Patents by Inventor Thomas Maier

Thomas Maier 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: 10811178
    Abstract: A method for determining a current that flows through a load, wherein the current comprises a DC component and a dithering component, and the dithering component is modified in predetermined time intervals, comprises steps for recording a momentary current; determining a dithering parameter; and determining the current based on the momentary current and the dithering parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Paul Bange, Thomas Maier, Gerald Kolar, Mohammad Kabany, Andreas Hof
  • Patent number: 10730565
    Abstract: A fender assembly for an agricultural tractor including a carrier bracket which supports a wheel fender adjacent to a vehicle wheel. A steering mechanism is provided as part of the fender assembly, such that the wheel fender can be rotated relative to the carrier bracket. Accordingly, the rotation of the wheel fender can be controlled based on a steering signal generated by the vehicle steering system, to ensure that the wheel fender accurately follows the movement of the adjacent tractor wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 4, 2020
    Assignee: AGCO International GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Maier, Erich Freytag
  • Publication number: 20200166553
    Abstract: A measurement system for matching and/or transmission measurements with respect to a device under test comprising an interface is provided. Said measurement system comprises at least one signal generator comprising at least one signal generator signal path, and at least one receiver comprising at least two receiver signal paths. In this context, a signal of a first signal generator signal path of the at least one signal generator signal path and/or a signal of a first receiver signal path of the at least two receiver signal paths is adaptively phase-shifted and/or amplitude-modified with respect to a signal of a second receiver signal path of the at least two receiver signal paths.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 26, 2018
    Publication date: May 28, 2020
    Inventors: Martin BLOSS, Thomas MAIER
  • Patent number: 10652995
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic module (100) mounted on a transmission component (112). The electronic module (100) comprises a printed circuit board element (102) that has component side (104) with at least one electronic component (108) and a contact side (106) lying opposite the component side (104), and a heat conducting film (110) that is placed between a surface section of the contact side (106) lying opposite the component (108) and a surface section of the transmission component (112). The printed circuit board element (102) can be or is tightened to the transmission component (112) such that the heat conducting film (110) is pressed against the surface section of the contact side (106) and the surface section of the transmission component (112).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Hermann Josef Robin, Martin Hempen, Thomas Maier
  • Patent number: 10604897
    Abstract: This invention relates to the use of Lyocell fibers with a tendency to fibrillate for the manufacture of a nonwoven fibrous web material, in particular for the use in a wipe, by using a foam technique.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 29, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 31, 2020
    Assignee: Lenzing Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Gisela Goldhalm, Thomas Maier, Gert Kroner
  • Patent number: 10597692
    Abstract: The invention relates to methods and instruments for the rapid detection and rapid mass spectrometric identification of microbial infective agents in blood or other body fluids. The invention recognizes that blood is not a good environment for the cultivation of microbes and provides a method which (a) largely destroys or dissolves the human particles in body fluids, such as erythrocytes and leukocytes in blood, without impairing the ability of the microbes to reproduce, (b) separates the microbial pathogens from the fluid, (c) cultivates them in a nutrient broth which contains none of the antimicrobial components of the body fluids, (d) separates them from the nutrient broth, and (e) identifies the microbes by a mass spectrum of the microbial proteins. The dissolution of the human particles also releases the microbes nesting in macrophages.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: March 24, 2020
    Assignee: Bruker Daltonik GmbH
    Inventors: Jochen Franzen, Markus Kostrzewa, Thomas Maier, Karsten Michelmann, Wolfgang Pusch
  • Publication number: 20200062317
    Abstract: A fender assembly for an agricultural tractor including a carrier bracket which supports a wheel fender adjacent to a vehicle wheel. A steering mechanism is provided as part of the fender assembly, such that the wheel fender can be rotated relative to the carrier bracket. Accordingly, the rotation of the wheel fender can be controlled based on a steering signal generated by the vehicle steering system, to ensure that the wheel fender accurately follows the movement of the adjacent tractor wheel.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2019
    Publication date: February 27, 2020
    Inventors: Thomas Maier, Erich Freytag
  • Patent number: 10507872
