Patents by Inventor Michael Brand
Michael Brand 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: 11946394Abstract: A method for producing a cam phaser for a cam shaft of an internal combustion engine, the cam phaser including a rotor, a stator and at least one cover, the method including arranging the at least one cover at the stator wherein the at least one cover is a flat circular piece of sheet metal and the stator including internal vanes and external drive teeth is integrally provided from one piece of metal; sealing the at least one cover at the stator by applying a ground axial face of the at least one cover to a ground contact surface of the stator; and after the sealing.Type: GrantFiled: June 23, 2022Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: ECO Holding 1 GmbHInventors: Michael Brand, Stephan Wanner
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Patent number: 11938097Abstract: A bottle comprises a body having an opening in an upper end for receiving fluid; a membrane provided to seal across the opening; and a receptacle sealingly secured to a surface of the membrane within the body. Separation of the membrane from the opening in the receptacle releases the receptacle such that the contents of the receptacle are released into the body.Type: GrantFiled: December 13, 2017Date of Patent: March 26, 2024Assignee: BOTTLE GO PTY LTDInventors: Brendan Paul James Richard Clark, Adam Brand, Michael Barton Longman, Edward Joseph Khoury
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Patent number: 11926198Abstract: A vehicle includes a support structure. The vehicle also includes a side door operable to move relative to the support structure between an open position and a closed position. In the open position of the side door, access to a vehicle interior of the vehicle is provided. In the closed position of the side door, the side door extends across a longitudinal centerline of the vehicle. The vehicle further includes a plurality of pivot members, each pivotably coupled to the support structure at a first end and pivotably coupled to the side door at a second end. The side door is movable between the open and closed positions via pivotal movement of each of the plurality of pivot members relative to the support structure and pivotal movement of the side door relative to each of the plurality of pivot members.Type: GrantFiled: October 14, 2021Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLCInventors: Jesse Rene Diephuis, Michael John Harmon, Andrew Brand, Ryan Wayne Warner, Andrew Smith
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Patent number: 11883977Abstract: A method for producing a shaped article comprising: a) providing a binder, which has been produced by a process of: (i) mixing (A) fungi or glucan and (B) starch with an alkaline agent to form an alkaline composition; and mixing the alkaline composition with an acidic agent to form the binder; or (ii) mixing (A) fungi or glucan and (B) starch with an acidic agent to form an acidic composition; and mixing the acidic composition with an alkaline agent to form the binder; (b) forming a binder composition by mixing the binder with filler material; (c) shaping the binder composition into a three-dimensional shape; and (d) curing the binder composition to form a shaped article having said three-dimensional shape, wherein steps c) and d) can be carried out simultaneously or separately, and wherein during one or both of steps c) and d) pressure is applied to the binder composition.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2022Date of Patent: January 30, 2024Assignee: Materialize.X LimitedInventors: Haidin Farmin Rashid, Fabio Fiorelli, Adrien Stephane Hitz, Michael Brand
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Publication number: 20230296171Abstract: A method is for calibrating a pivot angle sensor of a hydraulic machine of a propulsion or working machine. A control device is configured to operationally control the hydraulic machine. The control device is also configured to process a sensor signal from the pivot angle sensor. The pivot angle sensor is calibrated, preferably in an automated manner, via the control device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 14, 2021Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Ximing Wang, Marcel Golde, Michael Brand, Salih Tetik, Daniel Geiger, Benedikt Schrodi
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Publication number: 20230191715Abstract: A component bond out of an additively manufactured component out of metal or plastic material having an inner receiving space that is open on at least one side on a component opening, which is accessible from a component side and is configured fungiform in an axial cross section. The receiving space includes at least one widened molding section facing the component opening and at least one cylinder shaped support section facing away from the component opening, wherein a blind rivet nut or a blind rivet bolt are fastened in the receiving space by a compression bead of the blind rivet nut or of the blind rivet bolt extending into the molding section.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2022Publication date: June 22, 2023Inventors: Torsten Draht, Michael Brand, Jörg Moehring, Franz Ferdinand Menne, Thorben Schiemann, Rami Hasso
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Publication number: 20230093252Abstract: Additive manufacturing method of a component with a thread opening and an insert thread at its radial inner wall, for a wire thread insert to form a standard thread. A 3D component drawing includes the thread opening and the insert thread arranged in there, which is defined by D H ? C ? D HC ? min = d + 0 . 7 ? 5 × P tan ? ( ? 2 ) D 1 ? H ? C ? D 1 ? HC ? min = d + 0 . 1 ? 2 ? 5 × P tan ? ( ? 2 ) D 1 ? H ? C ? D 1 ? HC ? max = d + 0 . 1 ? 2 ? 5 × P tan ? ( ? 2 ) + 0 . 3 ? 7 ? 3 × P - 0 . 1 ? 9 ? 2 × P 1 . 2 ? 1 P H ? C = ( D HC ? min - D 1 ? HC ? min ) × 1 .Type: ApplicationFiled: September 13, 2022Publication date: March 23, 2023Inventors: Torsten Draht, Joerg Moehring, Michael Brand, Dorte Trienens
