Patents by Inventor Ralf Ackermann

Ralf Ackermann 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: 11953098
    Abstract: In some examples, a pressure reducing valve includes a valve body defining a defining a flow path and a restricting element within the flow path. A sensing element is configured to modify a position of the restricting element in the flow path. A pressure chamber is configured to transmit a force to the sensing element based on the pressure of a fluid within the pressure chamber. An energy accumulator is in fluid communication with the pressure chamber. The pressure reducing valve includes control circuitry configured to enable a fluid to flow into or discharge from the pressure chamber to alter the pressure in the pressure chamber.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: Ademco Inc.
    Inventors: Dominik Ernst, Ralf Hilbers, Michael Ackermann
  • Patent number: 10965569
    Abstract: The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for Internet of Things (IoT) end-to-end continuous monitoring. In one example, a method may include transmitting a first message by a first device to a second device in an IoT cloud system, the first message including a first timestamp indicating when the first message is transmitted, receiving a second message by the first device from the second device, the second message including the first timestamp and a second timestamp indicating when the first message was received by the second device, the second message being received at a time indicated by a third timestamp, and monitoring by the first device end-to-end communication between the first device and the second device in the IoT cloud system based on at least one of the first, second, or third timestamps.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 30, 2021
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventors: Michael Ameling, Ralf Ackermann
  • Publication number: 20200177484
    Abstract: The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for Internet of Things (IoT) end-to-end continuous monitoring. In one example, a method may include transmitting a first message by a first device to a second device in an IoT cloud system, the first message including a first timestamp indicating when the first message is transmitted, receiving a second message by the first device from the second device, the second message including the first timestamp and a second timestamp indicating when the first message was received by the second device, the second message being received at a time indicated by a third timestamp, and monitoring by the first device end-to-end communication between the first device and the second device in the IoT cloud system based on at least one of the first, second, or third timestamps.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2018
    Publication date: June 4, 2020
    Inventors: Michael Ameling, Ralf Ackermann
  • Patent number: 9523473
    Abstract: A device for controlling a driving light of a vehicle includes a headlight with a light source, a device for pivoting a produced light distribution and an optical element that provides adjustable light distribution. The optical element includes a light passage opening pivotable into an optical axis of the light source. A beam of the light distribution is limited or deflected such that a limited light field is produced in a pre-settable region in front of the vehicle, which light field has an external form of the light passage opening. Further light passage structures provide a “high beam” or “partial high beam” light pattern and thereafter the “high beam” light pattern by turning, pivoting and/or displacing the optical element in one direction, and another further light passage structure provides a “motorway” and thereafter a “country road” light pattern by turning, pivoting and/or displacing the optical element in an opposite direction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2016
    Assignee: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Ralf Ackermann, Helmuth Eggers, Gerhard Kurz, Joerg Moisel, Volker Oltmann, Volker Reinhold, Bernd Woltermann
  • Publication number: 20130162519
    Abstract: An input handler may receive first human input events from at least one human input device and from at least one user, associate the first human input events with a first identifier, receive second human input events from the at least one human input device from the at least one user, and associate the second human input events with a second identifier.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 23, 2011
    Publication date: June 27, 2013
    Applicant: SAP AG
    Inventors: Michael Ameling, Philipp Herzig, Ralf Ackermann
  • Publication number: 20120229028
    Abstract: A device for controlling a driving light of a vehicle includes a headlight with a light source, a device for pivoting a produced light distribution and an optical element that provides adjustable light distribution. The optical element includes a light passage opening pivotable into an optical axis of the light source. A beam of the light distribution is limited or deflected such that a limited light field is produced in a pre-settable region in front of the vehicle, which light field has an external form of the light passage opening. Further light passage structures provide a “high beam” or “partial high beam” light pattern and thereafter the “high beam” light pattern by turning, pivoting and/or displacing the optical element in one direction, and another further light passage structure provides a “motorway” and thereafter a “country road” light pattern by turning, pivoting and/or displacing the optical element in an opposite direction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2010
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Ralf Ackermann, Helmuth Eggers, Gerhard Kurz, Joerg Moisel, Volker Oltmann, Volker Reinhold, Bernd Woltermann
  • Patent number: 8177402
    Abstract: The invention relates to a light module (1) for an illumination device (20), in particular for a headlight, for a motor vehicle. The light module (1) comprises a plurality of light sources (2) for emitting light beams (4, 5), at least one primary optical unit (6; 12) for focusing the emitted light beams (4a, 5a), a stop arrangement (8) in the beam path of the focused light beams (4b, 5b), and at least one secondary optical unit (9) for imaging the focused light beams (4b, 5b) which passed the stop arrangement (8) on a roadway in front of the motor vehicle in order to generate a desired light distribution.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2009
    Date of Patent: May 15, 2012
    Assignee: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH
    Inventors: Ralf Ackermann, Ernst-Olaf Rosenhahn
  • Patent number: 7988345
