Patents by Inventor Markus Schaefer
Markus Schaefer 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: 20240088606Abstract: An electrical connector includes: at least a first housing part and a second housing part, one of the first housing part and the second housing part engaging, at least partially and concentrically, in an other of the first housing part and the second housing part in an engagement region, the first housing part and the second housing part being rotatable relative to one another in the engagement region about an axis of rotation. The first housing part and the second housing part each have a magnetic structure extending, at least in part, circumferentially on an inside or an outside in the engagement region, the respective magnetic structures interacting.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 25, 2022Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Hrvoje Babic, Ralf Beckmann, Martin Schaefers, Juergen Sahm, Markus Hermann, Markus Michel, Frank Brokmann, Holger Ritter, Markus Hanses
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Patent number: 11918733Abstract: A medical instrument with an aerosol outlet, which is fluidically connected—via an aerosol line—to a generation device. The generation device is adapted to generate aerosol for dispensing by means of the medical instrument. In addition, a generation device is stated, which, in embodiments of the generation device, for example can be used in a device with the instrument according to the invention. The generation device comprises a mixing unit for mixing a liquid and a gas together, which mixing unit is connected to a liquid container for supplying the mixing unit with a liquid, in which case the generation device is adapted to utilize the gas pressure of a gas under pressure subjecting the liquid to a pressure in order to press the liquid out of the liquid container to the mixing unit.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2019Date of Patent: March 5, 2024Assignee: ERBE ELEKTROMEDIZIN GMBHInventors: Alexander Neagos, Markus Enderle, Christian Schaefer
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Publication number: 20230249472Abstract: An automatic desktop personalization device, for security booklet documents, includes a camera, an inkjet printing module, a laser marking module, a chip encoding module, and a transport mechanism. The inkjet printing module includes a printing head and is configured to print within a printing zone. The laser marking module is configured to mark within a marking zone. The transport mechanism is configured to automatically transport a security booklet document along a Y-axis linear direction, from an entrance to an exit, through printing positions and a marking position. The entrance and the exit are the same. The printing head is movable alongside an X-axis linear direction that is perpendicular to the Y-axis linear direction. The inkjet printing module includes the transport mechanism. The laser marking head is adjacent an inkjet printing bridge, such that the marking zone and the printing zone are at least partly combined.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2021Publication date: August 10, 2023Inventors: Peter Puehler, Markus Schaefer
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Patent number: 11721362Abstract: A tape drive includes a plurality of rollers, a head, a tension sensor, and control circuitry. The rollers are spatially arranged within the tape drive to define a route for tape of a received data cartridge to travel from the received data cartridge to a tape reel. The head includes read elements and write elements configured to read from and write to the tape as tape of the received data cartridge travels along the route. The tension sensor is configured to measure tension of the tape as it travels along the route. The control circuitry is configured to cause a motor to impact the tension to keep the tape within a tension threshold.Type: GrantFiled: December 15, 2021Date of Patent: August 8, 2023Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Markus Schäfer, Stefan Wiedemann, Erik Rueger, Robert Beiderbeck, Ole Asmussen
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Publication number: 20230186949Abstract: A tape drive includes a plurality of rollers, a head, a tension sensor, and control circuitry. The rollers are spatially arranged within the tape drive to define a route for tape of a received data cartridge to travel from the received data cartridge to a tape reel. The head includes read elements and write elements configured to read from and write to the tape as tape of the received data cartridge travels along the route. The tension sensor is configured to measure tension of the tape as it travels along the route. The control circuitry is configured to cause a motor to impact the tension to keep the tape within a tension threshold.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2021Publication date: June 15, 2023Inventors: Markus Schäfer, Stefan Wiedemann, Erik Rueger, Robert Beiderbeck, Ole Asmussen
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Publication number: 20230031685Abstract: A method for controlling a converter comprises: determining a pulse pattern for the converter, wherein the pulse pattern contains switching transitions at which an output voltage is switched between two levels; shifting switching transitions in the pulse pattern, wherein a random value is added to a point in time at which the output voltage is switched to shift the switching transitions; and applying the pulse pattern with the shifted switching transitions to switch elements in the converter to generate the output voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2020Publication date: February 2, 2023Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AGInventor: MARKUS SCHÄFER
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Publication number: 20230003293Abstract: A drive apparatus for a vehicle having an electric machine whose rotor shaft is constructed as a hollow shaft having an internal tooth arrangement. A gear mechanism drive shaft, which has an external tooth arrangement, is inserted coaxially relative to the hollow shaft into the hollow shaft, to form a torque-transmitting spline. The rotor shaft with a rotor shaft rotary bearing being interposed is guided outward through a bearing opening of an electric machine housing, and the gear mechanism drive shaft has a centering seat which is in abutment with the internal circumference of the rotor shaft with a tight clearance fit. The gear mechanism drive shaft is subjected to bending (D) during travel operation as a result of radially active operating forces (FR). To reduce the bending stress (D), the centering seat of the gear mechanism drive shaft is arranged without an axial offset with respect to the rotor shaft rotary bearing, in axial alignment relative to the rotor shaft rotary bearing.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2020Publication date: January 5, 2023Applicant: AUDI AGInventors: Markus SCHAEFER, Moritz LUX
