Patents by Inventor Bernd Gross
Bernd Gross 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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Publication number: 20240067204Abstract: A method for setting up a virtual ad hoc network for transmitting at least one piece of information to a first transportation vehicle as a first network subscriber. The method includes the information being provided based on first data from at least one second network subscriber, and at least one second network subscriber being a second transportation vehicle or an infrastructure component; wherein a motor-vehicle-external, central data processing device receives second data from multiple potential second network subscribers and takes the second data and at least one space-time parameter as a basis for determining the second network subscribers and setting up the virtual ad hoc network with the first transportation vehicle, as the first network subscriber, and the determined second network subscribers, the space-time parameter defining a specific area of relevance that has a predetermined physical and temporal correlation with the current position of the first transportation vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2023Publication date: February 29, 2024Inventors: Christian BRUNS, Jakob SPIEGELBERG, Jan SONNENBERG, Bernd LEHMANN, Laura FIEBACK, Marius SPIKA, Tatjana KRUSCHA, Fabian GALETZKA, Benjamin GROß, Jan KEMPA, Christoph KÖNIG, Marvin SCHRÖDER
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Patent number: 11912502Abstract: Grippers for a picking device for drug packages and methods for operating the picking device are provided. The gripper has a tray having an end portion with an arcuate front, the end portion forming a loading and unloading front. The gripper further includes a transport device arranged above the tray and configured for moving drug packages from a storage surface onto the tray, and at least one sensor arranged in the end portion of the tray and configured to determine a presence of a drug package in a detection area of the at least one sensor.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2022Date of Patent: February 27, 2024Assignee: Becton Dickinson Rowa Germany GmbHInventors: Hardy Schmidt-Ellinger, Bernd Nellinger, Stephan Brokonier, Dietmar Gross, Jochen Daumen
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Patent number: 11091146Abstract: A method performs shifts in a dog clutch element of a transmission system in a hybrid vehicle. The vehicle has an input shaft being connected to a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine, an output shaft being connected indirectly to driven wheels, an electric machine which is in engagement with the input shaft, and an automatic transmission connected between the input and output shafts. The transmission has a dog clutch element for the releasable coupling of two transmission elements. During a desired shifting of the dog clutch element, the torque of the input shaft is adapted via the electric machine, and therefore a reduced load prevails in the region of the dog clutch element and the latter can be disengaged, after which the internal combustion engine is set to a desired target rotational speed, and after which the dog clutch element is engaged when the target rotational speed is reached.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2017Date of Patent: August 17, 2021Assignee: Voith Patent GmbHInventors: Vitali Lazarenka, Jochen Lindenmaier, Bernd Gross, Johannes Goette
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Patent number: 10828989Abstract: A hybrid vehicle is operated with a combustion engine, an electric machine and a gear unit. The vehicle has a first electrical system and a second electrical system as a vehicle electrical system. The first electrical system, which is operated at a higher voltage level than the second electrical system, operates the electric machine, an electrical energy storage device, an energy converter that transmits electrical power at least from the first electrical system into the second electrical system. An alternator is not used in the second electrical system. The first electrical system is a part of a transmission system that together with the components that are coupled to the transmission system is controlled by a transmission control unit. During power generation by the electric machine the energy supply of the second electrical system has a higher priority than a motor-mode support of the drive by the electric machine.Type: GrantFiled: September 19, 2017Date of Patent: November 10, 2020Assignee: Voith Patent GmbHInventors: Vitali Lazarenka, Jochen Lindenmaier, Johannes Goette, Bernd Gross
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Publication number: 20200001696Abstract: A hybrid vehicle is operated with a combustion engine, an electric machine and a gear unit. The vehicle has a first electrical system and a second electrical system as a vehicle electrical system. The first electrical system, which is operated at a higher voltage level than the second electrical system, operates the electric machine, an electrical energy storage device, an energy converter that transmits electrical power at least from the first electrical system into the second electrical system. An alternator is not used in the second electrical system. The first electrical system is a part of a transmission system that together with the components that are coupled to the transmission system is controlled by a transmission control unit. During power generation by the electric machine the energy supply of the second electrical system has a higher priority than a motor-mode support of the drive by the electric machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 19, 2017Publication date: January 2, 2020Inventors: VITALI LAZARENKA, JOCHEN LINDENMAIER, JOHANNES GOETTE, BERND GROSS
