Patents by Inventor Martin Schulz

Martin Schulz 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: 12380975
    Abstract: A method, a computer system, and a computer program product for creating medical findings reports are introduced. Using these, hierarchically organized and dynamically adaptable data structure and a text editing interface are provided. A report text consisting of user-entered free text and/or structured text, that is stored in the data structure elements and transferred into the report text, is created. In the report text, first report text elements, that can be assigned to at least one data structure element, and second report text elements, that cannot be assigned to any of the existing data structure elements, are identified. The first report text elements are then assigned to the at least one data structure element. The second report text elements are then assigned and stored to one or more newly created data structure elements and/or to existing data structure elements while maintaining the order of the report text.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: August 5, 2025
    Assignee: SMART REPORTING GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Huber, Martin Schulze, Sigrid Auweter, Wieland Sommer, Vlad Lazar
  • Patent number: 12370916
    Abstract: An adaptive pre-charge control circuit includes include a high-voltage switch and a control circuit. The high-voltage switch controls the flow of current between an electric battery and a DC link capacitor, the electric battery to supply power to an electric vehicle. The DC link capacitor is made up of a sum of individual input capacitors of multiple subunits within an electric vehicle. The control circuit sends a PWM signal to the high-voltage switch based on a difference between an electric battery voltage and a DC link capacitor voltage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 29, 2025
    Assignee: Littelfuse, Inc.
    Inventors: Michael J. Gambuzza, Cesar Martinez, Martin Schulz
  • Patent number: 12365223
    Abstract: An air vent is configured to discharge two separate volumetric flows of air in respectively different and intersecting discharge directions. A perceived air discharge direction is adjustable with no change to the intersecting discharge directions. A first volumetric flow of air exits the first air duct in a first direction, and a second volumetric flow of air exits the second air duct in a second direction that intersects the first direction so that the volumetric flows of air collide after exiting airducts of the air vent. A non-visible vane located along one of the air ducts is moveable to change the perceived air discharge direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: July 22, 2025
    Assignee: Faurecia Innenraum Systeme GmbH
    Inventors: Volker Doll, Stephane Londiche, Julien Seiller, Martin Schulz
  • Publication number: 20250202370
    Abstract: Various embodiments of the teachings herein include a DC/DC converter comprising: four power switches forming a full bridge; a resonant coil forming a series circuit with a primary side of a transformer, the series circuit connected between midpoints of two half-bridges of the full bridge; a bridge rectifier connected to a secondary side of the transformer; a control device for the four power switches; an overvoltage protection circuit connected in parallel with an output of the bridge rectifier, the overvoltage protection circuit comprising a capacitor and a fifth power switch connected in series; and a sixth power switch connected in parallel with the output of the bridge rectifier and in series with the fifth power switch.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2023
    Publication date: June 19, 2025
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Siegmar Unterweger, Martin Schulz
  • Patent number: 12142908
    Abstract: Circuitry and techniques for providing a bidirectional switch in devices for overcurrent protection and voltage protection are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a circuit may include a first reverse-blocking insulating gate bipolar transistor (IGBT), having a first gate terminal, first collector terminal and a first emitter terminal. The circuit may include a second reverse-blocking IGBT, having a second gate terminal, a second collector terminal, electrically coupled to the first emitter terminal, and a second emitter terminal, electrically coupled to the first collector terminal. As such the first IGBT and the second IGBT may define a first current path, extending from the first collector to the second emitter; and a switch control circuit, coupled to send a control signal to at least one of: the first gate terminal and the second gate terminal, during an overcurrent event.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2024
    Assignee: Littelfuse, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Schulz, Cesar Martinez, Liutauras Storasta
  • Patent number: 12119475
    Abstract: Process for making an at least partially coated electrode active material wherein said process comprises the following steps: (a) Providing an electrode active material according to general formula Li1?xTM1?xO2, wherein TM is Ni and, optionally, at least one of Co and Mn, and, optionally, at least one element selected from Al, Mg, Ba and B, transition metals other than Ni, Co, and Mn, and x is in the range of from zero to 0.2, wherein at least 50 mole-% of the transition metal of TM is Ni, (b) treating said electrode active material with an aqueous formulation containing a compound of Me wherein Me is selected from Sb, Mg, Zn, Sn, and Te, (c) separating off the water, (d) treating the residue thermally.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 15, 2024
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Zhenji Han, Junji Kashiwagi, Suhao Wei, Jumpei Nakayama, Daisuke Morita, Martin Schulz-Dobrick
  • Publication number: 20240297148
    Abstract: A power semiconductor device arrangement. The power semiconductor device arrangement may include a substrate that has a ceramic body, a top metal layer, disposed on a top surface of the ceramic body, and a bottom metal layer, disposed on a bottom surface of the ceramic body, opposite the top surface. The power semiconductor device may further include a power transistor die, comprising a power transistor device, where the power transistor die is disposed over the top surface of the substrate. The power semiconductor device may include a diode die assembly, comprising a set of diodes, and being disposed over the top surface of the substrate, adjacent to the power transistor die. The power semiconductor device may include a wire bond connector, having a first end, affixed to an upper surface of the diode die assembly, and a second end, affixed to an upper surface of the power transistor die.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 29, 2024
    Publication date: September 5, 2024
    Applicant: Littelfuse Semiconductor (Wuxi) Co., Ltd.
