Patents by Inventor Peter Kern

Peter Kern 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: 12233525
    Abstract: A working apparatus has a manual operating region, a tubular part extending away from the manual operating region, and an electric cable arrangement in the tubular part. The working apparatus includes a rod-shaped cable holder, which is inserted into and held in the tubular part and has a cable holding arrangement, by which the cable arrangement is held in a pre-mounted manner on the cable holder. An assembly method secures the cable arrangement on the cable holder by the cable holding arrangement, and inserts the cable holder, with the cable arrangement held thereon, into the tubular part. The working apparatus may be a battery-operated, hand-guided garden or forestry working apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2025
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Johannes Luecke, Jens-Peter Kern, Johanna Koch, Matthias Maier
  • Publication number: 20240253714
    Abstract: A tunnel and battery box assembly for a snow vehicle includes a tunnel covering at least a portion of an endless track. The tunnel also includes a first heat exchanger coupled to the first sidewall; a second heat exchanger coupled to the second sidewall, a fuel tank, a first thermal cover coupled to the first heat exchanger between the first heat exchanger and the fuel tank, a first insulating layer disposed on an upper surface of the first thermal cover, a second thermal cover coupled to the second heat exchanger between the second heat exchanger and the fuel tank, and a second insulating layer disposed on an upper surface of the second thermal cover. The vehicle may also include a battery box structure having a battery receiver receiving the battery, and a fuel tank mount integrally formed in the battery box structure coupling the battery box to fuel tank.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2024
    Publication date: August 1, 2024
    Inventors: Benjamin EDWARDS, Barry JOHNSON, Peter KERN, Cory HUOT, Lindsay EDWARDS, Virendra GUPTA, Dustin MERTENS, Michael A. HEDLUND
  • Publication number: 20240182134
    Abstract: A throttle actuator includes a base, a carrier and a circuit board coupled between the base and the carrier. The circuit board has a first force sensor and a second force sensor. A spring plate is disposed between the carrier and the circuit board. The spring plate is adjacent to and extends between the first force sensor and the second force sensor. A cover is coupled to the base enclosing the carrier, the spring plate and the circuit board between the cover and the base.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2023
    Publication date: June 6, 2024
    Inventors: Joseph D. THARALDSON, Trevor F. RHODES, Peter KERN, Joshua J. MICKELSON, Tyler BENTOW, Michael A. HEDLUND, Craig MCCONNELL, Luis Felipe SANCHEZ, Scott Richard VOLK
  • Publication number: 20240113024
    Abstract: An interconnect structure including conducting layers of topological semi-metals and/or topological insulators. To increase charge carrier density in the conducting layers, a charge carrier doping layer present on at least one surface of the one or more conductive layers of topological semi-metals. The charge carrying doping layers have a charge carrier density greater than the topological semi-metals and/or topological insulators of the one or more conductive layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2022
    Publication date: April 4, 2024
    Inventors: Ching-Tzu Chen, Christian Lavoie, Guy M. Cohen, Utkarsh Bajpai, Nicholas Anthony Lanzillo, Teodor Krassimirov Todorov, Oki GUNAWAN, NATHAN P. MARCHACK, Peter Kerns
  • Publication number: 20230399396
    Abstract: Herein is reported a co-cultivation system for co-cultivating a pool of rabbit B-cells or single deposited rabbit B-cells wherein cells CD40L expressing CHO cells are used as feeder in the presence of TL-2 and TL-21.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2022
    Publication date: December 14, 2023
    Applicant: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Josef Endl, Jens Fischer, Peter Kern, Sonja Offner, Josef Platzer, Stefan Seeber
  • Publication number: 20210146522
    Abstract: A working apparatus has a manual operating region, a tubular part extending away from the manual operating region, and an electric cable arrangement in the tubular part. The working apparatus includes a rod-shaped cable holder, which is inserted into and held in the tubular part and has a cable holding arrangement, by which the cable arrangement is held in a pre-mounted manner on the cable holder. An assembly method secures the cable arrangement on the cable holder by the cable holding arrangement, and inserts the cable holder, with the cable arrangement held thereon, into the tubular part. The working apparatus may be a battery-operated, hand-guided garden or forestry working apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2020
    Publication date: May 20, 2021
    Inventors: Johannes LUECKE, Jens-Peter KERN, Johanna KOCH, Matthias MAIER
  • Publication number: 20190366186
    Abstract: A pitcher screening assembly for protecting a pitcher includes a plurality of frames. Each frame is hingedly coupled to adjacently positioned frames. Each of a plurality of nets is coupled to and extends inwardly from a respective frame. The frames are selectively positionable in an extended configuration, in which the nets are configured to protect a pitcher from hit balls, and a folded configuration, wherein the frames are stowable in a trunk of a vehicle. A plate is coupled to a bottom and extends perpendicularly from a front of a respective frame. A pair of wheels are coupled to a back of the respective frame. The wheels and the plate are configured to stabilize the plurality of frames perpendicularly to a substantially horizontal surface. The respective frame, the wheels, and the plate define a dolly that is configured to transport an item that is positioned on the plate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2018
    Publication date: December 5, 2019
    Inventor: Peter Kern
  • Patent number: 10330909
    Abstract: A device for microscopic examination includes an image output unit, at least two image input units, which are arranged in a spatially distributed manner and which have different sample receiving regions, at least one object carrier unit which supports at least one sample, in particular at least one biological sample, and includes a coupling unit, which couples the image output unit and one of the at least two image input units optically to form a microscope unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: AIRBUS DEFENCE AND SPACE GMBH
    Inventors: Peter Kern, Rainer Treichel
  • Publication number: 20190153091
    Abstract: Herein is reported a co-cultivation system for co-cultivating a pool of rabbit B-cells or single deposited rabbit B-cells wherein cells CD40L expressing CHO cells are used as feeder in the presence of IL-2 and IL-21.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2018
