Patents by Inventor Lars Ulrich
Lars Ulrich 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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Patent number: 10922866Abstract: A system provides, based at least in part on predetermined parameters, configuration information, and a group of behavioral agents, a dynamic virtual representation that includes a multi-dimensional puppet having one or more attributes of an individual, where the dynamic virtual representation automatically mimics one or more attributes of the individual in a context, the providing of the dynamic virtual representation that includes the multi-dimensional puppet involves rendering of the multi-dimensional puppet, and the multi-dimensional puppet includes stereopsis information, and has photorealistic movement corresponding to movement behaviors of the individual. Then, the system receives an input corresponding to user spatial manipulation of or interaction with the multi-dimensional puppet.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2018Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: Artificial Intelligence Foundation, Inc.Inventors: Robert Marc Meadows, Lars Ulrich Buttler, Jesse Ellis Berman, Ryan Christopher Martin
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Publication number: 20190122146Abstract: A system receives information associated with an interaction with an individual in a context. Then, the system analyzes the information to extract features associated with one or more attributes of the individual. Moreover, the system generates, based at least in part on the extracted features, a group of behavioral agents in a multi-layer hierarchy that automatically mimics the one or more attributes. Next, the system calculates one or more performance metrics associated with the group of behavioral agents and the one or more attributes. Furthermore, the system determines, based at least in part on the one or more performance metrics, one or more deficiencies in the extracted features. Additionally, the system selectively acquires second information associated with additional interaction with the individual in the context based at least in part on the one or more deficiencies to at least in part correct for the one or more deficiencies.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Applicant: Artificial Intelligence Foundation, Inc.Inventors: Robert Marc Meadows, Lars Ulrich Buttler, Alan Peter Swearengen
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Publication number: 20190122409Abstract: A system provides, based at least in part on predetermined parameters, configuration information, and a group of behavioral agents, a dynamic virtual representation that includes a multi-dimensional puppet having one or more attributes of an individual, where the dynamic virtual representation automatically mimics one or more attributes of the individual in a context, the providing of the dynamic virtual representation that includes the multi-dimensional puppet involves rendering of the multi-dimensional puppet, and the multi-dimensional puppet includes stereopsis information, and has photorealistic movement corresponding to movement behaviors of the individual. Then, the system receives an input corresponding to user spatial manipulation of or interaction with the multi-dimensional puppet.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Applicant: Artificial Intelligence Foundation, Inc.Inventors: Robert Marc Meadows, Lars Ulrich Buttler, Jesse Ellis Berman, Ryan Christopher Martin
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Publication number: 20190122092Abstract: A system configures a group of behavioral agents, where a given behavioral agent receives one or more inputs and provides an output corresponding to one or more features associated with an individual, and where the inputs to at least some of the behavioral agents include outputs from one or more of the other behavioral agents. Then, the system generates, based at least in part on a subset of the outputs, a dynamic virtual representation of the individual, where the dynamic virtual representation automatically mimics one or more attributes of the individual in a context. Moreover, the system provides information corresponding to the dynamic virtual representation, and the computer system receives input stimuli associated with a reaction of a user. Next, the system selectively performs a remedial action associated with the group of behavioral agents based at least in part on a portion of the input stimuli.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Applicant: Artificial Intelligence Foundation, Inc.Inventors: Brent Matthew Haines, Robert Marc Meadows, Lars Ulrich Buttler
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Patent number: 10044221Abstract: Auxiliary power is required by each generator to orient the rotor blades to face the wind direction and also for other control and safety functions. This auxiliary power is normally extracted from the power generated within each wind turbine generator. During servicing, auxiliary power is supplied from neighbouring generators using dedicated low-voltage cables. In the event of a fault in the high-voltage cable, connecting one of the groups of generators to the sub-station, these low-voltage cables are used to supply the generators within this group with auxiliary power from the output of one or more of the generators, in the other group of generators.Type: GrantFiled: November 28, 2014Date of Patent: August 7, 2018Assignee: VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/SInventors: Paw Rosenvard, Lars Ulrich Nielsen, Sander J. Larsen
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Publication number: 20170260949Abstract: The invention relates to a nozzle needle (10) for a fuel injection device (100), in particular a fuel injector, comprising a nozzle needle tip (12) which is connected to a nozzle needle shaft (11). The nozzle needle tip (12) and the nozzle needle shaft (11) consist of different materials. According to the invention, the nozzle needle shaft (11) has a receiving area (20) formed by a blind bore (21) for the nozzle needle tip (12). The base (22) of the receiving area (20) forms an axial stop for the nozzle needle tip (12), and the nozzle needle tip (12) has an at least approximately constant diameter (d) within the receiving area (20), said diameter simultaneously forming the largest diameter of the nozzle needle tip (12).Type: ApplicationFiled: July 30, 2015Publication date: September 14, 2017Inventors: Wilhelm Christ, Lars Ulrich, Maike Hekel
