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).

  • METHOD OF OPERATING A GAS TURBINE ENGINE
    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
  • Expandable Solar-Powered Light
    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
  • SYSTEMS AND METHODS FOR POWER SWITCH CONTROL FOR INVERTER FOR ELECTRIC VEHICLE
    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
  • GAS TURBINE FUEL RETURN LINE
    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
  • METHOD OF CONTROL FOR A VEHICLE, COMPUTER PROGRAM AND/OR COMPUTER-READABLE MEDIUM, CONTROLLER, AND VEHICLE, IN PARTICULAR COMMERCIAL VEHICLE
    Publication number: 20250196659
    Abstract: A method is for controlling a vehicle, in particular a commercial vehicle, having an electric drive, which has been configured for regenerative braking, and a friction-brake device. The method includes: capturing selection information; ascertaining a set of trigger thresholds and a slip-control method on the basis of the selection information, wherein the set of trigger thresholds includes one or more threshold-value conditions defined for the purpose of detecting the wheel-locking tendency; detecting a wheel-locking tendency on the basis of the one or more threshold-value conditions; and instigating a control of the electric drive and/or of the friction-brake device on the basis of the slip-control method and the set of trigger thresholds when the wheel-locking tendency has been detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2025
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Thomas Kattenberg, Johannes Heseding, Andreas Marx
  • RADAR TRANSMISSION AND SIGNAL PROCESSING TECHNIQUES USING CHIRP SLOPE VARIATION
    Publication number: 20250199117
    Abstract: A method includes generating a plurality of chirps to be transmitted in a radar frame of a radar signal. Each chirp of the plurality of chirps has a corresponding chirp slope, and chirp slopes of a first subset of the plurality of chirps monotonically vary from a first chirp of the first subset to a last chirp of the first subset. The method also includes transmitting the plurality of chirps during a radar frame in a radar signal. After receiving the reflection of the radar signal, the method includes processing the received radar signal based on parameters associated with the generated plurality of chirps with the different chirp slopes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventor: Andreas Gerhard Bury
  • Method for Providing a Thermal Image of a Thermal Imaging Camera with an Increased Resolution
    Publication number: 20250200713
    Abstract: A method for providing a thermal image of a thermal imaging camera with an increased resolution, includes (i) initiating a vibration by a vibratory motor of the thermal imaging camera to provide movement during capturing of image data by the thermal imaging camera, (ii) initiating the capturing of image data by the thermal imaging camera during the vibration, wherein the image data comprises at least two thermal images, and (iii) determining the thermal image based on a method for increasing a resolution of the thermal image. A computer program, a device, and a storage medium for this purpose is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2024
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Inventors: Nicole Ventsch, Andreas Frischen, Axel Rumberg, Ina Sophie Boettcher, Michael Frank, Patrick Meyer
  • GAS TURBINE HEAT EXCHANGER
    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
  • BUMPER HAVING REINFORCEMENT PLATE AND IMPROVED CRASH PROPERTY
    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
  • NOVEL COMPOUNDS
    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
  • CALIBRATION MANAGEMENT OF AN IN-VITRO DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM
    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
  • SELECTIVE THERMAL DRY ETCH OF MEMORY DEVICES USING PHOSPHORIC ACID DERIVATIVES
    Publication number: 20250201574
    Abstract: Provided are methods of manufacturing memory devices. The methods include exposing a film stack to an etching gas to remove alternating sacrificial layers of silicon nitride in the film stack. The memory devices have alternating layers of silicon oxide and silicon nitride and an opening formed therein. The etching gas comprises derivatives of phosphoric acid, phosphonic acid, and phosphonic acid. The silicon nitride layers are selectively etched relative to the silicon oxide layers with improved isotropicity and without compromising the integrity of the film stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Andrea Leoncini, Doreen Wei Ying Yong
  • X-RAY DETECTION DEVICE
    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
  • GAS TURBINE ENGINE HEAT EXCHANGE
    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
  • Food preparation appliance with multi-part attachment part
    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
  • Vented electric drive unit for a vehicle
    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
  • Coffee grinding machine configured to provide different particle size profiles and associated method
    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
  • Soybean variety 5PGUU23
    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
  • Predictive weed map and material application machine control
    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
  • Power tearing protection within a non-volatile memory (NVM)
    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