Patents by Inventor Rolf Salzmann

Rolf Salzmann 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: 10645112
    Abstract: Processing and transmitting of data within a functionally safe electronic system having at least two subsystems, each of which comprises at least one safety component, and each of which complies with a specific safety level for functionally safe data processing. Embodiments process data using the safety component of a first one of the subsystems into functionally safe data of a first safety level, and add an indication attribute indicating suitability of these data for use of this first safety level; transmitting the data to a second one of the subsystems; and checking the received indication attribute, by the second subsystem using the safety component, to determine whether the safety level indicated by this indication attribute is different from the safety level the second subsystem complies with; and, if the check reveals non-equal safety levels, further processing the data in functionally a safe manner based on the lower safety level.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Tobias Frank, Rolf Salzmann
  • Patent number: 10331443
    Abstract: Embodiments involve a data organization procedure and a development environment system that is set up to carry out the data organization procedure. The data organization procedure according to an embodiment envisages that a stored data set or a data set to be stored is organized according to a first structure, whereby the data set is subdivided according to aspects of the content and/or according to access rights aspects into partial data sets, whereby in addition to the first structure another structure is envisaged, according to which the data set is organized, whereby the data set is subdivided into authority areas, whereby each authority area includes at least one partial data set according to the first structure, whereby each partial data set includes at least one data unit, and whereby a responsible user set is allocated to each authority area, whereby the user set includes at least one user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 25, 2019
    Assignee: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Torsten Nitschke, Benno Heines, Rolf Salzmann, Carsten Kolodziej, Robert von der Ahe
  • Publication number: 20180069890
    Abstract: Processing and transmitting of data within a functionally safe electronic system having at least two subsystems, each of which comprises at least one safety component, and each of which complies with a specific safety level for functionally safe data processing. Embodiments process data using the safety component of a first one of the subsystems into functionally safe data of a first safety level, and add an indication attribute indicating suitability of these data for use of this first safety level; transmitting the data to a second one of the subsystems; and checking the received indication attribute, by the second subsystem using the safety component, to determine whether the safety level indicated by this indication attribute is different from the safety level the second subsystem complies with; and, if the check reveals non-equal safety levels, further processing the data in functionally a safe manner based on the lower safety level.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2016
    Publication date: March 8, 2018
    Applicant: Phoenix Contact GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Tobias FRANK, Rolf SALZMANN
  • Publication number: 20170364355
    Abstract: Embodiments involve a data organization procedure and a development environment system that is set up to carry out the data organization procedure. The data organization procedure according to an embodiment envisages that a stored data set or a data set to be stored is organized according to a first structure, whereby the data set is subdivided according to aspects of the content and/or according to access rights aspects into partial data sets, whereby in addition to the first structure another structure is envisaged, according to which the data set is organized, whereby the data set is subdivided into authority areas, whereby each authority area includes at least one partial data set according to the first structure, whereby each partial data set includes at least one data unit, and whereby a responsible user set is allocated to each authority area, whereby the user set includes at least one user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2017
    Publication date: December 21, 2017
    Inventors: Torsten Nitschke, Benno Heines, Rolf Salzmann, Carsten Kolodziej, Robert von der Ahe
  • Patent number: 5056893
    Abstract: A display device which includes a matrix array of rectangular liquid crystal display elements on a base, all of the display elements of the array having a same height. The matrix array is arranged in rows and columns with uniform gaps between the columns. The base has lateral edges spaced from the outer columns for abutting lateral edges of other display devices. The display elements of the middle columns between the outer columns all have a same width. In order to maintain the same periodicity between the adjacent outside columns of adjacent display devices as is present between the columns within each display device, the display elements of the outer columns have a smaller width than the width of the display elements of the middle columns so as to compensate for enlarged distances between the outside columns and the lateral edges.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 1990
    Date of Patent: October 15, 1991
    Assignee: Licentia Patent-Vertwaltungs-GmbH
    Inventors: Hermann Holz, Rolf Salzmann, Wolfram Wiemer