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: 20230053629
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method for determining the position of a vehicle, in which highly accurate localization data for positions of the vehicle are determined when traveling along a route. Odometric measured variables for the own odometry of the vehicle are captured when traveling along the route. The highly accurate localization data determined and the odometric measured variables captured are jointly evaluated. The own odometry of the vehicle is corrected on the basis of the evaluation. An error model is used to calculate a vehicle-specific drift for the own odometry of the vehicle and to continually correct the own odometry of the vehicle provided highly accurate localization data can be determined. The corrected own odometry of the vehicle can then be used in areas in which highly accurate localization data cannot be determined in order to determine the position of the vehicle.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: Volkswagen Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Timo Iken, Roland Kube
  • Publication number: 20230054280
    Abstract: A wheel bearing assembly, preferably for trucks, includes a wheel adapter and a bearing unit, which has at least one first bearing ring and one second bearing ring, and a drive element. The wheel adapter is configured to connect the first bearing ring to a wheel, the first bearing ring preferably having at least one threaded bore to interact with at least one corresponding attachment means, preferably a screw, in order to connect the wheel adapter and the drive element to the first bearing ring. At least one rotation-securing element is provided that is configured to secure the connection between the wheel adapter and/or the drive element and/or the first bearing ring and/or the attachment means against rotation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Roland HAAS, Ludwig EDELMANN, Johannes Klaus ZANG, Dominic NAMYSLO, Matthias SCHULER, Padelis KATSAROS
  • Publication number: 20230054766
    Abstract: The method for producing a container consisting of a rigid outer container and a deformable inner bag. A first screw conveyor supplies a first thermoplastic plastics material for the outer container and at least a second and a third screw conveyor supplies at least a second and a third thermoplastic plastics material for the inner bag to an extruder which coextrudes a parison consisting of at least the first, second and third layers. The parison is inflated by a pressure medium to bring it into contact with the wall of the blow mould, where excess material below the welded seam is cut off and the container is removed from the blow mould. The second thermoplastic plastics material forming the outer layer of the inner bag consists of a material which, in the hardened state, has a rough surface having microscopically small elevations and depressions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Inventors: Stephan Kneer, Roland Kneer, Kasim Yilginc
  • Publication number: 20230054362
    Abstract: A label including a base material with at least one adhesive region and a cover material, a label tape and a method for manufacturing labels are disclosed. The method includes providing a base material web and applying at least one adhesive to the base material web along at least one row by means of at least one applicator. The adhesive is applied to the base material web intermittently along the row so that the row comprises a plurality of individual adhesive regions spaced apart from one another by adhesive-free regions. The method also includes applying a cover material to at least some regions of the base material web so that a plurality of the applied adhesive regions are completely covered by the cover material, and at least partially separating the base material web and/or the cover material exclusively along adhesive-free regions by means of at least one separating device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2022
    Publication date: February 23, 2023
    Applicant: S+P Samson GmbH
    Inventors: Karl Tochtermann, Roland Arndt
  • Patent number: 11587147
    Abstract: A method for purchasing goods, access authorizations or authorizations for using a service from a plurality of offered goods, access authorizations or authorizations for using a service. A defined spatial region is subdivided into defined subregions assigned, in each case, to a purchasable good, access authorization or authorization for using a service. A good, an access authorization or an authorization for using a service from a plurality of offered goods, access authorizations or authorizations for using a service is purchased, and a user registered in advance for carrying out the method on the basis of biometric features and/or on the basis of features, which may be assigned to the user uniquely, or an item registered in advance for carrying out the method is identified and localized in the defined subregion (1, 2, 3) assigned to the good, access authorization or authorization for using a service.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: SKIDATA AG
    Inventors: Martin Haidacher, Roland Aigner
  • Patent number: 11587337
    Abstract: A medical device monitoring system and method extract information from screen images from medical device controllers, with a single OCR process invocation per screen image, despite critical information appearing in different screen locations, depending on which medical device controller's screen image is processed. For example, different software versions of the medical device controllers might display the same type of information in different screen locations. Copies of the critical screen information, one copy from each different screen location, are made in a mosaic image, and then the mosaic image is OCR processed to produce text results. Text is selectively extracted from the OCR text results, depending on contents of a selector field on the screen image, such as a software version number or a heart pump model identifier.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: ABIOMED, INC.
