Patents by Inventor Christian Kern

Christian Kern 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: 20240140196
    Abstract: A vehicle system, including one or more vehicle immersion components, operatively coupled to a vehicle processing apparatus, each of the one or more vehicle immersion components configured to execute an immersive effect in the vehicle. A vehicle component, operatively coupled to the vehicle processing apparatus, is configured to execute a vehicle function, wherein an operational profile includes data for assigning the vehicle component to the one or more vehicle immersion components, and where the vehicle component is configured to modify operation from executing the vehicle function to executing the immersive effect when the operational profile is executed in the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Gerrit Güterbock, Christian Kern, Vince Tulit, Enes Olcay
  • Publication number: 20240140197
    Abstract: A vehicle system, including a vehicle processing apparatus, and a memory configured to store one or more vehicle operational profiles that includes data to reassign a vehicle component from executing a vehicle function to operating one or more vehicle immersion components. A communication interface is configured to receive at least portions of an executable application from a computer network, wherein the vehicle processing apparatus is configured to execute the application from the computer network, and execute the operational profile to generate one or more immersive effects in the vehicle via the one or more vehicle immersion components, when the vehicle component is being used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 28, 2022
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Gerrit Güterbock, Christian Kern, Vince Tulit, Enes Olcay
  • Publication number: 20240113024
    Abstract: An interconnect structure including conducting layers of topological semi-metals and/or topological insulators. To increase charge carrier density in the conducting layers, a charge carrier doping layer present on at least one surface of the one or more conductive layers of topological semi-metals. The charge carrying doping layers have a charge carrier density greater than the topological semi-metals and/or topological insulators of the one or more conductive layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Ching-Tzu Chen, Christian Lavoie, Guy M. Cohen, Utkarsh Bajpai, Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo, Teodor Krassimirov Todorov, Oki GUNAWAN, NATHAN P. MARCHACK, Peter Kerns
  • Patent number: 11187750
    Abstract: A method for detecting the open or closed state of a protection appliance in an electrical installation including a voltage detector upstream of the protection appliance and a voltage detector downstream thereof, in which the voltage data provided by the voltage detectors is used to obtain information regarding the presence or absence of voltage upstream and downstream of the protection appliance, a correlation is established between the voltage data, and it is determined whether the protection appliance is in an open state, in a closed state, in an abnormal state or in an undetermined state. The current data provided by the current detectors can also be used to determine the cause of the tripping of the protection appliance, and to thereby obtain a full, precise and real-time diagnostic for the operation of the electrical installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: SOCOMEC
    Inventors: Marc Capot, Pierre-Henri Herr, Christian Kern
  • Patent number: 10958060
    Abstract: The photovoltaic installation being intended to supply an electric current (i), the method comprises the steps of measuring (e0) values representative of the electric current (i) supplied by the photovoltaic installation; adjusting (e2) a variable current jump threshold (s(ti)) according to measured values; detecting (e3) a current jump with an amplitude greater than a current jump threshold adjusted according to values measured before the jump; and detecting (e5) an electric arc based on the detection of a current jump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignees: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, SOCOMEC
    Inventors: Nicolas Chaintreuil, Stéphane Siat, Christian Kern
  • Patent number: 10942754
    Abstract: A method for deployment of a machine learning model (MLM) on a target field device is disclosed herein. The method includes automatically generating a set of source code files based on the machine learning model, wherein the set of source code files is configured to execute the machine learning model according to predetermined capabilities of the target field device; transforming the generated source code files into a model binary using a tool chain specific to the target field device; and deploying the model binary in a memory of the target field device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 9, 2021
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Kern, Igor Kogan, Josep Soler Garrido
  • Publication number: 20200379045
    Abstract: A method for detecting the open or closed state of a protection appliance in an electrical installation including a voltage detector upstream of the protection appliance and a voltage detector downstream thereof, in which the voltage data provided by the voltage detectors is used to obtain information regarding the presence or absence of voltage upstream and downstream of the protection appliance, a correlation is established between the voltage data, and it is determined whether the protection appliance is in an open state, in a closed state, in an abnormal state or in an undetermined state. The current data provided by the current detectors can also be used to determine the cause of the tripping of the protection appliance, and to thereby obtain a full, precise and real-time diagnostic for the operation of the electrical installation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Publication date: December 3, 2020
    Applicant: SOCOMEC
    Inventors: Marc CAPOT, Pierre-Henri HERR, Christian KERN
  • Patent number: 10669886
