Patents by Inventor Jan Mueller

Jan 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).

  • Publication number: 20230026573
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for introducing a media outlet (6) into a hollow profiled section (1), in which method a first media outlet passage (7), via which a medium can flow out of a cavity (2) in the hollow profiled section (1), is introduced by means of a first tool into an outer wall (5) of the hollow profiled section (1), and in which method a second tool is introduced into the cavity (2) in the hollow profiled section (1) via the first media outlet passage (7), and by means of said second tool at least one second media outlet passage (8) is introduced into an inner profiled section web (4) of the hollow profiled section (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2020
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Inventors: Stefan KUGELMANN, Jan MUELLER-BRINCKEN
  • Patent number: 11536302
    Abstract: A fastening clip for fastening an attachment component on a carrier edge (50, 60), in particular in a vehicle, includes a clip body (10) with a main side (12) and holding legs (14, 16) which lie opposite one another and extend away from the main side (12), the holding legs (14, 16) delimiting, together with the main side (12), a receiving space (18) with an inlet opening (20) for the carrier edge (50, 60), wherein at least one of the holding legs (14) is adjoined by a holding section (22) which is bent over in the direction of the main side (12) of the clip body (10) and has at least one holding projection (24) which protrudes into the receiving space (18) in the direction of the opposite holding leg (16).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Florian Düll, Jan Müller
  • Publication number: 20220397146
    Abstract: A fastening device for fastening add-on parts on carrier components has a plug-in locking device, for locking to a carrier component, and a releasable rotary locking device, spaced apart axially from the plug-in locking device and intended for locking to an add-on part. The rotary locking device has an axial supporting element and at least one locking wing, spaced apart axially from the supporting element and extending away radially from a shank of the fastening device. The supporting element and the at least one locking wing have axial locking surfaces, located axially opposite one another. The axial locking surface of the supporting element is arranged axially between the locking wing and the plug-in locking device. The rotary locking device also has a rotary locking stop, which delimits the rotating-in and/or rotating-out action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 22, 2020
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Christoph LEIDIG, Jan MÜLLER
  • Publication number: 20220281394
    Abstract: A carrier apparatus (mount) for fastening a water-collecting strip to an A-pillar of a motor vehicle includes a fastening wall having a fastening side and a receiving side, wherein at least one catching device is arranged on the fastening side of the fastening wall for connecting with the A-pillar, which catching device extends in an approximately orthogonal direction from the fastening side, and wherein the catching device is formed for insertion and rearward catching in a through-opening of the A-pillar, and a catching element device arranged opposite the receiving side having at least one catching element for releasably fixing a water-collecting strip in a receiving region, wherein the receiving region is formed between the receiving side of the fastening wall and the catching element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2022
    Publication date: September 8, 2022
    Inventors: Melanie SINDEL (nee MIHALOVSCHI), Jan MÜLLER, Albert SBONGK
  • Publication number: 20220203817
    Abstract: A method for mounting an energy store, which is configured for the storage of electrical energy, on a body of a vehicle, is provided. In the case of the method, at least one first value which characterizes at least one dimension is determined. At least one clamping element is selected in a manner which is dependent on the determined value. The selected clamping element is clamped between the body and the energy store, as a result of which the energy store is braced to the body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 4, 2020
    Publication date: June 30, 2022
    Inventor: Jan MUELLER-BRINCKEN
  • Publication number: 20220174470
    Abstract: According to an aspect, there is provided a first radio device comprising means for performing the following. The first radio device transmits, using a connectionless mode, an advertising message. Subsequently, the first radio device receives, from a second radio device at a second reception time instance measured by the first radio device using the connectionless mode, a scan request. The first radio device transmits, to the second radio device, the scan response using the connectionless mode. Finally, the first radio device performs an auxiliary activity involving wireless communication between the first and second radio devices. The performing of the auxiliary activity is initiated at a first starting time defined to occur at a pre-defined time interval following an anchor point corresponding to the second reception time instance or to a subsequent timestamp generated in response to the receiving of the scan request at the second reception time instance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2021
    Publication date: June 2, 2022
    Inventors: Johan STRIDKVIST, Jan MÜLLER
  • Publication number: 20220135229
    Abstract: A method for processing previously detected identifications of apparatuses of an aircraft, wherein each apparatus has at least one communicative component. A reference dataset is used to compare the actual identifications with specified identifications, as a result of which a report signal based on the comparison result indicates whether the detected identifications correspond to the identifications represented by the reference dataset. If there is a positive match, this allows the conclusion that the apparatuses are correctly installed in the aircraft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 27, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Christian WALLER, Jan MUELLER, Uwe SCHWARK, Bing CHEN, Wolfgang FISCHER, Christoph TILLACK-NIEVELER
  • Publication number: 20220010824
    Abstract: A fastening clip for fastening an attachment component on a carrier edge (50, 60), in particular in a vehicle, includes a clip body (10) with a main side (12) and holding legs (14, 16) which lie opposite one another and extend away from the main side (12), the holding legs (14, 16) delimiting, together with the main side (12), a receiving space (18) with an inlet opening (20) for the carrier edge (50, 60), wherein at least one of the holding legs (14) is adjoined by a holding section (22) which is bent over in the direction of the main side (12) of the clip body (10) and has at least one holding projection (24) which protrudes into the receiving space (18) in the direction of the opposite holding leg (16).