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Publication number: 20170018961Abstract: An array of wind turbine generators comprises a plurality of groups of generators, each group being connected to a mains electricity grid sub-station by means of a respective high-voltage cable. Auxiliary power is required by each generator to orient the rotor blades to face the wind direction and also for other control and safety functions. This auxiliary power is normally extracted from the power generated within each wind turbine generator. During servicing, auxiliary power is supplied from neighbouring generators using dedicated low-voltage cables. In the event of a fault in the high-voltage cable, connecting one of the groups of generators to the sub-station, these low-voltage cables are used to supply the generators within this group with auxiliary power from the output of one or more of the generators, in the other group of generators.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 28, 2014Publication date: January 19, 2017Applicant: VESTAS WIND SYSTEMS A/SInventors: Paw ROSENVARD, Lars Ulrich NIELSEN, Sander J. LARSEN
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Patent number: 8595933Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing an injection valve for liquids, preferably an injection valve for injecting fuel into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine. The injection valve has a valve body, with a valve seat which is formed therein, and a valve needle which interacts with the valve seat in order to open and close at least one injection opening. The injection valve is produced by means of the following method steps: producing the valve body from steel, hardening the valve body, annealing a partial region of the valve body at an annealing temperature. The device for carrying out the method according to the invention has an inductive annealing generator which generates a suitable alternating current for operating a coil, in the magnetic field of which coil the valve body can be heated for annealing.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2008Date of Patent: December 3, 2013Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Bernhard Zeiss, Wilhelm Christ, Ralf Kuebler, Alfred Hoch, Matthias Herrmann, Lars Ulrich
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Publication number: 20120303246Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine, in which fuel is injected into a combustion chamber of the internal combustion engine with the aid of an injector, a variable which characterizes a slope of a straight line or of a curve which has at least some sections in the shape of a straight line, being ascertained, the straight line or straight line-shaped curve linking activation times of the injector to the appropriate difference values, and a difference value being formed by the difference between an instantaneous closing point in time and a reference closing point in time or between an instantaneous injection quantity and a reference injection quantity, and a measure for a coking of the injector being ascertained from the ascertained variable.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 23, 2012Publication date: November 29, 2012Inventors: Thomas BECKER, Michael Mennicken, Rainer Peck, Andreas Bartsch, Lars Ulrich
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Patent number: 8100628Abstract: The present invention is related to a method for controlling a wind energy plant, with a nacelle disposed on a tower and with a rotor with at least one rotor blade, the blade adjustment angle of which can be adjusted by means of a blade adjustment equipment. The objective to provide a reduction of the loads acting on the plant when there is a malfunction of the blade adjustment equipment is resolved according to the present invention in that the function of the blade adjustment equipment is monitored, and when an error of the blade adjustment equipment occurs, the nacelle is rotated from an operating position into a rest position, in which there is a flow of the wind against the surface extended by the at least one rotor blade (4) in a rotation of the rotor which is reduced with respect to the operating position.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2007Date of Patent: January 24, 2012Assignee: Nordex Energy GmbHInventors: Thomas Frese, Gerd Hose, Lars-Ulrich Wiese-Muller
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Patent number: 8075266Abstract: The invention is related to a method for rotating a component of a wind energy plant by traversing an adjustment device, wherein the adjustment device comprises at least two adjustment drives, each one thereof having at least one electric motor, for traversing the adjustment device, and wherein during the traversing of the adjustment device, the electric motor of at least one of the at least two adjustment drives is operated at another rotational speed than the electric motor of at least one other of the at least two adjustment drives. Furthermore, the invention is related to a corresponding device.Type: GrantFiled: February 19, 2009Date of Patent: December 13, 2011Assignee: Nordex Energy GmbHInventors: Harald Keller, Lars-Ulrich Wiese-Müller, Eberhard Voβ
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Publication number: 20100180442Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing an injection valve for liquids, preferably an injection valve for injecting fuel into a combustion chamber of an internal combustion engine. The injection valve has a valve body, with a valve seat which is formed therein, and a valve needle which interacts with the valve seat in order to open and close at least one injection opening. The injection valve is produced by means of the following method steps: producing the valve body from steel, hardening the valve body, annealing a partial region of the valve body at an annealing temperature. The device for carrying out the method according to the invention has an inductive annealing generator which generates a suitable alternating current for operating a coil, in the magnetic field of which coil the valve body can be heated for annealing.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 17, 2008Publication date: July 22, 2010Inventors: Bernhard Zeiss, Wilhelm Christ, Ralf Kuebler, Alfred Hoch, Matthias Herrmann, Lars Ulrich
