Patents by Inventor Stefan Schmidt

Stefan Schmidt 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: 10156038
    Abstract: A household appliance includes a cabinet-shaped housing comprised of a plurality of walls. At least one of the walls has an arrangement of embossings. The arrangement of embossings includes a first embossing arranged centered in relation to a center of the at least one wall and configured in the shape of a ring when viewed from above. A second embossing is arranged outside the first embossing in substantial concentric relationship to the first embossing and configured in the shape of a ring when viewed from above. At least one third embossing is arranged outside the second embossing and has a strip-shaped configuration. The presence of embossings in the at least one wall is able to reduce vibrations and thereby significantly reduce the amount of unwanted noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 7, 2009
    Date of Patent: December 18, 2018
    Assignee: BSH Hausgeräte GmbH
    Inventors: Andreas Bohm, Klaus Försterling, Kemal Genc, Johannes Geyer, Stefan Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20180328415
    Abstract: A disk (1) for a friction-locking shift element includes an annular frictional surface with a circumferential first groove (31), a plurality of second grooves (32), and a plurality of third grooves (33). At least a section of each of the second grooves (32) at a respective radially internal deflection point (41) is oriented to form an angle (46a) with a line (45) between a center of rotation (44) of the disk (1) and the respective radially internal deflection point (41). The angle (46a) is no less than thirty-five degrees and no greater than seventy-five degrees.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 22, 2016
    Publication date: November 15, 2018
    Inventors: Derk Langenkaemper, Steffen Gerteiser, Stefan Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20180321832
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an operating module for dynamically creating the user interface on the operating module for controlling and operating a machine of the food industry, in particular the beverage industry. The operating module comprises a plurality of operating elements having attributes, which can assume the value of a parameter and can be activated or deactivated depending on the user. By means of an operating module context, operating elements having certain attributes and values can be selected in order to be displayed on the operating module. The invention further relates to a method for dynamically creating and displaying an operating interface for operating a machine of the food industry.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 6, 2016
    Publication date: November 8, 2018
    Inventors: Theodor BIELMEIER, Sebastian VOGL, Raymon SEIDL, Timo PRONOLD, Thomas STAUBER, Johannes BOEHM, Stefan SCHMIDT, Pino-Giuseppe PALUMBO
  • Patent number: 10103826
    Abstract: A testing device (3), especially a fading simulator incorporating antenna and circuit parameters, for testing a device under test (6), comprises a signal generating unit (4) and a fading simulation unit (5). The signal generating unit (4) generates a first number of signals according to a number of transmitting means (1) for a simulated transmission to the device under test (6). The fading simulation unit (5) outputs a second number of faded signals, which corresponds to a number of receiving means (2) of the device under test (6), to the device under test (6). It simulates the transmission channels between said transmitting means (1) and said receiving means (2) with the aid of an extended channel correlation matrix comprising a channel correlation matrix based on receive antenna characteristics of the device under test (6).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 16, 2018
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Stefan Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20180180145
    Abstract: A spindle drive (1) having a spindle (2) with a spindle thread (2a), and spindle nut (3) with a nut thread (3a). The spindle thread (2a) and the nut thread (3a) form a movement thread (4) having a crown clearance (5), a root clearance (6) and a flank clearance. The spindle (2) and the spindle nut (3) can be centered by virtue of a reduced crown clearance (5) and/or a reduced root clearance (6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 30, 2016
    Publication date: June 28, 2018
    Inventors: Henning SCHWENKE, Stefan SCHMIDT, Frank BRINKMANN
  • Publication number: 20180084825
    Abstract: A closing system, of a hookah (01), has a first closing element (13), which can be attached to a water base (02) of the hookah (01), and a second closing element (16), which includes at least one connecting opening for at least one hookah hose (12) and at least one continuous opening (22) for a connection permeable to air between the water base (02) and a hookah stem (07), arranged directly or indirectly at a second closing element (16). The second closing element (16) has an essentially cylindrical portion (18), which can be inserted into a recess in the first closing element (13) and is complementary in shape and function to the cylindrical portion (18). The cylindrical portion (18) includes an indentation (31) in an area of an outer wall, a displaceable locking element (35) provided in an inner wall of the recess being detachably engageable in the indentation (31).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2016
    Publication date: March 29, 2018
