Patents by Inventor Sebastian Mueller

Sebastian Mueller 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: 11694529
    Abstract: A first functionality of anti-theft security system infrastructure provides at least signal reception capabilities and enables the anti-theft security system infrastructure to detect mobile anti-theft devices by receiving advertising signals therefrom and to hand over a respectively detected mobile anti-theft device to a second functionality of the anti-theft security system infrastructure, wherein the second functionality provides at least signal transmission capabilities and enables the anti-theft security system infrastructure to communicate with an handed-over mobile anti-theft device including the sending of a release command to the handed-over anti-theft device, automatically after the handing-over or if at least one release condition is fulfilled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2023
    Assignee: RAPITAG GMBH
    Inventors: Sebastian Müller, Alexander Schneider
  • Publication number: 20230194314
    Abstract: A sensor apparatus is provided in which both an optical interrogator and an optical waveguide are embedded in the same component made of fiber-reinforced plastic. The optical interrogator and the optical waveguide thus form a unit with the component made of fiber-reinforced plastic, in which they are embedded. The optical interrogator and the optical waveguide are arranged in this case protected in the same component made of fiber-reinforced plastic. The optical waveguide does not have to be led out of this component and into the interrogator. The risk of damage to the optical waveguide is thus significantly reduced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Sebastian Müller, Marc Baumeister
  • Publication number: 20230131874
    Abstract: The invention relates to an anti-theft device configured to be attached to merchandise to be protected, preferably to cardboard boxes, the anti-theft device comprising a housing, which comprises a winding apparatus rotatably mounted therein, at least one securing-loop arrangement, the securing-loop arrangement being designed to loop around the merchandise to be protected such that the anti-theft device can be securely connected to the merchandise to be protected, and a winding apparatus locking mechanism configured to prevent the rotational unwinding movement of the winding apparatus in the housing, if the winding apparatus locking mechanism is engaged with the winding apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2021
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Applicant: rapitag GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian MÜLLER, Alexander SCHNEIDER
  • Publication number: 20230102380
    Abstract: Disclosed is a product anti-theft system having a product anti-theft device configured to be attached to a product to be secured, the anti-theft device having a housing with a connecting portion designed to be connected to the product to be secured and a locking mechanism associated with the connecting portion and having a secured state and a released state. The anti-theft system further includes a release device for transmitting a release signal that triggers transferring of the locking mechanism from the secured state to the released state. Also disclosed is a method of operating an anti-theft device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 11, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: rapitag GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian MÜLLER, Alexander SCHNEIDER
  • Publication number: 20230103200
    Abstract: The invention relates to an anti-theft device comprising a housing, which is configured to be displaceably mounted to an anti-theft box, which anti-theft box is configured to receive merchandise to be protected, the housing being further configured to selectively take a releasing position, in which the anti-theft box is transferable from a closed state into an opened state, and a locking position, in which the anti-theft box is not transferable from the closed state into the opened state, a locking mechanism associated with the housing and having an unlocked state, in which the housing is displaceable from the locking position into the releasing position, and a locked state, in which the housing is not displaceable from the locking position into the releasing position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2021
    Publication date: March 30, 2023
    Applicant: rapitag GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian MÜLLER, Alexander SCHNEIDER
  • Patent number: 11605488
    Abstract: A high-voltage device includes a housing and at least one subassembly which is electrically insulated from the housing. The at least one subassembly is spaced from the housing and mechanically connected to the housing. At least one ceramic spacer element is disposed between the housing and the at least one subassembly. A method of using the high-voltage device includes transferring heat, which is produced at connection elements of the at least one subassembly which is electrically insulated from the housing, from the subassembly through the at least one ceramic spacer element to the housing and emitting the heat from the housing to the environment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2023
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Robert Goepfert, Sebastian Mueller
  • Publication number: 20220399887
