Patents by Inventor Stefan A. Schmitt

Stefan A. Schmitt 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: 10060543
    Abstract: An adjustable damping valve device for a vibration damper, includes a main stage valve which is controlled by a pre-stage valve which is functionally connected in series with the emergency operation valve. A pressure relief valve having the constructional form of a seat valve is arranged inside the emergency operation valve and is functionally connected in parallel with the emergency operation valve. A valve body of the pressure relief valve is formed by at least one annular valve disk.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2018
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Thomas Manger, Stefan Schmitt, Lukas Ruhmann
  • Patent number: 10047626
    Abstract: A gas turbine includes an insert element for fastening to a ring segment body of a turbine of the gas turbine. The ring segment body has a recess on a hot gas side. The insert element is designed to cover the recess. The insert element includes a cover plate, which has a concavely shaped front side and a back side, and at least one foot arranged on the back side for positioning on the ring segment body. A mounting method includes mounting the insert element where the insert element is fixed to a recess of a ring segment body of a turbine of a gas turbine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 5, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 14, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Michael Händler, Kevin Kampka, Christian Kowalski, Christian Kowalzik, Nihal Kurt, Stefan Schmitt, Peter Schröder
  • Publication number: 20180212774
    Abstract: Granting an aligned secured access to a resource for a client system. A first authentication token and a first validity time period value are received from a first server. The first authentication token includes an authorization for accessing the system resource and the predefined session time. The first authentication token including the predefined session time is sent from the client system to a second server. A second validity period value of a second validity period of a second authentication token for a service provided by the second server to the client system is set equal to the received predefined session time. The second authentication token for the second validity period is sent from the second server to the client system such that an aligned secured access is granted for the client system to the resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 23, 2018
    Publication date: July 26, 2018
    Inventors: Sascha Schefenacker, Stefan Schmitt
  • Patent number: 10030786
    Abstract: An adjustable damping valve arrangement for a vibration damper includes a main stage valve with a main stage valve body which is guided in a damping valve housing so as to be axially movable. The damping valve housing has a housing insert which is separate from the damping valve housing and in which the main stage valve body is guided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2018
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Thomas Manger, Stefan Schmitt, Lukas Ruhmann
  • Patent number: 10018051
    Abstract: An insert element fastens to an annular segment body of a turbine of a gas turbine. The annular segment body has a recess on a hot-gas side. The insert element is designed to cover the recess and has a concave front side and a rear side having at least one shaped portion for positioning on the annular segment body. An annular segment has the insert element, a gas turbine has the insert element, and a mounting method mounts the insert element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2018
    Assignee: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Fathi Ahmad, Michael Händler, Kevin Kampka, Christian Kowalski, Christian Kowalzik, Nihal Kurt, Stefan Schmitt, Peter Schröder
  • Publication number: 20180156298
    Abstract: A damping valve device includes an actuator which carries out an axial displacing movement on a sliding sleeve. The sliding sleeve, along with a fixed valve carrier, forms a slide valve which has two flow directions. The slide sleeve is impinged with damping medium on a front side and on a rear side in an incident flow direction, and the front side of the slide sleeve and rear side of the slide sleeve are impinged hydraulically in parallel by damping medium during the incident flow.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Publication date: June 7, 2018
    Inventors: Stefan SCHMITT, Thomas MANGER, Alexander SCHWARZ
  • Patent number: 9982741
    Abstract: A damping valve device (27), includes a damping valve housing (31) with a tube part (33) and an outer top housing part (35), wherein an intermediate housing wall (39) which is fixed with respect to the tube part (33) spatially separates a coil assembly (37) from a valve region (73), and the outer top housing part (35) forms a back iron body for the coil assembly (37), wherein an inner sleeve (69) together with a base (71) closes the valve region (73), wherein the outer top housing part (35) is a component part which is separate from the intermediate housing wall (39), and the inner sleeve (69) is connected to the intermediate housing wall (39) in a pressure-tight manner independent from the outer housing part (35), and wherein a protective cap (93) which is separate from the outer top housing part (35) covers the outer top housing part (35).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Thomas Manger, Stefan Schmitt, Lukas Ruhmann
  • Patent number: 9985785