    Inventors: Paul Roland Lemay, Alessandro Simone Agnello
  • Patent number: 11586054
    Abstract: Information is stored in an optical element in the form of a glass or plastic body embodied as spectacles lens, spectacles lens blank or spectacles lens semi-finished product. The information in the form of data is stored on or in the glass or plastic body by creating at least one marking with a marking system. The marking can be read by a reading apparatus. The marking system has an interface for reading information individualizing the optical element. The marking is created permanently by the marking system on or in the optical element at a definition point of a local body-specific coordinate system set by two points on or in the optical element. In this body coordinate system, the manufacturer specifies the position of the lens horizontal and/or the far and/or the near and/or the prism reference point.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Carl Zeiss Vision International GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Dangelmaier, Simon Holtmann, Roland Schoen, Matthias Hornauer
  • Patent number: 11587536
    Abstract: The present invention is an apparatus used to connect a typical guitar strap in non-traditional positions on the body of a guitar or bass guitar, which affixes to the instrument to provide stability and balance. The core components of the apparatus are a resilient hollow plastic outer shell with an external protrusion extending from the apex, a protective non-slip thermoplastic rubber inner layer, and metal hardware, suitable for use with virtually all guitar straps presently in use, attached to the external protrusion. The invention can be used to attach a strap to a guitar or bass guitar securely, without damaging the finish or affecting the tonal integrity of the instrument. Furthermore, it should be noted that the apparatus is generally a parabolic shape, intended to securely fit over the upper or lower horn of a guitar or bass guitar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Inventors: Peter Roland Conrad, Erika Katherine Conrad
  • Patent number: 11585229
    Abstract: The invention relates to a bladed disk (1) of a fan, comprising: a hub (10) comprising an outer radial platform (13) designed so as to define an inner gas flow stream in the turbomachine, a plurality of blades (20) comprising a root (23) connected to the platform (13), a leading edge (21) and a trailing edge (22), a groove formed in the platform (13) around part of the root (23) of each blade (20) in an area adjacent to the leading edge (21) and/or the trailing edge (22), and a joint (30) placed in the groove (15) in such a way that it extends in the extension of the radially outer face (14) of the platform (13) in order to ensure a continuity of the inner flow stream.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: SAFRAN AIRCRAFT ENGINES
    Inventors: Laurent Jablonski, François Jean Comin, Philippe Gérard Edmond Joly, Jean-Marc Claude Perrollaz, Anthony Lafitte, Rémi Roland Robert Mercier
  • Patent number: 11584335
    Abstract: A movable anchorage system for a seat belt, having a lockable slide mechanism comprising a slide extending in a longitudinal direction of adjustment, a slider system comprising at least one body configured to move in translation along the slide while being guided by the slide, the body incorporating an anchorage device for the seat belt, an actuator configured to ensure the movement of the slider system along the slide, a mechanism for locking the position of the slider system in the slide.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: FAURECIA Sièges d'Automobile
    Inventors: Semir Hammadi, Fabrice Camus, Roland Faure
  • Patent number: 11588209
    Abstract: Separators, high performance electrochemical devices, such as, batteries and capacitors, including the aforementioned separators, systems and methods for fabricating the same. In one implementation, a separator is provided. The separator comprises a polymer substrate (131), capable of conducting ions, having a first surface and a second surface opposing the first surface. The separator further comprises a first ceramic-containing layer (136), capable of conducting ions, formed on the first surface. The first ceramic-containing layer (136) has a thickness in arrange from about 1,000 nanometers to about 5000 nanometers. The separator further comprises a second ceramic-containing layer (138), capable of conducting ions, formed on the second surface. The second ceramic-containing layer (138) is a binder-free ceramic-containing layer and has a thickness in arrange from about 1 nanometer to about 1,000 nanometers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: APPLIED MATERIALS, INC.
