Patents by Inventor Gerhard Müller
Gerhard Müller 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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Patent number: 10658204Abstract: A substrate processing system to treat a substrate includes a spin chuck configured to hold and rotate a substrate. A heating assembly is configured to heat an opposite surface of the substrate and includes a main heater assembly and a nozzle stack cap. The main heater assembly includes a first plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) arranged on a first printed circuit board (PCB) in a first plane that is spaced from and parallel to a second plane including the substrate. The nozzle stack cap assembly includes at least one nozzle to dispense liquid onto a center of a first surface of the substrate. A radiant heat source is arranged closer to the substrate than the first plane and is configured to heat the center of the first surface of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2017Date of Patent: May 19, 2020Assignee: LAM RESEARCH AGInventors: Bridget Hill, Michael Puggl, Gerhard Mueller, Henry Roger Osner, Karl-Heinz Hohenwarter, Ulrich Tschinderle, Daniel Brien
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Patent number: 10609260Abstract: An assistance system of a motor vehicle, with a camera comprises a camera housing having a first cooling body with first cooling fins, a cap covering the camera housing, wherein the cap has a second cooling body with second cooling fins, and wherein the second cooling fins are arranged at least partially between the first cooling fins.Type: GrantFiled: November 18, 2016Date of Patent: March 31, 2020Assignee: Conti Temic microelectronic GmbHInventor: Gerhard Müller
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Publication number: 20200086813Abstract: The invention relates to a method for reducing the start-up time of a driver information system in a vehicle comprising providing a driver information system having an operating mode, a standby mode, and a hibernation mode. The driver information system is operated with operating power in the operating mode, is not supplied with operating power in the hibernation mode, and is operated with reduced operating power in the standby mode. A seat occupancy detection device is provided for detecting seat occupancy of at least one vehicle seat. An activation system is provided for activating and operating the driver information system in the operating mode at least when the activation system is active; and changing the driver information system from the operating mode to the standby mode when the activation system is switched off and when seat occupancy is detected at the same time.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2019Publication date: March 19, 2020Applicant: Continental Automotive GmbHInventors: Ulrich Kabatek, Martin Stamm, Gerhard Müller, Axel König, Boris Bach
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Patent number: 10547827Abstract: The invention relates to a method for aligning at least two image recording elements of two camera modules of a stereo camera system, in particular with respect to their roll angle relative to one another, as well as to a stereo camera system whose camera modules or image recording elements are aligned in accordance with such method.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2013Date of Patent: January 28, 2020Assignee: Conti Temic Microelectronic GmbHInventor: Gerhard Müller
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Patent number: 10533692Abstract: A heatable media line includes a connecting part, which establishes an electrical connection, and serves to introduce a heat conductor into a media line section. A connection of the heat conductor with contact-forming parts is set up in an end part, and the heat conductor is tightly accommodated in boreholes of a coupling part by means of two sealing bodies spaced apart from each other, as well as introduced into the media line section by way of a supporting body for purposes of heating a medium flowing in the latter. In order to produce a reliable seal intended to prevent the medium from penetrating into the end part, recesses in the walls of the coupling part and an interruption of a creepage distance are configured between the sealing bodies such that the heat conductor is directly in contact with the surrounding atmosphere.Type: GrantFiled: January 13, 2017Date of Patent: January 14, 2020Assignee: A. KAYSER AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GMBHInventors: Klaus Kondziella, Heiko Freter, Gerhard Müller-Riederer
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Patent number: 10334234Abstract: A stereo camera (1) for a vehicle includes a first camera (1.1), which has a first image sensor (1.11) and the camera field of vision (S1) of which has a first opening angle (?1), and a second camera (1.2), which has a second image sensor (1.21) and the camera field of vision (S2) of which has a second opening angle (?2). The second opening angle (?2) is greater than the first opening angle (?1). The first camera (1.1) has a first lens optical unit (1.12) and the second camera (1.2) has a second lens optical unit (1.22), which both have an angular resolution that is higher in a central region (Z1, Z2) of the field of vision (S1, S2) lying in the angular range (?11, ?21) around the optical axis (O1) than outside of the central region. The cameras are arranged so that the fields of vision (S1, S2) overlap.Type: GrantFiled: September 15, 2015Date of Patent: June 25, 2019Assignee: Conti Temic microelectronic GmbHInventors: Rolf Adomat, Thomas Fechner, Dieter Kroekel, Gerhard Mueller, Martin Punke