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Patent number: 11520649Abstract: A processor may provide a machine learning model. The machine learning model may have an input and an output. The processor may receive input data. The input data may include log data of a queried storage medium and a queried media drive. The processor may provide the input data to the input of the machine learning model. The processor may determine, from the output of the machine learning model, a predicted failure cause category and a predicted failure probability assigned to the predicted failure cause category. The processor may provide a first prediction to a user.Type: GrantFiled: November 15, 2018Date of Patent: December 6, 2022Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Ole Asmussen, Robert Beiderbeck, Ying Li, Erik Rueger, Markus Schäfer
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Patent number: 11353100Abstract: A differential gear including a rotatably mounted differential housing and a final driven gear mounted rotationally fixed to the differential housing. The differential housing, on the outer circumferential surface thereof, includes two mating surfaces and that the final driven gear, on the inner circumferential surface thereof, includes two radially opposite mating surfaces. The mating surfaces formed on the outer circumferential surface of the differential housing and the mating surfaces formed on the inner circumferential surface of the final driven gear are each designed as separate mating surfaces which, when viewed in axial direction (a), are arranged geometrically separated from each other by a spacing.Type: GrantFiled: October 31, 2019Date of Patent: June 7, 2022Assignee: AUDI AGInventors: Kurt Hornung, Markus Schäfer, Andrej Merz
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Patent number: 11346065Abstract: A self-propelled construction machine comprises a machine frame, at least three travelling devices, at least one hydraulic drive system for driving at least two travelling devices, wherein the hydraulic drive system comprises at least one controllable hydraulic motor with variable displacement volume and at least one hydraulic pump, at least one working device (e.g. a milling drum), for working the ground pavement. A detection device detects fluctuations in the longitudinal speed of the construction machine during movement thereof, wherein a control unit alters the displacement volume of the at least one controllable hydraulic motor as a function of the detected fluctuations so that the natural frequency of the hydraulic drive system is altered, wherein the control unit adjusts the discharge volume of the pump as a function of the amount of adjustment of the displacement volume in such a fashion that the specified drive speed remains constant.Type: GrantFiled: June 10, 2020Date of Patent: May 31, 2022Inventors: Stefan Wagner, Markus Bach, Axel Mahlberg, Markus Schäfer, Eduard Fitz
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Patent number: 11324517Abstract: A saw blade of a bone saw machine includes a distally arranged or configured row of saw teeth and a proximally arranged or configured coupling region for coupling the saw blade with an oscillating rotating tool receptacle of the bone saw machine. The saw blade is designed with two counter-rotating curvatures or bends approximately in the manner of an S shape.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2018Date of Patent: May 10, 2022Assignee: AESCULAP AGInventors: Uwe Schaz, Uwe Mattes, Markus Schäfer, Elke Moser
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Publication number: 20220090939Abstract: A method for providing vehicle information includes: receiving first vehicle data encoded according to a first protocol and corresponding to an environment external to a vehicle; receiving high definition mapping data corresponding to objects in the environment external to the vehicle; generating position information for objects indicated in the high definition mapping data by correlating locations of objects indicated by the high definition mapping data with objects in the environment external to the vehicle detected by at least one sensor; generating second vehicle data by correlating the high definition mapping data, the position information, and the first vehicle data; and encoding the second vehicle data according to a second protocol.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 6, 2020Publication date: March 24, 2022Applicant: VISTEON GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC.Inventors: Martin Pfeifle, Hendrik Bock, Mathias Otto, Markus Schaefer, Sebastian Ammann, Nikola Karamanov, Markus Mainberger
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Publication number: 20210356028Abstract: A differential gear including a rotatably mounted differential housing and a final driven gear mounted rotationally fixed to the differential housing. The differential housing, on the outer circumferential surface thereof, includes two mating surfaces and that the final driven gear, on the inner circumferential surface thereof, includes two radially opposite mating surfaces. The mating surfaces formed on the outer circumferential surface of the differential housing and the mating surfaces formed on the inner circumferential surface of the final driven gear are each designed as separate mating surfaces which, when viewed in axial direction (a), are arranged geometrically separated from each other by a spacing.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 31, 2019Publication date: November 18, 2021Applicant: AUDI AGInventors: Kurt HORNUNG, Markus SCHÄFER, Andrej MERZ
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Patent number: 11116353Abstract: A coffee machine includes a brewing unit, a grinding mechanism to process coffee beans into coffee grounds that are used by the brewing unit to brew coffee, and a container for coffee beans. The container has a bottom surface with an outlet opening that leads to the grinding mechanism. The bottom surface is inclined toward the outlet opening and includes ridges extending in a direction of the outlet opening.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2017Date of Patent: September 14, 2021Assignee: MELITTA EUROPA GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Andreas Sachtleben, Markus Schaefer
