Patents by Inventor Martin Berger

Martin Berger 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).

  • Patent number: 11549397
    Abstract: The invention relates to an exhaust gas turbocharger having a fluid dynamic bearing having a rotor (10) and a counter-bearing part (50) assigned to the rotor (10), wherein a rotor bearing surface of the rotor (10) and a counterface of the counter-bearing part (50) face each other, to form a fluid dynamic bearing, wherein the rotor bearing surface and/or the counterface form(s) a continuous bearing contour when cut longitudinally and through the axis of rotation (R) in sectional view, which bearing contour(s) are formed of at least two contour sections (44.1 to 44.3; 53.1 to 53.3) to generate fluid dynamic load capacities in both the radial and the axial directions, wherein the bearing surface of the rotor (10) is formed by a rotor part (40), which is connected to a rotor shaft (11) and is secured on the rotor shaft (11), and wherein the rotor part (40) is supported relative to the rotor shaft (11) in the area of a support section (14) of the rotor shaft (11).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Inventors: Martin Berger, Rüdiger Kleinschmidt, Frieder Stetter, Oliver Kuhne, Steffen Schmitt
  • Patent number: 11442262
    Abstract: An image processor includes an image generator configured to generate corresponding image data corresponding to first microscopic image data obtained under a first observation condition, based on second microscopic image data and third microscopic image data obtained under a second observation condition, and an image output unit configured to output the corresponding image data. The corresponding image data may be image data corresponding to a first focal plane from which the first microscopic image data are obtained, and wherein the second microscopic image data and the third microscopic image data may be image data on a second focal plane and a third focal plane, respectively, which are different from the first focal plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ichiro Sase, Yutaka Sasaki, Takaaki Okamoto, Yuki Terui, Kohki Konishi, Masafumi Mimura, Martin Berger, Petr Gazak, Miroslav Svoboda
  • Patent number: 11420550
    Abstract: The invention relates to an adjusting system (1) for pivoting at least one optically relevant component (2) of a vehicle headlight about a first and a second axis (y, z), the system comprising a first retaining element (3) for holding the optically relevant component (2), a second retaining element (4) for displaceably holding the first retaining element (3) on the second retaining element (4), a carrying frame (5) for displaceably holding the second retaining element (4) on the carrying frame (5), and a first adjusting device (6) acting on the first retaining element (3) for displacing the first retaining element (3) relative to the second retaining element (4), and a second adjusting device (7) acting on the second retaining element (4) for displacing the second retaining element (4) relative to the carrying frame (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: ZKW Group GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Berger
  • Patent number: 11409093
    Abstract: An image processor includes an image generator configured to generate corresponding image data corresponding to first microscopic image data obtained under a first observation condition, based on second microscopic image data and third microscopic image data obtained under a second observation condition, and an image output unit configured to output the corresponding image data. The corresponding image data may be image data corresponding to a first focal plane from which the first microscopic image data are obtained, and wherein the second microscopic image data and the third microscopic image data may be image data on a second focal plane and a third focal plane, respectively, which are different from the first focal plane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 16, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: NIKON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Ichiro Sase, Yutaka Sasaki, Takaaki Okamoto, Yuki Terui, Kohki Konishi, Masafumi Mimura, Martin Berger, Petr Gazak, Miroslav Svoboda
  • Patent number: 11410308
