Patents by Inventor Jochen Mueller
Jochen 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).
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Publication number: 20140110186Abstract: A maneuvering drive (24, 30) for a trailer (10) has a central unit (30) and at least two drive units (24) associated with wheels (16) of the trailer (10), each drive unit (24) including an electric drive motor (26) having a mechanical brake (40) associated therewith, an additional brake module (50) being provided which allows an additional braking effect of the drive units (24) to be generated in addition to the mechanical brake (40).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2013Publication date: April 24, 2014Applicant: TRUMA GERAETETECHNIK GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Steve AEMISEGGER, Daniel GUMPP, Jochen MUELLER, Tobias SCHMID, Klaus MUESSLER, Ana Maria FERNANDEZ, Joerg MUELLER, Oliver SCHAURER, Mario MOEHRING, Mathias VENSCHOTT, Stefan THIEL, Kamil ZAWADSKI
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Patent number: 8647824Abstract: Compositions and methods are provided that relate to the bioremediation of chlorinated ethenes, particularly the bioremediation of vinyl chloride by Dehalococcoides-like organisms. An isolated strain of bacteria, Dehalococcoides sp. strain VS, that metabolizes vinyl chloride is provided; the genetic sequence of the enzyme responsible for vinyl chloride dehalogenation; methods of assessing the capability of endogenous organisms at an environmental site to metabolize vinyl chloride; and a method of using the strains of the invention for bioremediation.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2011Date of Patent: February 11, 2014Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior UniversityInventors: Alfred M. Spormann, Jochen A. Müller, Bettina M. Rosner, Gregory Von Abendroth, Galit Meshulam-Simon, Perry L. McCarty
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Patent number: 8620556Abstract: A correction method in which characteristic curves and/or correction values are produced, by way of which the drive current for one or more electrically activated hydraulic values operated in an analog fashion is measured during a pressure regulation in such a way that, during the operation of an anti-lock regulation, one or a respective characteristic curve is first prescribed and then the prescribed characteristic curve is corrected, particularly in a learning process, wherein, after a pressure build-up phase, the current pressure model value (Pmod) is compared to and/or analyzed using a model locking pressure level (Pmax).Type: GrantFiled: April 22, 2008Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHGInventors: Jochen Müller, Jochen Zimmermann, Robert Schmidt, Dieter Burkhard
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Publication number: 20130337970Abstract: A maneuvering drive for a trailer includes a fastening device, a carrier, a drive motor as well as a drive roller. The fastening device is provided for fastening the maneuvering drive to the trailer. The carrier is movable relative to the fastening device and holds the drive motor. The drive roller is rotatably drivable by the drive motor which is a brushless electric motor with an external rotor.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 29, 2013Publication date: December 19, 2013Applicant: TRUMA GERATETECHNIK GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Steve AEMISEGGER, Daniel GUMPP, Jochen MUELLER, Tobias SCHMID, Klaus MUESSLER, Ana Maria FERNANDEZ, Joerg MUELLER, Oliver SCHAURER, Mario MOEHRING, Mathias VENSCHOTT
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Publication number: 20130324356Abstract: A maneuvering drive for a trailer includes a fastening means for fastening to the trailer, a carrier movable relative to the fastening means, a drive motor held by the carrier, a drive roller rotatable drivable by the drive motor and a braking means for braking a rotary movement of the drive roller. The drive motor and the braking means are arranged coaxially to each other. In the flux of force between the drive motor and the drive roller a transmission device is provided, which has no self-locking feature.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 28, 2013Publication date: December 5, 2013Applicant: TRUMA GERATETECHNIK GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Steve AEMISEGGER, Daniel GUMPP, Jochen MUELLER, Tobias SCHMID, Klaus MUESSLER, Ana Maria FERNANDEZ, Joerg MUELLER, Oliver SCHAURER, Mario MOEHRING, Mathias VENSCHOTT
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Patent number: 8580170Abstract: Disclosed is a process for producing a substantially shell-shaped component, from substantially carbon-fiber-reinforced synthetic material having at least one local reinforcing zone and at least one stiffening element, in particular a fuselage shell, a wing shell, a vertical stabilizer shell or horizontal stabilizer shell of an aircraft or the like. The process according to the invention comprises the following steps: arranging at least one doubler which has already been cured, on an at most partially cured shell skin to form the local reinforcing zone, applying at least one stiffening element which has already been cured, and placing at least one at most partially cured connecting angle bracket against the at least one stiffening element at least in the region of the at least one doubler, and curing the shell skin and the connecting angle bracket.Type: GrantFiled: June 30, 2006Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Barnaby Law, Kai Schumacher, Jonathon Komadina, Jochen Mueller, Norbert Heltsch
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Publication number: 20130264410Abstract: A method for operating a processing machine, in which a first web section of a product web is delimited by closing a first clamping point and a second clamping point, such that a first web tensile force prevails in the web section. A third clamping point within the first web section is closed, so that a second web section is formed between the first clamping point and the third clamping point. At least one of the closed third clamping point and the closed first clamping point are adjusted by an angle, so that a second web tensile force in the second web section is changed, preferably increased.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2013Publication date: October 10, 2013Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Holger Schnabel, Stephan Schultze, Mario Goeb, Jochen Mueller
