Patents by Inventor Björn Müller
Björn Müller 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: 12287625Abstract: A method and replay unit for sending secured messages via a messaging system to a receiver ECU to be tested, wherein the replay unit is connected to the device under test via the messaging system, wherein the replay unit is set up to receive first secured messages to be replayed, to remove from the first secured messages a first counter value and a first authenticator, and to generate a second authenticator by means of a second counter value, an encryption algorithm and a key, and wherein the replay unit is set up to generate second secured messages by adding the second counter value and the second authenticator to the first messages, and wherein the replay unit is further adapted to send the second secured messages to the recipient device under test via the messaging system.Type: GrantFiled: August 11, 2021Date of Patent: April 29, 2025Assignee: dSPACE GMBHInventor: Bjoern Mueller
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Patent number: 12252926Abstract: A control and information system is for a lavatory of an aircraft, where the lavatory has a door. The system contains a door actuator for opening and closing, a lock actuator for locking and unlocking the door, a control device for controlling the door actuator and the lock actuator, a human-machine interface for actuating the door by a user, as well as a communication interface for exchanging information between an authorized entity and the control device. The lavatory contains a wall structure supporting the door, and the control and information system. A user controls the door via the human-machine interface. Information about the communication interface is exchanged between the control device and the authorized entity.Type: GrantFiled: October 17, 2022Date of Patent: March 18, 2025Assignees: Diehl Aviation Laupheim GmbH, Diehl Aviation Gilching GmbHInventors: Björn Müller, Florian Zager-Rode, Jörg Engelhardt
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Patent number: 12224515Abstract: An emergency break cable lug device is described. The cable lug device includes a pin element for fixing a cable; and a socket element, in which the pin element is insertable and which is configured to be connected to an external conductor, in particular an external cable or wire. The pin element is adapted to exit the socket element upon a predefined threshold value of force acting on the pin element and/or the socket element. Further, a pin element for a cable lug device, a socket element for a cable lug device and a method for mounting a cable lug device are described.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2022Date of Patent: February 11, 2025Assignee: NKT HV Cables ABInventors: Stephan Meyer, Peter Müller, Marcel Benjamin Grauerholz, Björn Spiers
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Patent number: 12163200Abstract: A method of tempering a plate workpiece entails first fitting the plate workpiece with a shield between first and second shield parts each having a respective mask element so as to cover only an edge region of the workpiece while leaving a more central region of the workpiece exposed. The shield and workpiece are then put in an oven with the plate workpiece fitted between the first and second shield parts. The shield also comprises first and second seals on the first and second parts confronting each other and each displaceable on the respective part between a closely juxtaposed working position in which inner portions of the seals are spaced apart by a distance equal generally to a thickness of the plate workpiece and outer portions of the seal bear on each other and a starting position spaced more widely from and out of engagement with each other. The seals engage and clamp the workpiece in the working position.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2022Date of Patent: December 10, 2024Assignee: GEDIA GEBRUEDER DINGERKUS GMBHInventors: Bjoern Mueller, Patrick Mueller, Maik Winderlich, Thorsten Wisnia
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Patent number: 12034708Abstract: A method for sending registered secure messages via a messaging system to a receiver device that is to be tested includes: supplying first secure and still serialized messages from message packages for processing in a reproduction unit; in the first messages, reducing the data volume of the serialized messages; deserializing the reduced first messages and creating second secure messages by adding a second counter value in each case or, where applicable, by replacing a first counter value with the second counter value, and creating and adding a second authenticator in each case by using the second counter value, the encryption information, and the key, and by using the communication description or the information obtained by applying a data interpretation algorithm; and serializing the second secure messages and sending corresponding message packages to the receiver device to be tested.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2021Date of Patent: July 9, 2024Assignee: DSPACE GMBHInventor: Bjoern Mueller
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Patent number: 11981971Abstract: The invention relates to a method for cooling a tool in a heat treatment furnace, wherein: the tool is supplied during normal cooling operation with coolant from a coolant reservoir through a supply inlet (1), which coolant is returned into the coolant reservoir from the tool via a return flow (2); the supply inlet (1) is coupled by means of an electric actuator (3) alternatively to the coolant reservoir or to the public water supply and the return flow (2) is coupled by means of a further electric actuator (3) alternatively to the coolant reservoir or to the public waste water system (4); the actuators (3, 3?) are supplied with a feed current during normal cooling operation and held in a first position in which coolant is supplied to the tool through the supply inlet (5) from the coolant reservoir and the coolant is fed back through the return flow (2, 6) into the coolant reservoir; and, upon interruption in the power supply, the actuators (3, 3?) are forced into an emergency position in which cold water isType: GrantFiled: September 24, 2019Date of Patent: May 14, 2024Assignee: GEDIA GEBRUEDER DINGERKUS GMBHInventors: Volker Flesch, Bjoern Mueller, Patrick Mueller, Maik Winderlich, Thorsten Wisnia
