Patents by Inventor Jan Philipp

Jan Philipp 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: 20200156627
    Abstract: A transportation vehicle for containers has a vehicle controller for automatically driving and controlling the speed of the transportation vehicle. The transportation vehicle includes a sensor apparatus for object identification, with the sensor apparatus interacting with the vehicle controller such that a movement region of the transportation vehicle can be ascertained. The transportation vehicle is configured to come to a standstill within the movement region by a braking process during a braking time, and that a movement region of an object that is identified by the sensor apparatus can be ascertained, with the object being moved within the movement region during the braking time of the transportation vehicle, so that the permissible speed of the transportation vehicle can be automatically reduced by the vehicle controller, and so that the two movement regions do not touch after the reduction in the permissible speed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2018
    Publication date: May 21, 2020
    Inventors: Armin Wieschemann, Stefan Aldejohann, Heiko Schulz, Jan Philipp Schmidt-Ewig, Heinz Eichner
  • Publication number: 20200150686
    Abstract: A method and system are provided for operating an automatically guided container transport vehicle that can be automatically guided during forward driving and during rearward driving. The transport vehicle includes a towing vehicle and a trailer with a loading surface for at least one container. The transport vehicle has a vehicle control system for controlling a steering system and a travel drive of the transport vehicle in such a way that the transport vehicle follows a nominal route. The nominal route is automatically pre-defined taking into account a trajectory of the transport vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Inventors: Armin Wieschemann, Stefan Aldejohann, Heiko Schulz, Jan Philipp Schmidt-Ewig, Heinz-Christoph Eichner, Mohammad Ahmadian
  • Patent number: 10647143
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of rotogravure printing, and more specifically to a rotogravure printing medium, a coating composition for rotogravure printing media, a method for producing such a rotogravure printing medium and an use of the rotogravure printing medium in a printing application, preferably in rotogravure printing using electrostatic assist (ESA).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Omya International AG
    Inventors: Jan Philipp Weihs, Patrick A. C. Gane, Johannes Kritzinger, Tazio Fornera, Ola Lindstrøm, Alain Cremaschi, Wolfgang Höpfl, Rolf Endre Orten
  • Patent number: 10651513
    Abstract: A storage battery arrangement includes a plurality of storage battery cells connected in series, a central network node designed to transmit data using the storage battery cells and connected to the series connection of storage battery cells, a plurality of cell network nodes designed to transmit data using the storage battery cells, where each cell network node is connected in parallel to a storage battery cell. The storage battery arrangement also includes a control device designed to command at least one first cell network node to apply a test signal having at least one predetermined frequency to a first storage battery cell to which said first cell network node is connected, and to command a second cell network node connected to a second storage battery cell to determine, based on a signal response of the second storage battery cell to the test signal, at least one condition of the second storage battery cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Helmut Kellermann, Jan Philipp Schmidt
  • Patent number: 10619049
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the manufacturing of a calcium carbonate-comprising material, a calcium carbonate-comprising material obtained by a process as well as the use of the calcium carbonate-comprising material for paper filler and paper coating applications, cigarette paper applications, for plastics applications or in paints, coatings, adhesives, replacement of titanium dioxide, preferably in paints, sealants, food, feed, pharma, concrete, cement, cosmetic, water treatment and/or agriculture applications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2020
    Assignee: Omya International AG
    Inventors: Daniel Gantenbein, Patrick A. C. Gane, Rolf Endre Orten, Jan Philipp Weihs, Philipp Hunziker, Asbjørn Høyem Amundsen, Tommy Sandvik, Bjørn Jensen
  • Publication number: 20200102162
    Abstract: A storage area for containers having at least one storage region arranged between two travel paths for the gantry crane, such that the gantry crane can be moved over the storage region on the travel paths, and where a transfer region is arranged between the travel paths at an end of the storage region pointing in the travel direction of the gantry crane, which can be reached by the gantry crane and a transport vehicle to transfer containers into and out of the storage area. An intermediate region is provided between the transfer region and the storage region; the transfer region and the intermediate region are designed and arranged such that a passage through the transfer region and travel in the intermediate region is possible for a transport vehicle, and the travel in the intermediate region is possible before or after the passage through the transfer region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 15, 2018
    Publication date: April 2, 2020
    Inventors: Armin Wieschemann, Stefan Aldejohann, Heiko Schulz, Jan Philipp Schmidt-Ewig, Heinz-Christoph Eichner
  • Publication number: 20200079239
    Abstract: A method for determining an operating temperature of a battery cell in which (i) a value of a measure variable for determining an external temperature of the battery cell is detected, (ii) an internal temperature of the battery cell is determined by detecting an electrical impedance of the battery cell, and (iii) a value of the operating temperature of the battery cell is determined from the external and/or the internal temperature. The internal temperature of the battery cell in a first operating state of the battery cell is determined more frequently when the value of the determined external temperature, the internal temperature and/or the operating temperature lies within a predefined first safe range, and is determined less frequently when the value of the determined external temperature, the internal temperature and/or the operating temperature lies outside the predefined first safe range.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 11, 2019
