Patents by Inventor Matthias Hofmann

Matthias Hofmann 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: 20180364005
    Abstract: The invention relates to a long-range optical device, in particular a telescopic sight 1, with at least one objective lens 2 and at least one eyepiece 3 and with an adjustable reticle 6 arranged between the objective lens 2 and the eyepiece, wherein the reticle 6 is coupled to a manually operable fast reticle adjustment, wherein a display device 14 is arranged in the field of view of the long-range optical device 1, through which a distance value set by a setting device 4, 15 of the fast reticle adjustment can be read when using the long-range optical device 1.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Publication date: December 20, 2018
    Applicant: STEINER-OPTIK GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias HOFMANN, Tobias EBERHARDT
  • Publication number: 20180311811
    Abstract: A self-driving storage device for storing and/or transporting body components of motor vehicles, base modules of motor vehicles, or motor vehicles in a final or partially assembled state, the self-driving storage device comprising a base element and a support structure which is arranged on the base element, is designed to receive the body components or the motor vehicles in a final or partially assembled state, and has a plurality of storage spaces with movable storage base elements, wherein the storage device has a movement device which is arranged on the base element and is designed such that the storage device can be moved omnidirectionally in a self-driving manner, in a floor-bound manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2016
    Publication date: November 1, 2018
    Applicant: UNIVERSITAET STUTTGART
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Wehking, Matthias Hofmann, Markus Schroeppel
  • Patent number: 10107254
    Abstract: An underwater current turbine of an underwater tidal-/ocean-/river-flow power plant includes a generator nacelle configured to contain a generator for current generation, a drive unit having at least one rotor blade configured to be driven by moving water and including a shaft connected to the rotor blade for rotation therewith, the shaft extending from the drive unit into the generator nacelle and being configured to drive the generator, and an exchangeable bearing-assembly-and-seal module disposed between the generator nacelle and the drive unit, the bearing-assembly-and-seal module being configured to be removed from the drive unit and from the nacelle as a unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: Matthias Hofmann, Michael Baumann
  • Patent number: 10104680
    Abstract: According to an aspect of this disclosure, a radio communication device is provided comprising a first transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals in accordance with a Cellular Wide Area radio communication technology; a second transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals in accordance with a Short Range radio communication technology or a Metropolitan Area System radio communication technology; a first processor configured to control the first transceiver; and a second processor configured to control the second transceiver wherein the first processor is configured to control the first transceiver to transmit signals in accordance with a predefined transmitting schedule, wherein the first processor is further configured to control the first transceiver to omit transmitting signals within at least one of a time period and a frequency band provided for signal transmission of the first transceiver in accordance with the predefined transmitting schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Bruno Jechoux, Francois Deparis, Matthias Hofmann, Volker Aue
  • Publication number: 20180263488
    Abstract: A refractive measurement tool measures refractive aberrations of the human eye. The tool includes a variable lens system. One or more refractive attributes of the variable lens system—such as spherical power, cylindrical power, cylindrical axis, prism or base—are adjustable. The user holds the tool up to his or her eyes, and looks through the tool at a near or far scene. Iterative vision tests are performed, in which refractive properties of the variable lens system are changed from iteration to iteration.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 13, 2016
    Publication date: September 20, 2018
    Inventors: Vitor PAMPLONA, Nathaniel SHARPE, Matthias HOFMANN, Monica Mitiko Soares MATSUMOTO
  • Patent number: 10072907
    Abstract: The invention relates to a long-range optical device, in particular a telescopic sight 1, with at least one objective lens 2 and at least one eyepiece 3 and with an adjustable reticle 6 arranged between the objective lens 2 and the eyepiece, wherein the reticle 6 is coupled to a manually operable fast reticle adjustment, wherein a display device 14 is arranged in the field of view of the long-range optical device 1, through which a distance value set by a setting device 4, 15 of the fast reticle adjustment can be read when using the long-range optical device 1.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: STEINER-OPTIK GMBH
    Inventors: Matthias Hofmann, Tobias Eberhardt
  • Patent number: 10075968
    Abstract: A radio communication device is described having a first transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals in accordance with a Cellular Wide Area radio communication technology; a second transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals in accordance with a Short Range radio communication technology or a Metropolitan Area System radio communication technology; a first processor configured to control the first transceiver to transmit signals during a transmitting period, the transmitting period comprising a first time period, during which signals are transmitted, and a second time period, during which no signals are transmitted; and a second processor configured to control the second transceiver to transmit signals taking into account the transmitting period of the first transceiver such that the second transceiver transmits signals at least partially during the second time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Francois Deparis, Bruno Jechoux, Matthias Hofmann, Volker Aue
