Patents by Inventor Florian Schmidt
Florian Schmidt 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).
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Publication number: 20250029975Abstract: The invention relates to a method for solvent-free production of an electrode. By means of the method it is possible to produce an electrode which has high mechanical stability and which provides a high specific capacitance. The method also enables the production of an electrode which can be used as an anode in a lithium-ion battery, without giving rise to unstable operation with undesirable and irreversible degradation reactions. An electrode is also provided, which has the above-mentioned advantages. In addition, uses of the electrode according to the invention are proposed.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2022Publication date: January 23, 2025Applicants: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FÖRDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V., TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT DRESDENInventors: Florian SCHMIDT, Susanne DÖRFLER, Holger ALTHUES, Stefan KASKEL, Benjamin SCHUMM, Sebastian TSCHÖKE
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Patent number: 12203481Abstract: The invention relates to a compressor arrangement comprising a compressor (2) for compressing a process gas (13) from a suction region (21) towards a pressure region (22), a mechanical seal arrangement (3) for sealing against an atmosphere (6) on a shaft (5) of the compressor (2), wherein the mechanical seal arrangement comprises a mechanical seal (4) having a stationary slide ring (41) with a first sliding surface (41a) and a rotating slide ring (42) with a second sliding surface (42a), which define a sealing gap (42a) between the sliding surfaces (41a, 42a), and a barrier fluid supply (7) with a barrier fluid line (70) which extends from the pressure region (22) of the compressor (2) to the mechanical seal (4) and through which process gas is branched off from the pressure region, the stationary slide ring (41) having a through opening (8), which extends from a rear side (41b) of the stationary slide ring (41) to an orifice at the first sliding surface (41a) of the stationary slide ring to supply process gaType: GrantFiled: February 1, 2022Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignee: EagleBurgmann Germany GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Ferdinand Werdecker, Glenn Schmidt, Benjamin Hellmig, Maximilian Frank, Florian Bauer, Andreas Fesl
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Patent number: 12203110Abstract: Aspects of this invention, inter alia, relate to novel systems for targeting, editing or manipulating DNA in a cell, using novel synthetic RNA-guided nucleases (sRGNs). The sRGNs are derived from wildtype or parental small type II CRISPR Cas9 endonucleases.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2019Date of Patent: January 21, 2025Assignees: CRISPR THERAPEUTICS AG, BAYER HEALTHCARE LLCInventors: Andre Cohnen, Moritz Schmidt, Wayne Coco, Michael Biag Gamalinda, Ashish Gupta, Christian Pitzler, Florian Richter, Jan Tebbe, Christopher Cheng, Ryo Takeuchi, Caroline W. Reiss
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Patent number: 12024291Abstract: A component system for an aircraft, having at least one furnishing component, a plurality of component rails, a plurality of guide elements engageable with and movable relative to the component rails, a plurality of retaining elements connected to the guide elements and configured to be coupled to a hull structure of the aircraft or the at least one furnishing component, and a plurality of locking units arranged on the component rails and/or on the guide elements and configured to lock the guide elements to a particular rail. At least two component rails are arranged on the at least one furnishing component or the hull structure at a distance and parallel to each other such that the furnishing component is retractable via the component rails on guide elements or component rails that are spatially fixed in the aircraft and can be locked in a retracted position by the locking units.Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2020Date of Patent: July 2, 2024Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBHInventors: Matthias Hegenbart, Peter Linde, Hermann Benthien, Alexander Horn, Florian Schmidt
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Patent number: 11885379Abstract: A device (1) for connecting a toothing part (3) to a shaft (5) for conjoint rotation with the latter, having a toothing part (3) with a circular bore, a shaft (5) which has: a cylindrical receiving portion (4) for receiving the toothing part (3), and a cylindrical recess (8) in the shaft (5), which cylindrical recess (8) extends at least substantially over the entire length of the receiving portion (4), and a press-in cylinder (10) which can be pressed into the recess (8) and which has an oversize in relation to the recess (8).Type: GrantFiled: November 21, 2019Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: WITTENSTEIN SEInventors: Klaus Völker, Philipp Farrenkopf, Florian Schmidt