    Abstract: A fender assembly for an agricultural tractor including a carrier bracket which supports a wheel fender adjacent to a vehicle wheel. A steering mechanism is provided as part of the fender assembly, such that the wheel fender can be rotated relative to the carrier bracket. Accordingly, the rotation of the wheel fender can be controlled based on a steering signal generated by the vehicle steering system, to ensure that the wheel fender accurately follows the movement of the adjacent tractor wheel.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2019
    Assignee: AGCO International GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Maier, Erich Freytag
  • Publication number: 20190364656
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electronic module (100) mounted on a transmission component (112). The electronic module (100) comprises a printed circuit board element (102) that has component side (104) with at least one electronic component (108) and a contact side (106) lying opposite the component side (104), and a heat conducting film (110) that is placed between a surface section of the contact side (106) lying opposite the component (108) and a surface section of the transmission component (112). The printed circuit board element (102) can be or is tightened to the transmission component (112) such that the heat conducting film (110) is pressed against the surface section of the contact side (106) and the surface section of the transmission component (112).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2019
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Applicant: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Hermann Josef Robin, Martin Hempen, Thomas Maier
  • Publication number: 20190311968
    Abstract: The invention relates to an electronics module (100) for power control. The electronics module (100) comprises a carrier element (102), which has at least a first power switch element (104) with a first cooling surface (106) and a second power switch element (108) with a second cooling surface (110), a heat sink (126), and a cooling plate (122), which connects the first cooling surface (105) and the second cooling surface (110) to one another as well as to the heat sink (126) in a thermally conductive manner, when the electronics module (100) is installed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 8, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Applicant: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventor: Thomas Maier
  • Patent number: 10382029
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a control device for controlling a load, wherein the control device comprises the following elements: a first current control valve between a first port of the load and a first potential of an operating voltage; a second current control valve between a second port of the load and a second potential of the operating voltage; a processor configured to actuate the second current control valve when the first current control valve is closed, in order to control a current through the load; and a sampling device for determining an input voltage through the first current control valve, wherein the processor is configured to determine the presence of a short circuit between the first port and the first potential if the input voltage does not increase when the first current control valve is opened gradually.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 10, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventors: Paul Bange, Thomas Maier
  • Patent number: 10337396
    Abstract: A prechamber assembly for an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The prechamber assembly may have a prechamber housing with a first prechamber housing portion and a second prechamber housing portion. The first prechamber housing portion and the second prechamber housing portion may define a prechamber volume. The prechamber assembly may also have a cooling system. The cooling system may be configured to cool at least one of the first prechamber housing portion and the second prechamber housing portion based on a flow of a cooling fluid through the cooling system. The cooling system may have at least one cooling channel formed within the prechamber housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2019
    Assignee: Caterpillar Energy Solutions GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Maier
  • Publication number: 20190184736
    Abstract: A wheel of a vehicle, in particular a motor vehicle, has a rim, a hub portion, and at least two spokes connecting the hub portion to the rim. At least one free space between the spokes is covered at least in part by a substantially planar covering element. The covering element is produced from two different material layers.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 25, 2019
    Publication date: June 20, 2019
    Inventors: Kristian GROTH, Andreas KRAUSE, Christopher BOURNE, Peter JAEGERMEYR, Thomas MAIER, Julia MIESLINGER, Mike SEIDEL
  • Publication number: 20190153779
    Abstract: Control center for an aerial device, said aerial device comprising a main boom part mounted on a turret, the main boom part being inclinable around a horizontal axis in a first inclination movement, rotatable around a vertical axis in a rotation movement, and extendable and retractable in a first telescopic movement, wherein the control center comprises a first control device configured for controlling the first inclination movement and the rotation movement of the main boom part, and a second control device comprising at least a first control lever for controlling the first telescopic movement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Thomas Maier, Markus Schmid, Roland Mandel, Kristian Karlovic, Philipp Pomiersky, Jens Kraemer
