Patents by Inventor Thomas Milde
Thomas Milde 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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Publication number: 20230327235Abstract: A cooling device for an energy store for cooling a cell group on both sides, having a first cooling unit for a first side of the cell group and a second cooling unit for an opposite second side of the cell group. The first cooling unit includes a first cooling area associated with the cell group, which is divided into a first and second sub-area in relation to a second direction, and the second cooling unit includes a second cooling area associated with the cell group, which is divided into a third and fourth sub-area in relation to the second direction. The first sub-area is opposite the third sub-area and the second sub-area is opposite the fourth sub-area, and the first and fourth sub-areas are located closer to an at least one supply port of a distributor arrangement of the cooling device than the second and third sub-areas.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 24, 2023Publication date: October 12, 2023Applicant: AUDI AGInventors: Wolfgang BECK, Uwe GERLINGER, Johannes HAF, Joohwa Sarah LEE, Thomas MILDE, Martin LINDNER, Dirk HOEFNER, Martin SCHÜSSLER
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Patent number: 11774706Abstract: The invention relates firstly to a method for determining a mechanical deviation on a displacement path of an optical zoom lens, in particular on a displacement path of an optical zoom lens of a microscope. The optical zoom lens is arranged in a beam path between an object to be recorded and an electronic image sensor. In a first method step, an optical marker is introduced into the beam path at a position of the beam path located between the object to be recorded and the optical zoom lens, such that the optical marker passes the optical zoom lens and then is depicted on an image in which a position of the optical marker is detected and determined. This is compared with a reference position of the optical marker in order to determine the mechanical deviation on the displacement path of the optical zoom lens. The invention further relates to a method for correction of a displacement error of an image recorded by an electronic image sensor and to an electronic image recording device.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2022Date of Patent: October 3, 2023Assignee: CARL ZEISS MICROSCOPY GMBHInventors: Daniel Stegmann, Daniel Harangozo, Peter Schacht, Thomas Milde
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Publication number: 20230294173Abstract: A method for additive manufacture of a workpiece includes obtaining a dataset defining the workpiece in multiple workpiece layers. The method includes producing a respective layer and capturing an image of the layer. The method includes feeding the image to a statistical learning model to determine a defect vector of defect probabilities each indicating whether a respective layer defect is present. The method includes, in response to no layer defects being present, selectively solidifying the layer. The method includes, in response to at least one defect being present, reworking or reproducing the layer and repeating the recording and the feeding to determine the defect vector again. The method includes repeating the producing, the recording, the feeding, and the selectively solidifying such that further layers are produced one on top of the other. The respective material layers each are inspected using the previously trained statistical learning model.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2023Publication date: September 21, 2023Inventors: Alexander Freytag, Thomas Milde, Ghazal Ghazaei
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Publication number: 20230282896Abstract: A battery module for an energy storage arrangement. The battery module has an underside for arrangement on a housing base of a battery housing, an upper side opposite the underside with respect to a first direction, at least one outer side that is different from the underside and the upper side, and at least one liquid sensor by which a liquid can be detected. In doing so, the liquid sensor has a measuring probe which is arranged on the outer side of the battery module and extends downwards in the direction of the underside of the battery module.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2023Publication date: September 7, 2023Applicant: AUDI AGInventors: Wolfgang BECK, Martin BRÄUNIG, lmke DlTTMANN, Thomas MILDE, Martin SCHÜSSLER, Roland TORNAR
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Publication number: 20230070819Abstract: A device for additive manufacturing of a workpiece includes a production platform supporting a defined material layer of particulate material, a structuring tool, an inspection sensor, a control unit, and a position encoder. The inspection sensor has a line scan camera and a line light source and is movable along a movement direction relative to the production platform. The position encoder generates a position signal representing a respective instantaneous position of the inspection sensor relative to the production platform. The control unit generates a spatially resolved image of the defined layer using the line light source, the line scan camera, and the position signal. The control unit controls the structuring tool in order to produce a defined workpiece layer by selectively solidifying particulate material of the defined material layer based on the image of the defined material layer and/or an image of a previously produced workpiece layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 11, 2022Publication date: March 9, 2023Inventors: Thomas MILDE, Frank WIDULLE, Michael TOTZECK, Christian PLATT, Johann IRNSTETTER
