Patents by Inventor Peter Andres
Peter Andres 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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Patent number: 9955927Abstract: A system for accurately detecting a patient's movement during imaging procedures includes a camera for providing a stream of camera images of a part of a patient's exterior and a fiducial element mountable on part of the patient's exterior. The fiducial element is detectable in the stream of images. An image processor is configured to detect a displacement of the fiducial element based on consecutive images including in at least the stream of images and to generate an output signal indicative of the displacement. The fiducial element has an in-plane stiffness which is substantially larger than an in-plane stiffness of the part of the patient's exterior. In addition, the fiducial element and the part of the patient's exterior are provided with substantially equal outer in-plane dimensions.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 2010Date of Patent: May 1, 2018Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Bernardus Hendrikus Wilhelmus Hendriks, Michael Cornelis Van Beek, Peter-Andre Redert, Frederik Jan De Bruijn, Drazenko Babic, Robert Johannes Frederik Homan, Ralph Braspenning, Wei Pien Lee, Karl Catharina Van Bree, Caifeng Shan
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Patent number: 9953529Abstract: A method of communicating a notification includes identifying an issue associated with a target vehicle. A location of the target vehicle is determined, and a notification signal is broadcast from a host vehicle. The notification signal includes the location of the target vehicle and the identified issue associated with the target vehicle. The broadcast notification signal is received by the target vehicle, which determines that the received notification signal is intended for the target vehicle, by comparing a current location of the target vehicle to the location of the target vehicle included in the notification signal. When the target vehicle determines that the broadcast notification signal received from the host vehicle is intended for the target vehicle, the target vehicle may issue an alert signal to alert an occupant of the target vehicle of the issue associated with the target vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2015Date of Patent: April 24, 2018Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Suresh Puradchithasan, Peter Andres, Munib Ahmed Yusuf
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Patent number: 9935244Abstract: A method according to embodiments of the invention includes providing a plurality of LEDs attached to a mount. A filter is attached to at least one of the plurality of LEDs. A protective layer is formed over the filter. A reflective layer is formed over the mount. A portion of the reflective layer disposed over the protective layer is removed.Type: GrantFiled: July 6, 2016Date of Patent: April 3, 2018Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: April Dawn Schricker, Hans-Helmut Bechtel, Kim Kevin Mai, Thomas Diederich, Joost Peter Andre Vogels, Uwe Mackens, Matthias Heidemann
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Patent number: 9883680Abstract: The invention pertains to a method for processing a defeathered whole leg poultry product, wherein the method comprises the following steps: —providing a leg product which comprises: —a thigh, —a drumstick, —a knee joint, —while the leg product is suspended from a carrier of a conveyor, making a transverse cut at the knee joint, which transverse cut is made from the rear side of the leg product towards the knee cap, said cut having a cut end which is located adjacent to the rear of the knee cap so that the thigh and the drumstick remain connected to each other and the knee cap remains intact, by which cut a drumstick side cut plane and a thigh side cut plane are created, —while keeping the thigh meat and the drumstick connected to each other, removing the thigh bone from the thigh meat via the thigh side cut plane of the transverse cut, —while keeping the thigh meat and the drumstick connected to each other, severing the knee meat from the knee cap while keeping the knee meat and the thigh meat connected to eType: GrantFiled: June 11, 2015Date of Patent: February 6, 2018Assignee: MAREL STORK POULTRY PROCESSING B.V.Inventors: Heinze Annema, Richard Gerard Johan Drabbels, Roger Pierre Hubertus Maria Claessens, Stefan Christianus Wilhelmus Martinus Van Den Heuvel, Pascal Peter André Van Kempen, Jan Willem Bos
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Patent number: 9696384Abstract: A system and method of simultaneously calculating an isolation resistance and a y-capacitance of a RESS may include the steps of: injecting a first signal into a RESS; recording an output signal from the RESS in response to the injection of the first signal; multiplying the first signal with the output signal to determine a first product; multiplying a second signal with the output signal to determine a second product wherein the second signal is orthogonal to the first signal; filtering the first product to determine a first constant; filtering the second product to determine a second constant; processing the first constant to determine a y-capacitance value; and processing the second constant to determine an isolation resistance value.Type: GrantFiled: August 22, 2013Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Fang Wang, Wei Liu, Jochen Lenz, Peter Andres
