Patents by Inventor Josef Mueller
Josef 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: 20210181494Abstract: An apparatus for inserting a measurement light beam which can be projected onto a target object, comprising a light-refracting component having an optical axis, and at least two mirrors for deflecting the measurement light beam, and an optical overall body consisting of at least one optically effective material, wherein the optical overall body is configured in such a way that the at least two mirrors are fitted inside or at the edge, in particular as a part, of the optical overall body, in such a way that the measurement light beam entering the optical overall body is offset parallel to the incident measurement light beam when emerging from the optical overall body, so that the emerging measurement light beam lies on the optical axis of the light-refracting component of the apparatus and is projected in this form onto the target object.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 11, 2020Publication date: June 17, 2021Applicant: LEICA GEOSYSTEMS AGInventors: Thomas BÖSCH, Josef MÜLLER
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Publication number: 20210063150Abstract: A surveying instrument for executing a relocation functionality, which determines first coordinates of a stationary target point associated with the start signal, in response to a start signal, a first actuator and a second actuator are controlled such that the stationary target point remains within a detection area of a tracking unit of the surveying instrument, determines second coordinates of the stationary target point, receives an end signal, wherein the second coordinates of the stationary target point are associated with the end signal, and based at least in part on the first and second coordinates of the stationary target point, and determines a relative pose of the surveying instrument with respect to a first setup location and a second setup location, wherein the first setup location is associated with the first coordinates and the second setup location is associated with the second coordinates.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 2, 2020Publication date: March 4, 2021Applicant: LEICA GEOSYSTEMS AGInventors: Elvir MALKOC, Josef MÜLLER, Johannes HOTZ
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Publication number: 20200408520Abstract: A reflector arrangement for determining the position or marking of target points, having at least one retroreflector, and a beam detection unit, by means of which the orientation measurement radiation passing through the retroreflector is acquirable. The beam detection unit comprises a first sensor for generating a signal in dependence on an acquisition of orientation measurement radiation and a first beam guiding unit. The first sensor and the first beam guiding unit are arranged such that a detection field of view for acquiring the orientation measurement radiation is defined, an alignment of the detection field of view around the yaw axis is variable and orientation measurement radiation passing through the retroreflector is acquirable in dependence on the alignment of the detection field of view with the first sensor.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2020Publication date: December 31, 2020Applicant: HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER GMBHInventors: Thomas JENSEN, Zheng YANG, Andreas SCHWENDENER, Danick BRÜHLMANN, Josef MÜLLER, Johan STIGWALL
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Publication number: 20200386548Abstract: An industrial or geodetic surveying device with a scan functionality including an alidade rotating about a standing axis and a telescope unit with a beam exit for a laser measuring beam. The telescope unit is mounted on the alidade and is movable in a tilting motion about an elevation axis substantially orthogonal to the standing axis. The scan functionality comprises a scan sequence with an angular velocity of the alidade around the standing axis, wherein during the scan sequence the alidade is in a continuous revolving motion with mainly constant angular velocity about the standing axis, and the angular velocity of the alidade is faster than half of the angular velocity of the tilting motion of the telescope unit about the elevation axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 6, 2020Publication date: December 10, 2020Applicant: LEICA GEOSYSTEMS AGInventors: Josef MÜLLER, Christoph HERBST, Lukasz KUCHARCZYK, Christian NIKLAUS, Markus GESER
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Publication number: 20200348133Abstract: A coordinate measuring and/or stake out device can be designed for being hand-held (one-handed), free carriage and movement by a user. A position giving means is for determination of an actual translational position of the device using an external position reference and an orientation giving means for determination of an actual rotational position of the device, such that the actual position of the device with respect to all six degrees of freedom of the device can be determined. A radiation source is for generation of a radiation beam as measuring and/or marking beam for measuring and/or visually marking of an object point. A beam steerer is for automatic steering of an alignment of the beam, whereby the beam which differ in the manner of automatic steering the beam alignment.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2020Publication date: November 5, 2020Applicant: LEICA GEOSYSTEMS AGInventors: Stefan EISENREICH, Philipp Lukas RÜST, Matteo CARRERA, Ismail Roman CELEBI, Patrik Titus TÖNGI, Stefan PETKOV, Josef MÜLLER, Markus GESER, Hannes MAAR
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Patent number: 10587965Abstract: An adaptable/adjustable hearing device charging port (10) for a hearing device charger (7) that can adapt/adjust in size to accommodate and hold hearing devices (2) of different sizes and/or shapes. The adjustable hearing device charging port (10) adapts elastically so that hearing devices (2) of different sizes can be inserted into the hearing device charging port (10) and can be hold in a charging position in the hearing device charger (7), in which charging position hearing device charging contacts (6) of the hearing device (2) are electrically contacted with charger contacts (8) in the hearing device charger (7).Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2019Date of Patent: March 10, 2020Assignee: Sonova AGInventors: Josef Mueller, Jonas Meyer, Bruno Gabathuler
