Patents by Inventor Gerhard Schmid

Gerhard Schmid 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).

  • Publication number: 20240332048
    Abstract: A component carrier includes a stack having at least one electrically conductive layer structure and at least one electrically insulating layer structure, a solder mask arranged at least on part of an exterior surface of the stack, said solder mask being patterned for defining curved sidewalls, and a legend marking on and/or above the stack, in direct physical contact with the solder mask and at least partially interacting with the curved sidewalls. A method for manufacturing the component carrier is also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2023
    Publication date: October 3, 2024
    Inventors: Thomas Kristl, Gerhard Schmid
  • Publication number: 20240228238
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a material handling and/or construction machine, in particular lifting gear such as a crane, comprising a plurality of electric drives for driving work assemblies and/or structural components of the material handling and/or construction machine, a control apparatus for controlling the drives, and a power supply device for supplying electric power to the electric drives, wherein the power supply device has a grid connection for connection to a power grid and drawing of the electric power from the power grid, wherein a measuring device for measuring the total electric power consumption of the material handling and/or construction machine from the power grid is provided at the grid connection at the machine-end grid connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2024
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: Liebherr-Werk Biberach GmbH
    Inventors: Martin ASSFALG, Michael GOLLACK, Thomas KÖNIG, Gerhard SCHMID
  • Patent number: 11945698
    Abstract: The invention relates to a mobile construction crane comprising a superstructure and an undercarriage, wherein one or more electrical consumers are provided in or at the superstructure, wherein a supply of the one or more electrical consumers with electrical energy takes place by at least one current generator installed in the undercarriage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 2, 2024
    Assignee: LIEBHERR-WERK BIBERACH GMBH
    Inventors: Martin Assfalg, Michael Eggert, Gerhard Schmid
  • Patent number: 11749573
    Abstract: Described are component carriers including a stepped cavity into which a stepped component assembly is embedded. The component carriers have (a) fully cured electrically insulating material originating from at least one electrically insulating layer structure of the component carrier and circumferentially surrounding the stepped component assembly and/or (b) an undercut in a transition region between a narrow recess and a wide recess of the stepped cavity. Further described are methods for manufacturing such component carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: AT&S Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Johannes Stahr, Gerald Weidinger, Gerhard Schmid, Andreas Zluc
  • Patent number: 11531254
    Abstract: The disclosed subject matter relates to a method of projecting an image by means of a light source emitting light pulses and an oscillating micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) mirror deflecting the emitted light pulses, comprising: providing a matrix of durations for each pixel, and incrementing or decrementing a pixel index whenever a respective duration indexed by the respective pixel indices in the playout matrix has lapsed; for each light pulse: retrieving the respective intensity and durations indexed by the current pixel indices, calculating an interval from at least one of said durations, emitting said light pulse with said retrieved intensity, and waiting said calculated interval before emitting the next light pulse. The disclosed subject matter further relates to a projector carrying out said method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2022
    Assignee: TriLite Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard Schmid, Joerg Reitterer, Aart Verhoef
  • Publication number: 20210371254
    Abstract: The invention relates to a mobile construction crane comprising a superstructure and an undercarriage, wherein one or more electrical consumers are provided in or at the superstructure, wherein a supply of the one or more electrical consumers with electrical energy takes place by at least one current generator installed in the lower undercarriage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2019
    Publication date: December 2, 2021
    Inventors: Martin ASSFALG, Michael EGGERT, Gerhard SCHMID
  • Publication number: 20210311378
    Abstract: The disclosed subject matter relates to a method of projecting an image by means of a light source emitting light pulses and an oscillating micro-electro-mechanical system (MEMS) mirror deflecting the emitted light pulses, comprising: providing a matrix of durations for each pixel, and incrementing or decrementing a pixel index whenever a respective duration indexed by the respective pixel indices in the playout matrix has lapsed; for each light pulse: retrieving the respective intensity and durations indexed by the current pixel indices, calculating an interval from at least one of said durations, emitting said light pulse with said retrieved intensity, and waiting said calculated interval before emitting the next light pulse. The disclosed subject matter further relates to a projector carrying out said method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 1, 2021
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Applicant: TriLite Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Gerhard SCHMID, Joerg REITTERER, Aart VERHOEF
  • Publication number: 20210280479