    Inventors: Connie P. Wang, Wen Si, Yin Let Sim, Torsten Dieter, Roland Trassl, Subramanya P. Herle, Christoph Daube, Jian Zhu, James Cushing
  • Patent number: 11583899
    Abstract: A robotic arm can clean an end-of-arm tool using a cleaning station. The end-of-arm tool can be positioned at an introduction position with a portion of the end-of-arm tool in contact with a cleaning agent contained within the cleaning station. The end-of-arm tool can be positioned at a scrubbing position with the end-of-arm tool in contact with a cleaning surface. And the end-of-arm tool can be positioned at a drying position for drying of the end-of-arm tool.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Amazon Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Sucheta Roy, Steven Bradley Buhr, Vatsal Mehta, Roland J Menassa
  • Publication number: 20230046346
    Abstract: Embodiments of this application provide a power system. An output terminal of a power supply or a DC-to-DC unit is cascaded. In addition, according to the power system provided in embodiments of this application, a quantity of cables from the power supply or the DC-to-DC unit to the DC-to-AC unit may be further reduced by cascading an output terminal of the power supply or the DC-to-DC unit and cascading an input of the DC-to-AC unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 14, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Yanzhong Zhang, Yongbing Gao, Xun Wang, Roland Huempfner
  • Publication number: 20230052420
    Abstract: Please substitute the new Abstract submitted herewith for the original Abstract: A front-end structure for a vehicle has a wheelhouse, a rocker panel, a support carrier which is connected to the wheelhouse and the rocker panel and which extends at an angle, an A-pillar, a door flange and a connecting portion connecting the A-pillar to the door flange. The connecting portion extends, at least in portions, substantially parallel to the support carri er.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2020
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Oliver DIAS, Michael PLAUM, Roland WANKA
  • Publication number: 20230051354
    Abstract: Tow bar arrangement (100) for interconnection of a pulling vehicle (10) and a pulled trailer (20). The arrangement (100) comprises a control device (110) with a force sensor (111) arranged to sense an instantaneous relative force between vehicle (10) and trailer (20). The control device (110) is arranged to produce a control signal for an electric motor (21) arranged to propel the trailer (20) so that a motor force counter-acts said measured force. The invention is characterised in that the control device (110) is arranged to a first time series of force measurements, in that the control device (110) comprises a low-pass filter (112) producing a second low-pass filtered time series, and in that a regulator (113) is ar-ranged to regulate said second time series to produce said control signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 20, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Roland ANDERSSON, Anders NORDZELL, Ludger SOMMER
  • Publication number: 20230051498
    Abstract: A method for operating an inverter includes applying, via a switching unit of the inverter, an AC voltage to a phase line in which a filter inductor is arranged, determining a coil current (iL) of the filter inductor and determining a coil voltage (uL) of the filter inductor, determining a first value (L(IX)) of the filter inductor for a first value determining an inductance profile of the filter inductor with respect to the coil current, using the determined first value of the filter inductance and optionally using the at least one determined further value of the filter inductance, and controlling the switching unit of the inverter, via a control unit, to generate an alternating current in the phase line. At least one parameter of the control process is continuously adapted to the momentary coil current according to the determined current-dependent inductance profile.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: Fronius International GmbH
    Inventors: Roland PIELER, Michael ROTHBÖCK, Stefan WIESER, Harald KREUZER
  • Publication number: 20230053057
    Abstract: Systems and methods for preparing fish leather, which may comprise lionfish leather. A method of making lionfish leather may comprise cutting, using one or more guidelines, at least a portion of a lionfish body, wherein the guidelines are configured to facilitate removal of skin from of the lionfish body; removing, using the one or more guidelines, the skin from the lionfish body, wherein the removed skin defines a cut skin pattern based on at least the guidelines; and subjecting the removed skin to at least a tanning process to provide a lionfish leather.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Aarav Chavda, Roland Salatino
  • Publication number: 20230050594
    Abstract: A method of performing personalized neuromodulation on a subject is provided. The method includes acquiring functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) data of a brain of the subject. The method also includes calculating functional connectivity of the brain between a voxel in a subcortical region of the brain and a voxel in a cortical region of the brain, based on the fMRI data. The method also includes identifying a target location in the brain to be targeted by neuromodulation based on the calculated functional connectivity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 21, 2022
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Applicant: Washington University
    Inventors: Nico Dosenbach, Chad Sylvester, Deanna Greene, Scott Marek, Scott Norris, Jarod Roland
  • Publication number: 20230047965
    Abstract: Various embodiments relate to a method for multiplying a first and a second polynomial in a ring q[X]/(Xn+1) to perform a cryptographic operation in a data processing system where q is a positive integer, the method for use in a processor of the data processing system, comprising: receiving the first polynomial and the second polynomial by the processor; mapping the first polynomial into k smaller third polynomials over k smaller rings based upon primitive roots of unity, where k is a positive integer; mapping the second polynomial into k smaller fourth polynomials over the k smaller rings based upon primitive roots of unity; applying an isomorphism to the k third polynomials resulting in k fifth polynomials; applying the isomorphism to the k fourth polynomials resulting in k sixth polynomials; applying a Kronecker substitution on the k fifth polynomials and the k sixth polynomials and perform the multiplication of the k fifth polynomials and the k sixth polynomials to produce a multiplication result; applyin
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 3, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Joost Roland RENES, Joppe Willem Bos, Christine van Vredendaal, Tobias Schneider
  • Publication number: 20230052828
    Abstract: For stable anchoring of an anchor channel in concrete, an anchor, the anchor shank of which has a larger diameter than an anchor hole of a C-profile channel of the anchor channel, is inserted through the anchor hole from the inside, so that the anchor shank widens the anchor hole and holds the C-profile channel clamped on the anchor shank. An anchor head configured as a countersink head bears internally against a protrusion of the C-profile channel, and on the outer side of the C-profile channel knurling holds the anchor in addition to the clamped fit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 11, 2021
    Publication date: February 16, 2023
    Inventors: Falk WITTMANN, Roland UNTERWEGER