Patents by Inventor Thomas Grimm
Thomas Grimm 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: 12117562Abstract: The invention relates to a sensor system (200, 300, 400) for a motor vehicle, comprising a sensor housing and an active or passive sensor (102) arranged therein and held on a movable sensor holder (201, 401), having a sensor technology based on radiation detection and a measurement apparatus assigned to the sensor (102) and a control apparatus, coupled to said measurement apparatus, for the sensor holder (201, 401), wherein the sensor housing has a cover (106, 301) that is signal-transmissive for the sensor (102) on its side located in the detection direction of the sensor (102), and wherein the detection range (108, 109) of the sensor (102) in the region of the signal-transmissive cover (106, 301) has a lower extent than the signal-transmissive cover (106, 301), wherein the sensor system (200, 300, 400) is characterized in that the measurement apparatus is designed such that it is suitable for checking, in the detection range of the sensor (102), whether and in which section the signal-transmissive cover (10Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2019Date of Patent: October 15, 2024Assignee: Covestro Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Rainer Hagen, Thomas Grimm, Ulrich Grosser, Alexander Meyer, Andreas Klein, Dirk Hinzmann, Peter Capellen, Rafael Oser
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Patent number: 12019162Abstract: The invention relates to a sensor system (200, 300) for a vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle, comprising a sensor housing and an active or passive sensor (102) arranged therein, having a sensor technology based on radiation detection and a measurement apparatus assigned to the sensor (102), wherein the sensor housing has a cover (106) that is signal-transmissive for the sensor (102) on its side located in the detection direction of the sensor (102), and wherein the detection range of the sensor (102) in the region of the signal-transmissive cover (106) has a lower extent than the signal-transmissive cover (106), wherein the sensor system (200, 300) is characterized in that the sensor (102) is assigned a movable deflection apparatus (201), coupled to a control apparatus, for deflecting the radiation of the sensor (102), wherein the measurement apparatus is designed such that it is suitable for checking, in the detection range of the sensor (102), whether and in which section the signal-transmissive cover (Type: GrantFiled: October 4, 2019Date of Patent: June 25, 2024Assignee: Covestro Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Rainer Hagen, Thomas Grimm, Ulrich Grosser, Alexander Meyer, Andreas Klein, Dirk Hinzmann, Peter Capellen, Rafael Oser
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Publication number: 20240198259Abstract: A filter system includes a duplex filter system that includes a first housing and a second housing configured to filter a liquid, a heating housing arranged adjacent the duplex filter system; a lifting system arranged to move filter canisters from the heating housing to one of the first or second housing.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 15, 2023Publication date: June 20, 2024Inventors: Thomas Grimm-Bosbach, Marco Vent
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Patent number: 11993061Abstract: Multilayer composite material comprising specific polycarbonate compositions as matrix material The present invention relates to a composite material comprising one or more fibre layers composed of a fibre material and an aromatic polycarbonate-based matrix material. The fibre layer(s) is/are embedded in the matrix material. The present invention further relates to a process for producing these fibre composite materials, to multilayer composite materials comprising several layers of fibre composite material, and to the use of the composite materials for production of components or housing components or housings, and to the components, housing components or housings themselves.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2021Date of Patent: May 28, 2024Assignee: Covestro Deutschland AGInventors: Rolf Wehrmann, Anke Boumans, Helmut Werner Heuer, Thomas Grimm, Matthias Knaupp, John Bauer
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Patent number: 11946613Abstract: The invention relates to a multi-layered body comprising a transparent thermoplastic layer, a diffuser layer and a metal layer which, despite a decorative, structured visible surface, can transport information from a projection unit behind it with excellent sharpness and brightness. Corresponding elements can be used, for example, in Car-to-X communication.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2020Date of Patent: April 2, 2024Assignee: Covestro Intellectual Property GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Thomas Grimm, Rainer Hagen, Ulrich Grosser
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Patent number: 11841811Abstract: A reconfigurable processor comprises an array of processing units and an instrumentation network. The array of processing units is configured to execute runtime events to execute an application. The instrumentation network is operatively coupled to the array of processing units. The instrumentation network comprises a control bus configured to form control signal routes in the instrumentation network. The instrumentation network further comprises a plurality of instrumentation counters having inputs and outputs connected to the control bus and to the processing units. Instrumentation counters in the plurality instrumentation units are configurable to consume control signals on the inputs and produce counts of the runtime events on the outputs.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2021Date of Patent: December 12, 2023Assignee: SambaNova Systems, Inc.Inventors: Raghu Prabhakar, Matthew Thomas Grimm, Sumti Jairath, Kin Hing Leung, Sitanshu Gupta, Yuan Lin, Luca Boasso
