Patents by Inventor Stefan Buchner

Stefan Buchner 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: 12290022
    Abstract: A trimmer line spool has first and second spool chambers for a trimmer line. First and second holder pairs are provided. The first holder pair has first and second trimmer line holders associated with the first spool chamber and the second spool chamber, respectively. The second holder pair has first and second trimmer line holders associated with the first spool chamber and the second spool chamber, respectively. The trimmer line holders of the first holder pair each have a first opening for the trimmer line. The trimmer line holders of the second holder pair each have a second opening for the trimmer line. A diameter of the first openings is larger than a diameter of the second openings. The first openings are positioned at an angle of 150° to 210° to each other. The second openings are positioned at an angle of 150° to 210° to each other.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 6, 2025
    Assignee: Andreas Stihl AG & Co. KG
    Inventors: Sebastian Schmidt, Simon Haug, Sebastian Zappe, Christoph Brenner, Achim Rethaber, Björn Petersen, Stefan Buchner
  • Patent number: 12226905
    Abstract: A method for training a control strategy. The method includes providing training data, which demonstrate a control behavior, according to which control actions are to be generated, and training the control strategy with the aid of imitation learning by minimizing a measure of deviation between the distribution of state transitions according to the control strategy and the distribution of state transitions according to the demonstrated control behavior using the training data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Date of Patent: February 18, 2025
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Christoph-Nikolas Straehle, Damian Boborzi, Jens Stefan Buchner
  • Patent number: 12008295
    Abstract: A method for creating a model of a technical system as a function of measured sensor data of the technical system. The method includes the following steps: initializing a symbolic regression problem. A list of mathematical functions is established, including at least one linear and/or non-linear function and/or at least a one-dimensional parameterizable characteristic curve. The at least one-dimensional characteristic curve is implemented by a Smoothed Grid Regression (SGR) model. Solving the symbolic regression problem with the aid of a genetic algorithm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Date of Patent: June 11, 2024
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Andrej Junginger, Holger Ulmer, Jens Stefan Buchner, Patrick Engel, Sebastian Boblest
  • Patent number: 11803732
    Abstract: A device and a computer-implemented method for classifying data, in particular for a Controller Area Network or an automotive Ethernet network. A plurality of messages is received from a communications network. A message that has a predefined message type is selected for an input variable for an input model of a plurality of input models of an artificial neural network associated with the predefined message type. The input variable is determined as a function of the message, and in an output area of the artificial neural network a prediction is output that is usable for classifying the message as a function of the input variable, or a reconstruction of an input variable is output that is usable for classifying the message as a function of this input variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2023
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Markus Hanselmann, Holger Ulmer, Katharina Dormann, Thilo Strauss, Andrej Junginger, Jens Stefan Buchner, Sebastian Boblest
  • Publication number: 20230081738
    Abstract: A method for training a control strategy. The method includes providing training data, which demonstrate a control behavior, according to which control actions are to be generated, and training the control strategy with the aid of imitation learning by minimizing a measure of deviation between the distribution of state transitions according to the control strategy and the distribution of state transitions according to the demonstrated control behavior using the training data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 2, 2022
    Publication date: March 16, 2023
    Inventors: Christoph-Nikolas Straehle, Damian Boborzi, Jens Stefan Buchner
  • Publication number: 20220235689
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for detecting a manipulation of a technical device. The method includes: providing time characteristics of operating variables having system variable(s) and/or a correction variable for an intervention in the technical device which correspond to time series of values of the operating variables for each of consecutive time steps; using a data-based manipulation detection model in each current time step to ascertain one or more output variable(s) that correspond at least to a portion of the operating variables as a function of input variables which include at least a portion of the operating variables. The manipulation detection model includes an autoencoder having a first recurrent neural network, a prediction model having a second recurrent neural network, and an evaluation model, the outputs of the autoencoder and the prediction model being combined with one another and then conveyed to an evaluation model for an ascertainment of the output variables.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2022
    Publication date: July 28, 2022
    Inventors: Markus Hanselmann, Jens Stefan Buchner, Thilo Strauss, Thomas Branz
  • Publication number: 20220067023
