Patents by Inventor Christian Koehler

Christian Koehler 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: 11995564
    Abstract: A recommendation method includes determining one or more aspects of a first item based on at least one descriptive text of the first item. The recommendation method also includes updating a knowledge graph containing nodes that represent multiple items, multiple users, and multiple aspects. Updating the knowledge graph includes linking one or more nodes representing the one or more aspects of the first item to a node representing the first item with one or more first edges. Each of the one or more first edges identifies weights associated with (i) user sentiment about the associated aspect of the first item and (ii) an importance of the associated aspect to the first item. In addition, the recommendation method includes recommending a second item for a user with an explanation based on at least one aspect linked to the second item in the knowledge graph.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Justin C. Martineau, Christian Koehler, Hongxia Jin
  • Patent number: 11970023
    Abstract: A vehicle wheel arrangement includes a wheel with a wheel hub and a carrier element for mounting the wheel on a vehicle part and/or for arrangement of a power-transmitting unit. In a joined state of the vehicle wheel arrangement a joining portion of the wheel hub corresponds with a joining portion of the carrier element. In the joined state of the vehicle wheel arrangement, the wheel hub and the carrier element are connected to one another in form-fitting fashion at least in a circumferential direction of a wheel hub axis. The wheel hub includes, in a region of the joining portion, one or more fiber plies with fibers arranged unidirectionally in the circumferential direction of the wheel hub axis. Furthermore, a method can be used to produce a vehicle wheel arrangement having a wheel hub made of fiber-reinforced composite and a carrier element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: ACTION COMPOSITES GMBH
    Inventors: Jens Werner, Michael Dressler, Florian Franke, Christian Köhler, Michael Franke, Sandro Mäke, André Bartsch
  • Patent number: 11972327
    Abstract: A method for action automation includes determining, using an electronic device, an action based on domain information. Activity patterns associated with the action are retrieved. For each activity pattern, a candidate action rule is determined. Each candidate action rule specifies one or more pre-conditions when the action occurs. One or more preferred candidate action rules are determined from multiple candidate action rules for automation of the action.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Vijay Srinivasan, Christian Koehler, Hongxia Jin
  • Patent number: 11845681
    Abstract: A completely biological method for removing a first group of micropollutants of pharmaceutical origin and a second group of micropollutants of pharmaceutical origin from raw wastewater includes: providing a first buffer tank upstream of a bioreactor; providing a moving bed membrane bioreactor (MB-MBR) for developing biomass growth both on a fixed support and in suspension in a form of flocs, and on mobile supports, the bioreactor obtaining an effluent with a COD concentration of organic matter of less than 50 mg l?1 and a total nitrogen concentration of less than 15 mg l?1; providing a biofiltration tank, separate from the first buffer tank of the bioreactor, that includes one or more biologically activated carbon (BAC) columns containing activated carbon; supplying the first buffer tank upstream of the bioreactor with raw wastewater containing micropollutants of pharmaceutical origin; pretreating the wastewater by passing the wastewater through a fine mesh sieve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 19, 2023
    Assignees: COCKERILL MAINTENANCE & INGENIERIE S.A., CENTRE BELGE D'ETUDE ET DE DOCUMENTATION DE L'EAU, EN ABREGE CEBEDEAU ASBL, LIST—LUXEMBOURG INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY
    Inventors: Stephane Nonet, Christian Koehler, Alain Magis
  • Patent number: 11724239
    Abstract: A production method can include flowing a heterogeneous fluid mixture into contact with a homogenizing cutting tool, measuring a fluid mixture temperature so as to obtain a measured fluid mixture temperature, and determining a target fluid mixture temperature. The fluid mixture can be frictionally heated so as to obtain a heated and homogenized fluid mixture by driving the cutting tool at a rate based on (i) the target fluid mixture temperature and (ii) the measured fluid mixture temperature. The heated and homogenized fluid mixture can be flowed away from the cutting tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: KLUEBER LUBRICATION MUENCHEN SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Dirk Loderer, Guenther Bodesheim, Bastian Werner, Christian Koehler, Anton Smola, Dirk Ludwig
  • Publication number: 20230014748
