Patents by Inventor Bernhard Schmid

Bernhard Schmid 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: 20190226105
    Abstract: Various embodiments include a method for continuous operation of an electrolysis cell with a gaseous substrate, the method comprising: supplying an electrolyte to the electrolysis cell via an electrolyte feed; flowing the electrolyte out of the electrolysis cell into the gas space through a gas diffusion electrode; collecting the electrolyte from the electrolyte flow into the gas space in a collecting region in the gas space; and sucking the collected electrolyte out of said gas space via a connection between the gas space and electrolyte feed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Publication date: July 25, 2019
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Helmut Eckert, Ralf Krause, Christian Reller, Bernhard Schmid, Günter Schmid, Dan Taroata
  • Publication number: 20190193525
    Abstract: An air outlet device for feeding air into a vehicle interior in a directionally controlled manner is provided. The air outlet device has an air channel, a first pivotable air-guiding element, and a second pivotable air-guiding element. The first air-guiding element and the second air-guiding element, together with an air outlet opening, form an air outlet nozzle. The first air-guiding element and the second air-guiding element are configured to be not pivotable in the same direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2019
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventor: Bernhard SCHMID
  • Publication number: 20190032228
    Abstract: An example electrolysis system for the electrochemical production of ethylene oxide includes an electrolysis cell having an anode in an anode space and a cathode in a cathode space and a gas separation element. The cathode space has a first inlet for carbon monoxide and/or carbon dioxide. The anode space is integrated into an anolyte circuit and the cathode space is integrated into a catholyte circuit. The catholyte circuit has a first product outlet for a reduction product joined to a first connecting conduit connected to the anolyte circuit. The anode space is configured for bringing a reduction product introduced via the first connecting conduit into contact with an oxidation product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 19, 2017
    Publication date: January 31, 2019
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ralf Krause, Christian Reller, Bernhard Schmid, Günter Schmid
  • Publication number: 20180230612
    Abstract: A gas diffusion electrode and electrolysis cells containing gas diffusion electrodes are provided. The gas diffusion electrodes include a copper-containing carrier, and first and second layers. The first layer comprising at least copper and at least one binder having hydrophilic and hydrophobic pores. The second layer comprising copper and at least one binder. The second layer present atop the carrier and the first layer atop the second layer, wherein the content of binder in the first layer is less than the binder in the second layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2016
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ralf Krause, Anna Maltenberger, Christian Reller, Bernhard Schmid, Günter Schmid
  • Publication number: 20180195184
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to electrolysis. The teachings thereof may be embodied in a reduction process and/or an electrolysis system for electrochemical carbon dioxide utilization wherein carbon dioxide is introduced into an electrolysis cell and reduced at a cathode. For example, an electrolysis system for carbon dioxide utilization may comprise: an electrolyzer including an anode in an anode space and a cathode in a cathode space. The cathode space has an entrance for carbon dioxide. The cathode space comprises a catholyte including alkali metal cations. The anode space has an entrance for an anolyte. The anode space comprises an anolyte comprising chlorine anions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 30, 2016
    Publication date: July 12, 2018
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Maximilian Fleischer, Philippe Jeanty, Ralf Krause, Erhard Magori, Anna Maltenberger, Sebastian Neubauer, Christian Reller, Bernhard Schmid, Günter Schmid, Elena Volkova, Kerstin Wiesner-Fleischer
  • Publication number: 20180179649
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to electrolysis. For example, an electrolysis system for carbon dioxide utilization may include: an electrolysis cell having an anode and a cathode, where carbon dioxide reduces at the cathode to at least one hydrocarbon compound or to carbon monoxide; first and second electrolyte reservoirs; a first product gas line from the first electrolyte reservoir; a second product gas line from the second electrolyte reservoir; a first connecting line supplying electrolyte from the first electrolyte reservoir to the anode; a second connecting line taking electrolyte from the anode to the second electrolyte reservoir; a third connecting line supplying electrolyte from the second electrolyte reservoir to the cathode; a fourth connecting line taking electrolyte from the cathode off to the first electrolyte reservoir; and a pressure-equalizing connection directly connecting the first and second electrolyte reservoirs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2016
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Maximilian Fleischer, Philippe Jeanty, Ralf Krause, Erhard Magori, Nayra Sofia Romero Cuéllar, Bernhard Schmid, Günter Schmid, Kerstin Wiesner-Fleischer
  • Patent number: 9897498
    Abstract: A method for detecting a phase angle difference between a first periodic measurement signal and a second periodic measurement signal, wherein, for the purpose of determining a torque applied to a shaft, the two periodic measurement signals describe a rotation of the shaft at an axial distance from one another including superimposing a periodic auxiliary signal which simulates a previously known rotational speed for the shaft on the first periodic measurement signal in order to form a superimposition signal, and determining the phase angle difference on the basis of the superimposition signal and the second measurement signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Bernhard Schmid, Wolfgang Jöckel, Klaus Rink
