Patents by Inventor Daniel Reimann

Daniel Reimann 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: 12358342
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electromagnetic proportional valve, preferably for refrigerant, which has the following: an armature of an electromagnet which is arranged so as to be able to be moved axially between an idle position, an activation position and working positions and on which an activation element is arranged; a piston which is constructed as a hollow piston and which has at a first axial end region a first opening toward a supply of the expansion valve and at a second axial end region a second opening toward a pressure compensation space; and a blocking member which is constructed to close the second opening, wherein the piston is arranged so as to be able to be axially displaced and wherein the piston is constructed to block a fluid passage as a blocking element of a main valve device, wherein the fluid passage of the main valve device is blocked in the idle position of the armature, wherein the activation element is constructed to act in the activation position of the armature on the blocking me
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: ECO Holding 1 GmbH
    Inventors: Toni Schneider, Daniel Reimann, Jens Möhring
  • Patent number: 12120589
    Abstract: A method for predicting channel load. The method includes determining a first channel quality information (CQI) associated with a location and a first time point, predicting traffic flow data associated with the location and a second time point subsequent to the first time point, predicting a second CQI associated with the location and the second time point based on the first CQI and the predicted traffic flow, and selectively transmitting a message comprising the second CQI, the location, and the second time point to at least one transportation vehicle based on the second CQI. Also disclosed is a transportation vehicle and a road side unit (RSU) for performing the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventor: Daniel Reimann
  • Patent number: 12087157
    Abstract: A transportation vehicle, a method, a computer program and an apparatus for combining object information relating to one or more objects in an environment of a transportation vehicle from different data sources. The method includes capturing a first item of environmental information relating to the environment by at least one sensor arranged on the transportation vehicle, receiving at least one second item of environmental information relating to the environment from a transmitter separated from the transportation vehicle, determining at least one first item of object information from the first environmental information, determining at least one second item of object information from the second environmental information, and assigning the first meta information and the second meta information to one another based on a comparison of a tolerance range with a discrepancy between the first object information and the second object information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Daniel Reimann, Niklas Puller, Oliver Trauer
  • Patent number: 11912312
    Abstract: A system, a transportation vehicle, a network component, apparatuses, methods, and computer programs for a transportation vehicle and a network component. The method for a transportation vehicle to determine a route section includes operating the transportation vehicle in an automated driving mode and determining an exceptional traffic situation. The method also includes transmitting information related to the exceptional traffic situation to a network component using a mobile communication system and receiving information related to driving instructions for the route section to overcome the exceptional traffic situation from the network component, wherein the receiving of the driving instructions includes tele-operating the transportation vehicle along the route section to overcome the exceptional traffic situation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Andreas Pfadler, Israel Gonzalez Vazquez, Ahmad El Assaad, Daniel Reimann, Guillaume Jornod, Andreas Kwoczek
  • Patent number: 11900808
    Abstract: A transportation vehicle, an apparatus, a method, and a computer program for a first transportation vehicle and for estimating a position of a second transportation vehicle at the first transportation vehicle. The method for a first transportation vehicle and for estimating a position of a second transportation vehicle at the first transportation vehicle includes obtaining information on an environmental map of the first transportation vehicle; receiving information on a trajectory of the second transportation vehicle; and estimating the position of the second transportation vehicle in the environmental map based on the information on the trajectory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2024
    Inventors: Andreas Pfadler, Bernd Rech, Daniel Reimann, Stefan Gläser, Bernd Lehmann, Julia Kwasny
  • Patent number: 11863971
    Abstract: A transportation vehicle, a system, apparatuses, methods, and a computer program for a user equipment and a network component of a mobile communication system. The method for a user equipment of a mobile communication system to receive control information includes receiving a first control information, wherein the first control information includes information related to a modulation format of second control information; and receiving a second control information using the modulation format indicated by the first control information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Inventors: Daniel Reimann, Guillaume Jornod
  • Patent number: 11751028
    Abstract: A method of a first transportation vehicle for predicting channel load. The first transportation vehicle predicts a critical area with channel congestion of at least one communication channel, determines a propagation trajectory of at least one second transportation vehicle and compares the propagation trajectory of the at least one second transportation vehicle and the critical area. Based on the comparison, the first transportation vehicle then selectively transmits a message having information on the critical area to at least one second transportation vehicle. Also disclosed is a transportation vehicle for performing the method and a computer program having instructions for performing the method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Inventors: Daniel Reimann, Guillaume Jornod, Andreas Pfadler