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Publication number: 20170172165Abstract: The invention pertains to a method for processing a defeathered whole leg poultry product, wherein the method comprises the following steps: —providing a leg product which comprises: —a thigh, —a drumstick, —a knee joint, —while the leg product is suspended from a carrier of a conveyor, making a transverse cut at the knee joint, which transverse cut is made from the rear side of the leg product towards the knee cap, said cut having a cut end which is located adjacent to the rear of the knee cap so that the thigh and the drumstick remain connected to each other and the knee cap remains intact, by which cut a drumstick side cut plane and a thigh side cut plane are created, —while keeping the thigh meat and the drumstick connected to each other, removing the thigh bone from the thigh meat via the thigh side cut plane of the transverse cut, —while keeping the thigh meat and the drumstick connected to each other, severing the knee meat from the knee cap while keeping the knee meat and the thigh meat connected to eType: ApplicationFiled: June 11, 2015Publication date: June 22, 2017Applicant: MAREL STORK POULTRY PROCESSING B.V.Inventors: Heinze ANNEMA, Richard Gerard Johan DRABBELS, Roger Pierre Hubertus Maria CLAESSENS, Stefan Christianus Wilhelmus Martinus VAN DEN HEUVEL, Pascal Peter André VAN KEMPEN, Jan Willem BOS
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Patent number: 9596869Abstract: A system for skin removal from defeathered whole leg or drumstick poultry products, includes a poultry products conveyor including a track including a circle arc track portion, and a series of poultry product carriers which are spaced apart from one another in the direction of the track and which are movable along said track. Each poultry product carrier is adapted to hold at least one defeathered whole leg or drumstick poultry product at the ankle joint thereof such that the poultry product is conveyed hanging from said carrier. A carousel skin removal device is arranged along the track of the poultry products conveyor at the circle arc track portion and adapted to remove skin from whole leg or drumstick poultry products held and conveyed by the poultry products conveyor.Type: GrantFiled: November 11, 2014Date of Patent: March 21, 2017Assignee: MAREL STORK POULTRY PROCESSING B.V.Inventors: Jan Willem Bos, Erik Hendrikus Werner Peters, Maurice Eduardus Theodorus Van Esbroeck, Pascal Peter André Van Kempen
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Publication number: 20170025006Abstract: A method of communicating a notification includes identifying an issue associated with a target vehicle. A location of the target vehicle is determined, and a notification signal is broadcast from a host vehicle. The notification signal includes the location of the target vehicle and the identified issue associated with the target vehicle. The broadcast notification signal is received by the target vehicle, which determines that the received notification signal is intended for the target vehicle, by comparing a current location of the target vehicle to the location of the target vehicle included in the notification signal. When the target vehicle determines that the broadcast notification signal received from the host vehicle is intended for the target vehicle, the target vehicle may issue an alert signal to alert an occupant of the target vehicle of the issue associated with the target vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 20, 2015Publication date: January 26, 2017Applicant: GM GLOBAL TECHNOLOGY OPERATIONS LLCInventors: Suresh Puradchithasan, Peter Andres, Munib Ahmed Yusuf
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Patent number: 9543478Abstract: A method according to embodiments of the invention includes providing a plurality of LEDs (60) attached to a mount (62). A filter (102) is attached to at least one of the plurality of LEDs. A protective layer (104) is formed over the filter. A reflective layer (74) is formed over the mount. A portion of the reflective layer disposed over the protective layer is removed.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2013Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: April Dawn Schricker, Hans-Helmut Bechtel, Kim Kevin Mai, Thomas Diederich, Joost Peter Andre Vogels, Uwe Mackens, Matthias Heidemann
