Patents by Inventor Miguel NUNES
Miguel NUNES 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: 20250198866Abstract: The invention refers to a flexible pressure or strain mapping device comprising a fibrous substrate layer (1), which comprises at least a layer zone impregnated with a hydrogel (2); a first sensor electrode (3) having a portion contacting at least a lower part of said layer zone impregnated with a hydrogel (2); a second sensor electrode (4) having a portion contacting at least an upper part of said layer zone impregnated with a hydrogel (2). The flexible pressure or strain mapping device comprises hydrogels that are flexible, and have higher performance regarding mechanical and sensing properties, considering that said materials are easily tuned, so they can be stretchable and biocompatible and may show self-healing properties. Furthermore, the flexible pressure or strain mapping device can be arranged in arrays, to map a pressure distribution and provide a more precise output in several applications.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 22, 2023Publication date: June 19, 2025Inventors: Andreia Sofia SANTANA DOS SANTOS, João AVELÃS RESENDE, Felisberto SEQUEIRA PEREIRA, Mariana Sofia BRIGIDA MATIAS, Tomás Miguel SANTOS SILVA FREIRE, Fausto Daniel DOS SANTOS QUEDA, Bruno Miguel RIBEIRO VEIGAS, Diana Filipa PEREIRA GASPAR, Alexandra Sofia DIAS LOPES, Wilson Miguel CAVACO SANTOS, Luis Miguel NUNES PEREIRA
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Publication number: 20240427303Abstract: The present application describes a supervision and decision hardware unit compatible with redundant-based sensors architectures, targeting a fail operational sensor design. The herein disclosed invention describes a supervision and decision unit, based on a “decision block” embedded in a redundant sensor architecture, allowing the supervision of each isolated subsystem. Beyond that, each isolated subsystem is able to provide the full required information of sensor and indicate the operation state of each independent subsystem. This unit is developed to be incorporated in a fail operation sensor design, including supervision and circuitry independency, and promoting sharing of data through a galvanic isolated communication.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 4, 2021Publication date: December 26, 2024Inventors: Jorge Miguel NUNES DOS SANTOS CABRAL, Álvaro Miguel SANTOS MAGALHÃES, Fábio André DA COSTA LEITÃO, Jens OTTERBACH, João António GONCALVES DE SOUSA MARQUES, José António AZEVEDO GONCALVES, Luis Miguel MARINHO NOVAIS, Marco António DA SILVA ESTEVES, Rui Manuel PEIXOTO FARIA
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Publication number: 20240401926Abstract: A Steering Angle Sensor (SAS), equipped with a redundancy system to allow the bypass of any failing part, keeping all functionalities intact, while ensuring all the required safety integrity levels is provided. The proposed fail operational redundant steering angle sensor (100) has two functional blocks (70) responsible to determine the absolute angle between at least two angling sensing devices, detecting systematic failures of the devices.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2021Publication date: December 5, 2024Inventors: Jens OTTERBACH, Jorge Miguel NUNES DOS SANTOS CABRAL, José António AZEVEDO GONÇALVES, João António GONÇALVES DE SOUSA MARQUES DE CARVALHO, Marco António DA SILVA ESTEVES, Rui Manuel PEIXOTO FARIA, Fábio André DA COSTA LEITÃO, Álvaro Miguel SANTOS MAGALHÃES, Luís Miguel MARINHO NOVAIS
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Publication number: 20230315420Abstract: Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may establish a connection with a server through a wireless network. The UE may receive, from the server and via the connection through the wireless network, at least one of a firmware image file or a software image file. The UE may transmit at least one of the firmware image file or the software image file to a computing device. Numerous other aspects are described.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 19, 2023Publication date: October 5, 2023Inventors: Sridhar KRISHNAMACHARI, Aditya Srikanth SUSARLA, Michael DOOSE, Miguel NUNES, Paul HWANG, Philip WEBER, Rami HUSSEINI, Ryan BARNETT, Sarath Chandra Varma KEERTHIPATI, Saritha SIVAPURAM, Sergio Carlos AFONSO, Thomas MADDOCK
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Publication number: 20230306967Abstract: A computer implemented platform with the responsibility of handling complex tasks provided by users via a natural input interface (voice, text, image, among others). This platform design is based on the principle of full scalability, ambient and context awareness and with multi-domain extensible capability. The proposed computer-implemented system ensures the handling of input data provided by users via natural input interfaces, comprising a set of layers arranged in a modular and loosely coupled architecture, wherein the set of layers are adapted to interpret and manage several types of contextual information from the user input data, while permanently improving decisioning and response times, enabling increasingly complex interactions with the user.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2022Publication date: September 28, 2023Inventors: Carlos Filipe LOPES TORRAO, Carolina Pimentel FERNANDES MAIO, Bruno SOUSA ROSA CRUZ FERNANDES, Joao Miguel NUNES FERREIRA, Jorge Filipe PINTO SEQUEIRA DOS SANTOS GRACA