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Publication number: 20240094294Abstract: A failure insertion unit for connection to an object under test connected to a bus or network interface, wherein the object under test can be subjected by means of the failure insertion unit to fault voltages that are greater than the maximum voltage for which the bus or network interface is designed, with a fuse circuit which protects a bus or network interface connected to the failure insertion unit from voltages that are greater than the maximum voltage for which the bus or network interface is designed. This provides a way to be able to use failure insertion units even in systems that work with buses with high bandwidths without the risk of damaging bus or network interfaces due to overvoltages.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2023Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: dSPACE GmbHInventors: Bjoern MUELLER, Tobias Schaeffer
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Publication number: 20230353544Abstract: A method for sending registered secure messages via a messaging system to a receiver device that is to be tested includes: supplying first secure and still serialized messages from message packages for processing in a reproduction unit; in the first messages, reducing the data volume of the serialized messages; deserializing the reduced first messages and creating second secure messages by adding a second counter value in each case or, where applicable, by replacing a first counter value with the second counter value, and creating and adding a second authenticator in each case by using the second counter value, the encryption information, and the key, and by using the communication description or the information obtained by applying a data interpretation algorithm; and serializing the second secure messages and sending corresponding message packages to the receiver device to be tested.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2021Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventor: Bjoern Mueller
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Publication number: 20230272646Abstract: A door arrangement contains a door for a room with a door leaf, a wall portion of a wall structure laterally adjacent to the door, and a locking arrangement for the door. The locking arrangement includes a locking device in the door leaf with a blocking element, which can be moved in and contrary to a blocking direction in order to block or release the door, and a lock actuator in the wall portion with a first mechanical actuating element, which is unconnected to the blocking element in order to shift the blocking element, by mechanical contact pressure, from the movement position into the blocking position and vice versa. A control and information system contains the door arrangement, a control device for the lock actuator, a human/machine interface, and a communication interface for an authorized body different from the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2023Publication date: August 31, 2023Inventors: Björn Müller, Florian Zager-Rode, Wolfgang Müller
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Publication number: 20230167521Abstract: A method of tempering a plate workpiece entails first fitting the plate workpiece with a shield between first and second shield parts each having a respective mask element so as to cover only an edge region of the workpiece while leaving a more central region of the workpiece exposed. The shield and workpiece are then put in an oven with the plate workpiece fitted between the first and second shield parts. The shield also comprises first and second seals on the first and second parts confronting each other and each displaceable on the respective part between a closely juxtaposed working position in which inner portions of the seals are spaced apart by a distance equal generally to a thickness of the plate workpiece and outer portions of the seal bear on each other and a starting position spaced more widely from and out of engagement with each other. The seals engage and clamp the workpiece in the working position.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2022Publication date: June 1, 2023Inventors: Bjoern MUELLER, Patrick MUELLER, Maik WINDERLICH, Thorsten WISNIA
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Publication number: 20230093513Abstract: A shield covers a predetermined region of a plate workpiece during tempering of the plate workpiece in a furnace in which the shield and the workpiece are subjected to an austenitization temperature while the predetermined region of the plate is shielded by the shield against heat. The shield has at least one first shield part shaped to cover at least some of the predetermined region of the workpiece, at least one second shield part, and a fastener or the like securing the second part movably relative to or removable from the first part such that the first and second parts together achieve an optimum shape fully covering and shielding the predetermined region of the plate workpiece.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Inventors: Bjoern MUELLER, Patrick MUELLER, Maik WINDERLICH, Thorsten WISNIA
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Publication number: 20230082864Abstract: A lock module for a door in an aircraft has a lock with a blocking element and a non-self-locking drive for moving the blocking element. A blocking sensor detects a blocked position and an unblocked position of the blocking element. A control unit receives a blocking signal from the sensor and activates the drive based on the blocking signals of the blocking sensor(s). A module portion of the door leaf has at least the lock, the drive, and the blocking sensor structurally integrated therein. There is also described a door for the space with a lock module where the door leaf of the door contains the module portion, and a space of an aircraft which is closed by the door.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2022Publication date: March 16, 2023Inventors: Björn Müller, Florian Zager-Rode, Oliver Schumann
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Publication number: 20230047605Abstract: A control and information system is for a lavatory of an aircraft, where the lavatory has a door. The system contains a door actuator for opening and closing, a lock actuator for locking and unlocking the door, a control device for controlling the door actuator and the lock actuator, a human-machine interface for actuating the door by a user, as well as a communication interface for exchanging information between an authorized entity and the control device. The lavatory contains a wall structure supporting the door, and the control and information system. A user controls the door via the human-machine interface. Information about the communication interface is exchanged between the control device and the authorized entity.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 17, 2022Publication date: February 16, 2023Inventors: Björn Müller, Florian Zager-Rode, Jörg Engelhardt
