Patents by Inventor Thomas Hartmann

Thomas Hartmann 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).

  • Publication number: 20240134188
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for scanning field correction at least of a laser scanner device (300), wherein the method comprises the following steps: —providing a scatter pattern element (30) on a processing plane (11), wherein the scatter pattern element (30) comprises at least one scatter region (31) which is arranged in a scatter pattern (M); —passing over or scanning at least one part of the scatter pattern element (30) on the processing plane (11) by means of a laser beam (12) of the at least one laser scanner device (300) along scanner coordinates (x, y, z), wherein the laser beam passes through at least one window (20), preferably protective glass, between a deflection unit (10) and the processing plane (11); —detecting scatter radiation (13) which can be generated by scattering and/or reflection of the laser beam (12) when passing over or scanning the at least one scatter region (31); —creating a contour diagram (K) by correlating the detected scatter radiation (13) with the scanner coordinates
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2022
    Publication date: April 25, 2024
    Inventors: Alexander Graf, Florian Klemmer, Thomas Buckert, Martin Hartmann
  • Publication number: 20240117998
    Abstract: Example embodiments relate to a device for heating a medium and air. A heating source generates thermal energy by the combustion of a fuel-air-mixture. A heat exchanger serves to heat air passed along an exterior side, has an interior space into which flue gas generated during combustion of the fuel-air-mixture flows, has a fin structure on the exterior side, and transmits thermal energy to the medium pipe. The electric heating element generates thermal energy, the heat exchanger having integral structures for accommodating the electric heating element and the medium pipe. The medium pipe and the electric heating element are guided around the interior space of the heat exchanger.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 3, 2022
    Publication date: April 11, 2024
    Inventors: Thomas HARTMANN, Bernhard STAHL
  • Patent number: 11939496
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a curable adhesive composition based on acetoacetate compound, and to its use in multi-purpose bonding applications. In particular, the present invention relates to a curable adhesive composition based on a multifunctional acetoacetate compound and polyoxyalkylene polyamines.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 24, 2022
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Henkel AG & Co. KGaA
    Inventors: Hendrik Luetzen, Patrick Seggewiss, Thomas Kamm, Jose Garcia Miralles, Olaf Hartmann
  • Patent number: 11919746
    Abstract: A passenger transport system includes a bus system transferring data between a central control unit and a plurality of field devices. In a failure detection method, the field devices are configured in an unbranched chain configuration and the control unit transmits a test telegram to a first field device to start a monitoring cycle during which each field device receiving the test telegram forwards the test telegram to a next field device in the chain. During the monitoring cycle, the control unit monitors a communication between the field devices occurring via the bus system, in order to detect when a field device does not forward the test telegram. A data volume transmitted via the bus system during the failure detection method is significantly reduced in comparison to conventional failure tests such that failures can be recognized more quickly and/or simpler hardware and/or software can be used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 3, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Astrid Sonnenmoser, Ivo Lustenberger, Thomas Hartmann, Adrian Knecht, Kurt Heinz
  • Patent number: 11797424
    Abstract: Techniques are described for managing creation and/or implementation of compliance-based procedures and policies for computing environments executing software programs using computing resources. In at least some situations, the described techniques include performing one or more defined compliance tests on a target computing environment by employing user-defined and/or predefined compliance profiles to test one or more computing resources in the target computing environment. Profiles typically include one or more user-defined or predefined controls that each includes one or more compliance tests, which in turn utilize one or more user-defined or predefined testing-implementation modules to execute the tests. Profiles can introduce dependencies so that one profile can access and utilize the controls or testing-implementation modules in other profiles. A user can dynamically execute a profile, and/or profiles can be scheduled for execution (e.g.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 17, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: PROGRESS SOFTWARE CORPORATION
    Inventors: Christian Dominik Richter, Christoph Thomas Hartmann
  • Patent number: 11787661
    Abstract: A method for moving an elevator car of an elevator for evacuating passengers from the elevator car in the event of a power failure, wherein a brake blocks a vertical movement of the elevator car, includes the steps of: applying an electrical pulse or a plurality of electrical pulses to the brake of the elevator car to release the brake and unblock the vertical movement of the elevator car, the brake being released for as long as the particular electrical pulse is applied to the brake; determining a covered height which the elevator car has covered during the application of the particular electrical pulse; comparing the determined covered height with a predetermined distance; and terminating the application of the particular electrical pulse to the brake when the determined covered height is equal to or greater than the predetermined distance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2023
