Patents by Inventor Martin Wolf

Martin Wolf 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).

  • Publication number: 20240142937
    Abstract: A method for commissioning a door system, with the door system having at least one door component, with the commissioning including the following method step carrying out an electronically defined test process of the door system wherein the test process includes test steps and/or test functions, wherein the sequence of the test steps and/or test functions is stored electronically in the test process, wherein the test process is defined for a preconfigured door system type.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 19, 2021
    Publication date: May 2, 2024
    Inventors: Alexander BRADFISCH, Christian RAPPEL, Chandra Prakash GUPTA, Martin WOLF, Stephan GIERNICH, Beat KIPFER
  • Publication number: 20240137270
    Abstract: A method for commissioning a door system with the door system having door components, with at least one door component being designed as a control unit, with the method including the following steps: storing an electronic configuration of the door system in the control unit and/or a mobile terminal, and carrying out at least one commissioning step by the electronic configuration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Kai OBERSTE-UFER, Christian RAPPEL, Thomas VOGLER, Sven BUSCH, Ingo HALDER, Bernd GEHRMANN, Andrzej DUDZINSKI, Chandra Prakash GUPTA, Oliver BORCHMANN, Frank LORENZ, Martin WOLF, Alexander BRADFISCH, Stephan GIERNICH, Pedro GUERRA
  • Patent number: 11967929
    Abstract: A photovoltaic system comprising an inverter adapted to convert a DC power supplied by photovoltaic modules of a photovoltaic generator via power cables to said inverter into an AC current for an AC power supply grid, wherein the inverter has a base station connected by means of the power cables to the module level devices which are provided to monitor and/or to control associated photovoltaic modules of the photovoltaic generator, wherein if the inverter does not receive sufficient energy from the photovoltaic generator and the AC power supply grid, a controller is adapted to activate a deadlock prevention mode of an energy supply unit connected to the inverter where the inverter receives energy from the energy supply unit such that the base station of the inverter is able to continue to transmit permission to operate, PTO, signals via the power cables to the module level devices of the photovoltaic generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: Fronius International GmbH
    Inventors: Tobias Kampl, David Hanek, Franz Breitwieser, Jürgen Waldhör, Martin Wolf
  • Publication number: 20240126097
    Abstract: Glasses have a lens arrangement, a glasses frame, and at least one pivot point for joining together the lens arrangement and the glasses frame by pivoting them relative to one another, wherein the glasses frame has a nose support device for support against a nose of a glasses wearer, and wherein the lens arrangement has a nose support device receptacle which, in the joined-together state of the lens arrangement and the glasses frame, receives the nose support device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Publication date: April 18, 2024
    Inventors: Martin WOLF, Florian KÜHNLEIN, Michael ABEL, Frederic SCHUSS
  • Publication number: 20240083508
    Abstract: A body for an electrically operable motor vehicle, includes a vehicle floor, which has a floor element arranged above an energy storage device and, in the region of the end of the floor element, at least one fastening point of the body for a support element is provided. In the event of an accident-induced load introduction of a corresponding force in the region of the fastening point, in order to prevent accompanying damage to the energy storage device, the floor element has a deformation region that can be intentionally deformed away from the energy storage device when the accident-induced force is introduced at the fastening point of the body for the support element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Markus AMSZ, Jan DANNEBERG, Martin GAMBONI, Juergen LESCHHORN, Andreas WOLF
  • Publication number: 20240082062
    Abstract: A goggle lens comprises a main body and at least one transparent, electrically conductive coating that covers the main body at least partly, as well as electrical contact means which cover the at least one coating partly and are in electrical connection with the at least one coating and also form at least one electrical heating zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Simon Jaschke, Marco WACKER, Florian KÜHNLEIN, Martin WOLF
  • Publication number: 20240018635
    Abstract: An alloy with the composition (in mass-%): C: max. 0.02%; S: max. 0.01%; N: max. 0.03%; Cr: 20.0-23.0%; Ni: 39.0-44.0%; Mn: 0.4-<1.0%; Si: 0.1-<0.5%; Mo: >4.0-<7.0%; Nb: max. 0.15%; Cu: >1.5-<2.5%; Al: 0.05-<0.3%; Co: max. 0.5%; B: 0.001-<0.005%; Mg: 0.005-<0.015%; Fe: the rest, as well as smelting related impurities, is further processed as an alloyed solid in the form of wire, strip, rod or powder via the molten phase and is used in the field of wet corrosion applications in the oil and gas as well as the chemical industry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2022
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Applicant: VDM METALS INTERNATIONAL GMBH
    Inventors: Helena ALVES, Julia BOTINHA, Martin WOLF
  • Publication number: 20230408569
