Patents by Inventor Nils ECKARDT

Nils ECKARDT 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: 11976920
    Abstract: A computer device includes memory that stores a test plan for a coordinate measuring machine to perform an object measurement. The test plan includes at least one test feature for a plurality of reference elements of the object. The computer device includes at least one processor configured to execute instructions stored in the memory. The instructions include, for each of the reference elements, obtaining at least one accuracy variable. The accuracy variable specifies an accuracy of the measurement result of a respective reference element. The instructions include ascertaining an error effect of each reference element on the quantification of the test feature based on the respective accuracy variable. The instructions include ascertaining for each of the error effects whether it meets an error criterion and, if so, classifying a reference element assigned to this error effect as a critical reference element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH
    Inventors: Nils Eckardt, Stephan Rieger
  • Publication number: 20220197489
    Abstract: An electronic functional module for control electronics of a centrifugal pump assembly has a functional unit that adds an additional function to the control electronics, and the control electronics has operating software with a graphical user interface for settings of the centrifugal pump assembly whose appearance is defined by image frame data. The functional module transmits values of attributes that describe properties of at least one variable of the functional unit to the control electronics, and the control electronics generates, as a function of the attribute values using the image frame data and according to a set of rules, screen views that are independent of the operating software and that supplement the user interface at least temporarily. These screen views, including a value of the variable integrated into one of the screen views, are shown on a display.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Dirk ALTHAUS, Daniel BENCAK, Nils ECKARDT
  • Publication number: 20210140753
    Abstract: A computer device includes memory that stores a test plan for a coordinate measuring machine to perform an object measurement. The test plan includes at least one test feature for a plurality of reference elements of the object. The computer device includes at least one processor configured to execute instructions stored in the memory. The instructions include, for each of the reference elements, obtaining at least one accuracy variable. The accuracy variable specifies an accuracy of the measurement result of a respective reference element. The instructions include ascertaining an error effect of each reference element on the quantification of the test feature based on the respective accuracy variable. The instructions include ascertaining for each of the error effects whether it meets an error criterion and, if so, classifying a reference element assigned to this error effect as a critical reference element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2020
    Publication date: May 13, 2021
    Inventors: Nils ECKARDT, Stephan RIEGER