Patents by Inventor Martin Meggle
Martin Meggle 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: 11015551Abstract: A device for an internal combustion engine for the combustion of a gasoline-based liquid fuel, having a tank, which is gas-conductively connected to the internal combustion engine with the aid of an exhaust gas line and a first shutoff valve, a hydrocarbon storage unit, which is gas-conductively disposed between the tank and the internal combustion engine with the aid of the exhaust gas line, for temporarily storing gaseous hydrocarbon contained in an exhaust gas escaping from the tank, and a hydrocarbon sensor, which is gas-conductively disposed between the tank and the internal combustion engine with the aid of the exhaust gas line, for measuring the hydrocarbon content in a purging air supplied to the internal combustion engine, the hydrocarbon storage unit being connectable to the free surroundings with the aid of a connecting line and a second shutoff valve.Type: GrantFiled: June 12, 2019Date of Patent: May 25, 2021Assignee: Hella GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Ludger Buescher, Carsten Kuegeler, Ingo Niemeyer, Martin Meggle, Marco Unterhalt, Sven-Erik Wolf
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Patent number: 10512381Abstract: A system comprising a vacuum cleaner and a base station, wherein the vacuum cleaner has a suction opening for sucking up dirt and/or dust from a floor by a suction air flow, a fan for producing the suction air flow, a dust chamber for holding dirt and/or dust, and an air outlet opening such that air sucked in together with the dirt and/or dust can be discharged again. The base station can be connected to the vacuum cleaner in such a way that the dust chamber can be emptied into the base station by means of an air flow. The air flow used to empty the dust chamber can be produced and blown into the dust chamber by the fan for producing the suction air flow. The base station has a return channel, through which the air flow exiting the dust chamber can be guided back into the vacuum cleaner.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2016Date of Patent: December 24, 2019Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbHInventors: Martin Meggle, Miron Sernecki
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Publication number: 20190376474Abstract: A device for an internal combustion engine for the combustion of a gasoline-based liquid fuel, having a tank, which is gas-conductively connected to the internal combustion engine with the aid of an exhaust gas line and a first shutoff valve, a hydrocarbon storage unit, which is gas-conductively disposed between the tank and the internal combustion engine with the aid of the exhaust gas line, for temporarily storing gaseous hydrocarbon contained in an exhaust gas escaping from the tank, and a hydrocarbon sensor, which is gas-conductively disposed between the tank and the internal combustion engine with the aid of the exhaust gas line, for measuring the hydrocarbon content in a purging air supplied to the internal combustion engine, the hydrocarbon storage unit being connectable to the free surroundings with the aid of a connecting line and a second shutoff valve.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 12, 2019Publication date: December 12, 2019Applicant: HELLA GmbH & Co. KGaAInventors: Ludger BUESCHER, Carsten KUEGELER, Ingo NIEMEYER, Martin MEGGLE, Marco UNTERHALT, Sven-Erik WOLF
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Patent number: 10459451Abstract: A method for processing, in particular cleaning, a floor of a room using an automatically movable processing device. A map of the room is generated and displayed to a user of the processing device, and the user can select at least one room sub-region in which the processing device is to process or refrain from processing the floor in the generated map. The aim of the invention is to provide a method for processing a floor, wherein the generated map of the room is easier to read for the user. This is achieved in that the map of the room is generated from three-dimensional coordinates of a world coordinate system, each point of a plurality of points of the room and/or of an obstacle arranged in the room being assigned to a three-dimensional coordinate within the world coordinates system.Type: GrantFiled: April 4, 2016Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbHInventors: Lorenz Hillen, Martin Meggle
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Patent number: 10398269Abstract: A method for operating a self-propelled floor cleaning device, in a first operating step, drives the floor cleaning device across a first treatment path across the floor to be cleaned according to a predetermined driving strategy, or according to a predetermined algorithm, which is calculated on the basis of data, which are detected by sensors and thereby carries out a first cleaning step by a first cleaning device. In the first operating step, areas of the floor surfaces to be cleaned, which are cleaned in at least a second operating step by a second cleaning device, or which are excluded from the cleaning by the second cleaning device, are determined. A floor cleaning device, which is suitable for carrying out the method, has a chassis, a first cleaning device for dry cleaning a floor surface, and a second cleaning device for wet cleaning areas of the floor surface.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2015Date of Patent: September 3, 2019Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbHInventors: Lorenz Hillen, Martin Meggle, Jenny Scheffel, Jan Von Der Heyden, Nazil Eidmohammadi, Sabrina Hoffmann
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Publication number: 20180074509Abstract: A method for processing, in particular cleaning, a floor of a room using an automatically movable processing device. A map of the room is generated and displayed to a user of the processing device, and the user can select at least one room sub-region in which the processing device is to process or refrain from processing the floor in the generated map. The aim of the invention is to provide a method for processing a floor, wherein the generated map of the room is easier to read for the user. This is achieved in that the map of the room is generated from three-dimensional coordinates of a world coordinate system, each point of a plurality of points of the room and/or of an obstacle arranged in the room being assigned to a three-dimensional coordinate within the world coordinates system.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2016Publication date: March 15, 2018Applicant: Vorwerk & Co. lnterholding GmbHInventors: Lorenz HILLEN, Martin MEGGLE
