at least one position sensor, and absolute position of rotor is determined from known mounting position of this at least one position sensor and from determined relative position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: B&R INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Weber, Manuel Plainer
  • Publication number: 20190330439
    Abstract: The invention relates to a recycling process for contaminated polyolefins, in particular HDPE, wherein the contaminated polyolefin is swelled using a solvent such that contaminants in the polyolefin dissolve in the solvent, and the solvent as well as the contaminants dissolved from the solvent are removed from the polyolefin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 9, 2017
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Robert Siegl, Andreas Weber
  • Patent number: 10454355
    Abstract: In a transition of a transport unit of a long stator linear motor from a first control zone to a following second control zone in a movement direction, a first segment control unit is responsible for controlling the movement of the transport unit and the first control zone is extended, in the movement direction, by a number of virtual drive coils. The first segment control unit, which is assigned to the first control zone, calculates manipulated variables for the virtual drive coils, and transmits the manipulated variables for the virtual drive coils to the second segment control unit, which is assigned to the second control zone. The second segment control unit uses the transmitted manipulated variables for the virtual drive coils in order to energize the drive coils of the second control zone for moving the transport unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: B&R INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Weber, Manuel Plainer, Stefan Brucker
  • Patent number: 10383020
    Abstract: A method for interference reduction in a radio communication system is disclosed. The method includes receiving from a mobile station indications of radiation beams that are transmitted by a first base station of the radio communication system and that fulfill or exceed a predefined quality criterion at the mobile station, when the mobile station is attached to the first base station and when the mobile station is located within a first overlapping coverage area of the first base station and of a second base station of the radio communication system, and determining at least one radio resource to be unused or to be transmitted with a limited transmission power by the first base station for at least one of the radiation beams based on the received indications for serving the mobile station or a further mobile station by the second base station with the at least one radio resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Oliver Stanze, Volker Braun, Christian Gerlach, Andreas Weber, Bozo Cesar
  • Patent number: 10316804
    Abstract: A filter housing (11) has at least one inlet (15) and at least one outlet (17) for the fluid. The filter element (10) includes a filter body of a filter medium (18).The filter element (10) is configured to be arranged in a filter housing (11) separating the at least one inlet (15) from the at least one outlet (17). An element axis (14) of the filter element (10) and a housing axis (25) of the filter housing (11) can be aligned parallel or axially to an installation direction (12) of the filter element into the filter housing. The filter element (10) may include at least one guide crosspiece (46, 48) which extends axially and radially outward on a peripheral exterior side (26), relative to the element axis (14), of the filter element (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2019
    Assignee: MANN+HUMMEL GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Hasenfratz, Fabian Wagner, André Roesgen, Christian Thalmann, Frank Pflueger, Nadine Donauer, Werner Blossey, Mario Rieger, Andreas Weber, Pascal Neef
  • Patent number: 10299175
    Abstract: The embodiments of the invention relate to a method for operating a first base station (BS1) in a radio communication system (RAN). The method contains transmitting first reference signals via a first radiation beam (BM1-BS1) being directed towards a first direction and at least second reference signals via at least one second radiation beam (BM2-BS1, . . . , BM5-BS1) being directed towards at least one second direction. The method further contains receiving for a hand over of a mobile station (MS) from a second base station (BS2) being a serving base station of the mobile station (MS) to the first base station (BS1) an indication for a radiation beam being selected from a group of radiation beams comprising the first radiation beam (BM1-BS1) and the at least one second radiation beam (BM2-BS1, . . . , BM5-BS1) for applying the selected radiation beam as an initial radiation beam at the first base station (BS1) for serving the mobile station (MS).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2019
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Andreas Weber, Hajo-Erich Bakker, Siegfried Klein
  • Patent number: 10292109