    Abstract: To determine an AC insulation resistance between the AC connections of an inverter and a ground potential, the AC connections are connected to an AC energy sink in an emergency standby operation in order to transmit energy from a DC energy source to an AC energy sink and an insulation test is performed in emergency standby operation. An AC fault current flowing between an AC connection and the ground potential is determined, and the AC insulation resistance is calculated from the AC fault current.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 25, 2021
    Publication date: December 21, 2023
    Applicant: Fronius International GmbH
    Inventors: Roland JUNGREITHMAIR, Stefan WIESER, Martin WOLF, Bernhard DOPPELBAUER
  • Patent number: 11767579
    Abstract: A nickel-based alloy for powder has the contents (in wt. %): C 0.01-0.5%, S max. 0.5%, in particular max. 0.03%, Cr 20-25%, Ni radical Mn max. 1%, Si max. 1%, Mo up to 10%, Ti 0.25-0.6%, Nb up to 5.5%, Cu up to 5%, in particular up to 0.5%, Fe up to 25%, P max. 0.03%, in particular max. 0.02%, Al 0.8-1.5%, V max. 0.6%, Zr max. 0.12%, in particular max. 0.1%, Co up to 15%, B 0.001-0.125% O >0.00001-0.1% and impurities dependent on production. The carbon to boron ratio (C/B) is between 4 and 25.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2023
    Assignee: VDM Metals International GmbH
    Inventor: Martin Wolf
  • Patent number: 11720574
    Abstract: A portable electronic device is disclosed comprising data processing means and a data repository containing: data records representative of locations relevant to or within a digital map; and data representative of an index associating words contained in the data records with the records in which those words appear. The device further comprises means for, in relation to a received search query including a search string, processing the search string to provide one or more search words; querying the index to identify data records containing the or each search word; and generating a rank for each of the one or more identified data records indicative of the relevance of each identified data record to the search query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2023
    Assignee: TomTom Navigation B.V.
    Inventors: Hendrik Sebastian Ziezold, Simone Francine Tertoolen, Mathieu M. B. Doorduyn, Marc Alexander Viddeleer, Adrian Catalin Bogdan, Joost Cornelis Frederik Voogt, Ruud Willemstein, Martin Wolf, Maurits Hol, Michel de Boer
  • Publication number: 20230173621
    Abstract: A welding filler material includes (in wt.-%): C 0.01-0.05%; N 0.05-0.10%; Cr 20.0-23.0 %; Mn 0.25-0.50 %; Si 0.04-0.10 %; Mo 8.0-10.5 %; Ti 0.75-1.0 %; Nb 3.0-5.0%; Fe max. 1.5%; Al 0.03-0.50%; W 4.0-5.0%; Ta max. 0.5%; Co max. 1.0%; Zr 0.10-0.70% Ni remainder; and impurities resulting from the smelting process.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2023
    Publication date: June 8, 2023
    Applicant: VDM Metals International GmbH
    Inventor: Martin WOLF
  • Publication number: 20230084075
    Abstract: Alloy with the composition (in wt. %) Ni 33.5-35.0%, Cr 26.0-28.0%, Mo 6.0-7.0%, Fe<33.5%, Mn 1.0-4.0%, Si<0.1%, Cu 0.5-1.5%, Al 0.01%-0.3%, C<0.01%, P<0.015%, S<0.01%, N 0.1-0.25%, B 0.001-0.004%, Se>0-1.0%, if required W<0.2%, Co<0.5%, Nb<0.2%, Ti<0.1%, and impurities from the melting process, is used as a welding-plating material in the area of thermal processing systems, in particular rubbish, biomass, sewage sludge and substitute fuel systems, wherein, after the build-up welding, in the operationally stressed state in a fully austenitic structural matrix, the welding-plating material forms a sigma phase and other hard particles in the weld material microstructure in a targeted manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Applicant: VDM Metals International GmbH
    Inventors: Martin WOLF, Helena ALVES, Rainer BEHRENS
  • Publication number: 20230006604
    Abstract: A photovoltaic system comprising an inverter adapted to convert a DC power supplied by photovoltaic modules of a photovoltaic generator via power cables to said inverter into an AC current for an AC power supply grid, wherein the inverter has a base station connected by means of the power cables to the module level devices which are provided to monitor and/or to control associated photovoltaic modules of the photovoltaic generator, wherein if the inverter does not receive sufficient energy from the photovoltaic generator and the AC power supply grid, a controller is adapted to activate a deadlock prevention mode of an energy supply unit connected to the inverter where the inverter receives energy from the energy supply unit such that the base station of the inverter is able to continue to transmit permission to operate, PTO, signals via the power cables to the module level devices of the photovoltaic generator.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 3, 2021
    Publication date: January 5, 2023
    Inventors: Tobias Kampl, David Hanek, Franz Breitwieser, Jürgen Waldhör, Martin Wolf
  • Patent number: 11453025
    Abstract: The invention relates to a biaxially oriented polypropylene film (BOPP) comprising layers (A) to (D), wherein layers (B) to (D) contain biaxially oriented polypropylene and layer (A) contains polyurethane and nanoparticles and has a layer thickness of 25 to 300 nm, layer (B) contains polymers with functional groups that are capable of forming covalent bonds with polyurethane and is directly connected to layer (A), layer (C) has at least a layer thickness of 50% of the total thickness of the film, and layer (D) represents an outer layer of the film containing an anti-blocking agent. The invention also relates to a method for producing films of this type.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: Brückner Maschinenbau GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Willi Lindemann, Martin Wolf