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a fibre composite body (2), in particular at least a part of a wheel, comprising the following steps: providing a mould (4) having at least one female mould part (6) and one male mould part, introducing a fibrous raw material (8) and a binder (10) into the female mould part (6), activating the binder (10) by an energy input (p, T) into the mould (4) to form a mould element (12) which is open to diffusion, joining together the mould element (12) which is open to diffusion and a preform structure (14), supplying a resin, so that the resin infiltrates at least partially into the mould element (12) which is open to diffusion and into the preform structure (14), and curing the resin, so that in this way the fibre composite body (2) is formed without a boundary layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2020
    Publication date: January 19, 2023
    Applicant: ACTION COMPOSITES HIGHTECH GMBH
    Inventors: Jens WERNER, Sandro MÄKE, Michael FRANKE, Christian KÖHLER, Florian FRANKE, Michael DRESSLER, André BARTSCH
  • Patent number: 11541685
    Abstract: The invention relates to a wheel, especially for motor vehicles, comprising a wheel rim and a wheel disc, the wheel rim having a rim base made of fiber composite material. The invention is characterized in that the wheel disc (3, 11, 20, 29, 40) can be indirectly connected to the wheel rim (1), in particular the rim base (2), by means of a connecting element (5, 14, 22, 31, 35, 42) which is designed and associated with the rim base (2) in such a way that the connected wheel disc (3, 11, 20, 29, 40) is not in contact with the rim base (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignees: THYSSENKRUPP CARBON COMPONENTS GMBH, thyssenkrupp AG
    Inventors: Jens Werner, Christian Koehler, Sandro Maeke, Michael Dressler, Andre Bartsch
  • Publication number: 20220411298
    Abstract: A completely biological method for removing a first group of micropollutants of pharmaceutical origin and a second group of micropollutants of pharmaceutical origin from raw wastewater includes: providing a first buffer tank upstream of a bioreactor; providing a moving bed membrane bioreactor (MB-MBR) for developing biomass growth both on a fixed support and in suspension in a form of flocs, and on mobile supports, the bioreactor obtaining an effluent with a COD concentration of organic matter of less than 50 mg l?1 and a total nitrogen concentration of less than 15 mg l1; providing a biofiltration tank, separate from the first buffer tank of the bioreactor, that includes one or more biologically activated carbon (BAC) columns containing activated carbon; supplying the first buffer tank upstream of the bioreactor with raw wastewater containing micropollutants of pharmaceutical origin; pretreating the wastewater by passing the wastewater through a fine mesh sieve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2019
    Publication date: December 29, 2022
    Inventors: Stephane Nonet, Christian Koehler, Alain Magis
  • Publication number: 20220147843
    Abstract: Computer-based content understanding can include segmenting an image into a plurality of blocks, wherein each block includes textual information from the image. For each block of the plurality of blocks, encoded feature data is generated by encoding visual information of the block and visual information of one or more neighboring blocks from the plurality of blocks and encoded textual data is generated by encoding the textual information of the block and the textual information of the one or more neighboring blocks. Further, using an entity class prediction model, one or more tokens of the block are classified into one or more entity classes based on a combination of the encoded textual data and the encoded feature data. A plurality of entities can be extracted from the image based on the entity classes of the plurality of blocks.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Dalkandura Arachchige Kalpa Shashika Silva Gunaratna, Vijay Srinivasan, Sandeep Nama, Christian Koehler, Hongxia Jin
  • Patent number: 11308824
    Abstract: A modular surgical training system for training surgical interventions, includes a training module and a base module. The training module reproduces or has anatomical structures and is capable of holding at least one consumable medium. The base module supplies energy to the training module. The training module and the base module are connected to one another via a combination interface. The base module and the training module include conveying means connected via the combination interface. At least one consumable medium can be conveyed into the anatomical structures by the conveying means. The base module includes a sensor module that measures at least one physical variable. The sensor module and the training module include measurement means connected via the combination interface. The measurement means in the training module includes at least one air-filled connection means.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: FORSCHUNGS-UND TRANSFERZENTRUM LEIPZIG E.V. AN DER HOCHSCHULE FÜR TECHNIK, WIRTSCHAFT UND KULTUR
    Inventors: Ben Andrack, Matthias Mueller, Jochen Handwerk, Ingo Lorber, Christian Koehler, Werner Korb, Luis Enrique Bernal Vera, Tobias Pilic
  • Publication number: 20210279606
