Patents by Inventor Klaus Schneider

Klaus Schneider 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: 20140188328
    Abstract: A device for identifying a vehicle includes: an input interface receiving a first input of feature specificities of first features of a vehicle; a database device which stores a component model, an identification model, and an information unit model; a computation device ascertaining second features which make possible an unequivocal identification of the vehicle in relation to the intended diagnosis; and an output device outputting the second features ascertained by the computation device, the input interface receiving a second input of feature specificities of the second features of the vehicle through the user, and the computing device ascertaining, as a function of the second input, a relation associated with the intended diagnosis from the information unit model of the database device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 11, 2012
    Publication date: July 3, 2014
    Inventors: Klaus Schneider, Mirko Wagner
  • Patent number: 8728961
    Abstract: A method is described for making a float glass convertible into a glass ceramic, by which a largely crystal fault-free glass can be produced. In this method the glass is cooled from a temperature (TKGmax), at which a crystal growth rate is at a maximum value (KGmax), to another temperature (TUEG), at which practically no more crystal growth occurs, with a cooling rate, KR, in ° C. min?1 according to: KR UEG KGmax ? ? ? ? T UEG KGmax 100 · KG ? ? max , wherein ?T=TKGmax?TUEG, and KGmax=maximum crystal growth rate in ?m min?1. The float glass has a thickness below an equilibrium thickness, a net width of at least 1 m and has no more than 50 crystals with a size of more than 50 ?m, especially no crystals with a size of more than 10 ?m, per kilogram of glass within the net width.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: Schott AG
    Inventors: Gerhard Lautenschlaeger, Andreas Langsdorf, Ulrich Lange, Bernd Ruedinger, Klaus Schneider, Michael Jacquorie, Friedrich Siebers, Wolfgang Schmidbauer
  • Patent number: 8708170
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a crane control for the control of a hoisting gear of a crane which takes account of oscillation dynamics based on the elasticity of the hoist rope on the control of the hoisting gear and reduces them by a suitable control of the hoisting gear.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 8, 2010
    Date of Patent: April 29, 2014
    Assignee: Liebherr-Werk Nenzing GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Schneider, Oliver Sawodny, Sebastian Kuechler
  • Publication number: 20140076985
    Abstract: The invention concerns a handheld, dynamically movable surface spattering device (9), comprising at least one nozzle means (1) for an expelling of a spattering material onto a target surface (3) and a nozzle control mechanism (4) to control characteristics of the expelling of the nozzle means. Furthermore, it comprises a spattering material supply (5), a storage with desired spattering data (6), which is predefined and comprised in a digital image or CAD-model memorized on the storage, a spatial referencing unit (7), to reference the spattering device relative to the target surface and a computation means (8) to automatically control the expelling by the nozzle control mechanism according to information gained by the spatial referencing unit and according to the desired spattering data is evaluated and adjusted by changing the characteristics of expelling of the nozzle means in such a way that the target surface is spattered according to the desired spattering data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 20, 2011
    Publication date: March 20, 2014
    Applicant: HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER GMBH
    Inventors: Bo Pettersson, Klaus Schneider, Benedikt Zebhauser, Knut Siercks
  • Publication number: 20130245816
    Abstract: The present disclosure shows a crane controller for a crane which includes a hoisting gear for lifting a load hanging on a cable, wherein the crane controller has a cable force mode in which the crane controller actuates the hoisting gear such that a setpoint of the cable force is obtained.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: Liebherr-Werk Nenzing GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Langer, Klaus Schneider, Sebastian Kuechler, Oliver Sawodny
  • Publication number: 20130245815
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a crane controller for a crane which includes a hoisting gear for lifting a load hanging on a cable, with an active heave compensation which by actuating the hoisting gear at least partly compensates the movement of the cable suspension point and/or of a load deposition point due to the heave, and an operator control which actuates the hoisting gear with reference to specifications of the operator, wherein the division of at least one kinematically constrained quantity of the hoisting gear is adjustable between heave compensation and operator control.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: LIEBHERR-WERK NENZING GMBH
    Inventors: Klaus Schneider, Sebastian Kuechler, Oliver Sawodny, Johannes Karl Eberharter
  • Publication number: 20130245817
    Abstract: The present disclosure shows a crane controller for a crane which includes a hoisting gear for lifting a load hanging on a cable, with an active heave compensation which by actuating the hoisting gear at least partly compensates the movement of the cable suspension point and/or a load deposition point due to the heave, wherein the heave compensation takes account of at least one constraint of the hoisting gear when calculating the actuation of the hoisting gear.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2013
