Patents by Inventor Marc Oliver

Marc Oliver 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: 20160319753
    Abstract: A method for operating a reciprocating internal combustion engine in an engine braking mode of operation is provided. The method includes closing, for a first time, at least one exhaust valve of at least one cylinder in the engine braking mode of operation within a working cycle, and opening for a first time, and closing, for a second time, the at least one exhaust valve of the at least one cylinder, and opening for a second time to thereby discharge compressed gas in the cylinder via a piston of the cylinder from the cylinder. After the first opening and before the second closing, the exhaust valve is kept open, until the cylinder is filled with gas which flows through at least one exhaust channel from at least one second cylinder of the reciprocating internal combustion engine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 4, 2014
    Publication date: November 3, 2016
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Marc Oliver WAGNER, Alexander ZINK
  • Patent number: 9393941
    Abstract: An emergency brake device for a rail vehicle, having an emergency brake control valve device which provides an emergency brake control pressure to a pneumatic brake device of the rail vehicle; and having an emergency brake adjustment device which is capable of adjusting the emergency brake control pressure, which is provided to the pneumatic brake device, as a function of at least a load value of the rail vehicle and a speed value of the rail vehicle. Also disclosed is a brake system for a rail vehicle and to a rail vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2016
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUR SCHIENENFAHRZEUGE GMBH
    Inventors: Marc-Oliver Herden, Matthaeus Englbrecht
  • Patent number: 9383184
    Abstract: An inductive position-measuring device includes a scanning element and a graduation element that are movable relative to each other in a first direction. The scanning element includes exciter conductors and three receiver tracks. The first and the second receiver track are disposed at a distance relative to each other, and the third receiver track is located between the first and the second receiver track. The graduation element includes two graduation tracks which are disposed at a distance relative to each other, and which have different graduation periods. Furthermore, electromagnetic fields generated by the exciter conductors are able to be modulated by the graduation tracks, so that a relative position in the first direction is detectable by the first and the second receiver track, while a relative position in a second direction, which is oriented orthogonally with respect to the first direction, is detectable by the third receiver track.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 5, 2016
    Assignee: DR. JOHANNES HEIDENHAIN GMBH
    Inventors: Marc Oliver Tiemann, Martin Heumann
  • Patent number: 9377359
    Abstract: An optical measuring system and a method for gas detection, the optical measuring system including a light emitter and at least one light detector arranged in at least one housing, wherein the light emitter emits a modulated main light beam with a mean wave length ?0 with a modulation span ??. At least one opto-mechanical component, e.g. a housing window including optically effective boundary surfaces, is arranged between the light emitter and the light detector and causes scatter light beams which interfere with the main light beam so that self-mixing occurs and/or etalons are caused. According to the invention the at least one opto-mechanical component is arranged relative to the light emitter and/or the light detector at an optimized distance L which is a function of the wave length ?0 and the modulation span ?? of the main light beam.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Axetris AG
    Inventors: Andreas Wittmann, Marc-Oliver Zufferey, Urs Boegli, Kai Hassler
  • Patent number: 9303972
    Abstract: A position-measuring device includes a code carrier having a first graduation track and a second graduation track, the second graduation track being an incremental graduation track. A first detector system is configured to scan the graduation tracks so as to generate first position signals. A second detector system is configured to scan the second graduation track so as to generate second position signals. A first position-processing unit is configured to process the first position signals so as to yield a first absolute position value. A second position-processing unit is configured to process the second position signals so as to yield a second absolute position value. The first position-processing unit is configured to feed an absolute auxiliary position value to the second position-processing unit. The second position-processing unit is initializable with the absolute auxiliary position value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2016
    Assignee: DR. JOHANNES HEIDENHAIN GMBH
    Inventors: Johann Oberhauser, Bernhard Schmied, Jannik Jens Rosenlehner-Emde, Werner Schwaiger, Thomas Schweizer, Hubert Mayer, Marc Oliver Tiemann
  • Publication number: 20160054007
    Abstract: The invention relates to a piece of kitchen furniture having a useful surface area and at least one functional element arranged above the useful surface area. The functional element is arranged on a support member, wherein the support member comprises a pole attached to the piece of kitchen furniture and an arm adjoining the pole. The invention further relates to a piece of kitchen furniture having a useful surface area and at least one functional element arranged above the useful surface area, wherein the functional element is arranged on a support member, wherein the support member has a stem arranged on the piece of furniture within the useful surface area, the upper end of which extends above the useful surface area.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Applicant: BULTHAUP GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Roger Paul Rieger, Marc Oliver Eckert, Otto Langer