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Patent number: 8453799Abstract: An actuator for a speed governor of an elevator system includes a governor wheel equipped with at least two flyweights. The governor wheel can be driven by a governor cable looped around it. An actuator wheel is stationary in a basic position. A coupler engages the actuator wheel when the governor wheel attains an actuation speed and thus couples with the governor wheel so that the actuator wheel is caused to rotate. An elastic material, preferably transmitting a high degree of friction, is provided between the coupler and the actuator wheel. The actuator wheel has a lining or tire of the elastic material and/or the coupler is equipped with the elastic material.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2012Date of Patent: June 4, 2013Assignee: Thyssenkrupp Elevator AGInventors: Jochen Müller, Christian Schulz
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Publication number: 20120312638Abstract: An actuator for a speed governor of an elevator system includes a governor wheel equipped with at least two flyweights. The governor wheel can be driven by a governor cable looped around it. An actuator wheel is stationary in a basic position. A coupler engages the actuator wheel when the governor wheel attains an actuation speed and thus couples with the governor wheel so that the actuator wheel is caused to rotate. An elastic material, preferably transmitting a high degree of friction, is provided between the coupler and the actuator wheel. The actuator wheel has a lining or tyre of the elastic material and/or the coupler is equipped with the elastic material.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 10, 2012Publication date: December 13, 2012Applicant: ThyssenKrupp Elevator AGInventors: Jochen Müller, Christian Schulz
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Publication number: 20120158945Abstract: One or more dynamic logon group parameters can be retrieved. The dynamic logon group parameters can be associated with an originator of requests for server processing by a computing system that includes a plurality of server instances, can be established prior to runtime, and can include an abstract definition of server instance characteristics required or preferred for handling the requests from the originator without designating specific server instances for handling the requests from the originator. One or more server instances can be selected from the plurality of server instances such that the one or more selected server instances satisfy the abstract definition of server instance characteristics. At runtime, the one or more selected server instances can be assigned to respond to the requests from the originator. Related articles of manufacture, systems, and methods are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 16, 2010Publication date: June 21, 2012Inventors: Christian Goldbach, Matthias Rinck, Bernhard Braun, Florian Foebel, Bjoern Friedmann, Jochen Mueller, Werner Rehn, Achim Braemer
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Patent number: 8100547Abstract: A service apparatus for a transportation means comprises a first component in the form of an air shower with an air inlet and at least one air outlet, and a second component in the form of an illumination device. The first component and the second component are arranged essentially centrically in relation to each other, wherein one of the two components encloses the other component essentially in a ring-shaped manner. In this way an integral reading light with a forced-air nozzle, or an integral forced-air nozzle with a reading light, is implemented that uses little design space.Type: GrantFiled: October 6, 2009Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: Airbus Operations GmbHInventors: Robert Hogh, Jochen Mueller
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Publication number: 20120003104Abstract: An embodiment discloses a fluid pump for use in a fluid separation system for separating compounds of a fluidic sample in a mobile phase, the fluid pump comprising a reciprocatable piston configured for moving the mobile phase, a pump drive configured for driving the reciprocatable piston, and a control unit configured for controlling the pump drive so that pressure ripples in a pressure profile of the fluid pump are at least partially compensated to thereby bring the pressure profile in accordance with a predefined target characteristic. Another embodiment discloses a fluid pump for use in a fluid separation system for separating compounds of a fluidic sample in a mobile phase, the fluid pump comprising a reciprocatable piston configured for moving the mobile phase, and a pump drive configured for driving the reciprocatable piston using a piezomechanism.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2011Publication date: January 5, 2012Applicant: AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventor: Jochen Mueller
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Patent number: 8063192Abstract: Compositions and methods are provided that relate to the bioremediation of chlorinated ethenes, particularly the bioremediation of vinyl chloride by Dehalococcoides-like organisms. An isolated strain of bacteria, Dehalococcoides sp. strain VS, that metabolizes vinyl chloride is provided; the genetic sequence of the enzyme responsible for vinyl chloride dehalogenation; methods of assessing the capability of endogenous organisms at an environmental site to metabolize vinyl chloride; and a method of using the strains of the invention for bioremediation.Type: GrantFiled: August 2, 2005Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: The Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior UniversityInventors: Alfred M. Spormann, Jochen A. Müller, Bettina M. Rosner, Gregory Von Abendroth, Galit Meshulam-Simon, Perry L McCarty