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Patent number: 11782729Abstract: A data processing system comprises a pool of reconfigurable data flow resources and a runtime processor. The pool of reconfigurable data flow resources includes arrays of physical configurable units and memory. The runtime processor includes logic to receive a plurality of configuration files for user applications. The configuration files include configurations of virtual data flow resources required to execute the user applications. The runtime processor also includes logic to allocate physical configurable units and memory in the pool of reconfigurable data flow resources to the virtual data flow resources and load the configuration files to the allocated physical configurable units. The runtime processor further includes logic to execute the user applications using the allocated physical configurable units and memory.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: SambaNova Systems, Inc.Inventors: Gregory Frederick Grohoski, Manish K. Shah, Raghu Prabhakar, Mark Luttrell, Ravinder Kumar, Kin Hing Leung, Ranen Chatterjee, Sumti Jairath, David Alan Koeplinger, Ram Sivaramakrishnan, Matthew Thomas Grimm
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Patent number: 11782856Abstract: A data processing system comprises memory, compile time logic, runtime logic, and instrumentation profiling logic. The memory stores a dataflow graph for an application. The dataflow graph has a plurality of compute nodes that are configured to be producers to produce data for execution of the application, and to be consumers to consume the data for execution of the application. The compile time logic partitions execution of the dataflow graph into stages. Each of the stages has one or more compute nodes, one or more producers, and one or more consumers. The runtime logic determines a processing latency for each of the stages by calculating time elapsed between producers of a particular stage receiving input data and consumers of the particular stage receiving output data. The instrumentation profiling logic generates performance statistics for the dataflow graph based on the processing latency determined for each of the stages.Type: GrantFiled: September 20, 2021Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: SambaNova Systems, Inc.Inventors: Raghu Prabhakar, Matthew Thomas Grimm, Sumti Jairath, Kin Hing Leung, Sitanshu Gupta, Yuan Lin, Luca Boasso
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Publication number: 20230202082Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing a moulded part (50) by structural foam moulding, in which a polymer melt (18) is provided by melting a thermoplastic material, in which the polymer melt (18) is charged with a foaming agent (22) and in which the polymer melt (18) charged with the foaming agent (22) is injected under pressure into a cavity (26) of a mould (28), and so the polymer melt (18) fills the cavity (26) behind a melt front (34) running through the cavity (26), wherein the rate of injection at which the polymer melt (18) is injected into the cavity (26) of the mould (28) is set such that the internal pressure of the polymer melt (18) in the cavity (26), in a region (40) that follows a portion of the melt front (34) with a time delay of at most 0.15 seconds, is greater than the critical pressure of the foaming agent (22), at least at one point in time during the injection-moulding operation.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 2, 2020Publication date: June 29, 2023Inventors: Ulrich GROSSER, Jan HELMIG, Thorsten SCHULZ, Thomas GRIMM, Lucia WINKLER
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Publication number: 20220333759Abstract: The invention relates to a multi-layered body comprising a transparent thermoplastic layer, a diffuser layer and a metal layer which, despite a decorative, structured visible surface, can transport information from a projection unit behind it with excellent sharpness and brightness. Corresponding elements can be used, for example, in Car-to-X communication.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 21, 2020Publication date: October 20, 2022Inventors: Thomas Grimm, Rainer Hagen, Ulrich Grosser
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Publication number: 20220261365Abstract: A reconfigurable processor comprises an array of processing units and an instrumentation network. The array of processing units is configured to execute runtime events to execute an application. The instrumentation network is operatively coupled to the array of processing units. The instrumentation network comprises a control bus configured to form control signal routes in the instrumentation network. The instrumentation network further comprises a plurality of instrumentation counters having inputs and outputs connected to the control bus and to the processing units. Instrumentation counters in the plurality instrumentation units are configurable to consume control signals on the inputs and produce counts of the runtime events on the outputs.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2021Publication date: August 18, 2022Applicant: SambaNova Systems, Inc.Inventors: Raghu PRABHAKAR, Matthew Thomas GRIMM, Sumti JAIRATH, Kin Hing LEUNG, Sitanshu GUPTA, Yuan LIN, Luca BOASSO