    Abstract: Granting an aligned secured access to a resource for a client system. A first authentication token and a first validity time period value are received from a first server. The first authentication token includes an authorization for accessing the system resource and the predefined session time. The first authentication token including the predefined session time is sent from the client system to a second server. A second validity period value of a second validity period of a second authentication token for a service provided by the second server to the client system is set equal to the received predefined session time. The second authentication token for the second validity period is sent from the second server to the client system such that an aligned secured access is granted for the client system to the resource.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 29, 2018
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Sascha Schefenacker, Stefan Schmitt
  • Publication number: 20180128339
    Abstract: Vibration damper (1) with an external housing (9) includes an outer cylinder (3) with a main axis. The housing (9) having two receiving spaces (13, 15) is arranged on an outer lateral surface of the outer cylinder (3). Each receiving space (13, 15) has a main axis. The main axis of the outer cylinder (3) and the main axes of the receiving spaces (13, 15) are arranged so as to be skew with respect to one another.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Publication date: May 10, 2018
    Inventors: Bernd ZEISSNER, Stefan SCHMITT
  • Publication number: 20180100399
    Abstract: A method for profiling a turbine rotor blade for an axial flow machine, having the following steps: providing a geometric model of a blade profile, having a camber line of a profile section of the turbine rotor blade; determining boundary conditions for a flow flowing around the turbine rotor blade; changing the camber line such that the flow which is adjusted by the boundary conditions produces the maximum of the difference of the isentropic mach number between the pressure side and the suction side of the turbine rotor blade in a blade section which extends from the blade trailing edge in the direction towards the blade leading edge and the length of which is 65% of the length S of the blade chord.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 18, 2016
    Publication date: April 12, 2018
    Applicant: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Christian Peeren, Stefan Schmitt, Ulrich Waltke, Heinrich Stüer
  • Patent number: 9898534
    Abstract: A portal server comprises memory, a profile manager, a profile selector, and a profile initiator. The profile manager is configured to manage a plurality of profile records in a profile database. The profile selector is configured to select at least one of the plurality of profile records based on context data collected at a client and context data collected at the portal server. The collected context data corresponds to particular user interaction activity with the portal server. The profile initiator is configured to adapt a user interface based on the profile selected by the profile selector.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 2, 2007
    Date of Patent: February 20, 2018
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Stefan Liesche, Andreas Nauerz, Stefan Schmitt, Holger Waterstrat
  • Publication number: 20180003259
    Abstract: An adjustable damping valve device for a vibration damper, includes a main stage valve which is controlled by a pre-stage valve with a pre-stage valve body, which pre-stage valve can be actuated by an electromagnetic actuator, wherein an emergency operation valve controls the main stage valve during emergency operation, wherein an emergency operation armature is preloaded on the pre-stage valve body of the pre-stage valve by an emergency operation spring so that the pre-stage valve forms the emergency operation valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2015
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: Thomas MANGER, Lukas RUHMANN, Stefan SCHMITT
  • Patent number: 9808954
    Abstract: This invention relates to a composition, a process for producing a composition, a timber formulation, a process for producing a timber formulation, a construction comprising the timber formulation and a use of the construction comprising the timber formulation are herein disclosed. The composition can include a Cu-salt, a first cyclic organic compound comprising a B heteroatom and at least one further B-free cyclic organic compound. The composition and timber formulation herein disclosed are designed as wood preservatives and may be used as part of a timber preserving treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2015
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2017
    Assignee: Rutgers Organics GmbH
    Inventors: Volker Beez, Helmut Härtner, Stefan Schmitt
  • Publication number: 20170314634
    Abstract: An adjustable damping valve device has a first adjustable damping valve assembly for a first flow direction and a second adjustable damping valve assembly for a second flow direction. The two damping valve assemblies are adjustable independently from one another, and the first damping valve assembly generates a damping force for only one flow direction and the second damping valve assembly has a minimum cross section through which damping medium can flow in the setting for maximum damping force so that the second damping valve device generates a damping force in both flow directions.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 10, 2015
    Publication date: November 2, 2017
    Inventors: Thomas MANGER, Stefan SCHMITT, Bernd ZEISSNER, Thomas SOLF, Lukas RUHMANN
  • Publication number: 20170250812
