Patents by Inventor Andreas Ziroff

Andreas Ziroff 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).

  • Patent number: 11964684
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a method for controlling a level crossing having barriers and signals comprising establishing a duration of a level crossing closure based at least in part on first signals caused by a first ultrasonic wave conducted in a first rail running over the level crossing and second signals caused by an ultrasonic wave conducted in a second rail running over the level crossing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: SIEMENS MOBILITY GMBH
    Inventors: Jens Braband, Matthias Goldammer, Andreas Ziroff
  • Publication number: 20210362760
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a method for controlling a level crossing having barriers and signals comprising establishing a duration of a level crossing closure based at least in part on first signals caused by a first ultrasonic wave conducted in a first rail running over the level crossing and second signals caused by an ultrasonic wave conducted in a second rail running over the level crossing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2019
    Publication date: November 25, 2021
    Applicant: Siemens Mobility GmbH
    Inventors: Jens Braband, Matthias Goldammer, Andreas Ziroff
  • Patent number: 10436621
    Abstract: Detection for localizing at least one particle moving in a flow includes emitting a transmission signal by a transmitter, and receiving a reflected reception signal. The reflected reception signal is frequency and phase modulated in comparison with the transmission signal. The reflected reception signal is convolved with at least one kernel representative of a conjugate estimated channel pulse response. A reconstructed particle position function is formed, and the position of the particle is determined from the reconstructed particle position function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2019
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Holger Hackstein, Christian Morhart, Florian Poprawa, Andreas Ziroff, Dominik Zoeke
  • Publication number: 20190212435
    Abstract: Various embodiments may include a method for monitoring a hot gas region of a gas turbine comprising: monitoring the region using an imaging radar assembly remote from the region, connected to the region with a hollow conductor. The hollow conductor is closed off at a first end proximate the radar assembly. The radar assembly operates outside the closed-off cavity and the second end opens into the region or is shielded against heat but permeable to radar waves passing into the region. The radar is actuated in time intervals wherein at least parts of the hot gas space are detected by the radar assembly repeatedly at the time intervals. The method includes: feeding acquired image data to an evaluation device; evaluating the acquired image data against a predefined maintenance requirement; and triggering a maintenance alarm as a function of the result of the evaluation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2017
    Publication date: July 11, 2019
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Uwe Pfeifer, Andreas Ziroff
  • Publication number: 20190130241
    Abstract: A method and transponder in which at least one first line is formed by at least one first and at least one second antenna configured and operated in the manner of a backscatter, where the antennas are interconnected to one another such that, upon reception of a signal, the antennas scatter the signal back in the manner of a backscatter by a formed emission characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Dominic BERGES, Soenke Christoph Wilhelm APPEL, Andreas ZIROFF
  • Patent number: 10091974
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for determining, the sex of at least one embryo in an egg (12), in which the sex of the embryo is determined by means of at least one detection method which is noninvasive at least with regard to the egg (12), wherein at least one oestradiol value which characterizes the concentration of oestradiol in the egg (12) is determined by means of the noninvasive detection method and the sex is determined as a function of the oestradiol value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Benjamin Sewiolo, Andreas Ziroff
  • Patent number: 10006992
    Abstract: A system and method for determining the relative position of stations through radio location is proposed. In one aspect, a station is configured as an apparatus having at least one antenna. At least one first station has at least one first antenna, and at least one second station has at least two base-modulated antennas. The first station sends at least one locating signal via the first antenna. The second station reflects the locating signal as a first modulated reflected locating signal via a first base-modulated antenna and as a second modulated reflected locating signal via a second base-modulated antenna. The first station receives the modulated reflected locating signals via the antenna. The phase relationships of the received modulated reflected locating signals are used to ascertain at least one position angle for the relative position between the first station and the second station.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 26, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Jörg Hüttner, Andreas Ziroff
  • Patent number: 9977929
    Abstract: A communication device is provided for identifying and/or locating an RFID transponder. The communication device includes a first RFID reader and at least one second RFID reader. The first and/or the at least one second RFID reader is configured to send out a query signal to the RFID transponder and to receive a response signal from the RFID transponder. The communication device also includes a trigger device configured to send a trigger signal to the first and/or the at least one second RFID reader, and as a result of which, the first and/or the at least one second RFID reader is configured to send out the query signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 22, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dominikus Joachim Müller, Andreas Ziroff
  • Patent number: 9958401
    Abstract: The present embodiments relate to a device and a method for determining at least one concentration of coal particles in a gas flow flowing through a channel, wherein at least part of the gas flow having coal particles contained therein is measured by at least one microwave sensor and at least one measurement signal characterizing the concentration of the coal particles is provided, wherein an autocorrelation function of the measurement signal is determined and at least one distance value characterizing a distance of a point of the gas flow belonging to the concentration from the microwave sensor is determined in dependence on the autocorrelation function.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 1, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Holger Hackstein, Christian Morhart, Dominikus Joachim Müller, Florian Poprawa, Andreas Ziroff
  • Publication number: 20180028100