    Abstract: A cooling device for cooling platforms of a guide vane ring of a gas turbine is arranged downstream inside a main flow channel of a combustion chamber. Cooling air passages are arranged in a wall of the platforms or of an intermediate piece that is connected therewith to guide cooling air for film cooling the surfaces of the platforms. At least in certain areas, the wall is configured with at least two layers having—as viewed from the main flow channel—an outer wall and a spaced apart inner wall forming a hollow space, wherein the hollow space can be impinged by cooling air through at least one cooling air blow-in opening inside the outer wall, and at least one cooling air blow-out opening is arranged inside the inner wall extending in the downstream direction to the surfaces of the platforms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: ROLLS-ROYCE DEUTSCHLAND LTD & CO KG
    Inventors: Knut Lehmann, Hamish Sweidan, Christian Kern
  • Publication number: 20200153060
    Abstract: An accumulator arrangement may include a plurality of battery cells stacked in an X direction to form at least one battery block, a housing with at least one part interior in which the battery block may be arranged, and a cooling device for cooling the battery cells, a cooling fluid being flowable through the cooling device. The battery block may have first and second contact sides lying opposite one another in a Y direction, first and second support sides lying opposite one another in a Z direction, and two clamping sides lying opposite one another in the X direction. The battery block in the part interior may be able to be at least one of flowed around by the cooling fluid multilaterally and flowed through at least partially, so that the part interior forms a part of the cooling device through which the cooling fluid is flowable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Ingo Haeusler, Thomas Kalmbach, Christian Kern, Ruediger Knauss, Alireza Mirsadraee, Heiko Neff, Peter Nowak, Markus Plandowski, Dennis Riegraf, Karl-Ulrich Schmid-Walderich, Mario Wallisch
  • Publication number: 20200119415
    Abstract: An accumulator may include a plurality of accumulator cells arranged adjacent to one another in a stacking direction, a plurality of cell holders for holding the accumulator cells, each cell holder holding two successive accumulator cells, and a cooling plate arranged between and in heat-transferring contact with the two successive accumulator cells.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 9, 2019
    Publication date: April 16, 2020
    Inventors: Ingo Haeusler, Thomas Kalmbach, Christian Kern, Ruediger Knauss, Alireza Mirsadraee, Peter Nowak, Markus Plandowski, Dennis Riegraf, Karl-Ulrich Schmid-Walderich, Mario Wallisch
  • Patent number: 10545178
    Abstract: A current sensor provided with an electrical coil (5) made in the form of a printed circuit. Its closed contour is inscribed within a rectangle delimiting a through window (9) for passing a primary conductor (2). It comprises four rectilinear segments (TR) connected two by two by a circular sector (SC), delimited by an interior arc (10) and an exterior arc (11). It comprises, in its circular sectors (SC), additional turns (13), which extend from exterior arc (11) towards an intermediate arc (14) located between interior arc (10) and exterior arc (11). They are inserted between the main turns (12) in such a way that the spacing between two consecutive turns (12, 13) on the exterior arc (11) is equal to spacing (P) of the main turns (12) in rectilinear segments (TR) and that the average turns density is almost constant in electrical coil (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 28, 2020
    Assignee: SOCOMEC
    Inventor: Christian Kern
  • Publication number: 20200012500
    Abstract: A method for deployment of a machine learning model (MLM) on a target field device is disclosed herein. The method includes automatically generating a set of source code files based on the machine learning model, wherein the set of source code files is configured to execute the machine learning model according to predetermined capabilities of the target field device; transforming the generated source code files into a model binary using a tool chain specific to the target field device; and deploying the model binary in a memory of the target field device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2018
    Publication date: January 9, 2020
    Inventors: Christian Kern, Igor Kogan, Josep Soler Garrido
  • Publication number: 20180358797
    Abstract: The photovoltaic installation being intended to supply an electric current (i), the method comprises the steps of measuring (e0) values representative of the electric current (i) supplied by the photovoltaic installation; adjusting (e2) a variable current jump threshold (s(ti)) according to measured values; detecting (e3) a current jump with an amplitude greater than a current jump threshold adjusted according to values measured before the jump; and detecting (e5) an electric arc based on the detection of a current jump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Publication date: December 13, 2018
    Applicants: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, SOCOMEC
    Inventors: Nicolas Chaintreuil, Stéphane Siat, Christian Kern
  • Patent number: 10027279
    Abstract: Method for detecting an electric arc in a photovoltaic installation, which includes measurement (E6) of voltage values at at least one site of the electrical circuit of the photovoltaic installation; digitization (E8) of the measured voltage values so as to form voltage data; formation (E11) of a window of n recent digitized voltage data; computation (E12) of a test value associated with the said window of the n voltage data; analysis (E13) of a test vector comprising m test values associated with m recent windows generating a quantity arising from this analysis representative of a risk of electric arc; comparison (E15) of this quantity arising with at least one threshold so as to deduce therefrom the presence or otherwise of an electric arc within the photovoltaic installation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignees: COMMISSARIAT A L'ENERGIE ATOMIQUE ET AUX ENERGIES ALTERNATIVES, SOCOMEC
