Patents by Inventor Christoph Steffens

Christoph Steffens 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).

  • Method for transmitting information and device for carrying out the method
    Patent number: 10992381
    Abstract: A method is provided for transmitting information and a device for carrying out the method, in which images are photographed by a camera with an image-taking rate, thus, especially frame rate, a controllable illuminant being disposed in the responsive range of the camera, where the control frequency (f_PWM) of the illuminant is less than the image-taking rate f1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 27, 2021
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Zhidong Hua, Christoph Steffen Keppler, Henning Schäfer, Andreas Wanjek
  • System, in particular a manufacturing system
    Patent number: 9810531
    Abstract: A system for an installation and a method for operating a system, including stationary transceiver modules and a vehicle having a transceiver module, the individual transceiver module having a controllable light source and a light sensor, so that a data transmission is able to be carried out between the vehicle and the stationary modules.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: SEW-EURODRIVE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Zhidong Hua, Christoph Steffen Keppler
  • METHOD FOR TRANSMITTING INFORMATION AND DEVICE FOR CARRYING OUT THE METHOD
    Publication number: 20160226586
    Abstract: A method is provided for transmitting information and a device for carrying out the method, in which images are photographed by a camera with an image-taking rate, thus, especially frame rate, a controllable illuminant being disposed in the responsive range of the camera, where the control frequency (f_PWM) of the illuminant is less than the image-taking rate f1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 1, 2014
    Publication date: August 4, 2016
    Inventors: Zhidong HUA, Christoph Steffen KEPPLER, Henning SCHÄFER, Andreas WANJEK
  • System, in Particular a Manufacturing System
    Publication number: 20150358080
    Abstract: A system for an installation and a method for operating a system, including stationary transceiver modules and a vehicle having a transceiver module, the individual transceiver module having a controllable light source and a light sensor, so that a data transmission is able to be carried out between the vehicle and the stationary modules.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Zhidong Hua, Christoph Steffen Keppler
  • MACHINE
    Publication number: 20130199463
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an energy-conversion system comprising an internal combustion engine (1) and a generator (2) which is driven by the internal combustion engine, and comprising a rotational connection which couples a first shaft (3) of the internal combustion engine (1) to at least one second shaft (5) of the energy-conversion system, wherein the second shaft (5) rotates in the opposite direction to the first shaft (3) and the first shaft (3) is arranged parallel to the second shaft (5), wherein products of moments of inertia and respectively associated rotational speed ratios of individual rotating components, which are rotationally coupled to one another by means of the rotational connection, at least approximately cancel one another out.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2011
    Publication date: August 8, 2013
    Applicant: FEV GMBH
    Inventors: Martin Pischinger, Christoph Steffens, Karsten Wittek, Markus Kalenborn