Patents by Inventor Roland

Roland 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).

  • Publication number: 20230116920
    Abstract: The present invention is directed to a method of inkjet printing an image on a glass container comprising the steps of: a) manufacturing a glass container having a CEC layer; b) removing at least part of the CEC layer to a level wherein the remaining CEC layer has a thickness of less than 20 nm by washing the CEC from the glass container with an aqueous solution containing nonionic surfactant, rinsing with water and blowing the water from the container by means of a pressurized air stream, c) inkjet printing an image on the glass container.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Marin STEENACKERS, Roel DE MONDT, Johan VAN DE VELDE, Jonas VANDECRUYS, Yolanda JUSTO, Roland CLAES
  • Publication number: 20230118547
    Abstract: A method of forming a bearing cage is generally disclosed herein. The method includes (i) forming a bearing cage from either titanium or a titanium alloy; and (ii) applying a plasma-nitriding treatment to at least one surface of the bearing cage to form a compound layer of titanium nitride including TiN and Ti2N on an outer region of the at least one surface. Step (ii) further forms a diffusion zone adjacent to the outer region, in one aspect. A surface hardness of the bearing cage that is treated by the plasma-nitriding step is at least 1000 HV. The bearing cage is configured to be used in a turbofan, turboprop, or turboshaft engine or in a helicopter gearbox, in one aspect.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 20, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Schaeffler Technologies AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Roland Plum, Peter Glöckner, Johannes Bedenk
  • Publication number: 20230117756
    Abstract: An enclosure for a turbomachine includes a turbomachine drive shaft rotating about a longitudinal axis (X) by means of two roller bearings, an upstream bearing and a downstream bearing, each having an inner ring carried by the drive shaft. The two bearings share a single integral outer ring that has an upstream end and a downstream end connected to one another by a section of studs. The single outer ring is carried by an upstream base plate and a downstream base plate of a bearing support configured to be attached to a stationary structure of the turbomachine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Michel Gilbert Roland BRAULT, Julien Fabien Patrick BECOULET, Olivier FORMICA, Patrice Jean-Marc ROSSET, Alexandre Jean-Marie TAN-KIM
  • Publication number: 20230118061
    Abstract: The present invention relates, in one aspect, to a method for process monitoring of a laser machining process for estimating a machining quality, having the following steps, which are carried out in real time during the machining process: —providing (S2) at least one captured first signal sequence with a first feature from the machining zone; —providing (S3) at least one captured second signal sequence with a second feature from the machining zone; —accessing (S4) a trained neural network with at least the recorded first and second signal sequence in order to calculate (S5) a result for estimating the machining quality.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Andreas LUEDI, Roland BADER, Matthias SCHRANZ, Joël BAERTSCHI
  • Publication number: 20230120415
    Abstract: In order to achieve improved single-phase operation of an inverter having a first input pole and a second input pole and including at least three phase branches, each having at least one upper power switch and at least one lower power switch connected in series to the at least one upper power switch via an output pole a switching unit is provided. The switching unit is designed to switch the inverter from multi-phase operation to single-phase operation by closing a center point connection switch in order to connect the third output pole to the DC link center point. The switching unit is further designed, in single-phase operation, to effect a control of the upper and lower power switch of the third phase branch for symmetrizing the DC link voltages at the first and second DC link capacitors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 26, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: Fronius International GmbH
    Inventors: Dietmar STRIEGL, Martin MÖRTENHUBER, Roland LECHER, Stefan WIESER
  • Publication number: 20230121578
    Abstract: The present application relates to compounds of formula (I?) or formula (I), such as formula (Ia), and their pharmaceutical compositions/preparations. This application further relates to methods of treating or preventing neurodegenerative disorders, such as Alzheimer's disease (AD), Parkinson's disease (PD), Huntington disease (HD) and other CAG-triplet repeat (or polyglutamine) diseases, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS; Lou Gehrig's disease), diffuse Lewy body disease, chorea-acanthocytosis, primary lateral sclerosis, multiple sclerosis (MS), frontotemporal dementia, Friedreich's ataxia, acute head injury, and epilepsy (repression of microglia activation).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Johan Bartholomeus, Roland Bürli, Rebecca Jarvis, Shawn Johnstone, Thor Ostenfeld, Ina Terstiege, Massimiliano Travagli, Stephane Turcotte
  • Publication number: 20230118886
    Abstract: A switching arrangement has a plurality of at least two contact arrangements and a blasting arrangement for blasting the contact arrangements with insulation gas. The at least two contact arrangements each have a first contact piece and a second contact piece which can be moved relative to one another in order to form an electrical connection when the first contact piece and the second contact piece are in contact and to form an insulation zone when the contact pieces are isolated from one another. The blasting arrangement has at least two blowing volumes, wherein a first contact arrangement can be supplied with insulation gas by a first blowing volume and wherein a second contact arrangement can be supplied with insulation gas by a second blowing volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventor: Roland Monka