  • Publication number: 20180229933
    Abstract: A driverless transport device for assembling a motor vehicle comprising a drivable base and a vehicle carrier coupled to the base and extending in a longitudinal direction, is configured and developed in terms of a flexible production using simple constructional means, in such a way that the vehicle carrier has actuatable receiving points for carrying the motor vehicle, the vehicle carrier can be moved along its longitudinal direction relative to the base by means of a guide device and can be tilted around an axis oriented orthogonally to the longitudinal direction, such that the at least partially assembled motor vehicle can drive off of the vehicle carrier on its own wheels when receiving points are released from the motor vehicle. The invention also relates to a method for unloading a motor vehicle from a driverless transport device that functions to assemble the motor vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2016
    Publication date: August 16, 2018
    Applicant: Universitaet Stuttgart
    Inventor: Matthias Hofmann
  • Publication number: 20180213482
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a method for reducing power consumption of a first device for use in a wireless communication system. The first device receives a signal within a first reference sub-frame of a radio channel. The device determines whether to use the signal for obtaining channel state information to be reported to a second device within a reporting sub-frame, or whether to receive and use a second signal within a second reference sub-frame of the radio channel for obtaining channel state information to be reported to the second device within said predetermined later sub-frame. Based on this determination, the first device reports channel state information obtained based on the signal received within said first reference sub-frame or said second signal within said second reference sub-frame to the second device within said reporting sub-frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 2, 2016
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: Sven DORTMUND, Mathias KURTH, Matthias HOFMANN, Sabine ROESSEL
  • Patent number: 10034329
    Abstract: According to an aspect of this disclosure, a radio communication device is provided comprising a first transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals in accordance with a Cellular Wide Area radio communication technology; a second transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals in accordance with a Short Range radio communication technology or a Metropolitan Area System radio communication technology; a first processor configured to control the first transceiver; and a second processor configured to control the second transceiver wherein the first processor is configured to control the first transceiver to transmit signals in accordance with a predefined transmitting schedule, wherein the first processor is further configured to control the first transceiver to omit transmitting signals within at least one of a time period and a frequency band provided for signal transmission of the first transceiver in accordance with the predefined transmitting schedule.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: INTEL DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Bruno Jechoux, Francois Deparis, Matthias Hofmann, Volker Aue
  • Publication number: 20180206209
    Abstract: According to an aspect of this disclosure, a radio communication device is provided including a first transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals in accordance with a Cellular Wide Area radio communication technology; a second transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals in accordance with a Short Range radio communication technology; a first processor configured to control the first transceiver to receive and transmit data packets in accordance with a first data transmission frame; a second processor configured to control the second transceiver to receive and transmit data packets in accordance with a second data transmission frame; wherein the first processor is further configured to control the first transceiver such that the first transceiver does not transmit a data packet during at least a time period provided for a first transmission of a respective data packet transmitted by the second transceiver in accordance with the second data transmission frame.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 7, 2017
    Publication date: July 19, 2018
    Inventors: Bruno Jechoux, Francois Deparis, Matthias Hofmann, Volker Aue
  • Publication number: 20180162059
    Abstract: Method for the additive production of a three-dimensional object (2) by selective exposure in successive layers and associated selective consolidation in successive layers of construction material layers composed of a construction material (3) that can be consolidated by means of an energy beam (4), wherein, as part of the additive production of the three-dimensional object (2) to be produced additively, a supporting structure (11) directly surrounding the three-dimensional object (2) produced or to be produced additively is formed by selective exposure in successive layers and associated selective pre-consolidation in successive layers of construction material layers composed of the construction material (3) that can be consolidated by means of the energy beam (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Publication date: June 14, 2018
    Applicant: CL SCHUTZRECHTSVERWAL TUNGS GMBH
    Inventor: Matthias HOFMANN
  • Publication number: 20180160439
    Abstract: A radio communication device is described having a first transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals in accordance with a Cellular Wide Area radio communication technology; a second transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals in accordance with a Short Range radio communication technology or a Metropolitan Area System radio communication technology; a first processor configured to control the first transceiver to transmit signals during a transmitting period, the transmitting period comprising a first time period, during which signals are transmitted, and a second time period, during which no signals are transmitted; and a second processor configured to control the second transceiver to transmit signals taking into account the transmitting period of the first transceiver such that the second transceiver transmits signals at least partially during the second time period.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2017
