Patents by Inventor Michael Kuehl
Michael Kuehl 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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Publication number: 20240140206Abstract: A method for operating a drive motor which is coupled to at least one wheel of a vehicle via a drive train. The drive motor is controlled using a dynamic model of the drive train. The model maps a relationship between a drive torque transmitted via the drive train and a deformation of the drive train.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 25, 2021Publication date: May 2, 2024Inventors: Frank Leibeling, Michael Erden, Julien Kuehl, Stefan Koschlig, Lea Riegger, Tina Geiger
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Publication number: 20240084141Abstract: The present application is directed to an asphalt pavement product comprising: a reclaimed asphalt pavement product (RAP); and an emulsified product mixed with the RAP, said emulsified product comprising: water; one or more surfactants; one or more stabilizers; one or more polymers; and one or more compounds of formula (I): wherein R and A are as described herein. The present application is also directed to methods of paving a road course using the emulsified product.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 15, 2023Publication date: March 14, 2024Inventors: Eric William Cochran, Michael J. Forrester, Austin Hohmann, Nacu Hernandez, Baker Kuehl, Ronald Christopher Williams
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Publication number: 20230325219Abstract: A device may be controlled using a method which comprises generating a bundle and deploying that bundle to the device. In such a method, the bundle may comprise one or more sets of workflow instructions, as well as a set of agent instructions. The agent instructions may, when executed, control execution of workflows corresponding to the sets of workflow instructions based on inputs from an application which is also resident on the device.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2022Publication date: October 12, 2023Inventors: Charlie Key, Michael Kuehl, Brandon Cannaday, Anthony Canterbury, II, Adam Daniel, Dylan Schuster
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Publication number: 20210164012Abstract: The present invention relates to 3D printable composition comprising a cross-linkable component, a non-cross-linkable polymer, and analyte sensor particles, and to a method of fabricating a scaffold for living cells, a scaffold for a living cell, and a kit of parts comprising components for performing the method to obtain the scaffold. The scaffold is useful for prolonged culture of living cells and allows monitoring a metabolite throughout the culture with high spatial resolution of the metabolite in the scaffold.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2019Publication date: June 3, 2021Inventors: Michael KÜHL, Klaus KOREN, Erik Christian Løvbjerg TRAMPE, Michael GELINSKY, Anja LODE, Felix KRUJATZ, Ashwini Rahul AKKINENI
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Patent number: 10144464Abstract: A locomotion subassembly for a biped robot is disclosed. The locomotion subassembly includes several unique energy transfer mechanisms and arrangements for efficiently powering the motion of the robot.Type: GrantFiled: July 8, 2015Date of Patent: December 4, 2018Assignee: National Technology & Engineering Solutions of Sandia, LLCInventors: Stephen Buerger, Clinton G. Hobart, Curt M. Salisbury, Steven J. Spencer, Anirban Mazumdar, Michael Kuehl, Kevin J. Dullea
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Patent number: 6959652Abstract: A table- or workbench covering made of a first electrically conductive layer having a specific resistance in the range of 5×106 ?cm to 5×109 ?cm, and a second electrically conductive layer having a specific resistance in the range of 5×104 ?cm to 5×107 ?cm, the layers being made of rubber mixtures containing antistatic agents and/or electrically conductive particles and are calendered together as well as connected by vulcanization, and which have a sulfate content of <100 ?g/cm2, extractable using deionized water.Type: GrantFiled: October 15, 2002Date of Patent: November 1, 2005Assignee: Carl Freudenberg KGInventors: Hans-Michael Kühl, Gerhard Graab
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Patent number: 6955110Abstract: An apparatus and method for cutting soft materials such as meat. Two or more spirally mounted helical blades are situated between two supports, and the supports are mounted to a shank. The shank is rotated to impart rotary action to the spiral shear blades, and the entire device may be used to perform various cutting operations. The distal or bottom one of the supports may also be a cutting blade, and a number of versions of bottom cutting blades are useable in the practice of the invention.Type: GrantFiled: March 27, 2002Date of Patent: October 18, 2005Assignee: Sandia CorporationInventors: Barry L. Spletzer, Diane S. Callow, James F. Jones, Michael A. Kuehl, Dick L. Shaw, Barbara J. Scalia
