Patents by Inventor Michael Koehler

Michael Koehler 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: 20160144838
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for carrying out one or more collision-avoiding measures of a vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle. In the method, the positions of static and dynamic objects 11 are detected in a step 10, and one or more trajectories 21 which avoid collisions with the detected objects 11 are determined for the vehicle in a step 20. According to the invention, a danger value 23 for the determined trajectory 21 or for each of the determined trajectories 21, is determined continuously or periodically in a further step 22. This danger value 23 constitutes a measure for the forces which act on the vehicle when the respective trajectory 21 is passed through. The collision-avoiding measures are then carried out in a step 27 if the determined danger value 23, or the determined danger values 23, is/are above a selected or predefined threshold value 26. In addition, the invention relates to a device for carrying out the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 6, 2014
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Applicant: VALEO Schalter und Sensoren GmbH
    Inventors: Martin Spencer, Michael Koehler
  • Publication number: 20160146940
    Abstract: The invention relates to a scanning opto-electronic detection device and a method for sensing the surroundings of a motor vehicle 1 by scanning by means of an opto-electronic detection device 2. The detection device 2 comprises a transmission and reception optical system 4 that outputs electromagnetic rays and maps reflected rays on a detector, wherein the detector is of multiline design and comprises a plurality of detector cells for providing electrical received signals on the basis of received reflected rays, which detector cells are lined up in a detector cell stack and are evaluable in parallel measurement planes. The detection device furthermore comprises a mirror carrier 7 having mirror faces 9, 10 that are averted from one another and that are arranged in a manner tilted at a tilt angle with respect to an axis of rotation 8 of the mirror carrier 7 and map different vertical sensing regions for reflected rays onto the detector.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Publication date: May 26, 2016
    Applicant: VALEO Schalter und Sensoren GmbH
    Inventor: Michael Koehler
  • Publication number: 20160054408
    Abstract: In a method and magnetic resonance apparatus for performing at least one adjusting measurement for the magnetic resonance apparatus, a localizing measurement is performed using the magnetic resonance apparatus and a localization dataset is created, and at least one examination region on the localization dataset. At least one examination region of the localization dataset is selected, and at least one adjusting measurement is performed according to the at least one selected examination region. The at least one adjusting measurement can be the calculation of a radio-frequency pulse amplitude, the calculation of a system frequency and the calculation of at least one current of at least one shim coil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 21, 2015
    Publication date: February 25, 2016
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Wilhelm Horger, Michael Koehler, Dieter Ritter, Michael Wullenweber
  • Publication number: 20150301182
    Abstract: An optical object sensing device for a motor vehicle, having an emitter unit for emitting an emission light beam and having a receiver unit for receiving a reception light beam, and having an electronic evaluation device for detecting an object external to the vehicle in a vicinity of the motor vehicle as a function of the reception light beam. The emitter unit includes an emitter for generating the emission light beam, a controllable micromirror by which the emission light beam can be panned at least in a first panning direction, and an emission lens arranged behind the micromirror in the emission beam path, where at least along the first panning direction, the emission lens is configured as a concave-convex lens with a concavely curved surface, which faces towards the micromirror, and with a convexly curved surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 19, 2013
    Publication date: October 22, 2015
    Applicant: VALEO SCHALTER UND SENSOREN GMBH
    Inventors: Tobias GEIGER, Manja GREIMEIER, Michael KIEHN, Michael KOEHLER
  • Publication number: 20150268331
    Abstract: The invention relates to a scanning optoelectronic detection device (7), in particular laser scanner, for a motor vehicle, comprising an optical emitter for emitting electromagnetic beams, comprising an optical receiver (10) for receiving beams (9) reflected at a target object in surroundings of the motor vehicle and for providing an electrical reception signal (19) depending on the received beams (9), and comprising an evaluation device (25) for detecting the target object depending on the electrical reception signal (19), wherein the emitter is designed to emit a respective emission beam for a multiplicity of different scanning angles within an entire scanning angle range, and wherein the evaluation device (25) is designed, for each scanning angle, to compare the reception signal (19) with a detection threshold and to detect the target object depending on the comparison, wherein the detection threshold is an angle-dependent threshold value function which has mutually different threshold values for the recep
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2013
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Applicant: VALEO Schalter und Sensoren GmbH
    Inventors: Michael Koehler, Patrick Berger
  • Publication number: 20150212171
    Abstract: In a method and apparatus for acquiring a magnetic resonance image data set of a scan area of an examination subject, the image data are acquired with a magnetic resonance apparatus having a transmitter coil that emits a radio-frequency signal having at least two transmission channels so that different polarizations of the radio-frequency signal are produced, and a magnetic resonance sequence is used to acquire raw data for the magnetic resonance image data set, wherein raw data are acquired during at least two scanning operations with the magnetic resonance sequence, with different polarizations of the radio-frequency signals being used for at least two of the at least two scanning operations, following which the magnetic resonance image data set is determined by averaging the raw data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2015