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Patent number: 11820047Abstract: The invention relates to an additive manufacturing method in which a component (10, 42, 43, 44, 45) is produced in layers using an energy beam (8, 41, 58) which solidifies a starting material (4) and is irradiated by energy beam irradiating means (9, 22, 31, 38, 39, 55, 59, 61) while the starting material (4) is held by a base surface (3, 15, 30, 36, 52) arranged on a base element (2, 16, 29, 35, 51). While the starting material (4) is being irradiated with the energy beam (8, 41, 58), the base element (2, 16, 29, 35, 51) is moved by a rotational component which has a base element rotational axis, wherein the starting material (4) is held on the base surface (3, 15, 30, 36, 52) by a centrifugal acceleration generated by the rotational component. The invention is characterized in that a rotational movement is produced for at least some of the energy beam irradiating means (9, 22, 31, 38, 39, 55, 59, 61).Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2021Date of Patent: November 21, 2023Inventors: Henning Janssen, Florian Schmidt, Christian Brecher, Daniel Zontar
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Publication number: 20230211548Abstract: The invention relates to an additive manufacturing method in which a component (10, 42, 43, 44, 45) is produced in layers using an energy beam (8, 41, 58) which solidifies a starting material (4) and is irradiated by energy beam irradiating means (9, 22, 31, 38, 39, 55, 59, 61) while the starting material (4) is held by a base surface (3, 15, 30, 36, 52) arranged on a base element (2, 16, 29, 35, 51). While the starting material (4) is being irradiated with the energy beam (8, 41, 58), the base element (2, 16, 29, 35, 51) is moved by a rotational component which has a base element rotational axis, wherein the starting material (4) is held on the base surface (3, 15, 30, 36, 52) by a centrifugal acceleration generated by the rotational component. The invention is characterized in that a rotational movement is produced for at least some of the energy beam irradiating means (9, 22, 31, 38, 39, 55, 59, 61).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 28, 2021Publication date: July 6, 2023Inventors: Henning Janssen, Florian Schmidt, Christian Brecher, Daniel Zontar
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Publication number: 20230057345Abstract: A component system for an aircraft, having at least one furnishing component, a plurality of component rails, a plurality of guide elements engageable with and movable relative to the component rails, a plurality of retaining elements connected to the guide elements and configured to be coupled to a hull structure of the aircraft or the at least one furnishing component, and a plurality of locking units arranged on the component rails and/or on the guide elements and configured to lock the guide elements to a particular rail. At least two component rails are arranged on the at least one furnishing component or the hull structure at a distance and parallel to each other such that the furnishing component is retractable via the component rails on guide elements or component rails that are spatially fixed in the aircraft and can be locked in a retracted position by the locking units.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2020Publication date: February 23, 2023Inventors: Matthias HEGENBART, Peter LINDE, Hermann BENTHIEN, Alexander HORN, Florian SCHMIDT
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Publication number: 20220294060Abstract: The invention relates to a battery box for accommodating at least one battery for an electric vehicle, having an outer circumferential frame and a base. Below the frame, a circumferential frame reinforcing element is arranged for reinforcing the frame, wherein the material thickness of the frame reinforcing element corresponds to its cross-sectional height.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 3, 2020Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: Linde + Wiemann SE & Co. KGInventors: Werner SCHMIDT, Marcel GEORG, Christian WAGNER, Alex ZEISER-RASUMAK, Hartmut STRAUCH, Florian SCHMIDT, Daniel NIERHOFF, Mareike ZIEGENBRUCH, Carl-Christoph FRIEDRICH, Erik HILFRICH
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Publication number: 20220049232Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for recording a transcriptome of a cell, the method comprising the steps of: providing a test cell comprising: a first transgene nucleic acid sequence encoding a fusion protein comprising a reverse transcriptase polypeptide and a Cas1 polypeptide and a second transgene nucleic acid sequence encoding a Cas2 polypeptide, wherein said first transgene nucleic acid sequence and said second transgene nucleic acid sequence are under transcriptional control of an inducible promoter sequence, and a third transgene nucleic acid sequence comprising a CRISPR direct repeat (DR) sequence; wherein said CRISPR direct repeat sequence is specifically recognizable by a RT-Cas1-Cas2 complex formed by the expression products of said first transgene nucleic acid sequence and said second transgene nucleic acid sequence, exposing said test cell to conditions under which expression of said first transgene nucleic acid sequence and said second transgene nucleic acid sequence is induced, whereiType: ApplicationFiled: September 11, 2019Publication date: February 17, 2022Applicant: ETH ZÜRICHInventors: Randall Jeffrey PLATT, Florian SCHMIDT