  • Publication number: 20150353101
    Abstract: A method for analyzing a scattering material located at a contact point between a rail and a wheel of a rail vehicle wherein the scattering material improves the force closure between the rail and the wheel. The method reads in a motion signal that represents a motion of the wheel caused by the scattering material located on the rail and evaluates the motion signal to analyze the scattering material located on the rail.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 27, 2013
    Publication date: December 10, 2015
    Inventors: Marc-Oliver HERDEN, Thomas RASEL
  • Patent number: 9207057
    Abstract: A device for measuring the height of persons, the device including a vertical element and a headpiece arranged on the vertical element so as to be freely positionable. The headpiece is arranged so that it is rotatable relative to the vertical element by a rotational joint. An axis of rotation of the rotational joint is arranged obliquely with respect to a longitudinal axis of the vertical element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2011
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2015
    Assignee: SECA AG
    Inventor: Marc-Oliver Von Maydell
  • Publication number: 20150346019
    Abstract: A method and device for simultaneously measuring the mass and the height of a body, wherein the measurement of the body mass is carried out by measuring the deformation of at least one deformable element, during which a scale platform is lowered, and the height measurement is realized as an absolute distance measurement relative to the scale platform, so that the distance measurement is subject to an error equal to the amount by which the scale platform is lowered. The error-prone distance measurement is converted by a correction factor into a height measurement value the absolute value of which corresponds to the averaged lowering of the scale platform.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2015
    Publication date: December 3, 2015
    Inventor: Marc-Oliver VON MAYDELL
  • Publication number: 20150339710
    Abstract: Techniques for providing social networking based offers, including identifying a particular user that is a customer of a service provider; identifying one or more other users that are socially connected to the particular user through at least one social network; generating, by the service provider, a master social plan for the particular user and a subset of the one or more other users, the master social plan identifying a business model between (i) each of the particular user and the subset of the one or more other users and (ii) the service provider; and providing an offer associated with the master social plan to the subset of the one or more other users.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2014
    Publication date: November 26, 2015
    Inventors: Dennis Landscheidt, Marc-Oliver Klein
  • Patent number: 9187074
    Abstract: A method for monitoring a wheel mounted on a bogie of a rail vehicle. The method includes detecting a deformation of a brake for braking the wheel in a wheel circumferential direction of the wheel and checking the plausibility of the detected deformation based on a comparison with a target alignment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 17, 2015
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUR SCHIENENFAHRZEUGE GMBH
    Inventors: Marc-Oliver Herden, Rainer Rau, Robert Haupt, Marc-Gregory Elstorpff
  • Publication number: 20150262210
    Abstract: A system and method includes determination of an offer and a first customer, provision of the offer to the first customer, reception of an indication of a redemption of the offer by a second customer, identification of the first customer based on the indication, calculation, in response to identifying the first customer, of a referral value of the first customer based on the indication, and determination of a second offer to provide to the first customer based on the referral value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 17, 2014
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Inventors: Marc-Oliver Klein, Dennis Landscheidt
  • Patent number: 9126605
    Abstract: A control device for a brake system of a rail vehicle, the brake system having at least one first brake device and a second brake device, which devices can be actuated by an actuating force during a braking process. The first brake device and the second brake device are adhesion-type brake devices. The control device is capable of receiving and/or generating a loss of adhesion signal, which identifies insufficient adhesion for the first and/or second brake device, and is also designed, during a braking process, to actuate the first and/or second brake device with an increased actuating force if a loss of adhesion signal is present. Also disclosed is a brake system for a rail vehicle having a control device of this type, a corresponding rail vehicle and a method for controlling the brake system of a rail vehicle using a control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2015
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUR SCHIENENFAHRZEUGE GMBH
    Inventors: Reinhold Mayer, Thomas Rasel, Marc-Oliver Herden, Joerg-Johannes Wach