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Publication number: 20220261364Abstract: A data processing system comprises memory, compile time logic, runtime logic, and instrumentation profiling logic. The memory stores a dataflow graph for an application. The dataflow graph has a plurality of compute nodes that are configured to be producers to produce data for execution of the application, and to be consumers to consume the data for execution of the application. The compile time logic partitions execution of the dataflow graph into stages. Each of the stages has one or more compute nodes, one or more producers, and one or more consumers. The runtime logic determines a processing latency for each of the stages by calculating time elapsed between producers of a particular stage receiving input data and consumers of the particular stage receiving output data. The instrumentation profiling logic generates performance statistics for the dataflow graph based on the processing latency determined for each of the stages.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 20, 2021Publication date: August 18, 2022Applicant: SambaNova Systems, Inc.Inventors: Raghu PRABHAKAR, Matthew Thomas GRIMM, Sumti JAIRATH, Kin Hing LEUNG, Sitanshu GUPTA, Yuan LIN, Luca BOASSO
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Publication number: 20220152971Abstract: The present invention relates to a layer arrangement, having: a foil layer (100) provided with optical information, and a three-dimensionally structured layer (200) having a smooth side (210) and a structured side (220) opposite the smooth side (210), wherein the structured side (220) has at least one face (230) which is not coplanar with the smooth side (210) and faces a previously defined reference location (400), and the structured side (220) has at least one face (235) which is not coplanar with the smooth side (210) and faces away from the previously defined reference location (400). The three-dimensionally structured layer (200) is formed by a thermoplastic polymer which has an optical haze Ty (D65/10°) according to ASTM D1003 of ?10% with a layer thickness of 4 mm. The foil layer (100) provided with optical information is connected to the structured side (220) of the three-dimensionally structured layer (200).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 9, 2020Publication date: May 19, 2022Inventors: Ulrich Grosser, Thomas Grimm, Christoph Klinkenberg, Konstantin Leonhardt
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Patent number: 11298886Abstract: A process for joining two sheeting articles reinforced with unidirectionally aligned endless-fibres by ultrasonic welding, wherein the fibres are embedded in a matrix of polycarbonate and the sheeting articles have abutting ends that are substantially rectangular and substantially even. The process comprises (1) arranging the sheeting articles next to one another end-to-end in the region of the abutting ends in a welding apparatus between a sonotrode and an anvil, (2) welding the sheeting articles by means of ultrasound, wherein the sonotrode and the anvil exert pressure on the to-be-welded sheeting articles in the melting region between the sheeting articles and perpendicularly to the abutting ends of the sheeting articles, and (3) removing the sheeting articles that are welded to one another from the welding apparatus. Also provided is a second process for joining two sheeting articles, a sheeting article, an apparatus, and a multilayer composite.Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2020Date of Patent: April 12, 2022Assignee: Covestro Deutschland AGInventors: Matthias Knaupp, Thomas Grimm, Henning Börger
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Publication number: 20220088906Abstract: Multilayer composite material comprising specific polycarbonate compositions as matrix material The present invention relates to a composite material comprising one or more fibre layers composed of a fibre material and an aromatic polycarbonate-based matrix material. The fibre layer(s) is/are embedded in the matrix material. The present invention further relates to a process for producing these fibre composite materials, to multilayer composite materials comprising several layers of fibre composite material, and to the use of the composite materials for production of components or housing components or housings, and to the components, housing components or housings themselves.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 30, 2021Publication date: March 24, 2022Inventors: Rolf WEHRMANN, Anke BOUMANS, Helmut Werner HEUER, Thomas GRIMM, Matthias KNAUPP, John BAUER
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Publication number: 20220058034Abstract: A data processing system comprises a pool of reconfigurable data flow resources and a runtime processor. The pool of reconfigurable data flow resources includes arrays of physical configurable units and memory. The runtime processor includes logic to receive a plurality of configuration files for user applications. The configuration files include configurations of virtual data flow resources required to execute the user applications. The runtime processor also includes logic to allocate physical configurable units and memory in the pool of reconfigurable data flow resources to the virtual data flow resources and load the configuration files to the allocated physical configurable units. The runtime processor further includes logic to execute the user applications using the allocated physical configurable units and memory.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 18, 2020Publication date: February 24, 2022Applicant: SambaNova Systems, Inc.Inventors: Gregory Frederick GROHOSKI, Manish K. SHAH, Raghu PRABHAKAR, Mark LUTTRELL, Ravinder KUMAR, Kin Hing LEUNG, Ranen CHATTERJEE, Sumti JAIRATH, David Alan KOEPLINGER, Ram SIVARAMAKRISHNAN, Matthew Thomas GRIMM