    Publication date: September 19, 2013
    Applicant: LIEBHERR-WERK NENZING GMBH
    Inventors: Klaus Schneider, Eckard Arnold, Sebastian Kuechler, Oliver Sawodny
  • Publication number: 20130233820
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for the control and/or the data acquisition of a crane, wherein at least one measuring device at the crane supplies one or more measured values for determining the position of at least one load lifting device, in particular a crane hook, wherein a calculation of the position of the load lifting device is effected on the basis of the one or more measured values of at least one measuring device and one or more data characterizing the stiffness of the crane. The present disclosure also relates to a crane controller and a crane for carrying out the method according to the present disclosure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 28, 2013
    Publication date: September 12, 2013
    Applicant: LIEBHERR-WERK NENZING GMBH
    Inventors: Johannes Karl Eberharter, Klaus Schneider
  • Publication number: 20130161279
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a crane control apparatus for a crane where a load is suspended on a crane cable from a cable suspension point of the crane, comprising an observer for estimating at least the position and/or velocity of the load from at least one sensor input of a first sensor by using a physical model of the load suspended on the crane cable, whereby the physical model of the observer uses the load position and/or the load velocity as a state variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2012
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: Liebherr-Werk Nenzing GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Schneider, Oliver Sawodny, Conrad Sagert, Ulf Schaper
  • Publication number: 20130141269
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for fastening a sensor assembly (1) on a motor vehicle, especially a radar sensor having at least one detection zone in the sensor direction, the sensor assembly (1) being located in the area behind a motor vehicle add-on part (2), in particular a bumper, and a moulded part (3) being arranged between the sensor assembly (1) and the motor vehicle add-on part (2). According to the invention, the moulded part (3) is a solid part, the moulded part (3) is designed to transmit the sensor signals in the detection zone, on its side facing the assembly, the moulded part (3) positively encloses at least part of the sensor assembly (1) in, and at right angles to, the sensor direction, and on its side facing the add-on part, the moulded part (3) has a surface (3a) that is shaped complementary to, and lies flat against, the surface (2a) of the motor vehicle add-on part (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 12, 2011
    Publication date: June 6, 2013
    Applicant: CONTI TEMIC MICROELECTRONIC GMBH
    Inventors: Klaus Schneider, Miroslav Knezevic, Martin Vallendor
  • Patent number: 8404301
    Abstract: The invention relates to a control method for producing ground markings (M), with a reference beam generator (4) for determining a reference plane, a reception of the reference beams by means of an optical detector (3), wherein the position of an application unit (2) for the marking substance can be derived relative to the reference plane by using the received reference beams, a derivation of the orientation relative to the reference plane, and a control of an application of the marking substance to produce ground markings (M) according to the orientation. According to the method, the intensity in the solid angle covered by the reference beam is varied in time during the production of the marking.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2013
    Assignee: Leica Geosystems AG
    Inventor: Klaus Schneider
  • Patent number: 8365163
    Abstract: To permit particularly easy and flexible configuration of a computer program including at least one functional unit, a method is provided which includes the following steps: creation of at least one implementation-independent configuration data file and/or alteration of information filed in the at least one implementation-independent configuration data file; automatic set-up and/or automatic update of configuration data, stored in a configuration data container, as a function of the information filed in the at least one implementation-independent configuration data file; automatic generation of at least one implementation-dependent configuration data file as a function of the configuration data stored in the configuration data container; and automatic configuration of the at least one functional unit as a function of information filed in the at least one implementation-dependent configuration data file.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2005
    Date of Patent: January 29, 2013
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Rene Schenk, Bjoern Beuter, Klaus Schneider, Bernd Illg
  • Publication number: 20120296519
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a crane control for a crane arranged on a ship, having a load moment limitation system which determines a maximum permitted payload, wherein the load moment limitation system is in communication with a measuring unit for measuring the movement of the ship and determines the maximum permitted payload on the basis of data of the measuring unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2012
    Publication date: November 22, 2012
    Applicant: Liebherr-Werk Nenzing Ges.m.b.H.