  • Patent number: 9079592
    Abstract: A brake control device for a braking system of a rail vehicle, wherein the brake control device is connected or connectible to a vibration-sensitive sensor device for receiving vibration data. The brake control device is designed to identify at least one periodic signal from the vibration data and to store vibration data-based comparative data, and to carry out a state analysis of the rail vehicle based on the comparative data and/or the at least one periodic signal. Also disclosed is a corresponding braking system, a rail vehicle and a method for carrying out a state analysis of the rail vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2012
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2015
    Assignee: KNORR-BREMSE SYSTEME FUR SCHIENENFAHRZEUGE GMBH
    Inventors: Marc-Oliver Herden, Michael Schubert
  • Patent number: 9074758
    Abstract: A system of interlocking LED panel tiles includes a first tile having at least one layer of light emitting diodes (LEDs) provided on a substrate, where the substrate is mounted on a substantially rectangular supporting plate having interlocking features. The substrate overlaps the interlocking features. The first tile has a set of positive and negative voltage conductors running between the two sets of opposite edges of the tile as busses. Multiple identical tiles are provided. Each tile has the interlocking features along their edges that firmly physically connect to abutting tiles to create a lamp having any pattern of tiles selected by the user. By interlocking the tiles, the positive and negative conductors are automatically connected to electrically connect the LEDs in the tiles in parallel, and the interlocking features are hidden by the overlying substrate. Additional conductors may be used to provide greater interconnection flexibility.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 23, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2015
    Assignee: Nthdegree Technologies Worldwide Inc.
    Inventors: Bradley Steven Oraw, Marc Oliver Meier
  • Patent number: 9056929
    Abstract: The present invention relates to catalysts systems for the polymerization of olefins CH2?CHR, wherein R is an alkyl, cycloalkyl or aryl radical having 1-12 carbon atoms, comprising (A) a solid catalyst component comprising Ti, Mg, and halogen (B) an aluminum alkyl compound and (C) a brominated cyclic hydrocarbon. Said catalyst systems have improved polymerization activity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2009
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: Basell Poliolefine Italia S.r.l.
    Inventors: Masaki Fushimi, Marc Oliver Kristen, Martin Schneider, Giampiero Morini
  • Patent number: 9057347
    Abstract: A method for determining a characteristic for a pressure regulating valve of an injection system is described, using which fuel is injected into an internal combustion engine, in which a flow of the fuel which flows through the pressure regulating valve is set to a minimum and a control pressure of the fuel is reduced until the pressure regulating valve is opened, and in which at least one value for the characteristic is formed from a difference between a value for the control pressure, at which the pressure regulating valve opens, and a reference value for the control pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2015
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Guenter Veit, Marc Oliver Roehner, Markus Viereck
  • Publication number: 20150136207
    Abstract: A roof panel with an integrated photovoltaic module is discussed. The roof panel has at least a substrate and an outer pane, which are laminarily bonded to each other via a thermoplastic layer, and embedded in the thermoplastic layer, at least one photovoltaic system that contains at least two strip-shaped solar cells that are connected in series via at least one electrically conductive connecting element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Publication date: May 21, 2015
    Inventors: Jean-Christophe Giron, Harald Stoffel, Uwe Van Der Meulen, Andreas Nositschka, Pascal Remy, Marc-Oliver Prast, Dirk Neumann
  • Publication number: 20150130267
    Abstract: A control valve device for a highly available pneumatic brake system for a rail vehicle, having a compressed-air inlet which is or can be connected to an outlet of a discharge valve device; a compressed-air outlet which is or can be connected to a relay valve device; and a safety input which is or can be connected to a compressed-air source; wherein the control valve device fluidically connects the safety inlet to the compressed-air outlet in a first switching position and fluidically connects the compressed-air inlet to the compressed-air outlet in a second switching position; wherein the control valve device can modify the inlet pressure in the second switching position in accordance with a control device, in order to provide the outlet pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 13, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Thomas Rasel, Marc-Oliver Herden, Achim Vollmer
  • Publication number: 20150129013
    Abstract: A roof panel having an integrated photovoltaic module is described. The roof panel has at least a substrate and an outer panel, which are laminarily bonded to each other by means of a thermoplastic layer, wherein a photovoltaic layer system is embedded in the thermoplastic layer and the substrate contains at least one polymer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2013
    Publication date: May 14, 2015
    Inventors: Andreas Nositschka, Pascal Remy, Marc-Oliver Prast, Dirk Neumann, Harald Stoffel