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Publication number: 20220332015Abstract: A method is for manufacturing elements including hydraulic binder and aggregates. The method includes mixing a dry mortar composition including hydraulic binder and aggregates with water, to form a wet mortar. The method also includes pumping and conveying the wet mortar towards an outlet. During the conveying at least two physical properties of the wet mortar are measured on-line. The physical properties include viscosity and at least one of flow and density.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2020Publication date: October 20, 2022Applicant: SAINT-GOBAIN WEBERInventors: Kersten OPDENBUSCH, Jan BLAAKMEER, Bruno Miguel NUNES LOBO, Lutz PIERTZIK, Tanja HOFMANN
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Publication number: 20220274288Abstract: A system implements a manufacturing method of construction elements including hydraulic binder and aggregates. The system includes a mixing device adapted to mix a dry mortar composition including hydraulic binders and aggregates with water, to form a wet mortar, an outlet, a pumping device adapted to pump and convey the wet mortar towards the outlet, and at least one sensor adapted to measure on-line at least two physical properties of the wet mortar on its way from the mixing device to the outlet, the physical properties including viscosity and at least one of flow and density.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 24, 2020Publication date: September 1, 2022Applicants: SAINT-GOBAIN WEBER, ENDRESS+HAUSER (DEUTSCHLAND) GMBH+CO. KGInventors: Kersten OPDENBUSCH, Jan BLAAKMEER, Bruno Miguel NUNES LOBO, Lutz PIERTZIK, Tanja HOFMANN
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Publication number: 20220090671Abstract: An individual chain wheel for a bicycle front crank arrangement for engaging in a drive chain includes a plurality of teeth formed on a circumference of the chain wheel and having a first and a second group of teeth. The teeth of the second group of teeth are arranged in an alternating manner between the teeth of the first group of teeth. Each tooth has a load flank via which force is transmitted between an adjacent roller of the drive chain and the respective tooth. Each tooth of the first group may also have at least one profile with an opening in the vicinity of the flank, in which a portion of an inner link plate of the drive chain, which portion protrudes beyond the roller, engages.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Applicant: SRAM DEUTSCHLAND GmbHInventors: MARKUS REITER, JOACHIM HANKE, BRYN JOHNSON, ANDREAS VONEND, MARTIN KEHRER, HENRIK BRAEDT, PEDRO MIGUEL NUNES DOS SANTOS, LUIS FIGUEIREDO, RODRIGO ANTUNES
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Publication number: 20220056984Abstract: A bicycle chain includes inner link members and outer link member. An inner link having two connecting openings which are formed at a distance from each other, pass through the inner link in the thickness direction thereof and are each designed for receiving a connecting component in order to connect the inner link to a further inner link in order to form an inner link member of a bicycle chain. An outer link member may be formed and attached to the inner link. The inner and/or outer links may be formed with features asymmetric about various orientations of the links.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2021Publication date: February 24, 2022Applicant: SRAM DEUTSCHLAND GmbHInventors: PEDRO MIGUEL NUNES DOS SANTOS, DIOGO DANIEL SOARES DA SILVA
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Publication number: 20200191241Abstract: A bicycle chain is used to transmit the drive force to at least one chain wheel and contains chain rollers and inner and outer plates which are connected to each other by means of pins. As a result of a corresponding shaping of the extremely hard inner plate, the wear on the teeth which cooperate with the inner plate can be reduced on the chain wheels or sprockets.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 6, 2019Publication date: June 18, 2020Applicant: SRAM Deutschland GmbHInventors: PEDRO MIGUEL NUNES DOS SANTOS, BRUNO MIGUEL FERREIRA DA SILVA RIBEIRO