  • Publication number: 20230120405
    Abstract: A container arrangement is provided and is configured to maintain a predetermined amount of moisture in the container for storing a product, where the container arrangement includes a container with an upper container opening and a closed base, a stopper with a central hole for fastening the stopper to the container opening, a hollow chamber with a peripheral wall, an upper wall with a central hole and a lower perforated base wall, where the chamber is put together with the stopper so that the central holes are in alignment with one another and a substance is arranged in the chamber, where the substance is a consequence of the inflow of ambient air through the central holes, and gives off water, which passes through the perforated base wall.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 9, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Stephan Kneer, Roland Kneer, Kasim Yilginc
  • Publication number: 20230119789
    Abstract: An example welding torch includes: a first contact tip configured to conduct welding current to a consumable electrode; a second contact tip configured to conduct preheating current to the consumable electrode; a cooling assembly configured to transfer heat from at least the first contact tip to coolant and to conduct the welding current through the cooling assembly; wherein the first contact tip and the cooling assembly are removable from the welding torch as a single unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Dennis Roland Sigl, Jake Zwayer
  • Publication number: 20230124895
    Abstract: A plug connector, which can be fastened to a line, for transmitting optical and electrical signals, includes a contact support, two contact fastening regions, a lens fastening region and a locking member. The contact fastening regions are formed in the contact support and are each configured to receive an electrical contact, which is connectable to the line, for transmitting the electrical signals. The lens fastening region is formed in the contact support and is configured to receive, in an aligned manner, a lens member, which is connectable to the line, for transmitting the optical signals. The locking member is lockable to the contact support, and the line is fastenable to the plug connector using the locking member in a locked state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 4, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Roland Preis, Marijela Bajic, Markus Kaaserer, Christian Stoemmer
  • Publication number: 20230120051
    Abstract: A sample holder for holding a sample carrier carrying a sample includes a sample carrier fixing element. The sample carrier fixing element includes a first section configured, when in a first position, to fix the sample carrier to the sample holder, and, when in a second position, to release the sample carrier or to provide access to an area where the sample carrier is to be located. The sample carrier fixing element also includes a second section different from the first section, the second section being operable such that upon operation of the second section the first section switches from the first position into the second position or from the second position into the first position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 10, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Heinz Plank, Tim Laugks, Ulrike Laugks, Roland Thuenauer
  • Publication number: 20230122240
    Abstract: An error sampler circuit includes a differential input voltage input, a differential reference voltage input, a master latch circuit, and a slave latch circuit. The master latch circuit includes a slicer circuit. The slicer circuit includes a first input, a second input, and a differential output. The first input is coupled to the differential input voltage input. The second input is coupled to the differential reference voltage input. The slave latch includes a differential input coupled to the differential output of the slicer circuit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventors: Abishek MANIAN, Nithin Sathisan PODUVAL, Roland Nii Ofei RIBEIRO
  • Publication number: 20230121590
    Abstract: A cooling or heating device for cooling and/or heating fluids includes a housing and a plurality of cooling plates. The cooling plates are arranged inside the housing, and the cooling plates each comprise at least one cooling channel for guiding a cooling or heating medium through the cooling plates. A container support surface is provided for arranging at least one first container containing a fluid to be heated or cooled inside the housing, and there is a first air blower in the housing for blowing air onto the cooling plates and/or into spaces between the cooling plates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2022
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Inventor: Roland JENEWEIN
  • Publication number: 20230120102
    Abstract: A spreading machine, in particular a precision seed drill, includes at least one seed hopper, at least one fertilizer tank, and a several spreading units. Each of the spreading units includes at least one pneumatically operated separating device to or from which a separation air flow is suppliable or dischargeable and a fertilizer application device. The spreading machine includes a conveying air-driven seed feeding device for providing seed from the seed hopper to the spreading units, and an energy-powered fertilizer supply device for providing fertilizer to the fertilizer application devices. To refine a spreading machine that includes a plurality of consumers, it is provided that the spreading machine includes at least two separate energy suppliers, in particular blowers or pumps, for providing the separation air flows to the separating devices, the conveying air to the seed device, and the energy to the fertilizer supply device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2021
    Publication date: April 20, 2023
