Patents by Inventor Michael Horning

Michael Horning 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: 20070024227
    Abstract: An actuating drive for a rotor blade in a wind power installation is provided with an electric motor and a frequency converter which has a rectifier that is to be fed from a power supply system, a link connected to the rectifier, and a d.c.-to-a.c. inverter for feeding the motor, the link carrying a specified nominal operating voltage in a network-fed normal operation of the frequency converter. Furthermore, an auxiliary energy supply device is provided that is connected to the link. The auxiliary energy supply device includes and energy store which makes available a support voltage that amounts to less than 80% of the nominal operating voltage of the link. A diode is connected between the energy store and the link, and is arranged, with regard to its forward direction, in such a way that it feeds a support voltage from the energy store into the link if the link voltage falls below the support voltage.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2006
    Publication date: February 1, 2007
    Inventors: Steffen Kunkel, Karl-Gunter Herrmann, Michael Horning, Berno Kobelbauer, Jorg Dantlgraber, Stephan Becker, Gunther Neidlein, Bernd Schnurr
  • Publication number: 20060217972
    Abstract: Signal Quality Enhancement is performed directly in a coded domain. Coded Domain-Signal Quality Enhancement (CD-SQE) is applied to an encoded signal populated substantially with encoded signal bits to produce an enhanced encoded signal. The enhanced encoded signal is outputted. Thus, the signal does not have to go through intermediate decoder/re-encoder(s), which can degrade overall speech quality. Computational resources required for a complete re-encoding are not needed. Overall delay of the system is minimized. The CD-SQE system can be used in any network in which signals are communicated in a coded domain, such as a Third Generation (3G) wireless network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 27, 2006
    Publication date: September 28, 2006
    Applicant: Tellabs Operations, Inc.
    Inventors: Rafid Sukkar, Richard Younce, Peng Zhang, Michael Horning, Robert Cochran, Stephen Griffith, Leni Thomas, Brian McConnell