Patents by Inventor Christian Schroeder

Christian Schroeder 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: 20240131896
    Abstract: A reheating method for operating a refrigeration system for a motor vehicle is described, the refrigeration system includes a refrigerant compressor, which is connectable or connected to a primary line and a secondary line; an outer heat exchanger, which is arranged in the primary line; an evaporator, which is arranged in the primary line; a heating register, which is arranged in the secondary line; at least one movable temperature flap which is arranged upstream or downstream of the heating register in relation to a supply air flow direction; and at least one shut-off element, which is arranged downstream of the heating register in the secondary line. The reheating method includes adjusting the at least one shut-off element into a position in which refrigerant flows downstream of the heating register into the evaporator, while bypassing the external heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2020
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Dirk SCHROEDER, Christian REBINGER, Helmut ROTTENKOLBER
  • Publication number: 20240131897
    Abstract: A reheating method for operating a refrigeration system for a motor vehicle. The refrigeration system includes a refrigerant compressor, connected to a primary line and a secondary line; an external heat exchanger; an evaporator; a heating register; at least one movable temperature flap; and at least one shutoff element, which is arranged downstream of the heating register in the secondary line. The reheating method includes following steps: setting the at least one shutoff element in a position in which the refrigerant flows into the evaporator downstream of the heating register while bypassing the external heat exchanger, and incorporating at least one further heat sink, which is fluidically arranged in parallel or in series to the evaporator, in particular a chiller operating as a water heat pump evaporator and/or the external heat exchanger operating as an air heat pump evaporator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2020
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Dirk SCHROEDER, Christian REBINGER, Helmut ROTTENKOLBER
  • Publication number: 20240131901
    Abstract: A cooling system of a vehicle, including a coolant circuit, which can be operated as a cooling circuit for an AC operation and as a heat pump circuit for a heating operation, an evaporator, a coolant compressor, a heat exchanger in the form of a coolant condenser or gas cooler for the coolant circuit or in the form of a heat pump evaporator for the heat pump circuit, a first expansion element which is paired with the evaporator, a second expansion element, the heat pump evaporator function of which is paired with the heat exchanger, and an inner heat exchanger with a high-pressure section and a low-pressure section. The low-pressure section is fluidically connected to the downstream coolant compressor. The high-pressure section of the inner heat exchanger is arranged in a coolant circuit section which connects the second expansion element to the heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2023
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Dirk SCHROEDER, Christian REBINGER, Thomas ANZENBERGER
  • Publication number: 20240125444
    Abstract: A lighting device for a motor vehicle, wherein the lighting device has a circuit board with a multiplicity of light-emitting diodes arranged thereon, a transparent optical layer, and a reflector element, wherein the reflector element is arranged between the circuit board and the optical layer, wherein the reflector element has multiple segments into which the reflector element is subdivided, wherein a segment is associated with each light-emitting diode so that light emitted by the light-emitting diodes can be reflected by the reflector element and can pass through the optical layer. Two light-emitting diodes are arranged in a segment. In addition, a lighting system and a motor vehicle are provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Applicant: HELLA GmbH & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Mathias DRUEPPEL, Carsten HOHMANN, Marc KAUP, Alfons MICHAELIS, Martin MUEGGE, Diana MUNDT, Thomas RETTWEILER, Jacek ROSLAK, Christian SCHMIDT, Dietmar SCHROEDER, Martin VOLLMER
  • Patent number: 11951733
    Abstract: The invention relates to a printing machine with hybrid printing technology for printing on a continuous material web.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Windmöller & Hölscher KG
    Inventors: Sven Michael, Thomas Boosmann, Wolfgang Cordroch, Ralph Luxem, Jens Voelschow, Christian Bruns, Nico Schröder, Martin Flaspöhler, Nils-Henrik Schirmeisen
  • Patent number: 11945385
    Abstract: An energy absorption device for a bumper of a motor vehicle has a first deformation element on the front side of the bumper. The first deformation element is a foam shaped part which extends over the width of the bumper and has a density of from 20 to 50 g/l. At least one second deformation element, with a density which is at least 50 g/l higher than the first deformation element, is inserted into the first deformation element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Martin Gross, Arne Koehler, Tamara Manske, Christian Muselmann, Mazdak Novine, Tim Rudolph, Manuel Schroeder
  • Patent number: 11920971
    Abstract: A static gas flowmeter for sensing a flow of gas includes an outer housing, a flow tube coupled to an outlet or an inlet, ?1 sensor positioned for sensing gas flowing through the flow tube, and a controller including a memory including a flow calibration and flow measurement algorithm coupled to a sensor receiving a sensing signal. An integrated gas valve is connected to the inlet or outlet and/or there is an additional external valve positioned outside the housing coupled to the inlet to provide the gas flowmeter at least two state operation. Using the valve(s), the flow calibration algorithm triggers a zero-flow condition, then obtains a measured gas flow, and from the measured gas flow a flow offset is determined. If the flow offset is outside a predetermined limit, in-line calibrating is performed by adding the flow offset reflected as a correction factor to the flow measurement algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.