    Abstract: Described are component carriers including a stepped cavity into which a stepped component assembly is embedded. The component carriers have (a) fully cured electrically insulating material originating from at least one electrically insulating layer structure of the component carrier and circumferentially surrounding the stepped component assembly and/or (b) an undercut in a transition region between a narrow recess and a wide recess of the stepped cavity. Further described are methods for manufacturing such component carriers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2021
    Publication date: September 9, 2021
    Inventors: Johannes Stahr, Gerald Weidinger, Gerhard Schmid, Andreas Zluc
  • Patent number: 11049778
    Abstract: Described are component carriers including a stepped cavity into which a stepped component assembly is embedded. The component carriers have (a) fully cured electrically insulating material originating from at least one electrically insulating layer structure of the component carrier and circumferentially surrounding the stepped component assembly and/or (b) an undercut in a transition region between a narrow recess and a wide recess of the stepped cavity. Further described are methods for manufacturing such component carriers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Assignee: AT&S Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Johannes Stahr, Gerald Weidinger, Gerhard Schmid, Andreas Zluc
  • Patent number: 11016374
    Abstract: The disclosed subject matter relates to an apparatus for projecting a light spot, comprising a light source emitting a light beam having a wavelength and a divergence angle, a mirror arranged in the path of the light beam to deflect said light beam about a nominal deflection angle, the mirror having a surface with a known curvature, and a collimation lens arranged between the light source and the mirror in the path of the light beam, wherein the lens is mounted at a distance z1?f1 from the light source, f1 being the focal length of the lens, and wherein the distance z1 is chosen such that the width of the deflected light beam has a minimum at a pre-determined projection distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: TriLite Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Joerg Reitterer, Franz Fidler, Anna Balbekova, Gerhard Schmid, Ferdinand Saint Julien-Wallsee
  • Patent number: 10633228
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a crane, in particular to a revolving tower crane, having a boom rotatable about an upright slewing gear axis by a slewing gear drive and having an out-of-operation brake which allows and brakes rotary movements of the boom in the out-of-operation state. In accordance with the invention, the out-of-operation brake is configured as working electrodynamically and comprises an electric motor of the slewing gear drive which can be operated as an electric-motor brake.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Liebherr-Components Biberach GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Münst, Gerhard Schmid, Harald Wanner
  • Publication number: 20200110331
    Abstract: The disclosed subject matter relates to an apparatus for projecting a light spot, comprising a light source emitting a light beam having a wavelength and a divergence angle, a mirror arranged in the path of the light beam to deflect said light beam about a nominal deflection angle, the mirror having a surface with a known curvature, and a collimation lens arranged between the light source and the mirror in the path of the light beam, wherein the lens is mounted at a distance z1?f1 from the light source, f1 being the focal length of the lens, and wherein the distance z1 is chosen such that the width of the deflected light beam has a minimum at a pre-determined projection distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2019
    Publication date: April 9, 2020
    Applicant: TriLite Technologies GmbH
    Inventors: Joerg Reitterer, Franz Fidler, Anna Balbekova, Gerhard Schmid, Ferdinand Saint Julien-Wallsee
  • Publication number: 20190378771
    Abstract: Described are component carriers including a stepped cavity into which a stepped component assembly is embedded. The component carriers have (a) fully cured electrically insulating material originating from at least one electrically insulating layer structure of the component carrier and circumferentially surrounding the stepped component assembly and/or (b) an undercut in a transition region between a narrow recess and a wide recess of the stepped cavity. Further described are methods for manufacturing such component carriers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Johannes Stahr, Gerald Weidinger, Gerhard Schmid, Andreas Zluc
  • Patent number: 10051747
    Abstract: Methods for the production of a circuit board involving the removal of a subregion in accordance with various embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, the production of a circuit board, made of at least two interconnected layers of material, involving the removal of a subregion including a portion of at least one of the at least two interconnected layers from the circuit board includes providing an adhesion preventing material under the subregion to be removed to a layer in the at least two interconnected layers that is adjacent to the at least one layer including the subregion, separating edge regions of the subregion to be removed from adjoining regions of the circuit board, connecting an external surface of the subregion to be removed to an external element, and displacing the external element to separate the subregion to be removed from the adjacent layer of the circuit board.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: AT&S Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Markus Leitgeb, Gerald Weidinger, Gerhard Schmid, Ljubomir Mareljic, Volodymyr Karpovych