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Publication number: 20230076034Abstract: A method for producing a shaped article comprising: a) providing a binder, which has been produced by a process of: (i) mixing (A) fungi or glucan and (B) starch with an alkaline agent to form an alkaline composition; and mixing the alkaline composition with an acidic agent to form the binder; or (ii) mixing (A) fungi or glucan and (B) starch with an acidic agent to form an acidic composition; and mixing the acidic composition with an alkaline agent to form the binder; (b) forming a binder composition by mixing the binder with filler material; (c) shaping the binder composition into a three-dimensional shape; and (d) curing the binder composition to form a shaped article having said three-dimensional shape, wherein steps c) and d) can be carried out simultaneously or separately, and wherein during one or both of steps c) and d) pressure is applied to the binder composition.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 11, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Applicant: Materialize.X LimitedInventors: Haidin Farmin Rashid, Fabio Fiorelli, Adrien Stephane Hitz, Michael Brand
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Publication number: 20230032780Abstract: A hydrostatic traction drive has a steering function, which is implemented via two laterally acting secondary units (traction motors), which are supplied by a common primary unit (pump) in the open circuit. The primary unit is pressure-controlled. The two secondary units are torque-controlled. The affected vehicle is steerable as a function of a steering command by different torque specifications for the two secondary units. Furthermore, a hydrostatic drive for a mobile work machine has working hydraulics in addition to the traction drive. The working hydraulics are also supplied by the primary unit in parallel to the two secondary units.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 18, 2022Publication date: February 2, 2023Inventors: Diego Cornolti, Erguen Goekce, Giovanni Belloni, Karl-Heinz Vogl, Michael Brand
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Patent number: 11511456Abstract: A method for producing a shaped article comprising: a) providing a binder, which has been produced by a process of: (i) mixing (A) fungi or glucan and (B) starch with an alkaline agent to form an alkaline composition; and mixing the alkaline composition with an acidic agent to form the binder; or (ii) mixing (A) fungi or glucan and (B) starch with an acidic agent to form an acidic composition; and mixing the acidic composition with an alkaline agent to form the binder; (b) forming a binder composition by mixing the binder with filler material; (c) shaping the binder composition into a three-dimensional shape; and (d) curing the binder composition to form a shaped article having said three-dimensional shape, wherein steps c) and d) can be carried out simultaneously or separately, and wherein during one or both of steps c) and d) pressure is applied to the binder composition.Type: GrantFiled: May 21, 2018Date of Patent: November 29, 2022Assignee: Materialize.X LimitedInventors: Haidin Farmin Rashid, Fabio Fiorelli, Adrien Stephane Hitz, Michael Brand
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Publication number: 20220333511Abstract: A method for producing a cam phaser for a cam shaft of an internal combustion engine, the cam phaser including a rotor, a stator and at least one cover, the method including arranging the at least one cover at the stator wherein the at least one cover is a flat circular piece of sheet metal and the stator including internal vanes and external drive tooth is integrally provided from one piece of metal; sealing the at least one cover at the stator by applying a ground axial face of the at least one cover to a ground contact surface of the stator; and after the sealing.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 23, 2022Publication date: October 20, 2022Inventors: Michael Brand, Stephan Wanner
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Patent number: 11473454Abstract: A method for producing a cam phaser for a cam shaft of an internal combustion engine, the cam phaser including a rotor, a stator and at least one cover, the method including arranging the at least one cover at the stator; and welding the at least one cover with the stator, wherein a first weld, a second weld and a third weld are formed at least on a large radius or on a small radius during the welding, and wherein the small radius is smaller than the large radius. The invention furthermore relates to a cam phaser for a cam shaft of an internal combustion engine, the cam phaser including a rotor; a stator and at least one cover.Type: GrantFiled: July 25, 2020Date of Patent: October 18, 2022Assignee: ECO Holding 1 GmbHInventors: Michael Brand, Stephan Wanner
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Patent number: 11343156Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for routing events of an event stream in a stream processing system. One of the methods includes receiving, by a router, an event stream of events; identifying, for each event, by the router, a respective partition of context data that includes context data related to the event and providing the event to a respective local modeler that stores the partition of context data identified for the event in operational memory of the local modeler; processing, by each local modeler, events received from the router and aggregating information associated with each event to generate aggregated information; providing, by one or more of the local modelers, to a central modeler, the respective aggregated information; and determining, by the central modeler, a plurality of parameters of a machine learning model using the received aggregated information.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2015Date of Patent: May 24, 2022Assignee: Pivotal Software, Inc.Inventors: Michael Brand, Lyndon John Adams, David Russell Brown, Kee Siong Ng
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Patent number: 11261829Abstract: A method for controlling a control valve, the control valve controlling a volume flow of a fluid along a line, the method including at least the following steps: (a) performing a closing operation of the control valve; (b) measuring a pressure profile upstream of the control valve; and (c) determining a density of the fluid.Type: GrantFiled: May 28, 2019Date of Patent: March 1, 2022Assignee: VOLKSWAGEN AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Michael Brand, Silke Weddig, Björn Fröhlich, Jens Wodausch, Christian Arenz