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 31, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Florian DÜLL, Jan MÜLLER
  • Publication number: 20210323491
    Abstract: A line arrangement for assembly, for at least partial insertion inside a component and/or for guiding through the inside of a component, particularly a chamber of a bodywork component of a vehicle, includes at least one line which is designed in a non-rigid manner with a plurality of rigid segments and with flexible connection elements that connect to the rigid segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: October 21, 2021
    Inventors: Oliver HAFF, Christian HIPF-BUFFI, Jan MUELLER-BRINCKEN, Martin SCHUSTER
  • Publication number: 20210214020
    Abstract: A battery storage arrangement for a working device, in particular for a vehicle, includes a battery storage and a carrier. The carrier has a monolithic screwing area having a thread. The battery storage is fastened to the carrier by way of a threaded fastener via the screwing area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 18, 2019
    Publication date: July 15, 2021
    Inventors: Jan MUELLER-BRINCKEN, Martin SCHUSTER
  • Patent number: 10968938
    Abstract: A connector (1) for fastening a first component (100) to a second component (200) of a motor vehicle, includes a bearing collar (10) for bearing against the first component (100), a crossbar (20) having one or more upper bearing surfaces (21.1, 21.2) for bearing against the second component (200) and for bracing the second component (200) against the first component (100) in a rotated final assembly position, a shaft portion (30) for passing through corresponding apertures (110, 210) in the components (100, 200), and fastening means (40) for fastening the connector (1) to the first component (100) in a preassembly position. A rotation-blocking device (50) is configured to block rotation of the connector (1) in relation to the first component (100) in the preassembly position and only to release said rotation when the connector (1) has moved from the preassembly position in the direction of the final assembly position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 6, 2021
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Christoph Leidig, Jan Müller
  • Publication number: 20210046979
    Abstract: A closing plug for closing holes in objects, in particular for closing holes in vehicle bodies, wherein the closing plug has at least one first circumferential wall which encloses a cavity, wherein a transverse wall is present in the cavity between the circumferential side wall, which transverse wall has an outer shape which corresponds to the shape of the cavity and is attached to the side wall in a circumferential manner, wherein, for the purpose of reinforcing the circumferential wall against yielding outward or inward, at least one reinforcement rib extends transversely through the cavity and so as to connect opposite regions of the circumferential side wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: Christoph LEIDIG, Jan MÜLLER
  • Patent number: 10863352
    Abstract: A network access control method involves requesting access to a network via a wireless communication adapter for a personal electronic device. Then, an acoustic audio code output by an audio signaling device connected to the wireless communication adapter by wire is acoustically captured by the personal electronic device. A digital representation of the captured acoustic audio code is submitted from the personal electronic device to the wireless communication adapter via wireless communication. Subsequently, the wireless communication adapter authenticates the personal electronic device on the basis of the submitted digital representation of the captured acoustic audio code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Fischer, Jan Mueller, Ulrich Rittner, Michael Netzler
  • Publication number: 20190379584
    Abstract: A network access control method involves requesting access to a network via a wireless communication adapter for a personal electronic device. Then, an acoustic audio code output by an audio signaling device connected to the wireless communication adapter by wire is acoustically captured by the personal electronic device. A digital representation of the captured acoustic audio code is submitted from the personal electronic device to the wireless communication adapter via wireless communication. Subsequently, the wireless communication adapter authenticates the personal electronic device on the basis of the submitted digital representation of the captured acoustic audio code.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 22, 2019
    Publication date: December 12, 2019
    Inventors: Wolfgang Fischer, Jan Mueller, Ulrich Rittner, Michael Netzler
  • Patent number: 10455437
    Abstract: A mobile monitoring device including a data signal interface for coupling to a data line arranged in an aircraft and carrying one or more sensor signals, such that, in operation, the data signal interface branches off and receives as input signal part of the energy of the sensor signals carried on the data line such that the input signal is characteristic of the one or more sensor signals, and provide an output signal characteristic of the input signal. The mobile monitoring device further includes a wireless communication interface connected to the data signal interface for receiving the output signal and adapted to wirelessly transmit the output signal to a remote location. The present disclosure further relates to a system including an aircraft and the mobile monitoring device, and to a method of collecting sensor measurement data from a plurality of sensors of an aircraft using the mobile monitoring device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Jan Mueller, Tim Fuss