  • Publication number: 20220240858
    Abstract: For improving the safety of optical measurements performed with an apparatus comprising a set of light sources and detectors controlled by an electronic unit for measuring an optical or physiological parameter in a scattering medium, in particular human tissue, based on a set of measurement wavelengths, it is suggested that the apparatus features at least one optical contact detector, for example in the form of a photodiode or a light sensitive end facet of an optical fiber or the like, for measuring a detection light quantity resulting from a detection wavelength, and wherein the apparatus issues an alarm signal, in case the measured detection light quantity indicates a low optical coupling efficiency between the apparatus and the medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2020
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Applicant: Universitat Zurich
    Inventors: Stefan Kleiser, Daniel Ostojic, Martin Wolf
  • Patent number: 11391594
    Abstract: A portable electronic device is disclosed comprising: data processing means; data repository containing data representative of a digital map; and display means. The device further comprises means for, in relation to data representative of a plurality locations relevant to the digital map, providing, on a representation of the digital map displayed on the display, for each of the locations, one of a plurality of different graphical user interface (GUI) elements characterised by different prominence levels to indicate the locations, wherein the prominence level of the GUI element used for each location is dependent on the level of detail at which the digital map is displayed and a deemed relevance of that location to a user query.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 19, 2022
    Assignee: TOMTOM NAVIGATION B.V.
    Inventors: Hendrik Sebastian Ziezold, Simone Francine Tertoolen, Mathieu M. B. Doorduyn, Marc Alexander Viddeleer, Adrian Catalin Bogdan, Joost Cornelis Frederik Voogt, Ruud Willemstein, Martin Wolf, Maurits Hol, Michel de Boer
  • Publication number: 20220195560
    Abstract: A nickel-based alloy for powder has the contents (in wt.%): C 0.01-0.5%, S max. 0.5%, in particular max. 0.03%, Cr 20-25%, Ni radical Mn max. 1%, Si max. 1%, Mo up to 10%, Ti 0.25-0.6%, Nb up to 5.5%, Cu up to 5%, in particular up to 0.5%, Fe up to 25%, P max. 0.03%, in particular max. 0.02%, Al 0.8-1.5%, V max. 0.6%, Zr max. 0.12%, in particular max. 0.1%, Co up to 15%, B 0.001-0.125% O >0.00001-0.1% and impurities dependent on production. The carbon to boron ratio (C/B) is between 4 and 25.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 1, 2020
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Applicant: VDM Metals International GmbH
    Inventor: Martin WOLF
  • Patent number: 11259722
    Abstract: An apparatus and method for non-invasively determining the blood oxygen saturation within a subject's tissue by near-infrared spectroscopy is disclosed. Embodiments of the apparatus and method use the multi-distance method and take into account the attenuation of the light signal due to light absorbers other than hemoglobin and deoxyhemoglobin and the scattering properties of a subject's tissue.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 9, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 1, 2022
    Assignees: Carag AG, Universität Zürich
    Inventors: Martin Wolf, Helene Isler, Daniel Schenk
  • Patent number: 11246517
    Abstract: A spectrophotometric apparatus for determining optical parameters in a scattering medium based on the measurement of attenuation of light propagating through said medium by diffusion. To eliminate the detrimental effect of light being guided in an intermediate optical layer between a surface of the medium and a contact surface of the apparatus, either a multitude of optical barriers may be formed in the contact surface or the angular range over which light is emitted or received by the apparatus may be limited by appropriate means. With both of these alternative approaches, light propagation in the intermediate layer can be suppressed, leading to increased measurement accuracy. This is particularly beneficial for building an oximeter with improved precision. Further aspects include features for improving the applicability of the apparatus on curved surfaces such as the strongly curved skulls of neonates.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: Universität Zürich
    Inventors: Stefan Kleiser, Martin Wolf, Daniel Ostojic, Nassimsadat Nasseri
  • Publication number: 20210219881
    Abstract: A spectrophotometric apparatus for determining optical parameters in a scattering medium based on the measurement of attenuation of light propagating through said medium by diffusion. To eliminate the detrimental effect of light being guided in an intermediate optical layer between a surface of the medium and a contact surface of the apparatus, either a multitude of optical barriers may be formed in the contact surface or the angular range over which light is emitted or received by the apparatus may be limited by appropriate means. With both of these alternative approaches, light propagation in the intermediate layer can be suppressed, leading to increased measurement accuracy. This is particularly beneficial for building an oximeter with improved precision. Further aspects include features for improving the applicability of the apparatus on curved surfaces such as the strongly curved skulls of neonates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Publication date: July 22, 2021
    Applicant: Universitat Zurich
    Inventors: Stefan KLEISER, Martin WOLF, Daniel OSTOJIC, Nassimsadat NASSERI