Patents by Inventor Martin Fischer

Martin Fischer 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: 9858786
    Abstract: A danger detector configured as a point detector includes an alarm housing with an alarm cover, a non-contact heat radiation sensor that is sensitive to heat radiation in the infrared range, and a treatment unit configured to determine and emit a temperature value derived from the detected heat radiation for the ambient temperature in the surroundings of the danger detector and/or an alarm, in the event that the currently determined temperature value exceeds a predetermined temperature comparison value. The heat radiation sensor is arranged in the alarm housing and is configured to optically detect the ambient temperature on the inner side of the alarm cover. The heat radiation sensor may be a thermopile designed as an SMD component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2018
    Assignee: SIEMENS SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Martin Fischer, Claudio Foelmli, Christian Liechti
  • Publication number: 20170358087
    Abstract: Systems and methods for performing three-dimensional semantic parsing of indoor spaces in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving input data representing a three-dimensional space, determining disjointed spaces within the received data by generating a density histogram on each of a plurality of axes, determining space dividers based on the generated density histogram, and dividing the point cloud data into segments based on the determined space dividers, and determining elements in the disjointed spaces by aligning the disjointed spaces within the point cloud data along similar axes to create aligned versions of the disjointed spaces normalizing the aligned version of the disjointed spaces into the aligned version of the disjointed spaces, determining features in the disjointed spaces, generating at least one detection score, and filtering the at least one detection score to determine a final set of determined elements.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Publication date: December 14, 2017
    Inventors: Iro Armeni, Ozan Sener, Amir R. Zamir, Martin Fischer, Silvio Savarese
  • Publication number: 20170301500
    Abstract: A lever assembly is for an operating mechanism of an electrical switching apparatus. The electrical switching apparatus includes a number of pairs of separable contacts structured to move from a CLOSED position to a TRIPPED OPEN position in response to a trip condition. The operating mechanism has an enclosure member and a number of biasing elements coupled to the enclosure member. The biasing elements are structured to move the separable contacts from the CLOSED position to the TRIPPED OPEN position. The lever assembly includes a lever member structured to engage the enclosure member, and a component located on the lever member. The component is structured to extend through each of the biasing elements in order to lengthen each of the biasing elements when the separable contacts are in the CLOSED position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 15, 2016
    Publication date: October 19, 2017
    Applicant: EATON CORPORATION
    Inventors: FRANK JOSEPH STIFTER, JR., DAVID CURTIS TURNER, WILLIAM GEORGE EBERTS, KENNETH MARTIN FISCHER, EDWARD ANTHONY PRINCE
  • Patent number: 9729119
    Abstract: In some implementations, an automatic gain control (AGC) circuit comprises: a pre-divider circuit operable to pre-divide an input signal according to a pre-divider circuit setting and output a pre-divided signal; a pre-amplifier operable to pre-amplify the pre-divided signal and output a pre-amplified signal; a post-divider circuit operable to post-divide the pre-amplified signal according to a post-divider circuit setting; an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) operable to generate a digital data stream from the post-divided signal; logic operable to sample the digital data stream; determine a pre-divider circuit setting and a post-divider circuit setting based on the sampled data stream; set the pre-divider circuit and the post-divider circuit based on the determined settings; and generate a received signal strength value based on the pre-divider circuit setting and the post-divider circuit setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: Atmel Corporation
    Inventors: Werner Blatz, Michael Sagebiel, Thomas Janz, Martin Fischer, Daniel Moser, Jan Knopf
  • Patent number: 9714266
    Abstract: The invention relates to AKR1C3 inhibitors of formula (I) and to processes for preparation thereof, to the use thereof for treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases and to the use thereof for production of medicaments for treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases, especially of bleeding disorders and endometriosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: BAYER PHARMA AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Ulrich Bothe, Matthias Busemann, Naomi Barak, Andrea Rotgeri, Oliver Martin Fischer, Tobias Marquardt
  • Patent number: 9685925
    Abstract: In some implementations, an automatic gain control (AGC) circuit comprises: a pre-divider circuit operable to pre-divide an input signal according to a pre-divider circuit setting and output a pre-divided signal; a pre-amplifier operable to pre-amplify the pre-divided signal and output a pre-amplified signal; a post-divider circuit operable to post-divide the pre-amplified signal according to a post-divider circuit setting; an analog-to-digital converter (ADC) operable to generate a digital data stream from the post-divided signal; logic operable to sample the digital data stream; determine a pre-divider circuit setting and a post-divider circuit setting based on the sampled data stream; set the pre-divider circuit and the post-divider circuit based on the determined settings; and generate a received signal strength value based on the pre-divider circuit setting and the post-divider circuit setting.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: Atmel Corporation
    Inventors: Werner Blatz, Michael Sagebiel, Thomas Janz, Martin Fischer, Daniel Moser, Jan Knopf
  • Patent number: 9666048