    Inventors: Christian Lampe-Jürgens, Ralf Schröder gen. Berghegger, Andreas Wuchrer, Norbert Flerlage, Tobias Meimberg
  • Publication number: 20240067204
    Abstract: A method for setting up a virtual ad hoc network for transmitting at least one piece of information to a first transportation vehicle as a first network subscriber. The method includes the information being provided based on first data from at least one second network subscriber, and at least one second network subscriber being a second transportation vehicle or an infrastructure component; wherein a motor-vehicle-external, central data processing device receives second data from multiple potential second network subscribers and takes the second data and at least one space-time parameter as a basis for determining the second network subscribers and setting up the virtual ad hoc network with the first transportation vehicle, as the first network subscriber, and the determined second network subscribers, the space-time parameter defining a specific area of relevance that has a predetermined physical and temporal correlation with the current position of the first transportation vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2023
    Publication date: February 29, 2024
    Inventors: Christian BRUNS, Jakob SPIEGELBERG, Jan SONNENBERG, Bernd LEHMANN, Laura FIEBACK, Marius SPIKA, Tatjana KRUSCHA, Fabian GALETZKA, Benjamin GROß, Jan KEMPA, Christoph KÖNIG, Marvin SCHRÖDER
  • Patent number: 11822371
    Abstract: A term base can be used to index a raw medical term (e.g., a text string from an electronic health record) to generate a computational expression of the raw medical term. The computational expression of the raw medical term can be used to generate a uniform medical term for the raw medical term. The computational expression can be compared with other computational expressions to organize the electronic health record, filter the electronic health record, and provide a uniform presentation of raw medical terms from different events in the electronic health record.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: David W. Padgett, John P. Clark, Brian A. Carlsen, Jeffrey D. LaMarche, Jason B. Morley, Christian Schroeder, Mark E. Pennell, Zhe Li, Jorge F. Pozas Trevino, Kevin M. Lynch
  • Publication number: 20230366700
    Abstract: Third-party overlay data that includes customized graphics such as animations may be rendered on a base map using a hardware-accelerated framework. When third-party overlay data is deemed incompatible with a first version of a base map, features of the base map may be flexed to better accommodate the overlay data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 24, 2023
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Yunwei Zhang, Jason K. Aftosmis, Jeffrey Meininger, Josiah W. Larson, Nalini Shah, Yingxiu Lu, Christian Schroeder
  • Patent number: 11798682
    Abstract: An electrosurgical system includes: an electrosurgical supply device, and an electrosurgical instrument, wherein the electrosurgical instrument includes a memory element which can be read out by the electrosurgical supply device when the electrosurgical instrument is connected to the electrosurgical supply device, and configuration data is stored on the memory element, which can be evaluated by the electrosurgical supply device in order to configure operating parameters which are compatible with the electrosurgical instrument. The electrosurgical system is characterized in that the configuration data is arranged in a flexible data structure which allows the memory element to simultaneously store multiple sets of configuration data which can be read and evaluated by different types of electrosurgical supply devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: OLYMPUS WINTER & IBE GMBH
    Inventors: Anne Kwik, Lutz Kersten, Thilo Vahldiek, Christian Schröder
  • Publication number: 20230320605
    Abstract: An example technique may include tracking motion of a user wearing the wearable device using at least first sensors of one or more sensors of the wearable device. The technique may also include tracking a physical state of the user using at least second sensors of the one or more sensors of the wearable device. The technique may also include determining whether an application of the wearable device has been launched. The technique may also include determining an action category of the user based at least in part on at least one of the motion of the user, the physical state of the user, or whether the application has been launched. The technique may also include collecting heartrate data of the user. The technique may also include categorizing the heartrate data based at least in part on the determined action category.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 16, 2023