    Publication date: March 12, 2020
    Inventors: Jennifer MUELLER, Jan Philipp Schmidt, Hermann Zehentner
  • Publication number: 20200064139
    Abstract: A method and system for generating an expected speed of travel along one or more navigable elements of a navigable network within a geographic area, each navigable element being represented by a segment of an electronic map. The method comprising obtaining positional data relating to the movement of a plurality of devices along a navigable element represented by a segment of the electronic map. The positional data is used to determine a first mean speed of travel and a second mean speed of travel for the segment, and an expected speed of travel is determined for the segment as a value between the first mean speed of travel and the second mean speed of travel determined based on a congestion parameter for the segment. Data indicative of the determined expected speed of travel is then associated with the segment in the electronic map.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2017
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Peter Mieth, Gregor Wuensch, Jan-Philipp Kappmeier, Rene Beier
  • Publication number: 20200063820
    Abstract: A hydraulically damping mount for mounting a motor vehicle unit, such as mounting a motor vehicle engine on a motor vehicle body, includes a supporting spring and a compensation chamber. The supporting spring is configured to support a mount core and surround a working chamber. The compensation chamber is separated from the working chamber by a dividing wall and delimited by a compensation diaphragm. In embodiments, the compensation chamber and the working chamber are filled with a fluid and are connected to each other by a damping duct incorporated into the dividing wall. In embodiments, the dividing wall includes a diaphragm that is capable of oscillating, and a foam element associated with the diaphragm supports the diaphragm in the event of a deflection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Lilligreen, Jan Philipp, Thomas Schemer, Timo Stöcker
  • Patent number: 10574024
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an optical module configured to be optically coupleable to a laser amplifier module, the optical module comprising an inner optical element having a plurality of M inner reflective elements arranged around a center of the inner optical element; and a plurality of N outer reflective elements arranged around the inner optical element, the plurality of N outer reflective elements being configured to face the inner optical element, wherein the plurality of M inner reflective elements and the plurality of N outer reflective elements are configured to provide an optical path for a laser beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: Universität Stuttgart
    Inventors: Stefan Piehler, Benjamin Dannecker, Jan-Philipp Negel, André Loescher
  • Publication number: 20200001733
    Abstract: A charging station for a container transport vehicle includes a charging device and a contacting unit connected thereto, to establish a connection between the charging station and contacts of a rechargeable battery of a container transport vehicle for battery charging process. The charging station, including the contacting unit and the charging device, is designed as a mobile unit. The contacting unit and the charging device are arranged in a housing, and the housing has an opening through which the contacting unit can be moved for a charging process. Optionally, battery contacts and a funnel-shaped guide are provided, and the contacts are arranged near the guide such that a contacting unit of the charging station can be guided to the battery contacts, by the guide, for a battery charging process. The disclosure also relates to a system including a charging station and a container transport vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 14, 2018
    Publication date: January 2, 2020
    Inventors: Armin Wieschemann, Heiko Schulz, Jan-Philipp Schmidt-Ewig, Stefan Aldejohann, Heinz Eichner
  • Publication number: 20190372081
    Abstract: An energy storage module, particularly a solid state battery, an energy storage system, a vehicle and a method for measuring an electrical voltage on an energy storage module or on an energy storage system is based on two stacked and series-connected energy storage cells, each have an anode layer and a cathode layer. A contact, which is electrically connected to an anode layer located within the stack of a first energy storage cell and to a cathode layer located within the stack of a second energy storage cell, which is adjacent to the first energy storage cell, leads out of the stack such that at least one contact can be contacted from outside the stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 13, 2019
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventors: Jose LOPEZ DE ARROYABE, Jan Philipp SCHMIDT
  • Patent number: 10488250
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides a method and to a device for quantitatively sensing the power fraction of a radiation background of a pulsed laser. The disclosure further relates to the use of a saturable element. The method includes modulating a measurement beam, which is emitted by the laser, by means of a saturable element in accordance with the fluence of the measurement beam, detecting, by means of a modulation beam power detector, the power of the measurement beam modulated by the saturable element, and determining the power fraction of the radiation background of the pulsed laser on the basis of the detected power of the measurement beam modulated by means of the saturable element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignee: Universität Stuttgart
    Inventors: Stefan Piehler, Benjamin Dannecker, Jan Philipp Negel
  • Patent number: 10482671
    Abstract: A system for providing a virtual environment on an at least one computing device. The system includes, a server arrangement to generate at least one first image associated with the virtual environment on at least one first virtual pattern, render visual orientations associated with the at least one first image on a render target, and generate at least one second image; and at least one computing device, communicably coupled with the server arrangement, to receive the at least one second image from the server arrangement, render each of the render targets of the at least one second image on an at least one second virtual pattern, determine the movement of head of the at least one user, and provide the virtual environment on a display arrangement based on a movement of head of the at least one user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: Hashplay Inc.