  • Publication number: 20190107861
    Abstract: Control center for an aerial device, said aerial device comprising a main boom part mounted with a first end on a turret, the main boom part being inclinable around a horizontal axis in a first inclination movement, rotatable around a vertical axis in a rotation movement, and extendable and retractable along its longitudinal extension direction in a first telescopic movement, wherein the control center comprises a first joystick configured for controlling the first inclination movement by tilting the first joystick around a first control axis, controlling the rotation movement by tilting the first joystick around a second control axis perpendicular to the first control axis, and for controlling the first telescopic movement by rotating the first joystick around its stick axis.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2017
    Publication date: April 11, 2019
    Inventors: Thomas Maier, Markus Schmid, Roland Mandel, Kristian Kariovic, Philipp Pomiersky, Jens Kraemer
  • Patent number: 10215300
    Abstract: A bending frame extends the travel of an actuator for a mechanically actuated component. The bending frame includes a plurality of bendable longitudinal struts, which are arranged about a longitudinal axis on which the travel of the actuator runs. The longitudinal struts each extend in the direction of the longitudinal axis, and an application of force enacted by the actuator long the actuation path on the longitudinal struts causes same to bend in a direction perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. Respective cross struts extend out toward the longitudinal axis from each of the longitudinal struts, wherein a first end of a respective cross strut is articulated to a respective longitudinal strut and a second end of the respective cross strut opposite to the first end is provided in order to transmit force to the component in the direction of the longitudinal axis for the purpose of actuation thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2015
    Date of Patent: February 26, 2019
    Assignee: Airbus DS GmbH
    Inventors: David Reith, Stephan Kraus, Thomas Maier
  • Patent number: 10208653
    Abstract: A pre-chamber body for an engine is disclosed. The pre-chamber body may have a pre-chamber. The pre-chamber body may also have flow transfer channels fluidly connecting the pre-chamber and an exterior of the pre-chamber body. Each flow transfer channel extends along a flow transfer channel axis (B) from an inner opening via a throat section to an outer opening. A cross-section of the flow transfer channels converges from a first cross section (A1) of the inner opening to a second cross-section (A2) of the throat section and diverges from the second cross-section (A2) to a third cross-section (A3) of the outer opening along the flow transfer channel axis (B). At least one of the inner opening and the outer opening has an oval shape with a maximum diameter (a1, a3) and a minimum diameter (b1, b3), the maximum diameter (a1, a3) being greater than the minimum diameter (b1, b3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Caterpillar Energy Solutions GmbH
    Inventor: Thomas Maier
  • Patent number: 10208652
    Abstract: A pre-chamber body for an internal combustion engine is disclosed. The pre-chamber body may have a pre-chamber. The pre-chamber body may also have a flow transfer passage, which may fluidly connect the pre-chamber and an exterior of the pre-chamber body. In addition, the pre-chamber body may have at least one backflow channel, which may fluidly connect the pre-chamber and the flow transfer passage.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: Caterpillar Energy Solutions GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Maier, Enrico Drehobl
  • Publication number: 20190040070
    Abstract: Disclosed herein is a new route of synthesis and a new stable amorphous form of ibrutinib. Also disclosed are pharmaceutical compositions, oral dosage forms and the use of the amorphous ibrutinib in the treatment of mantle cell lymphoma or chronic lymphocytic leukemia.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 8, 2017
    Publication date: February 7, 2019
    Inventors: Thomas MAIER, Inna KARAPETYAN, Alvard ARAKELYAN, Tamara MARGARYAN, Vardan SARGSYAN, Heghine STEPANYAN, Hermine ABOVYAN, Roman GERBER AESCHBACHER, Sven HAFERKAMP
  • Publication number: 20190020484
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method to initiate the use of cryptography and authentication methods and to perform these methods. The method comprises the steps of: generating a URI (410), calling (420) a communication component (120) using the generated URI and a proprietory URI scheme; performing (430) the cryptography and authentication method by the local communication component (120); generating (440) at least one result (440) by the communication component (120).
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Publication date: January 17, 2019
    Inventors: Gregor Boeckeler, Niels Cölle, Thomas Maier, Michael Stoll, Johannes Schäffner, Stephan Wehr