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Patent number: 7705481Abstract: A wind energy plant having at least one rotor blade with a pitch angle, the pitch angle being adjustable by means of a pitch controller, and a generator converter unit, at least one electrical quantity of the generator converter unit being adjustable by means of a converter controller, wherein the wind energy plant has a power train with a rotor having the at least one rotor blade, the rotor being disposed at a front end of the power train and the power train leading to the generator converter unit, wherein a first rotation speed detection unit is provided at the power train near the front end of the power train and a second rotation speed detection unit is provided at the power train near the generator converter unit, wherein the measured rotation speed nrot of the first rotation speed detection unit is applied as an input variable to the pitch controller and the measured rotation speed of the second rotation speed detection unit is applied as an input variable to the converter controller.Type: GrantFiled: April 16, 2008Date of Patent: April 27, 2010Assignee: Nordex Energy GmbHInventors: Wolfgang Kabatzke, Lars-Ulrich Wiese-Muller, Detlef Schluter
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Publication number: 20090232652Abstract: The invention is related to a method for rotating a component of a wind energy plant by traversing an adjustment device, wherein the adjustment device comprises at least two adjustment drives, each one thereof having at least one electric motor, for traversing the adjustment device, and wherein during the traversing of the adjustment device, the electric motor of at least one of the at least two adjustment drives is operated at another rotational speed than the electric motor of at least one other of the at least two adjustment drives. Furthermore, the invention is related to a corresponding device.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 19, 2009Publication date: September 17, 2009Applicant: Nordex Energy GmbHInventors: Harald Keller, Lars-Ulrich Wiese-Muller, Eberhard Voss
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Publication number: 20090212565Abstract: A wind energy plant having at least one rotor blade with a pitch angle, the pitch angle being adjustable by means of a pitch controller, and a generator converter unit, at least one electrical quantity of the generator converter unit being adjustable by means of a converter controller, wherein the wind energy plant has a power train with a rotor having the at least one rotor blade, the rotor being disposed at a front end of the power train and the power train leading to the generator converter unit, wherein a first rotation speed detection unit is provided at the power train near the front end of the power train and a second rotation speed detection unit is provided at the power train near the generator converter unit, wherein the measured rotation speed nrot of the first rotation speed detection unit is applied as an input variable to the pitch controller and the measured rotation speed of the second rotation speed detection unit is applied as an input variable to the converter controller.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2008Publication date: August 27, 2009Applicant: Nordex Energy GmbHInventors: Wolfgang Kabatzke, Lars-Ulrich Wiese-Muller, Detlef Schluter
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Publication number: 20090081041Abstract: The present invention is related to a method for controlling a wind energy plant, with a nacelle disposed on a tower and with a rotor with at least one rotor blade, the blade adjustment angle of which can be adjusted by means of a blade adjustment equipment. The objective to provide a reduction of the loads acting on the plant when there is a malfunction of the blade adjustment equipment is resolved according to the present invention in that the function of the blade adjustment equipment is monitored, and when an error of the blade adjustment equipment occurs, the nacelle is rotated from an operating position into a rest position, in which there is a flow of the wind against the surface extended by the at least one rotor blade (4) in a rotation of the rotor which is reduced with respect to the operating position.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 29, 2007Publication date: March 26, 2009Applicant: Nordex Energy GmbHInventors: Thomas Frese, Gerd Hose, Lars-Ulrich Wiese-Muller
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Patent number: 7086686Abstract: A side impact beam for incorporation into the structure of a motor vehicle comprises a sheet metal profile with flaring end portions and two longitudinal beads extending along the sheet metal profile and wherein the end portions that are provided with cross beads that are stamped in an additional tooling step during manufacturing and after the longitudinal beads have been formed, and are arranged in transverse disposition to the longitudinal beads and wherein the longitudinal beads and the cross beads are oriented in the same direction and the length of one cross bead corresponds approximately to the width of the two longitudinal beads, such that the so configured cross beads provide a stabilizing effect of the end portions and ensure the flattening of the connecting surfaces, thereby leading to a reduction of assembly problems.Type: GrantFiled: October 29, 2002Date of Patent: August 8, 2006Assignee: Benteler Automobiltechnik GmbHInventors: Detlef Bullmann, Lars Ulrich, Ralf König, Alfons Fortstroer, Ludger Gehringhoff
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Publication number: 20030178273Abstract: A side impact beam for incorporation into the structure of a motor vehicle comprises a sheet metal profile with flaring end portions and two longitudinal beads extending along the sheet metal profile and wherein the end portions that are provided with cross beads that are stamped in an additional tooling step during manufacturing and after the longitudinal beads have been formed, and are arranged in transverse disposition to the longitudinal beads and wherein the longitudinal beads and the cross beads are oriented in the same direction and the length of one cross bead corresponds approximately to the width of the two longitudinal beads, such that the so configured cross beads provide a stabilizing effect of the end portions and ensure the flattening of the connecting surfaces, thereby leading to a reduction of assembly problems.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 29, 2002Publication date: September 25, 2003Applicant: BENTELER AUTOMOBILTECHNIK GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Detlef Bullmann, Lars Ulrich, Ralf Konig, Alfons Fortstroer, Ludger Gehringhoff