    Abstract: Systems and methods are described for adding new attributes to entities of a knowledge base. A plurality of correlations may be identified between the new attribute and existing attributes of the entities using a rule-based model, such that attribute rules may be associated with each identified correlation exceeding a predetermined confidence threshold. An unstructured data model may then be applied to the knowledge base to identify unstructured data associated with each entity of the plurality of entities correlated to presence of the new attribute. Then a meta learner model may be applied to identify weights for each attribute rule and the identified unstructured data. After the weights have been set for the meta learner model, the meta learner model may then be applied to each entity in the knowledge base to accurately identify entities having the new attribute.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Vijay Srinivasan, Christian Koehler, Hongxia Jin
  • Publication number: 20210190271
    Abstract: A production method can include flowing a heterogeneous fluid mixture into contact with a homogenizing cutting tool, measuring a fluid mixture temperature so as to obtain a measured fluid mixture temperature, and determining a target fluid mixture temperature. The fluid mixture can be frictionally heated so as to obtain a heated and homogenized fluid mixture by driving the cutting tool at a rate based on (i) the target fluid mixture temperature and (ii) the measured fluid mixture temperature. The heated and homogenized fluid mixture can be flowed away from the cutting tool.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Dirk LODERER, Guenter BODESHEIM, Bastian WERNER, Christian KOEHLER, Anton SMOLA, Dirk LUDWIG
  • Publication number: 20210162804
    Abstract: A vehicle wheel includes a wheel disk, a wheel rim, and at least one connection element that connects the wheel disk to the wheel rim. The connection element is guided through a passage in the wheel rim and is joined in the wheel disk. A seal is provided to hermetically seal the passage of the wheel rim. One or more such seal is arranged between a connection region of the wheel disk and a connection region of the wheel rim, wherein the seal surrounds the connection element in a contact-free manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2019
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP CARBON COMPONENTS GMBH
    Inventors: Jens WERNER, Florian FRANKE, Christian KÖHLER, Sandro MÄKE, Michael DRESSLER, Michael FRANKE
  • Publication number: 20200353775
    Abstract: A vehicle wheel arrangement may have a wheel with a wheel hub and a carrier element for mounting the wheel on a vehicle part and/or for the arrangement of a power-transmitting unit. The wheel hub may have a joining portion, which in a joined state of the vehicle wheel arrangement corresponds with a joining portion of the carrier element. Surface profiles of the joining portions are configured such that, in the joined state of the vehicle wheel arrangement, the wheel hub and the carrier element are connected to one another in form-fitting fashion at least in a circumferential direction of the wheel hub axis. Furthermore, a method can be used to produce a vehicle wheel arrangement having a wheel hub comprised of fiber-reinforced composite and a carrier element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2018
    Publication date: November 12, 2020
    Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP CARBON COMPONENTS GMBH
    Inventors: Jens WERNER, Michael DRESSLER, Florian FRANKE, Christian KÖHLER, Michael FRANKE, Sandro MÄKE, André BARTSCH
  • Patent number: 10773545
    Abstract: A vehicle wheel comprising a wheel rim with a rim base made from fiber composite material and a wheel disc. The wheel disc is connected to the wheel rim by a connecting element which is guided through a passage of the rim base and is received in the wheel disc. The wheel rim comprises a connecting arrangement with at least one connecting element and a seal element which covers in a complete and hollow manner a part of one or more adjacent connecting arrangements that extends across the rim outer side of the rim base. A circumferential edge of the seal element is glued in air-tight manner to the rim well. Alternatively, the wheel rim comprises a connecting arrangement with a connecting element and a flexible sealing layer made from plastic and completely covers, by coating, a part of the connecting arrangement which extends over the rim outer side of the rim base. An edge region of the flexible seal layer is connected in an air-tight manner to the rim base.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP CARBON COMPONENTS GMBH
    Inventors: Jens Werner, Christian Koehler, André Bartsch, Michael Dressler, Sandro Maeke, Christian Heilmann, Florian Franke
  • Publication number: 20200282766
    Abstract: A vehicle wheel may include a wheel rim and a wheel disc connected to an inner side of the wheel rim. The wheel disc may be connected to the wheel rim by a connecting element that is guided through a through-hole of the rim base and inserted in the wheel disc. The through-hole is arranged in the tire seat of the rim base and the connecting element is joined substantially in the direction of the radial extension of the wheel disc which is associated to the tire seat on the inner side of the rim. In the method for producing the wheel the connection between wheel rim and wheel disc is produced in the region of the tire seat of the rim base, and, after the insertion of the connecting element into the wheel disc, a portion of the connecting element protruding the contour of the outer side of the rim of the tire seat is shaped so that the connecting element conforms to the contour of the outer side of the rim of the tire seat.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2020
