Patents by Inventor Benjamin Hagemann
Benjamin Hagemann 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).
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Patent number: 10437134Abstract: A camera housing/lens system comprises a camera housing for a camera and a lens. The camera housing/lens system further comprises a lock for locking the lens in position. The lock includes a stop member joined to the lens or the lens mount, and an elastic element arranged between the stop member and the lens mount or between the stop member and the lens, wherein the elastic element is compressed between the stop member and the lens mount or between the stop member and the lens to lock the lens in position. A gap remains between the stop member and the lens mount or between the stop member and the lens. This “elastic compression” allows the position of the lens to be finely adjusted in relation to the lens mount, without having to release the compression in order to do so.Type: GrantFiled: August 26, 2016Date of Patent: October 8, 2019Assignee: BASLER AGInventors: Andrej Kholopov, Stefan Petersen, Benjamin Hagemann
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Publication number: 20180246395Abstract: The present invention relates to a camera housing/lens system comprising a camera housing for a camera and a lens. The camera housing/lens system further comprises a lock for locking the lens in position. According to the invention, the lock includes a stop member joined to the lens or the lens mount, and an elastic element arranged between the stop member and the lens mount or between the stop member and the lens, wherein the elastic element is compressed between the stop member and the lens mount or between the stop member and the lens to lock the lens in position. A gap remains between the stop member and the lens mount or between the stop member and the lens. This “elastic compression” allows the position of the lens to be finely adjusted in relation to the lens mount, without having to release the compression in order to do so.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 26, 2016Publication date: August 30, 2018Applicant: BASLER AGInventors: Andrej Kholopov, Stefan Petersen, Benjamin Hagemann
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Patent number: 8943821Abstract: A wave power plant includes a platform and at least one coupling member. The at least one coupling member is mounted in such a way as to perform an orbital movement which has a predetermined direction of movement and from which a torque usable for energy conversion can be tapped. A torque compensation device is provided which is designed to essentially compensate or neutralize a reactive torque generated by tapping the usable torque.Type: GrantFiled: December 16, 2010Date of Patent: February 3, 2015Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Benjamin Hagemann, Nik Scharmann
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Patent number: 8890344Abstract: A method for operating a machine located in choppy waters, in particular a wave energy converter, for converting energy from a wave movement of a fluid into another form of energy includes determining measurement variables at a first, relatively early time, and calculating a variable characterizing a wave movement expected at a second, later time on the basis of the determined measurement variables.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2012Date of Patent: November 18, 2014Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Norbert Hoffmann, Nicolas Houis, Nik Scharmann, Benjamin Hagemann, Jasper Behrendt, Markus Perschall, Alexander Poddey, Daniel Seiler-Thull, Michael Hilsch
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Patent number: 8884455Abstract: A wave energy converter comprises a rotor, which is designed to convert a wave movement of a body of water, in which the wave energy converter is arranged, into a rotational movement of the rotor, wherein a mean density of at least one rotating component of the rotor can be adjusted and/or is lower than the mean density of the fluid surrounding the rotor in the body of water. The disclosure likewise relates to a corresponding control device and an operating method.Type: GrantFiled: June 14, 2013Date of Patent: November 11, 2014Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Stefan Reimer, Nicolas Houis, Nik Scharmann, Benjamin Hagemann, Markus Perschall, Alexander Poddey, Yukio Kamizuru, Michael Hilsch, Johannes Nitzsche, Jasper Behrendt
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Publication number: 20140319969Abstract: A device for generating electrical energy from the motion of waves includes: at least one flexible, floatable tube which is closed at its two ends and includes a wall having at least one horizontal stack, which extends in the longitudinal direction of the tube and has at least one layer having one tier made of an electroactive polymer and at least one tier serving as a flexible electrode. The tube is exposed to the wave motions of water such that sections of the stacks are strained or compressed, and the layers of the electroactive polymers in the compressed sections are charged with the aid of control electronics, and thereafter excess electrical energy resulting from relaxation of these sections and the associated separation of the charges in the electroactive polymer is extracted by a capacitive discharge.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2012Publication date: October 30, 2014Inventors: Istvan Denes, Gabriele Michalke, Benjamin Hagemann, Matthias Grauer
