Patents by Inventor Roland Werner

Roland Werner 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: 11930732
    Abstract: An agricultural machine system for performing agricultural tasks in a field on which plants are planted or will be planted in a pattern, the system comprising: a prime mover; a tool bar connected to the prime mover; a plurality of units attached to the tool bar, the units configured to perform at least one agricultural tasks and wherein at least two of the units are disposed in an offset relationship from each other with respect to a forward direction of travel of the agricultural machine about the tool bar; and a control unit in communication with the prime mover and the plurality of units, the control unit configured to determine a selective location corresponding to the pattern in which plants are planted or will be planted and activate the units at the selective location to perform the at least one agricultural task as the agricultural machine system travels along a plurality of rows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Inventors: Kilian Wolff, Roland Werner, Richard A. Humpal, Wolfram Haiges
  • Patent number: 11930981
    Abstract: A dishwasher (1) for cleaning drinking vessels, wherein the dishwasher (1) has a treatment zone (3) and a conveyor apparatus (6) for conveying the items of washware (2) to be cleaned from an introduction region (4) of the dishwasher (1) through the treatment zone (3) to a removal region (5) of the dishwasher (1). The conveyor apparatus (6) is configured to convey a previously defined or definable group of items of washware (2) to be cleaned in batches from the introduction region (4) through the treatment zone (3) and then to feed the group of items of washware (2) as cleaned items of washware (2) to the removal region (5).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 19, 2024
    Assignee: Illinois Tool Works Inc.
    Inventors: Harald Disch, Martin Schrempp, Adrian Boldt, Benjamin Franz, Roland Werner, David Reinhart, Björn Brodowski
  • Patent number: 11926934
    Abstract: A spinning device for manufacturing a thread from a supplied fibre band by a circulating air flow having a hollow spinning cone arranged in a spinning housing, the spinning housing having an envelope wall arranged coaxially and at a distance from the spinning cone and forming an envelope gap, and a nozzle device to which compressed air can be applied for producing an air flow circulating the spinning cone in the envelope gap. The spinning device having the spinning cone and the envelope wall for forming a capacitor unit to have electrodes arranged opposite one another with the envelope gap interposed and forming an electrode pair. A method for monitoring the spinning operation on the spinning device is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 12, 2024
    Assignee: Saurer Intelligent Technology AG
    Inventors: Thomas Weide, Roland Werner, Anja Koetzsch
  • Publication number: 20240077719
    Abstract: A picture generation system includes a plurality of red-green-blue (RGB) light transmitters configured to synchronously generate respective pixel light beams and transmit the respective pixel light beams along respective transmission paths to be projected into a full field of view (FOV). The full FOV is divided into a plurality of FOV sections that are respectively paired with a different one of the plurality of RGB light transmitters such that each of the plurality of RGB light transmitters transmits light into a respective area defined by its respective FOV section. The picture generation system further includes a scanning system arranged on each of the respective transmission paths of the plurality of RGB light transmitter. The scanning system includes a scanning structure that enables the scanning system to simultaneously steer the respective pixel light beams into the plurality of FOV sections.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Publication date: March 7, 2024
    Inventors: Boris KIRILLOV, Maximilian WERNER, Roland RICHTER
  • Publication number: 20240059677
    Abstract: The present invention provides compounds of formula (I) and pharmaceutically acceptable salts, solvates and prodrugs thereof wherein in, R1, R2, R3, L and X are as defined in the specification, processes for their preparation, pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in therapy particularly for use in treating disorders associated with nicotinic acetylcholine receptor ?6 (nAChR?6) activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 10, 2021
    Publication date: February 22, 2024
    Inventors: Roland Werner Burli, Martin Teall, Nicola Brice
  • Publication number: 20230322225
    Abstract: A method for controlling an automated vehicle when driving into a crossing of equal-ranking roads involves the vehicle granting grants the further vehicles right of way at least for a pre-determined waiting time. The vehicle determines, according to a pre-determined arbitration rule, whether it should have priority over the further vehicles for passing through the crossing. After the waiting time has passed, the vehicle begins a crossing traversal maneuver to traverse the crossing if it is determined that it should have priority for passing through the crossing and if none of the further vehicles has driven on in the interim.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 6, 2021
    Publication date: October 12, 2023
    Applicant: MERCEDES-BENZ GROUP AG
    Inventors: Christoph DÖRR, Falk SALZMANN, Stefan SELLHUSEN, Roland WERNER
  • Publication number: 20230286523
    Abstract: A method for checking the suitability of a target trajectory for trajectory control of a vehicle. The target trajectory contains route information about the path of a route to be driven and momentum information about the momentum with which the route should be driven. The target trajectory is assessed as suitable for the trajectory control if the target traction and target tractive power are below a predetermined characteristic traction curve or characteristic tractive power curve, the target steering power is below a predetermined power limit of the steering, and the horizontal target tire forces on each wheel are within the friction value limits determined by the friction value. Otherwise, the target trajectory is assessed to be unsuitable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Florian Bastien DUMAS, Christoph DÖRR, Stefan SELLHUSEN, Roland WERNER
  • Publication number: 20230273065