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for coordinating at least one first transmission from a multipoint transmitter or to a multipoint receiver and at least one second transmission from a single-point transmitter to a single-point receiver in a radio communication system. The method comprises the step of reserving at least one first radio resource (SI-F1 to S3-F1, S9-F1, SI 0-F1, SI-F2, SI-F1 b-BW2 to SI 0-F1 b-BW2, SI-F2b-BW2) for the at least one first transmission for at least two serving areas of the radio communication system and further reserving at least one second radio resource (S4-F1 to S8-F1, SI-F1 b-BW1 to SI 0-F1 b-BW1, SI-F2b-BW1, SI-F1 b-BW3 to SI 0-F1 b-BW3, SI-F2b-BW3) for the at least one second transmission for the at least two serving areas).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2019
    Assignee: ALCATEL LUCENT
    Inventors: Uwe Doetsch, Andreas Weber, Thorsten Wild
  • Patent number: 10246266
    Abstract: To reduce mechanical loading due to guidance of the transport unit of a conveyor installation in the form of a long stator linear motor and nevertheless ensure safe retention of the transport unit on the conveyor track of the conveyor installation in all operating conditions, the normal force (FNn) is controlled with a controller (Rk) for controlling the normal force (FNn). The controller (Rk) determines a normal-force-forming current component (iAnd) of the drive current (iAn) of the drive coils interacting with the transport unit (Tn) so that a resulting normal force (F?Nn) acting on the transport unit (Tn) as the sum of the normal force (FNn), a magnetic force (FMn) in the normal direction (N) caused by the drive magnets, and an external force (FEn) in the normal direction (N) acting on the transport unit (Tn) corresponds at least to a specified retaining force (FNnmin) in the normal direction (N).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2019
    Assignee: B&R INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Weber, Franz Spanlang
  • Publication number: 20190063380
    Abstract: A flat air filter element for an air filter has a filter medium of cellulose material and a sealing element extending circumferentially about the filter medium. Sealing element and filter medium have at least one recess at an outer contour of the flat air filter element. The sealing element has a circumferentially extending holding groove to be engaged by a housing part of a filter housing. The filter housing has a housing pot, a housing cover to cover the housing pot, and a closure element for closing the filter housing. The flat air filter element is secured in the closed state of the filter housing by circumferentially clamping the sealing element between housing pot and housing cover. The circumferentially extending holding groove of the sealing element is engaged by housing pot or housing cover. The closure element of the filter housing is arranged in the region of the recess.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2018
    Publication date: February 28, 2019
    Inventors: Timo Dirnberger, Daniel Schmid, Andreas Weber
  • Publication number: 20190058432
    Abstract: Method and device for controlling the electrical variables and/or LLM currents of LLM coils of an LLM stator, the movement of a first transport unit is controlled by an associated first transport controller, the movement of a second transport unit is controlled by an associated second transport controller, and a control unit checks whether the first transport controller intends to specify a first controlled variable for an LLM coil and whether the second transport controller simultaneously intends to specify a second controlled variable to the same LLM coil. In this case, either an additional controlled variable, which is derived from the first controlled variable and/or the second controlled variable using a predetermined function f (Ux=f(Ux?, Ux?), or Ux=f(Ux?) or Ux=f(Ux?)), is specified for the LLM coil, or the coil terminals of the LLM coil (Lx) are short-circuited.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2018
    Publication date: February 21, 2019
    Applicant: B&R INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION GMBH
    Inventors: Manuel PLAINER, Stefan BRUCKER, Andreas WEBER
  • Patent number: 10206179
    Abstract: Embodiments relate to an apparatus, a method and a computer program for a base station transceiver (100) for a mobile communication system (300). The base station transceiver (100) is operable in a coverage area (205) of another base station transceiver (200). The other base station transceiver (200) is operable to transmit radio signals in a repetitive sequence of radio frames, wherein in at least one of the radio frames in the sequence the other base station transceiver (200) is operable to transmit with a reduced transmission power or to suspend transmission compared to at least one other of the radio frames in the sequence. The apparatus (10) comprises an interface (12) operable to receive sequence information on the at least one of the radio frames in the sequence, during which the other base station transceiver (200) is operable to transmit with the reduced transmission power or to suspend transmission compared to the at least one other of the radio frames in the sequence.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 12, 2019
    Assignee: Alcatel Lucent
    Inventors: Andreas Weber, Oliver Stanze, Antoni Bestard Bennasar, Martin Link
  • Patent number: 10182384