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Publication number: 20140216025Abstract: A wave energy converter for converting energy from a wave motion of a fluid into a different form of energy includes at least one rotor that is coupled to at least one energy converter. The rotor has a rotor base that has two sides with respect to the rotational plane of the rotor. At least one coupling body is attached to each side of the rotor base.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2012Publication date: August 7, 2014Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Benjamin Hagemann, Nik Scharmann, Jos Ritzen
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Publication number: 20140202146Abstract: A method for operating a wave energy converter for converting energy from a wave motion of a fluid into a different form of energy includes at least one rotor and at least one energy converter that is coupled to the at least one rotor. A first torque that acts on the at least one rotor is generated by the wave motion, and a second torque (M1) that acts on the at least one rotor is generated by the at least one energy converter. The second torque (M1) is specified during a control of the energy converter.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 24, 2012Publication date: July 24, 2014Applicant: Robert Bosch BmbHInventors: Benjamin Hagemann, Nik Scharmann, Daniel Seiler-Thull, Michael Hilsch
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Patent number: 8788184Abstract: A method for the self-diagnosis of an exhaust gas probe (20). The exhaust gas probe (20) has at least one heating element (26). The method includes a modeled heat output PH is determined for the heating element (26) by means of a computer program comparing parameters of the gas stream with a measured heat output, and determining, when the parameters of the gas stream exceeds the measured heat output by more than a defined tolerance limit, that one of the exhaust gas probe (20) is defective, and an exhaust gas section (17) in which the exhaust gas probe (20) is installed is faulty.Type: GrantFiled: April 19, 2011Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Thomas Baumann, Enno Baars, Johannes Grabis, Benjamin Hagemann, Bernhard Kamp
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Patent number: 8784625Abstract: A sensor element having a layered construction and configured to detect a physical property of a gas or a liquid includes a functional component situated in the interior, which functional component is connected electrically to a conductor element, which conductor element extends up to the outer surface or up into the surroundings of the sensor element. The sensor element has at least one sealing element which adjoins the functional component and/or the conductor element. The conductor element and the at least one sealing element are configured to be gas-tight at least regionally in the interior of the sensor element and are situated in such a way that the functional component is separated gas-tight from the surroundings of the sensor element.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2009Date of Patent: July 22, 2014Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Thomas Wahl, Georg Rixecker, Steffen Polster, Uwe Glanz, Gudrun Oehler, Ulrich Eisele, Benjamin Hagemann, Alexander Bluthard, Frank Schnell, Jochen Rager, Petra Kuschel
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Publication number: 20140182281Abstract: A rotating wave energy machine includes at least one rotor that revolves in a synchronous manner for utilizing an orbital flow of an undulating body of water that circulates over the rotor. An output power is tapped at a rotor shaft and the power (in the power flow) is converted by at least one lift device of the rotor. A cross-section of the lift device includes at least one curve or angle that is shaped depending on a curve of a total flow. The at least one angle or curve is configured such that the influence of the relative flow on the total flow is taken into account. When the rotating wave energy machine is operational, the relative flow is superposed on the circulating orbital flow that acts on the lift device from outside, and a total flow is produced which is curved about the rotor shaft.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 15, 2012Publication date: July 3, 2014Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Nik Scharmann, Jasper Behrendt, Benjamin Hagemann, Paul Zielke, Markus Perschall
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Publication number: 20140123641Abstract: A wave energy converter includes at least one rotor which is configured to convert a wave motion of an agitated body of water into a rotational motion of the at least one rotor. The at least one rotor has at least two elongate lift profiles which are each connected by one end to a rotor base. The lift profiles are each connected in pairs to one another via at least one vortex trail-guiding device in a region of their free ends, not connected to the rotor base, of the lift profiles.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 5, 2013Publication date: May 8, 2014Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Nik Scharmann, Benjamin Hagemann, Jasper Behrendt, Alexander Poddey
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Publication number: 20130334821Abstract: A wave energy converter comprises a rotor, which is designed to convert a wave movement of a body of water, in which the wave energy converter is arranged, into a rotational movement of the rotor, wherein a mean density of at least one rotating component of the rotor can be adjusted and/or is lower than the mean density of the fluid surrounding the rotor in the body of water. The disclosure likewise relates to a corresponding control device and an operating method.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 14, 2013Publication date: December 19, 2013Inventors: Stefan Reimer, Nicolas Houis, Nik Scharmann, Benjamin Hagemann, Markus Perschall, Alexander Poddey, Yukio Kamizuru, Michael Hilsch, Johannes Nitzsche, Jasper Behrendt
