Patents by Inventor Stefan Hoffmann
Stefan Hoffmann 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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Publication number: 20200063897Abstract: The invention relates to a pipe holder for mounting a pipe on a bearing, comprising two foot supports which are mutually spaced apart and are in each case capable of being connected to the bearing; a support element having a web, a pipe receptacle at the upper end of the web, and a foot part at the lower end of the web, wherein the foot part is disposed in the intermediate space between the foot supports; as well as at least one pressure-resistant insulating element which is disposed between the first foot support and the foot part as well as between the second foot support and the foot part of the support element, wherein the foot supports, the insulating elements, and the foot part are connected to one another in a force-fitting manner by way of at least one fastening element.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 14, 2017Publication date: February 27, 2020Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Ishak KURT, Ralf DEBOLD, Stefan HOFFMANN, Sebastian STUPPY
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Patent number: 10467904Abstract: A method for operating a vehicle, the vehicle being guided in a parking facility by remote control in such a way that a predetermined minimum distance to mobile objects in the surroundings of the vehicle is maintained. A device for operating a vehicle, a parking facility system for vehicles, and a computer program are also described.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2015Date of Patent: November 5, 2019Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Stefan Nordbruch, Stefan Hoffmann
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Patent number: 10456535Abstract: The present invention relates to an inhaler device for delivering a dose of medicament in dry powder form from a container to a patient in need thereof. The inhaler comprises a swirl chamber in which particles of the medicament entrained in an airflow swirl upon inhalation thereby breaking up the agglomerates into finest dispersed powder.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2017Date of Patent: October 29, 2019Assignee: Presspart Manufacturing Ltd.Inventors: Julian Hemy, Richard Turner, Hans-Peter Schmelzer, Dietmar Schmitz, Stefan Hoffmann, Ameet Sule, Sunita Sule, Matthias Seiler, George Alexander Bostock, Aki Hannu Einari Laakso, Michael Worth, Matthew Schumann
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Patent number: 10446029Abstract: A method and device of a parking system includes, for example, a computer program configured for operating a parking lot, including the steps of ascertaining a route to a target position in the parking lot for autonomous travel of a vehicle in the parking lot to the target position, and blocking at least one section of the route to other vehicles before the vehicle travels through the section, so that the vehicle is able to drive autonomously through the blocked-off section of the route.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2015Date of Patent: October 15, 2019Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Stefan Hoffmann, Rolf Nicodemus, Stefan Nordbruch
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Publication number: 20190270441Abstract: A method for determining a driving resistance of a target vehicle may include determining a vehicle deceleration of a reference vehicle, measuring a vehicle deceleration of a target vehicle, and determining a ratio thereof and providing a correction factor to normalize the determined ratio to a predetermined other starting velocity.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 24, 2018Publication date: September 5, 2019Applicants: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventor: Stefan HOFFMANN
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Patent number: 10286903Abstract: A method (and corresponding parking facility management server, parking system, and computer program) for carrying out an automatic parking process of a vehicle includes a reservation request for a parking position of a parking facility being sent to a parking facility management server via a communication network, navigation data for an autonomous navigation to the reserved parking position corresponding to the reservation request being received by the vehicle via the communication network, and the vehicle autonomously navigating in the parking facility to the reserved parking position based on the navigation data. It is preferably provided that the vehicle autonomously pulls into the parking position, pulls out of this parking position, and travels back to a drop-off position or pick-up position, from which a driver of the vehicle may pick up the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2015Date of Patent: May 14, 2019Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Albrecht Irion, Hans-Joerg Mathony, Rolf Nicodemus, Stefan Hoffmann, Stefan Nordbruch
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Publication number: 20190118795Abstract: The present disclosure provides methods for operating an energy management system for a traction battery of a hybrid electric vehicle. In one implementation, a method may include: determining whether a state of charge of the traction battery is below a predetermined charge level; when the state of charge is below the predetermined charge level, and when the energy management system identifies an intent of a driver to overtake another vehicle based on a first data set and identifies an unsafe overtaking condition based on a second data set, generating a charge request for charging the traction battery to at least the predetermined charge level.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 8, 2018Publication date: April 25, 2019Applicants: HYUNDAI MOTOR COMPANY, KIA MOTORS CORPORATIONInventors: Stefan HOFFMANN, Carlos MAZZETTI