    Publication date: July 30, 2015
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Franz Hebrank, Wilhelm Horger, Michael Koehler
  • Publication number: 20150204955
    Abstract: In a method for correction of a B0 field map measured with a magnetic resonance device, that describes deviations from a nominal field strength in the homogeneity area of the magnetic resonance device by deviations from a nominal frequency for protons bonded to water, the deviations being represented as Larmor frequency values for different picture elements shifted by chemical shifts, the B0 field map is recorded with spins of the fat and water protons not in phase. The B0 field map is segmented by evaluating the differences of the Larmor frequency values of adjacent picture elements of the B0 field map in at least two contiguous clusters. For each cluster, a decision is made on the basis of a smoothness criterion and a compactness criterion as to whether a cluster containing a majority of protons bonded into fat is involved.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2015
    Publication date: July 23, 2015
    Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFT
    Inventors: Rene Gumbrecht, Michael Koehler, Rainer Schneider
  • Patent number: 8887376
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the production of a soft magnetic core for generators and generator with a core of this type. To produce a core, a plurality of magnetically activated and/or magnetically activatable textured laminations is produced from a CoFeV alloy. This plurality of laminations is then stacked to form a core assembly. Then the core assembly, if consisting of magnetically activatable laminations, is magnetically activated. Finally, the magnetically activated core assembly is eroded to produce a soft magnetic core. A core of this type is suitable for a generator with a stator and a rotor for high-speed aviation turbines, the laminations in the core assembly being oriented in different texture directions relative to one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 18, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 18, 2014
    Assignee: Vacuumschmelze GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Joachim Gerster, Witold Pieper, Rudi Ansmann, Michael Koehler, Michael Von Pyschow
  • Publication number: 20140306705
    Abstract: A sequence of a plurality of pulses following one another in time is applied to an examination volume of a magnetic resonance apparatus using a plurality of transmission antennas. In order to transmit the respective pulse, the plurality of transmission antennas are actuated using a specific transmission signal by a control device of the magnetic resonance apparatus. The transmission signals have predetermined phase and amplitude relationships to one another. The phase and amplitude relationships of a first pulse of the sequence S differ from the phase and amplitude relationships of a second pulse of the sequence.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 10, 2014
    Publication date: October 16, 2014
    Inventors: Michael Köhler, Dominik Paul
  • Publication number: 20140233042
    Abstract: An apparatus for determining a vertical position of an interface between a first component and a second component comprising different layers in a sample container comprises a first unit comprising a first emitting light, a first optics, and a first detector; a second unit vertically spaced from the first unit comprising a second emitting light, a second optics, and a second detector; a driving unit to move the first unit and the second unit relative to the sample container; a position sensing unit to output a position sensing signal indicative of a vertical position of the sample container; and a vertical position determining unit to calculate the vertical position of the interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2014
    Publication date: August 21, 2014
    Inventors: Darko Klinec, Michael Koehler
  • Patent number: 8812137
    Abstract: A control element for a sensor network having a set of different sensors. In operation, the control element transfers connections between the control element and the set of different sensors, where the transfer connections are compliant with respective sensor-specific protocols. A sensor controller element is provided for each sensor, and establishes transfer connections between the control element and new sensors in runtime. Information obtained in a sensor-specific protocol format from the sensors is converted into a common format in the sensor controller elements. The common format information is processed by a set of common control components of the control element. The control element provides a service based on the information in the common format to at least one consumer, and updates the service in accordance with the sensors present in the sensor network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: August 19, 2014
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Koehler, Markus Hugger, Dietmar Krause
  • Publication number: 20140218022
    Abstract: In a method and magnetic resonance (MR) system to acquire MR data within a volume segment, the MR data are repeatedly acquired with a sequence that which includes the following steps. A first resonant RF pulse is radiated and a second resonant RF pulse is radiated. A dephasing first gradient is applied after the first resonant RF pulse and before the second resonant RF pulse. A third resonant RF pulse is radiated after the second resonant RF pulse. A second gradient is applied after the third RF pulse in order to refocus a stimulated echo of a magnetization component prepared by the first gradient. MR data are read out, and a fourth resonant RF pulse is radiated after the readout of the MR data, to reduce the longitudinal magnetization.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Inventors: Michael Koehler, Thorsten Speckner
  • Publication number: 20140218021
    Abstract: In a method to acquire magnetic resonance (MR) data within a volume segment with a magnetic resonance system, the MR data are repeatedly acquired with a sequence that includes radiating a first resonant RF pulse, radiating a second resonant RF pulse, applying a dephasing first gradient after the first resonant RF pulse and before the second resonant RF pulse, radiating a third resonant RF pulse after the second resonant RF pulse, applying a second gradient after the third RF pulse in order to refocus a stimulated echo of a magnetization component prepared by the first gradient, and read out MR data. At least one of the first gradient and/or the second gradient is/are different in a respective repetition of the sequence and an additional repetition of the sequence that directly follows the respective repetition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 31, 2014
