Patents by Inventor Hans Joachim Fröhlich

Hans Joachim Fröhlich 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: 11586984
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for verifying the production process of field devices, including a step of accessing a service platform on which data from field devices, including identification data, the respective type of field device, configuration data, containing application-specific data, environment information of the field devices or parameter data, data relating to the production date of a respective field device and repair or troubleshooting cases of the field devices are stored. The method also includes steps of detecting anomalies by statistically evaluating the repair or troubleshooting cases stored on service platform and creating a notification in the event of a detected anomaly, supplying the data of the field devices and the notifications to a machine learning or prognosis system, and evaluating the data of the field devices and the notifications by means of the machine learning or prognosis system for forecasting series errors of the field devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Group Services AG
    Inventors: Tommi Dirk Kramer, Patrick Galli, Hans Joachim Fröhlich, Ulrich Kaiser, Thomas Fricke, Enrico Mario De Stasio
  • Patent number: 11016478
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for the application-specific setting of a field device, which is installed in a defined application in a process in automation engineering and determines or monitors at least one process variable of a medium, comprising: recording a diagnostic message which occurs or has occurred on the field device during a defined interval, analyzing which of the diagnostic messages are tolerable and/or plausible in the defined application, assigning an application-specific notice with regard to tolerability and/or plausibility to each diagnostic message that has arisen in the defined application, clearing the diagnostic message if this is classified as tolerable and/or plausible in the defined application, and using the application-specific setting of the field device, which clears the diagnostic message classified as tolerable and/or plausible.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 25, 2021
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Process Solutions AG
    Inventors: Michael Maneval, Nikolai Fink, Hans Joachim Fröhlich, Thomas Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20200401123
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for the application-specific setting of a field device, which is installed in a defined application in a process in automation engineering and determines or monitors at least one process variable of a medium, comprising: recording a diagnostic message which occurs or has occurred on the field device during a defined interval, analyzing which of the diagnostic messages are tolerable and/or plausible in the defined application, assigning an application-specific notice with regard to tolerability and/or plausibility to each diagnostic message that has arisen in the defined application, clearing the diagnostic message if this is classified as tolerable and/or plausible in the defined application, and using the application-specific setting of the field device, which clears the diagnostic message classified as tolerable and/or plausible.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Maneval, Nikolai Fink, Hans Joachim Fröhlich, Thomas Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20200395132
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for verifying the production process of field devices, including a step of accessing a service platform on which data from field devices, including identification data, the respective type of field device, configuration data, containing application-specific data, environment information of the field devices or parameter data, data relating to the production date of a respective field device and repair or troubleshooting cases of the field devices are stored. The method also includes steps of detecting anomalies by statistically evaluating the repair or troubleshooting cases stored on service platform and creating a notification in the event of a detected anomaly, supplying the data of the field devices and the notifications to a machine learning or prognosis system, and evaluating the data of the field devices and the notifications by means of the machine learning or prognosis system for forecasting series errors of the field devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2020
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Tommi Dirk Kramer, Patrick Galli, Hans Joachim Fröhlich, Ulrich Kaiser, Thomas Fricke, Enrico Mario De Stasio