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Patent number: 10304363Abstract: In a test method, a screen in a vehicle is actuated in order to generate a specified raster image. An electric current intensity flowing as a result of the actuation is measured, and the measured current intensity is compared with a specified reference current intensity. It is ascertained whether the raster image was generated without errors dependent on the comparison.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2014Date of Patent: May 28, 2019Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbHInventors: Ulrich Kabatek, Gerhard Müller, Reiner Schmidt, Kai Hohmann, Torsten Lahr
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Publication number: 20190051541Abstract: A substrate processing system to treat a substrate includes a spin chuck configured to hold and rotate a substrate. A heating assembly is configured to heat an opposite surface of the substrate and includes a main heater assembly and a nozzle stack cap. The main heater assembly includes a first plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) arranged on a first printed circuit board (PCB) in a first plane that is spaced from and parallel to a second plane including the substrate. The nozzle stack cap assembly includes at least one nozzle to dispense liquid onto a center of a first surface of the substrate. A radiant heat source is arranged closer to the substrate than the first plane and is configured to heat the center of the first surface of the substrate.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 8, 2017Publication date: February 14, 2019Inventors: Bridget Hill, Michael Puggl, Gerhard Mueller, Henry Roger Osner, Karl-Heinz Hohenwarter, Ulrich Tschinderle, Daniel Brien
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Patent number: 10137842Abstract: A camera system for a vehicle, which is to be arranged inside the vehicle behind a windshield of the vehicle, includes a housing, a first camera module that detects or images an area ahead of the vehicle and a second camera module that detects or images at least an area of the windshield.Type: GrantFiled: May 2, 2012Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: Conti Temic microelectronic GmbHInventor: Gerhard Mueller
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Publication number: 20180134339Abstract: A vehicle with a front wheel and a front wheel of a vehicle is provided. The front wheel is drivable by a first drive arrangement, and a rear wheel of the vehicle is drivable by a second drive arrangement. The first drive arrangement may be integrated into the front wheel, and includes an electric motor for selectively rotatably driving the front wheel, a reduction gear between the electric motor and the front wheel, and an actuable coupling for selectively coupling or decoupling the electric motor to the reduction gear.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2018Publication date: May 17, 2018Inventors: Ernst August WERNER, Gerhard MUELLER, Franz GARNWEITNER, Werner WECK, Gerhard REINER
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Publication number: 20180125082Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a hanging device, a smoke bar top module as well as a method for extracting a sausage group that hangs on multiple hanging hooks of a hanging device. The hanging hooks have a device for guiding a smoke bar or a smoke bar top module.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 8, 2017Publication date: May 10, 2018Inventors: Manfred BAECHTLE, Florian OSSWALD, Siegfried REUTTER, Gerhard MUELLER, Gerhard SCHLIESSER, Jochen MERK
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Publication number: 20170310952Abstract: The invention relates to a stereo camera (1) for a vehicle (10), comprising a first camera (1.1), which has a first image sensor (1.11) and the camera field of vision (S1) of which has a first opening angle (?1), and a second camera (1.2), which has a second image sensor (1.21) and the camera field of vision (S2) of which has a second opening angle (?2), wherein the second opening angle (?2) is greater than the first opening angle (?1). According to the invention, the first camera (1.1) has a first lens optical unit (1.12) and the second camera (1.2) has a second lens optical unit (1.22), wherein both the first lens optical unit (1.12) and the second lens optical unit (1.22) are designed with an angular resolution that is higher in a central region (Z1, Z2) of the camera field of vision (S1, S2) lying in the angular range (?11, ?21) around the optical axis (O1) than outside of the central region (Z1, Z2), and the first camera (1.1) and the second camera (1.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 15, 2015Publication date: October 26, 2017Inventors: Rolf ADOMAT, Thomas FECHNER, Dieter KROEKEL, Gerhard MUELLER, Martin PUNKE
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Patent number: 9719898Abstract: A device and method for testing a fiber-composite component, which is to be processed by means of bonding, for the presence of at least one substance out of a selection of possible contaminants. A surface heating device for regional heating of a part-zone of the fiber-composite component to be bonded is performed for desorption of contaminants. A sensor array with a plurality of sensors detects contaminants in the gas phase, and a control device ascertains and signals contaminations which are found. An extractor device can be employed to extract machining dust from the fiber-composite component to a desorption device.Type: GrantFiled: May 16, 2012Date of Patent: August 1, 2017Assignee: EADS Deutschland GmbHInventors: Sebastian Beer, Andreas Helwig, Gerhard Mueller, Hans Luinge, Georg Wachinger
