Patents by Inventor JOCHEN NICKLES

JOCHEN NICKLES 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: 20240257006
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a method for communicating execution of a work task in an installation with two or more execution devices. The method may include: tendering execution of the work task to a plurality of execution devices for execution; querying a work effort of the respective execution devices for execution of the work task; selecting one of the plurality of execution devices on the basis of the queried work effort; and transferring execution of the work task to the selected execution device. The work effort includes an execution time and/or a resource expenditure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2022
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Markus Sauer, Hubertus Hohl, Jochen Nickles, Ralph Büsgen, Joachim Feld
  • Patent number: 12044767
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus establish a distance as well as to a vehicle. In the method for establishing a distance between a vehicle and an infrastructure device, at least two vehicle-mounted reception devices receive a signal transmitted by the infrastructure device. Each of the vehicle-mounted reception devices contains at least two antenna elements. For each reception device, a reception device-specific distance between the vehicle and the infrastructure device is established in accordance with the antenna signals generated by the antenna elements, and the shortest of all the reception device-specific distances is established as the distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 23, 2024
    Assignee: Molex CVS Hildesheim GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Nosthoff, Norbert Bauer, Thomas Seiboth, Jochen Nickles, Ahmad El Assaad
  • Publication number: 20210389442
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus establish a distance as well as to a vehicle. In the method for establishing a distance between a vehicle and an infrastructure device, at least two vehicle-mounted reception devices receive a signal transmitted by the infrastructure device. Each of the vehicle-mounted reception devices contains at least two antenna elements. For each reception device, a reception device-specific distance between the vehicle and the infrastructure device is established in accordance with the antenna signals generated by the antenna elements, and the shortest of all the reception device-specific distances is established as the distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: MICHAEL NOSTHOFF, NORBERT BAUER, THOMAS SEIBOTH, JOCHEN NICKLES, AHMAD EL ASSAAD
  • Patent number: 11131760
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus establish a distance as well as to a vehicle. In the method for establishing a distance between a vehicle and an infrastructure device, at least two vehicle-mounted reception devices receive a signal transmitted by the infrastructure device. Each of the vehicle-mounted reception devices contains at least two antenna elements. For each reception device, a reception device-specific distance between the vehicle and the infrastructure device is established in accordance with the antenna signals generated by the antenna elements, and the shortest of all the reception device-specific distances is established as the distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: Molex CVS Bochum GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Nosthoff, Norbert Bauer, Thomas Seiboth, Jochen Nickles, Ahmad El Assaad
  • Publication number: 20190339355
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus establish a distance as well as to a vehicle. In the method for establishing a distance between a vehicle and an infrastructure device, at least two vehicle-mounted reception devices receive a signal transmitted by the infrastructure device. Each of the vehicle-mounted reception devices contains at least two antenna elements. For each reception device, a reception device-specific distance between the vehicle and the infrastructure device is established in accordance with the antenna signals generated by the antenna elements, and the shortest of all the reception device-specific distances is established as the distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 3, 2017
    Publication date: November 7, 2019
    Inventors: MICHAEL NOSTHOFF, NORBERT BAUER, THOMAS SEIBOTH, JOCHEN NICKLES, AHMAD ASSAAD