Patents by Inventor Stefan Mueller

Stefan 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: 11999003
    Abstract: An ultrasonic welding device includes a sonotrode with a sonotrode surface, a lateral slide with a lateral slide surface, a touching element with a touching surface and an insertion chamber for inserting joining parts. The insertion chamber is defined in a first axial direction (y) on a first side by the sonotrode surface and in a second axial direction (x) on a second side by the lateral slide surface and on a third side opposing the second side by the touching surface. Furthermore, the ultrasonic welding device includes a first receiving element with a first stop edge and a second receiving element with a second stop edge. The first receiving element and the second receiving element are arranged to be movable in relation to each other between a starting position and an end position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 4, 2024
    Assignee: SCHUNK SONOSYSTEMS GMBH
    Inventors: Manuel Fey, Stefan Müller, Rainer Wagenbach, Waldemar Werner, Daniel Günther, Dariusz Kosecki, Stephan Becker, Eugen Koch
  • Patent number: 11993067
    Abstract: A warp-knitted textile composite has a spacer fabric that extends in a production direction and a transverse direction and has an outer flat warp-knitted fabric layer of predetermined stretchability, an inner flat warp-knitted fabric layer of lesser stretchability in the production and transverse directions than the outer layer, and spacer threads interconnecting the warp-knitted fabric layers. A decorative cover layer is attached to the outer flat warp-knitted fabric layer and is formed with compressed areas where the spacer fabric is permanently at least partially compressed for structuring the decorative cover layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2024
    Assignee: MUELLER TEXTIL GMBH
    Inventors: Stefan Mueller, Sabine Jenewein
  • Patent number: 11980963
    Abstract: An ultrasonic welding device includes a sonotrode, an anvil, a touching element, a lateral slide, a stop element and a receiving chamber in which joining partners are received and which is defined by bordering components of the ultrasonic welding device. The receiving chamber is defined on a first side by the sonotrode and on a second side by the anvil. The receiving chamber is further defined on a third side by the touching element and on a fourth side by the lateral slide. The receiving chamber is further defined on a fifth side, extending transverse to the first to fourth sides, by the stop element. The first stop element is electrically conductive on its surface directed toward the receiving chamber in order to form a first electrode.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 14, 2024
    Assignee: SCHUNK SONOSYSTEMS GMBH
    Inventors: Frank Gassert, Stefan Müller, Rainer Wagenbach, Waldemar Werner, Daniel Günther, Dariusz Kosecki, Stephan Becker, Eugen Koch
  • Patent number: 11975458
    Abstract: The invention relates to a device for cutting a base web with a separating device as well as a corresponding method, where the separating device can cut a base web into individual bases which can be guided under a fresh product. The separating device comprises a knife device and a counter cutting device, each of which comprise at least two cutting edges. The knife device and/or the counter cutting devices can be moved to and fro in two directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 7, 2024
    Assignee: ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Stefan Mueller, Peter Willburger, Michael Heim, Robin Volz
  • Patent number: 11973652
    Abstract: Disclosed is a field detection device designed to be connected to at least one access point of a fieldbus network via at least one interface. The field detection device is designed to initiate or execute, for each of at least two connection protocols, an associated query in at least one fieldbus segment of the fieldbus network and to detect which field devices and fieldbus components in said at least one fieldbus segment can be accessed via the connection protocol in question. Furthermore, the field detection device is designed to provide a connection directory in which at least one connection protocol is specified for each field device and for each fieldbus component of a set of field devices and fieldbus components of the at least one fieldbus segment, by means of which connection protocol the field device in question or the fieldbus component in question can be accessed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 30, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser Process Solutions AG
    Inventors: Michael Mayer, Werner Luber, Stefan Müller Osolin
  • Publication number: 20240131240
    Abstract: The invention relates to a medical apparatus designed to receive a detachable fluid-conducting first line portion (3). The medical apparatus comprises a second line portion (2) designed to be connected to the first line portion (3), wherein a movable element (38) is situated in the second line portion (2), by means of which movable element the second line portion (2) is separated into a first sub-portion (2a) and a second sub-portion (2b).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Applicant: FRESENIUS MEDICAL CARE DEUTSCHLAND GMBH
    Inventors: Stefan MÜLLER, Martin THYS
  • Patent number: 11964827
