Patents by Inventor Rolf Meier
Rolf Meier 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).
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Patent number: 11181205Abstract: A valve diaphragm includes a flange portion and a diaphragm portion. It is proposed that it includes a data carrier contained in a housing and that the housing is arranged on an edge of the flange portion so as to be at least partially visible when seen from outside onto the edge.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2019Date of Patent: November 23, 2021Assignee: GEMUE GEBR. MUELLER APPARATEBAU GMBH & CO. KOMMANDITGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Christophe Lebonte, Rolf Meier, Pascal Knaus, Steffen Meinikheim, Gert Mueller
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Patent number: 10640621Abstract: A membrane for a membrane valve is proposed. The membrane is produced from polytetrafluoroethylene, PTFE. An electronic data carrier is arranged between the membrane and a retaining layer.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2018Date of Patent: May 5, 2020Assignee: GEMUE GEBR. MUELLER APPARATEBAU GMBH & CO. KOMMANDITGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Christophe Lebonte, Rolf Meier, Romain Ruocco
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Publication number: 20190346063Abstract: A valve diaphragm includes a flange portion and a diaphragm portion. It is proposed that it includes a data carrier contained in a housing and that the housing is arranged on an edge of the flange portion so as to be at least partially visible when seen from outside onto the edge.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 9, 2019Publication date: November 14, 2019Applicant: GEMUE GEBR. MUELLER APPARATEBAU GMBH & CO. KOMMANDITGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Christophe Lebonte, Rolf Meier, Pascal Knaus, Steffen Meinikheim, Gert Mueller
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Publication number: 20180282498Abstract: A membrane for a membrane valve is proposed. The membrane is produced from polytetrafluoroethylene, PTFE. An electronic data carrier is arranged between the membrane and a retaining layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 30, 2018Publication date: October 4, 2018Applicant: GEMUE GEBR. MUELLER APPARATEBAU GMBH & CO. KOMMANDITGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Christophe Lebonte, Rolf Meier, Romain Ruocco
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Patent number: 9351841Abstract: The present invention relates to a straight stem (10) for the implantation into a proximal femur, the stem (10) comprising a proximal stem section (12) and a distal stem section (14), the distal stem section (14) having a distal end (24) and a distal tip (26) arranged directly adjacent to the distal end (24) and defining a distalmost point of the distal end (24), the stem (10) having, in an anterior-posterior view, a medial contour and a lateral contour, and the stem (10) having a straight stem center axis (20) between the medial contour and the lateral contour, wherein the distal end (24), in an anterior-posterior view, has a convexly curved contour, and wherein the convexly curved contour of the distal end (24) merges with straight sections (46, 48) of the medial contour and of the lateral contour at a medial merging point (22) and a lateral merging point (28), respectively, wherein the medial merging point (22) and the lateral merging point (28) are offset with respect to each other in a direction parallelType: GrantFiled: January 27, 2012Date of Patent: May 31, 2016Assignee: ZIMMER GMBHInventors: Rolf Meier, Roland Baege
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Patent number: 9167058Abstract: A method, non-transitory computer readable medium and apparatus for correcting a timestamp in a multi-lane communication link with a skew are disclosed. For example, the method receives a data packet, a time stamp for the data packet and a fill level for a lane of the multi-lane communication link carrying the data packet, calculates a corrected timestamp for the data packet and replaces the time stamp for the data packet with the corrected timestamp.Type: GrantFiled: March 18, 2013Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: XILINX, INC.Inventors: Paul Gresham, Jason Coppens, Len Shimoon, Rolf Meier, Bernard Bosi, David Kwong, Mark A. Gustlin
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Patent number: 9050134Abstract: The present disclosure relates to devices and methods for verifying compatibility between cooperating parts of a joint prosthesis. The compatibility between the cooperating parts is with respect to at least one articulation parameter.Type: GrantFiled: March 13, 2013Date of Patent: June 9, 2015Assignee: Zimmer GmbHInventor: Rolf Meier
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Patent number: 8990587Abstract: Security information such as fixed or dynamically received camera location information, laser signature information, timestamp information, and network information, may be used to secure the transport and storage of surveillance video. Where the surveillance video is to be transported on a communication network, the round trip time from a video data storage server to the surveillance camera and back to the video data storage server may be monitored and periodically added to the secured video data. By checking to see whether the round trip time has changed, it may be possible to determine whether the video has been tampered with. The secured video data may also be transported over two or more paths on the network to two or more video data storage servers so that redundant copies may be stored at different primary locations. By comparing copies of the data, alteration of one of the copies may be detected.Type: GrantFiled: March 26, 2012Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: RPX Clearinghouse LLCInventors: Rolf Meier, Guy Duxbury