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Publication number: 20190276005Abstract: A method performs shifts in a dog clutch element of a transmission system in a hybrid vehicle. The vehicle has an input shaft being connected to a crankshaft of an internal combustion engine, an output shaft being connected indirectly to driven wheels, an electric machine which is in engagement with the input shaft, and an automatic transmission connected between the input and output shafts. The transmission has a dog clutch element for the releasable coupling of two transmission elements. During a desired shifting of the dog clutch element, the torque of the input shaft is adapted via the electric machine, and therefore a reduced load prevails in the region of the dog clutch element and the latter can be disengaged, after which the internal combustion engine is set to a desired target rotational speed, and after which the dog clutch element is engaged when the target rotational speed is reached.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2017Publication date: September 12, 2019Inventors: VITALI LAZARENKA, JOCHEN LINDENMAIER, BERND GROSS, JOHANNES GOETTE
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Patent number: 10189384Abstract: A method for producing vehicle seat components involves working a semifinished blank in a cutting manner. The method can be carried out easily and at low cost and makes it possible to produce components that require little reworking and also provides a vehicle seat component that is both suitable for reducing crash energies by deformation and has an adequate wear resistance. The method includes local heating of the semifinished blank in the region of an intended cutting line of the vehicle seat components to be cut out and cutting out the vehicle seat components from the semifinished blank along the cutting line during or shortly after the heating.Type: GrantFiled: February 29, 2012Date of Patent: January 29, 2019Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS GMBHInventors: Andreas Dannheisig, Bernd Groß, Jutta Klingspohn, Matthias Goebel
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Patent number: 10145403Abstract: A joining process is proposed for connecting a first component to a second component, whereby in a first process the first component and the second component and an adhesive material arranged between the first and the second component are prepared, whereby in a second process the first and the second components are pressed together and whereby in a third process the adhesive material is hardened and further whereby spacing means are added to the adhesive material and these are at least partially resorbed in the third process by the adhesive material.Type: GrantFiled: November 14, 2014Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS GMBHInventors: Andreas Dannheisig, Carina Schulze, Dustin Flock, Bernd Gross
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Patent number: 9975461Abstract: An arrangement of components, in particular for a vehicle seat, includes a first component and a second component which are interconnected by a connector. The connector includes a nail-shaped pin that has a grooved drive stud.Type: GrantFiled: May 14, 2013Date of Patent: May 22, 2018Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS GMBHInventors: Hans-Georg Werner, Bernd Gross, Andreas Dannheisig
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Patent number: 9849636Abstract: A vehicle structural element made of plastic has at least one carbon filler reinforced region and at least one fiberglass reinforced region. In a method for producing the vehicle structural element, a pre-heated carbon fiber reinforced region and a pre-heated fiberglass reinforced region are placed in a press and shaped.Type: GrantFiled: March 12, 2012Date of Patent: December 26, 2017Assignee: JOHNSON CONTROLS GMBHInventors: Bernd Gross, Hans-Georg Werner, Sreenivas Paruchuri
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Patent number: 9663625Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for producing melamine-formaldehyde foams, said processes comprising the steps of: a) producing an aqueous mixture M1) comprising 100 parts by weight of at least one melamine-formaldehyde precondensate, 2 to 4 parts by weight of at least one curative, 0.2 to 5 parts by weight of a surfactant mixture, 0.Type: GrantFiled: August 23, 2013Date of Patent: May 30, 2017Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Bernd Gross, Horst Baumgartl, Jens-Uwe Schierholz, Bettina Wester, Peter Wolf, Bernhard Vath, Peter Nessel, Klaus Hahn, Tobias Heinz Steinke
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Patent number: 9586460Abstract: An air purification device for a vehicle comprises an air inlet, an air outlet, and an air conduction volume between the air inlet and the air outlet. At least one reaction surface element is provided in the air conduction volume. At least one light source for ultraviolet light is arranged in the air conduction volume. A surface of the at least one reaction surface element comprises a catalytic material, and the at least on reaction surface element is arranged substantially in the entire air conduction volume or occupies at least 50% of the inner surface of the air purification device. The air purification device comprises a base element and a cover element. The at least one reaction surface element is integrally connected to the base element or to the cover element and comprises surface-coated rod-shaped elements protruding into the air conduction volume.Type: GrantFiled: November 5, 2009Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Bernd Gross, Hans-Georg Werner, Joshua Hesterberg, Man Loong Leong