  • Patent number: 11700514
    Abstract: A method for a wireless communication from a first transportation vehicle to a road infrastructure station including determining the position of the first transportation vehicle, determining the distance of the transportation vehicle to the road infrastructure station, calculating a table containing predicted positions in space and/or time for the first transportation vehicle indicating the respective planned transmission characteristics for the future signal transmissions from the first transportation vehicle to the road infrastructure station at the predicted positions, transmitting the table to the surrounding transportation vehicle or to a network management station, evaluating the table in the surrounding transportation vehicle or the network management station, and adjusting the transmissions from the surrounding mobile station so that interference between the planned signal transmissions of the first transportation vehicle and the surrounding mobile station is reduced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2023
    Inventors: Roman Alieiev, Daniel Reimann, Teodor Buburuzan, Steffen Schmitz
  • Publication number: 20220406182
    Abstract: Technologies and techniques for assigning the lane in which a vehicle is currently driven, wherein input variables of at least one data source are detected to determine the lane currently being driven in, and wherein at least one data source includes signals from an environmental sensor system of the vehicle. In cases in which the possibility of unequivocal assignment of the lane in which a vehicle is currently driven is improved, it is provided that at least one data source includes a C2X communication.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 20, 2022
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Stefan Gläser, Daniel Reimann, Andreas Pfadler, Julia Kwasny, Sven Klomp, Sandra Kleinau
  • Patent number: 11473691
    Abstract: An expansion valve operable by a stepper motor, the expansion valve including a housing; a hollow shaft arranged in the housing; a valve base that supports the hollow shaft and closes the housing; a rotor that is drivable by a stator of the stepper motor; a center spool arranged within the hollow shaft and drivable by the rotor so that a rotation of the center spool is transferrable by a threaded connection into an axial movement of the center spool that opens or closes the expansion valve; and a spiral body that includes a thread turn and that is arranged about an enveloping surface of the hollow shaft and that is drivable by the rotor, wherein a stop body is arranged at the hollow shaft and movable in the thread turn of the spiral body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: ECO Holding 1 GmbH
    Inventors: Sven Dehrmann, Adrian Eslava Orradre, Daniel Reimann, Toni Schneider
  • Patent number: 11454512
    Abstract: A system, a transportation vehicle, a network component, apparatuses, methods, and computer programs for a transportation vehicle and a network component. The method for a transportation vehicle and for verifying a proposed route includes determining an exceptional traffic situation based on an environmental model for the transportation vehicle and transmitting information related to the exceptional traffic situation to a network component using a mobile communication system. The method also includes receiving information related to a proposed route from a network component, and verifying the proposed route based on the environmental model of the transportation vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Inventors: Andreas Pfadler, Ahmad El Assaad, Daniel Reimann, Guillaume Jornod
  • Patent number: 11445393
    Abstract: A method and to a device for adjusting at least one parameter of a communication system between two subscribers, wherein at least one parameter is changed based on an estimated future channel quality, wherein the device is configured so that at least one current position of a mobile subscriber at a point in time is detected or ascertained and a future position and environment is estimated based on the current position and an environment model, wherein the channel quality for a future point in time is estimated therefrom, wherein at least one parameter of the communication system is set based on the estimation, wherein the communication system performs an OFDM modulation, wherein the at least one parameter is a cyclic prefix of a transmit symbol.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Inventors: Daniel Reimann, Roman Alieiev
  • Patent number: 11402031
    Abstract: An expansion valve operable by a stepper motor, the expansion valve including a housing; a hollow shaft arranged in the housing; a valve base that supports the hollow shaft and closes the housing; a rotor drivable by a stator of the stepper motor; a center spool arranged in the hollow shaft and drivable by the rotor so that a rotation of the center spool is transferrable by a threaded connection into an axial movement of the center spool that opens or closes the expansion valve; and a sleeve that includes a receiving portion that includes at least portions of the center spool, of a compression spring and of a force transmission element respectively and a valve needle, wherein the receiving portion of the sleeve element is closed by a bushing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2022
    Assignee: ECO Holding 1 GmbH
    Inventors: Sven Dehrmann, Adrian Eslava Orradre, Daniel Reimann, Toni Schneider
  • Patent number: 11381953