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Publication number: 20200158224Abstract: An individual chain wheel for a bicycle front crank arrangement for engaging in a drive chain includes a plurality of teeth formed on a circumference of the chain wheel and having a first and a second group of teeth. The teeth of the second group of teeth are arranged in an alternating manner between the teeth of the first group of teeth. Each tooth has a load flank via which force is transmitted between an adjacent roller of the drive chain and the respective tooth. Each tooth of the first group may also have at least one profile with an opening in the vicinity of the flank, in which a portion of an inner link plate of the drive chain, which portion protrudes beyond the roller, engages.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 24, 2020Publication date: May 21, 2020Applicant: SRAM DEUTSCHLAND GmbHInventors: MARKUS REITER, JOACHIM HANKE, BRYN JOHNSON, ANDREAS VONEND, MARTIN KEHRER, HENRIK BRAEDT, PEDRO MIGUEL NUNES DOS SANTOS, LUIS FIGUEIREDO, RODRIGO ATUNES
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Publication number: 20190346020Abstract: A bicycle chain includes inner link members and outer link member. An inner link having two connecting openings which are formed at a distance from each other, pass through the inner link in the thickness direction thereof and are each designed for receiving a connecting component in order to connect the inner link to a further inner link in order to form an inner link member of a bicycle chain. An outer link member may be formed and attached to the inner link. The inner and/or outer links may be formed with features asymmetric about various orientations of the links.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2019Publication date: November 14, 2019Applicant: SRAM DEUTSCHLAND GmbHInventors: PEDRO MIGUEL NUNES DOS SANTOS, DIOGO DANIEL SOARES DA SILVA
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Publication number: 20180194433Abstract: A drive arrangement for a bicycle may include a plurality of sprockets arranged at a rear wheel of the bicycle. The sprockets may be particularly arranged to have a spacing that facilitates the configuration of an increasing number of sprockets in the plurality of sprockets. A singular front sprocket or chain ring may be used to drive the rear plurality of sprockets. The singular front chain ring may include first and second groups of teeth, the first group of teeth being wider than the second group of teeth. The drive arrangement may also include a rear derailleur. A chain having inner link plates with recesses may also be include in the drive arrangement.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 5, 2018Publication date: July 12, 2018Applicant: SRAM DEUTSCHLAND GmbHInventors: PEDRO MIGUEL NUNES DOS SANTOS, MARKUS REITER, JOACHIM HANKE, BRYN JOHNSON, ANDREAS VONEND, MARTIN KEHRER, HENRIK BRAEDT, LUIS FIGUEIREDO, RODRIGO ANTUNES, BRUNO MIGUEL FERREIRA DA SILVA RIBEIRO
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Publication number: 20180031077Abstract: A chain-closing link for a bicycle chain including two closing parts. Each of the closing parts includes a closing plate having a retaining opening and a displacement region. Each of the closing parts also includes a chain pin. The closing plate includes a recess and/or a hole having a securing region.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 1, 2017Publication date: February 1, 2018Applicant: SRAM Deutschland GmbHInventors: BRUNO MIGUEL FERREIRA DA SILVA RIBEIRO, PEDRO MIGUEL NUNES SANTOS
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Publication number: 20170146109Abstract: An individual chain wheel for a bicycle front crank arrangement for engaging in a drive chain includes a plurality of teeth formed on a circumference of the chain wheel and having a first and a second group of teeth. The teeth of the second group of teeth are arranged in an alternating manner between the teeth of the first group of teeth. Each tooth has a load flank via which force is transmitted between an adjacent roller of the drive chain and the respective tooth. Each tooth of the first group may also have at least one profile with an opening in the vicinity of the flank, in which a portion of an inner link plate of the drive chain, which portion protrudes beyond the roller, engages.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 8, 2016Publication date: May 25, 2017Applicant: SRAM Deutschland GmbHInventors: MARKUS REITER, JOACHIM HANKE, BRYN JOHNSON, ANDREAS VONEND, MARTIN KEHRER, HENRIK BRAEDT, PEDRO MIGUEL NUNES DOS SANTOS, LUIS FIGUEIREDO, RODRIGO ANTUNES
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Publication number: 20170067536Abstract: A bicycle chain is used to transmit the drive force to at least one chain wheel and contains chain rollers and inner and outer plates which are connected to each other by means of pins. As a result of a corresponding shaping of the extremely hard inner plate, the wear on the teeth which cooperate with the inner plate can be reduced on the chain wheels or sprockets.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 8, 2016Publication date: March 9, 2017Applicant: SRAM, LLCInventors: PEDRO MIGUEL NUNES DOS SANTOS, BRUNO MIGUEL FERREIRA DA SILVA RIBEIRO