Patents by Inventor Oliver Becker
Oliver Becker 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: 20220337037Abstract: A fault detection system and method includes a sensor; a processing unit; and an output unit. The sensor is configured to acquire temperature data at a sensor location of a device, wherein the temperature data comprises first temperature data and second temperature data acquired a first time period after the first temperature data. The processing unit determines a temperature magnitude comprising utilization of the first temperature data and/or the second temperature data, and determines a rate of change of temperature. The processing unit predicts a temperature at a location of the device using the temperature magnitude, the rate of change of temperature, and a correlation, wherein the correlation is a correlation of a plurality of temperature magnitudes and a plurality of rate of change of temperatures at the sensor location with a plurality of hotspot temperatures at the location.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 14, 2022Publication date: October 20, 2022Applicant: ABB Schweiz AGInventors: Joerg Ostrowski, Kai Hencken, Ralf Gitzel, Joerg Gebhardt, Oliver Becker, Maciej Mruczek, Tomas Kozel, Anastasios Papageorgiou
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Patent number: 10987870Abstract: A printing system for three-dimensional objects has a control unit for storing and executing a robot program and an industrial robot which is controlled by the control unit and which has an arm with several members, wherein the tip of the arm is movable along a predetermined movement path according to path data of the robot program. A printing unit is mounted on the tip of the robot arm and is controlled by the control unit, which has at least one print nozzle for applying pointwise a respective portion of a print material at respective coordinates according to object data of the robot program.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2014Date of Patent: April 27, 2021Assignee: ABB Schweiz AGInventor: Oliver Becker
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Publication number: 20170316499Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods, devices, systems, and computer program products for simulating currency risk by analyzing and manipulating financial data stored in an in-memory database and presenting results to a user on a display. The currency risk may be simulated by manipulating the stored financial data according to a business change, a foreign currency share change, and/or a foreign currency exchange rate change. Also provided is a scenario constructor that allows for the creation, simulation, and storage of complex currency risk scenarios.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 27, 2016Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Steffen Vollmert, Oliver Becker, Achim Bolte, Steven Coombs, Patricia David, Guenter Graf, Hartmut Koerner, Thomas Pohl, Ralf Reinke, Christian Seemann
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Publication number: 20160176115Abstract: A printing system for three-dimensional objects has a control unit for storing and executing a robot program and an industrial robot which is controlled by the control unit and which has an arm with several members, wherein the tip of the arm is movable along a predetermined movement path according to path data of the robot program. A printing unit is mounted on the tip of the robot arm and is controlled by the control unit, which has at least one print nozzle for applying pointwise a respective portion of a print material at respective coordinates according to object data of the robot program.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 26, 2014Publication date: June 23, 2016Inventor: Oliver Becker
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Patent number: 9254567Abstract: A system and method for commanding a robot by a programmable logic controller are disclosed. The system can include a programmable logic controller, at least two function blocks with at least one input for triggering an execution of a PLC function and at least one output indicating status of a function block. Each function block corresponds to a movement segment of a movement path of a robot to be commanded. A command queue can store and send orchestrated robot commands to the robot. Backwards motion of the robot can be performed by stopping execution of not yet executed robot commands for forward motion, and sequentially resending at least one executed robot command stored in the command queue in a contrawise sequence.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2014Date of Patent: February 9, 2016Assignee: ABB TECHNOLOGY AGInventors: Fan Dai, Oliver Becker
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Patent number: 8841481Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing unsaturated aldehydes or unsaturated carboxylic acids by heterogeneous catalytic gas phase oxidation of unsaturated or saturated hydrocarbons, comprising the process steps of: i) providing a gas mixture comprising a saturated hydrocarbon and catalytically dehydrogenating the saturated hydrocarbon in the gas phase to obtain a gas mixture comprising an unsaturated hydrocarbon in a dehydrogenation reactor having a dehydrogenation catalyst material; or ii) providing a gas mixture comprising oxygen and an unsaturated hydrocarbon; iii) catalytically oxidizing the unsaturated hydrocarbon obtained in process step i) or provided in process step ii) in the gas phase to obtain a gas mixture comprising an unsaturated aldehyde in a first oxidation reactor having a first oxidation catalyst material; wherein at least one of the reactors selected from the dehydrogenation reactor, the first oxidation reactor and the second oxidation reactor comprises at least one foam bType: GrantFiled: July 29, 2009Date of Patent: September 23, 2014Assignee: Evonik Degussa GmbHInventors: Horst-Werner Zanthoff, Nicole Brausch, Franz-Felix Kuppinger, Jorg Sauer, Andreas Sabbagh, Dennis Fruhling, Markus Weber, Oliver Becker