    Publication date: August 7, 2014
    Inventors: Michael Koehler, Thorsten Speckner
  • Publication number: 20130335108
    Abstract: A device for testing electronic component devices on a carrier or a substrate, having a positioning and holding device for the earner or the substrate, a test head and a test socket connected thereto, with which multiple simultaneous electronic component devices on the carrier or the substrate are contactable. At least one additional test socket is connected to the test head.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 10, 2013
    Publication date: December 19, 2013
    Inventors: Andreas Nagy, Peter Killermann, Charles Seguna, Thomas Kerschl, Michael Köhler, Jochen Minwegen
  • Publication number: 20130320977
    Abstract: In a magnetic resonance method and apparatus to determine a subject-specific B1 distribution of an examination subject in a measurement volume in the magnetic resonance apparatus, a first measurement data set of the examination subject is acquired using a first pulse sequence, a second measurement data set of the examination subject is acquired using a second pulse sequence, and a third measurement data set of the examination subject is acquired using a third pulse sequence. A first phase is determined from the first measurement data set, a second phase from the second measurement data set and a third phase from the third measurement data set. A relevant phase shift is calculated from the first phase, the second phase and the third phase, and the B1 distribution are determined from the calculated relevant phase shift.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2013
    Publication date: December 5, 2013
    Inventors: Michael Koehler, Thorsten Speckner
  • Patent number: 8461328
    Abstract: The invention provides novel compounds of formula I having the general formula: wherein R1, R2, R3, X and Y are as described herein. Accordingly, the compounds may be provided in pharmaceutically acceptable compositions and used for the treatment of immunological or hyperproliferative disorders.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 11, 2011
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2013
    Assignee: Genentech, Inc.
    Inventors: Srinivasan Babu, Phillippe Bergeron, Peter Dragovich, Hazel Joan Dyke, Paul Gibbons, Stefan Gradl, Emily Hanan, Christopher Hurley, Tony Johnson, Michael Koehler, Janusz Kulagowski, Sharada Labadie, Joseph Lyssikatos, Rohan Mendonca, Rebecca Pulk, Stuart Ward, Bohdan Waszkowycz, Mark Zak
  • Patent number: 8345236
    Abstract: A method and an apparatus for determining the particle content of a particle stream using a source of light and two receivers arranged offset from one another in the flow direction of the particle stream. The receivers provide an electrical signal to an evaluation unit as a function of the radiation intensity which they receive, and this signal makes possible a determination of the flow velocity and particle size. Coincident passage of two particles is indicated by a pulse occurring in the signal due to a “roof collapse” in the pulse caused by a weakening of the radiation intensity as the particles pass a receiver.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2007
    Date of Patent: January 1, 2013
    Assignee: Parsum GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Dietrich, Guenter Eckardt, Michael Koehler
  • Publication number: 20120271548
    Abstract: A control element for a sensor network having a set of different sensors. In operation, the control element transfers connections between the control element and the set of different sensors, where the transfer connections are compliant with respective sensor-specific protocols. A sensor controller element is provided for each sensor, and establishes transfer connections between the control element and new sensors in runtime. Information obtained in a sensor-specific protocol format from the sensors is converted into a common format in the sensor controller elements. The common format information is processed by a set of common control components of the control element. The control element provides a service based on the information in the common format to at least one consumer, and updates the service in accordance with the sensors present in the sensor network.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 28, 2012
    Publication date: October 25, 2012
    Applicant: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Koehler, Markus Hugger, Dietmar Krause
  • Patent number: 8239046
    Abstract: A control element for a sensor network having a set of different sensors. In operation, the control element transfers connections between the control element and the set of different sensors, where the transfer connections are compliant with respective sensor-specific protocols. A sensor controller element is provided for each sensor, and establishes transfer connections between the control element and new sensors in runtime. Information obtained in a sensor-specific protocol format from the sensors is converted into a common format in the sensor controller elements. The common format information is processed by a set of common control components of the control element. The control element provides a service based on the information in the common format to at least one consumer, and updates the service in accordance with the sensors present in the sensor network.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 26, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 7, 2012
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Michael Koehler, Markus Hugger, Dietmar Krause
  • Publication number: 20120112694
    Abstract: A method and an arrangement for data communication between a service provider and a vehicle having an electric drive are provided. A communication connection can be established between the vehicle and the service provider via a first wireless connection. When the vehicle is connected to a charging station via a charging connection for charging an accumulator provided in the vehicle, a further communication connection is established between the vehicle and the service provider via the charging station.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2010
    Publication date: May 10, 2012
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Thomas Frisch, Michael Koehler, Holger Lochner, Christoph Saalfeld, Tim Schluesener