Patents by Inventor Herbert Lange
Herbert Lange 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: 20230160936Abstract: A system and method for testing devices such as integrated circuits (IC) with integrated antenna arrays configured for wireless signal reception. The method performs a calibration operation on a reference device under test (DUT). During the calibration operation, the DUT receives a series of first signals from a first far-field (FF) location and a series of array transmissions from a second near-field (NF) location using different beamforming settings, and determines therefrom a set of calibration parameters. The calibration parameters may be used by a probe antenna system (PAS) to transmit an array transmission to the DUT from the second NF location to emulate a single probe or multi-probe transmission from the first FF location.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2021Publication date: May 25, 2023Inventors: Martin Obermaier, Martin Laabs, Dirk Plettemeier, Marc Vanden Bossche, Thomas Deckert, Vincent Kotzsch, Johannes Dietmar Herbert Lange
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Patent number: 11515950Abstract: A system and method for testing (e.g., rapidly and inexpensively) devices such as integrated circuits (IC) with integrated antennas configured for millimeter wave transmission and/or reception. The method may first perform a calibration operation on a reference device under test (DUT). The calibration operation may determine a set of reference DUT FF base functions and may also generate a set of calibration coefficients. After the calibration step using the reference DUT, the resulting reference DUT FF base functions and the calibration coefficients (or reconstruction matrix) may be used in determining far-field patterns of DUTs based on other field measurements, e.g., measurements taken in the near field of the DUT.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2021Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: National Instruments CorporationInventors: Martin Laabs, Dirk Plettemeier, Thomas Deckert, Johannes Dietmar Herbert Lange, Marc Vanden Bossche
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Patent number: 11318941Abstract: A system is provided for monitoring spacing during working operation between a first vehicle and at least one further self-propelled vehicle. A beam source is on one vehicle (source vehicle). A sensor arrangement on another vehicle (target vehicle) extends along a sensor axis. In a predetermined reference state, with the vehicles having a predetermined reference spacing apart, the beam source radiates toward the target vehicle electromagnetic radiation such that a predetermined sensor-axial reference detection region on the sensor arrangement is irradiated by the beam source. A change in the vehicle spacing results in a change, along the sensor axis, in the position of the detection region on the irradiated sensor arrangement, and thus in a change in the detection state of the sensor arrangement. Based on the detection state which depends on an actual spacing of the source and target vehicles, a spacing signal is generated with vehicle spacing information.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2020Date of Patent: May 3, 2022Inventors: Matthias Fritz, Herbert Lange, Marc Pees, Carmen Kania
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Publication number: 20220077938Abstract: A system and method for testing (e.g., rapidly and inexpensively) devices such as integrated circuits (IC) with integrated antennas configured for millimeter wave transmission and/or reception. The method may first perform a calibration operation on a reference device under test (DUT). The calibration operation may determine a set of reference DUT FF base functions and may also generate a set of calibration coefficients. After the calibration step using the reference DUT, the resulting reference DUT FF base functions and the calibration coefficients (or reconstruction matrix) may be used in determining far-field patterns of DUTs based on other field measurements, e.g., measurements taken in the near field of the DUT.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Inventors: Martin Laabs, Dirk Plettemeier, Thomas Deckert, Johannes Dietmar Herbert Lange, Marc Vanden Bossche
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Publication number: 20200262428Abstract: A working combination (10) having self-propelled first (12) and further vehicles (14) that are embodied to move one behind another with a setpoint spacing (D) in a working direction (A); the working combination (10) having a spacing monitoring device (26) that outputs a spacing signal on the basis of a detection state of the spacing monitoring device (26) which depends on the actual spacing (D) of the vehicles (12, 14), and that comprises a beam source (28) and a sensor arrangement (30) detecting the radiation (32) of the beam source (28); one vehicle (12), constituting a source vehicle (12), carrying the beam source (18); the beam source (28) radiating, toward the respective other vehicle (14) constituting a target vehicle (14), an electromagnetic radiation (32) directed in such a way that the radiation (32) is present only in a beam space (40) that extends over a first angular region (43) around a first beam space axis (42) and over a second angular region (46) around a second beam space axis (44) and thatType: ApplicationFiled: February 14, 2020Publication date: August 20, 2020Inventors: Matthias Fritz, Herbert Lange, Marc Pees, Carmen Kania
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Patent number: 10378162Abstract: The invention relates to an automotive construction machine, in particular a road milling machine, recycler or surface miner, and to a method for displaying an image of the surroundings of an automotive construction machine. The construction machine according to the invention has an image display device for displaying a bird's eye view image of the surroundings of the construction machine, which image display device has a camera system with a plurality of cameras provided on the machine frame for recording individual overlapping image regions of the construction machine surroundings from different image recording positions, and an image processing system. The image processing system is configured in such a way that image details of the individual image regions are joined together to form a total image from a bird's eye view.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2016Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Wirtgen GmbHInventors: Harald Kröll, Herbert Lange, Martin Lenz