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Publication number: 20180064303Abstract: A system comprising a vacuum cleaner and a base station, wherein the vacuum cleaner has a suction opening for sucking up dirt and/or dust from a floor by a suction air flow, a fan for producing the suction air flow, a dust chamber for holding dirt and/or dust, and an air outlet opening such that air sucked in together with the dirt and/or dust can be discharged again. The base station can be connected to the vacuum cleaner in such a way that the dust chamber can be emptied into the base station by means of an air flow. The air flow used to empty the dust chamber can be produced and blown into the dust chamber by the fan for producing the suction air flow. The base station has a return channel, through which the air flow exiting the dust chamber can be guided back into the vacuum cleaner.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2016Publication date: March 8, 2018Applicant: Vorwerk & Co. lnterholding GmbHInventors: Martin MEGGLE, Miron SERNECKI
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Patent number: 9911226Abstract: A method for cleaning or processing a room uses an autonomously mobile device. In order the relieve the user of the task of finding the exact subarea to which the device must travel, or avoid, on a map of the room, the user in order to select a subarea takes a photograph of the subarea and transmits it to a processing unit. In this way a method is provided that is less time-consuming and more convenient for the user.Type: GrantFiled: July 21, 2015Date of Patent: March 6, 2018Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbHInventors: Lorenz Hillen, Martin Meggle, Jenny Scheffel
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Patent number: 9629514Abstract: A traveling cleaning appliance or floor care appliance or floor treatment appliance is provided with a device for creating photographic pictures of a surface to be traveled on. A picture is evaluated for the type of a floor covering for differentiating between a hard floor covering and a carpeted floor. An identified floor covering is used for a traveling strategy and/or for a setting of cleaning parameters. Further, a method for operating an automatically traveling floor cleaning appliance which has a device for creating photographic pictures of a floor surface to be traveled on includes evaluating pictures that have been taken with regard to the type of floor covering. In dependence on an evaluation, a traveling strategy and/or setting of cleaning parameters such as floor clearance and/or size of secondary air openings and/or brush speed is carried out.Type: GrantFiled: December 4, 2013Date of Patent: April 25, 2017Assignee: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbHInventors: Lorenz Hillen, Martin Meggle, Benjamin Strang
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Publication number: 20160037983Abstract: A method for operating a self-propelled floor cleaning device, in a first operating step, drives the floor cleaning device across a first treatment path across the floor to be cleaned according to a predetermined driving strategy, or according to a predetermined algorithm, which is calculated on the basis of data, which are detected by sensors and thereby carries out a first cleaning step by a first cleaning device. In the first operating step, areas of the floor surfaces to be cleaned, which are cleaned in at least a second operating step by a second cleaning device, or which are excluded from the cleaning by the second cleaning device, are determined. A floor cleaning device, which is suitable for carrying out the method, has a chassis, a first cleaning device for dry cleaning a floor surface, and a second cleaning device for wet cleaning areas of the floor surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2015Publication date: February 11, 2016Applicant: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbHInventors: Lorenz HILLEN, Martin MEGGLE, Jenny SCHEFFEL, Jan VON DER HEYDEN, Nazil EIDMOHAMMADI, Sabrina HOFFMANN
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Publication number: 20160027207Abstract: A method for cleaning or processing a room uses an autonomously mobile device. In order the relieve the user of the task of finding the exact subarea to which the device must travel, or avoid, on a map of the room, the user in order to select a subarea takes a photograph of the subarea and transmits it to a processing unit. In this way a method is provided that is less time-consuming and more convenient for the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 21, 2015Publication date: January 28, 2016Applicant: Vorwerk & Co. Interholding GmbHInventors: Lorenz HILLEN, Martin MEGGLE, Jenny SCHEFFEL
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Publication number: 20140166047Abstract: The invention relates to a traveling cleaning appliance (1) or floor care appliance or floor treatment appliance such as, for example, an automatically traveling floor cleaning appliance or user-guided cleaning appliance (1), that is provided with a device (7) for creating photographic pictures of a surface to be traveled on. In order to further improve a floor cleaning appliance in particular with regard to an effective cleaning strategy, it is proposed that a picture (FA) can be evaluated with regard to the type of a floor covering, in any case for differentiating between a hard floor covering and a carpeted floor, and that an identified floor covering can be used with regard to a traveling strategy and/or with regard to a setting of cleaning parameters such as floor clearance and/or size of secondary air openings and/or brush speed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 4, 2013Publication date: June 19, 2014Applicant: VORWERK & CO. INTERHOLDING GMBHInventors: Lorenz HILLEN, Martin MEGGLE, Benjamin STRANG
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Patent number: 8130099Abstract: Sensor light having a light unit which can be activated in response to a sensor output signal from a motion sensor unit (16), and is provided on a support unit (10, 12) for installing the sensor light inside or outside, wherein that the motion sensor unit is modular, can be removed from the support unit when the latter is installed and has at least one actuating element (28) which can be manually operated and can be operated when the motion sensor unit has been removed.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2005Date of Patent: March 6, 2012Assignee: Steinel GmbHInventors: Heinrich Wolfgang Steinel, Martin Meggle, Christof Herbst, Thomas Möller
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Publication number: 20080204230Abstract: Sensor light having a light unit which can be activated in response to a sensor output signal from a motion sensor unit (16), and is provided on a support unit (10, 12) for installing the sensor light inside or outside, wherein that the motion sensor unit is modular, can be removed from the support unit when the latter is installed and has at least one actuating element (28) which can be manually operated and can be operated when the motion sensor unit has been removed.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 1, 2005Publication date: August 28, 2008Applicant: Steinel GmbHInventors: Heinrich Wolfgang Steinel, Martin Meggle, Christof Herbst, Thomas Moller