    Inventors: Johannes Karl Eberharter, Klaus Schneider, Eugen Schobesberger, Helmut Fischer
  • Patent number: 8310191
    Abstract: The invention proposes a device for pushing out a furniture part which is accommodated in a movable manner on a fixed furniture part, having a pushing-out element which is driven via a drive unit and is present on one of the furniture parts in order to push the movable furniture part out of a closure position, the intention being for contact between the pushing-out element and the other furniture part to be eliminated during a pushing-out operation, and having a control unit for controlling the drive unit, the control unit taking as a basis a definable closure position of the movable furniture part for controlling the drive unit. The invention provides means by which, following a closing operation of the movable furniture part, a standstill position achieved in the process can be defined as a new closure position and replaces the closure position previously taken as a basis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2009
    Date of Patent: November 13, 2012
    Assignee: Grass GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Schneider, Holger Wenzel, Harry Gehrer
  • Patent number: 8259311
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system for determining a position by emitting a first laser beam (7) by a laser source (6) positioned in a reference system onto a detector (1) and simultaneously detecting the first laser beam (7) by the detector (1), thus defining an emission direction of the laser source (7). The detector (1) has a segmented detection area comprising a plurality of discrete partial detection areas (17), each having a defined partial detection direction and at least two partial detection directions thereof being different. When detecting the first laser beam (7), an impingement point (9) of the first laser beam (7) on the detector (1) is detected by means of at least one partial detection area (17), and when determining the incidence direction (10), said direction is derived from the at least one partial detection direction. The location of the detector (1) relative to the laser source (6) and the reference system is then determined using the emission direction and the incidence direction (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 4, 2012
    Assignee: Leica Geosystems AG
    Inventors: Hansjoerg Petschko, Klaus Schneider
  • Publication number: 20120219699
    Abstract: A graphical application system, with a surface spattering device, with at least one nozzle for expelling a spattering material onto a target surface, a nozzle control mechanism controls expelling of the nozzle. A spatial referencing unit references the spattering device in space and a computation means automatically controls the nozzle according to information from the spatial referencing unit and according to predefined desired spattering data as a digital image or a CAD-model of a desired pattern to be spattered onto the target surface. A communication means for establishing a communication link from the spatial referencing unit to the computation means to supply the position and orientation to the computation means. The spatial referencing unit is located remote from the spattering device and comprises at least two optical 2D cameras arranged with a stereobasis, for determining the position and orientation of images taken by the cameras.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 20, 2012
    Publication date: August 30, 2012
    Applicant: HEXAGON TECHNOLOGY CENTER GMBH
    Inventors: Bo PETTERSSON, Klaus SCHNEIDER, Benedikt ZEBHAUSER, Knut SIERCKS
  • Patent number: 8235231
    Abstract: The present invention represents a procedure for compensating the heave movement of offshore cranes. The dynamic model of the compensation actuator (hydraulically operated winch) and the load hanging on a rope are derived. Based on this model, a path-tracking control unit is developed. To compensate the movement of the ship/watercraft caused by waves, the heave movement is defined as a time-varying disturbance and is analyzed with respect to uncoupling conditions. With a model expansion, these conditions are satisfied, and an inversion-based uncoupling control law is formulated. To stabilize the system, an observer is used for reconstructing the unknown state by means of a force measurement. Furthermore, the compensation efficiency can be improved by predicting the heave movement. There is proposed a prediction method in which no ship/watercraft models or properties are required. The simulation and measurement results validate the heave compensation method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 20, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: Liebherr-Werk Nenzing GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Schneider, Oliver Sawodny, Joerg Neupert, Tobias Mahl, Sebastian Kuchler
  • Patent number: 8220882
    Abstract: A piece of furniture and a device for locking a first furniture part in a closing position in relation to a second furniture part, wherein the lock can be overridden using a triggering process. Releasing means are provided that are operable to unlock the first furniture part from the closing position by an externally applied, predetermined triggering force on the first furniture part in the opening direction of the first furniture part relative to the second furniture part, if the triggering process does not override the lock.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2007
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2012
    Assignee: Grass GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Kropf, Dieter Seewald, Klaus Schneider
  • Publication number: 20120173837
    Abstract: A memory system is described having a memory, at least one memory area of the memory being able to be configured as data memory or as buffer store as a function of a required memory processing rate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2010
    Publication date: July 5, 2012
    Inventors: Klaus Schneider, Rainer Puchalla, Daniel Hensel
  • Patent number: 8151563
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a hydraulic drive system for driving an apparatus, with a drive unit, a first and a second hydraulic displacement machine, with which the drive unit is connectable or connected for transmitting mechanical energy, and a third and a fourth hydraulic displacement machine, which are connectable or connected with the apparatus for transmitting mechanical energy, wherein the first hydraulic displacement machine is hydraulically connected or connectable with the third hydraulic displacement machine, and wherein a high-pressure accumulator is provided, which is hydraulically connected or connectable with the second and the fourth hydraulic displacement machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2012
    Assignee: Liebherr-Werk Nenzing GmbH
    Inventors: Klaus Schneider, Wilhelm Krautler