Patents by Inventor Karl Friedrich

Karl Friedrich 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: 20150308725
    Abstract: An ice-making device for a refrigerator or freezer comprises: an ice-making tray having an upper side, a lower side, a longitudinal direction and a transverse direction of said tray, wherein said ice-making tray is mounted so as to be rotatable about a first axis of rotation which is parallel to the longitudinal direction of the tray; a collecting container arranged underneath the ice-making tray for catching ice which falls out of said ice-making tray when the latter is in an emptying rotational position; a wall structure which, when the ice-making tray is in an ice-making rotational position, delimits a first air duct which runs underneath said ice-making tray and is open towards the underside of said tray, wherein said first air duct runs in the longitudinal direction of the tray and extends over substantially the entire length of the ice-making tray, wherein the wall structure has at least one wall element which, when the ice-making tray is in the ice-making rotational position, projects into a falling tr
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2015
    Publication date: October 29, 2015
    Inventors: Volker Friedmann, Holger Jendrusch, Stefan Rapp, Matthias Wiest, Bernd Brabenec, Mario Kaiser, Hans Gerd Keller, Karl-Friedrich Laible, Peter Lienhart, Ulrich Demi, Albert Dirnberger, Josef Bauriedl, Georg Spiessl, Manfredi Signorino
  • Patent number: 9170956
    Abstract: A memory protection unit including hardware logic. The hardware logic receives a transaction from a virtual central processing unit (CPU) directed at a bus slave, the transaction being associated with a virtual CPU identification (ID), wherein the virtual CPU is implemented on a physical CPU. The hardware logic also determines whether to grant or deny access to the bus slave based on the virtual CPU ID. The virtual CPU ID is different than an ID of the physical CPU on which the virtual CPU is implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2015
    Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATED
    Inventors: Balatripura Sodemma Chavali, Karl Friedrich Greb, Rajeev Suvarna
  • Patent number: 9115846
    Abstract: A holding element, in particular for a hydraulic unit of a slip-controllable block vehicle braking system, includes at least one side wall which, at one end, has a receptacle for holding the hydraulic unit. The holding element further includes at least one fastening element for fastening the holding element to a support part, wherein the holding element is at least substantially designed as a single piece. The holding element is manufactured at least substantially from plastic and the side wall is provided with at least one stiffening rib which runs in a radial or radiated manner with respect to the receptacle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 7, 2011
    Date of Patent: August 25, 2015
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Herbert Maier, Karl-Friedrich Kuehner
  • Patent number: 9076334
    Abstract: A navigation system and method having a function of alerting the driver to potential wrong way driving comprises means 102 for determining a position of a vehicle 300, means 107 for calculating a driving route of the vehicle 300, means 108 for determining a driving maneuver in accordance with the predetermined driving route 305, means 104, 105, 110, 111 for outputting indications relating to the determined driving maneuver to a driver of the vehicle 300, and means 109 for alerting the driver to potential wrong way driving including means 201 for detecting a potential wrong way driving situation and means 202, 104, 105, 110, 111 for outputting an indication relating to the potential wrong way driving situation to the driver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 10, 2011
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Hartmut Schirmer, Karl-Friedrich Rauterberg
  • Publication number: 20150168204
    Abstract: A method and a device determine a height of a fluid level in a fluid container by: emitting a sound signal by a transmitter and recording sound signals reflected at the fluid level and at the reference elements; determining, for the recorded sound signals, a first propagation time difference between a first propagation time of the sound signal emitted by the transmitter and reflected at the first reference element and a second propagation time of the sound signal emitted by the transmitter and reflected at the second reference element; determining a second propagation time difference or a third propagation time difference; and determining the height of the fluid level based upon the first propagation time difference, the second propagation time difference and the first distance or based upon the first propagation time difference, the third propagation time difference and the second distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2013
    Publication date: June 18, 2015
    Inventors: Peter Meyer, Karl-Friedrich Pfeiffer
  • Patent number: 9054263
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and a method of drying the interior of solar modules. The apparatus and the method are particularly suitable for use with concentrator photovoltaic (CPV) modules. The drying apparatus comprises an absorber for drying and a heating device for heating a gas flowing therethrough and is connected to a solar cell via a connection, so that the dried gas is conducted into the solar cell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 28, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 9, 2015
    Assignee: Concentrix Solar GmbH
    Inventors: Achim Vogt, Karl Friedrich Haarburger, Alexander Hakenjos, Tomas Nunez
  • Patent number: 9046298