  • Patent number: 9862596
    Abstract: A micromechanical component formed from, a substrate (100) having a first cavity (112) and a second cavity (113), a first micromechanical structure (117) arranged in the first cavity (112), and a second micromechanical structure (118) arranged in the second cavity (113). The first cavity (112) and the second cavities having respective first and second gas pressures having different values. The first gas pressure is provided by a closed configuration of the first cavity (112) and a first channel (115) opens into the second cavity (113), and the second gas pressure is adjustable via the first channel (115).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHG
    Inventors: Stefan Günthner, Bernhard Schmid
  • Publication number: 20170212512
    Abstract: On the basis of a sensed driving situation of a vehicle which will occur in the future, it is determined whether a driving assistance system is able to control the vehicle in the automated driving mode in the future driving situation. If it is determined that an automated driving mode is not possible in the future driving situation, and a time (Ts) up to the occurrence of the future driving situation is longer than a time (Tu) necessary for the driver to assume control of the vehicle, it is checked whether the manual control processes sensed by sensors of the vehicle correspond, in the current driving situation, to the automated control processes, determined by the driving assistance system, for the current driving situation. In this case, the assumption of control of the vehicle by the driver is confirmed, and the vehicle continues to be controlled in the manual driving mode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 16, 2015
    Publication date: July 27, 2017
    Inventor: Bernhard SCHMID
  • Patent number: 9708274
    Abstract: This invention relates to novel sulfoximine substituted quinazoline derivatives of formula I wherein Ar, R1 and R2 are as defined in the description and claims, and their use as MNK1 (MNK1a or MNK1b) and/or MNK2 (MNK2a or MNK2b) kinase inhibitors, pharmaceutical compositions containing the same, and methods of using the same as agents for treatment or amelioration of MNK1 (MNK1a or MNK1b) and/or MNK2 (MNK2a or MNK2b) mediated disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2017
    Assignee: EVOTEC INTERNATIONAL GMBH
    Inventors: Andreas Blum, Dirk Gottschling, Armin Heckel, Joerg P. Hehn, Bernhard Schmid, Dieter Wiedenmayer
  • Patent number: 9689675
    Abstract: A sensor for detecting a rotation rate of an object, including: a sensor element, which is designed to vibrate at an angle to the rotation axis of the rotation rate to be detected at an excitation frequency on a resetting element fastened in a spatially fixed manner to the object, such that the sensor element is deflected at a reaction frequency in a reaction direction at an angle to the rotation axis and at an angle to the vibration direction owing to the Coriolis force; and a measuring transducer, which is designed to detect the vibration in the reaction direction wherein the vibratable sensor element is formed in such a manner that a comparison of a temperature-dependent displacement of a frequency spacing between the excitation frequency and the reaction frequency and a temperature-dependent position of the sensor element on the object satisfies a predefined condition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Stefan Günthner, Bernhard Schmid, Jasmin Lohmann
  • Publication number: 20170160303
    Abstract: A method for producing sensor information depends on a rotational speed, using a rotational speed sensor which is adapted to output rotational speed pulses in predetermined angular positions of a physical sensor field that rotates at the rotational speed. In order to increase resolution, a digital angle signal each is determined between the pulses. A defined number of most significant bits of said angle information is output to determine the rotational speed so that the interval between two pulses is subdivided into a defined number of subintervals. An angle value which can be unambiguously interpreted by means of the sinusoidal signal can be determined from the cosine signal by using two phase shift sinusoidal signals and an arccos function. The device optionally outputs the angle signal below a threshold value and an impulse signal above the threshold value to determine speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2017
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Jöckel, Timo Dietz, Bernhard Schmid, Roland Hilser
  • Publication number: 20170072967
    Abstract: The invention relates to a vehicle control system for autonomously guiding a vehicle, having a controller for autonomously guiding the vehicle on the basis of a sensor signal of a sensor of the vehicle, wherein the controller is designed to detect a malfunction of the sensor of the vehicle, and a communications interface, which is designed, in response to the detection of the malfunction of the sensor by the controller, to request an auxiliary sensor signal via a communications network and to receive the requested auxiliary sensor signal via the communications network, wherein the controller is designed to guide the vehicle autonomously on the basis of the received auxiliary sensor signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2016
    Publication date: March 16, 2017
    Applicants: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHG, Conti Temic microelectronic GmbH
    Inventors: Gunter Anton Fendt, Ulrich Stählin, Bernhard Schmid, Marc Menzel
  • Publication number: 20170038477