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Publication number: 20200233724Abstract: A method for allocating a workload to a cluster machine of a plurality of cluster machines which are part of a computer cluster operating in a cluster computing environment, includes the step of collecting values from hardware performance counters of each of the cluster machines while the cluster machines are running different workloads. A value of a hardware performance counter from a system which executed the workload to be allocated in isolation and the values from the hardware performance counters of each of the cluster machines which are running the different workloads are used as input to a machine learning algorithm trained to provide as output in each case a prediction of a performance of the workload on each of the cluster machines which are running the different workloads. The cluster machine is selected for placement of the workload based on the predictions.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2019Publication date: July 23, 2020Inventors: Florian Schmidt, Giuseppe Siracusano, Roberto Bifulco
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Publication number: 20200158182Abstract: Device (1) for connecting a toothing part (3) to a shaft (5) for conjoint rotation with the latter, having a toothing part (3) with a circular bore, a shaft (5) which has: a cylindrical receiving portion (4) for receiving the toothing part (3), and a cylindrical recess (8) in the shaft (5), which cylindrical recess (8) extends at least substantially over the entire length of the receiving portion (4), and a press-in cylinder (10) which can be pressed into the recess (8) and which has an oversize in relation to the recess (8).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 21, 2019Publication date: May 21, 2020Inventors: Klaus Völker, Philipp Farrenkopf, Florian Schmidt
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Patent number: 10579412Abstract: A method for operating virtual machines on a virtualization platform includes: embedding control information in a predetermined memory area of a front-end virtual machine where at least one virtual device is to be initialized, the control information being required for initiating a communication with a back-end virtual machine where at least one back-end driver runs; retrieving, by the front-end virtual machine, the control information from the predetermined memory area of the front-end virtual machine; and performing the communication between the front-end virtual machine and the back-end virtual machine via a direct communication channel to exchange information for initializing the at least one virtual device of the front-end virtual machine, by communicating with the at least one back-end driver via the direct communication channel. The direct communication channel is established based on the control information embedded in the predetermined memory area of the front-end virtual machine.Type: GrantFiled: April 7, 2017Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Filipe Manco, Simon Kuenzer, Florian Schmidt, Felipe Huici
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Patent number: 10579494Abstract: A method for monitoring resources in a computing system having system information includes transforming, via representation learning, variable-size information into fixed-size information, and creating a machine learning neural network model and training it the machine learning model to predict future resource usage of an application. The method further includes providing the prediction of further resources usage of the application as an input to an action component, wherein the action component is one of an anomaly detector or a reinforcement learner that drives a scheduler. The method additionally includes performing, by the action component, at least one of scheduling resources within the computing system or detecting a resources usage anomaly.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2018Date of Patent: March 3, 2020Assignee: NEC CORPORATIONInventors: Florian Schmidt, Mathias Niepert, Felipe Huici
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Publication number: 20190258503Abstract: A method for operating virtual machines on a virtualization platform, the method comprising: embedding, preferably by a toolstack of the virtualization platform, control information in a predetermined memory area of a front-end virtual machine where at least one virtual device is to be initialized, wherein said control information is required for initiating a communication with a back-end virtual machine where at least one back-end driver runs; retrieving, by the front-end virtual machine, said control information from said predetermined memory area of the front-end virtual machine; and performing the communication between the front-end virtual machine and the back-end virtual machine via a direct communication channel in order to exchange information for initializing said at least one virtual device of the front-end virtual machine, in particular by communicating with said at least one back-end driver via said direct communication channel, wherein said direct communication channel is established based on saiType: ApplicationFiled: April 7, 2017Publication date: August 22, 2019Inventors: Filipe Manco, Simon Kuenzer, Florian Schmidt, Felipe Huici