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Patent number: 10377311Abstract: The invention relates to an automotive construction machine with a transport device extending in the working direction beyond the machine frame, in particular a road milling machine or surface miner. Moreover, the invention relates to a method for displaying an image of the surroundings of an automotive construction machine. The construction machine according to the invention has an image display device for displaying a bird's eye view image of the surroundings of the construction machine, which image display device has a camera system with a plurality of cameras for recording individual overlapping image regions of the construction machine surroundings from different image recording positions, and an image processing system. The image processing system is configured in such a way that image details of the individual image regions are joined together to form a total image from a bird's eye view.Type: GrantFiled: September 24, 2018Date of Patent: August 13, 2019Assignee: Wirtgen GmbHInventors: Harald Kröll, Herbert Lange, Martin Lenz
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Publication number: 20190084478Abstract: The invention relates to an automotive construction machine with a transport device extending in the working direction beyond the machine frame, in particular a road milling machine or surface miner. Moreover, the invention relates to a method for displaying an image of the surroundings of an automotive construction machine. The construction machine according to the invention has an image display device for displaying a bird's eye view image of the surroundings of the construction machine, which image display device has a camera system with a plurality of cameras for recording individual overlapping image regions of the construction machine surroundings from different image recording positions, and an image processing system. The image processing system is configured in such a way that image details of the individual image regions are joined together to form a total image from a bird's eye view.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 24, 2018Publication date: March 21, 2019Inventors: Harald Kröll, Herbert Lange, Martin Lenz
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Patent number: 10086761Abstract: The invention relates to an automotive construction machine with a transport device extending in the working direction beyond the machine frame, in particular a road milling machine or surface miner. Moreover, the invention relates to a method for displaying an image of the surroundings of an automotive construction machine. The construction machine according to the invention has an image display device for displaying a bird's eye view image of the surroundings of the construction machine, which image display device has a camera system with a plurality of cameras for recording individual overlapping image regions of the construction machine surroundings from different image recording positions, and an image processing system. The image processing system is configured in such a way that image details of the individual image regions are joined together to form a total image from a bird's eye view.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2016Date of Patent: October 2, 2018Assignee: Wirtgen GmbHInventors: Harald Kröll, Herbert Lange, Martin Lenz
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Publication number: 20170036602Abstract: The invention relates to an automotive construction machine with a transport device extending in the working direction beyond the machine frame, in particular a road milling machine or surface miner. Moreover, the invention relates to to a method for displaying an image of the surroundings of an automotive construction machine. The construction machine according to the invention has an image display device for displaying a bird's eye view image of the surroundings of the construction machine, which image display device has a camera system with a plurality of cameras for recording individual overlapping image regions of the construction machine surroundings from different image recording positions, and an image processing system. The image processing system is configured in such a way that image details of the individual image regions are joined together to form a total image from a bird's eye view.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2016Publication date: February 9, 2017Inventors: Harald Kröll, Herbert Lange, Martin Lenz, Cyrus Barimani, Günter Hähn
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Publication number: 20170037586Abstract: The invention relates to an automotive construction machine, in particular a road milling machine, recycler or surface miner, and to a method for displaying an image of the surroundings of an automotive construction machine. The construction machine according to the invention has an image display device for displaying a bird's eye view image of the surroundings of the construction machine, which image display device has a camera system with a plurality of cameras provided on the machine frame for recording individual overlapping image regions of the construction machine surroundings from different image recording positions, and an image processing system. The image processing system is configured in such a way that image details of the individual image regions are joined together to form a total image from a bird's eye view.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2016Publication date: February 9, 2017Inventors: Harald Kröll, Herbert Lange, Martin Lenz, Cyrus Barimani, Günter Hähn
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Patent number: 8632132Abstract: A control system for a construction machine senses the reaction forces applied by the ground surface to a milling drum, and in response to the sensed changes in those reaction forces controls the rate of feeding the milling drum into the ground surface.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2012Date of Patent: January 21, 2014Assignee: Wirtgen GmbHInventors: Christoph Menzenbach, Axel Mahlberg, Herbert Lange, Cyrus Barimani, Günter Hähn
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Publication number: 20130002002Abstract: A control system for a construction machine senses the reaction forces applied by the ground surface to a milling drum, and in response to the sensed changes in those reaction forces controls the rate of feeding the milling drum into the ground surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 12, 2012Publication date: January 3, 2013Applicant: WIRTGEN GMBHInventors: Christoph Menzenbach, Axel Mahlberg, Herbert Lange, Cyrus Barimani, Gunter Hahn