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Publication number: 20200018598Abstract: A surveying pole system comprising a surveying pole including two telescopic sections for providing length adjustability. At a first end of the surveying pole, a pointing tip is disposed for positioning on a target point of the environment. At a second end, a length reference point is disposed. The surveying pole also includes a locking mechanism for locking the length adjustability in respective lock-in positions. Each of the lock-in positions provides a corresponding distance between the pointing tip and the length reference point. A plurality of coded identifiers have a predetermined code associated with one of the lock-in positions. The surveying pole also includes a coded-identifier reader for reading the code of a respective coded identifier associated with the respective lock-in position, a communication device configured for transmitting a signal to a surveying instrument, wherein the signal is based at least on the read code.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 16, 2019Publication date: January 16, 2020Applicant: LEICA GEOSYSTEMS AGInventors: Walter HOLLENSTEIN, Markus GESER, Josef MÜLLER, Oliver FAIX
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Publication number: 20190239004Abstract: An adaptable/adjustable hearing device charging port (10) for a hearing device charger (7) that can adapt/adjust in size to accommodate and hold hearing devices (2) of different sizes and/or shapes. The adjustable hearing device charging port (10) adapts elastically so that hearing devices (2) of different sizes can be inserted into the hearing device charging port (10) and can be hold in a charging position in the hearing device charger (7), in which charging position hearing device charging contacts (6) of the hearing device (2) are electrically contacted with charger contacts (8) in the hearing device charger (7).Type: ApplicationFiled: January 25, 2019Publication date: August 1, 2019Inventors: Josef Mueller, Jonas Meyer, Bruno Gabathuler
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Patent number: 10309712Abstract: The present invention relates to a cooling device, in particular a freezer, comprising a cooling circuit having a compressor, at least one evaporator, and a condenser; a space for cooling goods that can be closed at its upper surface; and a coolant reservoir at least partially surrounding an upper region of the space for cooling goods, wherein the at least one evaporator is disposed in the coolant reservoir, and wherein the at least one evaporator at least partially surrounds the upper region of the space for cooling goods.Type: GrantFiled: April 15, 2015Date of Patent: June 4, 2019Assignee: B. Medical Systems, S.a.r.l.Inventors: Josef Müller, Andreas Hoffmann, Ralf Thurmann
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Patent number: 10260873Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention include a surveying apparatus that includes an optoelectronic distance measuring device having a measuring beam path, a base for placing the surveying apparatus, a support which is mounted on the base such that it is rotatable about a vertical axis, a beam directing unit which is mounted in the support such that it is rotatable about a tilting axis, an angle measurement system for measuring the axial positions, and an actuatable positioning device driving the beam directing unit or the support. In some embodiments the positioning device may include a plurality of coils which are arranged in a positionally fixed manner in the form of a ring about the tilting axis and/or vertical axis, with winding axes which are axially parallel to the tilting axis or vertical axis.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2015Date of Patent: April 16, 2019Assignee: LEICA GEOSYSTEMS AGInventors: Oliver Faix, Christoph Herbst, Daniel Auer, Josef Müller
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Patent number: 10136232Abstract: A transducer protection system for the protection of at least one transducer opening in a housing of a hearing device, including a support and a plurality of fibers each fixed at one end to the support and free to move on the other end.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2014Date of Patent: November 20, 2018Assignee: SONOVA AGInventors: Erdal Karamuk, Josef Mueller, Andi Vonlanthen, Thomas Jenni
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Patent number: 10126124Abstract: In a surveying device having a base for positioning the surveying device and a pitch component having an optical beam path for surveying a target, the pitch component is radially and axially mounted and is rotatable in relation to the yaw component in a yaw component, which is movable in relation to the base, on the basis of a rotation body chucked in a self-centering manner in two cavities.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2015Date of Patent: November 13, 2018Assignee: LEICA GEOSYSTEMS AGInventors: Josef Müller, Stefan Petkov, Benjamin Schöll
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Publication number: 20180023876Abstract: The present invention relates to a cooling device 100, in particular a freezer, comprising a cooling circuit 200 having a compressor 210, at least one evaporator 220, and a condenser; a space for cooling goods 300 that can be closed at its upper surface; and a coolant reservoir 400 at least partially surrounding an upper region of the space for cooling goods 300, wherein the at least one evaporator 220 is disposed in the coolant reservoir 400, and wherein the at least one evaporator 220 at least partially surrounds the upper region of the space for cooling goods 300.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 15, 2015Publication date: January 25, 2018Inventors: Josef MÜLLER, Andreas HOFFMANN, Ralf THURMANN
