Patents by Inventor Thomas Schmidt

Thomas Schmidt 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: 20190359452
    Abstract: A pressure sensitive mat is provided. The pressure sensitive mat includes a nanocomposite film, a first conductive foil, an oxide layer interposed between a first side of the nanocomposite film and the first conductive foil, a second conductive foil and a nanotube film interposed between a second side of the nanocomposite film, which is opposite the first side, and the second conductive foil.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 22, 2018
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Fanping Sun, Joseph V. Mantese, Walter Thomas Schmidt, Enrico Manes, Goran Djuknic, Paul R. Braunwart, Wayde R. Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20190352955
    Abstract: A zone object detection system including a passenger compartment. Also included is a door moveable between an opened position and a closed position. Further included is a first sensor monitoring a first zone outside of a plane of the door. Yet further included is a second sensor monitoring a second zone comprising at least one of the plane of the door and outside of the plane of the door. Also included is a controller in operative communication with the first sensor and the second sensor, the controller commanding a first modification of a door closing movement of the door if an object is detected in the first zone, the controller commanding a second modification of the door closing movement of the door if an object is detected in the second zone.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Walter Thomas Schmidt, Enrico Manes, Michael J. Tracey, Norbert Antony Murray Hootsmans
  • Publication number: 20190352136
    Abstract: An elevator door control system, an elevator system, and an elevator door control method based on to-be-carried object grouping identification. The elevator door control system includes one or more three-dimensional sensors, arranged to capture three-dimensional data of to-be-carried objects in an elevator waiting region, wherein the three-dimensional data includes depth data; a data processing device, communicating with the three-dimensional sensor, and configured to receive and process the three-dimensional data, to provide grouping data of one or more groups obtained according to correlations between the to-be-carried objects and position data of each to-be-carried object in the elevator waiting region; and a control device, connected to an elevator door, communicating with the data processing device, and configured to control operation of the elevator door according to the grouping data and the position data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 21, 2019
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Hui Fang, Zhen Jia, Walter Thomas Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20190352137
    Abstract: A cleaning system for cleaning a door sill of an elevator includes at least one nozzle mounted within the door sill. An outlet of the at least one nozzle directed into a sill cavity formed in the door sill. An air supply arranged in fluid communication with the at least one nozzle. Air from the air supply is selectively provided to the at least one nozzle to remove debris from sill cavity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Publication date: November 21, 2019
    Inventors: Fanping Sun, Walter Thomas Schmidt, Enrico Manes
  • Publication number: 20190345006
    Abstract: Embodiments include techniques for operating an elevator safety control system and method. The techniques include charging one or more portions of an elevator system, the elevator system includes an elevator door and elevator frame, and monitoring a charge on the one or more portions of the elevator system. In addition, the techniques include detecting a change in the charge on the one or more portions of the elevator system, and responsive to the detection, controlling an operation of the elevator door.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 14, 2018
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Inventors: Fanping Sun, Joseph V. Mantese, Walter Thomas Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20190345751
    Abstract: An object sensing assembly for an elevator system. The object sensing assembly includes an elevator door moveable between an opened position and a closed position. Also included is a pressure sensor assembly located on a leading edge of the elevator door. The pressure sensor assembly includes a plurality of pressure sensors located at different height locations along the leading edge of the elevator door. The pressure sensor assembly also includes a controller in operative communication with the plurality of pressure sensors, the controller opening the elevator door if a pressure differential is detected between the plurality of pressure sensors.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 9, 2018
    Publication date: November 14, 2019
    Inventors: Fanping Sun, Walter Thomas Schmidt, Enrico Manes, Ziyou Xiong, Joseph V. Mantese, Paul R. Braunwart, Tadeusz Pawel Witczak, Goran Djuknic
  • Patent number: 10472778
    Abstract: A road finisher includes a lifting device which is designed to lift the chassis relative to the undercarriage at least in a rear region of the road finisher. The road finisher further comprises a material deflector, which can be pivoted relative to the chassis, and that is arranged between the two traction tracks.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: JOSEPH VOEGELE AG
    Inventors: Thomas Schmidt, Martin Seibel, Philipp Stumpf
  • Patent number: 10472206
