Patents by Inventor Robert Boeker

Robert Boeker 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: 12357142
    Abstract: A method and system automatically determine cleaning, maintenance and/or repair information for a motor-driven treatment tool, wherein the treatment tool comprises a residue, able to be detected externally optically, caused during the operation of the treatment tool. The method involves the steps of: optically detecting the residue; classing the detected residue in accordance with a type of the residue; determining the cleaning, maintenance and/or repair information based on the classing; and outputting the determined cleaning, maintenance and/or repair information.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: July 15, 2025
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Robert Boeker, Joerg Blaesi
  • Patent number: 11907908
    Abstract: A method and system ascertain information relating to a collection, a start and/or an end of a period spent in a workshop and/or in storage and/or a delivery of a green space and/or cultivated area treatment device. The method involves the steps of: providing a growth characteristic variable, wherein the growth characteristic variable is characteristic for plant growth on and/or in a space/area treated and/or to be treated by way of the green space and/or cultivated area treatment device; and ascertaining the information on the basis of the provided growth characteristic variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventor: Robert Boeker
  • Patent number: 11906954
    Abstract: A method for providing automated assistance with repairing a motor-driven tool, includes the steps of: ascertaining at least one boundary operating condition of the tool, wherein the tool has previously not functioned properly under this boundary operating condition; determining a set of possible fault symptoms, possible causes of faults of the tool, possible repair action instructions, and/or possible replacement parts for the tool, on the basis of the ascertained boundary operating condition; and outputting the determined set of possible fault symptoms, possible causes of faults, possible repair action instructions, and/or possible replacement parts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2024
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Robert Boeker, Martin Bobert
  • Publication number: 20220198395
    Abstract: A method and system ascertain information relating to a collection, a start and/or an end of a period spent in a workshop and/or in storage and/or a delivery of a green space and/or cultivated area treatment device. The method involves the steps of: providing a growth characteristic variable, wherein the growth characteristic variable is characteristic for plant growth on and/or in a space/area treated and/or to be treated by way of the green space and/or cultivated area treatment device; and ascertaining the information on the basis of the provided growth characteristic variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventor: Robert Boeker
  • Publication number: 20220192450
    Abstract: A method and system automatically determine cleaning, maintenance and/or repair information for a motor-driven treatment tool, wherein the treatment tool comprises a residue, able to be detected externally optically, caused during the operation of the treatment tool. The method involves the steps of: optically detecting the residue; classing the detected residue in accordance with a type of the residue; determining the cleaning, maintenance and/or repair information based on the classing; and outputting the determined cleaning, maintenance and/or repair information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Robert BOEKER, Joerg BLAESI
  • Publication number: 20220185591
    Abstract: A method for enabling a delivery of a motor-driven processing machine and/or a battery pack for supplying a processing machine with electrical drive power to a delivery point is provided. A transmitting device is arranged on and/or in the processing machine and/or the battery pack. The transmitting device is designed for the wireless transmission of operating and/or status data of the processing machine and/or the battery pack and an identifier. The method includes the steps of: at least identifying the processing machine and/or the battery pack and/or the transmitting device based on the transmitted identifier; and enabling the delivery of the processing machine and/or the battery pack at the delivery point depending on a result of at least the identification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2021
    Publication date: June 16, 2022
    Inventors: Robert BOEKER, Kerstin Weiss, Mario Haefele
  • Publication number: 20210390433
    Abstract: A method provides automated assistance with a recording of a repair of a motor-driven tool. The method a) ascertains at least one component of the tool, at least one assembly group of the tool, and/or at least one component and/or assembly-group type of at least one component and/or at least one assembly group, wherein the component and/or the assembly group have been handled during the repair of the tool, b) determines a number of possible actions carried out during the repair of the tool on the basis of the ascertained component, the ascertained assembly group and/or the ascertained component and/or assembly-group type, and c) outputs the determined number of possible actions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 9, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventors: Robert BOEKER, Vanessa ORENDI, Deziderio SONJE, Jonas BLERSCH
  • Publication number: 20210256404
    Abstract: A method for providing automated assistance with repairing a motor-driven tool, includes the steps of: ascertaining at least one boundary operating condition of the tool, wherein the tool has previously not functioned properly under this boundary operating condition; determining a set of possible fault symptoms, possible causes of faults of the tool, possible repair action instructions, and/or possible replacement parts for the tool, on the basis of the ascertained boundary operating condition; and outputting the determined set of possible fault symptoms, possible causes of faults, possible repair action instructions, and/or possible replacement parts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 12, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Robert BOEKER, Martin BOBERT
  • Publication number: 20210187718
    Abstract: A method determines a presence of a motor-driven tool inside a tool position region and/or a tool position of the tool. A transmitter is mechanically connected to the tool, wherein the transmitter wirelessly transmits a signal. The transmitted signal is attenuated by the tool and has an item of transmitter information for taking the attenuation into account. The method has the steps of: capturing a respective reception signal strength value of the transmitted signal at receivers, wherein the receivers are arranged at different receiver positions; and determining the presence of the tool inside the tool position region and/or the tool position of the tool on the basis of the captured reception signal strength values and the received transmitter information for taking the attenuation into account.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2020
    Publication date: June 24, 2021
    Inventor: Robert BOEKER
  • Patent number: 9423437
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for identifying a switching position of a switch (on an internal combustion engine in a handheld work apparatus. An energy source for supplying power to an inductive electrical load is provided, it being possible to connect the load to the energy source in order to be switched on and off via a controller. The switch is arranged in a voltage branch which is connected in parallel with the inductive load and in which a zener diode is also connected. The zener diode is activated or inactivated via the switch as a function of the switching position of the switch. The amplitude of the switch-off voltage, which is induced when the inductive load is disconnected, is limited by the zener diode, so that it is possible to read from the magnitude of the amplitude whether the switch is closed or open.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2016
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Joerg Praeger, Franz Mandl, Robert Boeker
  • Publication number: 20140028332
    Abstract: The invention relates to an arrangement for identifying a switching position of a switch (on an internal combustion engine in a handheld work apparatus. An energy source for supplying power to an inductive electrical load is provided, it being possible to connect the load to the energy source in order to be switched on and off via a controller. The switch is arranged in a voltage branch which is connected in parallel with the inductive load and in which a zener diode is also connected. The zener diode is activated or inactivated via the switch as a function of the switching position of the switch. The amplitude of the switch-off voltage, which is induced when the inductive load is disconnected, is limited by the zener diode, so that it is possible to read from the magnitude of the amplitude whether the switch is closed or open.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 29, 2013
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Joerg Praeger, Franz Mandl, Robert Boeker