Patents by Inventor Thomas Sauer

Thomas Sauer 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: 11950990
    Abstract: A disposable absorbent article may include a chassis that includes a topsheet, a backsheet, and an absorbent core disposed between the topsheet and the backsheet; and a leg gasketing system and a waist gasketing element. The leg gasketing system may include an inner cuff and an outer cuff; the inner cuff may include an inner cuff folded edge and an inner cuff material edge and the outer cuff may include an outer cuff folded edge and an outer cuff material edge such that the web of material is folded laterally inward to form the outer cuff folded edge and folded laterally outward to form the inner cuff folded edge. The leg gasketing system may also include a leg gasketing system pocket with an opening on an inboard longitudinal edge of the pocket.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 11, 2023
    Date of Patent: April 9, 2024
    Assignee: The Procter & Gamble Company
    Inventors: Jeromy Thomas Raycheck, Abhishek Prakash Surushe, Zachary Aaron Freije, Cornelia Beate Martynus, Donald Carroll Roe, Andrew James Sauer, Christopher Erin Kiger, Sara Lyn Giovanni
  • Patent number: 11940777
    Abstract: A sensor control assembly and method providing a secured sensor data and an optimized handling of the sensor including a sensor, a first processing unit adapted to provide a cryptographic checksum of sensor data, a distributed database, a second processing unit adapted to verify the sensor data, and a third processing unit adapted to determine the demand for calibration. A manufacturing device contains at least a part of the sensor control assembly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Siemens Energy Global GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Jerry Fornander, Andreas Graichen, Thomas Jetzfellner, Johan Lindstam, Markus Sauer, Monika Sturm
  • Patent number: 11920968
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for ascertaining and billing for a volume of air generated by an air-conveying device. The air quantity ascertaining and billing apparatus has an air-conveying device generating an air volume flow through an air passage. A measuring device measures air-related parameters of the particular air volume flow. An analysis unit analyzes the measured parameters, in order to determine the total air volume that was conveyed by the air conveying device through the air passage over a period. A transfer device transfers the value determined for the air volume by the analysis unit to a validation device. The validation device links the air volume flow or the determined air volume to an economic value, in order to obtain a billing value for the generated air volume.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 5, 2024
    Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Thomas Sauer
  • Patent number: 11829313
    Abstract: A position-sensing method and device for sensing the installation location (F1, . . . , Fi) of slave units (SE1, . . . , SEi) in an operating region (A1, . . . , Ai) of a system (A) comprising a number i of adjacent operating regions (A1, . . . , Ai) each having a slave unit, wherein the individual slave units (SE1, SEi) have a changeable operating function for achieving or changing the physical state in the operating region in question of the system, and wherein a respective sensor (S1, . . . , Si) is provided in each operating region in question in order to sense a measurement variable (T) proportional to the physical state in the operating region in question and an evaluating device is provided in order to determine, upon the activation or changing of the operating function of at least one slave unit (SE1, . . . , SEi), the installation location (F1, . . . , Fi) of said slave unit from the change in the measurement variables (T) over time.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 28, 2023
    Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Thomas Sauer
  • Patent number: 11489809
    Abstract: A dynamically addressable master-slave system and a method for dynamically addressing slave units includes a master unit and a plurality of slave units, such that the slave units are interconnected with the master unit via a bus system. The respective network addresses of the slave units are assigned to the respective serial numbers of these slave units in a table in the master unit according to the position thereof in the system according to a determined order. Upon replacement of slave units, a list of serial numbers of the units to be replaced is transferred to the master unit in the sequence of the acquisition of the serial numbers, which master unit replaces these serial numbers in the table with the serial numbers of the replaced slave units transmitted to the master unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 1, 2022
    Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Martin Bürkert, Helmut Lipp, Thomas Sauer, Günter Haas, Markus Humm, Marco Weckert
  • Patent number: 11397018
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an assembly composed of two or more electric drives, each of which is provided with a housing that is preferably closed all around; a transceiver or radio transmitter inside the housing of each electric drive is configured for wireless data communication with a master controller; for this purpose, a properly mounted transmission opening is provided in each housing in order for data to be transmitted and received through the transmission opening.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 26, 2022
    Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Martin Bürkert, Helmut Lipp, Thomas Sauer, Günter Haas, Markus Humm, Marco Weckert
  • Publication number: 20210090038
    Abstract: A method for generating a virtual currency depending on a use of a motor vehicle in which a piece of driving behavior information of a user of the motor vehicle is determined depending on at least one driving dynamic parameter of the motor vehicle and is transmitted to an electronic computing device. The virtual currency is generated by the electronic computing device depending on the transmitted piece of driving behavior information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 7, 2018