    Inventors: Sylvain Lespinats, Nicolas Chaintreuil, Christian Kern, Alexandre Plissonnier
  • Patent number: 9989567
    Abstract: Equipment (1) for measuring the energy consumption of branches (11-N) of an electrical network (10) which comprises a single voltages measuring device (2) connected upstream of the branches of the network so as to measure the voltages of the network in a centralized manner, and several dedicated current measuring devices (3) connected to each branch of the network so as to measure the currents on the branches of the network. The measuring devices (2, 3) are connected by network cable (6) allowing digital communication of the voltage measurements to the current measuring devices (3), which comprises a processing unit (33) for calculating the energy consumption of the analyzed branch of the network. The voltage and current measurements are performed by sampling, and the sampling frequencies are compared and adjusted automatically so as to synchronize the current samples with the voltage samples.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 5, 2018
    Assignee: SOCOMEC
    Inventors: Christian Kern, Marc Capot
  • Publication number: 20180058223
    Abstract: A gas turbine has a combustion chamber and a turbine nozzle guide vane ring. The combustion chamber includes an outer and inner combustion chamber walls with heat shield tiles. The guide vane ring has airfoils, and outer and inner platforms. The outer and/or inner platforms form a radial step towards a main flow path such that the upstream end of the outer platform is arranged radially outside and upstream of the downstream end of the heat shield tiles of the outer combustion chamber wall, and/or the upstream end of the inner platform is arranged radially inside and upstream of the downstream end of the heat shield tiles of the inner combustion chamber wall, so that the outer platform and the heat shield tiles of the outer combustion chamber wall and/or the inner platform and heat shield tiles of the inner combustion chamber wall overlap in the axial direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2017
    Publication date: March 1, 2018
    Inventors: Knut LEHMANN, Christian KERN
  • Publication number: 20180052191
    Abstract: A current sensor provided with an electrical coil (5) made in the form of a printed circuit. Its closed contour is inscribed within a rectangle delimiting a through window (9) for passing a primary conductor (2). It comprises four rectilinear segments (TR) connected two by two by a circular sector (SC), delimited by an interior arc (10) and an exterior arc (11). It comprises, in its circular sectors (SC), additional turns (13), which extend from exterior arc (11) towards an intermediate arc (14) located between interior arc (10) and exterior arc (11). They are inserted between the main turns (12) in such a way that the spacing between two consecutive turns (12, 13) on the exterior arc (11) is equal to spacing (P) of the main turns (12) in rectilinear segments (TR) and that the average turns density is almost constant in electrical coil (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2016
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventor: Christian KERN
  • Patent number: 9857396
    Abstract: A measuring device (10) comprising a current sensor (20) and a measuring unit (40) connected to each other by a connection cable (50). The connection cable (50) comprises three pairs of conductors of which a first measurement pair (51) is arranged to transmit a signal representative of the current measured by the sensor (20), a second power supply pair (52) is arranged to power electrically the sensor (20) and the measuring unit (40), and a third communication pair (53) is arranged to transmit at least one complementary signal between the sensor (20) and the measuring unit (40), such as an identification feature of the sensor allows the measuring unit to recognize automatically the sensor and provide an exploitable correlated value of the current measured by the sensor (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: Socomec
    Inventor: Christian Kern
  • Publication number: 20170268380
    Abstract: A cooling device for cooling platforms of a guide vane ring of a gas turbine is arranged downstream inside a main flow channel of a combustion chamber. Cooling air passages are arranged in a wall of the platforms or of an intermediate piece that is connected therewith to guide cooling air for film cooling the surfaces of the platforms. At least in certain areas, the wall is configured with at least two layers having—as viewed from the main flow channel—an outer wall and a spaced apart inner wall forming a hollow space, wherein the hollow space can be impinged by cooling air through at least one cooling air blow-in opening inside the outer wall, and at least one cooling air blow-out opening is arranged inside the inner wall extending in the downstream direction to the surfaces of the platforms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 16, 2017
    Publication date: September 21, 2017
    Inventors: Knut LEHMANN, Hamish SWEIDAN, Christian KERN
  • Publication number: 20170138986
    Abstract: A measuring device (10) comprising a current sensor (20) and a measuring unit (40) connected to each other by a connection cable (50). The connection cable (50) comprises three pairs of conductors of which a first measurement pair (51) is arranged to transmit a signal representative of the current measured by the sensor (20), a second power supply pair (52) is arranged to power electrically the sensor (20) and the measuring unit (40), and a third communication pair (53) is arranged to transmit at least one complementary signal between the sensor (20) and the measuring unit (40), such as an identification feature of the sensor allows the measuring unit to recognize automatically the sensor and provide an exploitable correlated value of the current measured by the sensor (20).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2015
    Publication date: May 18, 2017
    Inventor: Christian KERN