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining a 3D centerline of a vessel are provided. A current state observation of an artificial agent is determined based on one or more image view sets, each including 2D medical images of a vessel, a current position of the artificial agent in the 2D medical images, and a start position and a target position in the 2D medical images. Policy values are calculated for a plurality of actions for moving the artificial agent in 3D based on the current state observation using a trained machine learning model. The artificial agent is moved according to a particular action based on the policy values. The steps of determining, calculating, and moving are repeated for a plurality of iterations to move the artificial agent along a 3D path between the start position and the target position. The 3D centerline of the vessel is determined as the 3D path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 9, 2022
    Assignee: Siemens Healthcare GmbH
    Inventors: Mehmet Akif Gulsun, Martin Berger, Tiziano Passerini
  • Publication number: 20220186756
    Abstract: A hydraulic system for a cyclically operating shaping machine includes at least one hydraulic drive unit for cyclically driving a component of the shaping machine at a start time; at least one pump; and at least one hydraulic accumulator which can be discharged for driving the at least one hydraulic drive unit and which can be charged up by operation of the at least one pump. An open-loop or closed-loop control unit is also provided for control of the at least one pump. The open-loop or closed-loop control unit is adapted to operate the at least one pump continuously until the start time of the at least one hydraulic drive unit to charge up the at least one hydraulic accumulator until the start time of the hydraulic drive unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Stephan BAUERNFEIND, Pascal BADER, Martin BERGER, Klaus Hubert GATTRINGER
  • Publication number: 20220164953
    Abstract: Systems and methods for determining a 3D centerline of a vessel are provided. A current state observation of an artificial agent is determined based on one or more image view sets, each including 2D medical images of a vessel, a current position of the artificial agent in the 2D medical images, and a start position and a target position in the 2D medical images. Policy values are calculated for a plurality of actions for moving the artificial agent in 3D based on the current state observation using a trained machine learning model. The artificial agent is moved according to a particular action based on the policy values. The steps of determining, calculating, and moving are repeated for a plurality of iterations to move the artificial agent along a 3D path between the start position and the target position. The 3D centerline of the vessel is determined as the 3D path.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 17, 2019
    Publication date: May 26, 2022
    Inventors: Mehmet Akif Gulsun, Martin Berger, Tiziano Passerini
  • Publication number: 20220120193
    Abstract: The invention relates to an exhaust gas turbocharger having a hydrodynamic plain bearing or a hydrodynamic plain bearing, comprising a rotor (10) and a counter-bearing part (50) assigned to the rotor (10), wherein a rotor bearing surface of the rotor (10) and a counterface of the counter-bearing part (50) face each other to form the hydrodynamic plain bearing in the form of a combined journal—thrust bearing, having a continuous hydrodynamically load bearing gap formed between the rotor bearing surface and the counterface, wherein the rotor bearing surface and/or the counterface, when cut longitudinally and through the axis of rotation (R) in sectional view, form(s) a bearing contour forming merging contour sections (17.1 to 17.3; 44.1 to 44.3; 53.1 to 53.3) to generate hydrodynamic load capacities in both the radial and the axial direction, wherein a contour section (17.3; 44.3; 53.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Martin Berger, Rüdiger Kleinschmidt, Frieder Stetter, Oliver Kuhne, Steffen Schmitt
  • Publication number: 20220065132
    Abstract: The invention relates to an exhaust gas turbocharger having a fluid dynamic bearing having a rotor (10) and a counter-bearing part (50) assigned to the rotor (10), wherein a rotor bearing surface of the rotor (10) and a counterface of the counter-bearing part (50) face each other, to form a fluid dynamic bearing, wherein the rotor bearing surface and/or the counterface form(s) a continuous bearing contour when cut longitudinally and through the axis of rotation (R) in sectional view, which bearing contour(s) are formed of at least two contour sections (44.1 to 44.3; 53.1 to 53.3) to generate fluid dynamic load capacities in both the radial and the axial directions, wherein the bearing surface of the rotor (10) is formed by a rotor part (40), which is connected to a rotor shaft (11) and is secured on the rotor shaft (11), and wherein the rotor part (40) is supported relative to the rotor shaft (11) in the area of a support section (14) of the rotor shaft (11).