    Inventors: Alexander SCHMIDT, Stefan SCHMIDT
  • Patent number: 9917665
    Abstract: A testing device is provided. The testing device comprises a signal generating unit configured to generate a first number of signals based on a number of receiving components of a device under test, and at least one noise generating unit, each configured to generate noise and to apply the noise to the first number of signals, such that one of a preset total noise power and a preset signal-to-noise ratio is achieved at a reference point associated with the device under test. The testing device is configured to output a second number of signals to the device under test, wherein the second number of signals corresponds to one of the first number of signals and the first number of signals with the applied noise.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Stefan Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20180054266
    Abstract: A testing device is provided. The testing device comprises a signal generating unit configured to generate a first number of signals based on a number of receiving components of a device under test, and at least one noise generating unit, each configured to generate noise and to apply the noise to the first number of signals, such that one of a preset total noise power and a preset signal-to-noise ratio is achieved at a reference point associated with the device under test. The testing device is configured to output a second number of signals to the device under test, wherein the second number of signals corresponds to one of the first number of signals and the first number of signals with the applied noise.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Publication date: February 22, 2018
    Inventor: Stefan SCHMIDT
  • Publication number: 20180035464
    Abstract: A determination device serves for determining an active channel of a plurality of channels in a wireless signal, wherein adjacent channels overlap each other by a predetermined frequency threshold. The determination device comprises a receiver for receiving the wireless signal and providing a respective digitized signal, a first filter for applying a mean filter to the digitized signal, and a detector for detecting the active channel in the first filtered signal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 23, 2016
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Christian Mensing, Stefan Schmidt
  • Patent number: 9877326
    Abstract: A measuring device serves to determine an active channel from a plurality of channels of known frequencies. In this context, it comprises a processor (11) which, in turn, comprises a transform unit (20). This transform unit (20) is embodied to transform the signal which contains the active channel or a signal (30) derived from this signal into a signal in the frequency domain (31). The processor (11) further contains a detection unit (28), which is embodied to detect the active channel in the signal in the frequency domain (31).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: ROHDE & SCHWARZ GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Stefan Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20180006741
    Abstract: A testing device (3), especially a fading simulator incorporating antenna and circuit parameters, for testing a device under test (6), comprises a signal generating unit (4) and a fading simulation unit (5). The signal generating unit (4) generates a first number of signals according to a number of transmitting means (1) for a simulated transmission to the device under test (6). The fading simulation unit (5) outputs a second number of faded signals, which corresponds to a number of receiving means (2) of the device under test (6), to the device under test (6). It simulates the transmission channels between said transmitting means (1) and said receiving means (2) with the aid of an extended channel correlation matrix comprising a channel correlation matrix based on receive antenna characteristics of the device under test (6).
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 30, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventor: Stefan SCHMIDT
  • Publication number: 20170370322
    Abstract: An internal combustion engine with at least one cylinder having a cylinder barrel that forms a guide for a piston associated with the cylinder. The cylinder barrel is only partially formed by a cylinder wall of a crankcase or of a cylinder liner fastened to the crankcase. The cylinder barrel, in a central region as seen in the cylinder axial direction, is formed by the cylinder wall. The cylinder wall, in an upper region of the cylinder barrel adjoining the central region and/or in a lower region adjoining the central region, has an encompassing recess into which is inserted a one-piece or multi-piece annular sliding element, the radially inner wall of which forms a part of the cylinder barrel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 21, 2017
    Publication date: December 28, 2017
    Inventors: Peter SCHARF, Stefan SCHMIDT
  • Patent number: 9843864
    Abstract: A method and a device for operating an arrangement of sound transducers according to the wave-field synthesis principle. In order to supply an extended audience region with the same signal, the same signal content is generated by at least two virtual sound sources, which are arranged such that the wavefronts thereof are directed only onto a part audience area, rather than generating only a single beam extending over the entire audience area. The wavefronts of the distributed virtual sound sources add up vectorially in the plane of the arrangement of sound transducers, whereby the effectiveness of the sound generation is increased.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: Advanced Acoustic SF GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Oellers, Frank Stefan Schmidt