    Publication date: March 25, 2021
    Applicant: Daimler AG
    Inventors: Thomas SAUER, Thomas Alexander HORAKH
  • Publication number: 20210055013
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to an assembly composed of two or more electric drives, each of which is provided with a housing that is preferably closed all around; a transceiver or radio transmitter inside the housing of each electric drive is configured for wireless data communication with a master controller; for this purpose, a properly mounted transmission opening is provided in each housing in order for data to be transmitted and received through the transmission opening.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 13, 2018
    Publication date: February 25, 2021
    Inventors: Martin Bürkert, Helmut Lipp, Thomas Sauer, Günter Haas, Markus Humm, Marco Weckert
  • Publication number: 20210041281
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method for ascertaining and billing for a volume of air generated by an air-conveying device. The air quantity ascertaining and billing apparatus has an air-conveying device generating an air volume flow through an air passage. A measuring device measures air-related parameters of the particular air volume flow. An analysis unit analyzes the measured parameters, in order to determine the total air volume that was conveyed by the air conveying device through the air passage over a period. A transfer device transfers the value determined for the air volume by the analysis unit to a validation device. The validation device links the air volume flow or the determined air volume to an economic value, in order to obtain a billing value for the generated air volume.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 6, 2019
    Publication date: February 11, 2021
    Applicant: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Thomas SAUER
  • Patent number: 10895263
    Abstract: The invention concerns a housing of a fan with an external covering, wherein the housing comprises a housing body to accommodate fan components, and a radial exterior face of the housing body is surrounded by the external covering in the circumferential direction over its full surface, so that a radial exterior surface of the housing is formed by an exterior surface of the external covering, and the external covering is detachably fastened to the housing body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: January 19, 2021
    Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Sebastian Hoss, Thomas Sauer, Hartmut Messerschmidt, Matthias Maschke, Alexander Lust
  • Publication number: 20200401543
    Abstract: A position-sensing method and device for sensing the installation location (F1, . . . , Fi) of slave units (SE1, . . . , SEi) in an operating region (A1, . . . , Ai) of a system (A) comprising a number i of adjacent operating regions (A1, . . . , Ai) each having a slave unit, wherein the individual slave units (SE1, SEi) have a changeable operating function for achieving or changing the physical state in the operating region in question of the system, and wherein a respective sensor (S1, . . . , Si) is provided in each operating region in question in order to sense a measurement variable (T) proportional to the physical state in the operating region in question and an evaluating device is provided in order to determine, upon the activation or changing of the operating function of at least one slave unit (SE1, . . . , SEi), the installation location (F1, . . . , Fi) of said slave unit from the change in the measurement variables (T) over time.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2019
    Publication date: December 24, 2020
    Inventor: Thomas Sauer
  • Publication number: 20200186493
    Abstract: A dynamically addressable master-slave system and a method for dynamically addressing slave units includes a master unit and a plurality of slave units, such that the slave units are interconnected with the master unit via a bus system. The respective network addresses of the slave units are assigned to the respective serial numbers of these slave units in a table in the master unit according to the position thereof in the system according to a determined order. Upon replacement of slave units, a list of serial numbers of the units to be replaced is transferred to the master unit in the sequence of the acquisition of the serial numbers, which master unit replaces these serial numbers in the table with the serial numbers of the replaced slave units transmitted to the master unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Martin Bürkert, Helmut Lipp, Thomas Sauer, Günter Haas, Markus Humm, Marco Weckert
  • Patent number: 10306792
    Abstract: An electronics unit and an electromotor with such an electronics unit is provided with a sealing arrangement which seals an interface structural group mounted on a printed circuit board against an inside of the electronics housing as well as on the front side in the area of the plug interface in such a manner that the inside of the electronics housing is sealed against the entrance of a liquid even in the not-in-use state of a connection box of the electronics unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2016
    Date of Patent: May 28, 2019
    Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingan GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Michael Sturm, Thomas Sauer, Matthias Maschke
  • Patent number: 10211697
    Abstract: The invention concerns a cover device for an electronics housing of an electric motor with at least one base segment and at least one rib formed on the base segment, wherein the base segment is geometrically configured so as to cover at least part of the surface of an electronics housing opening for drawing in a cooling air volume flow in order to close the electronics housing opening at least for a portion against the intrusion of solids, and the base segment forms with the at least one rib at least one flow duct, which can be fluidically connected to the electronics housing opening, and wherein the cover device is designed as a modular insert for the electronics housing.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 2, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 19, 2019