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Patent number: 11220804Abstract: A hydraulic pressurizing medium supply assembly has an adjustable axial piston machine. An actuating cylinder is controlled by way of a pilot valve. The pilot valve is actuated by a control installation. The control installation, as input variables, has an actual pressure and/or an actual swivel angle of the adjustable axial piston machine. One or a plurality of the input variables are compared with a matching nominal value and a control value is emitted, or in each case a control value is emitted. The controlling of the input variables is part of a first closed-loop control circuit. An underlying second closed-loop control circuit has an input variable which is based on the control variable or the control variables and serves as a nominal variable. A further input variable of the second closed-loop control circuit is an actual delivery-volume adjustment rate of the axial piston machine.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2020Date of Patent: January 11, 2022Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Florian Muehlbauer, Michael Brand, Minha An, Salih Tetik, Ximing Wang
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Patent number: 11156239Abstract: A hydraulic pressurizing medium supply assembly having a hydro machine for supplying pressurizing medium of at least one hydraulic consumer, includes a hydraulic control block for controlling the at least one consumer, a first control module, and a second control module. The control block, by way of the first control module, is able to be controlled by at least one actuating signal. A data interface is included between the control modules. The first control module, by way of the data interface, as a further actuating signal transfers to the second control module as input variable/variables a nominal outlet pressure for the hydro machine and/or a nominal delivery volume for the hydro machine. The second control module by way of the nominal outlet pressure and/or by way of the nominal delivery volume controls an adjusting mechanism of the hydro machine by way of a valve actuating signal.Type: GrantFiled: July 24, 2020Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Daniel Geiger, Florian Muehlbauer, Marcel Golde, Michael Brand, Minha An, Salih Tetik, Ximing Wang
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Patent number: 11098664Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine is provided, which has a combustion unit, including a combustion chamber; a fresh gas tract; an exhaust tract, including an exhaust gas sensor integrated therein; and a fuel tank system. During an operation of the internal combustion engine, while purge gas is conducted via a purge gas line a hydrocarbon content of the purge gas is ascertained with the aid of the HC sensor, and the mass flow of the purge gas is also ascertained, and a fuel mass flow introduced into the fresh gas tract is ascertained from these values in combination and a quantity of fuel introduced into the combustion chamber and/or into the fresh gas tract with the aid of at least one fuel injector is adapted.Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2020Date of Patent: August 24, 2021Assignee: Volkswagen AktiengesellschaftInventors: Michael Lindlau, Michael Brand
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Publication number: 20210079859Abstract: A method for operating an internal combustion engine is provided, which has a combustion unit, including a combustion chamber; a fresh gas tract; an exhaust tract, including an exhaust gas sensor integrated therein; and a fuel tank system. During an operation of the internal combustion engine, while purge gas is conducted via a purge gas line a hydrocarbon content of the purge gas is ascertained with the aid of the HC sensor, and the mass flow of the purge gas is also ascertained, and a fuel mass flow introduced into the fresh gas tract is ascertained from these values in combination and a quantity of fuel introduced into the combustion chamber and/or into the fresh gas tract with the aid of at least one fuel injector is adapted.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 18, 2020Publication date: March 18, 2021Applicant: Volkswagen AktiengesellschaftInventors: Michael LINDLAU, Michael BRAND
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Publication number: 20210025374Abstract: A hydraulic pressurizing medium supply assembly includes a hydro machine which has an adjustable swash plate. An angle of the swash plate is able to be adjusted by way of a pilot valve. The pilot valve is able to be adjusted by a control. When the pilot valve is actuated by a neutral current, a valve slide of the pilot valve assumes a central position in which the swash plate does not perform any movement. In order for the pilot valve to be controlled it is provided that the control emits a control variable. The control variable, at the outlet side of the control, is linked and adapted to a preliminary control variable for the neutral current, in order for the neutral current to be pre-controlled.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Florian Muehlbauer, Michael Brand, Minha An, Salih Tetik, Ximing Wang
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Publication number: 20210025138Abstract: A hydraulic pressurizing medium supply assembly has an adjustable axial piston machine. An actuating cylinder is controlled by way of a pilot valve. The pilot valve is actuated by a control installation. The control installation, as input variables, has an actual pressure and/or an actual swivel angle of the adjustable axial piston machine. One or a plurality of the input variables are compared with a matching nominal value and a control value is emitted, or in each case a control value is emitted. The controlling of the input variables is part of a first closed-loop control circuit. An underlying second closed-loop control circuit has an input variable which is based on the control variable or the control variables and serves as a nominal variable. A further input variable of the second closed-loop control circuit is an actual delivery-volume adjustment rate of the axial piston machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 24, 2020Publication date: January 28, 2021Inventors: Florian Muehlbauer, Michael Brand, Minha An, Salih Tetik, Ximing Wang