    Abstract: A method of a first transportation vehicle for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication, which includes receiving a first message from a remote transmitter having first information on a hazard related to a first geolocation indicated in the first message; determining second information on a second transportation vehicle; and comparing the first information and the second information and selectively transmitting a forwarded message based on the content of the first message to the second transportation vehicle based on the comparison of the first and the second information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2022
    Inventors: Daniel Reimann, Guillaume Jornod, Andreas Pfadler, Bernd Lehmann
  • Patent number: 11363670
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses and computer programs for transportation vehicles and for a base station of a mobile communication system. A first method for a transportation vehicle of a platoon of transportation vehicles includes receiving a platoon identifier for the platoon of transportation vehicles from a base station of a mobile communication system, providing the platoon identifier to other transportation vehicles of the platoon of transportation vehicles via a side-link communication of the mobile communication system, and using the platoon identifier to communicate with the other transportation vehicles of the platoon of transportation vehicles via the mobile communication system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2022
    Inventors: Guillaume Jornod, Daniel Reimann
  • Patent number: 11343705
    Abstract: Methods, apparatuses and computer programs for a transportation vehicle and for a base station of a mobile communication system. The method for a transportation vehicle includes transmitting a request to a base station of a mobile communication system, wherein the request relates to a service having a Quality of Service (QoS) requirement; receiving a response to the request message from the base station, wherein the response includes information related to available QoS options suitable for the service; and transmitting an updated version of the request, wherein the updated version is based on the information related to available QoS options.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2022
    Inventors: Daniel Reimann, Guillaume Jornod
  • Publication number: 20220130236
    Abstract: The present invention refers to a method for predicting channel load. Therein, the method comprises the steps of determining a first channel quality information, CQI, associated with a location and a first time point, predicting traffic flow data associated with the location and a second time point subsequent to the first time point, predicting a second CQI associated with the location and the second time point based on the first CQI and the predicted traffic flow; and selectively transmitting a message comprising the second CQI, the location, and the second time point to at least one vehicle based on the second CQI. The present invention further relates to a vehicle and a road side unit, RSU, for carrying out the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventor: Daniel REIMANN
  • Publication number: 20220131805
    Abstract: A method of a first transportation vehicle for predicting channel load. The first transportation vehicle predicts a critical area with channel congestion of at least one communication channel, determines a propagation trajectory of at least one second transportation vehicle and compares the propagation trajectory of the at least one second transportation vehicle and the critical area. Based on the comparison, the first transportation vehicle then selectively transmits a message having information on the critical area to at least one second transportation vehicle. Also disclosed is a transportation vehicle for performing the method and a computer program having instructions for performing the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Daniel REIMANN, Guillaume JORNOD, Andreas PFADLER
  • Patent number: 11310640
    Abstract: A method for Vehicle-2-Vehicle communication of a transportation vehicle that enables the transportation vehicle to selectively forward a message concerning channel quality received from another transportation vehicle based on detection of channel quality of the transportation vehicle. A first transportation vehicle receives a first message from a second transportation vehicle including first channel quality information (CQI) related to a first position indicated in the message; compares the first CQI with a second CQI related to a second position, wherein the second CQI is determined by the first transportation vehicle; and selectively transmits a second message having the first CQI and/or the second CQI to a third transportation vehicle based on the comparison of the first CQI and the second CQI.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 19, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Inventors: Daniel Reimann, Guillaume Jornod, Andreas Pfadler
  • Publication number: 20220082310
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electromagnetic proportional valve, preferably for refrigerant, which has the following: an armature of an electromagnet which is arranged so as to be able to be moved axially between an idle position, an activation position and working positions and on which an activation element is arranged; a piston which is constructed as a hollow piston and which has at a first axial end region a first opening toward a supply of the expansion valve and at a second axial end region a second opening toward a pressure compensation space; and a blocking member which is constructed to close the second opening, wherein the piston is arranged so as to be able to be axially displaced and wherein the piston is constructed to block a fluid passage as a blocking element of a main valve device, wherein the fluid passage of the main valve device is blocked in the idle position of the armature, wherein the activation element is constructed to act in the activation position of the armature on the blocking me
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2019
    Publication date: March 17, 2022
    Applicant: ECO Holding 1 GmbH
    Inventors: Toni SCHNEIDER, Daniel REIMANN, Jens MÖHRING