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Patent number: 8976670Abstract: This invention provides a system, method and apparatus for managing congestion on heterogeneous network communication links, the first communication link and second communication link being heterogeneous with respect to each other. The system, method and apparatus including a routing decision module, the routing decision module evaluating a queue of information packets scheduled for transmission across the first communication link to determine whether to generate a command signal to route a portion of information packets over the second communication link. The system, method and apparatus may further include a communication link threshold module, the communication link threshold module storing threshold limit values corresponding to a first communication link technology of the first communication link.Type: GrantFiled: November 16, 2006Date of Patent: March 10, 2015Assignee: Rockstar Consortium US LPInventors: Rolf Meier, Joseph Shapiro
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Publication number: 20140155945Abstract: The present disclosure relates to devices and methods for verifying compatibility between cooperating parts of a joint prosthesis. The compatibility between the cooperating parts is with respect to at least one articulation parameter.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 13, 2013Publication date: June 5, 2014Inventor: Rolf Meier
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Publication number: 20140005795Abstract: The present invention relates to a straight stem (10) for the implantation into a proximal femur, the stem (10) comprising a proximal stem section (12) and a distal stem section (14), the distal stem section (14) having a distal end (24) and a distal tip (26) arranged directly adjacent to the distal end (24) and defining a distalmost point of the distal end (24), the stem (10) having, in an anterior-posterior view, a medial contour and a lateral contour, and the stem (10) having a straight stem center axis (20) between the medial contour and the lateral contour, wherein the distal end (24), in an anterior-posterior view, has a convexly curved contour, and wherein the convexly curved contour of the distal end (24) merges with straight sections (46, 48) of the medial contour and of the lateral contour at a medial merging point (22) and a lateral merging point (28), respectively, wherein the medial merging point (22) and the lateral merging point (28) are offset with respect to each other in a direction parallelType: ApplicationFiled: January 27, 2012Publication date: January 2, 2014Applicant: Zimmer GmbHInventors: Rolf Meier, Roland Baege
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Patent number: 8248619Abstract: A light barrier detects an object which interrupts a beam of light of the light barrier. A light transmitter transmits a light beam in the direction of a reflector and a light receiver receives a reflected portion of the light beam. The improved light barrier has a reflector which is made as a cylindrical reflector column having a plurality of retroreflecting elements aligned toward the outer surface. The diameter of the reflector column is considerably smaller than the extent of the light beam perpendicular to the cylinder axis so that an optically effective detection beam of light is formed between the sensor and the reflector column whose cross-section at the sensor is determined by the light transmitter and, in direct proximity to the reflector column. The cross-section is determined by the areal overlap of the light beam with the reflector column.Type: GrantFiled: December 8, 2009Date of Patent: August 21, 2012Assignee: Sick AGInventors: Ingolf Hörsch, Stefan Jaegle, Rolf Meier, Gerhard Merettig, Philipp Fortenbacher, Felix Lang, Thomas Schulz
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Patent number: 8146157Abstract: Security information such as fixed or dynamically received camera location information, laser signature information, timestamp information, and network information, may be used to secure the transport and storage of surveillance video. Where the surveillance video is to be transported on a communication network, the round trip time from a video data storage server to the surveillance camera and back to the video data storage server may be monitored and periodically added to the secured video data. By checking to see whether the round trip time has changed, it may be possible to determine whether the video has been tampered with. The secured video data may also be transported over two or more paths on the network to two or more video data storage servers so that redundant copies may be stored at different primary locations. By comparing copies of the data, alteration of one of the copies may be detected.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2005Date of Patent: March 27, 2012Assignee: Rockstar Bidco, LPInventors: Rolf Meier, Guy Duxbury
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Patent number: 8139602Abstract: The invention provides for a system, method, and device for using the existing copper loop plant of twisted pair wiring for data communication by using a plurality of pairs in a cable bundle of twisted pair for the downstream data direction simultaneously, as if the plurality of twisted pair in the cable bundle were a broadcast medium. Between an individual subscriber's access pair and the cable bundle, an aggregation device is used to combine all received signals from the plurality of twisted pairs in the cable bundle and to make the entire downstream bandwidth of the plurality of pairs available to the subscriber.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2004Date of Patent: March 20, 2012Assignee: Rockstar Bidco, LPInventor: Rolf Meier