    Abstract: A method for detecting manipulation of a technical device, particularly a technical device in a motor vehicle, especially an exhaust-gas treatment device. The method includes: providing a time series of an input vector having one or more system variables and having at least one manipulated variable for an intervention in the technical device; utilizing a data-based manipulation detection model which includes a recurrent neural network that is designed to determine a state vector as a function of the input vector, and an autoencoder which is designed to determine a reconstructed vector as a function of the state vector, detecting an anomaly as a function of a reconstruction error, which is a function of the reconstructed vector; and detecting a manipulation as a function of the reconstruction error.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 18, 2021
    Publication date: March 3, 2022
    Inventors: Adrien Serout, Jens Stefan Buchner, Markus Hanselmann, Nicolas Ide, Stefan Nagel, Thomas Branz, Thilo Strauss
  • Publication number: 20210264075
    Abstract: A method for creating a model of a technical system as a function of measured sensor data of the technical system. The method includes the following steps: initializing a symbolic regression problem. A list of mathematical functions is established, including at least one linear and/or non-linear function and/or at least a one-dimensional parameterizable characteristic curve. The at least one-dimensional characteristic curve is implemented by a Smoothed Grid Regression (SGR) model. Solving the symbolic regression problem with the aid of a genetic algorithm.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 25, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Andrej Junginger, Holger Ulmer, Jens Stefan Buchner, Patrick Engel, Sebastian Boblest
  • Publication number: 20210168997
    Abstract: A trimmer line spool has first and second spool chambers for a trimmer line. First and second holder pairs are provided. The first holder pair has first and second trimmer line holders associated with the first spool chamber and the second spool chamber, respectively. The second holder pair has first and second trimmer line holders associated with the first spool chamber and the second spool chamber, respectively. The trimmer line holders of the first holder pair each have a first opening for the trimmer line. The trimmer line holders of the second holder pair each have a second opening for the trimmer line. A diameter of the first openings is larger than a diameter of the second openings. The first openings are positioned at an angle of 150° to 210° to each other. The second openings are positioned at an angle of 150° to 210° to each other.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 30, 2020
    Publication date: June 10, 2021
    Inventors: Sebastian Schmidt, Simon Haug, Sebastian Zappe, Christoph Brenner, Achim Rethaber, Björn Petersen, Stefan Buchner
  • Publication number: 20200234101
    Abstract: A device and a computer-implemented method for classifying data, in particular for a Controller Area Network or an automotive Ethernet network. A plurality of messages is received from a communications network. A message that has a predefined message type is selected for an input variable for an input model of a plurality of input models of an artificial neural network associated with the predefined message type. The input variable is determined as a function of the message, and in an output area of the artificial neural network a prediction is output that is usable for classifying the message as a function of the input variable, or a reconstruction of an input variable is output that is usable for classifying the message as a function of this input variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 14, 2020
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Inventors: Markus Hanselmann, Holger Ulmer, Katharina Dormann, Thilo Strauss, Andrej Junginger, Jens Stefan Buchner, Sebastian Boblest
  • Patent number: 8210212
    Abstract: Flexible pipe body, a method of manufacturing flexible pipe body and a method of providing a flexible pipe are disclosed. The flexible pipe body includes a fluid retaining layer, at least one tensile armor layer, at least one extruded thermal insulation layer over an outermost one of the at least one tensile armor layers and an outer shield layer over the insulation layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 3, 2012
    Assignee: Wellstream International Limited
    Inventor: Stefan Buchner
  • Publication number: 20090101225
    Abstract: Flexible pipe body, a method of manufacturing flexible pipe body and a method of providing a flexible pipe are disclosed. The flexible pipe body includes a fluid retaining layer, at least one tensile armor layer, at least one extruded thermal insulation layer over an outermost one of the at least one tensile armor layers and an outer shield layer over the insulation layer.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2008
    Publication date: April 23, 2009
    Inventor: Stefan Buchner
  • Publication number: 20060000200
    Abstract: In a method for adjusting the fuel/air ratio in an internal combustion engine (1) comprising a converter (2) which is associated therewith, a composition of waste gas in the waste gas wing (3, 8) of the internal combustion engine (1) is detected by means of sensors (4, 5) and output signals from at least one of the sensors (4, 5) are used for producing a control signal in order to influence the fuel/air ratio. The fuel/air ratio is switched back and forth between a lean operating state with surplus oxygen and a rich operating state with an oxygen deficit by means of a characteristic line of the control signal. The characteristic line of the control signal is adapted to a current converter state. A characteristic curve contour of the characteristic line is adjusted according to the addition and/or desorption of an oxidation agent in the converter (2). The invention also relates to a device for carrying out said method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2005
    Publication date: January 5, 2006
    Inventors: Ekkehard Pott, Alf Degen, Stefan Buchner, Ralf Rothkegel