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: 20190003414
    Abstract: A method for operating a combustion engine is provided. A fuel injector is operated to perform a fuel injection, a sequence of pressure signals of the fuel rail pressure during the fuel injection is sampled and filtered and a total pressure difference between a first sample after a top dead center of the fuel pump and before the fuel injection has started and a chosen second sample after the injection and before a next pumping stroke is determined. A linear pressure slope at the second sample and a leakage pressure difference between the first sample and the second sample based on the linear pressure slope is calculated, leading to calculating an injection pressure difference as the difference between total pressure difference and the leakage pressure difference. With this, a value of a fuel quantity injected as a function of the injection pressure difference can be determined, while leakages are compensated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Stefano NIEDDU, Andrea MOLLAR
  • Publication number: 20190001266
    Abstract: A catalyst bed comprising a ceramic or metallic foam comprising one or more NOx reduction catalysts is described. Further, a method for reducing the concentration of NOx in a dust containing gas stream comprising: a) passing a first gas stream containing NOx into a contacting zone; b) contacting the first gas stream with a ceramic or metallic foam catalyst bed having one or more flow paths through the catalyst bed wherein the ceramic or metallic foam comprises a NOx reduction catalyst to produce a second gas stream with a reduced NOx concentration; and c) passing the second gas stream out of the contacting zone wherein the first gas stream has a dust concentration of at least 5 mg/Nm3 and the second gas stream comprises at least 50% of the amount of dust in the first gas stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2016
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Guido SENG, Wassim KLINK, Wenzhong ZHANG, Andreas KLEMT, Paul Benjerman HIMELFARB
  • Publication number: 20190001295
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for controlling a chemical reaction which creates a product, wherein at least one reactant that is present in a liquid phase is subjected to a pressure change.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2016
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicants: LSG Landwirtschaftliche Sanierungsgesellschaft mbH
    Inventors: Christian HEINE, Andreas HEINE, Anton LEDWON
  • Publication number: 20190002207
    Abstract: The subject of the invention is a method for regulating the operation of a stripping device on a conveyor belt (1) of a conveyor belt system for transported material (6), wherein, in order to strip transported material (6) adhering to the conveyor belt (1), a stripping segment (9) of the stripping device (8) is advanced onto the conveyor belt (1) with its stripping edge (10) by an advancing drive (13) and at least the advancing force with which the advancing drive (13) advances the at least one stripping segment (9) onto the conveyor belt (1) is regulated as a regulating variable by an electronic controller (14) on the basis of the value, determined by at least one sensor (15), of at least one guide variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2016
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Michael SCHULTE STRATHAUS, Harald P. MATHIS, Andreas HAASE, Marcus STIEMER, Marco ROZGIC
  • Publication number: 20190004146
    Abstract: A radar sensor with a signal generation unit that generates a sequence of output signals for the generation of a radiated radar signal. The radar sensor has a signal receiving unit for the reception and for the processing of reflected radar signals as received signals, which are further processed for the analysis of the received signals. A sequence of voltage signals rising from a starting frequency are generated as output signal. The respective received signals are analyzed by means of Fourier analysis, and the output signals have a modulated starting frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2017
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventor: Andreas von Rhein
  • Publication number: 20190003350
    Abstract: A method for cleaning an exhaust valve of a two-stroke internal combustion engine is provided. The method comprises: requesting an exhaust valve cleaning cycle if at least one of a first condition or a second condition is satisfied; initiating the exhaust valve cleaning cycle if at least one of a third condition or a fourth condition is satisfied; and aborting the exhaust valve cleaning cycle if at least one of the at least one of the third or fourth conditions is no longer satisfied. The first condition is a time elapsed since a previous cleaning cycle has been completed being greater than a predetermined time. The second condition is a rate of opening of the exhaust valve being less than predetermined rate. The third condition is a throttle valve being closed. The fourth condition is an engine speed being less than a predetermined engine speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Andreas MATHEIS, Guenther ROLAND
  • Publication number: 20190001528