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Publication number: 20160315070Abstract: A method according to embodiments of the invention includes providing a plurality of LEDs attached to a mount. A filter is attached to at least one of the plurality of LEDs. A protective layer is formed over the filter. A reflective layer is formed over the mount. A portion of the reflective layer disposed over the protective layer is removed.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 6, 2016Publication date: October 27, 2016Inventors: April Dawn Schricker, Hans-Helmut Bechtel, Kim Kevin Mai, Thomas Diederich, Joost Peter Andre Vogels, Uwe Mackens, Matthias Heidemann
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Publication number: 20160276551Abstract: A ceramic green wavelength conversion element (120) is coated with a red wavelength conversion material (330) and placed above a blue light emitting element (110) such that the ceramic element (120) is attached to the light emitting element (110), thereby providing an efficient thermal coupling from the red and green converters (330, 120) to the light emitting element (110) and its associated heat sink. To protect the red converter coating (330) from the effects of subsequent processes, a sacrificial clear coating (340) is created above the red converter element (330). This clear coating (340) may be provided as a discrete layer of clear material, or it may be produced by allowing the red converters to settle to the bottom of its suspension material, thereby forming a converter-free upper layer that can be subjected to the subsequent fabrication processes.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 1, 2016Publication date: September 22, 2016Inventors: April Dawn Schricker, Kim Kevin Mai, Grigoriy Basin, Uwe Mackens, Joost Peter Andre Vogels, Aldegonda Lucia Weijers, Karl Adriaan Zijtveld
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Publication number: 20160270413Abstract: A system for skin removal from defeathered whole leg or drumstick poultry products, includes a poultry products conveyor including a track including a circle arc track portion, and a series of poultry product carriers which are spaced apart from one another in the direction of the track and which are movable along said track. Each poultry product carrier is adapted to hold at least one defeathered whole leg or drumstick poultry product at the ankle joint thereof such that the poultry product is conveyed hanging from said carrier. A carousel skin removal device is arranged along the track of the poultry products conveyor at the circle arc track portion and adapted to remove skin from whole leg or drumstick poultry products held and conveyed by the poultry products conveyor.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2014Publication date: September 22, 2016Applicant: MAREL STORK POULTRY PROCESSING B.V.Inventors: Jan Willem BOS, Erik Hendrikus Werner PETERS, Maurice Eduardus Theodorus VAN ESBROECK, Pascal Peter André VAN KEMPEN
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Patent number: 9435315Abstract: Floating platform apparatus for wave power conversion, consisting of armatures with buoyant, semi-submersible segments pivotally joined to an interlinking segment for controllable, repeated transitions of the primary axis of the entire apparatus from the extended horizontal posture to the vertical posture while still permitting the armature to oscillate in two planes within a restrictive collar, the oscillations thrusting fluid pumps to drive a generator to derive electrical power from the motion. Environmental sensing causes adjustment of the length of the armature and of the variably fixed facing angle of the collar within the interlinking segment in order to harness and manage forces impinging on the system. Dynamic harmonic tuning and resonance management are achieved by varying armature length through employment of telescoping, nested elements in the armatures.Type: GrantFiled: January 23, 2014Date of Patent: September 6, 2016Inventor: Peter Andrés Kalnay
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Patent number: 9379293Abstract: A ceramic green wavelength conversion element (120) is coated with a red wavelength conversion material (330) and placed above a blue light emitting element (110) such that the ceramic element (120) is attached to the light emitting element (110), thereby providing an efficient thermal coupling from the red and green converters (330, 120) to the light emitting element (110) and its associated heat sink. To protect the red converter coating (330) from the effects of subsequent processes, a sacrificial clear coating (340) is created above the red converter element (330). This clear coating (340) may be provided as a discrete layer of clear material, or it may be produced by allowing the red converters to settle to the bottom of its suspension material, thereby forming a converter-free upper layer that can be subjected to the subsequent fabrication processes.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2013Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: April Dawn Schricker, Kim Kevin Mai, Grigoriy Basin, Uwe Mackens, Joost Peter Andre Vogels, Aldegonda Lucia Weijers, Karl Adriaan Zijtveld