    Abstract: Aspects of the invention relate to a high-power switching module for the direct pulse energy feeding of a consumer with a plurality of switching stages connected in series. A coupling element and an energy buffer store are provided, the coupling element coupling a primary circuit comprising a balancing capacitance and a semiconductor switch to a secondary circuit comprising the energy buffer store, the coupling element being provided and embodied for obtaining energy of the balancing capacitance and delivering this energy to the energy buffer store during the on phase of the semiconductor switch, and the energy buffer store being provided and embodied for delivering the obtained energy to an energy store of the driver assembly when the semiconductor switch is in the switched-off state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2022
    Publication date: December 15, 2022
    Inventors: Sebastian Müller, Igor Kovalev, Karl-Heinz Segsa, Johannes Schurack
  • Publication number: 20220371561
    Abstract: A brake system for a motor vehicle has electromechanical wheel brakes, a brake operating unit and a central brake control unit. The wheel brakes each have a local brake control unit. The central brake control unit is connected to the brake operating unit and the local brake control units via a first data connection. The brake operating unit is connected to the local brake control unit of at least one wheel brake via a second data connection. In a normal operating mode the central brake control unit determines at least one brake demand from first operating information, received via the first data connection and transmits control signals corresponding to the brake demand to the local brake control units. In a fallback operating mode the local brake control units actuate the respective wheel brakes basis on second operating information, received via the second data connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 19, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: Continental Teves AG & Co. OHG
    Inventors: Martin Brenn, Jürgen Böhm, Sascha Gröger, Sebastian Müller, Jochen Beuss, Anselm Keil, Marco Besier, Matthias Muntu, Timo Sauerwald
  • Publication number: 20220375321
    Abstract: The invention relates to a security system designed to recognise, by means of the presence and/or content of a status enquiry signal of at least one security unit, whether or not at least one security unit is located inside the security zone. The security system includes an alarm generating unit which is designed to generate an alarm signal if it has been recognised that the at least one security unit is located outside the security zone. The invention further relates to a method for emitting an alarm signal, a bus with a security system and a use of a security system.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 23, 2020
    Publication date: November 24, 2022
    Applicant: Rapitag GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian MÜLLER, Alexander SCHNEIDER
  • Patent number: 11435765
    Abstract: A valve device including an outlet port, a first valve unit with a first valve element for setting a first throttle opening for influencing a first airflow of pressurised air which is to be output at the outlet port or is to be released via the outlet port, a first throttle control loop for the closed-loop control of the first throttle opening according to a first setpoint, a pressure control loop for the closed-loop pressure control of an outlet pressure present at the outlet port to a pressure setpoint amid the use of a first throttle control loop as a subordinate control loop, wherein on closed-loop pressure control the pressure control loop specifies a first throttle setpoint to the first throttle control loop as the first setpoint, wherein the valve device is further configured to provide a throttle setting function and, within the throttle setting function, to limit the first throttle opening to a first limitation value and/or within the throttle setting function to specify a first direct setpoint which
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: Festo SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Heiko Patz, Ulrich Sixt, Sebastian Müller
  • Publication number: 20220252056
    Abstract: The invention relates to an actuator element (10), comprising an actuator (12), which comprises a shape memory alloy and is designed to shorten or extend itself in the longitudinal extension direction thereof when in an excited state; an electronic control unit, which has a carrier element (18) and a plurality of electronic components (26) for exciting the actuator (12) on the basis of a control signal; and a movable component (20), which is coupled to the actuator and is movable by means of the actuator (12) relative to the carrier element (18); wherein the carrier element (18) defines a guide portion (16), in particular a dimensionally stable guide portion, by means of which the actuator (12) is guided along the longitudinal extension direction thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2020
    Publication date: August 11, 2022
    Applicant: rapitag GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian MÜLLER, Alexander SCHNEIDER
  • Publication number: 20220178176
    Abstract: The invention relates to a product anti-theft device, which is designed to be attached to products that are to be protected, in particular textile products, the anti-theft device comprising a housing and a locking mechanism, which locking mechanism comprises a needle, the needle being movable between an engaged position, in which it engages with the product that is to be protected, and a release position, in which it allows the product anti-theft device to be released and removed from the product that is to be protected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2020