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Publication number: 20140142754Abstract: A system and method for commanding a robot by a programmable logic controller are disclosed. The system can include a programmable logic controller, at least two function blocks with at least one input for triggering an execution of a PLC function and at least one output indicating status of a function block. Each function block corresponds to a movement segment of a movement path of a robot to be commanded. A command queue can store and send orchestrated robot commands to the robot. Backwards motion of the robot can be performed by stopping execution of not yet executed robot commands for forward motion, and sequentially resending at least one executed robot command stored in the command queue in a contrawise sequence.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2014Publication date: May 22, 2014Applicant: ABB Technology AGInventors: Fan DAI, Oliver Becker
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Patent number: 8620500Abstract: A method for ascertaining learned values for controlling an internal combustion engine, a second drive unit, e.g., an electric motor, drags the internal combustion engine in a specific operating state, and the learned values are ascertained in this operating state.Type: GrantFiled: December 5, 2008Date of Patent: December 31, 2013Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Oliver Becker, Christoph Weisser
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Patent number: 8205596Abstract: The fuel injection device for an internal combustion engine comprises a feed pump which has an electric drive, by which feed pump fuel is fed from a fuel storage tank into a low-pressure region to the suction side of at least one high-pressure pump. The high-pressure pump pumps fuel into a high-pressure region in which at least one injector is provided to inject the fuel into the internal combustion engine. The fuel injection is controlled by an electric control device. Arranged in the low-pressure region is a pressure sensor which is connected to the control device. The electric drive of the feed pump is activated by the control device in order to set a feed quantity of the feed pump which is variable as a function of at least one operating parameter of the internal combustion engine and/or of the high-pressure pump.Type: GrantFiled: April 25, 2007Date of Patent: June 26, 2012Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Stefan Kieferle, Dorothee Sommer, Oliver Becker, Bjoern Noack
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Patent number: 8181334Abstract: A method is provided for producing windings for a dry-type transformer with in each case one winding for the low voltage (LV winding) and one for the high voltage (HV winding). The LV and HV windings are each electrically insulated from one another and have layers which are electrically insulated from one another by virtue of, initially, the winding for the low voltage being produced from electrically conductive wire or tape material and an insulating layer including resin-impregnated fibre material. Prior to the application of the HV winding, the maximum insulating thickness for the layer insulation and the number of fiber rovings corresponding to this insulating thickness can be determined, and each winding layer and the associated insulating layer can be produced simultaneously with a physical offset with respect to one another.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2011Date of Patent: May 22, 2012Assignee: ABB Technology AGInventors: Benjamin Weber, Frank Cornelius, Jens Tepper, Oliver Becker, Paul Szasz
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Publication number: 20110291791Abstract: A method is provided for producing windings for a dry-type transformer with in each case one winding for the low voltage (LV winding) and one for the high voltage (HV winding). The LV and HV windings are each electrically insulated from one another and have layers which are electrically insulated from one another by virtue of, initially, the winding for the low voltage being produced from electrically conductive wire or tape material and an insulating layer including resin-impregnated fibre material. Prior to the application of the HV winding, the maximum insulating thickness for the layer insulation and the number of fibre rovings corresponding to this insulating thickness can be determined, and each winding layer and the associated insulating layer can be produced simultaneously with a physical offset with respect to one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 26, 2011Publication date: December 1, 2011Applicant: ABB TECHNOLOGY AGInventors: Benjamin Weber, Frank Cornelius, Jens Tepper, Oliver Becker, Paul Szasz
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Publication number: 20110166304Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing unsaturated aldehydes or unsaturated carboxylic acids by heterogeneous catalytic gas phase oxidation of unsaturated or saturated hydrocarbons, comprising the process steps of: i) providing a gas mixture comprising a saturated hydrocarbon and catalytically dehydrogenating the saturated hydrocarbon in the gas phase to obtain a gas mixture comprising an unsaturated hydrocarbon in a dehydrogenation reactor having a dehydrogenation catalyst material; or ii) providing a gas mixture comprising oxygen and an unsaturated hydrocarbon; iii) catalytically oxidizing the unsaturated hydrocarbon obtained in process step i) or provided in process step ii) in the gas phase to obtain a gas mixture comprising an unsaturated aldehyde in a first oxidation reactor having a first oxidation catalyst material; wherein at least one of the reactors selected from the dehydrogenation reactor, the first oxidation reactor and the second oxidation reactor comprises at least one foam bType: ApplicationFiled: July 29, 2009Publication date: July 7, 2011Inventors: Horst-Werner Zanthoff, Nicole Brausch, Franz-Felix Kuppinger, Jorg Sauer, Andreas Sabbagh, Dennis Fruhling, Markus Weber, Oliver Becker
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Publication number: 20110082608Abstract: A method for ascertaining learned values for controlling an internal combustion engine, a second drive unit, e.g., an electric motor, drags the internal combustion engine in a specific operating state, and the learned values are ascertained in this operating state.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 5, 2008Publication date: April 7, 2011Inventors: Oliver Becker, Christoph Weisser