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Publication number: 20170198853Abstract: A heatable media line is characterized by a connecting part (4), which establishes an electrical connection, and serves to introduce a heat conductor (14) into a media line section (5). A connection of the heat conductor (14) with contact-forming parts is set up in an end part (10), and the heat conductor (14) is tightly accommodated in boreholes (11, 12) of a coupling part (9) by means of two sealing bodies (15, 16) spaced apart from each other, as well as introduced into the media line section (5) by way of a supporting body (19) for purposes of heating a medium flowing in the latter.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 13, 2017Publication date: July 13, 2017Inventors: KLAUS KONDZIELLA, HEIKO FRETER, GERHARD MÜLLER-RIEDERER
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Patent number: 9668492Abstract: In a device for manufacturing co-extruded food products with a filling machine, including a pump for an inner mass coupled to a drive and a control unit at least for the drive, to which a coextrusion unit disposed at the outside is connected, and to which a pump being coupled to a drive at least for delivering the outer mass to the coextrusion unit is connected. The drive of the outer mass pump is integrated into the inner mass filling machine.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2014Date of Patent: June 6, 2017Assignee: ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Manfred Baechtle, Gerhard Mueller
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Patent number: 9651501Abstract: The invention relates to a contamination recording apparatus (12) for recording contaminations in a flowing hydraulic fluid (10) to be examined in aircraft (11a), which comprises a conveying device (14) for conveying the flowing hydraulic fluid (10), a light source (34) for exposing the hydraulic fluid (10) flowing in the conveying device (14) to light (46), and a detection device (36) for recording a fraction of the light (46) absorbed by the exposed hydraulic fluid (10), the light source (34) being formed in order to emit light (46) having a wavelength in the near-infrared range. The invention furthermore relates to a hydraulic system (11) equipped with such a contamination recording apparatus (12) and to an aircraft (11a), and also to a method for recording contaminations in a hydraulic fluid (10) flowing in a hydraulic system (11) of an aircraft (11a).Type: GrantFiled: July 31, 2014Date of Patent: May 16, 2017Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Gerhard Müller, Sumit Paul, Andreas Helwig, Volker Baumbach
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Publication number: 20170070652Abstract: An assistance system of a motor vehicle, with a camera comprises a camera housing having a first cooling body with first cooling fins, a cap covering the camera housing, wherein the cap has a second cooling body with second cooling fins, and wherein the second cooling fins are arranged at least partially between the first cooling finsType: ApplicationFiled: November 18, 2016Publication date: March 9, 2017Applicant: Conti Temic microelectronic GmbHInventor: Gerhard Müller
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Patent number: 9509108Abstract: The invention relates to a bus connector system having a bus circuit board for producing an electrical connection between electrical equipment, the bus circuit board being attached in a removable manner to a housing of the electrical equipment. The underlying idea of the present invention is advantageously based on the bus circuit board being connected directly to the housing of the electrical equipment. Thus, no support rail is necessary for producing the electrical contact between the equipment.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2015Date of Patent: November 29, 2016Assignee: BENDER GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Ulrich Kalkreuter, Helmut Mess, Gerhard Mueller
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Patent number: 9485400Abstract: A camera module including an objective lens housing with an optical system, an image sensor chip with wire bonding connections, and a printed circuit board for contacting the image sensor chip. The printed circuit board is designed with wire bonding areas to which the wire bonding connections of the image sensor chip are connected, and the assembly made up of the image sensor chip and the printed circuit board is designed in such a manner that the image sensor chip is focus-adjusted to the optical system by changing its position relative to the printed circuit board taking advantage of the flexibility of the wire bonding connections of the image sensor chip. The invention further relates to a method of manufacturing the camera module.Type: GrantFiled: February 11, 2014Date of Patent: November 1, 2016Assignee: Conti Temic Microelectronic GmbHInventors: Gerhard Müller, Dieter Krökel
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Patent number: 9431349Abstract: A method and apparatus for including human readable text in a semiconductor design which is both machine readable for printing on a wafer and human readable from the wafer are disclosed that are design rule clean depending on the layer to be printed. Embodiments include receiving a semiconductor design including a layer marker, the layer marker including human readable text; transforming the human readable text to a binary representation; transforming the binary representation to a machine readable two-dimensional barcode; and printing the two-dimensional barcode on a semiconductor wafer.Type: GrantFiled: November 7, 2014Date of Patent: August 30, 2016Assignee: GLOBALFOUNDRIES INC.Inventors: Peter Benjamin Volk, Michael Ronald Otto, Christoph Rainer Gerhard Mueller