Patents by Inventor Patrick Weber

Patrick Weber 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).

  • Publication number: 20240017197
    Abstract: A cartridge filter including a plurality of filter media sets, wherein two of the plurality of filter media sets are arranged in a V-shaped manner, and a frame for receiving the filter media sets. The frame is formed by four elements which are each configured in one piece: an inflow-side upper plate, an outflow-side base plate and two side plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 7, 2023
    Publication date: January 18, 2024
    Inventors: Sascha SCHUMACHER, Patrick WEBER, Thomas SCHROTH, Renate TAPPER
  • Patent number: 11760172
    Abstract: A composite pane with an electrically switchable functional element, includes first and second panes, a thermoplastic intermediate layer joining the first pane to the second pane and including a first laminating film with a thickness of at least 0.3 mm and a second laminating film with a thickness of at most 70 ?m. The first laminating film is inserted substantially areally between the first and second panes. The second laminating film is inserted exclusively in the region of the at least one functional element and protrudes with an overhang x of at least 1 mm and at most 10 mm beyond the outer edges of the functional element. The direct layer sequence in the region of an electrically switchable functional element consists of the first pane, the second laminating film, the electrically switchable functional element, optionally, a further second laminating film, the first laminating film, and the second pane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Patrick Weber, Ali-Osman Kizmaz, Sara Borhani Haghighi, Alexandra Yatim
  • Patent number: 11726588
    Abstract: A laminated glass pane having a first glass layer and a second glass layer, wherein at least one first electrically conducting structure and a second electrically conducting structure are arranged between the first glass layer and the second glass layer, wherein the first electrically conducting structure and the second electrically conducting structure are arranged spaced apart from one another, wherein the first electrically conducting structure at least partially overlaps the second electrically conducting structure in a perpendicular orientation relative to the first glass layer, wherein the first electrically conducting structure is associated with a first electrical element, wherein the first electrical element is a capacitive sensor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Patrick Weber, Bastian Klauss, Michael Zeiss, Christian Effertz
  • Publication number: 20230221726
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for comparing generated data sequences for an at least semi-automated driving of a mobile platform, which were generated with the aid of a closed-loop simulation process, and a recorded data sequence of a trip of the mobile platform, controlled in at least semi-automated fashion, for the qualification of the control. The method includes: providing the recorded data sequence, which is based on a multiplicity of determinants, of trips of the mobile platform controlled in at least semi-automated fashion; providing a multitude of generated data sequences, which are based on the multiplicity of determinants, of simulated trips, which were generated with the aid of the closed-loop simulation process; providing similarity limits and a similarity metric for the respective determinant; comparing the recorded data sequence to each individual generated data sequence of the multitude of recorded data sequences.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Joachim Sohns, Patrick Weber
  • Patent number: 11680922
    Abstract: A composite pane for separating an interior space from an external environment, includes an inner pane, an outer pane with an inner surface, and an intermediate layer that areally joins the inner surface of the outer pane to an outer surface of the inner pane, a capacitive sensor for detecting moisture having at least one capacitor that is connected to an electronic sensor unit, which is provided for detecting a change in capacitance of the capacitor, wherein the capacitor has at least two electrodes formed from a transparent, electrically conductive coating, which are capacitively coupled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2023
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Christian Effertz, Klaus Schmalbuch, Patrick Weber, Hans-Georg Esser
  • Patent number: 11656588
    Abstract: A method for designing and/or controlling a filter assembly for the air supply to a turbomachine includes: calculating a current and/or an expected concentration of particles in air present at an inlet of at least one filter stage of the filter assembly as a function of a mean size of the particles; calculating a sensitivity spectrum that, depending on the mean size of the particles, indicates an extent to which a predetermined concentration of such particles has a negative effect on performance and/or on service life of the turbomachine; calculating, for at least one filter candidate usable in the filter stage and/or switchable on or off, a concentration of particles to be expected at an outlet of the filter from a concentration and filter properties of the at least one filter candidate; and calculating a quality rating from the concentration and a sensitivity spectrum.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: CARL FREUDENBERG KG
    Inventors: Patrick Weber, Georg Hirsch, Thomas Schroth
  • Patent number: 11648753
    Abstract: A window pane has a plurality of capacitive switching regions, for separating an interior from an external environment, wherein the window pane includes a pane having an inner surface and a coating that is arranged at least partially on the inner surface of the pane and a capacitive switching region is in each case electrically separated from the coating by at least one coating-free dividing line and can be electrically connected to a sensor electronics system and has a detection region for contactlessly detecting an object moved by a person in an activation region and the direction of movement thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 16, 2023
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventor: Patrick Weber