  • Patent number: 10425286
    Abstract: A network access control method involves requesting access to a network via a wireless communication adapter for a personal electronic device. Then, an acoustic audio code output by an audio signaling device connected to the wireless communication adapter by wire is acoustically captured by the personal electronic device. A digital representation of the captured acoustic audio code is submitted from the personal electronic device to the wireless communication adapter via wireless communication. Subsequently, the wireless communication adapter authenticates the personal electronic device on the basis of the submitted digital representation of the captured acoustic audio code.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2016
    Date of Patent: September 24, 2019
    Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Fischer, Jan Mueller, Ulrich Rittner, Michael Netzler
  • Publication number: 20190136894
    Abstract: A connector (1) for fastening a first component (100) to a second component (200) of a motor vehicle, includes a bearing collar (10) for bearing against the first component (100), a crossbar (20) having one or more upper bearing surfaces (21.1, 21.2) for bearing against the second component (200) and for bracing the second component (200) against the first component (100) in a rotated final assembly position, a shaft portion (30) for passing through corresponding apertures (110, 210) in the components (100, 200), and fastening means (40) for fastening the connector (1) to the first component (100) in a preassembly position. A rotation-blocking device (50) is configured to block rotation of the connector (1) in relation to the first component (100) in the preassembly position and only to release said rotation when the connector (1) has moved from the preassembly position in the direction of the final assembly position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Publication date: May 9, 2019
    Inventors: Christoph LEIDIG, Jan Müller
  • Patent number: 10243677
    Abstract: A network node of a wireless communications network is provided in a means of transportation, for an aircraft, for ascertaining sources of interference, to a system with such a network node, to an associated method for ascertaining sources of interference of a wireless communications network provided in a means of transportation, for the aircraft, and to a computer program for executing the method. The network node includes an interference-power-ascertaining component, for ascertaining an interference power of an interfering radiation emitted from a source of interference, and a transmitting component for wireless or wirebound transmission of the ascertained interference power to a control device for determining at least one of a direction of the interfering radiation and a distance of the source of interference, including the position of the source of interference, on the basis of the ascertained interference power.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2019
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Jan Mueller, Uwe Schwark
  • Patent number: 10212748
    Abstract: This relates to wireless communication on-board aircraft. More particularly, the present disclosure relates to a method for controlling an on-board aircraft network cell to be used in an on-board aircraft wireless communication network, to such an on-board aircraft network cell configured to be used in an on-board aircraft wireless communication network, to an on-board aircraft wireless communication network comprising at least one such on-board aircraft network cell, and to an aircraft comprising such on-board aircraft wireless communication network. An embodiment of the on-board aircraft network cell comprises at least one Wireless Module unit, at least two Wireless Data Concentrator units, and at least two independent wireless links, each wireless link being established between the at least one Wireless Module unit and one of the at least two Wireless Data Concentrator units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Jan Mueller, Thomas Meyerhoff
  • Patent number: 10187845
    Abstract: A system configured to be installed in an aircraft, the system comprising a first functional domain and a second functional domain. The first and second functional domains are configured to provide a first and service, respectively. The system further comprises a wireless access point configured to be externally managed by a controller and configured to communicate with a mobile terminal. The system comprises a controller configured to communicate with the wireless access point, the first and the second functional domains, configured to control the wireless access point and configured to control wireless access of the mobile terminal to the first and second functional domains. Further, the use of such a system in an aircraft, an aircraft comprising such a system and a method of controlling wireless access of a mobile terminal to a first functional domain and a second functional domain in an aircraft are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 22, 2019
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GMBH
    Inventors: Maxim Salomon, Christopher Randall, Jan Mueller, Tim Fuss