    Inventors: Ingo Nadler, Jan-Philipp Alexander Mohr
  • Patent number: 10483563
    Abstract: A cathode supply (30) for a fuel cell (10) of a fuel cell unit (1) for a fuel cell system is provided, the cathode supply (30) including a cathode supply path (31) and a cathode exhaust gas path (32) and at least two fluid pumping devices (33, 133) for pumping a cathode operating medium (5) for the fuel cell (10) are fluido-mechanically coupled into the cathode supply path (31), at least one first fluid pumping device (133) of the at least two fluid pumping devices (33, 133) being drivable only on the basis of an enthalpy in a cathode exhaust gas (6) of the fuel cell (10). A fuel cell unit for a vehicle, in particular, an electric vehicle, a fuel cell system for a vehicle, in particular, an electric vehicle, or a vehicle in particular an electric vehicle, the fuel cell unit, the fuel cell system, or the vehicle including a cathode supply (30) is provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignees: Volkswagen AG, Audi AG
    Inventors: Daniel Grundei, Christian Schlitzberger, Christian Lucas, Hannes Scholz, Jan-Philipp Brinkmeier
  • Patent number: 10451140
    Abstract: A mounting device, in particular to the mounting of an internal combustion engine on a chassis of a motor vehicle, which is provided with a fluid working chamber that is fluidically connected via at least one fluid channel to a fluid equalization chamber via at least one fluid channel in a housing. At the same time, a fluid damping chamber is provided, which is separated by an elastic membrane from the fluid working chamber and which is connected with fluidic connection via a throttling channel to an outer environment of the mounting device. The throttling channel is formed by a replaceable throttling element separately from the housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignees: AUDI AG, Vibracoustic GmbH
    Inventors: Armin Ohletz, Thomas Schemer, Jan Philipp, Christian Meyer
  • Publication number: 20190305387
    Abstract: A high-voltage battery for a motor vehicle has at least one battery cell for storing electrical energy and at least one temperature sensor, by which a temperature of the battery cell can be detected. The temperature sensor is arranged within the battery cell.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 18, 2019
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Christoph BORN, Christian KULP, Arne MENCK, Sebastian PAUL, Jan Philipp SCHMIDT, Benno SCHWEIGER, Werner SELIGER, Jens VETTER, Hermann ZEHENTNER, Dieter ZIEGLTRUM
  • Publication number: 20190248629
    Abstract: An arrangement of a gantry lifting device for handling containers, in particular ISO containers, having a sensor device for the navigation of the gantry lifting device and having a clearance profile which is formed such that the gantry lifting device can move across a container, and of a row of spaced-apart marking elements such that the gantry lifting device can be moved along the row of marking elements by means of raster navigation, where the row of marking elements can be read by the sensor device of the gantry lifting device. The sensor device, in an operating position, is arranged outside the clearance profile on the gantry lifting device so as, in the operating position, to read the row of marking elements for the navigation of the gantry lifting device, where the row of marking elements is arranged next to the clearance profile of the gantry lifting device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 12, 2017
    Publication date: August 15, 2019
    Inventors: Armin Wieschemann, Heiko Schulz, Jan-Philipp Schmidt-Ewig, Stefan Aldejohann, Heinz-Christoph Eichner, Mohammad Ahmadian
  • Publication number: 20190234481
    Abstract: A hydromount for mounting a motor vehicle unit is disclosed. The hydromount includes a supporting spring supporting a mount core and surrounding a working chamber, and a compensation chamber separated from the working chamber by a dividing wall and delimited by a compensation diaphragm. In embodiments, the compensation chamber and the working chamber are filled with a liquid and are connected by a damping duct incorporated into the dividing wall. In an embodiment, the dividing wall has two dividing plates between which a diaphragm is accommodated in a manner capable of oscillating. In an embodiment, the diaphragm and the dividing wall delimit an air chamber connected to the environment via an opening in the dividing wall, and the opening can be unblocked and closed by a switchable non-return device having a pressure-actuatable non-return valve with an opening pressure set to or having an oscillation amplitude of the diaphragm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 27, 2017
    Publication date: August 1, 2019
    Applicant: VIBRACOUSTIC GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Lilligreen, Jan Philipp, Thomas Schemer, Timo Stöcker
  • Publication number: 20190165434
    Abstract: Disclosed is a battery cell including an electrode, a housing, a cell interior inside the housing, a temperature sensor, and a heat-conducting part which differs from the electrode, is entirely or partially disposed inside the housing of the battery cell, and is thermally connected to the temperature sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 1, 2019
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventors: Christoph BORN, Christian KULP, Arne MENCK, Sebastian PAUL, Jan Philipp SCHMIDT, Benno SCHWEIGER, Werner SELIGER, Jens VETTER, Hermann ZEHENTNER, Dieter ZIEGLTRUM