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Schroeder, Divya Padmanabhan, Erno H. Klaassen, Evan R. Doll, Ian R. Shapiro, Jay Kriz Blahnik, Roxanne B. Brittain, Stephen J. Waydo, Joefrey S. Kibuule, Alexa VanHattum
  • Publication number: 20230289387
    Abstract: A user device can be used to generate medical term expressions, which represent medical terms of a health record. The user device can identify a medical concept present in the health record based on a medical term expression. The user device can generate a node in a personalized relational graph that corresponds to the medical concept. One or more sub-nodes can be added to the node. Responsive to a request, a user interface is presented that identifies the medical concept and some of the additional information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Applicant: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: David W. Padgett, Jason B. Morley, Christian Schroeder, Zhe Li, Mark E. Pennell, Kevin M. Lynch
  • Publication number: 20230265996
    Abstract: An aircraft light (2) includes a support board (4); a light source (6), arranged on the support board (4); an optical element (8; 8?; 12; 14), arranged over the light source (6); and a kinematic coupling fixture (20), establishing a fixed position of the optical element (8; 8?; 12; 14) with respect to the support board (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2023
    Publication date: August 24, 2023
    Applicant: Goodrich Lighting Systems GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Ebbers, Lars Christian Schröder, Markus Katzenmayer
  • Patent number: 11690522
    Abstract: Techniques are provided for tracking heartrate metrics using different operating modes associated with different contexts of a wearable device. For example, a heartrate sensor of the wearable device may be operated in a first operating mode when an activity is being tracked within an application session of a particular application. The heartrate sensor may be operated in a second operating mode after detecting conclusion of the activity within the activity session (e.g., during sedentary time).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Christian Schroeder, Divya Padmanabhan, Erno H. Klaassen, Evan R. Doll, Ian R. Shapiro, Jay Kriz Blahnik, Roxanne B. Brittain, Stephen J. Waydo, Joefrey S. Kibuule, Alexa VanHattum
  • Patent number: 11653324
    Abstract: A location control subsystem is provided that allows a user of an electronic device to define the granularity used to provide location coarseness. A user can define a coarse location granularity for an application. When a coarse device location is reported to an application, the location can be provided with at least a minimum degree of variable specificity based on the selected location coarseness. When an application is granted a coarse location, the application is to interpret the provided location indicating that the user may be anywhere within a geographic region of variable specificity, as opposed to being close to a center point with a horizontal accuracy based on the precision of the location fix, as when a fine granularity location is provided. In addition to reducing the spatial resolution of the location that is reported to the application, the temporal resolution may also be reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: Adam M. Driscoll, Siraj T. Abidi, Jessica Aranda, Matthew B. Ball, Krishna M. Behara, Patrick L. Coffman, Charles D. Deets, Christopher C. Foster, Ronald K. Huang, Erik C. Neuenschwander, Stephen J. Rhee, Maria Ryen, Brandon J. Van Ryswyk, Christian Schroeder, Shuli Zhou
  • Patent number: D985581
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Bernd Bergner, Birgit Ebert, Jürgen Kolb, Stephan Schaer, Christian Schröder, Marco Uher, Elena Wolf
  • Patent number: D985582
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Bernd Bergner, Birgit Ebert, Jürgen Kolb, Stephan Schaer, Christian Schröder, Marco Uher, Elena Wolf
  • Patent number: D985583
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Bernd Bergner, Birgit Ebert, Jürgen Kolb, Stephan Schaer, Christian Schröder, Marco Uher, Elena Wolf
  • Patent number: D985586
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 9, 2023
    Assignee: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Bernd Bergner, Birgit Ebert, Jürgen Kolb, Stephan Schaer, Christian Schröder, Marco Uher, Elena Wolf