Patents by Inventor Stefan Weber

Stefan Weber 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: 9882260
    Abstract: The invention relates to an improved retainer system for a mobile-telephony antenna and a mobile-telephony component, which is characterized inter alia, by the following features: —said mobile-telephony component (MK) is secured, on the carrier side, by a retainer system which is separate from the retainer device (11, 7) for said mobile-telephony antenna (MA), —the retainer system also comprises at least one carrier-side mobile-telephony component-retainer device (17), —said mobile-telephony component (MK) comprises at least component-side mobile-telephony component-retainer device (25), —an interface and/or separating point (X) or a pivoting and/or displacement plane (E) is formed between said carrier-side mobile-telephony component-retainer device (17) and the respective component-side mobile-telephony component-retainer device (25), and —when the associated fixture means are released, the mounted mobile-telephony component (MK) may be removed, with the component-side mobile-telephony component-retainer dev
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2013
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: Kathrein-Werke KG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Mummert, Stefan Weber, Torsten Wulff, Joachim Grimm
  • Patent number: 9862573
    Abstract: A method for introducing an elevator support into an elevator system includes a support brake device for controlling a drawing-in speed of the elevator support. The elevator support is wound on a support roller at a floor or in a machine room of a building. The elevator support is unwound from the roller and introduced into a shaft of the elevator system. The support brake device is arranged between the support roller and the shaft, and a drawing-in speed of the elevator support is adjusted by the support brake device. The support brake device contains a traction pulley for receiving the elevator support that is rotatably mounted in a support frame so that the elevator support can at least partly loop around the traction pulley. The traction pulley is braked by a pulley brake device, whereby the drawing-in speed can be controlled.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 9, 2018
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Urs Püntener, Marcel Koch, Stefan Weber
  • Patent number: 9827900
    Abstract: A method is provided for operating a headlight having a laser light source in a motor vehicle. The headlight generates a light distribution from the light of the laser light source. The laser light source is activated such that the operating power of the laser light source is switched from a first power value to a deactivated operating state or is lowered to a second power value when the speed of the motor vehicle falls below a first speed threshold. The operating power of the laser light source is increased from the deactivated operating state or from the second power value to the first power value, when the speed of the motor vehicle exceeds a second speed threshold, which is greater than or equal to the first speed threshold.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 15, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2017
    Assignee: Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stefan Weber, Helmut Erdl, Johannes Aulbach
  • Patent number: 9814532
    Abstract: The invention relates to a system for estimating the spatial position (pose) of a tool (2) within an object (1), particularly in the form of a human bone that is to be machined with said tool, comprising: a sensor (21) being designed to be coupled to said tool (2), which sensor (21) is further designed to generate an sensor output signal (31) upon machining of said object (1) along an actual trajectory (30), which sensor output signal (31) depends on a material property of said object along said actual trajectory (30), an analyzing means being designed to determine a correlation between said sensor output signal (31) upon machining said object (1) and a plurality of pre-determined candidate output signals (42), each candidate output signal (42) being generated in beforehand using said material property along an associated model trajectory (40) in a model of said object (1), and wherein said analyzing means is designed to estimate a spatial position of the tool (2) within the object (1) using the model traject
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 21, 2013
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2017
    Assignee: UNIVERSITAT BERN
    Inventors: Brett J. Bell, Stefan Weber, Tom Williamson
  • Patent number: 9727792
    Abstract: A method is provided for tracking-based visibility range estimation for a vehicle, the method including a step of tracking an object detected in a first image at a first point in time and in a second image at a second point in time, a step of ascertaining a first object luminance of the object and a first distance to the object at the first point in time and also ascertaining a second object luminance of the object and a second distance to the object at the second point in time, and also a step of determining an atmospheric extinction coefficient using the first object luminance, the second object luminance, the first distance, and the second distance, the atmospheric extinction coefficient being in direct correlation to visibility range.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 8, 2017
