Patents by Inventor Michael Harder

Michael Harder 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: 20120091759
    Abstract: A rear floor structure for a motor vehicle includes, but is not limited to two longitudinal girders extending between rear wheel houses. A downwardly open pocket for receiving a shock absorber is formed in each of the longitudinal girders.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Publication date: April 19, 2012
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Martin Schwarz, Juergen Hulbert, Stephan Rosenplaenter, Joerg Fritzinger, Andreas Stern, Juergen Siebeneick, Michael Harder, Dirk Ehrlich, Waldemar Solnica, Oleg Mazur, Gunther Heim, Sven Ohligschlaeger
  • Publication number: 20110309593
    Abstract: A Watt's linkage for the movable connection of two machine parts, in particular a vehicle axle and a vehicle body, includes, but is not limited to two rods, whose ends facing away from one another engage on a first of the machine parts, and a coupling device, which couples the ends of the rods facing toward one another to one another, and is linked on the second machine part. The coupling device includes, but is not limited to two levers pivotable around fixed pivot axes on the second machine part. A first engagement point of the levers is connected in each case to one of the ends of the rods facing toward one another, and second engagement points of the levers are connected to one another by a coupling body, which forces a pivot movement in opposite directions of each of the two levers around their pivot axes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2011
    Publication date: December 22, 2011
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventors: Wolfgang Stoff, Michael Harder, Sven Ohligschlaeger
  • Publication number: 20110295465
    Abstract: A method is provided for vehicle steering using a steering actuation apparatus operable by the driver. The vehicle steering device has electromechanical control assemblies for this purpose for controlling a steerable wheel, located on the right and left on a vehicle body, of a wheel pair of at least one steerable vehicle axis. A central control unit compares target value specifications of the steering actuation apparatus to ESP specifications and actual values of the wheel positions of the steerable wheels and adapts electronic specifications of the steering stops for the steerable wheels to the operating situations of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 26, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLC
    Inventor: Michael HARDER
  • Patent number: 8065600
    Abstract: The described systems and methods are directed at defining web content navigation. The disclosed technique enables the development of web content for a scenario without having to create every navigational control that is needed to manage the flow through the web content in the scenario or to write non-declarative server-side logic to control navigation. This method determines a declaration in a source file for a web page. The declaration is associated with an object. The method determines the views associated with the object where each of the views includes a user-interface. A flow for navigating through the views is determined. The views are rendered in accordance with the navigational flow.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2011
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Susan Chory, Matthew E. Gibbs, Scott D. Guthrie, Michael Harder, Robert M. Howard, Scott Kirk Imig, Nikhil Kothari, Shanku Shivabrata Niyogi, Ting-Hao Yang, Andres M. Sanabria
  • Publication number: 20110127744
    Abstract: A damping bushing is provided for an axle bearing of a trailing arm of a torsion-beam rear axle for a motor vehicle, in particular for an automobile, which includes, but is not limited to a bushing outer sleeve, a bushing inner sleeve, and a damping body. The interposed damping body is disposed coaxially to the bushing outer sleeve and to the bushing inner sleeve between these two elements. The bushing inner sleeve forms a radially outwardly extending spherical surface and the damping bushing has at least one further element that abuts extensively against the spherical surface formed by the bushing inner sleeve. Furthermore, a torsion-beam axle is provided that is fitted with these bushings.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 23, 2010
    Publication date: June 2, 2011
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Juergen SIEBENEICK, Michael HARDER, Gerd BITZ, Oleg MAZUR, Dirk EHRLICH
  • Publication number: 20110031712
    Abstract: A twist beam axle is provided for a motor vehicle, with two rigid trailing arms for the mounting of wheel carriers, each of which can be articulated on a vehicle body through a bearing bush. The trailing arms are connected with each other through a flexurally rigid, but at least in sections, torsionally elastic, antiroll bar and through a Watt's linkage. In the twist beam axle, center axes of the bearing bushes are each arranged parallel to the vehicle vertical axis. In addition, the invention extends to a motor vehicle equipped with such a rear axle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2010
    Publication date: February 10, 2011
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Gerd BITZ, Michael HARDER, Dirk EHRLICH, Jüergen SIEBENEICK
  • Patent number: 7680683
    Abstract: Systems and methods that dynamically reset a workflow state by employing a dynamic state manager that is external to the workflow, and enables interaction of a host with a workflow instance. An event driven workflow or state machine workflow can be supplied, wherein ad hoc events are employed to reset and manipulate the workflow to states that have not been modeled as part of the workflow itself, to dynamically create relation ships at runtime.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2010
