Patents by Inventor Andreas Wolf

Andreas Wolf 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: 20240110291
    Abstract: A method is proposed for producing one or more electrolysis products, wherein one or more electrolytic cells having a proton exchange membrane is/are used, wherein a hydrogen-rich cathode extraction gas is extracted on the cathode side of the one or more electrolytic cells, wherein an anode extraction gas is extracted on the anode side of the one or more electrolytic cells, wherein the anode extraction gas is extracted from the one or more electrolytic cells as part of a two-phase flow, wherein the two-phase flow comprises the anode extraction gas and a water phase, and wherein the two-phase flow or part thereof is separated in a separator arrangement into the anode extraction gas and the water phase.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Andreas WOLF, Anton WELLENHOFER, Christian FRUHMANN, Daniela LAUCHNER, Marius DILLIG, Mariyana CHALAKOVA, Ole MÜLLER-THORWART, Robert BIRK, Robert HERZOG
  • Publication number: 20240102180
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating an electrolysis system in which water is converted into oxygen and hydrogen in an electrolysis unit, wherein a fluid flow including water and gas is conducted from an oxygen side of the electrolysis unit to a gas separator, wherein an ignition of an ignition device is actively produced in the fluid flow. The invention also relates to a corresponding electrolysis system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Inventors: Andreas WOLF, Anton WELLENHOFER, Marius DILLIG, Ole MÜLLER-THORWART, Robert BIRK
  • Publication number: 20240083508
    Abstract: A body for an electrically operable motor vehicle, includes a vehicle floor, which has a floor element arranged above an energy storage device and, in the region of the end of the floor element, at least one fastening point of the body for a support element is provided. In the event of an accident-induced load introduction of a corresponding force in the region of the fastening point, in order to prevent accompanying damage to the energy storage device, the floor element has a deformation region that can be intentionally deformed away from the energy storage device when the accident-induced force is introduced at the fastening point of the body for the support element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Markus AMSZ, Jan DANNEBERG, Martin GAMBONI, Juergen LESCHHORN, Andreas WOLF
  • Patent number: 11919490
    Abstract: A hydraulic motor vehicle braking system includes a first functional unit, a second functional unit and a switching device. The first functional unit comprises at least one first valve arrangement designed to optionally connect or disconnect at least one first wheel brake associated with a first axle to or from an existing hydraulic pressure, and at least one second valve arrangement designed to optionally connect or disconnect at least one second wheel brake associated with a second axle to or from an existing hydraulic pressure. The second functional unit comprises at least one second electrical brake pressure generator, by means of which a brake pressure can be generated on at least the at least one second wheel brake, and a second control system which is designed to control the at least one second electrical brake pressure generator for a brake pressure regulation on at least the at least one second wheel brake in the event of a failure of the first functional unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: ZF Active Safety GmbH
    Inventors: Nicholas Alford, Andreas Marx, Oliver Wolf
  • Publication number: 20240072696
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of monitoring and/or controlling an electro-mechanical device, such as an electrical motor and/or generator, includes determining a first probability distribution of a virtual measurement variable, such as temperature at a predetermined position, of the electro-mechanical device. A confidence level is determined for a first value of the virtual measurement variable based on the first probability distribution. An operating mode of the electro-mechanical device is changed based on the confidence level, and/or an indication is displayed on a display. The indication instructs a user to change the operating mode of the electro-mechanical device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Vincent Malik, Mohamed Khalil, Christoph Ernst Ludwig, Dimitrios Loukrezis, Dominik Zacharias, Matthias Erlwein, Christian Andreas Wolf Pozzo
  • Publication number: 20240067510
    Abstract: Transporting loads is a fundamental component of intralogistics. Autonomous industrial trucks can be used for this. The autonomous industrial truck claimed according to the invention is able, by means of the implemented navigation, load receiving and load placing methods, to ensure efficient transporting of loads. The invention relates to an autonomous industrial truck having a rearwardly-directed sensor unit for detecting the load and the loading environment and implemented process sequences for approaching the load, receiving the load and placing the load.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2020
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Stefan Ulbrich, Andreas Bley, Erik Wolf, Benjamin Fischer, Christian Martin, Johannes Trabert, Ahmed I Syleiman, Christian Sternitzke
  • Publication number: 20240060855