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Patent number: 8292371Abstract: An adaptive advance control system for a construction machine senses the reaction forces applied by the ground surface to a milling drum, and in response to the sensed changes in those reaction forces controls the rate of lowering the milling drum into the ground surface. Early and rapid detection of such changes in reaction forces allow the control system to aid in preventing lurch forward events of the construction machine.Type: GrantFiled: February 6, 2012Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: Wirtgen GmbHInventors: Christoph Menzenbach, Axel Mahlberg, Herbert Lange, Cyrus Barimani, Gunter Hahn
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Publication number: 20120200138Abstract: An adaptive advance control system for a construction machine senses the reaction forces applied by the ground surface to a milling drum, and in response to the sensed changes in those reaction forces controls the rate of lowering the milling drum into the ground surface. Early and rapid detection of such changes in reaction forces allow the control system to aid in preventing lurch forward events of the construction machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 6, 2012Publication date: August 9, 2012Applicant: WIRTGEN GMBHInventors: Christoph Menzenbach, Axel Mahlberg, Herbert Lange, Cyrus Barimani, Gunter Hahn
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Patent number: 8128177Abstract: An adaptive advance control system for a construction machine senses the reaction forces applied by the ground surface to a milling drum, and in response to the sensed changes in those reaction forces controls the motive power applied to an advance drive of the machine. Early and rapid detection of such changes in reaction forces allow the control system to aid in preventing lurch forward events of the construction machine.Type: GrantFiled: February 8, 2010Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Wirtgen GmbHInventors: Christoph Menzenbach, Axel Mahlberg, Herbert Lange, Cyrus Barimani, Gunter Hahn
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Publication number: 20110193397Abstract: An adaptive advance control system for a construction machine senses the reaction forces applied by the ground surface to a milling drum, and in response to the sensed changes in those reaction forces controls the motive power applied to an advance drive of the machine. Early and rapid detection of such changes in reaction forces allow the control system to aid in preventing lurch forward events of the construction machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 8, 2010Publication date: August 11, 2011Applicant: WIRTGEN GMBHInventors: Christoph Menzenbach, Axel Mahlberg, Herbert Lange, Cyrus Barimani, Gunter Hahn
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Patent number: 7530641Abstract: An automotive construction machine for working ground surfaces, with a machine frame, a drive engine for driving traveling devices and for driving working devices, and a milling drum for milling the ground surfaces, which can be raised, driven by, and can be uncoupled from a drum drive, the milling drum can be moved into a raised position when not in milling mode, and when raised, the rotating direction of the milling drum corresponds to the rotating direction of the traveling devices and remains coupled with the drive engine, and a monitoring device monitors the distance between the milling drum and the ground surface and uncouples the raised milling drum from the drive engine or uncouples the traveling devices from the drive engine or raises the machine frame or generates an alarm signal when the monitoring device detects a deviation that falls below a pre-determined distance, or any of the latter.Type: GrantFiled: May 22, 2007Date of Patent: May 12, 2009Assignee: Wirtgen GmbHInventors: Christian Berning, Herbert Lange, Dieter Simons
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Publication number: 20070286678Abstract: An automotive construction machine for working ground surfaces, with a machine frame, a drive engine for driving traveling devices and for driving working devices, and a milling drum for milling the ground surfaces, which can be raised, driven by, and can be uncoupled from a drum drive, the milling drum can be moved into a raised position when not in milling mode, and when raised, the rotating direction of the milling drum corresponds to the rotating direction of the traveling devices and remains coupled with the drive engine, and a monitoring device monitors the distance between the milling drum and the ground surface and uncouples the raised milling drum from the drive engine or uncouples the traveling devices from the drive engine or raises the machine frame or generates an alarm signal when the monitoring device detects a deviation that falls below a pre-determined distance, or any of the latter.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 22, 2007Publication date: December 13, 2007Applicant: Wirtgen GmbHInventors: Christian Berning, Herbert Lange, Dieter Simons
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Patent number: 7219964Abstract: At a milling machine to work ground surfaces, with a machine frame, a milling drum supported at the machine frame, at least one transport device arranged at the machine frame which accepts the milled material from the milling drum, as well as with a suction device for the air polluted with dusts and vapors, whereby the milled material on the at least one transport device is enclosed by a channel, the suction device is connected to a rear channel section of the channel in the direction of the material transport and sucks off the air polluted during milling at the milling drum and in the rear channel section essentially in the direction of the material transport, it is provided that the suction device consists of a suction ventilator, a separator device for solids and a suction channel which is connected to the rear channel section, that the suction ventilator is arranged downstream of the separator device, and that the suction device disposes of the separated solids onto the transport device in a forward channType: GrantFiled: February 15, 2005Date of Patent: May 22, 2007Assignee: Wirtgen GmbHInventors: Christian Berning, Herbert Lange, Dieter Simons