Patents by Inventor Stefan Sauer
Stefan Sauer 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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Patent number: 12212827Abstract: A vehicular camera assembly includes an imager and a camera housing formed by a rear housing portion joined with a front housing portion. A first printed circuit board is disposed at the front housing portion, with a first electrical connector disposed at a rear side of the first printed circuit board. A second printed circuit board has a second electrical connector disposed at a front side of the second printed circuit board. Board-to-board electrical connection of the second printed circuit board to the first printed circuit board is made via electrical connection of the first electrical connector and the second electrical connector. A connector portion of the rear housing portion is configured for connecting to a vehicle wiring connector. The connector portion of the rear housing portion includes a multi-pin connector having a plurality of solid terminal pins.Type: GrantFiled: March 11, 2024Date of Patent: January 28, 2025Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Stefan Sauer, Marc Sigle
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Publication number: 20240326228Abstract: A processing device (10), in particular a gardening and/or household implement, comprising a handling device (20) with a gripping portion (30) and a connecting portion (40), and further comprising an electrical power supply (45) and a tool (50) which can be detachably connected to the handling device (20) by means of the connecting portion (40), wherein the tool (50) is an electrical or non-electrical tool and the connecting portion (40) has means by which both the electrical and alternatively the non-electrical tool (50) can be connected to the handling device (20), and to a handling device (20) and a connecting portion (40) for such an implement and use thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2024Publication date: October 3, 2024Inventors: Stefan SAUER, Kai Uwe FINK, Patrick Christian SCHMIDT, Markus ANDORF, Ingo KUBIK
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Publication number: 20240316747Abstract: A handling device (20), in particular for a processing device, such as a gardening and/or household implement, comprising a gripping portion (30) and an electrical power supply (45) in the form of at least one rechargeable battery, wherein the handling device (20) also has contact means (80), which serve alternately, on the one hand, for the electrical and non-electrical connection of a tool (50) to the handling device (20) and, on the other hand, for charging the electrical power supply, in particular by means of a charger (100), and also to a processing device (10), in particular a gardening and/or household device, equipped with such a handling device (20).Type: ApplicationFiled: June 7, 2024Publication date: September 26, 2024Inventors: Stefan SAUER, Kai Uwe FINK, Patrick Christian SCHMIDT, Markus ANDORF, Ingo KUBIK
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Publication number: 20240214653Abstract: A vehicular camera assembly includes an imager and a camera housing formed by a rear housing portion joined with a front housing portion. A first printed circuit board is disposed at the front housing portion, with a first electrical connector disposed at a rear side of the first printed circuit board. A second printed circuit board has a second electrical connector disposed at a front side of the second printed circuit board. Board-to-board electrical connection of the second printed circuit board to the first printed circuit board is made via electrical connection of the first electrical connector and the second electrical connector. A connector portion of the rear housing portion is configured for connecting to a vehicle wiring connector. The connector portion of the rear housing portion includes a multi-pin connector having a plurality of solid terminal pins.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 11, 2024Publication date: June 27, 2024Inventors: Stefan Sauer, Marc Sigle
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Publication number: 20240192942Abstract: Methods, systems, and media for a computing device comprising; receiving a plurality of container snapshots for operating an edge device, wherein the container snapshots include an operating system (OS) snapshot and a plurality of application snapshots; writing the OS snapshot into a read-only partition; writing the plurality of application snapshots into a writable partition as a plurality of overlay mounted container snapshot layers; obtaining metadata for each of the plurality of application snapshots; generating a merged collection of metadata using the metadata for each of the plurality of snapshots; executing the OS snapshot including a container runtime tool; and executing, using the container runtime tool, one or more containers using the plurality of overlay mounted container snapshot layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 7, 2022Publication date: June 13, 2024Inventors: Stefan Sauer, Fanmin Shi, Rodrigo James Everett Queiro