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Patent number: 7905136Abstract: A method for operating an injection valve, in particular a fuel injector of an internal combustion engine, in which a trigger voltage is able to be applied to an actuator, designed as piezoelectric element, of the fuel injector in order to induce an injection of fluid, in particular fuel, supplied to the fuel injector via a supply system. A specifiable test voltage is applied to the actuator in a test triggering, and a fluid pressure prevailing in the supply system is detected at least during the test triggering in order to derive information about an operating state of the fuel injector and/or the actuator from the test voltage and the detected fluid pressure.Type: GrantFiled: July 22, 2008Date of Patent: March 15, 2011Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Kai Sutter, Oliver Becker
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Publication number: 20100275885Abstract: A method for determining an opening voltage of an injector having a piezo actuator, in particular an injector of an internal combustion engine, in which an output voltage is applied at the piezo actuator in the closed state of the injector, and the voltage is lowered by energizing the piezo actuator so as to open the injector. The energy supply is interrupted at a holding voltage and the voltage change present at the piezo actuator is then measured over the time, the reaching of the opening voltage being inferred in the case of a voltage rise.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 14, 2007Publication date: November 4, 2010Inventors: Oliver Becker, Thomas Breitbach
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Publication number: 20100059021Abstract: In fuel injection system having at least one fuel injector and a control unit for triggering the injector, each injector has a piezoelectric actuator, a nozzle element having at least one nozzle opening and at least one movable nozzle needle for selectively closing and opening the at least one nozzle opening, a hydraulic coupling element, which is connected between the piezoelectric actuator and the nozzle needle, and at least one stroke stop, against which the nozzle needle rests in its completely open and/or completely closed position. To be better able to ascertain when the stroke stop is reached in such injectors, the needle stroke stop is ascertained during an energization pause of the piezoelectric actuator by analyzing a voltage signal applied to the piezoelectric actuator. Oscillations of the voltage signal during the energization pause are preferably analyzed.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2007Publication date: March 11, 2010Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Andreas Rau, Oliver Becker, Erik Tonner
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Publication number: 20100012096Abstract: The fuel injection device for an internal combustion engine comprises a feed pump which has an electric drive, by which feed pump fuel is fed from a fuel storage tank into a low-pressure region to the suction side of at least one high-pressure pump. The high-pressure pump pumps fuel into a high-pressure region in which at least one injector is provided to inject the fuel into the internal combustion engine. The fuel injection is controlled by an electric control device. Arranged in the low-pressure region is a pressure sensor which is connected to the control device. The electric drive of the feed pump is activated by the control device in order to set a feed quantity of the feed pump which is variable as a function of at least one operating parameter of the internal combustion engine and/or of the high-pressure pump.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 25, 2007Publication date: January 21, 2010Inventors: Stefan Kieferle, Dorothee Sommer, Oliver Becker, Bjoern Noack
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Patent number: 7516652Abstract: A method and a device for exciting pressure fluctuations in a fuel supply system of an internal combustion engine are provided, which in turn enable a determination of the sound velocity of the fuel. A quantity that characterizes the pressure in a fuel storage device or a fuel line is evaluated. In at least one operating state of the internal combustion engine, a natural oscillation of the fuel in the fuel storage device or the fuel line is excited.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2005Date of Patent: April 14, 2009Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Oliver Schulz, Oliver Becker
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Publication number: 20090045267Abstract: A method for operating an injection valve, in particular a fuel injector of an internal combustion engine, in which a trigger voltage is able to be applied to an actuator, designed as piezoelectric element, of the fuel injector in order to induce an injection of fluid, in particular fuel, supplied to the fuel injector via a supply system. A specifiable test voltage is applied to the actuator in a test triggering, and a fluid pressure prevailing in the supply system is detected at least during the test triggering in order to derive information about an operating state of the fuel injector and/or the actuator from the test voltage and the detected fluid pressure.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 22, 2008Publication date: February 19, 2009Inventors: Kai Sutter, Oliver Becker
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Publication number: 20070274882Abstract: The invention relates to a reactor at least comprising, connected with each other in fluid-communicating fashion: a reaction area, whereby the reaction area comprises at least one solid-state catalyst; a coolable heat exchanger area, whereby the heat exchanger area comprises at least one housing, whereby the housing accommodates at least partially an insert, whereby the insert comprises a plurality of elements, a process for oxidation of a hydrocarbon using the reactor, an oxidized hydrocarbon product obtainable by this process, chemical products, such as fibers, sheets, formed bodies and the like based on this oxidized hydrocarbon product as well as the use of this oxidized hydrocarbon product in chemical products of this type.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 4, 2005Publication date: November 29, 2007Inventors: Jurgen Mosler, Torsten Balduf, Dennis Thong, Jorg Leistner, Stefan Nordhoff, Michael Fricke, Oliver Becker