    Abstract: A system, apparatus and method for estimating remaining useful life of at least one bearing is provided. The method includes receiving request for analyzing defect in bearing from source, determining vibration spectrum of bearing from the received operational data, monitoring an impact of defect on one bearing over a period of time based on the determined vibration spectrum, determining characteristic values from the vibration spectrum for which the impact of the defect on the bearing is above a threshold range, determining impact force during an operation of the at least one bearing based on the determined characteristic values and one or more parameters obtained from a virtual bearing model, determining remaining useful life of the bearing based on the determined impact force during the time period and generating a notification indicating the remaining useful life of the bearing on output device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: P. V. Sudev Nair, Vincent Malik, Christian Andreas Wolf Pozzo, Iniyan Ramasamy
  • Patent number: 11885708
    Abstract: A method for determining a remaining useful life of a bearing having a surface defect includes determining a defect size of the surface defect based on oscillations of the bearing. The method also includes determining, based on the defect size, at least one of the principal stresses or a contact force of the bearing caused by the surface defect. The method also includes determining the remaining useful life of the bearing based on at least one of the principal stresses and/or the contact force.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Matthias Erlwein, Vincent Malik, Christian Andreas Wolf Pozzo
  • Publication number: 20230373847
    Abstract: In one example, a solver engine may execute a reverse calculation to determine a recipe ingredient set based on a goal descriptor describing a ceramic glaze. A descriptor interface of the solver engine may receive a goal descriptor describing a ceramic glaze. A model applicator of the solver engine may apply a glaze process model to the goal descriptor. The model applicator may automatically reverse calculate a glaze recipe describing a recipe ingredient set to produce the ceramic glaze described by the goal descriptor. A glaze mixing machine interface may direct a glaze mixing machine to mix the recipe ingredient set to produce the ceramic glaze.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 1, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Andrea Wolf, Gabriel Takacs
  • Patent number: 11746040
    Abstract: In one example, a solver engine may execute a reverse calculation to determine a recipe ingredient set based on a goal descriptor describing a ceramic glaze. A descriptor interface of the solver engine may receive a goal descriptor describing a ceramic glaze. A model applicator of the solver engine may apply a glaze process model to the goal descriptor. The model applicator may automatically reverse calculate a glaze recipe describing a recipe ingredient set to produce the ceramic glaze described by the goal descriptor. A glaze mixing machine interface may direct a glaze mixing machine to mix the recipe ingredient set to produce the ceramic glaze.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Inventors: Andrea Wolf, Gabriel Takacs
  • Publication number: 20230236063
    Abstract: Disclosed is a blue to white light conversion device, comprising: a light conversion subassembly comprising at least one light conversion layer, sandwiched between two light transmitting members, wherein the light conversion layer comprises a light conversion material comprising phosphors and/or quantum dots; at least one light diffusing subassembly neighboring the light conversion subassembly; and a top frame and a bottom frame surrounding the light diffusing subassembly and light conversion subassembly, respectively.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2022
    Publication date: July 27, 2023
    Inventors: Weifeng Wang, Sean Gallagher, Darius Kelly, Andreas Wolf
  • Publication number: 20230192884
    Abstract: The present invention provides bispecific antibody constructs of a specific Fc modality characterized by comprising a first domain binding to a target cell surface antigen, a second domain binding to an extracellular epitope of the human and/or the Macaca CD3c? chain and a third domain, which is the specific Fc modality. Moreover, the invention provides a polynucleotide, encoding the antibody construct, a vector comprising this polynucleotide, host cells, expressing the construct and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2022
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Tobias Raum, Markus Münz, Johannes Brozy, Peter Kufer, Patrick Hoffmann, Matthias Friedrich, Benno Rattel, Pamela Bogner, Andreas Wolf, Cornelius Pompe
  • Publication number: 20230112604
    Abstract: A method for determining a remaining useful life of a bearing having a surface defect includes determining a defect size of the surface defect based on oscillations of the bearing. The method also includes determining, based on the defect size, at least one of the principal stresses or a contact force of the bearing caused by the surface defect. The method also includes determining the remaining useful life of the bearing based on at least one of the principal stresses and/or the contact force.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2020
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Matthias Erlwein, Vincent Malik, Christian Andreas Wolf Pozzo
  • Patent number: 11565395
