Patents by Inventor Josef Hofmann

Josef Hofmann 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).

  • Patent number: 11974123
    Abstract: A motor vehicle stores a first one-way hash of a password and an encrypted value from a second one-way hash of the password. A method for authenticating a device with respect to the vehicle includes the following: a PACE procedure is carried out so that the device and the motor vehicle determine the same session key; the motor vehicle generates a communication key on the basis of the session key and the encrypted one-way hash; and the device generates the communication key based on the session key and the second one-way hash.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Sven Hofmann, Josef Wagenhuber
  • Publication number: 20220407438
    Abstract: A method for controlling at least one servomotor in a braking manner with a frequency converter includes disconnecting a direct-voltage intermediate circuit from an electric alternating-voltage network, braking the servomotor by controlling semiconductor switches of an inverter circuit in a regenerative braking mode in order to reduce the speed of the servomotor, and controlling a brake chopper such that a brake resistor is switched on at a maximum intermediate-circuit voltage, which forms a switch-on threshold for the brake chopper, and is disconnected at a minimum intermediate-circuit voltage, which forms a switch-off threshold for the brake chopper. The switch-on threshold and/or the switch-off threshold are dynamically changed during regenerative braking of the servomotor as a function of the current speed of the servomotor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2020
    Publication date: December 22, 2022
    Inventors: Josef Hofmann, Hartmut Keyl
  • Publication number: 20220250986
    Abstract: The present application relates to an additive component comprising a component A and a component B, wherein component A comprises at least one hardening retarder selected from glyoxylic acid, salts thereof, condensation or addition products of glyoxylic acid or salts thereof, and mixtures thereof, and component B comprises at least one hardening accelerator selected from calcium-silicate-hydrate, calcium formate, calcium nitrate, calcium chloride, calcium hydroxide, lithium carbonate, lithium sulfate, potassium sulfate, sodium sulfate, ground gypsum, and combinations thereof, in 3D printing of a construction material composition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Inventors: Bernhard FEICHTENSCHLAGER, Michael SCHINABECK, Matthias Josef HOFMANN
  • Patent number: 9102058
    Abstract: A method for executing a manipulator process with at least two manipulator poses with a manipulator, in particular a robot, wherein the manipulator comprises at least one drive means having a motor and a brake, comprising the steps of: (S10) Assuming a manipulator pose; (S20) Stopping at least one drive means; (S30) Closing at least one brake of this drive means; (S40) Reduction of the energy supply to the drive means; (S50) Increasing the energy supply to the drive means; (S60) Opening the closed brake; (S70) Assuming another manipulator pose.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: KUKA Roboter GmbH
    Inventor: Josef Hofmann
  • Patent number: 8736219
    Abstract: The invention relates to an industrial robot having a robotic arm. The robotic arm has several axes (A1-A6) and at least one electric drive, which comprises an electric motor (7-12) and power electronics (16) actuating the electric motor (7-12) and is equipped to move the relevant axis (A1-A6). The industrial robot (1) is equipped to short-circuit the electric motor (7-12) in the event of emergency braking simultaneously by means of two independent electric current paths.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: May 27, 2014
    Assignee: KUKA Laboratories GmbH
    Inventors: Josef Hofmann, Richard Schwarz, Sönke Marx
  • Patent number: 8547047
    Abstract: In a method and device for monitoring a movement-controlled machine, such as a manipulator, having an electronically commutated drive motor for which a commutation angle is provided based on its detected real position and a control variable, in particular a predetermined desired position, a limit value is determined for a rate of change in particular a time derivative of the real position of the drive motor, and the commutation angle is predetermined such that the rate of change of the commutation angle does not exceed a limit value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 1, 2013
    Assignee: Kuka Laboratories GmbH
    Inventors: Uwe Bonin, Josef Hofmann
  • Publication number: 20110309782
    Abstract: In a method and device for monitoring a movement-controlled machine, such as a manipulator, having an electronically commutated drive motor for which a commutation angle is provided based on its detected real position and a control variable, in particular a predetermined desired position, a limit value is determined for a rate of change in particular a time derivative of the real position of the drive motor, and the commutation angle is predetermined such that the rate of change of the commutation angle does not exceed a limit value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Inventors: Uwe Bonin, Josef Hofmann
  • Publication number: 20100288067
    Abstract: The invention relates to an industrial robot having a robotic arm. The robotic arm has several axes (A1-A6) and at least one electric drive, which comprises an electric motor (7-12) and power electronics (16) actuating the electric motor (7-12) and is equipped to move the relevant axis (A1-A6). The industrial robot (1) is equipped to short-circuit the electric motor (7-12) in the event of emergency braking simultaneously by means of two independent electric current paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2008
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicant: KUKA ROBOTER GMBH
    Inventors: Josef Hofmann, Richard Schwarz, Sonke Marx