Patents by Inventor Andreas

Andreas 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: 20250199189
    Abstract: In an embodiment an X-ray detection device includes a housing, an X-ray detector located in the housing and configured to detect X-rays within an energy detection range of the X-ray detector, a collimator being opaque in at least part of the energy detection range and partially covering the X-ray detector and a first shielding element being opaque in at least part of the energy detection range, wherein the first shielding element is configured to provide at least one of protection of the X-ray detector against stray X-rays within the energy detection range coming from the housing and/or from the collimator or protection of the housing and/or the collimator from at least one of the stray X-rays or other X-rays.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Michael Darius Fraczek, Oliver Scheid, Andreas Pahlke, Jörg Rumpff
  • Publication number: 20250198334
    Abstract: A method of operating a gas turbine engine includes an engine core with a turbine, compressor, fuel combustor, and core shaft connecting the turbine and compressor; a fan located upstream of the engine core; a gearbox that receives an input from the core shaft and outputs drive to the fan; an oil loop system supplying oil to the gearbox; and a heat exchange system including: air-oil and fuel-oil heat exchangers, and wherein the oil loop system includes a bypass pipe allowing oil to bypass a heat exchanger; and a bypass valve allowing the oil sent via the bypass pipe to be varied, the method including controlling the bypass valve wherein, under cruise conditions, a heat transfer ratio of: rate ? of ? heat ? transfer ? from ? oil ? to ? air rate ? of ? heat ? transfer ? from ? oil ? to ? fuel is in the range from 0 to 0.67.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: Andrea MINELLI, Craig W. Bemment, Benjamin J. Keeler, Alastair G. Hobday, Andrew T. Smith
  • Publication number: 20250198341
    Abstract: A method of operating a gas turbine engine of an aircraft with an engine core including a turbine, compressor, combustor, and core shaft connecting the turbine to the compressor; a fan upstream of the engine core; a gearbox that receives an input from the core shaft and outputs drive to the fan; an oil loop system to supply oil to the gearbox; and a heat exchange system with an air-oil heat exchanger through which the oil flows; and a fuel-oil heat exchanger through which the oil and fuel flow; and a modulation valve to allow the oil sent via each heat exchanger to be varied, the method including determining a fuel characteristic of the fuel to be combusted by the combustor; and controlling the modulation valve based on the at least one fuel characteristic to adjust the proportion of the oil sent via each heat exchanger at cruise conditions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2025
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: Benjamin J. KEELER, Craig W. BEMMENT, Andrea MINELLI, Alastair G. HOBDAY, Andrew T. SMITH
  • Publication number: 20250197370
    Abstract: The invention relates to novel compounds having the general formula Ib wherein R1, R2, R3, R4, R5 and Z are as described herein, composition including the compounds and methods of using the compounds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2025
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Lea Aurelie BOUCHE, Wolfgang GUBA, Georg JAESCHKE, Stefanie Katharina MESCH, Angelique PATINY-ADAM, Christian SCHNIDER, Sandra STEINER, Andreas Michael TOSSTORFF
  • Publication number: 20250198343
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine for an aircraft includes an engine core including a turbine, combustor, compressor, and core shaft connecting the turbine to the compressor. The engine includes a fan located upstream of engine core and arranged to be driven by core shaft. The engine includes a nacelle surrounding the fan and engine core and defining bypass duct located radially outside of engine core, where bypass ratio, defined as the ratio of the mass flow rate of the flow through bypass duct to the mass flow rate of the flow through the core at cruise conditions, is at least 4. The engine includes plurality of actuators and fuel supply system arranged to supply fuel to fueldraulically drive at least one actuator of the plurality of actuators. At cruise, fuel temperature on entry into the at least one actuator is at least 5° C. greater than fuel temperature on entry to combustor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: Benjamin J. KEELER, Craig W. BEMMENT, Andrea MINELLI, Paul W. FERRA, Alastair G. HOBDAY, Andrew T. SMITH
  • Publication number: 20250198578
    Abstract: An inflatable solar-powered light is provided. The solar-powered light includes a bladder and a solar-powered light assembly disposed entirely within the bladder. The solar-powered light assembly includes a solar panel, a rechargeable battery in electrical communication with the solar panel, and at least one light-emitting diode in electrical communication with the rechargeable battery. The bladder is substantially transparent, flexible, inflatable, and collapsible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2025
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Anna Stork, Andrea Sreshta
  • Publication number: 20250202340