    Assignee: EBM-PAPST MULFINGEN GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Michael Sturm, Thomas Sauer
  • Patent number: 10107306
    Abstract: A housing for a fan or blower, in particular an axial fan, includes a wall ring (2) having an inlet nozzle section (3), an outer diffuser (6) having an inlet flow opening (7) and an outlet flow opening (8), and a holder for an electric motor (9) of the fan. The holder is arranged in an inner space of the housing. The outer diffuser (6) is formed by at least two partial ring sections that are connected to the outer circumferential surface via mechanical connection elements. The holder includes several struts (14) that are fastened to an inner circumferential surface of the outer diffuser (6) by one end, are circumferentially spaced apart, and are fastened in the edge region of the inlet flow opening (7). The struts can be installed by their other end to a motor flange (16) of the motor housing (17) of the electric motor (9).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2013
    Date of Patent: October 23, 2018
    Assignee: EBM-PAPST MULFINGEN GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Oliver Haaf, Matthias Maschke, Dieter Best, Thomas Sauer, Sebastian Bundschuh, Sven Beck, Markus Engert, Jürgen Schöne, Alexander Lust, Sebastian Hoss
  • Patent number: 10072671
    Abstract: A diffuser (3) for a fan (2) of axial, radial or diagonal type of construction, has an inlet opening (10) and having an outlet opening (20) for a gaseous medium which flows through a diffuser interior (I), which is enclosed by an outer housing (30), in an axially oriented main flow direction (S) from the inlet opening (10) to the outlet opening (20). The cross section of the diffuser interior (I) increases from the cross section (11) of the inlet opening to the cross section (21) of the outlet opening (20), wherein the outer housing (30) forms an outer diffuser part (AD) which delimits the diffuser interior (I) to the outside. Along the main flow direction (S), the cross section of the outer diffuser part (AD) changes from a circular cross section (31) at the inlet opening (10) to a non-circular cross section (32) at the outlet opening (20).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Date of Patent: September 11, 2018
    Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Markus Engert, Erik Reichert, Oliver Haaf, Christian Pfaff, Marc Schneider, Jürgen Schöne, Katrin Bohl, Sven Beck, Dieter Best, Tobias Ehmann, Alexander Frank, Erhard Gruber, Matthias Maschke, Thomas Sauer
  • Patent number: 10036567
    Abstract: The invention relates to a ventilator, having an electrical ventilator motor and an electrical connection device for connecting electrical motor lines leading to the motor to external electrical connecting lines. The connection device has a terminal box mounted to a device part comprising electrical contact elements, and has an additional connection part, to which the motor lines are connected. The terminal box is releasably connected to the additional connection part via electrical plug-in connections.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2013
    Date of Patent: July 31, 2018
    Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Sauer, Dieter Best, Sven Beck, Matthias Maschke, Stephan Nadig
  • Publication number: 20180030985
    Abstract: The invention concerns a housing of a fan with an external covering, wherein the housing comprises a housing body to accommodate fan components, and a radial exterior face of the housing body is surrounded by the external covering in the circumferential direction over its full surface, so that a radial exterior surface of the housing is formed by an exterior surface of the external covering, and the external covering is detachably fastened to the housing body.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2016
    Publication date: February 1, 2018
    Inventors: Sebastian HOSS, Thomas SAUER, Hartmut MESSERSCHMIDT, Matthias MASCHKE, Alexander LUST
  • Patent number: 9880950
    Abstract: A master-slave system includes a master unit having a digital output for providing a signal or a serial signal sequence of signals, and at least two slave units. Each of the slave units includes at least one digital serial memory having a size of one bit, and each slave unit includes an input and an output. The slave units are serially connected to one another via the inputs and the outputs via a signal line (5). The output of a first slave unit is connected via the signal line to the digital output of the master unit. The master slave system is configured so that a signal supplied by the digital output is detected at the input of the slave unit, in order to raise the address of the corresponding slave unit in each case by the value “1”, to store the signal change in the memory and to output a signal corresponding to the content of the memory at the output of the memory.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2015
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2018
    Assignee: ebm-papst Mulfingen GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Thomas Sauer, Helmut Lipp, Klaus Teuke, Markus Humm, Andreas Fessel, Martin Buerkert
  • Patent number: 9876410
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an electric motor, comprising a stator and a rotor that can rotate relative to the stator and that is mounted in bearing arrangements, and also comprising a motor housing and a vibration sensor to pick up vibrations that occur in the electric motor and that are caused by malfunctions of the bearing arrangements. The configuration provided here is that of an external-rotor motor. The stator has a bearing support tube that is connected at one end to a ring-shaped stator flange. Bearing arrangements are arranged at a distance from each other in the bearing support tube in the direction of a center longitudinal axis of the bearing support tube, in which a shaft of the rotor is supported. The vibration sensor is attached to the stator flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2014
    Date of Patent: January 23, 2018
    Assignee: EBM-PAPST MULFINGEN GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventor: Dipl.-Ing. Thomas Sauer