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Patent number: 9355488Abstract: A liquid crystal (LC) display system includes an LC panel and a backlight unit. A controller controls the LC panel to display first and a second images forming a stereoscopic pair; controls the backlight unit to only illuminate the LC panel during a first time period after pixels of the LC panel have a stable optical state according to the first image, and during a second time period after the pixels have a stable optical state according to the second image; and generates a control signal for controlling a first shutter glass of a pair of 3D shutter glasses to be in a transmissive state for enabling viewing of the pixels of the LC panel only during the first time period, and a second shutter glass to be in a transmissive state for enabling viewing of the pixels of the LC panel only during the second time period.Type: GrantFiled: June 11, 2013Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Roland Focco Everhard Goris, Peter-Andre Redert
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Patent number: 9327610Abstract: A system and method for individually discharging battery cells in a high voltage vehicle battery. The system includes a battery controller that monitors and controls the state-of-charge of each of the battery cells and a cell balancing circuit for maintaining the charge of the cells substantially equal. The controller receives a signal from a vehicle crash detector indicating that the vehicle has been in a crash, and in response instructs the cell balancing circuit to discharge all of the battery cells.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2012Date of Patent: May 3, 2016Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Peter Andres, Ryan M. Frakes, Paul W. Kelley
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Patent number: 9296995Abstract: The invention relates to an improved vaccine against pertussis wherein mutants of Bordetella pertussis having a modified LPS molecule or the obtainable LPS molecules are used. These mutants or the obtainable LPS molecules may further be used as an adjuvant.Type: GrantFiled: March 25, 2008Date of Patent: March 29, 2016Assignee: DE STAAT DER NEDERLANDEN, VERT. DOOR DE MINISTER VAN VWSInventors: Jeroen Johannes Gerardus Geurtsen, Johannes Petrus Maria Tommassen, Peter André Van Der Ley
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Publication number: 20160081295Abstract: A device for milking animals including a plurality of milking stations, wherein each milking station includes a milk collecting container and a displacing mechanism for displacing liquid from the milk collecting container. The milk collecting container (is connected to a first discharge line and to a second discharge line, a second central milk line is connected to the second discharge line for leading milk from a plurality of milking stations to a collective liquid discharge and further includes a line cleaning device connected to the second central milk line for cleaning at least the second central milk line with a cleaning liquid, wherein the connection of the line cleaning device with the second central milk line is located at least equally far from the liquid discharge as the connection of a second discharge line with the second central milk line.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2015Publication date: March 24, 2016Applicant: LELY PATENT N.V.Inventors: Villads KRISTENSEN, Antoon Peter André THEELEN, Wilhelmus Johannes Adrianus VAN LIER
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Patent number: 9203118Abstract: A battery module that includes a plurality of battery cells having cell elements that are electrically coupled. Each cell includes a first capacitor plate pair having a first capacitor plate and a second capacitor plate at a first side of the cell element. Each cell also includes a second capacitor plate pair having a first capacitor plate and a second capacitor plate positioned at a second side of the cell element. The first capacitor plate at the second side of one cell element is capacitively coupled to the first capacitor plate at the first side of the cell element in an adjacent cell and the second capacitor plate at the second side of the one cell element is capacitively coupled to the second capacitor plate at the first side of the cell element in the adjacent cell so as to provide DC breaking.Type: GrantFiled: April 9, 2013Date of Patent: December 1, 2015Assignee: GM Global Technology Operations LLCInventors: Jochen Lenz, Jonas Hemsen, Peter Andres, Manfred Herrmann
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Publication number: 20150280076Abstract: A method according to embodiments of the invention includes providing a plurality of LEDs (60) attached to a mount (62). A filter (102) is attached to at least one of the plurality of LEDs. A protective layer (104) is formed over the filter. A reflective layer (74) is formed over the mount. A portion of the reflective layer disposed over the protective layer is removed.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 25, 2013Publication date: October 1, 2015Inventors: April Dawn Schricker, Hans-Helmut Bechtel, Kim Kevin Mai, Thomas Diederich, Joost Peter Andre Vogels, Uwe Mackens, Matthias Heidemann