    Abstract: A multi-car ropeless elevator system includes at least one lane. An elevator car is arranged in the at least one lane. A linear motor system includes a plurality of stationary motor primary sections extending along the at least one lane and at least one moveable motor secondary section mounted to the elevator car. A plurality of sensors is operatively connected to the linear motor system. Each of the plurality of sensors is operatively associated with a corresponding one of the plurality of stationary motor primary sections. A sensor failure detection and fusion system is operatively connected to each of the plurality of sensors. The sensor failure detection and fusion system operates to identify failures in one or more of the plurality of sensors and fuse data received from remaining ones of the plurality of sensors.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 1, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Randall Roberts, David Ginsberg, Walter Thomas Schmidt, Konda Reddy Chevva
  • Patent number: 10472779
    Abstract: A road finisher including an undercarriage, a chassis, a hopper, a paving screed, and a lifting device for lifting the chassis relative to the undercarriage at least in a rear region of the road finisher. The lifting device comprises a rocker mounted rotatably around an undercarriage rotational axis at an undercarriage-side bearing surface and rotatably around a chassis rotational axis at a chassis-side bearing surface. The lifting device further comprises a length-variable adjustment member connecting a chassis-side link point to a rocker-side link point and configured to change a distance between the chassis-side link point and the rocker-side link point by changing its length to selectively lift or lower the chassis relative to the undercarriage. A distance between the chassis rotation axis and the undercarriage rotation axis is greater than a distance between the chassis rotation axis and the chassis-side bearing surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 12, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 12, 2019
    Assignee: JOSEPH VOEGELE AG
    Inventors: Thomas Schmidt, Martin Seibel, Martin Buschmann, Tobias Gotterbarm
  • Patent number: 10470325
    Abstract: The disclosure relates to a control device in a motor vehicle. The control device includes a housing cover with a peripheral edge region, and a planar, electrical connecting apparatus with integrated conductor tracks. The housing cover, in the edge region, is cohesively connected at least to the connecting apparatus and forms a cavity with the connecting apparatus. The control device also includes at least one electronic component within the cavity. The connecting apparatus electrically connects the at least one electronic component to electronic components outside the cavity. The peripheral edge region is encapsulated by injection molding in a media-tight manner by a polymer at least in the region of the connecting seam between the housing cover and the connecting apparatus.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: CPT ZWEI GMBH
    Inventors: Frieder Wittmann, Karin Beart, Johannes Bock, Thomas Schmidt, Bernhard Schuch
  • Patent number: 10465792
    Abstract: A shifting device (2) for an automatic gearbox of a motor vehicle has a housing (4) and a selector lever (6) for selecting a gear stage which selector lever is guided in the housing (4). The shifting device (2) has an automatic shift gate (18) and a sequential shift gate (20), and the housing (4) has fasteners (projections and recesses) (10.2, 10.3, 10.4, 10.5) for fixing the shifting device (2) in the motor vehicle. The housing (4) can be fixed in a first position for right hand driving and in a second position which is rotated by 180 degrees relative to the first position for left hand driving. The fasteners are arranged point-symmetrically in order to rotate the shifting device (2) by 180 degrees, with the result that the respective fastening points coincide with the original fastening points after the rotation and the fasteners are fixed on in each case the same motor vehicle-side fastening points.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2016
    Date of Patent: November 5, 2019
    Assignee: Küster Holding GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Schmidt, Martin Blücher
  • Publication number: 20190329570
    Abstract: A method prints and dries a substrate where ink containing water and pigment is printed onto the substrate in an inkjet printing process. The substrate has an initial moisture content and absorbs at least water of the ink, causing the moisture content of the substrate to rise. Radiation selectively acting on the water molecules is applied in a first drying step and then radiation selectively acting on the pigment is applied in a second drying step in such a way that after completion of the two drying steps, the water of the applied ink has essentially completely evaporated and the substrate has essentially reattained its initial moisture content. In this manner optimum drying of substrates to which ink has been applied occurs.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 26, 2019
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: WOLFGANG SCHOENBERGER, PETER HACHMANN, MARKUS MOEHRINGER, UWE ERNST, CHRISTIAN HIEB, THOMAS SCHMIDT, ROLF MUELLER, MICHAEL SAUER
  • Publication number: 20190332388
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for starting up or servicing a field device: reading unique identification information assigned to the field device via a static code by means of a reading and/or operating tool; optically reading diagnostic information stored in the field device and which relates to at least one current and/or past event assigned to the field device, via a dynamic code generated by the field device by means of the reading and/or operating tool; transmitting the identification and diagnostic information from the reading and/or operating tool to a cloud-based service platform, transmitting device and/or application-specific information for remedying the event characterized by the diagnostic information from the cloud-based service platform to the reading and/or operating tool, and eliminating the event or effects of the event using the transmitted device-specific and/or application-specific information.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 30, 2017
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Thomas Schmidt, Nikolai Fink
  • Publication number: 20190330026
