Patents by Inventor Patrick Christian

Patrick Christian 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: 10495005
    Abstract: An epicyclic gear device for driving rotation of a first blade set of a turbine engine, the device: including a sunwheel centered on a longitudinal axis of the turbine engine and connected to a rotor of the engine in order to be driven in rotation; at least one planet meshing with the sunwheel; a planet carrier rotatably carrying the planet and connected to a first blade set in order to drive it in rotation; and a ring meshing with the planet; the sunwheel being connected to the rotor via a first constant velocity ball transmission joint.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2019
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Augustin Curlier, Julien Michel Patrick Christian Austruy, Tewfik Boudebiza, Gilles Alain Charier
  • Publication number: 20190355178
    Abstract: A method, system, computer-readable media, and apparatuses for providing a shared vehicle experience. The method includes capturing an exterior video stream that depicts an exterior environment of a vehicle, and receiving remote user information indicating a bodily movement of a remote user. The method further includes generating and displaying an augmented video stream comprising a dynamic avatar representing the remote user as a virtual passenger, the dynamic avatar being updated based on the remote user information while the augmented video stream is being displayed in the vehicle. At least a portion of the exterior video stream and occupant information are sent to a computer device that causes, based on the at least a portion of the exterior video stream and the occupant information, a display device of the remote user to output an additional augmented video stream that provides the remote user with an experience of being in the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: David Saul HERMINA MARTINEZ, Eugenia Yi Jen LEU, Delbert Bramlett BOONE, II, Mohamed Amr Mohamed Nader ABUELFOUTOUH, Christopher Steven NOWAKOWSKI, Jean-Patrick Christian Marie FAVIER, Félix Louis Jean MARQUETTE, Julie Marie HARDOUIN AROUNA, Siav-Kuong KUOCH
  • Patent number: 10458687
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVAC&R) system that includes a refrigerant loop, a compressor disposed along the refrigerant loop and configured to circulate refrigerant through the refrigerant loop, and an evaporator disposed along the refrigerant loop and configured to place the refrigerant in thermal communication with a cooling fluid, where the refrigerant surrounds a tube bundle disposed in the evaporator, the tube bundle is configured to flow the cooling fluid, and the evaporator has a height based at least on a target height of a liquid level of refrigerant in the evaporator, the evaporator includes a discharge configured to direct the vapor refrigerant from the evaporator to an inlet of the compressor, and an interface between the discharge and the inlet is without a bend.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2019
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Jay A. Kohler, Patrick Christian Marks, Ian Michael Casper, Kurt Devlin
  • Publication number: 20190269231
    Abstract: A case for a mobile device, including a first RF-transparent layer forming a pocket or recess for a mobile device, and a clip portion extending from a first wall of the pocket or recess. The clip portion extends away from a first wall of the pocket or recess, with the clip portion and the first wall forming a ring. The clip portion includes an external clip portion, an internal clip portion arranged inside the external clip portion, and a hinged gate. The internal clip portion is separate and distinct from the eternal clip portion. The hinged gate is rotatable around a hinge portion between a closed position in which the ring is closed, and an open position in which the ring is open. The first RF-transparent layer and the external and internal clip portions are formed from materials such that radio frequency (“RF”) transmissions can be transmitted through them.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 2, 2018
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Applicant: Samsonite IP Holdings S.àr.I.
    Inventors: Patrick Christian, Alan Yu Tung Ng, Bryan Lee Hynecek, Ivan Chen, Christopher William Ledesma
  • Publication number: 20190193699
    Abstract: A control device and a method for operating an electromechanical brake booster of a brake system configured to execute anti-lock control actions, including the steps: determining a setpoint variable regarding a setpoint brake pressure to be produced by the electromechanical brake booster, in view of at least a differential travel; and controlling the electromechanical brake booster in view of the determined setpoint variable; at least during an anti-lock control action carried out in the brake system, it being ascertained if the differential travel lies outside of a specified normal value range, and in some instances, the additional steps being executed: determining a correction variable for the setpoint variable in view of at least a difference between the determined setpoint variable and an actual variable regarding an actual pressure present in at least part of the volume of the brake system, and controlling the electromechanical brake booster in additional view of the determined correction variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Publication date: June 27, 2019
    Inventors: Manfred Gerdes, Patrick Christian Schaefer
  • Patent number: 10308231
    Abstract: A method for controlling a brake booster in a hydraulic brake system, in which the smallest partial pressure target value of at least three partial pressure target values is ascertained, and is then defined as the target pressure value and is then set using a brake booster.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2019
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Michael Butz, Manfred Gerdes, Patrick Christian Schaefer, Herbert Vollert
  • Publication number: 20190128578
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVAC&R) system that includes a refrigerant loop, a compressor disposed along the refrigerant loop and configured to circulate refrigerant through the refrigerant loop, a heat exchanger disposed along the refrigerant loop and configured to place the refrigerant in thermal communication with a cooling fluid flowing through tubes of a tube bundle within the heat exchanger, an inlet of the heat exchanger configured to direct the refrigerant into the heat exchanger, a trough of the heat exchanger configured to receive the refrigerant from the inlet, and a perforated baffle of the heat exchanger disposed downstream of the trough and configured to direct the refrigerant from the trough over the tubes of the tube bundle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 1, 2018