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Patent number: 11506485Abstract: An optical system includes an illumination module configured to illuminate a sample object with at least one angle-variable illumination geometry. The optical system includes an imaging optical unit configured to produce an imaged representation of the sample object that is illuminated with the at least one angle-variable illumination geometry on a detector. The optical system includes the detector, which is configured to capture at least one image of the sample object based on the imaged representation. The optical system includes a controller configured to determine a result image based on a transfer function and the at least one image. A method includes illuminating a sample object with at least one angle-variable illumination geometry, imaging the sample object on a detector, based on the imaged representation, capturing at least one image of the sample object, and, based on a transfer function and the at least one image, determining a result image.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2019Date of Patent: November 22, 2022Assignees: Carl Zeiss Industrielle Messtechnik GmbH, Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbHInventors: Lars Stoppe, Thomas Milde, Michael Totzeck
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Publication number: 20220367966Abstract: A degassing channel for a battery in a motor vehicle designed to be arranged on a cell pack of the battery, which cell pack includes at least one battery cell, which has a releasable cell-degassing opening. The degassing channel has a first channel wall with a releasable wall opening that is assigned only to the cell-degassing opening, which wall opening can be released by a gas pressure of a gas escaping from the assigned cell-degassing opening when the degassing channel is arranged on the cell pack, so that the escaping gas can be directed through the released wall opening into an interior of the degassing channel.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 4, 2022Publication date: November 17, 2022Applicant: AUDI AGInventors: Tim HAEMMERLE, Thomas MILDE, Markus SANDFORT, Martin SCHUESSLER, Markus THURMEIER, Jan-Philipp WEBERPALS
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Patent number: 11491858Abstract: An electrically operated vehicle having a traction battery installed on the underside of the vehicle and a body side structure which has a door entry region on a lateral rocker panel. The vehicle has at least one shielding element which at least partially closes a free distance between the underside of the vehicle and a vehicle standing plane in the event of battery damage, so that the door entry region is shielded from the damaged traction battery installed on the underside of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2020Date of Patent: November 8, 2022Assignee: AUDI AGInventors: Soenke Kuehl, Thomas Milde, Juergen Stegmaier, Juergen Gerbrand
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Publication number: 20220350107Abstract: The invention relates firstly to a method for determining a mechanical deviation on a displacement path of an optical zoom lens, in particular on a displacement path of an optical zoom lens of a microscope. The optical zoom lens is arranged in a beam path between an object to be recorded and an electronic image sensor. In a first method step, an optical marker is introduced into the beam path at a position of the beam path located between the object to be recorded and the optical zoom lens, such that the optical marker passes the optical zoom lens and then is depicted on an image in which a position of the optical marker is detected and determined. This is compared with a reference position of the optical marker in order to determine the mechanical deviation on the displacement path of the optical zoom lens. The invention further relates to a method for correction of a displacement error of an image recorded by an electronic image sensor and to an electronic image recording device.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2022Publication date: November 3, 2022Inventors: Daniel STEGMANN, Daniel HARANGOZO, Peter SCHACHT, Thomas MILDE
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Patent number: 11460683Abstract: A detection optical unit (112) of an optical apparatus is configured to produce an imaged representation (151, 152) of a sample object (150) on a detector (114). An adjustable filter element (119) is arranged in a beam path of the detection optical unit (112) that defines the imaged representation (151, 152). A controller is configured to drive the adjustable filter element (119) to filter the spectrum of the beam path with a first filter pattern (301-308) and with a second filter pattern (301-308) and to drive the detector (114) to capture a first image, associated with the first filter pattern (301-308), and to capture a second image, which is associated with the second filter pattern (301-308). The controller is furthermore configured to determine a focus position (181) of the sample object (150) based on the first image and the second image. The first filter element (301-308) here defines a first line and the second filter element (301-308) defines a second line.Type: GrantFiled: June 21, 2018Date of Patent: October 4, 2022Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbHInventors: Lars Stoppe, Thomas Milde, Andrea Berner