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Applicant: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: Josef Endl, Jens Fischer, Peter Kern, Sonja Offner, Josef Platzer, Stefan Seeber
  • Patent number: 10106767
    Abstract: A transfer device includes at least one pump unit provided for a defined gas transfer between a first, closed-off space of an installation, in particular a photobioreactor installation, and a second space which is separate from the first space. The at least one pump unit is embodied as a selective oxygen pump.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus DS GmbH
    Inventors: Heinz Hartstein, Peter Kern
  • Patent number: 9933340
    Abstract: A method for controlled movement of magnetic carriers in a sample volume for performing immunoassays under weightless or reduced-weight conditions, wherein the magnetic carriers are moved inside the sample volume by means of permanent magnets movably arranged relative to at least one spatial axis of the sample volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus DS GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Kern, Herbert Backes
  • Patent number: 9921214
    Abstract: The invention is based on a method for performing a biochemical analysis, especially in outer space, wherein at least one analyte in a sample is determined qualitatively and/or quantitatively by means of selective binding of an analyte-specific pair composed of a binding substance and a detection substance to the analyte and by labeling by a labeling substance, and wherein the sample, the binding substance, the detection substance and the labeling substance are mixed in a reaction vessel in one method step. It is proposed that the mixing be brought about by means of mixing bodies.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 16, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 20, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus DS GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Kern, Herbert Backes, Ulrich Kubler
  • Patent number: 9868029
    Abstract: An apparatus for balance training and/or fine motor skills training, having at least one movable platform which can be moved in an oscillating manner in at least two dimensions, having at least one counterforce unit which is provided to oppose a force for producing a deflection of the movable platform with a resistance. The apparatus has at least one force transmission interruption unit which interrupts a force flow between the movable platform and the counterforce unit in at least one operating state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: Airbus DS GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Kern, Ulrich Kuebler, Matthias Simnacher, Marcos Esteller Vela
  • Publication number: 20170260491
    Abstract: A transfer device includes at least one pump unit provided for a defined gas transfer between a first, closed-off space of an installation, in particular a photobioreactor installation, and a second space which is separate from the first space. The at least one pump unit is embodied as a selective oxygen pump.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 8, 2017
    Publication date: September 14, 2017
    Inventors: Heinz HARTSTEIN, Peter KERN
  • Patent number: 9630053
    Abstract: An apparatus, in particular for balance training and/or fine motor training, includes at least one moveable platform, which is in at least two dimensions oscillatingly moveable, and at least one damping unit for a damping of movements of the moveable platform. The damping unit comprises a central connecting element, which extends at least partially along a zero axis of a rest position of the platform, for the connection of the platform and the damping unit and for a transfer of an at least two-dimensional movement of the platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2017
    Assignee: Airbus DS GmbH
    Inventors: Hendrik René Kolvenbach, Ulrich Kübler, Peter Kern
  • Patent number: 9597629
    Abstract: A method for separating off carbon dioxide from a gas mixture, in particular from breathing air, with a life-sustaining device, wherein in a first method step the gas mixture is fed to an adsorption and/or absorption unit under at least one first pressure, and in a second method step a gas mixture is conveyed out of the adsorption and/or absorption unit under at least one second pressure that is higher than the first pressure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 21, 2017
    Assignee: Airbus DS GmbH
    Inventors: Carsten Matthias, Walter Jehle, Peter Kern
  • Patent number: 9517156
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for fixing a test person on a standing surface, wherein at least one rope is tensioned between a hip belt placed on the test person and a retaining plate arranged below the standing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2016
    Assignee: Airbus DS GmbH
    Inventors: Robert Marzilger, Rolf Kolb, Ulrich Kübler, Peter Kern, Steffen Jung, Albert Gollhofer
  • Patent number: 9474937
    Abstract: An apparatus has at least one first connecting element and at least one second connecting element which connect the counterforce unit to the at least one platform, the at least one first connecting element and the at least one second connecting element being arranged on the at least one platform at a respectively different spacing from a center of said at least one platform and transmitting to the at least one platform a counterforce, generated by the counterforce unit, to a rotational component of a deflection of the at least one platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 25, 2016
    Assignee: Airbus DS GmbH
    Inventors: Peter Kern, Ulrich Kuebler, Matthias Simnacher, Marcos Esteller Vela
  • Publication number: 20160030225
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for fixing a test person on a standing surface, wherein at least one rope is tensioned between a hip belt placed on the test person and a retaining plate arranged below the standing surface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2015
    Publication date: February 4, 2016
    Inventors: Robert MARZILGER, Rolf KOLB, Ulrich KÜBLER, Peter KERN, Steffen JUNG, Albert GOLLHOFER
  • Publication number: 20160023157
    Abstract: A method for separating off carbon dioxide from a gas mixture, in particular from breathing air, with a life-sustaining device, wherein in a first method step the gas mixture is fed to an adsorption and/or absorption unit under at least one first pressure, and in a second method step a gas mixture is conveyed out of the adsorption and/or absorption unit under at least one second pressure that is higher than the first pressure.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 23, 2015
    Publication date: January 28, 2016
    Inventors: Carsten MATTHIAS, Walter JEHLE, Peter KERN