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Patent number: 6859282Abstract: An apparatus and method for locating the boundary surface between a layer of fatty tissue and lean tissue in a cut of meat, such as beef, such as slabs of meat undergoing trimming and cutting in commercial meet processing facilitates. The invention exploits the fact that fatty tissue and lean tissue have significantly different responses to incident light energy. By gauging the degree to which a generated beam of light is scattered and reflected by the tissues under evaluation, the invention permits the character of the tissue to be ascertained. An incident beam of light, such as green light, is generated and transmitted to a probe tip, which tip is inserted into the cut of meat under investigation. The light beam is emitted into the meat tissues from the probe tip, and then is scattered and reflected by the tissues, whereupon some fraction of the emitted light returns to the probe tip.Type: GrantFiled: January 4, 2002Date of Patent: February 22, 2005Assignee: Sandia CorporationInventors: Thomas M. Weber, Diane S. Callow, James F. Jones, Michael A. Kuehl, Barry L. Spletzer
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Patent number: 6695999Abstract: A method to produce an electrically conductive floor covering made of first particles of a polymer material which are surrounded with electrically conductive second particles and compressed in the intermediate space between the top and bottom sides of the floor covering, with the floor covering having at least one cut surface and the electrically conductive second particles forming conductive paths which connect the upper side and the lower side of the floor covering in an electrically conductive way, in which the first particles comprise at least one granulated elastomer material and form a matrix, in which the second particles form electric conductive paths along the particle boundaries of the first particles.Type: GrantFiled: January 17, 2002Date of Patent: February 24, 2004Assignee: Firma Carl FreudenbergInventors: Hans-Michael Kühl, Gerhard Graab, Peter Platzer, Ralf Möller
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Patent number: 6328002Abstract: The present invention provides a combustion-powered actuator that is suitable for intermittent actuation, that is suitable for use with atmospheric pressure carburetion, and that requires little electrical energy input. The present invention uses energy from expansion of pressurized fuel to effectively purge a combustion chamber, and to achieve atmospheric pressure carburetion. Each purge-fill-power cycle can be independent, allowing the actuator to readily tolerate misfires. The present invention is suitable for use with linear and rotary operation combustion chambers, and is suitable for use in a wide variety of applications.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 1999Date of Patent: December 11, 2001Assignee: Sandia CorporationInventors: Barry L. Spletzer, Gary J. Fischer, Lisa C. Marron, Michael A. Kuehl
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Patent number: 6251321Abstract: A homogeneous floor covering composed of elastomer, varicolored granular particles contains 3 to 20 per cent by weight of a copolymer of ethylene, including at least one comonomer of vinyl esters of saturated carboxylic acids having up to 4 C-atoms in the acid group, or including at least one unsaturated mono- or dicarboxylic acid, or including at least one ester of unsaturated mono- or dicarboxylic acids having up to 8 C-atoms in the alcohol portion. In this context, the ethylene content of the copolymer is 40 to 95% per cent by weight, the rest is comonomer, and the melt-flow index of the copolymer must lie between 0.1 and 50. A corresponding manufacturing process is specified.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 1999Date of Patent: June 26, 2001Assignee: Carl FreudenbergInventors: Hans-Michael Kühl, Gerhard Graab, Klaus Heckel
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Patent number: 6247546Abstract: The present invention provides a hopping robot that includes a misfire tolerant linear actuator suitable for long trips, low energy steering and control, reliable low energy righting, miniature low energy fuel control. The present invention provides a robot with hopping mobility, capable of traversing obstacles significant in size relative to the robot and capable of operation on unpredictable terrain over long range. The present invention further provides a hopping robot with misfire-tolerant combustion actuation, and with combustion actuation suitable for use in oxygen-poor environments.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 1999Date of Patent: June 19, 2001Assignee: Sandia CorporationInventors: Barry L. Spletzer, Gary J. Fischer, Lisa C. Marron, Michael A. Martinez, Michael A. Kuehl, John T. Feddema