    Applicant: AMAZONEN-WERKE H. DREYER SE & CO. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Wien, Jan-Eike Lübben, Roland Arnold
  • Patent number: 11628407
    Abstract: The invention relates to an undulated thermostable hollow fiber membrane of reduced wall thickness, wherein the wall thickness amounts to 20 ?m or greater and 30 ?m or less and the waveform of the hollow fiber membrane exhibits a wavelength in the range of from more than 1 mm and less than 5 mm. In particular, the invention relates to a method for producing an undulated thermostable hollow fiber membrane of lower wall thickness.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 16, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Torsten Keller, Roland Sander, Igor Raiko, Christian Finkler
  • Patent number: 11629087
    Abstract: A method of forming a glass sheet comprises: (a) forming a ribbon of glass from molten glass with a pair of forming rollers; (b) reducing horizontal temperature variability of the ribbon of glass to be 10° C. or less across 80 percent of an entire width of the ribbon of glass before the ribbon of glass cools to a glass transition temperature; (c) controlling a cooling rate of the ribbon of glass while the ribbon of glass moves vertically downward within a setting zone such that the ribbon of glass has a first average cooling rate before the ribbon of glass cools to the glass transition temperature and a second average cooling rate after the ribbon of glass cools to the glass transition temperature, the first average cooling rate being less than the second average cooling rate; and (d) separating a glass sheet from the ribbon of glass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Corning Incorporated
    Inventors: Douglas Dale Bressler, David Alan Deneka, Michael Charles Gerrish, Douglas Hull Jennings, Miki Eugene Kunitake, William Edward Lock, Shyam Prasad Mudiraj, Neil Eugene Partridge, Jeremy Nathan Payne, Eugene Roland Proulx, II, Ryan Christopher Sutton, Steven Howard Tarcza
  • Patent number: 11631932
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an antenna array for a filling level measuring device. The antenna array comprises an antenna, a horn antenna, a plastic housing, a printed circuit board and a casting compound. The antenna is adapted to communicatively connect the printed circuit board to an external device, the horn antenna comprises the form of a hollow truncated cone, and at least an inner side of the horn antenna is provided with a metallic material. Furthermore, the antenna, the horn antenna, the printed circuit board and the casting compound are arranged within the plastic housing, and the antenna and the horn antenna are at least partially surrounded by the casting compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: VEGA GRIESHABER KG
    Inventors: Roland Baur, Daniel Schultheiss
  • Patent number: 11630951
    Abstract: In non-limiting examples of the present disclosure, systems, methods and devices for determining a language of a text string are presented. A language detection model may be maintained. The language detection model may comprise identities and weights for initial and final consonants, identities and weights for prefixes and suffixes, and identities and weights for vowel sequences, where each identity is derived from a training corpus. The weights may correspond to a frequency of a text unit in the corpus. A text string may be received and a match score between the text string and the language of the language detection model may be determined. The match score may be based on initial and final consonant scores, prefix and suffix scores, and/or vowel sequence scores for each word in the text string. If the match score meets a threshold value a follow-up action associated with the language may be performed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Andrew Stuart Glass, Margaret Hope Magnus, Roland Radtke
  • Patent number: 11630611
    Abstract: A method of processing print jobs on a printing substrate processing machine by using a computer, includes creating a data model for the computer with parameters for an unusable print/set-up time prediction on the basis of global print jobs and printing machine data, training the data model on the basis of global and/or local print jobs and printing machine data by using the computer, and defining ease-of-use criteria by an operator. The trained data model for the computer is used to predict the number of unusable prints during set up and set-up time of the printing substrate processing machine. The order of the processing of the print jobs is optimized on the basis of the predicted number of unusable prints during set-up and the predicted set-up time by using the computer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 22, 2021
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2023
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Nikolaus Pfeiffer, Steffen Neeb, Franz Woellert, Roland Stenzel, Nicolas Martin
  • Publication number: 20230111266
    Abstract: An approach to establish connections between clusters having overlapping IP address ranges. A method includes receiving, at a service discovery server, from a first node in a first cluster, a service discovery request including a unique name, determining, at the service discovery server, that the unique name resolves to a destination IP address of a second node in a second cluster, determining that the destination IP address overlaps with an IP address range associated with the first cluster, in response to determining that the destination IP address overlaps with the IP address range belonging to the first cluster, configuring a gateway to expect a network connection request from the first node that includes an IP address of the gateway, and sending a service discovery response to the first node, the service discovery response including the IP address of the gateway, but not the destination IP address.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Inventors: Aloys Christophe Augustin, Mohammed Hawari, Nathan Roland Maryan Skrzypczak, Jérôme Tollet