    Abstract: A device and a method for providing a product stream with mutually aligned food products on product substrates are described According thereto, a first conveyor belt for the supply transport and mutual transverse alignment of the food products to each other, a second conveyor belt that adjoins in the direction of transport at a gap-shaped belt transition and can be controlled separately for the discharge transport and mutual longitudinal alignment of the food products to each other, and a substrate placement device for supplying the product substrates from below through the belt transition in front of/under the food products that are respectively transported across the belt transition. This enables the alignment and substrate placement in a particularly compact and reliable configuration at a single belt transition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 23, 2024
    Assignee: ALBERT HANDTMANN MASCHINENFABRIK GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Stefan Mueller
  • Publication number: 20240100621
    Abstract: An ultrasonic welding device includes a sonotrode with a sonotrode surface, a lateral slide with a lateral slide surface, a touching element with a touching surface and an insertion chamber for inserting joining parts. The insertion chamber is defined in a first axial direction (y) on a first side by the sonotrode surface and in a second axial direction (x) on a second side by the lateral slide surface and on a third side opposing the second side by the touching surface. Furthermore, the ultrasonic welding device includes a first receiving element with a first stop edge and a second receiving element with a second stop edge. The first receiving element and the second receiving element are arranged to be movable in relation to each other between a starting position and an end position.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: SCHUNK SONOSYSTEMS GMBH
    Inventors: Manuel FEY, Stefan MÜLLER, Rainer WAGENBACH, Waldemar WERNER, Daniel GÜNTHER, Dariusz KOSECKI, Stephan BECKER, Eugen KOCH
  • Publication number: 20240091874
    Abstract: An ultrasonic welding device includes a sonotrode, an anvil, a touching element, a lateral slide, a stop element and a receiving chamber in which joining partners are received and which is defined by bordering components of the ultrasonic welding device. The receiving chamber is defined on a first side by the sonotrode and on a second side by the anvil. The receiving chamber is further defined on a third side by the touching element and on a fourth side by the lateral slide. The receiving chamber is further defined on a fifth side, extending transverse to the first to fourth sides, by the stop element. The first stop element is electrically conductive on its surface directed toward the receiving chamber in order to form a first electrode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Applicant: SCHUNK SONOSYSTEMS GMBH
    Inventors: Frank GASSERT, Stefan MÜLLER, Rainer WAGENBACH, Waldemar WERNER, Daniel GÜNTHER, Dariusz KOSECKI, Stephan BECKER, Eugen KOCH
  • Publication number: 20240034546
    Abstract: A transport fixing device, in particular a domestic appliance transport fixing device, contains at least one transport fixing unit which is at least partially received in a usable space of an appliance. The domestic appliance has at least one fixing region for at least partially fixing at least one installation element for the usable space. In order to provide a generic transport fixing device having improved properties in terms of efficiency, the transport fixing unit contains at least one molded fiber part.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 18, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Nadine Juen, Stefan Müller, Michael Seelmeier
  • Patent number: 11872648
    Abstract: An ultrasonic welding device includes a sonotrode, an anvil, a touching element, a lateral slide, a first stop element, a drive device, and a receiving chamber in which joining partners are to be received. The receiving chamber is defined on a first side by a surface of the sonotrode and on a second side opposing the first side by a surface of the anvil. The receiving chamber is further defined on a third side by a surface of the touching element and on a fourth side opposing the third side by a surface of the lateral slide. The first stop element is displaceable between a pulled-in position and a pulled-out position. The first stop element in the pulled-in position defines the receiving chamber on a fifth side extending transverse to the first to fourth sides and in the pulled-out position leaves the receiving chamber open on the fifth side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2024
    Assignee: SCHUNK SONOSYSTEMS GMBH
    Inventors: Enno Thoms, Stefan Müller, Rainer Wagenbach, Waldemar Werner, Daniel Günther, Dariusz Kosecki, Stephan Becker, Eugen Koch
  • Patent number: 11852777
    Abstract: A device and method for projecting a light pattern is provided. The device includes a processor system and a housing. The housing is rotatable about a first axis. A measurement device is operably coupled to the housing that measures a distance to a surface in an environment. A light projector is operably coupled to the housing, the light projector having a light source and a pair of movable mirrors, the light source positioned to emit light onto the pair of movable mirrors. Wherein the processor system is responsive to computer instructions for: determining 3D coordinates of points on the surface with the 3D measurement device; selecting a pattern; adjusting the pattern based at least in part on the 3D coordinates; and causing the light projector to emit a beam of light and moving the pair of mirrors to generate the adjusted pattern on the surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 10, 2022
    Date of Patent: December 26, 2023
    Assignee: FARO Technologies, Inc.