    Abstract: A system includes: an inverter configured to convert DC power from a battery to AC power to drive a motor, wherein the inverter includes: a power switch including a gate terminal; and a gate driver configured to: receive a pulse to control an operation of the power switch, generate, based on the received pulse, a first signal to the gate terminal to increase a gate voltage level of the power switch at a first rate from an off-state gate voltage level to a first on-state gate voltage level in a first time period, and generate, based on the received pulse, a second signal to the gate terminal to increase the gate voltage level of the power switch at a second rate, less than the first rate, to a second on-state gate voltage level in a second time period subsequent to the first time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: BorgWarner US Technologies LLC
    Inventors: Vishal Shivaji Undre, Chetan Ugare, Andreas Apelsmeier
  • Publication number: 20250196792
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a bumper crossbeam for a motor vehicle, which extends in the motor vehicle transverse direction and has a hollow profile in cross section, in particular a rectangular cross section, wherein a reinforcement plate is inserted in a central longitudinal section. The reinforcement plate is coupled on one side in the motor vehicle longitudinal direction to a front wall or rear wall of the hollow profile and has a distance in the motor vehicle longitudinal direction to the remaining front side or rear side and the front side or rear side in the area of the coupled point has a formation oriented in the longitudinal direction of the motor vehicle which corresponds to at least 80% of the length of the distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventor: Andreas SCHILLER
  • Publication number: 20250199020
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method of automatically managing calibration of an in-vitro diagnostic (IVD) system comprising executing calibration cycles/procedures comprising using calibration solutions, using a calibration solution comprising a first step of transporting the calibration solution to a measurement unit and a second step of measuring the calibration solution by the measurement unit. For each calibration cycle the method comprises starting repetition of the calibration procedure at the earliest at a start of a buffer time period before expiry of a respective calibration validity period, interrupting the calibration procedure upon receiving an order to execute a sample IVD test and restarting or resuming the calibration procedure after executing the sample IVD test, as long as repetition of the calibration procedure can be restarted or resumed within the buffer time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Richard Bruckner, Andreas Eicher, Li Gan, Franz Korbinian Schwesig-Stelzer
  • Publication number: 20250198335
    Abstract: A gas turbine engine for an aircraft, comprising: a combustor; a fuel-oil heat exchanger arranged to receive fuel from a fuel tank on board the aircraft and transfer heat from the oil to the fuel; a fuel return line arranged to return at least some fuel that has passed through the heat exchanger to the fuel tank; and a modulator valve arranged to modulate the flow of fuel along the fuel return line such that a ratio of a temperature, in Kelvin, of fuel in the fuel tank to a temperature, in Kelvin, of fuel being delivered to the combustor is less than 0.56. Methods of operating a gas turbine engine are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: ROLLS-ROYCE plc
    Inventors: Benjamin J. KEELER, Craig W. BEMMENT, Andrea MINELLI, David M. BEAVEN, Paul W. FERRA, Christopher P. MADDEN, Peter SWANN, Martin K. YATES
  • Patent number: 12329324
    Abstract: A food preparation appliance includes a food preparation vessel, a lid, an attachment part, a locking device, and a plurality of sensors. The lid may be placed on the food preparation vessel. The attachment part may be placed on the food preparation vessel instead of the lid. The locking device is for locking the lid placed on the food preparation vessel and for locking the attachment part placed on the food preparation vessel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: VORWERK & CO. INTERHOLDING GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Heynen, Kai Landsecker, Frank Starflinger, Philipp Charopoulos, Sigurd Wojke
  • Patent number: 12329319
    Abstract: A coffee grinding machine (10) and an espresso coffee machine are described. The coffee grinding machine comprises a first grinder and second grinder cooperating with each other so as to grind coffee beans, obtaining a first dose of ground coffee during a first grinding cycle. The coffee grinding machine comprises a motor which rotates one of the grinders relative to the other one at a rotation speed. The coffee grinder machine is configured to modify the rotation speed so as to perform a second grinding cycle in which a second dose of ground coffee is obtained. The rotation speed is modified depending on quantitative information received from the espresso coffee machine and based on a coffee preparation cycle performed with said first dose of ground coffee, wherein the quantitative information may be a flow value measured in the espresso coffee machine or a brew ratio value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: LA MARZOCCO S.R.L.