    Inventor: Martin Schulz
  • Patent number: 12057720
    Abstract: A blower filter device (3) is connectable to a voltage supply unit (2) and includes a blower unit (5), a filter mount (14), an internal energy storage unit (7), an energy interface (9), a current limitation device (13), a sensor array (16, 17, 18) and a control device (6). The current limitation device is activated upon disconnecting the energy interface from the voltage supply unit. The activated current limitation device limits the intensity of a current from the energy interface to the internal energy storage device. Upon the voltage supply unit being connected to the energy storage device and a predefined deactivating event is detected, the control device deactivates the current limitation device. The deactivating event is based on a charging voltage of the internal energy storage unit and/or on a time period that has elapsed since the connection. A process is provided for operating such a blower filter device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 9, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 6, 2024
    Assignee: DRÄGER SAFETY AG & CO. KGAA
    Inventors: Achim Volmer, Martin Schulze
  • Publication number: 20240227609
    Abstract: An adaptive pre-charge control circuit includes include a high-voltage switch and a control circuit. The high-voltage switch controls the flow of current between an electric battery and a DC link capacitor, the electric battery to supply power to an electric vehicle. The DC link capacitor is made up of a sum of individual input capacitors of multiple subunits within an electric vehicle. The control circuit sends a PWM signal to the high-voltage switch based on a difference between an electric battery voltage and a DC link capacitor voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Publication date: July 11, 2024
    Applicant: Littelfuse, Inc.
    Inventors: MICHAEL J. GAMBUZZA, CESAR MARTINEZ, MARTIN SCHULZ
  • Patent number: 11988638
    Abstract: A measuring system for monitoring the material parameters and/or homogeneity of a suspension which is conveyed through a channel, is electrically conductive or contains electrically conductive components with which an electrode of an electrical storage battery or electrical energy store is formed. A sensor system designed for ultrasonic inspection, which has at least one ultrasonic transducer, which is arranged on the outer wall of the channel in order to emit sound waves, and a sensor system designed for eddy current detection is provided, formed with at least one electrical transmitting coil and at least one electrical receiving coil or a giant magnetoresistive sensor (GMR), anisotropic magnetoresistive sensor (AMR), superconducting quantum interference sensor (SQUID) or Hall sensor and is arranged upstream or downstream of the sensor system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 2, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 21, 2024
    Assignee: FRAUNHOFER-GESELLSCHAFT ZUR FOERDERUNG DER ANGEWANDTEN FORSCHUNG E.V.
    Inventors: Marcel Wild, Henning Heuer, Martin Schulze, Thomas Herzog
  • Publication number: 20240131950
    Abstract: An adaptive pre-charge control circuit includes include a high-voltage switch and a control circuit. The high-voltage switch controls the flow of current between an electric battery and a DC link capacitor, the electric battery to supply power to an electric vehicle. The DC link capacitor is made up of a sum of individual input capacitors of multiple subunits within an electric vehicle. The control circuit sends a PWM signal to the high-voltage switch based on a difference between an electric battery voltage and a DC link capacitor voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: Littelfuse, Inc.
    Inventors: MICHAEL J. GAMBUZZA, CESAR MARTINEZ, MARTIN SCHULZ
  • Publication number: 20240083222
    Abstract: An air vent is configured to discharge two separate volumetric flows of air in respectively different and intersecting discharge directions. A perceived air discharge direction is adjustable with no change to the intersecting discharge directions. A first volumetric flow of air exits the first air duct in a first direction, and a second volumetric flow of air exits the second air duct in a second direction that intersects the first direction so that the volumetric flows of air collide after exiting airducts of the air vent. A non-visible vane located along one of the air ducts is moveable to change the perceived air discharge direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Volker DOLL, Stephane LONDICHE, Julien SEILLER, Martin SCHULZ
  • Patent number: 11878573
    Abstract: An air vent includes a housing, first and second air ducts, a first vane, and a set of vanes. The air ducts convey respective volumetric flows of air through the housing so that each volumetric flow exits the respective air duct in a different intersecting direction so that the flows of air collide after exiting the air ducts. A vane located along one of the air ducts is moveable to vertically change a perceived air discharge direction. A set of vanes includes at least one vane located in each air duct and is moveable to horizontally change the perceived air discharge direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2024
    Assignee: Faurecia Innenraum Systeme GmbH
    Inventors: Volker Doll, Stephane Londiche, Julien Seiller, Martin Schulz
  • Patent number: 11703114
    Abstract: The invention relates to a differential or transfer gearbox (10) in a motor vehicle, a method of production and the use of the differential or transfer gearbox (10). The differential or transfer gearbox (10) comprises a differential case (12) in which differential side gears (18, 20) and differential gears (22, 24) are accommodated. Each differential side gear (18) drives a first axle shaft (14) or a second axle shaft (16). A ring gear (32, 60) is driven by an input shaft (34) and mounted for conjoint rotation with the differential case (12). The ring gear (32, 60) is interlockingly connected to the differential case (12) of the differential or transfer gearbox (10).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2020