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Astrid Sonnenmoser, Ivo Lustenberger, Thomas Hartmann
  • Publication number: 20230201914
    Abstract: Amorphous metal foil and method for the production of an amorphous metal foil using a rapid solidification technology is provided. An amorphous metal foil having a width of 2 mm to 300 mm, a thickness of less than 20 ?m and a maximum of 50 holes per square metre is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventor: Thomas Hartmann
  • Publication number: 20230201918
    Abstract: A method for producing a strip using a rapid solidification technology is provided. A melt is poured onto a moving outer surface of a rotating casting wheel, the melt is solidified on the outer surface and a strip is formed. A gaseous jet is directed at the moving outer surface and the outer surface of the casting wheel is worked with the jet. The jet comprises CO2 and at least part of this CO2 strikes the moving outer surface of the casting wheel in a solid state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2023
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Thomas Hartmann, Robert Schulz
  • Patent number: 11660666
    Abstract: A method for producing a strip using a rapid solidification technology is provided. A melt is poured onto a moving outer surface of a rotating casting wheel, the melt is solidified on the outer surface and a strip is formed. A gaseous jet is directed at the moving outer surface and the outer surface of the casting wheel is worked with the jet. The jet comprises CO2 and at least part of this CO2 strikes the moving outer surface of the casting wheel in a solid state.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: May 30, 2023
    Assignee: VACUUMSCHMELZE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Hartmann, Robert Schulz
  • Patent number: 11654498
    Abstract: A process for producing an amorphous ductile brazing foil is provided. According to one example embodiment, the method includes providing a molten mass, and rapidly solidifying the molten mass on a moving cooling surface with a cooling speed of more than approximately 105° C./sec to produce an amorphous ductile brazing foil. A process for joining two or more parts is also provided. The process includes inserting a brazing foil between two or more parts to be joined, wherein the parts to be joined have a higher melting temperature than that the brazing foil to form a solder joint and the brazing foil comprises an amorphous, ductile Ni-based brazing foil; heating the solder joint to a temperature above the liquidus temperature of the brazing foil to form a heated solder joint; and cooling the heated solder joint, thereby forming a brazed joint between the parts to be joined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 5, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: VACUUMSCHMELZE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Hartmann, Dieter Nuetzel
  • Patent number: 11639283
    Abstract: A floor position detection device of an elevator installation, and a method for generating a floor signal, includes a sensor unit and an evaluation unit for generating the floor signal with two states. The states are “in the range of the floor” and “outside the range of the floor”. The sensor unit includes a first Hall effect sensor generating a first floor position characteristic value and a second Hall effect sensor generating a second floor position characteristic value. The evaluation unit generates the floor signal on the basis of a comparison between the first and the second floor position characteristic values. The evaluation unit verifies whether the first and/or second floor position characteristic value is higher than a first threshold value and generates the floor signal on the basis of the result of the verification.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 2, 2023
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Eric Birrer, Thomas Hartmann
  • Publication number: 20230131159
    Abstract: A method for operating an IS machine for producing glass containers includes: introducing a glass gob into a blank mold, producing a parison from the glass gob in the blank mold, transferring the parison into a finishing mold, actuating a vacuum valve for producing a vacuum in the finishing mold from a first actuating point in time and simultaneously measuring the evolution of the vacuum pressure, actuating a finish-blowing valve for generating a finish-blowing pressure from a second actuating point in time that is later than the first actuating point in time by a predetermined duration, such that compressed air is blown into the finishing mold from the top, and simultaneously measuring the evolution of the finish-blowing pressure and checking whether the evolution of the measured vacuum pressure and/or the evolution of the measured finish-blowing pressure has fulfilled a predetermined condition.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 25, 2022
    Publication date: April 27, 2023
    Inventors: Ralf Schöttelndreier, Thomas Hartmann, Dirk Winkelhake
  • Patent number: 11623271
    Abstract: Amorphous metal foil and method for the production of an amorphous metal foil using a rapid solidification technology is provided. An amorphous metal foil having a width of 2 mm to 300 mm, a thickness of less than 20 ?m and a maximum of 50 holes per square metre is also provided.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 11, 2023
    Assignee: VACUUMSCHMELZE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventor: Thomas Hartmann
  • Publication number: 20230038008
    Abstract: A nickel-based brazing foil with a composition consisting essentially of 11 atom %<Cr?16 atom %, 0 atom %?Mo?3.5 atom %, 4 atom %?B?5.5 atom %, 11 atom %?Si?16 atom %, 0 atom %?P?0.5 atom %, 0 atom %?C?0.85 atom %, 0 atom %?Fe?5 atom %, 0 atom %?Co?5 atom %, 0 atom %?Cu?2 atom %, 0 atom %?V?2 atom %, 0 atom %?Nb?2 atom %, incidental impurities of ?1.0 wt. % and the rest Ni, is provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2022