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Israel Hilerio, Andres Sanabria, Constantin Mihai, Nikhil Kothari, Pravin Indurkar, Marcelo R. Uemura, Michael Harder
  • Publication number: 20100052281
    Abstract: A suspension is provided for non-steered wheels on a motor vehicle body. The suspension includes, but is not limited to a twist-beam rear axle with a Watt linkage. A top rocker arm of the Watt linkage is mounted on the motor vehicle body. The Watt linkage prevents the motor vehicle from oversteering during cornering. The damping bushes can be disconnected in part from wheel-guiding functions as the Watt linkage performs a major part of the wheel guiding functions, which leaves some freedom for designing the characteristics so as to significantly increase motoring comfort.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2007
    Publication date: March 4, 2010
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Gerd Bitz, Werner Brinker, Dirk Ehrlich, Michael Harder, Matthew S. Purdy, Wolfgang Stoff
  • Publication number: 20090043451
    Abstract: A control method is provided for an electronically controlled damping system in a vehicle, wherein at least one characteristic quantity varying with different axle load conditions of an axle of the vehicle is determined, a correcting variable is established for an actuator of a vibration damper based on the characteristic quantity and the correcting variable is transmitted to the actuator of the vibration damper to adjust a desired damping behavior of the vibration damper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2006
    Publication date: February 12, 2009
    Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Michael Harder, Mike Rodder
  • Patent number: 7281202
    Abstract: A framework for creating modular web pages. The framework enables the development of modular, customized, and personalized web applications including web portals and web pages. The framework includes an extensible part base class and an extensible zone base class. Part controls that derive from the part base class include web part controls, editor part controls, and catalog part controls. Zone controls, editor zone controls, and catalog zone controls derive from the zone base class. Each zone control contains one or more part controls and each zone is responsible for rendering part controls within each respective zone. Web part controls can communicate with other web part controls. Web part controls can be edited, removed, or added to a zone control. The functionality of part controls can vary widely among the part controls in a particular zone and across different zones.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 19, 2003
    Date of Patent: October 9, 2007
    Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph Keith Croney, Nikhil Kothari, Michael Harder, Gregory S. Lindhorst, Andres Sanabria
  • Publication number: 20070156487
    Abstract: Systems and methods that objectify view of workflows and management behavior via an access component that supplies access to the real workflow instance. The subject innovation enables custom features to be defined for interaction during run time. For example, custom features (e.g., strongly typed workflow) can include, a method(s), an event(s), a proper(ies), an interface and the like. Accordingly, the workflow can be exposed as an object type or class, wherein new members can be added and the workflow extended.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Andres Sanabria, Constantin Mihai, Nikhil Kothari, Israel Hilerio, Michael Harder, Paul Maybee
  • Publication number: 20070156485
    Abstract: Systems and methods that implement interactivity as part of a workflow itself. Data is passed in and out of the workflow to form an interactive workflow, via employing an interactive activity component. Such interactive activity component models suspension points within a workflow definition, wherein user input and associated interaction can be supplied to the workflow during various interactivity breaks that request user input. Such an arrangement enables a controlled/synchronous data exchange between the workflow and a host application associated therewith.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Andres Sanabria, Constantin Mihai, Nikhil Kothari, Israel Hilerio, Michael Harder, Paul Maybee
  • Publication number: 20070156486
    Abstract: Systems and methods that supply workflow management and workflow interaction with a plurality of persistence stores via employing a routing persistence service and an association lookup component. The routing persistence service routes and/or assigns each workflow instance to a corresponding persistence store, and the association lookup component manages caching associations between the workflow instance(s) and the plurality of persistence services. Accordingly, the subject innovation facilitates an extensible and/or pluggable mechanism for concurrent usage of multiple concrete implementations of a generic abstract workflow provider.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Andres Sanabria, Constantin Mihai, Nikhil Kothari, Israel Hilerio, Michael Harder, Paul Maybee
  • Publication number: 20070156888
    Abstract: Systems and methods that dynamically reset a workflow state by employing a dynamic state manager that is external to the workflow, and enables interaction of a host with a workflow instance. An event driven workflow or state machine workflow can be supplied, wherein ad hoc events are employed to reset and manipulate the workflow to states that have not been modeled as part of the workflow itself, to dynamically create relation ships at runtime.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 29, 2005
    Publication date: July 5, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Israel Hilerio, Andres Sanabria, Constantin Mihai, Nikhil Kothari, Pravin Indurkar, Marcelo R. Uemura, Michael Harder