    Publication date: May 2, 2019
    Inventors: Jay A. Kohler, Patrick Christian Marks, Ian Michael Casper, Kurt Devlin
  • Patent number: 10088208
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVAC&R) system that includes a refrigerant loop, a compressor disposed along the refrigerant loop and configured to circulate refrigerant through the refrigerant loop, a heat exchanger disposed along the refrigerant loop and configured to place the refrigerant in thermal communication with a cooling fluid flowing through tubes of a tube bundle within the heat exchanger, an inlet of the heat exchanger configured to direct the refrigerant into the heat exchanger, a trough of the heat exchanger configured to receive the refrigerant from the inlet, and a perforated baffle of the heat exchanger disposed downstream of the trough and configured to direct the refrigerant from the trough over the tubes of the tube bundle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 2, 2018
    Assignee: Johnson Controls Technology Company
    Inventors: Jay A. Kohler, Patrick Christian Marks, Ian Michael Casper, Kurt Devlin
  • Patent number: 10077037
    Abstract: A hydraulic control device for at least one hydraulic aggregate of a brake system, and a brake booster control device, interacting therewith, for an electromechanical brake booster of the brake system. The hydraulic control device includes a first control electronics by which at least one motor target quantity that is to be realized by a motor of the electromechanical brake booster can be determined, taking into account a provided brake actuating strength quantity relating to a current actuation of a brake actuating element, and by which a specification signal corresponding to the at least one determined motor target quantity can be outputted to the brake booster control device. The brake booster control device has a second control electronics that, at least in a normal mode, outputs the control signal to the motor of the electromechanical brake booster, taking into account the specification signal outputted by the hydraulic control device.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 18, 2018
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Bertram Foitzik, Patrick Christian Schaefer
  • Publication number: 20170197601
    Abstract: A hydraulic assemblage for a braking system of a vehicle, including a brake master cylinder and at least one valve, the brake master cylinder being disposed in and/or on a first hydraulic assemblage sub-block, and the at least one valve being disposed in and/or on a second hydraulic assemblage sub-block; the first hydraulic assemblage sub-block and the second hydraulic assemblage sub-block being joined to one another via an interlayer that is shaped at least in part from at least one airtight material having vibration-damping properties; and at least one first conduit portion of the first hydraulic assemblage sub-block being connected, via at least one hydraulic connecting structure extending through the interlayer, to at least one second conduit portion of the second hydraulic assemblage sub-block. A braking system for a vehicle, having a hydraulic assemblage and a method for manufacturing a hydraulic assemblage for a braking system are also described.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 23, 2015
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventor: Patrick Christian SCHAEFER
  • Publication number: 20170191713
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVAC&R) system that includes a refrigerant loop, a compressor disposed along the refrigerant loop and configured to circulate refrigerant through the refrigerant loop, a heat exchanger disposed along the refrigerant loop and configured to place the refrigerant in thermal communication with a cooling fluid flowing through tubes of a tube bundle within the heat exchanger, an inlet of the heat exchanger configured to direct the refrigerant into the heat exchanger, a trough of the heat exchanger configured to receive the refrigerant from the inlet, and a perforated baffle of the heat exchanger disposed downstream of the trough and configured to direct the refrigerant from the trough over the tubes of the tube bundle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Jay A. Kohler, Patrick Christian Marks, Ian Michael Casper, Kurt Devlin
  • Publication number: 20170191714
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVAC&R) system that includes a refrigerant loop, a compressor disposed along the refrigerant loop and configured to circulate refrigerant through the refrigerant loop, and an evaporator disposed along the refrigerant loop and configured to place the refrigerant in thermal communication with a cooling fluid, where the refrigerant surrounds a tube bundle disposed in the evaporator, the tube bundle is configured to flow the cooling fluid, and the evaporator has a height based at least on a target height of a liquid level of refrigerant in the evaporator, the evaporator includes a discharge configured to direct the vapor refrigerant from the evaporator to an inlet of the compressor, and an interface between the discharge and the inlet is without a bend.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Jay A. Kohler, Patrick Christian Marks, Ian Michael Casper, Kurt Devlin
  • Publication number: 20170191718
    Abstract: Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a heating, ventilation, air conditioning, and refrigeration (HVAC&R) system that includes a refrigerant loop, a compressor disposed along the refrigerant loop and configured to circulate refrigerant through the refrigerant loop, an evaporator disposed along the refrigerant loop and configured to evaporate the refrigerant into refrigerant vapor, a condenser disposed along the refrigerant loop and configured to condense the refrigerant vapor into liquid refrigerant, a first conduit fluidly coupling the evaporator and the condenser to one another, a first expansion valve disposed along the first conduit between the evaporator and the condenser, a second conduit fluidly coupling the evaporator and the condenser to one another, where the first conduit and the second conduit are separate from one another, and a second expansion valve disposed along the second conduit between the evaporator and the condenser.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 5, 2017
    Publication date: July 6, 2017
    Inventors: Jay A. Kohler, Patrick Christian Marks, Ian Michael Casper, Kurt Devlin
  • Publication number: 20170158182