    Abstract: A domestic appliance for installation in a furniture frame. The appliance includes an essentially rectangular body and a vertical cover section fixed to a front vertical edge of the body and extending laterally beyond the vertical edge onto the furniture frame. A leg of the section adjacent to a lateral wall of the body has a hole for a fixing screw and a head of the fixing screw is accommodated at least partially in a depression surrounding the hole. A floor of a depression surrounding the hole is level, and a shaft of the fixing screw maintains clearance as it passes through the hole.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2015
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Karl-Friedrich Laible, Hans-Philipp Reitz, Helmut Steichele
  • Publication number: 20150143181
    Abstract: An electronic circuit includes a microcontroller processor (410), a peripheral (420) coupled with the processor, an endian circuit (470) coupled with the processor and the peripheral to selectively provide different endianess modes of operation, and a detection circuit (140) to detect a failure to select a given endianess, whereby inadvertent switch of endianess due to faults is avoided. Other circuits, devices, systems, methods of operation and processes of manufacture are also disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 22, 2015
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Yanyang Xiao, Alexandre Pierre Palus, Karl Friedrich Greb, Kevin Patrick Lavery, Paul Krause
  • Patent number: 9032675
    Abstract: A device for covering a gap between a housing of a household appliance and a surface which is adjacent thereto. Said device comprises two profile elements, a first for securing to the surface and the second for securing to the housing. One of the profile elements comprises a groove and the other comprises a spring. The spring can be introduced into the direction of the width of the gap in the groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2006
    Date of Patent: May 19, 2015
    Assignee: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERATE GMBH
    Inventors: Karl-Friedrich Laible, Hans-Philipp Reitz
  • Patent number: 9026258
    Abstract: In order to specify a method for the regulation of a wind park (1) comprised of a multiplicity of wind energy installations (WT1, . . . , WT9), wherein the wind park (1) is connected to an electric utility grid (12) into which the electric power generated by the wind park (1) is fed, and the wind park (1) includes a control input (13) by means of which nominal controlled variables (15, 16) of the wind park (1) can be set, which can be adapted to highly different wind park topologies using the least possible adaptation expenditures, which permits the addition or removal of wind energy installations to or from the wind park with minimal adaptation expenditures, which is utilizable without a measurement of the park network data at the grid transfer point and which, moreover, allows the integration of wind energy installations by different manufacturers into a wind park, it is proposed that each wind energy installation (WT1, . . .
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2015
    Assignee: DeWind Co.
    Inventor: Karl Friedrich Stapelfeldt
  • Patent number: 9005714
    Abstract: A process for the production of a dark-color multi-layer coating, comprising the successive steps: (1) applying an NIR-opaque coating layer A? from a solventborne coating composition A to a substrate, (2) applying a coating layer B? from a solventborne coating composition B onto the substrate provided with coating layer A?, (3) subjecting the coated substrate obtained in step (2) to a drying step, (4) applying a clear coat layer, and (5) curing the coating layers simultaneously; wherein both coating compositions A and B comprise binders and crosslinkers comprising melamine-formaldehyde resin crosslinker, wherein both coating compositions A and B comprise certain proportions of cellulose ester binder and NAD binder and/or sheet silicate and/or fumed silica and/or urea SCA and/or polyolefine wax, wherein the pigment content of coating composition A consists 90 to 100 wt. % of aluminum flake pigment and 0 to 10 wt. % of further pigment, wherein the pigment content of coating composition B consists 50 to 100 wt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 14, 2015
    Assignee: Axalta Coating Systems IP Co., LLC
    Inventors: Karl-Friedrich Doessel, Gunter Richter
  • Patent number: 8972821
    Abstract: An electronic circuit includes a microcontroller processor (410), a peripheral (420) coupled with the processor, an endian circuit (470) coupled with the processor and the peripheral to selectively provide different endianess modes of operation, and a detection circuit (140) to detect a failure to select a given endianess, whereby inadvertent switch of endianess due to faults is avoided. Other circuits, devices, systems, methods of operation and processes of manufacture are also disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2011
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: Texas Instruments Incorporated
    Inventors: Yanyang Xiao, Alexandre Pierre Palus, Karl Friedrich Greb, Kevin Patrick Lavery, Paul Krause
  • Patent number: 8966927
    Abstract: An output unit of a refrigeration device having a niche with a rear wall, which is provided with a cover, and a method of installing the output unit. The cover includes a dish-shaped section, which is curved inward into the niche and bounded by opposite edge sections, which are connected with a niche frame. In an exemplary embodiment of the invention, the edge sections at front supporting surfaces of the niche frame are held in contact in an installation end position, wherein the dish-shaped section is pulled by fastening means against the rear wall of the niche. By these means, it is ensured that the narrowest or most uniform gap possible between the cover and the place of installation is guaranteed and, in addition, fastening means are not visible to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 3, 2015