  • Publication number: 20160362283
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a crane, in particular to a revolving tower crane, having a boom rotatable about an upright slewing gear axis by a slewing gear drive and having an out-of-operation brake which allows and brakes rotary movements of the boom in the out-of-operation state. In accordance with the invention, the out-of-operation brake is configured as working electrodynamically and comprises an electric motor of the slewing gear drive which can be operated as an electric-motor brake.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 26, 2016
    Publication date: December 15, 2016
    Inventors: Thomas MÜNST, Gerhard SCHMID, Harald WANNER
  • Patent number: 9304015
    Abstract: A slip-ring unit for transmitting an electric current includes a first component group and a second component group arranged in a manner allowing rotation relative to each other. The slip-ring unit has a first track and a second track, a brush and a slip ring contacting each other over different rotational positions along one of the tracks. The first component group has a first connection terminal and an electric circuit for monitoring conditions, while the second component group has a second connection terminal The electric current is transmittable from the first connection terminal to the second connection terminal over the first track, and an electric voltage is transmittable over the second track to the circuit. The slip-ring unit is configured such that the first track and the second track are connected electrically.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignees: LTN SERVOTECHNIK GMBH, LEINE LINDE SYSTEMS GMBH
    Inventors: Ludwig Angerpointner, Gerhard Schmid
  • Publication number: 20150334841
    Abstract: A multilayer printed circuit board comprising conductive layers separated by dielectric insulation layers, at least one conductive layer being patterned and parts of conducting layers being interconnected by means of vias traversing insulation layers, and at least one component having terminals electrically connected with conducting layers is countersunk at least partly in a cavity having a floor and side walls, whereby a first component is completely countersunk in the cavity with its terminals connected face-down directly with contacts on the floor of the cavity and at least one further component is stacked above the first component, whereby an edge of the lower surface of the second component projecting over the upper surface area of the at least one further component is provided with terminals being connected directly face-down with contacts of the circuit board arranged on a level higher than the floor of the cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 12, 2013
    Publication date: November 19, 2015
    Inventor: Gerhard SCHMID
  • Publication number: 20150061705
    Abstract: A slip-ring unit for transmitting an electric current includes a first component group and a second component group arranged in a manner allowing rotation relative to each other. The slip-ring unit has a first track and a second track, a brush and a slip ring contacting each other over different rotational positions along one of the tracks. The first component group has a first connection terminal and an electric circuit for monitoring conditions, while the second component group has a second connection terminal The electric current is transmittable from the first connection terminal to the second connection terminal over the first track, and an electric voltage is transmittable over the second track to the circuit. The slip-ring unit is configured such that the first track and the second track are connected electrically.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2014
    Publication date: March 5, 2015
    Inventors: Ludwig Angerpointner, Gerhard Schmid
  • Publication number: 20140331494
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a circuit board (1) involving the removal of a subregion (6) thereof. In said method, at least two layers or plies (2, 3, 4, 5) of the circuit board (1) are interconnected, the subregion (6) to be removed is prevented from being connected to an adjacent ply (4) of the circuit board (1) by providing or applying an adhesion-preventing material (7), and peripheral zones (8) of the subregion (6) to be removed are separated from adjoining zones of the circuit board (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2012
    Publication date: November 13, 2014
    Inventors: Markus Leitgeb, Gerald Weidinger, Gerhard Schmid, Ljubomir Mareljic
  • Patent number: 8541690
    Abstract: A method for fixing an electronic component on a printed circuit board, and contact-connecting the electronic component to the printed circuit board, the following steps are provided:—providing the printed circuit board having a plurality of contact and connection pads,—providing the electronic component having a number of contact and connection locations corresponding to the plurality of contact and connection pads, with a mutual spacing reduced in comparison with the spacing of the contact and connection pads, and—arranging or forming at least one interlayer for routing the contact and connection locations of the electronic component between the contact and connection pads and the contact and connection locations of the electronic component. A method for producing an interlayer for routing and a system having a printed circuit board and an electronic component using the interlayer for routing are also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2013
    Assignee: AT & S Austria Technologie & Systemtechnik Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Hannes Voraberger, Gerhard Schmid, Markus Riester, Johannes Stahr