Patents by Inventor Gerhard Mueller

Gerhard Mueller 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: 10834931
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2020
    Assignee: ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Manfred Baechtle, Florian Osswald, Siegfried Reutter, Gerhard Mueller, Gerhard Schliesser, Jochen Merk
  • Patent number: 10752122
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2020
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ernst August Werner, Gerhard Mueller, Franz Garnweitner, Werner Weck, Gerhard Reiner
  • Patent number: 10658204
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2020
    Assignee: LAM RESEARCH AG
    Inventors: Bridget Hill, Michael Puggl, Gerhard Mueller, Henry Roger Osner, Karl-Heinz Hohenwarter, Ulrich Tschinderle, Daniel Brien
  • Patent number: 10334234
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Conti Temic microelectronic GmbH
    Inventors: Rolf Adomat, Thomas Fechner, Dieter Kroekel, Gerhard Mueller, Martin Punke
  • Publication number: 20190051541
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: August 8, 2017
    Publication date: February 14, 2019
    Inventors: Bridget Hill, Michael Puggl, Gerhard Mueller, Henry Roger Osner, Karl-Heinz Hohenwarter, Ulrich Tschinderle, Daniel Brien
  • Patent number: 10137842
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 27, 2018
    Assignee: Conti Temic microelectronic GmbH
    Inventor: Gerhard Mueller
  • Publication number: 20180134339
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2018
    Publication date: May 17, 2018
    Inventors: Ernst August WERNER, Gerhard MUELLER, Franz GARNWEITNER, Werner WECK, Gerhard REINER
  • Publication number: 20180125082
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: November 8, 2017
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Manfred BAECHTLE, Florian OSSWALD, Siegfried REUTTER, Gerhard MUELLER, Gerhard SCHLIESSER, Jochen MERK
  • Publication number: 20170310952
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: September 15, 2015
    Publication date: October 26, 2017
    Inventors: Rolf ADOMAT, Thomas FECHNER, Dieter KROEKEL, Gerhard MUELLER, Martin PUNKE
  • Patent number: 9719898
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: EADS Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian Beer, Andreas Helwig, Gerhard Mueller, Hans Luinge, Georg Wachinger
  • Patent number: 9668492
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2017
    Assignee: ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Manfred Baechtle, Gerhard Mueller
  • Patent number: 9509108
    Abstract: 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: Grant
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: BENDER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Ulrich Kalkreuter, Helmut Mess, Gerhard Mueller
  • Patent number: 9346380
    Abstract: A vehicle seat, has a seat part, a backrest, and at least one fitting, by which the back rest is attached pivotably to the seat part. The fitting has a first fitting part connected to the backrest and a second fitting part connected to the seat part. The fittings are normally located in the force flux between the backrest and seat part. The seat has at least one deformation zone which is deformed in the event of a crash. A supporting element is mounted on the backrest and a supporting element is mounted on the seat part, the supporting elements normally being spaced apart from each other and, in the event of a crash, coming into contact with each other because of the deformation of the deformation zone to provide a further force flux path lying parallel to the fitting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 26, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 24, 2016
    Assignee: KEIPER GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Christian Markel, Thomas Dill, Wolfgang Pluta, Viktor Enns, Gerhard Mueller
  • Publication number: 20160112624
    Abstract: The invention relates to a camera system (10) for vehicles that includes multiple cameras (12, 14, 16, 18) which are interconnected via a network (20, 22, 24, 26) with a ring topology, wherein each camera is configured to perform image processing of captured images and wherein each camera is further configured to transmit captured images and/or image processing results to other cameras in the network for image processing by these cameras or for supporting the image processing performed by these cameras, such that the computing load of image processing in the network is distributed among multiple cameras or the computing load of image processing performed by cameras in the network is reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2014
    Publication date: April 21, 2016
    Inventors: Dieter KROEKEL, Gerhard MUELLER, Eva MIEL, Andreas GRUBER, Juergen HABICHER, Wolfgang FEY
  • Publication number: 20160006199
    Abstract: 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: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2015
    Publication date: January 7, 2016
    Inventors: Ulrich Kalkreuter, Helmut Mess, Gerhard Mueller
  • Patent number: 9162259
    Abstract: A device for the regeneration of a biosensor having an immobilized and biologically active material applied to the surface of a carrier that is suitable for interacting with a substance to be analyzed. The device comprises at least one injector through which, by means of a pump, at least one solution can be applied to the surface of the carrier for the purposes of rinsing the biologically active material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2008
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2015
    Assignee: EADS Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Reidt, Alois Friedberger, Barbara Baur, Martin Eickhoff, Tom Lueders, Gerhard Mueller
  • Patent number: 9095148
    Abstract: A device and a method of manufacturing and filling up product in the form of fine sausage meat, in particular an emulsion, with a feed means for the product, a feed pump for transporting the product, at least one downstream fine mincer as well as a filling and/or portioning means arranged downstream of the fine mincer for filling up the produced fine sausage meat or the emulsion, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2015
    Assignee: ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Braig, Manfred Baechtle, Siegfried Reutter, Gerhard Mueller
  • Patent number: 9040915
    Abstract: The invention relates to an optical module, comprising a semiconductor element having a surface that is sensitive to electromagnetic radiation and an objective for projecting electromagnetic radiation onto the sensitive surface of the semiconductor element (image sensor or camera chip, in particular CCD or CMOS). The objective preferably comprises at least one lens and one lens retainer. In the optical module, an optical element having two sub-areas is arranged either in the space between the objective and the sensitive surface of the semiconductor element or between individual lenses of the objective in the entire cross-section of the beam path. All electromagnetic radiation that reaches the sensitive surface of the semiconductor element passes through the optical element. A first distance range (e.g. near range) is imaged in a first area of the sensitive surface of the semiconductor element in a focused manner by a first sub-area of the optical element, and a second distance range (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 22, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 26, 2015
    Assignee: Conti Temic microelectronic GmbH
    Inventors: Konrad Rothenhaeusler, Gerhard Mueller, Lutz Kuehnke
  • Patent number: 9025061
    Abstract: An optical device includes an optical module, e.g. with an objective lens, a printed circuit board, an image recording element and a supporting plate. In one embodiment, the optical module and the image recording element are arranged on one side of the supporting plate, the printed circuit board is arranged on the opposite side of the supporting plate, and the image recording element and the printed circuit board are contacted to each other through one or more openings in the supporting plate. In another embodiment, the image recording element is arranged in an opening in the supporting plate and directly joined to the printed circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2010
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: Conti Temic microelectronic GmbH
    Inventor: Gerhard Mueller
  • Patent number: 8872187
    Abstract: The invention relates to a membrane. Partly permeable membranes often have holes or perforations having a specific diameter to allow substances having a smaller particle diameter to pass through, but to hold back substances having a larger particle diameter. Such membranes are subject to wear primarily at the holes, i.e. cracks form which grow through the membrane proceeding from a hole. Particularly in the case of micromechanical membranes having holes having a small diameter in the range of 1 ?m or less, it is very difficult to detect the state of the membrane, in particular whether the latter has cracks. Membranes having cracks can then undesirably allow passage even of those particles which should actually be held back. In medical or hygienic applications, the function can then be impaired.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 28, 2014
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Alois Friedberger, Andreas Helwig, Gerhard Mueller