    Publication date: June 9, 2022
    Applicant: rapitag GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian MÜLLER, Alexander SCHNEIDER
  • Publication number: 20220140155
    Abstract: Described herein is an optical sensor, a detector including the optical sensor for an optical detection of at least one object, and a method for manufacturing the optical sensor. The optical sensor (110) includes a substrate (120); a photoconductive layer (112) applied to a first portion (116) of a surface (118) of the substrate (120); and at least one electrode layer (124) applied to a second portion (126) of the surface (118) of the substrate (120). The optical sensor (110) exhibits a linear current-voltage characteristic according to Ohm's law.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 26, 2020
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Wilfried Hermes, Sebastian Valouch, Sebastian Mueller, Regina Hoeh, Heidi Bechtel, Timo Altenbeck, Fabian Dittmann, Bertran Feuerstein, Thomas Hupfaue, Anke Handreck, Robert Paul Gust, Peter Paul Kaletta, Daniel Kaelblein, Robert Send
  • Publication number: 20220131021
    Abstract: Described herein is an optical sensor, a detector for an optical detection including the optical sensor, a method for manufacturing the optical sensor and various uses of the optical detector. The optical sensor includes a stack.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Publication date: April 28, 2022
    Inventors: Wilfried Hermes, Sebastian Valouch, Sebastian Mueller, Regina Hoeh, Heidi Bechtel, Timo Altenbeck, Fabian Dittmann, Bertram Feuerstein, Thomas Hupfauer, Anke Handreck, Robert Gust, Peter Paul Kaletta, Robert Send, Hubert Waindok, lngolf Hennig, Svetlana Guriyanova
  • Publication number: 20220120619
    Abstract: Described herein is a detector for detecting optical radiation, especially within the infrared spectral range, specifically with regard to sensing at least one of transmissivity, absorption, emission and reflectivity, being capable of avoiding or diminishing a cross detection between sensor areas, specifically between adjacent sensor areas, thus, avoiding or diminishing a deterioration of a measurement based on the at least one sensor signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2020
    Publication date: April 21, 2022
    Inventors: Sebastian Valouch, Alexander Klein, Sebastian Mueller, Wilfried Hermes, Robert Send
  • Publication number: 20220093811
    Abstract: Described herein is an optical sensor, a detector including the optical sensor for an optical detection of at least one object, a method for manufacturing the optical sensor and various uses of the optical detector. The optical sensor can be supplied as a non-bulky hermetic package which provides an increased degree of protection against possible degradation by humidity and/or oxygen over long terms. Further, the optical sensor may be easily manufactured and integrated on a circuit carrier device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Inventors: Wilfried HERMES, Sebastian VALOUCH, Sebastian MUELLER, Regina HOEH, Heidi BECHTEL, Timo ALTENBECK, Fabian DITTMANN, Bertram FEUERSTEIN, Thomas HUPFAUER, Anke HANDREK, Robert GUST, Robert SEND, Ingmar BRUDER
  • Publication number: 20220090416
    Abstract: The invention relates to an anti-theft device configured to be attached to merchandise to be protected the anti-theft device including a housing, which comprises a winding apparatus rotatably arranged therein, at least one securing-loop arrangement designed and intended to loop around the merchandise to be protected such that the anti-theft device can be securely connected to the merchandise to be protected, and a locking mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Publication date: March 24, 2022
    Applicant: rapitag GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian MÜLLER, Alexander SCHNEIDER
  • Publication number: 20220074237
    Abstract: The invention relates to a bottle lock for a bottle, comprising a housing part designed to enclose an upper portion of the bottle neck of the bottle to be secured, including the bottle cap of the bottle to be secured, a plurality of claws arranged in the housing part, which are designed and intended to engage non-releasably with the upper portion of the bottle neck when the bottle lock is in a secured state and to allow the bottle lock to be released and removed away from the upper portion of the bottle neck in the released state of the bottle lock, and to a locking mechanism intended to assume an unlocked state in which the bottle lock can be transferred from the secured state to the released state, and a locked state in which the bottle lock cannot be transferred from the secured state to the released state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 30, 2021
    Publication date: March 10, 2022
    Applicant: rapitag GmbH
    Inventors: Sebastian MÜLLER, Alexander SCHNEIDER
  • Patent number: D970690
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: Festo SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Philipp Eberl, Matthias Wunderling, Sebastian Müller
  • Patent number: D971379
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2022
    Assignee: Festo SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Philipp Eberl, Matthias Wunderling, Sebastian Müller