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Patent number: 11111640Abstract: The self-propelled construction machine according to the invention, in particular a road milling machine, stabiliser, recycler or surface miner, has a machine frame 1, a work roller arranged on the machine frame, and a left-hand edge protector 5A arranged on the left-hand side of the work roller in the working direction and a right-hand edge protector 5B arranged on the right-hand side of the work roller in the working direction. In order to raise and/or lower the left-hand and/or right-hand edge protector 5A, 5B, a hydraulic system is provided which comprises a hydraulic source 20 for providing hydraulic fluid.Type: GrantFiled: September 1, 2020Date of Patent: September 7, 2021Inventors: Burkhard Frank, Markus Schäfer
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Patent number: 11037588Abstract: A tape cartridge for increasing tape drive head performance is provided. The tape cartridge comprises a cleaning tape, a tape guide arrangement that guides the cleaning tape within the cleaner cartridge, a cleaning fluid application arrangement that applies cleaning fluid to the cleaning tape within the cleaner cartridge, and a cartridge memory that stores cleaning count and motor taches count information. The tape guide arrangement is operable to bring the cleaning tape in contact with the cleaning fluid application arrangement to apply the cleaning fluid onto the cleaning tape when the cleaning tape is subject to a first tension level and avoid the contact with the cleaning fluid application arrangement when the cleaning tape is subject to a second tension level to prevent application of the cleaning fluid onto the cleaning tape.Type: GrantFiled: May 4, 2020Date of Patent: June 15, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Stefan Wiedemann, Markus Schäfer, Erik Rueger, Robert Beiderbeck, Ole Asmussen
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Publication number: 20210108379Abstract: The self-propelled construction machine according to the invention, in particular a road milling machine, stabiliser, recycler or surface miner, has a machine frame 1, a work roller arranged on the machine frame, and a left-hand edge protector 5A arranged on the left-hand side of the work roller in the working direction and a right-hand edge protector 5B arranged on the right-hand side of the work roller in the working direction. In order to raise and/or lower the left-hand and/or right-hand edge protector 5A, 5B, a hydraulic system is provided which comprises a hydraulic source 20 for providing hydraulic fluid.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 1, 2020Publication date: April 15, 2021Inventors: Burkhard Frank, Markus Schäfer
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Publication number: 20210016661Abstract: A self-propelled construction machine comprises a machine frame, at least three travelling devices, at least one hydraulic drive system for driving at least two travelling devices, wherein the hydraulic drive system comprises at least one controllable hydraulic motor with variable displacement volume and at least one hydraulic pump, at least one working device (e.g. a milling drum), for working the ground pavement. A detection device detects fluctuations in the longitudinal speed of the construction machine during movement thereof, wherein a control unit alters the displacement volume of the at least one controllable hydraulic motor as a function of the detected fluctuations so that the natural frequency of the hydraulic drive system is altered, wherein the control unit adjusts the discharge volume of the pump as a function of the amount of adjustment of the displacement volume in such a fashion that the specified drive speed remains constant.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 10, 2020Publication date: January 21, 2021Inventors: Stefan Wagner, Markus Bach, Axel Mahlberg, Markus Schäfer, Eduard Fitz
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Patent number: 10884989Abstract: A method and system for improving tape drive memory storage is provided. The method includes receiving, by a storage tape drive, a data stream for storage. The data stream is passed through a non-volatile memory device (NVS2) of the storage tape drive. The data stream is divided into adjacent variable length data chunks and a chunk list file including similarity identifiers for each of the adjacent variable length data chunks is generated and stored within a (non-volatile memory device) NVS1. Duplicate data including duplicated data with respect to a group of data chunks of the adjacent variable length data chunks is identified and deleted from the NVS2 of the storage tape drive such that the group of data chunks remains within NVS2. The group of data chunks is written to a data storage tape cartridge. Pointers identifying each data chunk and an associated storage position are generated and stored.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2019Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Ole Asmussen, Robert Beiderbeck, Erik Rueger, Markus Schaefer
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Patent number: 10885938Abstract: An apparatus for big data tape management tape cartridge management. The apparatus includes a tape gripper for storing one or more additional tape cartridges within a housing of the tape gripper, wherein the housing of the tape gripper includes a tape cartridge cache, where the tape cartridge cache is a modification to the housing of the tape gripper for holding the one or more additional tape cartridges stacked internally within the tape gripper, the tape cartridge cache is affixed to a bottom portion of the housing of the tape gripper, and the tape cartridge cache includes a plate, oriented above and centered to the tape cartridge cache, capable of being raised and lowered within the tape cartridge cache utilizing one or more springs mounted under the plate inside the tape cartridge cache.Type: GrantFiled: November 25, 2019Date of Patent: January 5, 2021Assignee: International Business Machines CorporationInventors: Stefan Wiedemann, Erik Rueger, Markus Schäfer, Robert Beiderbeck, Ole Asmussen