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Publication number: 20110138027Abstract: According to one general aspect, a method for managing a plurality of different tenants on a shared computing infrastructure including at least one application server apparatus may include associating a tenant with a plurality of services, wherein each service provides a set of actions that the service is configured to perform. In some embodiments, the method may include associating at least one tenant runlevel for each associated service with the tenant. In various embodiments, the method may include, when the application server apparatus executes a service for the tenant, determining the tenant runlevel associated with the tenant, and managing the set of actions configured to be performed by the service based at least in part upon the tenant runlevel associated with the tenant and the service.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2009Publication date: June 9, 2011Applicant: SAP AGInventors: Björn Friedmann, Werner Rehm, Florian Föbel, Christian Goldbach, Matthias Rinck, Jochen Müller, Martin Hartig, Achim Braemer
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Patent number: 7931345Abstract: A motor vehicle brake system having a hydraulic cable, via which a wheel brake module can be pressurized by a brake medium using brake pressure from a brake cylinder and to which a low pressure accumulator is connected for temporarily receiving excess brake medium, wherein the low pressure accumulator is connected to the hydraulic cable via a backflow line and a return pump interposed in the return line in order to return temporarily stored brake medium, the return pump being cyclically actuated for adjusting the pump capacity such that an activation occurs within each braking cycle during a portion of pump cycles that corresponds to the pump capacity, is intended to provide particularly high operational safety while also providing a comfortable pedal sensation.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2007Date of Patent: April 26, 2011Assignee: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHGInventors: Jochen Müller, Faouzi Attallah, Dieter Burkhard, Andreas Kohl
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Publication number: 20110023976Abstract: A fluidic device for providing fluidic connections is described. The fluidic device comprises a fluid conduit and a planar coupling member with a fluid port, the fluid port being fluidically connected with the fluid conduit. A contour of the planar coupling member is in a predefined relationship with the fluid port's position.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2008Publication date: February 3, 2011Applicant: AGILENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Martin Baeuerle, Jochen Mueller, Konstantin Choikhet, Klaus Witt
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Patent number: 7832894Abstract: The invention relates to an illuminating device for microscopes, wherein the light source has, in particular, a white light illumination having total daylight spectrum and/or an excitation light source for fluorescent colors. The inventive illuminating device for a microscope consists of surface or spatially arranged light sources, which are connected to a control unit for generating any desired illuminating patterns and illuminating spectrums, and an illuminating optic to image these illuminating patterns on the object to be examined. The light sources consist of LEDs (11) which excite at least one luminescence color (14) which is adapted to the wavelength which is emitted by the LEDs (11). The LEDs (11) are arranged concentrically to the optical axis of the illuminating device, preferably, in or in the vicinity of the aperture diaphragm plane.Type: GrantFiled: June 22, 2006Date of Patent: November 16, 2010Assignee: Carl Zeiss MicroImaging GmbHInventors: Günter Rudolph, Jochen Müller, Eva-Maria Menzel, Bryce Anton Moffat, Andreas Nolte
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Publication number: 20100275873Abstract: A cooling channel piston for an internal combustion engine which includes a piston bottom and a piston shaft that are joined thereto of a friction welding process. The piston bottom and the piston shaft jointly form a cooling channel. An annular wall which radially delimits the cooling channel towards the outside is formed by the piston bottom and/or the piston shaft. The annular wall can be sealed by a welding process once the piston bottom and the piston shaft have been joined together.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2005Publication date: November 4, 2010Applicant: KS KOLBENSCHMIDT GMBHInventors: Volker Gniesmer, Gerhard Luz, Jochen Müller, Christian Schaller, Ernst Peter Schmitz, Peter Kolbe, Josef Dambacher
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Patent number: 7762505Abstract: A fixing device for fixing cameras and other optical devices to stands or for connecting them to other accessories, includes an adapter journal joined to the camera or other optical devices and a receiving device connected to the stand or other accessories and which is provided with an opening for receiving the adapter journal, and a rotatable locking device. The opening is configured as an insert opening on a part which can be displaced axially in an outward manner by means of housing part of the receiving device such that the adapter journal can be inserted radially into the insert opening.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2005Date of Patent: July 27, 2010Assignee: Velbon K.K.Inventor: Jochen Müller
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Publication number: 20100121548Abstract: A correction method in which characteristic curves and/or correction values are produced, by way of which the drive current for one or more electrically activated hydraulic values operated in an analog fashion is measured during a pressure regulation in such a way that, during the operation of an anti-lock regulation, one or a respective characteristic curve is first prescribed and then the prescribed characteristic curve is corrected, particularly in a learning process, wherein, after a pressure build-up phase, the current pressure model value (Pmod) is compared to and/or analyzed using a model locking pressure level (Pmax).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 22, 2008Publication date: May 13, 2010Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. oHGInventors: Jochen Müller, Jochen Zimmermann, Robert Schmidt, Dieter Burkhard