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Publication number: 20190039604Abstract: A method for the driverless driving of a motor vehicle parked at a start position of a parking facility from the start position to a destination position of the parking facility. The method includes checking whether one or several of the following minimum conditions are fulfilled: an order for the driverless driving exists, the driver of the parked motor vehicle handed over the responsibility for the parked motor vehicle, and a minimum distance of one or multiple persons from the parked motor vehicle is maintained, and beginning with the driverless driving of the motor vehicle only if one or several of the minimum conditions are fulfilled. A corresponding device and a computer program are also described.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 15, 2016Publication date: February 7, 2019Applicant: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Juergen Auracher, Rolf Nicodemus, Stefan Nordbruch, Stefan Hoffmann
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Patent number: 10140793Abstract: A method for monitoring a parking facility that has an area reserved for autonomously driving vehicles, including: receiving an access request associated with a person for the reserved area, checking whether the person is authorized for access to the reserved area, granting access if the person is authorized for access, monitoring a behavior of the person in the reserved area. Also described is a corresponding device, system and computer program.Type: GrantFiled: October 22, 2015Date of Patent: November 27, 2018Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Stefan Nordbruch, Rolf Nicodemus, Stefan Hoffmann
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Publication number: 20180264208Abstract: The present invention relates to an inhaler device for delivering a dose of medicament in dry powder form from a container to a patient in need thereof. The inhaler comprises first and second airflow paths (80, 85) which are arranged such that during inhalation, a capsule (40) having a longitudinal axis and first and second end sections (90, 95) delimiting the capsule on opposing ends located in a capsule chamber (30) performs an oscillating movement in the capsule chamber parallel to its longitudinal axis between first and second sidewall portions (60, 65) of the capsule chamber.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 21, 2016Publication date: September 20, 2018Inventors: Julian Hemy, Richard Turner, Hans-Peter Schmelzer, Hans-Jürgen Neugebauer, Dietmar Schmitz, Stefan Hoffmann, Ameet Sule, Sunita Sule, Matthias Seiler, George Alexander Bostock, Aki Hannu Einari Laakso, Michael Worth
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Patent number: 10048698Abstract: A method for guiding a motor vehicle in a parking facility encompasses steps of ascertaining, externally to the motor vehicle, a trajectory in the parking facility from a starting position to a destination position; transmitting at least a segment of the trajectory to the motor vehicle via a communication network; and monitoring the motor vehicle, by way of a monitoring system external to the motor vehicle, as the segment is traversed, to determine a deviation, the trajectory being ascertained as a function of a property of the motor vehicle. Also described are a corresponding apparatus, a parking system, and a computer program.Type: GrantFiled: January 28, 2016Date of Patent: August 14, 2018Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Stefan Nordbruch, Stefan Hoffmann
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Patent number: 10005459Abstract: A method for operating a vehicle, comprising receiving one or more dimensions of a parking position via a communication network, and autonomously maneuvering the vehicle into the parking position based on the one or more dimensions. An apparatus for operating a vehicle, and a method and an apparatus for assisting a vehicle upon maneuvering into a parking position are also described. A vehicle, a parking system for vehicles, and a computer program are also described.Type: GrantFiled: May 9, 2016Date of Patent: June 26, 2018Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Michael Schoenherr, Stefan Nordbruch, Stefan Hoffmann
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Patent number: 9989002Abstract: Disclosed are a turbocharger for a combustion engine and a method of operating a turbocharger. The turbocharger may include a variably positionable flow restrictor for restricting flow in a turbocharger inlet of the turbocharger by an amount dependent on a flow restrictor position. The method may include determining an operating point variable of the combustion engine, controlling a first actuator to exert on the flow restrictor a first actuating force for varying the flow restrictor position depending on the operating point variable, determining a crank angle variable of the combustion engine, and controlling a second actuator to exert on the flow restrictor a second actuating force for varying the flow restrictor position depending on the crank angle variable.Type: GrantFiled: September 12, 2014Date of Patent: June 5, 2018Assignees: Hyundai Motor Europe Technical Center GmbH, Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors CorporationInventor: Stefan Hoffmann