  • Publication number: 20070112829
    Abstract: In a workflow system data is exchanged using databinding constructs between the workflow and user interface layer. During an execution of a workflow a user interface instance is activated in anticipation of a user input event. The workflow is suspended and data for populating the user interface instance is provided to the user interface layer using a databinding construct from the workflow. Upon receiving user input, another instance of the workflow is loaded and data associated with the user input provided from the user interface to the workflow employing a databinding construct such that the other instance of the workflow is executed with the data associated with the user input.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2005
    Publication date: May 17, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Andres Sanabria, Michael Harder, Nikhil Kothari
  • Publication number: 20070061695
    Abstract: A workflow container defines boundaries within which a user interface appears on a page. The workflow container may change what is displayed on the user interface based on a current state of the workflow. Each workflow container maintains an independent association with a workflow that drives the user interface. The workflow is associated with the workflow container at a control level such that multiple workflows may be independently executed on the same page concurrently or separately.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2005
    Publication date: March 15, 2007
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Andres Sanabria, Nikhil Kothari, Michael Harder
  • Patent number: 7054677
    Abstract: The present invention provides for an ECG electrode system that includes the use of electrodes adapted to attach to the body via suction. The invention includes a lightweight and compact air pump in combination with air connection hoses, a lightweight air distribution unit, associated electrode tubes, and respective electrodes adapted to be positioned by the Venturi principle, and corresponding electrical leads and recorders/monitors. The electrode leads can each be positioned within respective air connections hoses, e.g., in a manner that is concentric or coaxial with the axis of the connection hoses, in order to both protect the leads themselves and facilitate their positioning.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 16, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2006
    Assignee: Venturi Medical Systems
    Inventors: Mark J. Hastings, Hans-Peter Feucht, Albert Michael Harder, Donald John Evans
  • Publication number: 20060020883
    Abstract: Web pages may be dynamically generated in response to a web request from a client. The web request specifies a dynamic content resource that declares one or more server-side controls having personalizable properties. Personalization refers to the ability for server-side controls to save property values to persistent storage and is not necessarily limited to a user-specific data management. Personalization also refers to retrieving the property values from persistent storage when the server-side controls are instantiated in order to dynamically generate the web page reflecting the persistent personalization data. The personalized property values may also be output with the HTML data of the resulting page and sent to the client for display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2004
    Publication date: January 26, 2006
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Nikhil Kothari, Michael Harder, Robert Howard, Andres Sanabria, Stefan Schackow
  • Publication number: 20050257138
    Abstract: The described systems and methods are directed at defining web content navigation. The disclosed technique enables the development of web content for a scenario without having to create every navigational control that is needed to manage the flow through the web content in the scenario or to write non-declarative server-side logic to control navigation. This method determines a declaration in a source file for a web page. The declaration is associated with an object. The method determines the views associated with the object where each of the views includes a user-interface. A flow for navigating through the views is determined. The views are rendered in accordance with the navigational flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2004
    Publication date: November 17, 2005
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Susan Chory, Matthew Gibbs, Scott Guthrie, Michael Harder, Robert Howard, Scott Imig, Nikhil Kothari, Shanku Niyogi, Ting-Hao Yang, Andres Sanabria
  • Publication number: 20040268228
    Abstract: A framework for creating modular web pages. The framework enables the development of modular, customized, and personalized web applications including web portals and web pages. The framework includes an extensible part base class and an extensible zone base class. Part controls that derive from the part base class include web part controls, editor part controls, and catalog part controls. Zone controls, editor zone controls, and catalog zone controls derive from the zone base class. Each zone control contains one or more part controls and each zone is responsible for rendering part controls within each respective zone. Web part controls can communicate with other web part controls. Web part controls can be edited, removed, or added to a zone control. The functionality of part controls can vary widely among the part controls in a particular zone and across different zones.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 19, 2003
    Publication date: December 30, 2004
    Applicant: Microsoft Corporation
    Inventors: Joseph Keith Croney, Nikhil Kothari, Michael Harder, Gregory S. Lindhorst