    Assignee: ROBERT BOSCH GMBH
    Inventors: Johannes Martini, Ulrich Stopper, Stephan Lenor, Stefan Weber
  • Publication number: 20170159609
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turbofan aircraft engine that comprises a primary duct including a combustion chamber; a first turbine disposed downstream of the combustion chamber; a compressor disposed upstream of the combustion chamber and coupled to the first turbine; and a second turbine disposed downstream of the first turbine and coupled to a fan for feeding a secondary duct of the turbofan aircraft engine. The bypass ratio of the inlet area of the secondary duct to the inlet area of the primary duct is at least 7 and the second turbine comprises at least two stages. The mean outer radius of the last stage of the second turbine divided by the length of the second turbine is at least 1.4.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Carsten SCHOENHOFF, Rudolf STANKA, Erich STEINHARDT, Claus RIEGLER, Stephen Royston WILLIAMS, Hans-Peter HACKENBERG, Eckart HENRICH, Stefan WEBER, Klaus Peter RUED, Hermann KLINGELS, Patrick WACKERS, Christoph BICHLMAIER, Stefan BUSAM, Matthias KROBOTH, Norbert HUEBNER
  • Publication number: 20170159573
    Abstract: The invention relates to a turbofan aircraft engine that comprises a primary duct including a combustion chamber; a first turbine disposed downstream of the combustion chamber; a compressor disposed upstream of the combustion chamber and coupled to the first turbine; and a second turbine disposed downstream of the first turbine and coupled to a fan for feeding a secondary duct of the turbofan aircraft engine. The bypass ratio of the inlet area of the secondary duct to the inlet area of the primary duct is at least 7 and the second turbine comprises at least two stages. For the first stage the mean radius r of a stator vane expressed in inch divided by the number of stator vanes is at least 0.18.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2016
    Publication date: June 8, 2017
    Inventors: Carsten SCHOENHOFF, Rudolf STANKA, Erich STEINHARDT, Claus RIEGLER, Stephen Royston WILLIAMS, Hans-Peter HACKENBERG, Eckart HENRICH, Stefan WEBER, Klaus Peter RUED, Hermann KLINGELS, Patrick WACKERS, Christoph BICHLMAIER, Stefan BUSAM, Matthias KROBOTH, Norbert HUEBNER
  • Publication number: 20170070731
    Abstract: Camera calibration includes capturing a first image of an object by a first camera, determining spatial parameters between the first camera and the object using the first image, obtaining a first estimate for an optical center, iteratively calculating a best set of optical characteristics and test setup parameters based on the first estimate for the optical center until the difference in a most recent calculated set of optical characteristics and previously calculated set of optical characteristics satisfies a predetermined threshold, and calibrating the first camera based on the best set of optical characteristics. Multi-camera system calibration may include calibrating, based on a detected misalignment of features in multiple images, the multi-camera system using a context of the multi-camera system and one or more prior stored contexts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 3, 2016
    Publication date: March 9, 2017
    Inventors: Benjamin A. Darling, Thomas E. Bishop, Kevin A. Gross, Paul M. Hubel, Todd S. Sachs, Guangzhi Cao, Alexander Lindskog, Stefan Weber, Jianping Zhou
  • Patent number: 9506859
    Abstract: A method is provided for determining a visual range in daytime fog, the method (800) including a step of reading in and a step of ascertaining. In the step of reading in, coordinates of at least one characteristic point of a brightness curve of a camera image of the fog are read in. The brightness curve represents brightness values of image points of the camera image along a reference axis of the camera image. In the step of ascertaining, a meteorological visual range in the camera image is ascertained using the coordinates, a meteorological contrast threshold, and a processing specification, in order to estimate the visual range in fog. The processing specification images location-dependent and/or direction-dependent scattered light through the fog in the camera image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2014
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Ulrich Stopper, Stephan Lenor, Stefan Weber
  • Patent number: 9508132
    Abstract: A method for determining values which are suitable for distortion correction of an image, including the following steps: a step of splitting a vector field, which is suitable for distortion correction of the image, into a sum of vector products, and a step of determining terms of the vector products as suitable values for distortion correction of the image.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 28, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 29, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventor: Stefan Weber
  • Patent number: 9389024