  • Patent number: 11617495
    Abstract: A medical endodevice for an intervention inside a human or animal body includes an elongated liaising structure having a distal end arrangeable inside a body of the human or animal being and a proximal end arrangeable outside the body while the distal end is inside the body. The endodevice has an intervention tool arranged to manipulate a target tissue inside the human or animal body. The intervention tool is arranged at the distal end of the liaising structure. The endodevice further includes a positioning unit having a moving formation arranged to dislocate the intervention tool relative to the target tissue, and an anchoring formation arranged to fix the moving formation to a fixing tissue inside the human or animal body such that the target tissue is positioned in a workspace of the intervention tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: UNIVERSITÄT BASEL
    Inventors: Manuela Eugster, Patrick Weber, Georg Rauter
  • Patent number: 11598467
    Abstract: A plug-in coupling has a coupling plug and a coupling socket. The coupling plug has an inner and an outer pipe piece and a first attachment flange and is connected to the first cryogenic line. The coupling socket has an inner and an outer pipe piece and a second attachment flange and is connected to the second cryogenic line. A circular annular seal on the distal end of the coupling plug is of electrically insulating form. An insulating sleeve is arranged on the outer pipe piece of the coupling plug. An insulating disc is situated between the first and the second attachment flange when the coupling plug has been inserted into the coupling socket. The plug-in coupling realizes a galvanic is separation between the coupling plug and the coupling socket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 7, 2023
    Assignee: NEXANS
    Inventors: Holger Schulz, Patrick Weber
  • Patent number: 11541478
    Abstract: Devices for laser welding using welding wire have a welding head, a wire guide for the welding wire, and a wire feed drive. The welding wire can be moved by the wire feed drive during a welding process with a feed movement in a feed direction, guided by the wire guide. A positioning device has a positioning drive, by which the welding wire is moved in an oscillating manner in the longitudinal direction of the welding wire, when a wire end of the welding wire is arranged in a welding readiness position. Methods for laser welding using a welding wire as added material are carried out using the devices. A control program controls the devices. The devices for laser welding can be provided as a part of a welding robot.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: TRUMPF Werkzeugmaschinen GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Andreasch, Moritz Berger, Patrick Weber, Martin Johannes Geiger
  • Patent number: 11525538
    Abstract: A plug-in coupling for connecting a first double-walled vacuum-insulated cryogenic line to a second. The plug-in coupling has a coupling plug and a coupling socket. The coupling plug can be plugged into the coupling socket, these being retained in a plugged-together state by fixing means. A guide column is arranged on the coupling plug or the coupling socket. The guide column has arranged on it elastic means which, in the assembled state of the plug-in coupling, are subjected to stressing and which subject the coupling plug and/or coupling socket to an elastic force which strives to release the coupling plug and coupling socket from one another as soon as the fixing means no longer hold the coupling plug and coupling socket together. The elastic energy stored in the elastic means ensures that, in the event of an emergency, the coupling plug and coupling socket are quickly released from one another.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2020
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: NEXANS
    Inventors: Holger Schulz, Patrick Weber
  • Publication number: 20220325631
    Abstract: Disclosed is a turbine arrangement for a supercharging device. The turbine arrangement comprises a turbine housing, a turbine wheel and a guide device. The turbine housing defines a turbine spiral and a turbine outlet. The turbine wheel is arranged in the turbine housing between the turbine spiral and the turbine outlet. The guide device comprises a carrier ring and multiple guide blades. The guide blades are arranged on the carrier ring fixedly in a predetermined orientation. The guide device is arranged in an inflow channel between the turbine spiral and the turbine wheel such that, during operation, fluids are conducted from the turbine spiral through the inflow channel over the guide blades onto the turbine wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Publication date: October 13, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas Ramb, Bernhard Dreher, Patrick Weber, Alexander Umlauff, Ahmet Coksen
  • Publication number: 20220301793
    Abstract: A composite panel includes first and second substrate layers, first and second patterned electrically conductive layers, and an insulating layer. A first capacitive sensing element with a first supply line structure is formed in the first electrically conductive layer and a second capacitive sensing element with a second supply line structure is formed in the second electrically conductive layer. The first and second patterned electrically conductive layers are separated from one another by the insulating layer. The assembly composed of the first and second patterned electrically conductive layers and the insulating layer is arranged between the first and second substrate layers. The first and second capacitive sensing elements are arranged offset relative to each other. An overlap of elements of the first capacitive sensitive element and of the first supply line structure makes up an area less than or equal to 10% of that of the second capacitive sensitive element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2020
    Publication date: September 22, 2022
    Inventors: Patrick WEBER, Michael ZEISS, Christian EFFERTZ, Gabor VARGA
  • Publication number: 20220234333