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Publication number: 20100141964Abstract: The invention relates to a light barrier for the detection of an object (2) which interrupts a beam of light (5) of the light barrier, having a sensor (4) with at least one light transmitter (4-1) for the transmission of a light beam (5) in the direction of a reflector (10); at least one light receiver (4-2) for the reception of a reflected portion of the light beam; and an evaluation unit (4-3) for the evaluation of the reflected light beam detected by the light receiver (4-2), To provide an improved light barrier which delivers an exact position determination of the object in the conveying device with a small installation and adjustment effort, it is proposed that the reflector (10) is made as a cylindrical reflector column (10) which has a plurality of retroreflecting elements (17) aligned toward the outer surface, with the diameter of the reflector column (10) being considerably smaller than the extent of the light beam (5) perpendicular to the cylinder axis so that an optically effective detection beam oType: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2009Publication date: June 10, 2010Applicant: SICK AGInventors: Ingolf Hörsch, Stefan Jaegle, Rolf Meier, Gerhard Merettig, Philipp Fortenbacher, Felix Lang, Thomas Schulz
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Publication number: 20100061244Abstract: This invention provides a system, method and apparatus for managing congestion on heterogeneous network communication links, the first communication link and second communication link being heterogeneous with respect to each other. The system, method and apparatus including a routing decision module, the routing decision module evaluating a queue of information packets scheduled for transmission across the first communication link to determine whether to generate a command signal to route a portion of information packets over the second communication link. The system, method and apparatus may further include a communication link threshold module, the communication link threshold module storing threshold limit values corresponding to a first communication link technology of the first communication link.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 16, 2006Publication date: March 11, 2010Inventors: Rolf Meier, Joseph Shapiro
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Patent number: 7637749Abstract: The invention relates to a device for electrically contacting, particularly for contacting circuit boards that are positioned in basically perpendicular fashion relative to each other, with an insulating housing (10) in the form of a tube in whose wall (11) is positioned at least one electrically conductive element (20, 30, 40, 50) exhibiting at least two connector elements (21, 22, 31, 32, 41, 42, 51, 52, 53), such that the connector elements (21, 22, 31, 32, 41, 42, 51, 52, 53) project from the wall (11) of the housing (10).Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2007Date of Patent: December 29, 2009Assignee: Sick AGInventors: Felix Lang, Rolf Meier
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Patent number: 7589311Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting objects has a sensor with a light source, a light receiver, and a light retroreflector between them. Light from the source is transmitted to the detector along a light transmission path from the source to the retroreflector and is reflected back to the detector along a light reflection path that substantially corresponds to the transmission path. A single lens or a pair of adjacent lenses shapes the respective light beams from both light emitted by the source and light reflected by the retroreflector in accordance with either the auto collimation principle or the double-eye principle, respectively. A polarizer and a beam splitter are arranged in the light transmission path for light from the source, and a polarization filter is arranged in the light reflection path so that light reflected by the retroreflector passes through the beam splitter and the polarization filter before it reaches the light receiver.Type: GrantFiled: November 9, 2007Date of Patent: September 15, 2009Assignee: Sick AGInventors: Ingolf Hoersch, Felix Lang, Rolf Meier
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Publication number: 20090108185Abstract: A method and apparatus for detecting objects has a sensor with a light source, a light receiver, and a light retroreflector between them. Light from the source is transmitted to the detector along a light transmission path from the source to the retroreflector and is reflected back to the detector along a light reflection path that substantially corresponds to the transmission path. A single lens or a pair of adjacent lenses shapes the respective light beams from both light emitted by the source and light reflected by the retroreflector in accordance with either the auto collimation principle or the double-eye principle, respectively. A polarizer and a beam splitter are arranged in the light transmission path for light from the source, and a polarization filter is arranged in the light reflection path so that light reflected by the retroreflector passes through the beam splitter and the polarization filter before it reaches the light receiver.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 9, 2007Publication date: April 30, 2009Applicant: Sick AGInventors: Ingolf Hoersch, Felix Lang, Rolf Meier
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Patent number: 7467069Abstract: Information may be extracted from an array of relatively low sensitivity hazardous material sensors deployed, for example within a population center, by collecting identification information, such as video data, RFID data, proximity data, and IR data along with the hazardous material sensor reading. The identification information may then be used to identify objects in the vicinity of the hazardous material sensor at the time the reading was taken. By using identification data to identify an object, and then correlating sensor data readings for that object with other sensor data readings for the same object, as identified using previously collected identification information, a statistically more significant reading may be obtained for that particular object than would be obtainable by any one particular hazardous material sensor. Optionally the proximity of the object to the sensors may be used to weight the readings from the sensors.Type: GrantFiled: December 19, 2005Date of Patent: December 16, 2008Assignee: Nortel Networks LimitedInventors: Guy Duxbury, Rolf Meier