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Martin Berger, Rüdiger Kleinschmidt, Frieder Stetter, Oliver Kuhne, Steffen Schmitt
  • Patent number: 11199220
    Abstract: The invention relates to an exhaust-gas-driven turbocharger having a hydrodynamic plain bearing having a rotor and a stator, the rotor being rotatable with respect to the stator, the rotor bearing surface being located opposite a counter-surface of the stator in order to generate hydrodynamic pressure in the region of a converging gap. In such a hydrodynamic plain bearing, the application properties can be improved by the fact that the rotor bearing surface and/or the counter-surface constitutes in a section view, in the context of a section along and through the rotation axis, a continuous bearing contour that is constituted from convex or concave curvatures and/or from at least two contour segments that are embodied as straight lines and/or curvatures. The invention also relates to a hydrodynamic plain bearing or bearing arrangement having such a plain bearing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 14, 2021
    Inventors: Martin Berger, Rüdiger Kleinschmidt, Martin Kropp, Jörg Jennes
  • Patent number: 11193586
    Abstract: A parking lock for a transmission of a motor vehicle may include a park gear rotatable about an axis of rotation, and an actuation device adjustable into a locking position and an unlocking position radially relative to the axis of rotation. In the unlocking position, rotating of the park gear may be possible, and in the locking position, rotating of the park gear may be prevented by way of positive locking. The actuation device may include a shifting drum and a locking lever, wherein the shifting drum may be rotatable about a guiding axis that is radial relative to the axis of rotation. The locking lever, by way of a guide track formed in the shifting drum, may interact with the guide track so that when the shifting drum is rotated, the locking lever may be guidable by the guide track radially relative to the axis of rotation and parallel to the guiding axis, and thereby the actuation device may be adjustable into the locking position and into the unlocking position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Inventors: Martin Berger, Karl-Heinz Hanslik, Hermann Hoffmann, Florian Kollitz
  • Publication number: 20210358220
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a display apparatus for displaying an augmented and/or virtual reality. The display apparatus has a sensor unit configured to capture a user input. The display apparatus is further configured to receive a medical planning dataset and receive a medical image dataset having at least one projection mapping. The display apparatus is further configured to generate and display the augmented and/or virtual reality based on the planning dataset and the at least one projection mapping. The display apparatus is further configured to adapt a virtual spatial positioning of the planning dataset relative to the at least one projection mapping in the augmented and/or virtual reality based on the user input. The disclosure further relates to a system, a method for registering a planning dataset with an image dataset, and a computer program product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 29, 2021
    Publication date: November 18, 2021
    Inventors: Martin Berger, Marcus Pfister
  • Patent number: 11141536
    Abstract: An injection device provides a casing which accommodates or forms a reservoir for a liquid drug; a plunger rod which can move relative to the casing in an axially forward direction to deliver the drug; a dosing means which can move in the forward direction relative to the casing to prime the reservoir and which can rotate relative to the casing for selecting a dose to be injected, wherein rotation of the dosing means relative to the casing is prevented until a priming operation for priming the reservoir is completed; d) wherein the dosing means comprises a dosing control means which is configured to enable rotation of the dosing means at the end of the priming stroke for selecting the dose and to prevent a rotation of the dosing means back into the position which the dosing means had at the end of the priming stroke relative to the casing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 6, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: Ypsomed AG
    Inventors: Ulrich Moser, Jürg Hirschel, Markus Tschirren, Philipp Wälchli, Peter Stettler, Patrick Sackermann, Christian Schrul, Martin Berger, Nicolas Binggeli
  • Publication number: 20210310372
    Abstract: An exhaust gas turbocharger having a hydrodynamic plain bearing or a hydrodynamic plain bearing, comprising a rotor (10) and a counter-bearing part (50) assigned to the rotor (10), wherein a rotor bearing surface (17.1, 17.2, 17.3) of the rotor (10) and a counter-surface of the counter-bearing part (50) face each other to form a hydrodynamic plain bearing, wherein the rotor bearing surface and/or the counterface, when cut along and through the axis of rotation (R) in sectional view, form(s) a continuous bearing contour forming at least two contour sections (44.1 to 44.3; 53.1 to 53.3) to provide hydrodynamic load capacities in both radial and axial directions, and wherein the counter-bearing part (50) is mounted in a bearing housing (60) or housing part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2019
    Publication date: October 7, 2021
    Inventors: Martin Berger, Rüdiger Kleinschmidt, Frieder Stetter, Oliver Kuhne, Steffen Schmitt