    Abstract: The invention relates to a projection module of an automobile headlight. The module includes several semiconductor light sources to broadcast optical irradiation of a primary optics assembly to bundle the emitted irradiation, and a secondary optics assembly that projects the bundled irradiation to create the desired light distribution in front of the vehicle. In order to reduce the weight and dimensions of the projection module, it is proposed that the secondary optics assembly is formed as a multi-part complex lens that includes several lens segments. Each of these lens segments is assigned to at least one irradiation bundle of irradiation bundled from the primary optics assembly, and projects this assembly as partial distribution in front of the vehicle, whereby the overall distribution of the projection module results from overlapping the partial distributions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: August 2, 2011
    Assignee: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH
    Inventors: Ernst-Olaf Rosenhahn, Ralf Ackermann, Ulrike Schloeder, Henning Weinhold, Benjamin Stauβ
  • Publication number: 20100027284
    Abstract: The invention relates to a light module (1) for an illumination device (20), in particular for a headlight, for a motor vehicle. The light module (1) comprises a plurality of light sources (2) for emitting light beams (4, 5), at least one primary optical unit (6; 12) for focusing the emitted light beams (4a, 5a), a stop arrangement (8) in the beam path of the focused light beams (4b, 5b), and at least one secondary optical unit (9) for imaging the focused light beams (4b, 5b) which passed the stop arrangement (8) on a roadway in front of the motor vehicle in order to generate a desired light distribution.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2009
    Publication date: February 4, 2010
    Applicant: AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING REUTLINGEN GMBH
    Inventors: Ralf Ackermann, Ernst-Olaf Rosenhahn
  • Publication number: 20100002460
    Abstract: The invention relates to a projection module (1; 10; 20) of an automobile headlight. The module (1; 10; 20) includes several semiconductor light sources (101, 102, 103) to broadcast optical irradiation (104, 105, 106) of a primary optics assembly (110, 111, 112) to bundle the emitted irradiation (104, 105, 106), and a secondary optics assembly (2; 12; 22; 32) that projects the bundled irradiation (113, 114, 115) to create the desired light distribution in front of the vehicle. In order to reduce the weight and dimensions of the projection module, it is proposed that the secondary optics assembly (2; 12; 22; 32) is formed as a multi-part complex lens that includes several lens segments (3, 4, 5; 13, 14, 15; 23, 24, 25; 33-41).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2008
    Publication date: January 7, 2010
    Applicant: AUTOMOTIVE LIGHTING REUTLINGEN GMBH
    Inventors: Ernst-Olaf Rosenhahn, Ralf Ackermann, Ulrike Schloeder, Henning Weinhold, Benjamin Stauss
  • Patent number: 7011438
    Abstract: A method for operating an illumination device as a day travelling light, in particular for automotive vehicles, wherein the device comprises a light source in an illumination housing and a means associated with the light source for bundling the light emitted by the light source, utilizes a light source comprising at least one LED (13).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2004
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2006
    Assignee: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH
    Inventors: Kurt Schuster, Petra Heinbuch, Ralf Ackermann
  • Publication number: 20060007697
    Abstract: Automobile headlight with adaptive light distribution to create various headlight modes, particularly light distribution of a high-beam, low-beam, driving light, and/or parking light, with a light source (1) and with an optical projection system (2) whereby the light source (1) is a field of individually-switchable LED's (3), and the optical projection system is a lens placed in front of the LED field and is shaped so that various light distributions may be created based on the headlight modes by means of targeted switching of individual areas of the LED field (3).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 17, 2005
    Publication date: January 12, 2006
    Inventor: Ralf Ackermann
  • Publication number: 20060002127
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a lens arrangement (7) for a motor vehicle headlight (7) or a motor vehicle light having at least one light source (5.1, 5.2, 5.3) that in the switched-on state emits light, the lens arrangement (7) including a plurality of individual lenses (7.1, 7.2, 7.3) that are arranged in the beam path of the light. In order to be able to manufacture and assemble the lens arrangement (7) as simply and as cost-effectively as possible, and so that the lens arrangement has the most reserved appearance possible, the present invention proposes that a light-emitting surface (7.4) of the lens arrangement (7) have a constant curvature. Advantageously, the curvature of the light-emitting surface (7.4) has no points of inflection. A light-receiving surface (7.5) of the lens arrangement (7) is advantageously configured such that, in combination with the light-emitting surface (7.4), specifiable projection characteristics of the individual lenses (7.1, 7.2, 7.3) result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 27, 2005
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Inventors: Ralf Ackermann, Hermann Kellermann, Christian Buchberger
  • Publication number: 20050030733
    Abstract: A method for operating an illumination device as a day travelling light, in particular for automotive vehicles, wherein the device comprises a light source in an illumination housing and a means associated with the light source for bundling the light emitted by the light source, utilizes a light source comprising at least one LED (13).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 13, 2004
    Publication date: February 10, 2005
    Applicant: Automotive Lighting Reutlingen GmbH
    Inventors: Kurt Schuster, Petra Heinbuch, Ralf Ackermann
  • Publication number: 20040085778
    Abstract: Day travelling light, in particular for automotive vehicles, comprising a light source in an illumination housing and a means associated with the light source for bundling the light emitted by the light source, wherein the light source comprises at least one LED (13) (FIG. 1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 7, 2003
    Publication date: May 6, 2004
    Inventors: Kurt Schuster, Petra Heinbuch, Ralf Ackermann
  • Publication number: 20020023228
    Abstract: In a method and an arrangement, data are supplied by a firewall computing device to a further computing device when the firewall computing device can not process the utilized data protocol, and the further computing device takes over the functions of the firewall computing device during testing of the transmitted data pack and during performing the access readiness, wherein a data exchange is established from the further computing device again through the firewall computing device to a protected region, and an increased flexibility of the firewall operation is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 20, 2001
    Publication date: February 21, 2002
    Inventors: Juergen Schlesinger, Dieter Rohrdrommel, Ralf Ackermann, Utz Roedig, Ralf Steinmetz