  • Patent number: 9819330
    Abstract: A digital filter for filtering an input signal to form an output signal containing a coefficient multiplier and a moving-average filter. The coefficient multiplier is embodied to multiply values of the input signal by coefficients of the filter to form an intermediate signal. The moving-average filter is embodied to generate the output signal as a moving average of the intermediate signal.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: Rohde & Schwarz GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Stefan Schmidt
  • Patent number: 9719587
    Abstract: A hydraulic axle includes a reversible hydraulic pump. The hydraulic axle has a multi-surface cylinder with two retraction surfaces and two deployment surfaces. A first deployment surface and a first retraction surface are configured to interconnect with each other and separate from other surface during a rapid-traverse stroke. A pressure medium is configured to act on the second deployment surface to enable deployment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 1, 2017
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Schmidt, Gottfried Hendrix
  • Patent number: 9716961
    Abstract: One example provides a decentrally structured apparatus including sound transducers and operating according to wave field synthesis principles. The decentrally structured apparatus includes a plurality of assembly units, each including several sound transducers, wherein the decentrally structured apparatus is configured to use a model-based approach to carry out a synthesis of wave fronts within each assembly unit for sound transducers of the respective assembly unit using audio signals and associated data for their form, and to actuate the sound transducers of the respective assembly unit with actuation signals corresponding to the synthesis.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 12, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 25, 2017
    Assignee: Advanced Acoustic SF GmbH
    Inventors: Helmut Oellers, Frank Stefan Schmidt
  • Patent number: 9668122
    Abstract: The invention relates to a node for managing network connectivity of a device comprising an embedded Universal Integrated Circuit Card (eUICC). The node is configured to provision the eUICC for network connectivity of the device. The method comprises acquiring an identity of at least one Subscription Manager-Data Preparation (SM-DP) entity, acquiring an identity of at least one Subscription Manager-Secure Router (SM-SR) entity, creating an association between the identity of the at least one SM-DP entity, the identity of the at least one SM-SR entity and an identity of the eUICC, and storing the created association, wherein the stored association subsequently can be changed for the eUICC by changing at least one of the identity of the at least one SM-DP entity and the identity of the at least one SM-SR entity with which the eUICC is to be associated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: TELEFONAKTIEBOLAGET L M ERICSSON (PUBL)
    Inventors: Justus Petersson, Niclas Anglert, Stefan Schmidt, Qiang Li
  • Patent number: 9667356
    Abstract: The invention relates to a signal generating device for generating a signal including simulated channel fading characteristics. The signal generating device includes a fading simulating unit, a signal generating unit and a modulating unit. The signal generating unit generates a first number of symbols according to a number of transmitting means for a simulated transmission to a device under test. The fading simulating unit calculates from the first number of symbols a second number of faded symbols, wherein a number of signals to be output corresponds to a number of receiving means of the device under test, based on a set of filter parameters, and provides the calculated second number of faded symbols to the modulating means; and the modulating unit generates modulated signals to be output from the second number of faded symbols.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2017
    Assignee: ROHDE & SCHWARZ GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Stefan Schmidt
  • Patent number: 9627778
    Abstract: An air-to-ground network communication device may include a conductive groundplane and an antenna element. The conductive groundplane may be disposed to be substantially parallel to a surface of the earth. The antenna element may extend substantially perpendicularly away from the groundplane and may have an effective length between about 1?, to about 1.5?. The antenna element may be disposed at a distance of about 0.5? to about 1? from the groundplane.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 8, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 18, 2017
    Assignee: SMARTSKY NETWORKS LLC
    Inventors: Stefan Schmidt, Gerard James Hayes
  • Publication number: 20160378600
    Abstract: A RAID (redundant array of independent storage devices) storage system where a file is stored at a physical protection level corresponding to a RAID protection level defined by metadata included in and/or with the file to be stored.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 25, 2015
    Publication date: December 29, 2016
    Inventors: Michael Diederich, Thorsten Muehge, Erik Rueger, Stefan Schmidt, Rainer Wolafka