    Abstract: A laminated glass pane includes two glass or polymer panes and at least one connecting polymer film or connecting laminate adhesively bonded therebetween, wherein a cut-out in the connecting polymer film or in the connecting laminate is provided in a partial surface area of the laminated glass pane, and an electronic functional module that has a thickness smaller than the thickness of the connecting polymer film or the connecting laminate is accommodated in the cut-out, wherein the functional module has an electronic functional element that is fixed on a separate thin carrier polymer film on one of the glass or polymer panes, wherein an antenna and/or conductor structure that has a spiral or polygonal-spiral conductor path that surrounds the functional element is printed onto the carrier polymer film.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 29, 2020
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Christian EFFERTZ, Clément BOTTOIS, Patrick WEBER
  • Publication number: 20220123084
    Abstract: A laminated glass pane includes an outer glass pane and an inner glass pane, which are firmly connected to each other by a thermoplastic intermediate layer, wherein the intermediate layer includes at least one first electric functional element and at least one second electric functional element, wherein at least one metallic protective layer is arranged between the two electric functional elements, wherein the at least one first electric functional element is a display and/or the at least one second electric functional element is a PDLC film and/or a light source.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 17, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Alexandra YATIM, Patrick WEBER, Sara BORHANI HAGHIGHI
  • Patent number: 11286844
    Abstract: The invention relates to a valve assembly (10) for a charging device, in particular for a wastegate of an exhaust gas turbocharger, comprising a spindle (100), a lever arm (110) coupled to the spindle (100), and a valve unit (200). The lever arm (110) has a connecting element (112), designed as at least partially spherical, and the valve unit (200) has an accommodation region (212) with at least one first conical accommodation surface (214) in which the connecting element (112) is arranged.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 29, 2022
    Assignee: Borg Warner Inc.
    Inventors: Jakob Penth, Christoph Mueller, Christian Cossmann, Alexander Umlauff, Werner Rott, Florian Rapp, Georg Scholz, Patrick Weber
  • Patent number: 11214042
    Abstract: A pane arrangement includes a first and second pane joined by an intermediate layer, an electro-optical functional element including a first surface electrode, an electro-optical functional layer, and a second surface electrode, wherein the functional element is arranged between the first and second panes, and the first and second surface electrodes face, respectively, the first and second panes, a sensor electrode arranged between the first surface electrode and the first pane and the sensor electrode is capacitively coupled to the first surface electrode, and a capacitive electronic sensor system electrically connected to the sensor electrode. The sensitivity of the electronic sensor system is selected such that when the outer surface of the first pane is touched above the first surface electrode by a human body part or the human body part approaches the outer surface of the first pane above the first surface electrode, a switching signal is emitted.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 25, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 4, 2022
    Assignee: SAINT-GOBAIN GLASS FRANCE
    Inventors: Patrick Weber, Stefan Droste
  • Publication number: 20210254771
    Abstract: A plug-in coupling for connecting a first to a second double-walled, vacuum-insulated cryogenic line is proposed. The plug-in coupling comprises a coupling plug and a coupling socket. The coupling plug has an inner and an outer pipe piece and a first attachment flange and is connected to the first cryogenic line. The coupling socket has an inner and an outer pipe piece and a second attachment flange and is connected to the second cryogenic line. On a distal end of the coupling plug, there is arranged a circular annular seal such that a sealed connection between the coupling socket and the coupling plug is formed when the coupling plug has been fully inserted into the coupling socket.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Holger SCHULZ, Patrick WEBER
  • Publication number: 20210239036
    Abstract: The invention relates to a valve assembly (10) for a charging device, in particular for a wastegate of an exhaust gas turbocharger, comprising a spindle (100), a lever arm (110) coupled to the spindle (100), and a valve unit (200). The lever arm (110) has a connecting element (112), designed as at least partially spherical, and the valve unit (200) has an accommodation region (212) with at least one first conical accommodation surface (214) in which the connecting element (112) is arranged.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 17, 2019
    Publication date: August 5, 2021
    Inventors: Jakob PENTH, Christoph MUELLER, Christian COSSMANN, Alexander UMLAUFF, Werner ROTT, Florian RAPP, Georg SCHOLZ, Patrick WEBER
  • Publication number: 20210229531
    Abstract: A composite pane with an electrically switchable functional element, includes first and second panes, a thermoplastic intermediate layer joining the first pane to the second pane and including a first laminating film with a thickness of at least 0.3 mm and a second laminating film with a thickness of at most 70 ?m. The first laminating film is inserted substantially areally between the first and second panes. The second laminating film is inserted exclusively in the region of the at least one functional element and protrudes with an overhang x of at least 1 mm and at most 10 mm beyond the outer edges of the functional element. The direct layer sequence in the region of an electrically switchable functional element consists of the first pane, the second laminating film, the electrically switchable functional element, optionally, a further second laminating film, the first laminating film, and the second pane.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2019
    Publication date: July 29, 2021
    Inventors: Patrick WEBER, Ali-Osman KIZMAZ, Sara BORHANI HAGHIGHI, Alexandra YATIM