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Publication number: 20240169196Abstract: Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for generating synthetic data to be used in training machine learning models in an auto-scalable manner. In one aspect, an auto-scalable synthetic data generation system maintains a plurality of synthetic data generator replicas that are each configured to generate synthetic training examples; maintains a plurality of machine learning training workers that are each configured to obtain synthetic training examples and to use the synthetic training examples to concurrently perform operations required to update the machine learning model; determines, by an autoscaler of the synthetic data generation system, that a number of synthetic data generator replicas is insufficient to service a current demand level of the plurality of machine learning training workers; and in response, deploys, by the autoscaler, one or more additional synthetic data generator replicas in the synthetic data generation system.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 23, 2022Publication date: May 23, 2024Inventors: Olivier Pauly, Stefan Hinterstoisser, Martina Marek, Martin Bokeloh, Hauke Heibel, Stefan Sauer
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Patent number: 11930257Abstract: A vehicular camera assembly includes a camera housing having a front housing portion and a rear housing portion that joins the front housing portion. A first printed circuit board (PCB) is disposed at the front housing portion, with an imager disposed at a front side of the first PCB and a first electrical connector disposed at a rear side of the first PCB. A second PCB has a second electrical connector disposed at a front side of the second PCB. Board-to-board electrical connection of circuitry of the second printed circuit board to circuitry of the first printed circuit board is made via electrical connection of the first and second electrical connectors. The connector portion of the rear housing portion includes a multi-pin connector comprising a plurality of solid terminal pins. A connector portion of the rear housing portion is configured for connecting to a vehicle wiring connector.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2023Date of Patent: March 12, 2024Assignee: Magna Electronics Inc.Inventors: Stefan Sauer, Marc Sigle
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Patent number: 11801795Abstract: A vehicular camera includes a camera housing, a lens assembly having a lens, an imager printed circuit board (imager PCB), and a heating device. The imager PCB is disposed at the camera housing and the lens is aligned with an imager disposed at the imager PCB. The heating device is disposed at at least a portion of the lens assembly and includes an electrically connecting portion having electrical contacts at an end thereof, with the electrical contacts disposed at an inner surface of the camera housing. The heating device is electrically connected to circuitry of the vehicular camera via electrical connectors that electrically connect with the electrical contacts of the electrically connecting portion of the heating device at the camera housing as the vehicular camera is assembled.Type: GrantFiled: September 16, 2021Date of Patent: October 31, 2023Assignee: Magna Electronics Inc.Inventors: Stefan Sauer, Rene Dreiocker, Steven V. Byrne, Jonathan D. Conger
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Patent number: 11781462Abstract: A mixer for mixing an exhaust gas flow with a fluid injected into an exhaust gas line comprises means for generating a swirl effecting a rotating flow and means for a radial displacement in the exhaust gas flow admixed with the fluid and flowing axially through the mixer. In this respect, the swirl generation means and the radial displacement means are arranged and designed such that, viewed over the cross-section of the mixer perpendicular to the axial exhaust gas flow, at least two separate swirl regions result which are built up via tangentially acting vane-like swirl elements and at least one respective radial displacement region results which is arranged between two separate swirl regions.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: Friedrich Boysen GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Stefan Sauer, Bernd Burkhardt, Andreas Haas
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Publication number: 20230265774Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for mixing an additive with a gas flow, in particular for an exhaust gas system of a vehicle having an internal combustion engine, that comprises a mixing chamber which can be flowed through by at least a portion of the gas flow, said mixing chamber having at least one inlet opening through which a main inlet flow of the gas flow flows into the mixing chamber on operation of the apparatus, having at least one metering opening and having at least one outlet opening. The apparatus further comprises a metering device by means of which an additive flow of the additive can be introduced into the mixing chamber through the metering opening, wherein the inlet opening and the metering opening are arranged and formed such that the main inlet flow and the additive flow in substantially opposite directions into the mixing chamber so that the main inlet flow and the additive flow impact one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 22, 2023Publication date: August 24, 2023Inventors: Stefan SAUER, Igor ROGOWSKI, Robert ANSELM, Marco FRIESE