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Patent number: 9539673Abstract: A method is provided in which two parts (2, 3) are connected to each other by a weld. The two parts (2, 3) are fixed by a magnet (4) during welding. A magnetic field of the magnet (4) influences the flow of a melt in the weld (6).Type: GrantFiled: March 7, 2013Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: Johnson Controls GmbHInventors: Andreas Dannheisig, Johannes Kraus, Michael Hamers, Jörgen Von Bodenhausen, Bernd Gross
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Patent number: 9393971Abstract: A vehicle body, in particular a rail vehicle body, includes at least one body shell profile and at least one interior fitting connected to the body shell profile. The interior fitting is held on the body shell profile by at least one fastening element which is slipped or pushed onto the body shell profile using a clip section and clamped there.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2013Date of Patent: July 19, 2016Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellscaftInventors: Adrian Biadatz, Bernd Gross, Sascha Kirchhoff
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Patent number: 9254769Abstract: The invention relates to a structural element (100) of a motor vehicle, in particular of a motor vehicle seat, wherein the structural element (100) comprises a first component (101) and a second component (102). In an overlap region (103), the first component (101) and the second component (102) have a formed-closed connection, or a form-closed and form-closed connection, wherein the connection in the overlap region (103) can be produced by an electromagnetic pulse shaping method, wherein the first component comprises at least one form-closed molding (600), wherein the second component can be molded into the at least one form-closed molding (600).Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2010Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: Johnson Controls GmbHInventors: Bernd Gross, Christian Hubsch, Joshua Hesterberg, Dirk Angermann, Dirk Eckenroth, Stefan Funk, Andreas Dannheisig, Hans-Georg Werner, Wolfgang Pellenz, Robin Ndagijimana, Vikas Wayal, Praveen Koparde, Yaniv Oren, Martin Zynda, Vedat Nuyan
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Patent number: 9108554Abstract: A motor vehicle seat has a structural element that includes a plurality of components, at least some of which are connected to one another. At least one of the components is available in a plurality of materials, such as steel or a lightweight construction. The shape of the components, however, is configured so that it remains unchanged irrespective of the component material.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2007Date of Patent: August 18, 2015Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology CompanyInventors: Bernd Gross, Andreas Dannheisig, Philipp Ehrenstein, Marian Stepankowsky
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Publication number: 20150210814Abstract: The present invention relates to processes for producing melamine-formaldehyde foams, said processes comprising the steps of: a) producing an aqueous mixture M1) comprising 100 parts by weight of at least one melamine-formaldehyde precondensate, 2 to 4 parts by weight of at least one curative, 0.2 to 5 parts by weight of a surfactant mixture, 0.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 23, 2013Publication date: July 30, 2015Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Bernd Gross, Horst Baumgartl, Jens-Uwe Schierholz, Bettina Wester, Peter Wolf, Bernhard Vath, Peter Nessel, Klaus Hahn, Tobias Heinz Steinke
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Publication number: 20150143673Abstract: A vehicle body, in particular a rail vehicle body, includes at least one body shell profile and at least one interior fitting connected to the body shell profile. The interior fitting is held on the body shell profile by at least one fastening element which is slipped or pushed onto the body shell profile using a clip section and clamped there.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2013Publication date: May 28, 2015Inventors: Adrian Biadatz, Bernd Gross, Sascha Kirchhoff
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Publication number: 20150139720Abstract: A joining process is proposed for connecting a first component to a second component, whereby in a first process the first component and the second component and an adhesive material arranged between the first and the second component are prepared, whereby in a second process the first and the second components are pressed together and whereby in a third process the adhesive material is hardened and further whereby spacing means are added to the adhesive material and these are at least partially resorbed in the third process by the adhesive material.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 14, 2014Publication date: May 21, 2015Applicant: Johnson Controls GmbHInventors: Andreas DANNHEISIG, Carina Schulze, Dustin Flock, Bernd Gross
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Publication number: 20150130252Abstract: An arrangement of components, in particular for a vehicle seat, includes a first component and a second component which are interconnected by a connector. The connector includes a nail-shaped pin that has a grooved drive stud.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 14, 2013Publication date: May 14, 2015Applicant: Johnson Controls GmbHInventors: Hans-Georg Werner, Bernd Gross, Andreas Dannheisig