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a heat storage system with a plurality of storage tanks, in which a latent heat storage medium is disposed, and with a conduit system with supply conduits for supplying heat into the storage tanks and with discharge conduits for removing heat from the storage tanks, wherein the conduit system includes one or more valves by means of which at least one supply conduit to at least one of the storage tanks and/or at least one discharge conduit from at least one of the storage tanks can be shut off or be varied in its flow rate, and with a control unit which is connected with the one or more valves and is configured such that it actuates the same.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 9, 2010
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2016
    Assignee: RAWEMA COUNTERTRADE HANDELSGESELLSCHAFT MBH
    Inventors: Andreas Golbs, Stefan Weber
  • Publication number: 20160152442
    Abstract: A movable platform having a fall prevention device is arranged in a shaft of an elevator system and is operated by a corresponding method for securing the movable platform. The movable platform includes a complete machine room used in an expandable elevator for a building under construction. The movable platform can be moved vertically along guide rails. In order to secure the movable platform during movement, the fall prevention device includes at least one arresting device that is arranged on the movable platform and which can be brought into engagement with the guide rail if necessary. A locking element arranged on the movable platform interacts with a safety component arranged along the movement path, and can, if necessary, actuate the arresting device together with an arresting braking system of an elevator car attached to the movable platform, the locking element thus blocking a possible downward motion.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 2, 2014
    Publication date: June 2, 2016
    Inventors: Stefan Weber, Pascal Bläsi
  • Publication number: 20160113632
    Abstract: The invention relates to a Method for 3D ultrasound image acquisition as well as to a system for conducting the method. The proposed method checks whether the current ultrasound image (401, 402) has at least a pixel in the volume of interest (301), wherein in case the current image (401, 402) has no pixel in the volume of interest (301), the current image (401, 402) is discarded, wherein otherwise the current ultrasound image (401, 402) is segmented and compounded into said 3D model (403) to be generated which is displayed in real-time on the display (101) and particularly overlaid on the displayed pre-acquired image (305), wherein particularly in case a new current ultrasound image (401, 402) is compounded into the 3D model (403), the displayed 3D model (403) on the display (101) is updated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 28, 2014
    Publication date: April 28, 2016
    Inventors: Delphine RIBES, Matthias PETERHANS, Stefan WEBER
  • Publication number: 20160101968
    Abstract: A method for introducing an elevator support into an elevator system includes a support brake device for controlling a drawing-in speed of the elevator support. The elevator support is wound on a support roller at a floor or in a machine room of a building. The elevator support is unwound from the roller and introduced into a shaft of the elevator system. The support brake device is arranged between the support roller and the shaft, and a drawing-in speed of the elevator support is adjusted by the support brake device. The support brake device contains a traction pulley for receiving the elevator support that is rotatably mounted in a support frame so that the elevator support can at least partly loop around the traction pulley. The traction pulley is braked by a pulley brake device, whereby the drawing-in speed can be controlled.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 27, 2014
    Publication date: April 14, 2016
    Inventors: Urs Püntener, Marcel Koch, Stefan Weber
  • Publication number: 20160060823
    Abstract: A construction machine according to the disclosure comprises a material hopper for receiving bulk material. The material hopper comprises a first sub-hopper that is pivotable about a first axis and a second sub-hopper that is pivotable about a second axis, wherein the first and second axes extend parallel to each other. The first and second sub-hoppers each comprise a rear wall, and the rear walls are shifted with respect to each other in a direction parallel to the axes, whereby a collision of the rear walls is prevented when pivoting the first and/or the second sub-hopper.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 28, 2015
    Publication date: March 3, 2016
    Inventors: Bernhard ERDTMANN, Stefan WEBER
  • Patent number: D791105
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 4, 2017
    Assignee: KATHREIN-WERKE KG
    Inventors: Stefan Weber, Yannick Juretzki, Josef Fahrenschon
  • Patent number: D798281
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: KATHREIN-WERKE KG
    Inventors: Stefan Weber, Wolfgang Wienzek
  • Patent number: D801316
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 16, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 31, 2017
    Assignee: KATHREIN-WERKE KG
    Inventors: Stefan Weber, Andreas Ploetz
  • Patent number: D807863
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 28, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 16, 2018
    Assignee: KATHREIN-WERKE KG
    Inventors: Andreas Ploetz, Stefan Weber
  • Patent number: D810059
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 1, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2018
    Assignee: KATHREIN-WERKE KG
    Inventors: Stefan Weber, Yannick Juretzki