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Publication number: 20230239554Abstract: A vehicular camera assembly includes a camera housing having a front housing portion and a rear housing portion that joins the front housing portion. A first printed circuit board (PCB) is disposed at the front housing portion, with an imager disposed at a front side of the first PCB and a first electrical connector disposed at a rear side of the first PCB. A second PCB has a second electrical connector disposed at a front side of the second PCB. Board-to-board electrical connection of circuitry of the second printed circuit board to circuitry of the first printed circuit board is made via electrical connection of the first and second electrical connectors. The connector portion of the rear housing portion includes a multi-pin connector comprising a plurality of solid terminal pins. A connector portion of the rear housing portion is configured for connecting to a vehicle wiring connector.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2023Publication date: July 27, 2023Inventors: Stefan Sauer, Marc Sigle
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Patent number: 11700444Abstract: A vehicular camera assembly includes a camera housing and first and second PCBs disposed in the camera housing. Circuitry of the first PCB is in board-to-board electrically-conductive connection with circuitry of the second PCB. The circuitry of the first PCB includes an imager and the second PCB includes a circuit board connector. An electrical connector is disposed at a second portion of the camera housing. A first end of the electrical connector electrically-conductively connects with the circuit board connector when the second portion of the camera housing is being joined with a first portion of the camera housing. Individual pin-receiving sockets of the circuit board connector are configured to accommodate tolerances when respective individual pins of the first end of the electrical connector are being inserted into the respective individual pin-receiving sockets when the second portion is being joined with the first portion of the camera housing.Type: GrantFiled: April 18, 2022Date of Patent: July 11, 2023Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Stefan Sauer, Jens Steigerwald, Nazar F. Bally, Marc Sigle, Achim Newiger
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Patent number: 11661324Abstract: A materials handling vehicle comprises an operator compartment, a compartment tower, a multi-field scanning tool, and mechanisms that facilitate movement along a travel plane in a warehouse. The tool establishes a scan field, and, within scan field bounds, an occupancy detection field and an obstacle detection field. Tool scanning hardware is configured to generate the scan field from a point of origin that is elevated relative to the operator compartment and to expand the scan field such that it intersects the operator compartment and extends laterally beyond lateral edges of the operator compartment such that the occupancy detection field falls within the operator compartment, the obstacle detection field falls outside of the operator compartment, and the multi-field scanning tool is configured to indicate the presence of an occupant in the occupancy detection field and obstacles in the obstacle detection field.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2022Date of Patent: May 30, 2023Assignee: Crown Equipment CorporationInventors: Franz Pöschl, Timothy A. Wellman, Stefan Hanneman, Martin Okroy, Stefan Sauer, Jess Donnely
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Patent number: 11622165Abstract: A vehicular camera assembly includes a camera housing having a front housing portion and a rear housing portion. The front housing portion accommodates a lens. A first printed circuit board (PCB) is disposed at the front housing portion, with an imager disposed at a front side of the first PCB and a first electrical connector disposed at a rear side of the first PCB. A second PCB has a second electrical connector disposed at a front side. Circuitry of the second PCB is electrically connected to circuitry of the first PCB via electrical connection of the first and second electrical connectors. A plurality of terminal pins has a first end interior the camera housing and a second end at a connector portion of the rear housing portion. The connector portion is configured for connecting to a vehicle wiring connector when the vehicular camera assembly is installed at a vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2021Date of Patent: April 4, 2023Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Stefan Sauer, Marc Sigle
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Patent number: 11606485Abstract: A vehicular camera includes a camera housing having front and rear camera housing portions. An imager is disposed at a printed circuit board. A lens assembly is disposed at the front camera housing portion and accommodates at least one lens. The front camera housing portion is formed of a material having a first Coefficient of Thermal Expansion (CTE). At least two attachment elements are disposed at the front camera housing portion and are formed of a material having a second CTE that is less than the first CTE of the front camera housing portion and that is less than 10 ppm/° C. The printed circuit board is mounted at the attachment elements via fasteners threadedly engaging respective ones of the at least two attachment elements. The front camera housing portion and the attachment elements cooperate to decrease temperature-induced movement of the printed circuit board relative to the at least one lens.Type: GrantFiled: January 31, 2022Date of Patent: March 14, 2023Assignee: MAGNA ELECTRONICS INC.Inventors: Steven V. Byrne, Rene Dreiocker, Stefan Sauer, Yuesheng Lu