    Abstract: Granting an aligned secured access to a resource for a client system. A first authentication token and a first validity time period value are received from a first server. The first authentication token includes an authorization for accessing the system resource and the predefined session time. The first authentication token including the predefined session time is sent from the client system to a second server. A second validity period value of a second validity period of a second authentication token for a service provided by the second server to the client system is set equal to the received predefined session time. The second authentication token for the second validity period is sent from the second server to the client system such that an aligned secured access is granted for the client system to the resource.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2016
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Inventors: Sascha Schefenacker, Stefan Schmitt
  • Publication number: 20170219109
    Abstract: An adjustable damping valve device for a vibration damper, includes a main stage valve which is controlled by a pre-stage valve which is functionally connected in series with the emergency operation valve. A pressure relief valve having the constructional form of a seat valve is arranged inside the emergency operation valve and is functionally connected in parallel with the emergency operation valve. A valve body of the pressure relief valve is formed by at least one annular valve disk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2015
    Publication date: August 3, 2017
    Inventors: Thomas MANGER, Stefan SCHMITT, Lukas RUHMANN
  • Patent number: 9680962
    Abstract: Providing software-as-a-service to a plurality of clients includes: selecting a first virtual portal, determining a score for a first resource to generate a first scored resource, determining a set of scored resources, visually rendering the first virtual portal and the set of portal resources, visually rendering the set of scored resources, and selecting a scored resource from the set of scored resources to be associated with the first virtual portal by updating the resource association matrix with an identifier of the scored resource. The score is selected to represent a usefulness factor of the first resource. Each scored resource of the set of scored resources is selected to be different than each portal resource of a set of portal resources associated with the first virtual portal by a resource association matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2015
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Daniel Blum, Timo Kussmaul, Stefan Schmitt, Andreas Stay
  • Publication number: 20170148710
    Abstract: A power electronic switching device having plurality of potential surfaces. At least two different potentials are respectively assigned to at least one of the potential surfaces. A plurality of semiconductor components are arranged in an n×m matrix, oriented in the x-y-direction, on a first conductor track, formed by at least one potential surface of the first potential. The semiconductor components are connected in parallel with one another and form a current valve. In this case, the semiconductor components can be distributed among a plurality of potential surfaces of the first potential which form the first conductor track.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 20, 2016
    Publication date: May 25, 2017
    Applicant: Semikron Elektronik GmbH & Co., KG
    Inventors: Frank STEIGLER, Stefan Schmitt, Harald Kobolla
  • Patent number: 9628492
    Abstract: The present invention relates to the field of Network portals and in particular to a method and system for restricting access rights on user profile information using a new notion of peer groups, wherein a given user's peer group is defined to be the set of users containing all the members of all the user's communities, wherein the individual communities are defined within the web portal wherein on said web portal a plurality of composite applications are implemented, wherein each composite application (19; 50) has a predetermined number of users working with said composite application building a community for that composite application, characterized by the steps of: a) building a filter based on the peer group of the requesting user by collecting the communities of all composite applications which said user is member of (650, 660, 670) b) using said filter as an additional constraint when selecting (680) user information from the user registry in order to limit all query results to user profile informat
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2009
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: Dieter Buehler, Charles P. de Saint-Aignan, Stefan Hepper, Stefan Schmitt
  • Patent number: 9618138
    Abstract: An adjustable damping valve arrangement comprises an adjustable damping valve in which flow is bidirectional, wherein a pressure-dependent supplementary valve is associated with the adjustable damping valve in series therewith for each through-flow direction, wherein each supplementary valve has at least one separate through-channel, the outlet side thereof being at least partially covered by at least one valve disk, wherein the flow path proceeding from the adjustable damping valve in flow direction is carried out through the first supplementary valve from a smaller inlet diameter to a larger outlet diameter, and the at least one valve disk carries out a peripheral lift movement, wherein the flow path through the second supplementary valve in flow direction to the adjustable damping valve is implemented from a larger inlet diameter to a smaller outlet diameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2017
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Thomas Manger, Stefan Schmitt, Bernd Zeissner