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for correcting a position of a vehicle using a global satellite navigation system (GNSS) for determining the own position, comprising the following steps: establishing a first position of the with the GNSS, establishing a second position of the vehicle by fitting the first position into a street of a digital map, identifying at least one object in the surroundings of the vehicle, the position of which is referenceable in the digital map, establishing a real distance between the vehicle and the respective object by means of a sensor of the vehicle, calculating a calculated distance between the second position and the respective object, wherein a corrected position of the vehicle is established by minimizing the deviation of the calculated distance from the real distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 9, 2015
    Publication date: February 9, 2017
    Applicant: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventor: Bernhard Schmid
  • Patent number: 9479109
    Abstract: Device for fastening at least one PV module (1) to a roof which comprises a trapezoidal metal sheet (2) with a trapezoidal bead (3) with two oblique sides (4, 5) and an upper side (6), wherein the device comprises: exactly one holding plate (10) for fastening to one of the two oblique sides (4, 5), a supporting face (11), a holding-down element (12) for clamping the at least one PV module (1) against the supporting face (11), a threaded shaft (13) which is assigned a central shaft axis (S) and which is provided for actuating the holding-down element (12) in the direction of the supporting face (11), exactly one hinge joint (R, 14, 15) which is assigned a central axis of rotation (R) and by means of which the exactly one holding plate (10) and the threaded shaft (13) are rotatably coupled to one another and which has a joint pin (14) and a pin receptacle (15), wherein the threaded shaft (13) and the joint pin (14) are arranged perpendicular to one another in such a way that a common plane (E) results in which
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignees: SCHLETTER GMBH, DR. ZAPFE GMBH
    Inventors: Bernhard Schmid, Bernd Koch
  • Publication number: 20160111998
    Abstract: Device for fastening at least one PV module (1) to a roof which comprises a trapezoidal metal sheet (2) with a trapezoidal bead (3) with two oblique sides (4, 5) and an upper side (6), wherein the device comprises: exactly one holding plate (10) for fastening to one of the two oblique sides (4, 5), a supporting face (11), a holding-down element (12) for clamping the at least one PV module (1) against the supporting face (11), a threaded shaft (13) which is assigned a central shaft axis (S) and which is provided for actuating the holding-down element (12) in the direction of the supporting face (11), exactly one hinge joint (R, 14, 15) which is assigned a central axis of rotation (R) and by means of which the exactly one holding plate (10) and the threaded shaft (13) are rotatably coupled to one another and which has a joint pin (14) and a pin receptacle (15), wherein the threaded shaft (13) and the joint pin (14) are arranged perpendicular to one another in such a way that a common plane (E) results in which
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Bernhard Schmid, Bernd Koch
  • Patent number: 9272585
    Abstract: A method for filtering data in a tire pressure monitoring system for a vehicle includes the steps of: recording a variable that is dependent on the tire radius for a wheel of the vehicle, and filtering the variable that is dependent on the tire radius on the basis of driving dynamics data and/or a global navigation satellite system signal, called GNSS signal below. A vehicle control system and a vehicle having the control system are also described.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2016
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL TEVES AG & CO. OHG
    Inventors: Ulrich Stählin, Klaus Rink, Stefan Günthner, Bernhard Schmid
  • Patent number: 9233953
    Abstract: The present inventions relate to substituted piperazine derivatives of general formula (I) and to the manufacture of said compounds, pharmaceutical compositions comprising a compound according to general formula (I), and the use of said compounds for the treatment of various medical conditions related to glycine transporter-1 (GlyT1).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 12, 2016
    Assignee: Boehringer Ingelheim International GmbH
    Inventors: Christoph Hoenke, Riccardo Giovannini, Uta Lessel, Holger Rosenbrock, Bernhard Schmid
  • Publication number: 20150361055
    Abstract: This invention relates to novel sulfoximine substituted quinazoline derivatives of formula I wherein Ar, R1 and R2 are as defined in the description and claims, and their use as MNK1 (MNK1a or MNK1b) and/or MNK2 (MNK2a or MNK2b) kinase inhibitors, pharmaceutical compositions containing the same, and methods of using the same as agents for treatment or amelioration of MNK1 (MNK1a or MNK1b) and/or MNK2 (MNK2a or MNK2b) mediated disorders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2015
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: Andreas BLUM, Dirk GOTTSCHLING, Armin HECKEL, Joerg P. HEHN, Bernhard SCHMID, Dieter WIEDENMAYER
  • Publication number: 20150362388
    Abstract: A method for detecting a phase angle difference between a first periodic measurement signal and a second periodic measurement signal, wherein, for the purpose of determining a torque applied to a shaft, the two periodic measurement signals describe a rotation of the shaft at an axial distance from one another including superimposing a periodic auxiliary signal which simulates a previously known rotational speed for the shaft on the first periodic measurement signal in order to form a superimposition signal, and determining the phase angle difference on the basis of the superimposition signal and the second measurement signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Publication date: December 17, 2015
    Inventors: Bernhard Schmid, Wolfgang Jöckel, Klaus Rink