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Publication number: 20190213099Abstract: A method for monitoring resources in a computing system having system information includes transforming, via representation learning, variable-size information into fixed-size information, and creating a machine learning neural network model and training it the machine learning model to predict future resource usage of an application. The method further includes providing the prediction of further resources usage of the application as an input to an action component, wherein the action component is one of an anomaly detector or a reinforcement learner that drives a scheduler. The method additionally includes performing, by the action component, at least one of scheduling resources within the computing system or detecting a resources usage anomaly.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2018Publication date: July 11, 2019Inventors: Florian Schmidt, Mathias Niepert, Felipe Huici
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Patent number: 10126073Abstract: A corrugated fin, in particular for a heat exchanger, having a substantially corrugated design, having a plurality of fin surfaces, wherein adjoining fin surfaces are connected to one another by means of a fin arch in such a way that a medium can flow through an intermediate space between adjoining fin surfaces, wherein the fin surfaces are arranged at an angle with respect to one another perpendicularly with respect to a throughflow direction for the medium, wherein the fin surface has at least one bulge which protrudes out of the plane of the fin surface, wherein the extent of the bulge in a direction perpendicularly with respect to the air throughflow direction is smaller than the extent of the fin surface in said direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2014Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: MAHLE International GmbHInventors: Carolin Agner, Bjoern Haller, Jonas Kilian, Jens Ruckwied, Florian Schmidt, Eberhard Pantow, Gerd Schleier
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Patent number: 9892880Abstract: The present disclosure includes an insert for a fuse structure. In one approach, a fuse, includes a housing having a cavity, a fuse element disposed within the cavity, a plurality of terminals extending out of the housing and electrically connected to the fuse element, and an insert disposed in the cavity, the insert including a pin extending through an opening of the housing. In some approaches, the insert includes a separating wall defining first and second cavities of the insert.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2016Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Littelfuse, Inc.Inventors: Florian Schmidt, Michael Hofmann, Pascal Jung
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Patent number: 9638476Abstract: The invention relates to a plate-shaped heat exchanger for a cooling device comprising at least one heat exchanger package, in particular for a motor vehicle, consisting of a plurality of openings for accommodating a pipe conducting a coolant, wherein each opening is surrounded by an passage and a plurality of projections are distributed between the passages for the heat exchange with the medium to be cooled. In order to allow a high performance increase of a cooling device, yet a low increase in pressure loss of the charge air, a plurality of projections are arranged around an passage, wherein the projections have a shape that assures deliberate heat conduction from the projections to the passage.Type: GrantFiled: August 4, 2011Date of Patent: May 2, 2017Assignee: MAHLE INTERNATIONAL GMBHInventors: Boris Kerler, Steffen Grözinger, Mehmet Tosun, Christian Schnepf, Florian Schmidt, Hans-Joachim Krauss, Vinko Lukcin, Stéphanie Larpent
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Patent number: 9610919Abstract: A passenger bench seat comprises a backrest, a seat element, a fastening rail which extends substantially parallel to a longitudinal axis of the seat element in the region of an edge of the seat element that faces towards the backrest, and a seatbelt system. In a first configuration of the passenger bench seat, the seatbelt system includes a first number of seatbelts which are detachably fastened to the fastening rail in first positions which are adapted to the first configuration of the passenger bench seat. In a second configuration of the passenger bench seat, on the other hand, the seatbelt system includes a second number of seatbelts which are detachably fastened to the fastening rail in second positions which are adapted to the second configuration of the passenger bench seat.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2015Date of Patent: April 4, 2017Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Sven Taubert, Florian Schmidt