    Abstract: A portable power tool, in particular an angle grinder, includes a housing that accommodates a drive and an electronic device with an interface configured to electrically connect the electronic device. The power tool further includes a housing inner part that is configured as a drive housing and supports the electronic device. The interface has at least one first electrical interface contact region and at least one second interface contact region spaced apart from the first interface contact region. At least one insulating element spaced apart from the interface contact regions is arranged between the housing inner part and the electronic device. The insulating element is configured to avoid an electrical short-circuiting connection between the first interface contact region and the second interface contact region.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Cornelius Boeck, Daniel Barth, Rainer Vollmer, Sinisa Andrasic, Manfred Lutz, Andreas Wolf, Peter Stierle
  • Patent number: 11518420
    Abstract: A running gear for a rail vehicle includes one or more wheel sets, each having a revolution axis and each being guided by a pair of transversally spaced axle boxes. The running gear further includes a running gear frame, a primary suspension assembly between each of the axle boxes and the running gear frame, and a secondary suspension stage for supporting a vehicle superstructure on the running gear frame. Each primary suspension assembly has at least a main spring assembly having a vertical stiffness and a horizontal stiffness that is identical in a transverse direction of the running gear frame and in a longitudinal direction of the running gear frame perpendicular to the transverse direction. The primary suspension assembly further has an anisotropic interface assembly in series with the main spring assembly between the running gear frame and the axle box.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2022
    Assignee: Bombardier Transportation GmbH
    Inventors: Federic Carl, Thimo Schönemann, Andreas Wolf, Wolfgang Auer
  • Patent number: 11515751
    Abstract: A housing arrangement has a blower motor including a rotation shaft that traverses through an underside and a topside of the blower motor, the rotation shaft being configured to mount a fan impeller thereupon, a first housing part that receives the blower motor, a second housing part that covers the blower motor received in the first housing part, a first decoupling unit arranged circumferentially between the underside of the blower motor and an inner bottom of the first housing part, and a second decoupling unit arranged circumferentially between the topside of the blower motor and an inner surface of the second housing part. Here, the spring stiffness of the first and the second decoupling units are substantially constant in an axial direction, a radial direction, or a normal direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: DENSO AUTOMOTIVE Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Christof Rohrer, Andreas Wolf, Halil Yilmaz, Maninder Singh, Ilja Maljawin, Claus Busl
  • Publication number: 20220300644
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and to an identification apparatus (1) for identifying a person by means of facial recognition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Applicant: Bundesdruckerei GMBH
    Inventor: Andreas WOLF
  • Publication number: 20220297523
    Abstract: An energy-store floor assembly for a motor vehicle includes an electrical energy-store device which has a plurality of battery modules and is accommodated in a multi-part store housing and arranged on the bottom side of a vehicle floor of the motor vehicle. In order that the store housing can be adapted to the shape of the motor vehicle body and/or to components of the energy-store device in an improved way, housing parts of the store housing are interconnected by at least one gas-tight connection, which has an uneven course with respect to the vehicle vertical direction in at least one length region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Jan DANNEBERG, Ronny GROSSE, Juergen LESCHHORN, Andreas WOLF
  • Patent number: 11434302
    Abstract: The present invention provides bispecific antibody constructs of a specific Fc modality characterized by comprising a first domain binding to a target cell surface antigen, a second domain binding to an extracellular epitope of the human and/or the Macaca CD3? chain and a third domain, which is the specific Fc modality. Moreover, the invention provides a polynucleotide, encoding the antibody construct, a vector comprising this polynucleotide, host cells, expressing the construct and a pharmaceutical composition comprising the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: AMGEN RESEARCH (MUNICH) GMBH
    Inventors: Tobias Raum, Markus Münz, Johannes Brozy, Peter Kufer, Patrick Hoffmann, Matthias Friedrich, Benno Rattel, Pamela Bogner, Andreas Wolf, Cornelius Pompe
  • Publication number: 20220258586
    Abstract: An energy store-floor assembly for a motor vehicle includes an electrical energy storage device that has a plurality of battery modules and that is accommodated in a multipart storage housing and arranged on the underside of a vehicle floor of the motor vehicle. In order to provide an energy store-floor assembly for a motor vehicle in which the energy storage device is connected to the motor vehicle bodyshell in an improved manner, the battery modules of the energy storage device are connected to the vehicle floor in a central region of the storage housing by way of a plurality of mechanical connecting elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Publication date: August 18, 2022
    Inventors: Markus AMSZ, Jan DANNEBERG, Andre HECKERT, Michael KREITZ, Juergen LESCHHORN, Andreas WOLF