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Publication number: 20220285784Abstract: A battery arrangement for a motor vehicle, which has a battery having at least one battery cell which has at least one releasable degassing opening, and a degassing device which is fluidically coupled to the degassing opening of the at least one battery cell and is designed to lead gases escaping from the at least one releasable degassing opening of the battery cell and entering the degassing device out of the battery. The degassing device has at least one exhaust gas duct arranged outside the battery, which is fluidically coupled to the battery and which is designed in such a way that a gas flowing into the exhaust gas duct via the coupling point can be conducted to an outlet opening of the exhaust gas duct.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 24, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: AUDI AGInventors: Carsten LORENZ, Thomas MILDE, Martin SCHUESSLER, Thomas WITTENSCHLAEGER
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Publication number: 20220285754Abstract: A method for introducing a first heat-conducting compound into at least one first free space in a battery module, which is provided with a module housing and a cell pack arranged therein, and has a first housing side and an opposite second housing side, wherein the cell pack has a first side which faces toward the first housing side and a second side which faces toward the second housing side. The first free space is between the first side of the cell pack and the first housing side and a second free space is between the second side and the second housing side. Furthermore, a second heat-conducting compound is filled into the second free space overlapping in time with the filling of the first heat-conducting compound into the first free space.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 7, 2022Publication date: September 8, 2022Applicant: AUDI AGInventors: Juergen GERBRAND, Marc GORMANNS, Thomas MILDE, Oliver SCHIELER, Martin SCHUESSLER, Thomas WITTENSCHLAEGER
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Patent number: 11385436Abstract: The invention relates firstly to a method for determining a mechanical deviation on a displacement path of an optical zoom lens (03), in particular on a displacement path of an optical zoom lens (03) of a microscope. The optical zoom lens (03) is arranged in a beam path (01) between an object (19) to be recorded and an electronic image sensor (04). In a first method step, an optical marker is introduced into the beam path (01) at a position of the beam path (01) located between the object (19) to be recorded and the optical zoom lens (03), such that the optical marker passes the optical zoom lens (03) and then is depicted on an image in which a position of the optical marker is detected and determined. This is compared with a reference position of the optical marker in order to determine the mechanical deviation on the displacement path of the optical zoom lens (03).Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2018Date of Patent: July 12, 2022Assignee: CARL ZEISS MICROSCOPY GMBHInventors: Daniel Stegmann, Daniel Harangozo, Peter Schacht, Thomas Milde
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Publication number: 20220072620Abstract: In a method for additive manufacturing of a workpiece, a data set defines the workpiece in multiple layers. A first energy beam is moved relative to a manufacturing platform along first trajectories to produce, in temporally successive steps, a stack of workpiece layers. Individual properties of the stack are determined using a measurement arrangement having an exciter that excites the stack with a second energy beam, and having a detector that detects properties of the stack resulting from an excitation along a defined detection path in a spatially resolved manner. At least one of the second energy beam and the detection path is moved relative to the manufacturing platform along further trajectories using a further scanning unit. The first scanning unit and the further scanning unit establish completely separate beam paths for the first energy beam and the at least one of the second energy beam and the detection path.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 15, 2021Publication date: March 10, 2022Inventors: Frank WIDULLE, Christian PLATT, Thomas MILDE, Bernhard WIEDEMANN
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Patent number: 11156824Abstract: An adapter is suitable for adapting a microscope objective to an electronic interface of a digital microscope. A method includes measuring and storing optical properties of the microscope objective; measuring a storing mechanical properties of the microscope objective; and providing the stored optical and mechanical properties to the electronic interface as optical and mechanical data. The adapter includes a mechanical interface having an adjuster for adjusting the optical components of the standard objective, a digital memory, an electronic interface and at least one electronic component for providing the data of the digital memory to the electronic interface.Type: GrantFiled: May 18, 2018Date of Patent: October 26, 2021Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbHInventors: Johannes Knoblich, Dominik Stehr, Johannes Winterot, Thomas Milde