    Abstract: A hydraulic control device for at least one hydraulic aggregate of a brake system, and a brake booster control device, interacting therewith, for an electromechanical brake booster of the brake system. The hydraulic control device includes a first control electronics by which at least one motor target quantity that is to be realized by a motor of the electromechanical brake booster can be determined, taking into account a provided brake actuating strength quantity relating to a current actuation of a brake actuating element, and by which a specification signal corresponding to the at least one determined motor target quantity can be outputted to the brake booster control device. The brake booster control device has a second control electronics that, at least in a normal mode, outputs the control signal to the motor of the electromechanical brake booster, taking into account the specification signal outputted by the hydraulic control device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2015
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Bertram Foitzik, Patrick Christian Schaefer
  • Patent number: 9637239
    Abstract: The invention provides a suspension structure for suspending a turboprop (10) having two unducted propellers on a structural element of an aircraft, the suspension structure comprising a cradle (18) for fastening to a structural element of the aircraft and having two lateral beams (22) connected to a main beam (20) extending parallel to a longitudinal axis (14) of the turboprop so as to form a V-shaped cradle structure, the cradle being fastened to the turboprop via two angle members (24) connecting each free end of the lateral beams of the cradle to the turboprop, via an axial link (28) connecting one end of the main beam of the cradle of the turboprop, and via at least one transverse link (30) situated in a plane extending transversely relative to the longitudinal axis of the turboprop and connecting the cradle to the turboprop.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2017
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventors: Mathieu Ange Alexis Poisson, Julien Michel Patrick Christian Austruy, François Gallet, Mario Lambey
  • Patent number: 9624777
    Abstract: A rotor of an aircraft turbomachine having a main axis A, which includes modifying the critical speed of the rotor, depending on whether the rotational speed of the rotor is lower or higher than a predefined rotational speed, including a component that is capable of occupying a first state or a second state depending on whether the rotational speed of the rotor is lower or higher than the predefined rotational speed, each state of the component corresponding to a critical speed of the rotor, and driving the component to one or the other of the two states thereof, depending on the rotational speed of the rotor, wherein modifying the critical speed of the rotor further includes a component that engages with the drive means and is capable of being deformed elastically between one or the other of two stable forms, each of which corresponds to a state of the component.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: SNECMA
    Inventor: Julien Michel Patrick Christian Austruy
  • Publication number: 20160200306
    Abstract: A method for controlling a brake booster in a hydraulic brake system, in which the smallest partial pressure target value of at least three partial pressure target values is ascertained, and is then defined as the target pressure value and is then set using a brake booster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 24, 2014
    Publication date: July 14, 2016
    Inventors: Michael Butz, Manfred Gerdes, Patrick Christian Schaefer, Herbert Vollert
  • Publication number: 20160159486
    Abstract: The invention provides a suspension structure for suspending a turboprop (10) having two unducted propellers on a structural element of an aircraft, the suspension structure comprising a cradle (18) for fastening to a structural element of the aircraft and having two lateral beams (22) connected to a main beam (20) extending parallel to a longitudinal axis (14) of the turboprop so as to form a V-shaped cradle structure, the cradle being fastened to the turboprop via two angle members (24) connecting each free end of the lateral beams of the cradle to the turboprop, via an axial link (28) connecting one end of the main beam of the cradle of the turboprop, and via at least one transverse link (30) situated in a plane extending transversely relative to the longitudinal axis of the turboprop and connecting the cradle to the turboprop.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2014
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicant: SNECMA
    Inventors: Mathieu Ange Alexis POISSON, Julien Michel Patrick Christian AUSTRUY, François GALLET, Mario LAMBEY
  • Publication number: 20150032352
    Abstract: A control device for a controllable brake booster of a braking system is configured to: establish a setpoint variable regarding a setpoint operation to be carried out with the aid of the controllable brake booster, under consideration of a provided specified variable regarding a setpoint pressure to be set in a partial volume of the braking system; establish a setpoint difference of the setpoint variable, under consideration of the specified variable and an actual variable regarding an actual pressure present in a subarea of the braking system, to establish a corrected setpoint variable taking the established setpoint difference into consideration; and output a control signal which corresponds to the established corrected setpoint variable to the controllable brake booster and/or to the power supply component of the controllable brake booster.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2014
    Publication date: January 29, 2015
    Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Michael BUTZ, Manfred GERDES, Patrick Christian SCHAEFER
  • Publication number: 20130232531
    Abstract: A system and a method for the transmission of digital data which is representative of video and audio content of the type which can be used for television programming. The system allows when to end and start groups of data for the video and/or audio to be made with reference to the actual video and/or audio content and in particular to be made with reference to a detected or detectable change in the video or audio content such that the end of one group and start of the next group of data can be synchronised to occur at the same time as, or at a time determined with respect to, the change. Groups of data as self contained items or records are stored in one or more databases from which the groups can be selected and transmitted for the generation of video and/or audio content.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2012
    Publication date: September 5, 2013
    Inventor: Patrick Christian