    Abstract: An extruder containing a housing having a flow channel for a melt and a perforated plate delimiting the flow channel on the outlet side, where the perforated plate has at least two through-flow areas spaced apart from one another, each through-flow area contains at least one through-flow opening, and the perforated plate is furthermore mounted in a changing device, where the changing device has guide elements, in which the perforated plate can be moved substantially perpendicularly to the flow channel, and the extruder, directly ahead of the perforated plate when viewed in the direction of flow of the melt, has an inlet flow cone, which is structurally separate from the perforated plate, thus allowing the through-flow areas of the perforated plate to be moved relative to the inlet flow cone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2016
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: BASF SE
    Inventor: Andreas LOHSE
  • Publication number: 20190003379
    Abstract: Methods and systems are provided for a supercharged internal combustion engine having staged boosting devices. In one example, a system may include an engine coupled to an intake system for receiving charge air and an exhaust system for discharging exhaust gases, an electrically driven compressor arranged in the intake system upstream of a turbocharger compressor, a bypass line, including a bypass valve, coupled across the electrically driven compressor, a throttle arranged at an inlet of the electrically driven compressor, and an exhaust gas recirculation system that couples the exhaust system downstream of the exhaust turbine to the intake system upstream of the electrically driven compressor via a first recirculation branch and between the electrically driven compressor and the turbocharger compressor via a second recirculation branch. In this way, the electrically driven compressor may be operated to reduce condensate formation at an inlet of the turbocharger compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Joerg Kemmerling, Vanco Smiljanovski, Helmut Matthias Kindl, Hanno Friederichs, Andreas Kuske, Franz Arnd Sommerhoff
  • Publication number: 20190000617
    Abstract: A prosthetic heart valve for replacing a native valve includes a collapsible and expandable stent extending between a proximal end and a distal end. The stent includes an annulus section adjacent the proximal end and having a first diameter, a plurality of first struts forming cells, and a plurality of second struts connected to the annulus section and forming a plurality of deflecting cells expandable to define a second diameter larger than the first diameter. A valve assembly is disposed within the stent and a cuff is coupled to the stent and covers the plurality of deflecting cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 23, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: St. Jude Medical, Cardiology Division, Inc.
    Inventors: Peter N. Braido, Kent J. Smith, Andrea L. McCarthy, Andrea N. Para, Sounthara Khouengboua, Thomas M. Benson, Saravana B. Kumar, Bruce Moseman, Gaurav Satam
  • Publication number: 20190001477
    Abstract: A hand-held power tool, in particular a drilling hammer and/or chisel hammer, that includes at least one housing, at least one handle, and at least one interface device for establishing an electrical and mechanical connection to at least one rechargeable battery pack. The hand-held power tool includes at least one damping unit that is provided for supporting the at least one handle relative to the at least one housing in a vibration-damped manner. The at least one interface device is situated on the at least one handle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2016
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Andre Ullrich, Andreas Schlegel, Christian Lang, Stefan Holst, Marcin Rejman, Wolf Zahn, Florian Kneer
  • Publication number: 20190000947
    Abstract: The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Toni WEINSCHENK, Andrea MAHR, Jens FRITSCHE, Phillip MÜLLER, Anita WIEBE, Sara KUTSCHER
  • Publication number: 20190002845
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to omega-hydroxylase-related fusion polypeptides that result in improved omega-hydroxylated fatty acid derivative production when expressed in recombinant host cells. The disclosure further relates to microorganisms for expressing the omega-hydroxylase-related fusion polypeptides for the production of omega-hydroxylated fatty acid derivatives.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2016
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicant: REG Life Sciences, LLC
    Inventors: Andreas Schirmer, Baolong Zhu, Emanuela Popova
  • Publication number: 20190005341
    Abstract: A method for classifying driver movements in order to ascertain the driver's degree of attentiveness during the driving a motor vehicle, using an interior compartment camera for recording at least a part of the driver. Based on the recording, a movement quantity that represents a head movement of the driver is evaluated, and a driver movement is classified as a safety view if the movement quantity corresponds to a defined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2016
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Andreas Korthauer, Hans-Joachim Bieg, Jonathan Fischer, Wolfgang Krautter
  • Publication number: 20190004619
