Patents by Inventor Nicolas Amringer

Nicolas Amringer 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).

  • Patent number: 11693998
    Abstract: A method for providing a real-time-capable simulation for control unit development, wherein the real-time-capable simulation simulates a control unit or an environment of a control unit or a combination of a control unit and an environment of the control unit. The real-time-capable simulation has a co-simulation of a real-time-capable sub-simulation and a non-real-time-capable sub-simulation that interacts with the real-time-capable sub-simulation, wherein the real-time-capable sub-simulation and the non-real-time-capable sub-simulation are designed for communication of simulation data. The real-time-capable sub-simulation has a first simulation time corresponding to real time and the non-real-time-capable sub-simulation has a virtual, second simulation time that is coupled to the first simulation time and that matches the first simulation time at the start of the real-time-capable simulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: dSPACE GmbH
    Inventors: Nicolas Amringer, Dominik Holler, Steffen Beringer
  • Patent number: 10481931
    Abstract: According to the invention, the operating software 10 of a technical system, particularly of a controller for controlling or regulating at least one technical device, is modified by virtue of hardware-dependent software components in the operating software 10 executable directly on the technical system not being executed and instead the functional behavior of the hardware-dependent software components being recreated by substitute functions 23. To this end, the hardware-dependent software components are automatically identified (step S1), and the substitute functions 23 are automatically ascertained or produced. On execution in a suitable simulation environment 200 (step S3), the operating software 20 modified in this way simulates the technical system independently of the real hardware 100 thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 19, 2019
    Assignee: DSPACE DIGITAL SIGNAL PROCESSING AND CONTROL ENGINEERING GMBH
    Inventors: Dominik Holler, Nicolas Amringer, Robert Leinfellner, Ulrich Kiffmeier
  • Publication number: 20190073437
    Abstract: A method for providing a real-time-capable simulation for control unit development, wherein the real-time-capable simulation simulates a control unit or an environment of a control unit or a combination of a control unit and an environment of the control unit. The real-time-capable simulation has a co-simulation of a real-time-capable sub-simulation and a non-real-time-capable sub-simulation that interacts with the real-time-capable sub-simulation, wherein the real-time-capable sub-simulation and the non-real-time-capable sub-simulation are designed for communication of simulation data. The real-time-capable sub-simulation has a first simulation time corresponding to real time and the non-real-time-capable sub-simulation has a virtual, second simulation time that is coupled to the first simulation time and that matches the first simulation time at the start of the real-time-capable simulation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 27, 2018
    Publication date: March 7, 2019
    Applicant: dSPACE digital signal processing and control engineering GmbH
    Inventors: Nicolas AMRINGER, Dominik HOLLER, Steffen BERINGER
  • Publication number: 20180052698
    Abstract: According to the invention, the operating software 10 of a technical system, particularly of a controller for controlling or regulating at least one technical device, is modified by virtue of hardware-dependent software components in the operating software 10 executable directly on the technical system not being executed and instead the functional behavior of the hardware-dependent software components being recreated by substitute functions 23. To this end, the hardware-dependent software components are automatically identified (step S1), and the substitute functions 23 are automatically ascertained or produced. On execution in a suitable simulation environment 200 (step S3), the operating software 20 modified in this way simulates the technical system independently of the real hardware 100 thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 17, 2017
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventors: Dominik Holler, Nicolas Amringer, Robert Leinfellner, Ulrich Kiffmeier