    Inventor: Andrea Dionisio
  • Patent number: 12332206
    Abstract: A multi-gas sensor includes a defined arrangement of working electrodes and a reference electrode. The reference electrode has two conductively connected single electrodes formed of respective different electrode materials. The working electrode and the single electrodes are preferably each disk-shaped and are arranged in two stacks one on top of another. A process is provided for a quantitative or qualitative determination of two target gases with the multi-gas sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: DRÄGER SAFETY AG & CO. KGAA
    Inventors: Andreas Nauber, Michael Sick, Marie-Isabell Mattern-Frühwald, Beate Ritz
  • Patent number: 12336060
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a heating device for a motor vehicle with a dual-voltage vehicle electrical system. The heating device is operated with a power supply from the sub-system with the higher nominal voltage (for example 48 V), but actuated by a control device in the sub-system with the lower nominal voltage (for example 12 V). For this purpose, the heating device has a supply connection in the sub-system with the higher nominal voltage and a control connection in the sub-system with the lower nominal voltage. The control connection is disposed in particular on a control device which is integrated into the heating device and which is connected to a control connection of a switching element (power semiconductor) for controlling the heating device via a capacitive separating element in order to ensure potential isolation of the two sub-systems.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Eberspächer catem GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Andreas Bilhöfer
  • Patent number: 12333162
    Abstract: A non-volatile memory (NVM) system includes a memory array divided into physical pages, control circuitry, and a global transaction log (GTL). Each physical page is configured to store a corresponding payload and corresponding metadata for the physical page. Each entry of the GTL is configured to store a transaction descriptor identifying a transaction and a corresponding physical page used by the transaction. Each entry also has a corresponding transaction log entry (TLE) flag. The control circuitry is configured to populate the entries of the GTL in sequential order with each new transaction, and, in response to completing storing the transaction descriptor for a new transaction, program the corresponding TLE flag by toggling its logic state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2023
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: NXP B.V.
    Inventors: Andrea Castelnuovo, Alexandre Frey, Soenke Ostertun
  • Patent number: 12329112
    Abstract: A soybean variety, designated 5PGUU23 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PGUU23, cells from soybean variety 5PGUU23, plants of soybean 5PGUU23, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PGUU23. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PGUU23 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PGUU23, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PGUU23, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PGUU23. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PGUU23 are further provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: PIONEER HI-BRED INTERNATIONAL, INC.
    Inventors: Andrea Beth Kalvig, Leslie Charles Kuhlman, Donald Kyle
  • Patent number: 12334799
    Abstract: Disclosed is a drive unit (1) comprising a housing (2), an electric motor (3) disposed inside the housing, and at least one oil chamber (15) which is disposed in the housing (2). The oil chamber (15) comprises an oil region (21) and an air region (22) and is closed off to the outside by a housing cover (35). The housing cover (35) comprises at least one vent opening (36, 37) for venting the oil chamber (15), which is disposed at a distance from a radial outer region of the housing cover (35) and is fluidically connected to an element (32, 38, 47, 48) for venting the oil chamber (15).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Andreas Holzlöhner, Vyacheslav Brushkivskyy, Marcel Neurohr
  • Patent number: 12329148
    Abstract: A predictive map is obtained by an agricultural material application system. The predictive map maps predictive weed values at different geographic locations in a field. A geographic position sensor detects a geographic locations of an agricultural material application machine at the field. A control system generates a control signal to control the agricultural material application machine based on the geographic locations of the agricultural material application machine and the predictive map.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 8, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Nathan R. Vandike, Bhanu Kiran Reddy Palla, Federico Pardina-Malbran, David A. Hanson, Andrea M. Agarwal, Noel W. Anderson
  • Patent number: 12330612
    Abstract: A method for controlling a force representative of a parking braking of a vehicle, having the steps of: determining, by a data processing unit, a target value of a force representative of a parking braking of the vehicle to be applied, by a first brake caliper, on a first brake disc on the basis of a value of the gradient of the road on which the vehicle is located; determining, by the data processing unit, a value of a first force contribution representative of a service braking of the vehicle applied by a first hydraulic actuator on the first brake disc; determining, by the data processing unit, a value of a second force contribution representative of the parking braking of the vehicle to be applied, by a second electromechanical actuator, on the first brake disc on the basis of a target value of a force representative of a parking braking of the vehicle which can be applied by the first brake caliper on the first brake disc, and of the determined value of the first force contribution representative of a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2024
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Brembo S.p.A.
    Inventors: Andrea Butti, Corrado Manzoni, Stefano Dossi, Alfonso Tarantini, Luca Cappelletti
  • Patent number: 12330529
    Abstract: Vehicle battery health optimization and communication (e.g., using a computerized tool) are enabled. For example, a system can comprise a memory that stores computer executable components, and a processor that executes the computer executable components stored in the memory, wherein the computer executable components comprise: a battery health component that, using a defined battery health algorithm and a battery sensor, determines degradation of a battery of a vehicle, and a communication component that, based on the degradation of the battery and a traveling direction of a user of the vehicle, external to the vehicle, transmits a message representative of the degradation of the battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Date of Patent: June 17, 2025
    Assignee: Volvo Car Corporation
    Inventors: Andreas Martin Viktor Ropel, Ben Peter Lloyd, Matthias Yannick Philippe Le Saux, Konstantinos Chatziioannou, Klas Roland Persson Signell