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ngoc-Thach Nguyen, Martin Schulz
  • Publication number: 20230173602
    Abstract: The invention relates to a feeding device (1) for feeding welding filler elements (310) for deposition welding processes, a positioning sleeve (300, 302) for a feeding device (1), a processing unit and a method for deposition welding. In particular, the invention relates to a feeding device (1) for feeding welding filler elements (310), in particular a wire-shaped and/or rod-shaped welding filler element (310), for a deposition welding processes, comprising a receiving unit (100) for receiving at least one welding filler element (310), a guide unit (200), which is arranged and designed to feed the welding filler element (310) to a deposition welding processes, the receiving unit (100) and the guide unit (200) being arranged and designed such that the welding filler element (310) is provided discontinuously to the guide unit (200).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 10, 2021
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Inventors: Stefan GRÄFE, Martin SCHULZ
  • Patent number: 11670760
    Abstract: The present invention is directed towards a process for making a lithiated transition metal oxide, said process comprising the following steps: (a) providing a precursor selected from mixed oxides, hydroxides, oxyhydroxides, and carbonates of nickel and at least one transition metal selected from manganese and cobalt, wherein at least 45 mole-% of the cations of the precursor are Ni cations, (b) mixing said precursor with at least one lithium salt selected from LiOH, Li2O, Li2CO3, and LiNO3, thereby obtaining a mixture, (c) adding at least one phosphorus compound of general formula (I) XyH3-yPO4??(I) wherein X is selected from NH4 and Li, y is 1 or 2, to the mixture obtained in step (b), wherein steps (b) and (c) may be performed consecutively or simultaneously, (d) treating the mixture so obtained at a temperature in the range of from 650 to 950° C.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 6, 2023
    Inventors: Aleksei Volkov, Martin Schulz-Dobrick, Simon Schroedle, Jordan Lampert
  • Patent number: 11583458
    Abstract: A surgical table comprises a tabletop having several tabletop sections, a column for supporting the tabletop by supporting one of the tabletop sections, and at least one operating unit, wherein one of the tabletop sections is a movable tabletop section configured to perform a motion with respect to at least one of an adjacent tabletop section and the column in a power-driven manner, and the operating unit is fixed to the movable tabletop section for actuating the motion.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: TRUMPF MEDIZIN SYSTEME GMBH + CO. KG
    Inventors: Martin Gonser, Heinz-Hermann Dalbert, Frank Oelgarth, Ivo Mueller, Martin Schulze
  • Publication number: 20230023713
    Abstract: Circuitry and techniques for providing a bidirectional switch in devices for overcurrent protection and voltage protection are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a circuit may include a first reverse-blocking insulating gate bipolar transistor (IGBT), having a first gate terminal, first collector terminal and a first emitter terminal. The circuit may include a second reverse-blocking IGBT, having a second gate terminal, a second collector terminal, electrically coupled to the first emitter terminal, and a second emitter terminal, electrically coupled to the first collector terminal. As such the first IGBT and the second IGBT may define a first current path, extending from the first collector to the second emitter; and a switch control circuit, coupled to send a control signal to at least one of: the first gate terminal and the second gate terminal, during an overcurrent event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Publication date: January 26, 2023
    Applicant: Littelfuse, Inc.
    Inventors: Martin Schulz, Cesar Martinez, Liutauras Storasta
  • Patent number: 11556214
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a control element, which can be arranged on a capacitive surface, for controlling a function of the capacitive surface, comprising a carrier structure, a rotary element rotatable about an axis of rotation with respect to the carrier structure, comprising at least one electrically conductive area, at least one electrically conductive contact element arranged on the carrier structure, wherein the contact element comprises a contact area which is arranged at least in some areas on an underside of the control element, so that the contact area, when the control element is arranged on the capacitive surface, is arranged at least partially touching the capacitive surface, wherein the electrically conductive area of the rotary element is in contact with a contact element in at least one rotational position of the rotary element. The rotary element can be moved along the axis of rotation with respect to the carrier structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 17, 2023
    Assignee: Faurecia Innenraum Systeme GmbH
    Inventors: Edouard Da Silva, Ruddy Cittadini, Martin Schulz, Nils Hollemann
  • Publication number: 20230002810
    Abstract: In an amplification reaction in a microfluidic apparatus, the reaction is carried out using starting substances tagged with fluorophore and quencher. The detection of reaction products occurs according to the disclosure by a separation of fluorophore and quencher occurring in the context of the amplification reaction. For the detection reaction, at least one energy-transferring substance is added and the evaluation occurs on the basis of the fluorescence emission of the fluorophores which occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 10, 2020
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Franz Laermer, Martin Schulz