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Publication number: 20170325036Abstract: A hearing device including a device body to be worn behind the ear of a user. The hearing device includes an amplifier module and a receiver module, an ear canal plug adapted to be worn into the ear canal of the user, and a receiver including an electro-acoustical converter having an acoustical output. The amplifier module and receiver module are detachably attached to each other along the longitudinal extension of the device body.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 9, 2014Publication date: November 9, 2017Inventors: Jan Angst, Erdal Karamuk, Josef Mueller
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Publication number: 20170318404Abstract: A transducer protection system for the protection of at least one transducer opening in a housing of a hearing device, including a support and a plurality of fibers each fixed at one end to the support and free to move on the other end.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 15, 2014Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Erdal Karamuk, Josef Mueller, Andi Vonlanthen, Thomas Jenny
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Publication number: 20170191699Abstract: The present invention relates to a fixing device 1 for fixing at least one solar collector 2 to a site of installation 3, preferably to a pylon 4, wherein the fixing device 1 comprises a collector pedestal 5 for the at least one solar collector 2 that can be fixed to the pylon 4, a reversing device 6 that can detachably be fixed to the pylon 4, a winch device 7, a lift body 8 that is moveable along the pylon 4, and a hauling element 9, wherein the hauling element 9 with a first end 10 is fixed to the winch device 7 and with a second end 11 is fixed to the lift body 8, wherein the hauling element 9 between the first end 10 and the second end 11 is at least partially guided at the reversing device 6, wherein the hauling element 9 is fixed to the winch device 7 such that the length of the hauling element 9 between the winch device 7 and the lift body 8 can be reduced by the hauling element 9 and that the reversing device 6 reverses the hauling element 9 above the site of installation 3 of the at least one solarType: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2014Publication date: July 6, 2017Inventors: Josef MÜLLER, Andreas HOFFMANN
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Patent number: 9587393Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing sandwich construction elements for substantially load-bearing and self-supporting building parts. In one embodiment of the invention, a method is provided including a) producing at least one layer of a mechanically bonded fiber nonwoven which is impregnated with a binder based on at least one heat-curable resin system b) curing the heat-curable resin system in order to produce at least one hardened layer of the fiber nonwoven, and fixed thermally, c) bringing a heat-foamable or heat-foamed phenol resin into contact with that surface of at least one hardened layer of the fiber nonwoven which has been modified according to step b), d) possibly annealing the composite produced in a) to c), and e) curing the further binder based on at least one heat-curable resin system.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2011Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Inventors: Franz Josef Müller, Peter Werner, Peter Stracke
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Publication number: 20160178365Abstract: Some embodiments of the invention include a surveying apparatus that includes an optoelectronic distance measuring device having a measuring beam path, a base for placing the surveying apparatus, a support which is mounted on the base such that it is rotatable about a vertical axis, a beam directing unit which is mounted in the support such that it is rotatable about a tilting axis, an angle measurement system for measuring the axial positions, and an actuatable positioning device driving the beam directing unit or the support. In some embodiments the positioning device may include a plurality of coils which are arranged in a positionally fixed manner in the form of a ring about the tilting axis and/or vertical axis, with winding axes which are axially parallel to the tilting axis or vertical axis.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2015Publication date: June 23, 2016Inventors: Oliver FAIX, Christoph HERBST, Daniel AUER, Josef MÜLLER
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Publication number: 20160102976Abstract: In a surveying device having a base for positioning the surveying device and a pitch component having an optical beam path for surveying a target, the pitch component is radially and axially mounted and is rotatable in relation to the yaw component in a yaw component, which is movable in relation to the base, on the basis of a rotation body chucked in a self-centering manner in two cavities.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2015Publication date: April 14, 2016Inventors: Josef MÜLLER, Stefan PETKOV, Benjamin SCHÖLL
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Patent number: 8665573Abstract: An overvoltage protector for an electrical consumer in a motor vehicle, includes an input for connection to the electrical system of a motor vehicle, an output for connection to the electrical consumer to be protected, and a ground terminal which is connected via a line to a branch point between the input and the output, wherein at least one component that blocks below a threshold voltage and conducts above the threshold voltage, and a switch connected in series with the component are located in the line, wherein the switch is controlled by a control circuit that closes the switch when a voltage spike occurs and subsequently reopens it.Type: GrantFiled: March 9, 2011Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: BorgWarner BERU Systems GmbHInventors: Martin Blanc, Josef Mueller, Keith Wilson