    Abstract: An open-type scattered light smoke includes a housing shell supporting a circuit substrate having at least one light emitter and one light receiver arranged thereon. The light emitter and the light receiver are arranged in a scattered light array having a scattered light volume located in the open air outside the smoke detector. The light emitter emits a light beam having a direction pay, with part of the path traveled by the directional ray between the light emitter and the scattered light volume running parallel to an outer face of the circuit substrate facing away from the housing shell. The light emitter may be an LED housed in a sidelooker package and the light receiver may be a photodiode housed in a reverse-gullwing package. A sensor surface of the photodiode is aligned opposite the scattered light volume through an opening in the circuit substrate that provides mechanical protection.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: SIEMENS SCHWEIZ AG
    Inventors: Martin Fischer, Thomas Rohrer, Matthias Stutz
  • Patent number: 9661401
    Abstract: A method and apparatus for locating a transponder is provided. A carrier signal is transmitted by a base station and a transponder transmits a locating signal that is generated through phase modulation and backscattering of the carrier signal sent by the base station when the transponder is within a transmission range of the base station, whereby the transponder is located on the basis of the locating signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignee: Atmel Corporation
    Inventors: Martin Fischer, Ulrich Friedrich, Jens Masuch, Michael Pangels, Dirk Ziebertz
  • Patent number: 9595408
    Abstract: An operating handle interface assembly is for an electrical system. The electrical system includes an enclosure having an interior and an exterior, and a plurality of electrical switching apparatus disposed within the interior. Each of the electrical switching apparatus includes an operating handle. The operating handle interface assembly includes a linking assembly structured to interconnect the operating handles of a plurality of the electrical switching apparatus. An elongated shaft includes opposing first and second ends. The first end cooperates with one of the operating handles of one of the electrical switching apparatus. The second end is disposed on the exterior of the enclosure. A handle attachment is coupled to the second end of the elongated shaft on the exterior of the enclosure. The handle attachment is operable among a plurality of positions to correspondingly operate the operating handles of all of the interconnected electrical switching apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2017
    Assignee: EATON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kenneth Martin Fischer, David Curtis Turner, Raymond Peter Gundy, II
  • Patent number: 9557181
    Abstract: A vehicle navigation system has a processing device. The processing device receives entries in a first data structure that are generated and are respectively associated with one tile of a tiling. The processing device may compare a three-dimensional terrain on the respective tile with at least one pre-defined tile pattern. Either an identifier for a pre-defined tile pattern or data describing the terrain on the respective tile may be stored by the processing device in the entry.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2012
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2017
    Assignee: HARMAN BECKER AUTOMOTIVE SYSTEMS GMBH
    Inventors: Vladimir Ivanov, Martin Fischer, Carsten-Christian Spindler, Simon Schütz
  • Publication number: 20170015179
    Abstract: A protection device for a vehicle interior having a flexible planar formation movable between stored rest and tensioned protection positions. The formation is provided at a front end region in a tensioning direction with a dimensionally stable draw-out profile member guided between the rest and protection positions by at least one guide arrangement. The draw-out profile member includes a longitudinal compensator to compensate for deviations between movement directions of the guide arrangement and the draw-out profile member. The guide arrangement has at least one linearly guided carrier element, and the draw-out profile member includes an undercut compensation groove which extends in the longitudinal direction of the draw-out profile member and which is open towards the carrier. The carrier comprises a longitudinally displaceable sliding or rolling element which is retained in a positive-locking manner in the receiving groove in the opening direction of the compensation groove.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 28, 2016
    Publication date: January 19, 2017
    Inventors: Martin FISCHER, Christoph BEUTEL, Danja SPERR, Nina ROESCHINGER, Darren KETTERINGHAM
  • Patent number: 9536680
    Abstract: A jumper is for an electrical switching apparatus having a plurality of poles. Each of the poles comprises a terminal. The terminal of a first one of the poles is proximate the terminal of a second one of the poles. The jumper includes a jumper member having an attachment portion and a heat sink portion. The attachment portion is structured to electrically connect the terminal of the first one of the poles to the terminal of the second one of the poles. The heat sink portion includes a plurality of spaced apart heat transfer members that are arranged in a plurality of rows and a plurality of columns.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 18, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2017
    Assignee: EATON CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kevin Lee Sippel, Kenneth Martin Fischer
  • Patent number: 9512169
    Abstract: The invention relates to AKR1C3 inhibitors and to processes for their preparation, to their use for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases and also to their use for preparing medicaments for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases, in particular bleeding disorders and endometriosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 5, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 6, 2016
    Assignee: BAYER PHARMA AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Ulrich Bothe, Matthias Busemann, Oliver Martin Fischer, Naomi Barak, Andrea Rotgeri, Tobias Marquardt, Christian Stegmann
  • Publication number: 20160343226