    Inventors: Jens Trollmann, Stefan Mueller
  • Patent number: 11835332
    Abstract: A device for detecting a steering wheel position, the steering wheel angle and/or the inclination of the steering wheel (304) of a vehicle is disclosed. The device includes at least two cameras (5, 6; 202, 203) by means of which the steering wheel (304) can be sensed (8, 9; 204, 205). At least three reference objects (301, 302, 303) are provided which can be releasably fastened to the steering wheel (304).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2017
    Date of Patent: December 5, 2023
    Assignee: DURR ASSEMBLY PRODUCTS GMBH
    Inventors: Stefan Müller, Rainer Weisgerber, Ismail Kurt, Thomas Tentrup
  • Patent number: 11828010
    Abstract: A knitted spacer fabric has a first warp-knitted layer having wales running in a production direction and rows of stitches extending in a transverse direction, a second warp-knitted layer also having wales running in a production direction and rows of stitches extending in a transverse direction. Spacer yarns connect the knitted layers, and at least one of the knitted layers are composed of nonconductive yarns and conductive yarns. The conductive yarns are incorporated into the one knitted layer in some areas in a functional region extending in a production direction and resting on the respective knitted layer in a connection region that extends over a plurality of rows of stitches as a float stitch.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: MUELLER TEXTIL GMBH
    Inventors: Stefan Mueller, Joachim Weis
  • Publication number: 20230377776
    Abstract: A device for bundling a number of cables includes at least one rotatable feeding wheel which has on the periphery a number of notches for receiving in each case at least one cable, a pressure roller which can be pushed against an abutment in a spring-loaded manner and two spaced-apart roller receptacles each for mounting an adhesive tape roll with an unwindable adhesive tape, wherein the adhesive tapes are guided with their adhesive surfaces facing one another between the abutment and the pressure roller.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 1, 2023
    Publication date: November 23, 2023
    Inventors: Falk LEIMKÜHLER, Matthias NOLDUS, Lars BRAKEMEIER, Stefan MÜLLER, Christian DÜLME, Bruno NEUMANN, Fabrice LOGES, Roman Andre MITTELGÖKER
  • Publication number: 20230367299
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for monitoring a first processor using a second processor in a field device, comprising the following method steps: calculating verification data on the basis of specified input data using a test algorithm on an external computing unit storing the input data and the verification data computed by the test algorithm; transferring the specified input data stored in the sensor module and the verification data; transferring the specified input data; executing the test algorithm on the first processor; making the calculated output data available on the second processor; checking the output data with the verification data using the second processor and, if the output data do not correspond to the verification data, establishing a malfunction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Lars Karweck, Thomas Zieringer, Stefan Müller, Eric Schmitt
  • Publication number: 20230370975
    Abstract: An apparatus includes at least one processor; and at least one memory including computer program code; the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: control receiving, by a user device from a network node, an uplink grant for an uplink transmission, and information indicative of at least one of an In-Band Emission requirement or an Error Vector Magnitude requirement for the uplink transmission; determine, by the user device, a maximum power reduction value for the uplink transmission based at least on the information indicative of at least one of an In-Band Emission requirement or an Error Vector Magnitude requirement; and control transmitting, by the user device for the uplink transmission, a signal at an output power based at least on the maximum power reduction value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 26, 2021
    Publication date: November 16, 2023
    Inventors: Stefan MUELLER, WEIS Joachim
  • Publication number: 20230298150
    Abstract: An inspection arrangement (8) for an interior (4) with objects (6) of a passenger vehicle (2) contains an image recording unit (10a-c) for an image (18) of the interior (4) of the vehicle (2) with the object (6), a classification database (20) with classification values (22) for the objects (6) and assignment rules (24) for assigning the classification values (22) to specific image contents (26) depicting the objects (6), an image analysis unit (28) which is connected to the database (20) in order to automatically analyse the image contents (26) and to assign classification values (22) according to the assignment rules (24), and interfaces (30a,b) for the input and/or output of classification values (22) and/or images (18) from and/or to a downstream entity (34).
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2023
    Publication date: September 21, 2023
    Applicant: Diehl Aerospace GmbH
    Inventors: Lothar TRUNK, Stefan MUELLER-DIVEKY, Tobias GUT
  • Publication number: 20230289752
    Abstract: A system and method for handling crypto-asset transactions includes: receiving from a payment processing system an electronic transaction request including: a payment token corresponding to a payment identifier associated with the customer account, and a transaction amount in a fiat currency; determining current price data corresponding to a first crypto-asset and a second crypto-asset associated with the customer account; associating the electronic transaction request with at least one data processing task for executing at least one crypto-asset transaction; and when at least one crypto-asset confidence condition is satisfied based on the current price data of at least one of the first crypto-asset or the second crypto-asset, generating signals for providing, via the payment processing system, an indication that the electronic transaction request is authorized without waiting for confirmation of execution of the at least one crypto-asset transaction in the respective distributed ledger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2023
    Publication date: September 14, 2023
    Inventors: Karim Talal HAMASNI, Stefan MUELLER, Atilla Murat FIRAT
  • Patent number: 11744672
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a dental drill (10) formed of titanium or a titanium alloy having a hardness greater than pure titanium, said drill extending along a central axis (A) from a proximal end (14) to a distal end (16). The drill comprises a shank (12) arranged in a proximal end region of the drill (10) and extending along the central axis (A), a flute portion (20) arranged distally to and running coaxially with the shank (12), said flute portion (20) comprising two or more flutes (22a, 22b, 22c) extending along the flute portion (20) and being interposed by lands (24a, 24b, 24c), the flute portion further comprising a central solid web and a drill tip (26) directly adjoining the distal end (28) of the flute portion (20) and comprising two or more flanks (25a, 25b, 25c) which taper radially inwardly from the distal end of each land in the distal direction toward the central axis (A), each flank (25a, 25b, 25c) comprising a cutting edge (30a, 30b, 30c).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 5, 2023
    Assignee: STRAUMANN HOLDING AG
    Inventors: Stéphane Courvoisier, Eric Jeanbourqin, Jean-Pierre Pauchard, Stefan Müller, Frederik Panse, Steffen Kühne