    Assignee: BSH Bosch und Siemens Hausgerate GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Eckartsberg, Karl-Friedrich Laible, Arno Matzner, Frank Placke, Matthias Stahl, Ulrich van Pels
  • Patent number: 8947981
    Abstract: Temperature stability at the temperatures prevailing in a motor and stability that is required over an entire temperature range are provided by an attenuating mass. This enables continuous use at temperatures of approximately 150° C. while providing ultrasonic attenuation at low temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 3, 2015
    Assignee: Continental Automotive GmbH
    Inventors: Walter Fischer, Volker Muhrer, Karl-Friedrich Pfeiffer, Manfred Roth
  • Publication number: 20150027153
    Abstract: A multifunctional module for a refrigerating apparatus with a module housing, includes a controllable function valve arranged for dispensing water from a water circuit. The module housing includes a leak detection device for detecting water leakage inside the module housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 19, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: BSH BOSCH UND SIEMENS HAUSGERATE GMBH
    Inventors: Elmar FAHNLE, Eugen GAPLIKOW, Hans Gerd KELLER, Michael KRAPP, Karl-Friedrich LAIBLE, Vitaliy RIMKEVICH, Hans Peter WERNER
  • Publication number: 20150023778
    Abstract: A micro gas turbine system (1) having an annular recuperator (9) for heat transfer from an exhaust gas flow (13) to an intake air flow (8). The exhaust gas flow (13) flows through radial inlets (18) into the recuperator (9) and/or out of the recuperator (9) through radial outlets (19).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: BABCOCK BORSIG STEINMULLER GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Berg, Frieder Neumann, Mathias Born, Karl-Friedrich Schroder
  • Publication number: 20150020500
    Abstract: A micro gas turbine system (16) having an annular recuperator (24). The recuperator (24) serves to transfer heat from an exhaust stream (27) of the turbine (17) to an air stream (23) compressed by a compressor (19). Passages (1) for the exhaust stream (27) and passages (2) for the air stream (23) are arranged in alternation to each other in the recuperator (24). Adjacent passages (1, 2) are separated from each other by at least one wall (15). A filler (5) is arranged in the passages (1, 2) of at least one fluid stream.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 19, 2013
    Publication date: January 22, 2015
    Applicant: BABCOCK BORSIG STEINMULLER GMBH
    Inventors: Lina Kling, Frieder Neumann, Mathias Born, Karl-Friedrich Schroder, Thomas Dziekan, Holger Alder, Ornella Mattner
  • Publication number: 20150013387
    Abstract: In order to achieve reproducible operating parameters of the shaping process of an I.S. glassware forming machine, a central control of all blowing and cooling air flows is proposed, in which in accordance with sections a volume flow of the cooling air including the inlet-side and outlet-side temperatures thereof are measured by means of a measuring device (51, 52) and a heat loss which is associated with the section is ascertained. The heat thus removed in sections is compared with standard values, wherein in the event that tolerance zones are exceeded a variation of the volume flow is initiated by the actuation of restrictors (53, 54). All of the sections of the glassware forming machine which are intended for passage of cooling air are monitored in this way, namely on the basis of a determinable heat loss, so that uniform cooling conditions, which are adapted to a mathematical model, and in this respect a reproducible product quality are achieved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 12, 2013
    Publication date: January 15, 2015
    Inventors: Karl-Friedrich Borcherding, Benedikt Felgenhauer, Dennis Isensee, Eckhard Möller
  • Publication number: 20150009081
    Abstract: A millimeter-wave radar device including at least one millimeter-wave circuit and at least one antenna, wherein the millimeter-wave radar device is designed as a module having a multilayered multipolymer circuit board having at least a first layer composed of a polymer material having low dispersion of the dielectric constant, a second layer composed of a high-strength polymer material, which stabilizes the multipolymer circuit board, and a metallization layer, which is arranged between the first layer and the second layer and serves for shielding and for signal carrying, and the multipolymer circuit board carries the at least one millimeter-wave circuit and the at least one antenna.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2012
    Publication date: January 8, 2015
    Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Forderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Axel Hulsmann, Harald Von Rosenberg, Karl-Friedrich Becker
  • Patent number: 8906509
    Abstract: A process for the production of a dark-color multi-layer coating, comprising the successive steps: (1) applying an NIR-opaque coating layer A? from a pigmented, solvent- or waterborne coating composition A to a substrate, (2) applying a coating layer B? from a pigmented coating composition B onto the substrate provided with coating layer A?, wherein the pigment content of coating composition A consists 90 to 100 wt. % of at least one aluminum flake pigment and 0 to 10 wt. % of at least one further pigment, which is selected in such a way that NIR-opaque coating layer A? exhibits low NIR absorption, wherein the pigment content of coating composition A comprises <90 wt. % of 10 to 80 nm thick aluminum flake pigments, wherein the pigment content of coating composition B consists 50 to 100 wt. % of at least one black pigment with low NIR absorption and 0 to 50 wt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 9, 2014
    Assignee: Axalta Coating Systems IP Co., LLC
    Inventors: Gunter Richter, Karl-Friedrich Dossel