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Patent number: 9905745Abstract: The invention relates to a device for converting thermal energy to electrical energy, comprising at least one thermoelectric module (19) which has an outer surface having a hot side (20) for contacting a heat source and having a cold side (22) for contacting a heat sink, wherein the hot side of the thermoelectric module is thermally conductively connected to a heat source, in particular an exhaust channel (11) of a combustion engine. The device further comprises a cooling channel (25) through which a cooling fluid can flow and which is thermally conductively connected to the cold side of the thermoelectric module. The cooling channel has at least one opening to the cold side of the thermoelectric module and is sealed in a fluid-tight manner around the opening with respect to the hot side of the thermoelectric module.Type: GrantFiled: October 26, 2011Date of Patent: February 27, 2018Assignee: FRIEDRICH BOYSEN GMBH & CO. KGInventors: Roland Gauss, Stefan Hoffmann, Karl Stockinger
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Publication number: 20180046198Abstract: A method for guiding a motor vehicle in a parking facility encompasses steps of ascertaining, externally to the motor vehicle, a trajectory in the parking facility from a starting position to a destination position; transmitting at least a segment of the trajectory to the motor vehicle via a communication network; and monitoring the motor vehicle, by way of a monitoring system external to the motor vehicle, as the segment is traversed, to determine a deviation, the trajectory being ascertained as a function of a property of the motor vehicle. Also described are a corresponding apparatus, a parking system, and a computer program.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 28, 2016Publication date: February 15, 2018Inventors: Stefan Nordbruch, Stefan Hoffmann
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Publication number: 20170333646Abstract: The present invention relates to an inhaler device for delivering a dose of medicament in dry powder form from a container to a patient in need thereof. The inhaler comprises a swirl chamber in which particles of the medicament entrained in an airflow swirl upon inhalation thereby breaking up the agglomerates into finest dispersed powder.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2017Publication date: November 23, 2017Inventors: Julian Hemy, Richard Turner, Hans-Peter Schmelzer, Dietmar Schmitz, Stefan Hoffmann, Ameet Sule, Sunita Sule, Matthias Seiler, George Alexander Bostock, Aki Hannu Einari Laakso, Michael Worth, Matthew Schumann
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Publication number: 20170330399Abstract: A method for monitoring a parking facility that has an area reserved for autonomously driving vehicles, including: receiving an access request associated with a person for the reserved area, checking whether the person is authorized for access to the reserved area, granting access if the person is authorized for access, monitoring a behavior of the person in the reserved area. Also described is a corresponding device, system and computer program.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 22, 2015Publication date: November 16, 2017Inventors: Stefan Nordbruch, Rolf Nicodemus, Stefan Hoffmann
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Patent number: 9816283Abstract: A method is provided for operating a towing robot, where in the event an error occurs during autonomous driving of a vehicle within a parking lot, the error causing the vehicle to be no longer able to continue its autonomous driving, the towing robot is instructed to tow the vehicle to a predetermined position, so that the towing robot tows the vehicle to the predetermined position in response to the instruction. Also described herein are a towing robot, a parking system, as well as a computer program.Type: GrantFiled: October 27, 2015Date of Patent: November 14, 2017Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbHInventors: Stefan Nordbruch, Rolf Nicodemus, Albrecht Irion, Stefan Hoffmann
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Publication number: 20170323565Abstract: A parking facility management server for a parking facility, including a communication interface, which is designed to receive a request via a communication network from a user of the communication network to carry out at least one vehicle-specific service for a vehicle in the parking facility, and a processor, which is designed to process the request, in order to check whether or not the at least one service may be carried out in the parking facility for the vehicle in accordance with the request, the processor being further designed to ascertain a response as a function of the check. The communication interface further being designed to transmit the response via the communication network back to the user, the processor further being designed to plan and to coordinate the carrying out of the service in the event of a positive response that at least one service may be carried out.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2015Publication date: November 9, 2017Inventors: Stefan Nordbruch, Albrecht Irion, Hans-Joerg Mathony, Holger Mielenz, Rolf Nicodemus, Stefan Hoffmann
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Publication number: 20170313305Abstract: A method (and corresponding parking facility management server, parking system, and computer program) for carrying out an automatic parking process of a vehicle includes a reservation request for a parking position of a parking facility being sent to a parking facility management server via a communication network, navigation data for an autonomous navigation to the reserved parking position corresponding to the reservation request being received by the vehicle via the communication network, and the vehicle autonomously navigating in the parking facility to the reserved parking position based on the navigation data. It is preferably provided that the vehicle autonomously pulls into the parking position, pulls out of this parking position, and travels back to a drop-off position or pick-up position, from which a driver of the vehicle may pick up the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 29, 2015Publication date: November 2, 2017Inventors: Albrecht Irion, Hans-Joerg Mathony, Rolf Nicodemus, Stefan Hoffmann, Stefan Nordbruch