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Publication number: 20220175299Abstract: A system is described for predicting at least one cardiological dysfunction in an individual, having a means for providing an ECG which has a number n of time-synchronized ECG traces, each comprising a chronological sequence of time signals representing a sinus rhythm of the individual's heartbeat, to which at least one P wave, a QRS complex and a T wave can be assigned in chronological order.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2020Publication date: June 9, 2022Inventors: Amir JADIDI, Thomas ARENTZ, Björn MÜLLER-EDENBORN
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Patent number: 11271454Abstract: An actuator producing an active movement between fastening elements of the actuator and damping a counter movement contains a main body having a first fastening element, an actuating body movable relative to the main body along an axial direction and having a second fastening element, and an electric motor for actively driving the actuating body exclusively in a driving direction along the axial direction and for passively damping a counter movement of the actuating body counter to the driving direction being brought about by external action on the fastening elements. An object assembly contains an object and the actuator in which the spring element is structurally separate from the rest of the actuator, and an interaction between the spring element and the rest of the actuator is achieved in an object to be operated by the actuator, at least in a correctly mounted state of the actuator.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2019Date of Patent: March 8, 2022Assignee: Diehl Aviation Laupheim GmbHInventor: Bjoern Mueller
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Publication number: 20210373545Abstract: A method and replay unit for sending secured messages via a messaging system to a receiver ECU to be tested, wherein the replay unit is connected to the device under test via the messaging system, wherein the replay unit is set up to receive first secured messages to be replayed, to remove from the first secured messages a first counter value and a first authenticator, and to generate a second authenticator by means of a second counter value, an encryption algorithm and a key, and wherein the replay unit is set up to generate second secured messages by adding the second counter value and the second authenticator to the first messages, and wherein the replay unit is further adapted to send the second secured messages to the recipient device under test via the messaging system.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 11, 2021Publication date: December 2, 2021Applicant: dSPACE digital signal processing and control engineering GmbHInventor: Bjoern MUELLER
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Publication number: 20200370831Abstract: The invention relates to a facility for producing a metal component having at least two regions of different strength properties, said facility consisting of a heating unit (2) comprising heat-producing radiation sources (4) as well as a positioning device for at least one base body (1) consisting of metal, and a protecting device comprising at least one covering part for the contactless protection of a pre-determined surface region of the base body (1), the protecting device being arranged in the heating unit such that it remains therein during a temperature control of the base body (1) before the forming of the base body in a forming tool, the protecting part comprising a plurality of separately manipulatable covering parts (3a, 3b, 3c, 3d, 3e) which are respectively used to protect a predetermined surface region (1a, 1b, 1c, 1d, 1e) of the Base Body (1), and a Manipulator (5) is Provided for Each Covering Part (3a to 3e), by means of which the covering part (3a to 3e) can be moved, independently from the oType: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2018Publication date: November 26, 2020Inventors: Volker FLESCH, Björn MÜLLER, Patrick MÜLLER, Maik WINDERLICH, Thorsten WISNIA
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Publication number: 20200174860Abstract: A method for displaying messages of a communication system includes: exchanging, via the communication system, messages between a control unit to be tested and a test environment; creating, receiving and processing, by at least one processing unit of the test environment, messages for the message exchange with the control unit to be tested as well as for command processing by a viewer of the at least one processing unit; displaying, by a display device of the test environment, all received messages in a first display element in a first view; checking, by the viewer, each received message in accordance with a filter instruction; and in response to the check being positive for a respective message, additionally displaying, in a second display element in a second view, the respective message.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2019Publication date: June 4, 2020Inventor: Bjoern Mueller
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Publication number: 20200119618Abstract: An actuator producing an active movement between fastening elements of the actuator and damping a counter movement contains a main body having a first fastening element, an actuating body movable relative to the main body along an axial direction and having a second fastening element, and an electric motor for actively driving the actuating body exclusively in a driving direction along the axial direction and for passively damping a counter movement of the actuating body counter to the driving direction being brought about by external action on the fastening elements. An object assembly contains an object and the actuator in which the spring element is structurally separate from the rest of the actuator, and an interaction between the spring element and the rest of the actuator is achieved in an object to be operated by the actuator, at least in a correctly mounted state of the actuator.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2019Publication date: April 16, 2020Inventor: Bjoern MUELLER
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Patent number: 10355953Abstract: A method in which the propagation times of a target network are simulated in an actual network, wherein the topology of the target network includes a number of senders and a number of receivers, and wherein the topology of the actual network includes one or more of the senders and receivers. A path between a first sender and a first receiver in the topology of the actual network differs from the path between the first sender and the first receiver in the topology of the target network, wherein in the actual network at least one first message of the first sender is received through a first network interface by a gateway having at least two network interfaces, is delayed by a delay, and is sent through a second network interface on a path to the first receiver.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2017Date of Patent: July 16, 2019Assignee: dSPACE digital signal processing and control engineering GmbHInventor: Bjoern Mueller