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Patent number: 11593825Abstract: The invention describes a distributed merchandise management system, in which the client, retailer and the manufacturer are linked by a network. This is implemented by a cloud storage (105), the cloud storage (105) comprising a means (105a) for storing data, a means for receiving first data from a first network node (110), the first data being associated with a physical object, a means for receiving request data from a second network node (120), a means for receiving second data from a third network node (130), the second data being associated with the first data and comprising at least one data piece adapted to change the first data depending on the received request data, a means for changing the first data based at least in part on the second data and the request data, and a means for sending a changed portion of the first data from the cloud storage (105) to the first network node (110).Type: GrantFiled: April 12, 2019Date of Patent: February 28, 2023Assignee: RATOJA GMBHInventors: Thomas Gollner, Jan-Hendrik Schwarz, Sebastian Gottschalk, Stefan Sauer
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Patent number: 11447377Abstract: A materials handling vehicle comprises an operator compartment, a compartment tower, a multi-field scanning tool, and mechanisms that facilitate movement along a travel plane in a warehouse. The tool establishes a scan field, and, within scan field bounds, an occupancy detection field and an obstacle detection field. Tool scanning hardware is configured to generate the scan field from a point of origin that is elevated relative to the operator compartment and to expand the scan field such that it intersects the operator compartment and extends laterally beyond lateral edges of the operator compartment such that the occupancy detection field falls within the operator compartment, the obstacle detection field falls outside of the operator compartment, and the multi-field scanning tool is configured to indicate the presence of an occupant in the occupancy detection field and obstacles in the obstacle detection field.Type: GrantFiled: September 8, 2020Date of Patent: September 20, 2022Assignee: Crown Equipment CorporationInventors: Franz Pöschl, Timothy A. Wellman, Stefan Hanneman, Martin Okroy, Stefan Sauer, Jess Donnely
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Publication number: 20220289539Abstract: A materials handling vehicle comprises an operator compartment, a compartment tower, a multi-field scanning tool, and mechanisms that facilitate movement along a travel plane in a warehouse. The tool establishes a scan field, and, within scan field bounds, an occupancy detection field and an obstacle detection field. Tool scanning hardware is configured to generate the scan field from a point of origin that is elevated relative to the operator compartment and to expand the scan field such that it intersects the operator compartment and extends laterally beyond lateral edges of the operator compartment such that the occupancy detection field falls within the operator compartment, the obstacle detection field falls outside of the operator compartment, and the multi-field scanning tool is configured to indicate the presence of an occupant in the occupancy detection field and obstacles in the obstacle detection field.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2022Publication date: September 15, 2022Applicant: Crown Equipment CorporationInventors: Franz Pöschl, Timothy A. Wellman, Stefan Hanneman, Martin Okroy, Stefan Sauer, Jess Donnely
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Publication number: 20220239815Abstract: A vehicular camera assembly includes a camera housing and first and second PCBs disposed in the camera housing. Circuitry of the first PCB is in board-to-board electrically-conductive connection with circuitry of the second PCB. The circuitry of the first PCB includes an imager and the second PCB includes a circuit board connector. An electrical connector is disposed at a second portion of the camera housing. A first end of the electrical connector electrically-conductively connects with the circuit board connector when the second portion of the camera housing is being joined with a first portion of the camera housing. Individual pin-receiving sockets of the circuit board connector are configured to accommodate tolerances when respective individual pins of the first end of the electrical connector are being inserted into the respective individual pin-receiving sockets when the second portion is being joined with the first portion of the camera housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 18, 2022Publication date: July 28, 2022Inventors: Stefan Sauer, Jens Steigerwald, Nazar F. Bally, Marc Sigle, Achim Newiger
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Publication number: 20220159161Abstract: A vehicular camera includes a camera housing having front and rear camera housing portions. An imager is disposed at a printed circuit board. A lens assembly is disposed at the front camera housing portion and accommodates at least one lens. The front camera housing portion is formed of a material having a first Coefficient of Thermal Expansion (CTE). At least two attachment elements are disposed at the front camera housing portion and are formed of a material having a second CTE that is less than the first CTE of the front camera housing portion and that is less than 10 ppm/° C. The printed circuit board is mounted at the attachment elements via fasteners threadedly engaging respective ones of the at least two attachment elements. The front camera housing portion and the attachment elements cooperate to decrease temperature-induced movement of the printed circuit board relative to the at least one lens.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 31, 2022Publication date: May 19, 2022Inventors: Steven V. Byrne, Rene Dreiocker, Stefan Sauer, Yuesheng Lu