  • Publication number: 20210228308
    Abstract: A representation apparatus configured to represent an augmented and/or a virtual reality, wherein the representation apparatus comprises a camera unit that is configured for mapping, at least in segments, an examination subject arranged in a direction of view of the representation apparatus. The camera unit is further configured for mapping a light pattern projected onto the examination subject by a projection unit. The light pattern includes a defined projection geometry relative to the projection unit. The representation apparatus is configured to adjust the representation of the augmented and/or virtual reality using the mapped light pattern and the defined projection geometry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2021
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Martin Berger, Christian Kaethner, Tobias Lenich, Alois Regensburger
  • Patent number: 11047420
    Abstract: The invention relates to a hydrodynamic bearing, namely a hydrodynamic disk-shaped thrust bearing or hydrodynamic thrust washer, wherein hydrodynamic structures having elevations and having depressions arranged between adjacent elevations are arranged on opposite sides of the bearing, which hydrodynamic structures extend in the peripheral direction, and slopes of the hydrodynamic structures are arranged between adjacent depressions, which slopes extend from the depressions toward the elevations. According to the invention, at least some of the elevations of the hydrodynamic structures of the first side of the bearing are arranged in the region between two depressions of the hydrodynamic structures of the second side of the bearing, the elevations of a side of the bearing being arranged at an offset to each other in the peripheral direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2021
    Inventors: Martin Berger, Andreas Laage, Milko Konzelmann, Thomas Bahret
  • Publication number: 20210186339
    Abstract: For particularly good communication even with difficult patients, a monitoring system for monitoring a patient, such as during a medical diagnostic or therapeutic procedure, is provided. The monitoring system includes a voice cloning device having a voice generator. The voice cloning device is configured to replace a natural voice of a person with a cloned synthetic voice different from the voice of the person. At least two synthetic voices may be selected. The monitoring system also includes a measuring unit configured to record at least one physiological parameter of the patient, an evaluation unit configured to evaluate the at least one measured physiological parameter of the patient, and an actuation unit configured to actuate the voice cloning device such that a synthetic voice is selected or rejected depending on a result of the evaluation by the evaluation unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventors: Marcus Pfister, Martin Berger
  • Patent number: 11041813
    Abstract: The quality of objects and workpieces of a manufacturing process is often evaluated based on surface and/or form. An inspection apparatus for optically, in particular deflectometrically, inspecting an object includes a hollow body housing having an opening, the object being positionable in the opening for the inspection; a camera having a plane of focus and a camera direction extending toward the opening of the housing, and being configured to take a plurality of object images of the object situated in the plane of focus; a plurality of light sources arranged around the opening and designed for variably illuminating the plane of focus; and an evaluation unit configured to determine a topography of the object based on the object images.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2021
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Alexander Thobe, Martin Berger
  • Publication number: 20210034148
    Abstract: According to a computer-implemented method for the automatic localization of a structure, an individual image which maps an object with the structure is displayed on a display surface. A gaze movement of a user is captured by a gaze capture system and, on the basis thereof, a gaze capture signal is generated. By a computer unit, dependent upon the gaze capture signal, at least one image point of the individual image is identified, which at least partially maps the structure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 28, 2020
    Publication date: February 4, 2021
    Inventors: Martin Berger, Anton Nekovar
  • Publication number: 20200384910
    Abstract: The invention relates to an adjusting system (1) for pivoting at least one optically relevant component (2) of a vehicle headlight about a first and a second axis (y, z), the system comprising a first retaining element (3) for holding the optically relevant component (2), a second retaining element (4) for displaceably holding the first retaining element (3) on the second retaining element (4), a carrying frame (5) for displaceably holding the second retaining element (4) on the carrying frame (5), and a first adjusting device (6) acting on the first retaining element (3) for displacing the first retaining element (3) relative to the second retaining element (4), and a second adjusting device (7) acting on the second retaining element (4) for displacing the second retaining element (4) relative to the carrying frame (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2018
    Publication date: December 10, 2020
    Inventor: Martin BERGER