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Publication number: 20210389435Abstract: The invention relates to a sensor system (200, 300, 400) for a motor vehicle, comprising a sensor housing and an active or passive sensor (102) arranged therein and held on a movable sensor holder (201, 401), having a sensor technology based on radiation detection and a measurement apparatus assigned to the sensor (102) and a control apparatus, coupled to said measurement apparatus, for the sensor holder (201, 401), wherein the sensor housing has a cover (106, 301) that is signal-transmissive for the sensor (102) on its side located in the detection direction of the sensor (102), and wherein the detection range (108, 109) of the sensor (102) in the region of the signal-transmissive cover (106, 301) has a lower extent than the signal-transmissive cover (106, 301), wherein the sensor system (200, 300, 400) is characterized in that the measurement apparatus is designed such that it is suitable for checking, in the detection range of the sensor (102), whether and in which section the signal-transmissive cover (10Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2019Publication date: December 16, 2021Inventors: Rainer Hagen, Thomas Grimm, Ulrich Grosser, Alexander Meyer, Andreas Klein, Dirk Hinzmann, Peter Capellen, Rafael Oser
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Publication number: 20210373170Abstract: The invention relates to a sensor system (200, 300) for a vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle, comprising a sensor housing and an active or passive sensor (102) arranged therein, having a sensor technology based on radiation detection and a measurement apparatus assigned to the sensor (102), wherein the sensor housing has a cover (106) that is signal-transmissive for the sensor (102) on its side located in the detection direction of the sensor (102), and wherein the detection range of the sensor (102) in the region of the signal-transmissive cover (106) has a lower extent than the signal-transmissive cover (106), wherein the sensor system (200, 300) is characterized in that the sensor (102) is assigned a movable deflection apparatus (201), coupled to a control apparatus, for deflecting the radiation of the sensor (102), wherein the measurement apparatus is designed such that it is suitable for checking, in the detection range of the sensor (102), whether and in which section the signal-transmissive cover (Type: ApplicationFiled: October 4, 2019Publication date: December 2, 2021Inventors: Rainer Hagen, Thomas Grimm, Ulrich Grosser, Alexander Meyer, Andreas Klein, Dirk Hinzmann, Peter Capellen, Rafael Oser
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Publication number: 20210331360Abstract: The invention relates to an injection-molding process for the production of an injection-molded element, comprising a film element and an in-mold-coating layer directly injected onto said element. The film element occupies only part of the area of the in-mold-coating layer, and therefore at least one portion of the film edges of said film element is located in the middle of the relevant area of the injection-molded element. In order to avoid notching in the boundary region, the process for the production of the injection-molded element utilizes dynamic temperature control for locally restricted heating of the mold in the region where the flow front of the in-mold-coating material encounters the film material. Injection-molded elements are thus obtained in which no optically discernible boundary is present between film element and in-mold-coating layer. Because there are no joints, the injection-molded elements are amenable to successful and durable subsequent coating.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 27, 2019Publication date: October 28, 2021Inventors: Roland Kuenzel, Peter Capellen, Thomas Grimm
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Patent number: 11155059Abstract: The present invention relates to a multilayer composite, comprising at least three superimposed plies of fibre composite which are defined relative to one another as two outer plies of fibre composite and at least one inner ply of fibre composite, wherein each of these at least three plies of fibre composite comprises endless fibres, the endless fibres being unidirectionally aligned within the respective ply and embedded in a polycarbonate-based plastic, wherein the polycarbonate is selected from homopolycarbonate or copolycarbonate, the inner plies of fibre composite essentially have the same orientation and their orientation relative to the outer plies of fibre composite is rotated by 30° to 90° , wherein the orientation of a ply of fibre composite is determined by the orientation of the unidirectionally aligned fibres present therein.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2016Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Covestro Deutschland AGInventors: Thomas Grimm, Ulrich Grosser