    Abstract: An open-type scattered light smoke includes a housing shell supporting a circuit substrate having at least one light emitter and one light receiver arranged thereon. The light emitter and the light receiver are arranged in a scattered light array having a scattered light volume located in the open air outside the smoke detector. The light emitter emits a light beam having a direction pay, with part of the path traveled by the directional ray between the light emitter and the scattered light volume running parallel to an outer face of the circuit substrate facing away from the housing shell. The light emitter may be an LED housed in a sidelooker package and the light receiver may be a photodiode housed in a reverse-gullwing package. A sensor surface of the photodiode is aligned opposite the scattered light volume through an opening in the circuit substrate that provides mechanical protection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2015
    Publication date: November 24, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Schweiz AG
    Inventors: Martin Fischer, Thomas Rohrer, Matthias Stutz
  • Publication number: 20160328935
    Abstract: An open scattered light smoke detector may include a light transmitter for emitting light, a light receiver spectrally matched to the light transmitter, and a control unit that actuates the light transmitter, using a pulsed signal sequence, to emit light pulses, evaluates a signal sequence received by the light receiver, and outputs a fire alarm if the received signal strength exceeds a minimum value for smoke concentration. The control unit may actuate the light transmitter with a binary data signal that encodes internal detector data, and/or may analyze a binary coded signal sequence received by the light receiver for a valid encoding of update data for the detector, and then load the validated update data. The detector data may include received signal strength data, optical path calibration data, configuration, operating or encryption data, a positional specification for a detector mounting site, a serial number, and/or a detector bus address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Schweiz AG
    Inventor: Martin Fischer
  • Publication number: 20160328936
    Abstract: An open scattered light smoke detector for detecting smoke may include a light transmitter for emitting light, a light receiver spectrally matched to the light transmitter, and a control unit configured to repeatedly actuate the light transmitter, with a pulsed signal sequence, to emit corresponding light pulses, evaluate temporally a signal sequence received by the light receiver, and output a fire alarm if a received signal strength exceeds a minimum value for the smoke concentration. The control unit may be configured to switch the detector from a normal operating mode into a service mode if a phase angle between an emitted and received signal sequence, as determined on the detector side, increases by a minimum angular value which, in terms of the travel time, corresponds technically to an increase in the optical path length from the light transmitter to the light receiver of more than some predefined distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 6, 2016
    Publication date: November 10, 2016
    Applicant: Siemens Schweiz AG
    Inventor: Martin Fischer
  • Patent number: 9487554
    Abstract: The invention relates to AKR1C3 inhibitors and to processes for their preparation, to their use for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases and also to their use for preparing medicaments for the treatment and/or prophylaxis of diseases, in particular bleeding disorders and endometriosis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignees: Bayer Intellectual Property GmbH, Bayer Pharma Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Ulrich Bothe, Naomi Barak, Matthias Busemann, Oliver Martin Fischer, Andrea Rotgeri, Isabella Gashaw, Ingo Hartung, Tobias Marquardt
  • Patent number: 9481229
    Abstract: A protection device for a vehicle interior having a flexible planar formation movable between stored rest and tensioned protection positions. The formation is provided at a front end region in a tensioning direction with a dimensionally stable draw-out profile member guided between the rest and protection positions by at least one guide arrangement. The draw-out profile member includes a longitudinal compensator to compensate for deviations between movement directions of the guide arrangement and the draw-out profile member. The guide arrangement has at least one linearly guided carrier element, and the draw-out profile member includes an undercut compensation groove which extends in the longitudinal direction of the draw-out profile member and which is open towards the carrier. The carrier comprises a longitudinally displaceable sliding or rolling element which is retained in a positive-locking manner in the receiving groove in the opening direction of the compensation groove.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2016
    Assignee: BOS GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Martin Fischer, Christoph Beutel, Danja Sperr, Nina Roeschinger, Darren Ketteringham
  • Patent number: 9453131
    Abstract: The invention relates to metallic effect pigment, the metallic effect pigment having at least one diffractive structure and at least one layer which comprises metal nanoparticles and metal oxide phase, the metal of the metal oxide phase and the metal of the metal nanoparticles in this at least one layer being identical. The invention further relates to a process for preparing these metallic effect pigments, to a coating composition, and to a coated article.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 21, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2016
    Assignee: ECKART GMBH
    Inventors: Bernhard Geissler, Martin Fischer, Frank Henglein, Ralph Schneider, Wolfgang Herzing, Klaus Greiwe
  • Patent number: 9442939
    Abstract: Particular embodiments store a business object attachment in a specific storage location associated with a business object. In this embodiment a computer receives an attachment for the business object along with information regarding the business object. The information regarding the business object may include a business object identifier and a business object type identifier. With this information, the computer defines routing attribute fields for the attachment. Using the routing attribute fields and the business object type identifier, the computer calculates a target content repository and a target path for the attachment. The computer then determines which content management system contains the target repository and interfaces with that target content management system to direct that content management system to store the attachment in the target repository at the target path.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2016
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventor: Martin Fischer