    Publication date: February 9, 2023
    Inventor: Thomas Hartmann
  • Patent number: 11319185
    Abstract: An elevator system has a central control unit for generating control signals and/or processing sensor signals and controlling functions of the system, a plurality of field devices distributed inside a structure accommodating the system, preferably along an elevator shaft, and a field bus system for interchanging the signals between the control unit and the field devices. Each field device outputs sensor signals generated by a sensor and/or receives control signals to be implemented by an actuator. Data packets including the signals are interchanged in a serial manner between the control unit and all field devices in a summation frame method using a closed ring topology. Each field device has a driver to insert the sensor signals into the data packet or to remove the control signals from the data packet. Data and signal transmission is thereby carried out quickly and safely in a safety circuit of the elevator system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2022
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Astrid Sonnenmoser, David Michel, Frank Olivier Roussel, Ivo Lustenberger, Kurt Heinz, Thomas Hartmann, Martin Hess
  • Patent number: 11292485
    Abstract: A method for granting access and driving authorizations and driving commands to be carried out, in the form of a data format, for a vehicle. A plurality of data processing systems of different user groups, which exchange the data format via a plurality of communication connections, are used, and an exchange undertakes the distribution of the data format among the respective involved user groups and into the vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: DAIMLER AG
    Inventors: Dirk Hassert, Thomas Hartmann, Christian Rupert, Frank-Peter Pesl, Gerd Scheidhauer, Christian Heikamp
  • Patent number: 11292691
    Abstract: A monitoring unit, for monitoring an elevator system, includes a circuit assembly having a power supply unit for dispensing a grid-dependent first operating voltage and at least one processor-controlled monitoring module to actively and/or passively ascertain state data of the elevator system. An energy storage unit, that dispenses a grid-independent second operating voltage, and a first switching device supply the first operating voltage to the monitoring module during a normal operation and supply the second operating voltage to the monitoring module in the event of a power outage. A non-volatile data storage unit that stores a variable operating parameter and a second switching device deactivate parts of the circuit assembly. The monitoring module actuates the second switching device based on the stored operating parameter that has a first value before the monitoring unit is started and has a second value after the monitoring unit is started.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: INVENTIO AG
    Inventors: Astrid Sonnenmoser, Adrian Knecht, Ivo Lustenberger, Kurt Heinz, Thomas Hartmann
  • Publication number: 20220055861
    Abstract: A method for moving an elevator car of an elevator for evacuating passengers from the elevator car in the event of a power failure, wherein a brake blocks a vertical movement of the elevator car, includes the steps of: applying an electrical pulse or a plurality of electrical pulses to the brake of the elevator car to release the brake and unblock the vertical movement of the elevator car, the brake being released for as long as the particular electrical pulse is applied to the brake; determining a covered height which the elevator car has covered during the application of the particular electrical pulse; comparing the determined covered height with a predetermined distance; and terminating the application of the particular electrical pulse to the brake when the determined covered height is equal to or greater than the predetermined distance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 20, 2019
    Publication date: February 24, 2022
    Inventors: Astrid Sonnenmoser, Ivo Lustenberger, Thomas Hartmann
  • Patent number: 11130187
    Abstract: A process for producing an amorphous ductile brazing foil is provided. According to one example embodiment, the method includes providing a molten mass, and rapidly solidifying the molten mass on a moving cooling surface with a cooling speed of more than approximately 105° C./sec to produce an amorphous ductile brazing foil. A process for joining two or more parts is also provided. The process includes inserting a brazing foil between two or more parts to be joined, wherein the parts to be joined have a higher melting temperature than that the brazing foil to form a solder joint and the brazing foil comprises an amorphous, ductile Ni-based brazing foil; heating the solder joint to a temperature above the liquidus temperature of the brazing foil to form a heated solder joint; and cooling the heated solder joint, thereby forming a brazed joint between the parts to be joined.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 30, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2021
    Assignee: VACUUMSCHMELZE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Hartmann, Dieter Nuetzel
  • Publication number: 20210252591
    Abstract: A method for producing a strip using a rapid solidification technology is provided. A melt is poured onto a moving outer surface of a rotating casting wheel, the melt is solidified on the outer surface and a strip is formed. A gaseous jet is directed at the moving outer surface and the outer surface of the casting wheel is worked with the jet. The jet comprises CO2 and at least part of this CO2 strikes the moving outer surface of the casting wheel in a solid state.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 17, 2021
    Publication date: August 19, 2021
    Inventors: Thomas HARTMANN, Robert SCHULZ