    Abstract: The embodiments of the invention relate to a method for operating a mobile station (MS) in a radio communication system (RAN). The method contains receiving first radio resource information for a transmission of first reference signals via a first radiation beam (BM1-BS1) being directed towards a first direction by at least one neighboring base station (BS1) of a serving base station (BS2) of the mobile station (MS) and at least second radio resource information for a transmission of at least second reference signals via at least one second radiation beam (BM2-BS1, . . . BM5-BS1) being directed towards at least one second direction by the at least one neighboring base station (BS1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 15, 2019
    Assignee: ALCATEL LUCENT
    Inventors: Andreas Weber, Hajo-Erich Bakker, Siegfried Klein
  • Publication number: 20190011557
    Abstract: This invention provides an integrated time-of-flight sensor that delivers distance information to a processor associated with the camera assembly and vision system. The distance is processed with the above-described feedback control, to auto-focus the camera assembly's variable lens during runtime operation based on the particular size/shape object(s) within the field of view. The shortest measured distance is used to set the focus distance of the lens. To correct for calibration or drift errors, a further image-based focus optimization can occur around the measured distance and/or based on the measured temperature. The distance information generated by the time-of-flight sensor can be employed to perform other functions. Other functions include self-triggering of image acquisition, object size dimensioning, detection and analysis of object defects and/or gap detection between objects in the field of view and software-controlled range detection to prevent unintentional reading of (e.g.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2017
    Publication date: January 10, 2019
    Inventors: Andreas Weber, Laurens Nunnink, Rene Delasauce, William Equitz
  • Patent number: 10178001
    Abstract: In some examples, a method includes receiving a data packet through a datapath configured by a data source. The datapath may specify a data dimension of data communicated through the data packet. The method may also include identifying, from the data packet, a particular dimension value for the data dimension specified in the datapath and dispatching the data of the data packet to a virtual data channel specific to the particular dimension value to support presentation of the data through a dashboard.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 8, 2019
    Assignee: EntIT Software LLC
    Inventors: Klaus Baumecker, Falk Edelmann, Andreas Weber, Frank Vosseler
  • Publication number: 20190002214
    Abstract: In order to allow for more flexible process control of a transport apparatus in the form of a long stator linear motor, in particular in order to at least intermittently increase the maximum achievable speed of a transport unit without changing the energy-related basic conditions (maximum current or maximum voltage) of the transport apparatus, according to the invention, in order to change a magnetic flux in the magnetic circuit during movement of the transport unit along the transport route, a magnetic reluctance of the magnetic circuit is changed and/or a magnetomotive force of the magnetic circuit is changed on the transport unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: B&R INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION GMBH
    Inventor: Andreas WEBER
  • Publication number: 20190006930
    Abstract: In a transition of a transport unit of a long stator linear motor from a first control zone to a following second control zone in a movement direction, a first segment control unit is responsible for controlling the movement of the transport unit and the first control zone is extended, in the movement direction, by a number of virtual drive coils. The first segment control unit, which is assigned to the first control zone, calculates manipulated variables for the virtual drive coils, and transmits the manipulated variables for the virtual drive coils to the second segment control unit, which is assigned to the second control zone. The second segment control unit uses the transmitted manipulated variables for the virtual drive coils in order to energize the drive coils of the second control zone for moving the transport unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: B&R INDUSTRIAL AUTOMATION GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas WEBER, Manuel PLAINER, Stefan BRUCKER
  • Publication number: 20180345762
    Abstract: A smart multi-modal vehicular air filtration management system including a first filter element and a second filter element disposed in a fresh air housing, wherein the fresh air housing has an inlet and an outlet. Additionally, a third filter element is provided which is disposed in a cabin housing, the cabin housing having one or more inlet. A fluid channel arranged between the fresh air and cabin housing. Finally, a diverter is included which is disposed near an outlet of the fresh air housing, wherein the diverter is configured to cause air to flow through the fresh air housing selectively through one or both of the first filter element and the second filter element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2017
    Publication date: December 6, 2018
    Inventors: Bernd Bauer, Thomas Heininger, Dominik Haider, Tobias Schwimmbeck, Mathias Hoesl, Matthias Heinzmann, Andreas Weber, Mirco Schoen, Mario Schoen, Martin Klein, Pascal Thau