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for detecting an unsecured load in an especially automatically drivable vehicle by means of a controller, wherein measurement data in the form of lateral accelerations and/or linear accelerations of the vehicle acquired by at least one acceleration sensor are received, a time interval for detecting the unsecured load is started when the measured lateral accelerations or linear accelerations exceed a threshold value, during the time interval started measurement data acquired by at least one sensor are received and derivatives with respect of time of the received measurement data are calculated, an event is counted when the derivatives with respect of time of the measurement data exceed the one threshold value, and the presence of an unsecured load is detected when a minimum number of counted events is reached that are counted during the started time interval.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Stefan Sellhusen, Roland Werner, Christoph Doerr, Florian Dumas
  • Publication number: 20230271551
    Abstract: An assembly is for outputting tactile warning signals in a vehicle environment of a vehicle and includes at least one sensor for scanning the vehicle environment and for detecting sensor data, and at least one signal generator for outputting a warning signal that is tactilely and/or haptically perceptible to people in the vehicle environment. The assembly further includes a control device for receiving and evaluating the sensor data and for generating control commands for actuating the signal generator in the event of a person being detected in the vehicle environment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 21, 2021
    Publication date: August 31, 2023
    Inventors: Stefan Sellhusen, Roland Werner, Christoph Doerr, Florian Dumas
  • Publication number: 20230151013
    Abstract: The invention concerns compounds of Formula (I): or pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof, wherein R1, R2, R7 and ring A have any of the meanings hereinbefore defined in the description; process for their preparation; pharmaceutical compositions containing them and their use in treating KCC2 mediated diseases.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Inventors: Rebecca Elizabeth Jarvis, Roland Werner Bürli
  • Patent number: 11486061
    Abstract: A compactor device for compacting a sliver that is drawn by a drafting system of a textile machine is provided. In accordance with the invention, it is envisaged that the compactor device is designed as a channel compactor and has a guide channel, designed in the shape of a screw in the running direction of the sliver, wherein the entry opening of the guide channel is widest horizontally and the exit opening of the guide channel is arranged rotated at least 30° with respect to the entry opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 24, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: Saurer Spinning Solutions GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Karoline Günther, Thomas Weide, Roland Werner
  • Publication number: 20220275541
    Abstract: A compactor device for compacting a sliver that is drawn by a drafting system of a textile machine is provided. In accordance with the invention, it is envisaged that the compactor device is designed as a channel compactor and has a guide channel, designed in the shape of a screw in the running direction of the sliver, wherein the entry opening of the guide channel is widest horizontally and the exit opening of the guide channel is arranged rotated at least 30° with respect to the entry opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 20, 2022
    Publication date: September 1, 2022
    Inventors: Karoline GÜNTHER, Thomas WEIDE, Roland WERNER
  • Publication number: 20220195637
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a spinning position of an air-spinning machine having a spinning device, and to a spinning device for manufacturing a thread from a supplied fibre band by means of a circulating air flow, with a hollow spinning cone arranged in a spinning housing, the spinning housing having an envelope wall arranged coaxially and at a distance from the spinning cone and forming an envelope gap, and a nozzle device to which compressed air can be applied for producing an air flow circulating the spinning cone in the envelope gap. Furthermore, the present invention relates to a method for monitoring the spinning process on a spinning device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: June 23, 2022
    Inventors: Thomas WEIDE, Roland WERNER, Anja KOETZSCH
  • Publication number: 20210345540
    Abstract: An agricultural machine system for performing agricultural tasks in a in a field on which plants are planted or will be planted in a pattern, the system comprising: a prime mover; a tool bar connected to the prime mover; a plurality of units attached to the tool bar, the units configured to perform at least one agricultural tasks and wherein at least two of the units are disposed in an offset relationship from each other with respect to a forward direction of travel of the agricultural machine about the tool bar; and a control unit in communication with the prime mover and the plurality of units, the control unit configured to determine a selective location corresponding to the pattern in which plants are planted or will be planted and activate the units at the selective location to perform the at least one agricultural task as the agricultural machine system travels along a plurality of rows.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2021
    Publication date: November 11, 2021
    Inventors: Kilian Wolff, Roland Werner, Richard A. Humpal, Wolfram Haiges
  • Publication number: 20210330953
    Abstract: Needle module for puncturing skin in a reciprocal manner. The needle module includes a needle unit, a housing and a biasing mechanism. The needle unit includes a needle. The needle unit is movable with respect to said housing between an extended position wherein a distal end of the needle extends from a distal end of said housing and a retracted position wherein the distal end of the needle is positioned within the housing. The biasing mechanism is arranged for urging the needle unit towards the retracted position. The needle module further includes a limiting mechanism. The limiting mechanism is arranged for limiting the relative movement of the needle unit out of the distal end of the housing to a maximum extension distance when moving towards the extended position. The maximum extension distance is 1.5 mm or less.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 6, 2018
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: MEDICAL PRECISION B.V.