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: Francois DEPARIS, Bruno JECHOUX, Matthias HOFMANN, Volker AUE
  • Patent number: 9986522
    Abstract: According to an aspect of this disclosure, a radio communication device is provided including: a first transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals in accordance with a Cellular Wide Area radio communication technology; a second transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals in accordance with a Short Range radio communication technology or a Metropolitan Area System radio communication technology; a processor configured to at least partially synchronize the receiving or transmitting of signals of the first transceiver with the receiving or transmitting of signals of the second transceiver such that at least one of at least a part of the receiving and a part of the transmitting of signals of the first transceiver and of the second transceiver is carried out at the same time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: Intel Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Bernd Schmandt, Bruno Jechoux, Matthias Hofmann, Francois Deparis, Volker Aue
  • Publication number: 20180038768
    Abstract: In illustrative implementations of this invention, a lensometer includes a small aperture camera for capturing an image of light that travels from a display surface, through a subject lens and to the camera. One or more computers are programmed to perform calculations that take the image as an input and that compute, for each respective region in a set of regions of the subject lens, a refractive attribute of the respective region.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2016
    Publication date: February 8, 2018
    Inventors: Matthias Hofmann, Vitor Pamplona, Nathaniel Sharpe, Monica Mitiko Soares Matsumoto, Guilherme de Moraes Uzejka, Meng Yang
  • Publication number: 20180030949
    Abstract: A bearing module for adjusting a rotor blade angle of attack in an underwater power plant includes a rotor-blade shaft, at least two bearings for supporting the rotor-blade shaft, the at least two bearings being axially spaced from each other on the rotor-blade shaft, a first attachment structure for producing a mechanical connection to a rotor-blade hub, a second attachment structure for producing a mechanical connection to the rotor blade, and a third attachment structure for producing a mechanical connection to a blade adjustment mechanism, wherein the bearing module is an installation unit such that it can be assembled at one location and transported to a second location where rotor blades may be attached.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2017
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Matthias Hofmann, Michael Baumann
  • Patent number: 9867133
    Abstract: A communication device is provided comprising a radio frequency circuit configured to receive a first radio frequency signal and a second radio frequency signal. A baseband circuit configured to determine a gain level based on the first radio frequency signal. A clock circuit configured to generate a clock signal. The radio frequency circuit is configured to determine a gain adjusted signal based on the second radio frequency signal and on the gain level. The baseband circuit is configured to synchronize the clock signal based on the gain adjusted signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: INTEL IP CORPORATION
    Inventors: Mathias Kurth, Matthias Hofmann, Andreas Bury
  • Patent number: 9828035
    Abstract: A vehicle body includes a roof rail elongated along a longitudinal axis, and first and second bows each connected to the roof rail. A brace includes a base, a first arm and a second arm. The base is elongated along the longitudinal axis, with the first arm extending from the base along the first bow and fixed to the first bow, and the second arm spaced from the first arm and extending from the base along the second bow and fixed to the second bow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventors: Abdelmonaam Sassi, Matthew B. Makowski, Frank Timm, Tofiqul Islam, Matthias Hofmann, Christopher John May, Jaspinder S. Sahi
  • Patent number: 9816896
    Abstract: A bearing arrangement having an inner race and an outer race, between which rolling elements are disposed, the rolling elements being accommodated in a bearing cage. At least one rolling element is designed as a sensor rolling element, and the bearing cage is designed as a pin cage having multiple pin elements that at least partially accommodate the rolling elements and the at least one sensor rolling element, and a sensor rolling element for a bearing arrangement of this kind are disclosed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: AKTIEBOLAGET SKF
    Inventors: Paul Meaney, Nicolaas Simon Willem Den Haak, Matthias Hofmann, Baozhu Liang, Hans-Juergen Liesegang
  • Patent number: 9814059
    Abstract: A radio communication device is described having a first transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals in accordance with a Cellular Wide Area radio communication technology; a second transceiver configured to transmit and receive signals in accordance with a Short Range radio communication technology or a Metropolitan Area System radio communication technology; a first processor configured to control the first transceiver to transmit signals during a transmitting period, the transmitting period comprising a first time period, during which signals are transmitted, and a second time period, during which no signals are transmitted; and a second processor configured to control the second transceiver to transmit signals taking into account the transmitting period of the first transceiver such that the second transceiver transmits signals at least partially during the second time period.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: INTEL DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Francois Deparis, Bruno Jechoux, Matthias Hofmann, Volker Aue