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system and a non-invasive method for examining at least parts of the blood fractions, designed for examination of the blood fractions on the basis of at least one magnetic resonance spectroscopy of a human body part, in particular of the human finger. The invention also relates to the use of said system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2015
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Sebastian Martius, Benjamin Sewiolo, Andreas Ziroff
  • Patent number: 9876263
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement and a method for the galvanically separated energy transmission, in which the energy is transmitted via a dielectric waveguide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Dominik Ergin, Dennie Lange, Sebastian Martius, Benjamin Sewiolo, Andreas Ziroff
  • Publication number: 20170324134
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement and a method for the galvanically separated energy transmission, in which the energy is transmitted via a dielectric waveguide.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Publication date: November 9, 2017
    Inventors: Dominik Ergin, Dennie Lange, Sebastian Martius, Benjamin Sewiolo, Andreas Ziroff
  • Publication number: 20170309427
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement and a method for switching clearances between contacts by means of switching devices, wherein an energy provides an actuator energy for at least one switching device, in particular a vacuum interrupter.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2015
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Benjamin Sewiolo, Andreas Ziroff
  • Publication number: 20170294280
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an arrangement and a method for switching an open contact gap by a switching device, wherein a galvanically isolated energy transmission of high-frequency energy provides an actuator energy for at least one switching device, in particular a vacuum interrupter. For the purpose of energy transmission, the switching device is connected to the high-frequency source via a dielectric resonator, the switching device being designed such as to be configured for converting the transmitted energy into actuator energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2015
    Publication date: October 12, 2017
    Inventors: Benjamin Sewiolo, Andreas Ziroff
  • Publication number: 20170242115
    Abstract: A multi-channel radar method is provided for carrying out a transmission by at least two channels, in which at least one channel is provided with a frequency detuning by at least one respective switch for switching a signal amplitude and/or signal phase of the channel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2015
    Publication date: August 24, 2017
    Inventors: Sönke Christoph Wilhelm Appel, Jörg Hüttner, Andreas Ziroff
  • Patent number: 9712210
    Abstract: A method and system supply energy to at least one mobile component in a wireless communications system, in particular to RFID tags of an RFID system. In the method for supplying energy to at least one mobile component in a wireless communications system with two or more base stations, coherent electromagnetic waves are transmitted by at least two of the base stations. In the system of base stations of a wireless communications system, at least two of the base stations are designed for transmitting coherent electromagnetic waves.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Joerg Huettner, Dominikus Joachim Mueller, Andreas Ziroff
  • Patent number: 9612321
    Abstract: In an installation including first and second components, a radar sensor that has at least two channels, each arranged to be spatially at a distance from the other, is motion-coupled to the first component, and at least two coding radar targets, each arranged to be spatially at a distance from an adjacent target, are motion-coupled to the second component. A signal is sent to each of the radar targets using one of the at least two channels of the radar sensor. At least one coded signal is respectively sent by the radar targets upon or after receiving such a signal, one of the at least two coded signals being received by one or more channels of the radar sensor from each target. The temporal relationship between at least two of the received coded signals is acquired and used to determine an angle between the first and second components.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Jörg Hüttner, Andreas Ziroff
  • Publication number: 20160377466
    Abstract: Detection for localizing at least one particle moving in a flow includes emitting a transmission signal by a transmitter, and receiving a reflected reception signal. The reflected reception signal is frequency and phase modulated in comparison with the transmission signal. The reflected reception signal is convolved with at least one kernel representative of a conjugate estimated channel pulse response. A reconstructed particle position function is formed, and the position of the particle is determined from the reconstructed particle position function.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2014
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Holger Hackstein, Christian Morhart, Florian Poprawa, Andreas Ziroff, Dominik Zoeke
  • Publication number: 20160357997
    Abstract: The invention relates to a communication device (10) for identifying and/or locating an RFID transponder (12), comprising a first RFID reader (14) and at least one second RFID reader (16), wherein the first and/or the at least one second RFID reader (14, 16) for identifying and/or locating the RFID transponder (12) sends out a query signal (S1 to S4) to the RFID transponder (12) and receives a response signal (A1, A2) from the RFID transponder (12), and wherein the communication device (10) comprises a trigger device (18) which is designed so as to send a trigger signal (R1/2_OUT, R3/4_OUT, R1/2/3/4_OUT) to the first and/or the at least one second RFID reader (14, 16), as a result of which the first and/or the at least one second RFID reader (14, 16) sends out the query signal (S1 to S4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2014
    Publication date: December 8, 2016
    Inventors: Dominikus Joachim Müller, Andreas Ziroff
  • Patent number: 9447773
    Abstract: An arrangement to measure deflection of a blade of a wind turbine is provided. A transmitter is arranged close to the tip end of the blade, while a receiver is arranged close to the root end of the blade. The transmitter and receiver are prepared for a wireless transfer of a monitoring signal, which is sent from the transmitter to the receiver. A monitoring system is arranged close to the root end of the blade. The monitoring system is adapted to generate the monitoring signal. The monitoring system is connected with the transmitter by a cable-bound communication line, thus the monitoring signal is transferred from the monitoring system to the transmitter. The monitoring system is connected with the receiver, thus the monitoring signal is transferred from the receiver to the monitoring system. The monitoring system is adapted to determine the deflection of the blade based on the transferred monitoring signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Per Egedal, Jesper Winther Staerdahl, Andreas Ziroff