    Inventor: Roland Werner Francois KORTENHORST
  • Patent number: 11134608
    Abstract: An agricultural machine for performing a cultivation operation on a field with plants in a regular, non-square pattern, in parallel, linear rows with a first transverse distance between adjacent rows in a first direction being smaller than a second transverse distance between adjacent rows in a second direction different from the first direction. The agricultural machine is connected to a first set of work units with lateral distances between adjacent work units of the first set of work units corresponding to the first distance, and to a second set of work units which are adapted to be inoperative during operation of the agricultural machine in the first direction and adapted to be operative during operation of the agricultural machine in the second direction to cover the areas between adjacent rows which cannot be treated with the work units of the first set of the work units.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 18, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 5, 2021
    Assignee: Deere & Company
    Inventors: Martin Kremmer, Roland Werner, Benoit P. Masson, John C. Mann
  • Publication number: 20210282621
    Abstract: A dishwasher (1) for cleaning drinking vessels, wherein the dishwasher (1) has a treatment zone (3) and a conveyor apparatus (6) for conveying the items of washware (2) to be cleaned from an introduction region (4) of the dishwasher (1) through the treatment zone (3) to a removal region (5) of the dishwasher (1). The conveyor apparatus (6) is configured to convey a previously defined or definable group of items of washware (2) to be cleaned in batches from the introduction region (4) through the treatment zone (3) and then to feed the group of items of washware (2) as cleaned items of washware (2) to the removal region (5).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2021
    Publication date: September 16, 2021
    Inventors: Harald DISCH, Martin SCHREMPP, Adrian BOLDT, Benjamin FRANZ, Roland WERNER, David REINHART, Björn BRODOWSKI
  • Patent number: 11083130
    Abstract: An agricultural machine system for performing agricultural tasks in a in a field on which plants are planted or will be planted in a pattern, the system comprising: a prime mover; a tool bar connected to the prime mover; a plurality of units attached to the tool bar, the units configured to perform at least one agricultural tasks and wherein at least two of the units are disposed in an offset relationship from each other with respect to a forward direction of travel of the agricultural machine about the tool bar; and a control unit in communication with the prime mover and the plurality of units, the control unit configured to determine a selective location corresponding to the pattern in which plants are planted or will be planted and activate the units at the selective location to perform the at least one agricultural task as the agricultural machine system travels along a plurality of rows.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Kilian Wolff, Roland Werner, Richard A. Humpal, Wolfram Haiges
  • Patent number: 11083127
    Abstract: A planting unit for a seeding machine comprising a seed supply, a seed meter and a seed delivery system to deposit the seed within a furrow. The seed meter is driven by an electronic control unit to achieve a pre-defined pattern of the seeds. The planting unit is adapted to skip dispensing of seeds at locations at which a tramline extends transversely to the travel direction. The following possibilities to achieve the tramline are described: (a) the seed meter comprises adjacent apertures for receiving the seeds and at least one of the apertures is closed, (b) a seed branch-off assembly is adapted to take a seed out of the seed delivery system, (c) the seed delivery system is slowed down to reduce the speed of the seed transport, (d) a seed transport device for moving a seed from the seed meter to the seed delivery system is disabled, or (e) a seed removal device is provided to provide the skip.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: DEERE & COMPANY
    Inventors: Roland Werner, Martin Kremmer
  • Patent number: D933315
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 12, 2021
    Assignee: ILLINOIS TOOL WORKS INC.
    Inventors: Daniel Maier, Roland Werner, Benjamin Franz, Björn Brodowski