Patents by Inventor Bjoern Mueller

Bjoern Mueller 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).

  • Patent number: 11981971
    Abstract: 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 is
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: GEDIA GEBRUEDER DINGERKUS GMBH
    Inventors: Volker Flesch, Bjoern Mueller, Patrick Mueller, Maik Winderlich, Thorsten Wisnia
  • Patent number: 11966665
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for designing of a piece of apparel in particular an upper of a shoe, comprising the steps of providing at least one first panel including a plurality of feature points in an essentially two-dimensional configuration, arranging the at least one first panel on a first reference body in a three-dimensional configuration representing the piece of apparel to be designed, generating a first mapping between the two-dimensional configuration of the at least one first panel and the three-dimensional configuration of the at least one first panel using the plurality of feature points and designing the piece of apparel using the first mapping.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: adidas AG
    Inventors: Jochen Bjoern Suessmuth, Jens Raab, Detlef Philipp Müller
  • Publication number: 20240094294
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2023
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: dSPACE GmbH
    Inventors: Bjoern MUELLER, Tobias Schaeffer
  • Publication number: 20240088593
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Stephan Meyer, Peter Müller, Marcel Benjamin Grauerholz, Björn Spiers
  • Publication number: 20230353544
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2021
    Publication date: November 2, 2023
    Inventor: Bjoern Mueller
  • Publication number: 20230272646
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2023
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Björn Müller, Florian Zager-Rode, Wolfgang Müller
  • Publication number: 20230167521
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 28, 2022
    Publication date: June 1, 2023
    Inventors: Bjoern MUELLER, Patrick MUELLER, Maik WINDERLICH, Thorsten WISNIA
  • Publication number: 20230093513
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2022
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventors: Bjoern MUELLER, Patrick MUELLER, Maik WINDERLICH, Thorsten WISNIA
  • Publication number: 20230082864
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Björn Müller, Florian Zager-Rode, Oliver Schumann
  • Publication number: 20230047605
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Björn Müller, Florian Zager-Rode, Jörg Engelhardt
  • Publication number: 20220175299
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: March 5, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Inventors: Amir JADIDI, Thomas ARENTZ, Björn MÜLLER-EDENBORN
  • Patent number: 11271454
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 8, 2022
    Assignee: Diehl Aviation Laupheim GmbH
    Inventor: Bjoern Mueller
  • Publication number: 20210373545
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2021
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Applicant: dSPACE digital signal processing and control engineering GmbH
    Inventor: Bjoern MUELLER
  • Publication number: 20200370831
    Abstract: 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 o
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 21, 2018
    Publication date: November 26, 2020
    Inventors: Volker FLESCH, Björn MÜLLER, Patrick MÜLLER, Maik WINDERLICH, Thorsten WISNIA
  • Publication number: 20200174860
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2019
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventor: Bjoern Mueller
  • Publication number: 20200119618
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventor: Bjoern MUELLER
  • Patent number: 10355953
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 16, 2019
    Assignee: dSPACE digital signal processing and control engineering GmbH
    Inventor: Bjoern Mueller
  • Publication number: 20170220712
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for simulating a restbus control unit network that includes at least two restbus control units connected through a bus system. The restbus control unit network is connected to at least one additional control unit through the bus system. The communication relationships of the restbus control units are described, program code for simulating the restbus control units is generated based on the communication relationships. The restbus control unit network is simulated on a simulation computer via an executable version of the program code. Simplified and flexible simulation of the restbus control unit network is made possible in that a single, joint restbus control unit model is generated for the restbus control units as program code for simulating the restbus control units.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2017
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Applicant: dSPACE digital signal processing and control engineering GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias BLESKEN, Martin HOETGER, Bjoern MUELLER
  • Publication number: 20170134254
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2017
    Publication date: May 11, 2017
    Applicant: dSPACE digital signal processing and control engineering GmbH
    Inventor: Bjoern MUELLER
  • Publication number: 20130304448
    Abstract: A configuration tool includes a tangible, non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions for configuring a model of a technical system and displaying the model on a display connected to a computer. The model includes at least two model components. Each model component has at least one port. Each model component is displayable in an expanded component representation on the display. The at least one port of each model component is connectable to at least one port of another model component by port association lines. Each model component is displayable in an expanded line representation on the display along with the at least one port and the port association lines of each model component. At least for one selected model component the port association lines connected to ports of the selected model component can be selected to be displayed in a reduced line representation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2012
    Publication date: November 14, 2013
    Applicant: dSPACE digital signal processing and control engineering GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Ruehl, Karsten Kruegel, Bjoern Mueller