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Publication number: 20210149173Abstract: An adapter is suitable for adapting a microscope objective to an electronic interface of a digital microscope. A method includes measuring and storing optical properties of the microscope objective; measuring a storing mechanical properties of the microscope objective; and providing the stored optical and mechanical properties to the electronic interface as optical and mechanical data. The adapter includes a mechanical interface having an adjuster for adjusting the optical components of the standard objective, a digital memory, an electronic interface and at least one electronic component for providing the data of the digital memory to the electronic interface.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 18, 2018Publication date: May 20, 2021Applicant: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GmbHInventors: Johannes KNOBLICH, Dominik Stehr, Johannes Winterot, Thomas Milde
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Publication number: 20210086602Abstract: An electrically operated vehicle having a traction battery installed on the underside of the vehicle and a body side structure which has a door entry region on a lateral rocker panel. The vehicle has at least one shielding element which at least partially closes a free distance between the underside of the vehicle and a vehicle standing plane in the event of battery damage, so that the door entry region is shielded from the damaged traction battery installed on the underside of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 17, 2020Publication date: March 25, 2021Applicant: AUDI AGInventors: Soenke KUEHL, Thomas MILDE, Juergen STEGMAIER, Juergen GERBRAND
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Patent number: 10866401Abstract: The invention relates to a reflection correction method for correcting digital microscopic images. Here, the reflection correction method comprises: illuminating an object, the illuminating of the object having at least two illumination patterns. Creating an illumination pattern image of the object for each illumination pattern. Calculating at least one partial reflection image, in each case by means of a combination of corresponding two illumination pattern images. Calculating a reflection-corrected image of the object by means of a suitable combination of at least one illumination pattern image and at least one partial reflection image. And, in this case, each illumination pattern as at least one active illumination source, and each illumination pattern is different from all others. Furthermore, the invention relates to an associated reflection-correcting device.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2016Date of Patent: December 15, 2020Assignee: Carl Zeiss Microscopy GMBHInventors: Lars Stoppe, Thomas Milde, Johannes Winterot
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Patent number: 10811649Abstract: Traction battery of a motor vehicle includes a battery frame which is assembled from supports. A plurality of battery modules are accommodated in the battery frame and are each composed of a plurality of battery cells which are accommodated in a module housing of the respective battery module. The respective module housing is assembled from side walls and a base wall. The base wall of the respective module housing is designed as a cooling panel for cooling the battery cells. A cover panel is connected to is the battery frame. An underride guard panel is connected to the battery frame.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2019Date of Patent: October 20, 2020Assignees: Dr. Ing. h.c. F. Porsche Aktiengesellschaft, Audi AGInventors: Marcus Zacher, Juergen Gerbrand, Thomas Milde, Martin Schuessler
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Publication number: 20200257101Abstract: A detection optical unit (112) of an optical apparatus is configured to produce an imaged representation (151, 152) of a sample object (150) on a detector (114). An adjustable filter element (119) is arranged in a beam path of the detection optical unit (112) that defines the imaged representation (151, 152). A controller is configured to drive the adjustable filter element (119) to filter the spectrum of the beam path with a first filter pattern (301-308) and with a second filter pattern (301-308) and to drive the detector (114) to capture a first image, associated with the first filter pattern (301-308), and to capture a second image, which is associated with the second filter pattern (301-308). The controller is furthermore configured to determine a focus position (181) of the sample object (150) based on the first image and the second image. The first filter element (301-308) here defines a first line and the second filter element (301-308) defines a second line.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 21, 2018Publication date: August 13, 2020Inventors: Lars STOPPE, Thomas MILDE, Andrea BERNER