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Publication number: 20130334816Abstract: A method for operating a wave energy converter for converting energy from a wave motion of a fluid into another form of energy, wherein the wave energy converter has a lever arm, which is mounted so as to be rotatable about a rotor rotational axis and bears a coupling body and an energy converter which is coupled to the rotatably mounted lever arm, includes controlling a rotational speed of the lever arm about the rotor rotational axis such that, averaged over time over one revolution, it corresponds to an orbital speed of the wave motion, and controlling the rotational speed of the lever arm such that an angle between a tangential speed of the coupling body and of a local flow rate of the wave motion about the coupling body deviates at maximum by a predefinable value of 90°.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2013Publication date: December 19, 2013Inventors: Nicolas Houis, Benjamin Hagemann, Alexander Poddey
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Patent number: 8574791Abstract: A method for production of a solid oxide fuel cell (SOFC) (1), having an electrolyte body (10) with a tubular structure, wherein at least one internal electrode (11) and one external electrode (12) are applied to the tubular electrolyte body, with the method having at least the following steps: provision of an injection molding core (13) on which at least one interconnector material (14) and the internal electrode (11) are mounted, arrangement of the injection molding core (13) in an injection mold (25a, 25b), injection molding of an electrolyte compound (10a) in order to form the electrolyte body (10), and removal of the injection molding core (13) in the form of a casting process with a lost core.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2011Date of Patent: November 5, 2013Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Harald Maus, Uwe Glanz, Raphaelle Satet, Gudrun Oehler, Leonore Schwegler, Benjamin Hagemann, Alexander Bluthard, Erhard Hirth
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Publication number: 20130276832Abstract: A method for cleaning deposits from a wave energy converter includes driving at least one rotatably mounted component that is coupled to an energy converter. The energy converter is configured to convert energy from wave motion of a fluid into a different form of energy. A negative energy balance of the wave energy converter is present during the cleaning over an average period of time.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2013Publication date: October 24, 2013Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Lasse Langner, Nik Scharmann, Leonore Glanz, Juergen Hackenberg, Benjamin Hagemann, Patrick Singer
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Publication number: 20130229013Abstract: A wave energy converter for the conversion of energy from the wave motion of a fluid into another form of energy includes a housing upon which at least one rotor is arranged to rotate in an essentially horizontal axis of rotation. The wave energy converter further includes at least one energy converter connected to the minimum of one rotor, at least two floats arranged on the housing at a distance from each other in a perpendicular direction to the axis of rotation, and a control device which is configured, by the corresponding control of the minimum of two floats, to generate a torque which acts on the housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2012Publication date: September 5, 2013Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Nik Scharmann, Benjamin Hagemann, Daniel Thull, Michael Hilsch
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Publication number: 20130076039Abstract: A wave power plant is configured to convert energy from a wave motion in a fluid, particularly sea water, into a rotation or rotational energy. The particles of the fluid describe a circulating orbital flow beneath the wave surface, and the kinetic energy of which is converted, at least partially, into rotational energy of one or several crankshafts. At least one resistance element and at least one buoyancy element are arranged on each crankshaft so that various coupling elements are combined.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2011Publication date: March 28, 2013Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Benjamin Hagemann, Nik Scharmann
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Publication number: 20130031897Abstract: A wave power plant includes a platform and at least one coupling member. The at least one coupling member is mounted in such a way as to perform an orbital movement which has a predetermined direction of movement and from which a torque usable for energy conversion can be tapped. A torque compensation device is provided which is designed to essentially compensate or neutralize a reactive torque generated by tapping the usable torque.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2010Publication date: February 7, 2013Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Benjamin Hagemann, Nik Scharmann
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Publication number: 20120313481Abstract: An electroactive polymer generator is configured to convert mechanical energy into electrical energy during expansion and compression of the polymer generator. The polymer generator comprises a device for detecting expansion and compression states. The device comprises at least one acceleration sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2010Publication date: December 13, 2012Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Benjamin Hagemann, Ulrich Fass, Siegbert Steinlechner, Dieter Schwarzmann, Tobias Herrmann, Ioan Serban