    Publication date: September 10, 2020
    Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP CARBON COMPONENTS GMBH
    Inventors: Jens WERNER, Christian KOEHLER, Sandro MAEKE, Michael DRESSLER, Christian HEILMANN, Florian FRANKE
  • Publication number: 20200247177
    Abstract: A vehicle wheel that is connectable to a brake system may include a wheel rim and a wheel disk. The wheel rim and/or the wheel disk may include a support structure comprised of fiber-reinforced plastic. The wheel rim and/or the wheel disk, at least on a side of the support structure that faces the brake system, may have a thermo-function structure that in thermal terms is configured so as to be more conductive than the support structure and is disposed so as to extend in such a manner that thermal energy generated by the brake system is discharged from a first region of the wheel rim and/or of the wheel disk that on account of said thermal energy is highly stressed in thermal terms into a second region of the wheel rim and/or of the wheel disk (3) that is less stressed in thermal terms.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2018
    Publication date: August 6, 2020
    Applicant: THYSSENKRUPP CARBON COMPONENTS GMBH
    Inventors: Jens WERNER, Christian KÖHLER, Michael FRANKE, Florian FRANKE, Michael DRESSLER, Sandro MÄKE, André BARTSCH
  • Publication number: 20200242974
    Abstract: A modular surgical training system for training surgical interventions, includes a training module and a base module. The training module reproduces or has anatomical structures and is capable of holding at least one consumable medium. The base module supplies energy to the training module. The training module and the base module are connected to one another via a combination interface. The base module and the training module include conveying means connected via the combination interface. At least one consumable medium can be conveyed into the anatomical structures by the conveying means. The base module includes a sensor module that measures at least one physical variable. The sensor module and the training module include measurement means connected via the combination interface. The measurement means in the training module includes at least one air-filled connection means.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 9, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Applicant: FORSCHUNGS-UND TRANSFERZENTRUM LEIPZIG E.V. AN DER HOCHSCHULE FÜR TECHNIK, WIRTSCHAFT UND KULTUR LE
    Inventors: Ben ANDRACK, Matthias MUELLER, Jochen HANDWERK, Ingo LORBER, Christian KOEHLER, Werner KORB, Luis Enrique BERNAL VERA, Tobias PILIC
  • Patent number: 10710399
    Abstract: Disclosed is a vehicle wheel having a wheel rim and a wheel disc connected to an inner side of the wheel rim. The wheel disc is connected to the wheel rim by a connecting element which is guided through a through-hole of the rim base and inserted in the wheel disc. The through-hole is arranged in the tire seat of the rim base and the connecting element is joined substantially in the direction of the radial extension of the wheel disc which is associated to the tire seat on the inner side of the rim. In the method for producing the wheel the connection between wheel rim and wheel disc is produced in the region of the tire seat of the rim base, and, after the insertion of the connecting element into the wheel disc, a portion of the connecting element protruding the contour of the outer side of the rim of the tire seat is shaped so that the connecting element conforms to the contour of the outer side of the rim of the tire seat.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: THYSSENKRUPP CARBON COMPONENTS GMBH
    Inventors: Jens Werner, Christian Koehler, Sandro Maeke, Michael Dressler, Christian Heilmann, Florian Franke
  • Patent number: 10683907
    Abstract: The invention relates to a spring (1, 23) comprising at least one tensile body (2, 17, 71, 76) that can be subjected to tensile stress and/or at least one compressive body (37) that can be subjected to compressive stress, the spring also comprising a force-displacement conversion unit (3, 18, 24) for converting the force-displacement of the spring force F, said force-displacement conversion unit (3, 18, 24) having a moveable input control element (6, 19, 29), to which the spring force can be applied and a moveable output control element (7, 20, 30, 54, 60, 68, 72) which is operatively connected to the tensile body (2, 17, 71, 76) or to the compressive body (37) in such a way that the spring force F produces a tensile stress in the tensile body (2, 17, 71, 76) or a compressive stress in the compressive body (37) in a specific force-displacement conversion ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Leichtbau-Zentrum Sachsen GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Hufenbach, Martin Lepper, Jens Werner, Christian Koehler