    Abstract: A system and method for determining a position and orientation (e.g., pose) of a rigid body is disclosed. The rigid body may be a position enabled projector, a surveying rod, a power tool, a drill robot, etc., in a given space. The position of the rigid body is specified by a set of three coordinates and the orientation is specified by a set of three angles. As such, based on these six values, the position and orientation of the rigid body can be determined.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2017
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Kent KAHLE, Andreas WINTER, Sascha KORL, Scott GRAYBILL
  • Publication number: 20190001733
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a multilayer data carrier (40) having an areal see-through window (42), having an opaque core layer (20) that is provided in a sub-region with an areal gap (22) to form the see-through window (42), and two cover foils (24, 26) that are transparent at least in the region of the see-through window (42) and that are laminated onto opposing sides of the opaque core layer (20). Here, according to the present invention, it is provided that the two cover foils (24, 26) are joined with each other across the entire area of the see-through window (42) and that the cover foils (24, 26) that are joined with each other are provided in the see-through window (42) with an embossed relief pattern (44), the embossed relief pattern (44) producing in the see-through window (42) a latent image that, due to light diffraction, comes into view when looked through.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2016
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventor: Andreas ZINKE
  • Publication number: 20190002083
    Abstract: An aircraft is disclosed having a wing, the wing having a fixed wing with a wing tip device moveably mounted about a hinge at the tip thereof. The wing tip device is operable between a flight configuration, and a load alleviating configuration for load alleviation during flight. The aircraft includes a restraining assembly operable between a restraining mode in which the wing tip device is held in the flight configuration using a restraining force such as by a brake, and a releasing mode in which the restraining force on the wing tip device is released, such that the wing tip device may adopt the load alleviating configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Applicants: Airbus Operations Limited, Airbus Group Limited
    Inventors: Thomas WILSON, Martin HERRING, John PATTINSON, Jonathan COOPER, Andrea CASTRICHINI, Rafic AJAJ, Hitul DHORU
  • Publication number: 20190001831
    Abstract: A method for supplying power from at least one power supply unit to transportation vehicles requiring a power supply, in which a position of a transportation vehicle-side power supply interface of a transportation vehicle requiring power is determined for each vehicle and the transportation vehicle-side power supply interface is automatically coupled to a power supply interface of the power supply unit by the power supply interface of the power supply unit being moved by a robot to the transportation vehicle-side power supply interface and coupled thereto. A robot is responsible for coupling transportation vehicles to a suitable power supply interface of the power supply unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Daniel SCHÜTZ, Michael GROTE, Jürgen STIEG, Lutz JUNGE, Sven HORSTMANN, Thorsten BAGDONAT, Sebastian GRYSCZYK, Andreas WEISER, Norbert SETTELE
  • Publication number: 20190005054
    Abstract: A container group is created using a database deployment infrastructure (DI) administrator (HA). API privileges for the container group are granted, using the HA, to a container group administrator (GA). API privileges for a container created in the container group using the GA are granted, using the GA, to a container administrator (CA). API privileges for the container are granted, using the CA, to a container developer (CD). Schema privileges for the container are granted, using the CA, to a container consumer (CC). API privileges for the container group are revoked, using the HA, from the GA. The container group is dropped using the HA.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Jonathan Bregler, Alexander Bunte, Arne Harren, Andreas Kellner, Daniel Kuntze, Simon Lueders, Volker Sauermann, Michael Schnaubelt, Le-Huan Stefan Tran
  • Publication number: 20190007895
    Abstract: An external database schema permitted to be accessed from a container using a database synonym is determined. A logical schema representing the external database schema is defined. A synonym for the container is defined using the logical schema and an object associated with the external database schema. The logical schema and synonym is deployed to the container using a logical schema plugin. The container is configured to disable the logical schema plugin and to only allow references to the defined logical schemas.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2017
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Jonathan Bregler, Alexander Bunte, Arne Harren, Andreas Kellner, Daniel Kuntze, Simon Lueders, Volker Sauermann, Michael Schnaubelt, Le-Huan Stefan Tran
  • Publication number: 20190002524
    Abstract: The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2018
    Publication date: January 3, 2019
    Inventors: Andrea Mahr, Toni Weinschenk, Oliver Schoor, Jens Fritsche, Harpreet Singh, Lea Stevermann