    Abstract: A door control system is provided. Aspects includes a sensor having a field of view in proximity to a door threshold of an entrance to an occupancy area, wherein the sensor is adapted to detect objects in the door threshold and a landing area proximate to the door threshold, wherein the sensor is operated based on a movement of a door in the door threshold. And based at least upon detecting an object within a portion of the door threshold or the landing area, the sensor operable to signal a door operation controller to perform an action.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2018
    Publication date: October 31, 2019
    Inventors: Walter Thomas Schmidt, Goran Djuknic, Norbert Antony Murray Hootsmans
  • Patent number: 10450168
    Abstract: An illustrative example elevator assembly includes a frame having vertically oriented beams and horizontally oriented beams connected to the vertically oriented beams. A first elevator cab is supported within the frame between the vertically oriented beams. A pantograph linkage includes a plurality of links. The pantograph linkage is supported on one of the horizontally oriented beams. The pantograph linkage is connected with the first elevator cab such that different positions of the first elevator cab relative to the frame correspond to different relative positions of the links. A second elevator cab is suspended by the pantograph linkage beneath the frame. The different relative positions of the links place the second elevator cab in different positions relative to the frame.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: October 22, 2019
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATOR COMPANY
    Inventors: Zaffir A. Chaudhry, Enrico Manes, Walter Thomas Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20190308599
    Abstract: An electropneumatic parking brake system for a utility vehicle includes a precontrol module configured to control at least a first control pressure. The precontrol module has a precontrol store connection configured to receive a store pressure from a compressed air device and at least one precontrol valve combination. The electropneumatic parking brake system further includes at least one manually actuatable sliding valve connected to a valve store connection and having a parking brake connection. The parking brake connection is ventilated in a first switching position of the sliding valve and a parking brake pressure at the parking brake connection is controllable in a second switching position of the sliding valve. The sliding valve has a first pneumatic control connection at which the first control pressure is configured to be controlled in order to pneumatically switch the sliding valve.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 5, 2019
    Publication date: October 10, 2019
    Inventors: Thomas Schmidt, Julian van Thiel
  • Publication number: 20190267705
    Abstract: A vehicle includes a body having a body outer element that has an external surface, and a radar module having a radar sensor, a housing that accommodates the radar sensor and that has a housing opening situated in the direction of detection of the radar sensor, and a radome fastened on the housing that closes the housing opening in the manner of a cover. The radome forms a part of the external surface of the body outer element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 5, 2017
    Publication date: August 29, 2019
    Inventors: Michael Klar, Andreas Pietsch, Armin Himmelstoss, Hartmut Kittel, Maik Hansen, Saeed Arafat, Thomas Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20190260831
    Abstract: The example embodiments are directed to a system and method for implementing a distributed integrated fabric for digital twin runtime. In one example, the method may include one or more of receiving an asynchronous message from an edge system that is associated with an asset included on an edge of an IoT network, determining an event to be executed with respect to a virtual asset in response to the received asynchronous message, the virtual asset being hosted by a cloud platform of the IoT network, identifying input data for executing of the determined event based on parameters in the received asynchronous message, and triggering execution of the event at the virtual asset hosted by the cloud platform based on the identified input data.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 22, 2018
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Roberto MILEV, Marc-Thomas SCHMIDT
  • Patent number: 10384913
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates generally to a propulsion system for an elevator having a first motor portion mounted to one of an object to be moved and a stationary structure and a second motor portion mounted to the other of the object to be moved and the stationary structure, the first motor portion having at least one coil.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2016
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: OTIS ELEVATRO COMPANY
    Inventors: Walter Thomas Schmidt, Enrico Manes, Beata I. Wawrzyniak, Thomas M. Yun, Shihemn Chen, Jagadeesh Tangudu, Zbigniew Piech
  • Patent number: 10384473
    Abstract: A digital printing machine includes a first cylinder for transporting sheets, a second cylinder for transferring the sheets directly to the first cylinder, a third cylinder for transferring the sheets directly to the second cylinder, and at least one inkjet print head directed towards the first cylinder for printing on the sheets disposed thereon. At least one first sensor measures the temperature of the first cylinder, a second sensor measures the temperature of the sheets while being transported by the second cylinder or by the third cylinder, and at least one temperature control device controls the temperature of the sheets prior to their transfer to the first cylinder. A control element adapts the temperature of the sheets to the temperature of the first cylinder. The first sensor, the second sensor and the temperature control device are connected to the control element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 2, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 20, 2019
    Assignee: Heidelberger Druckmaschinen AG
    Inventors: Peter Hachmann, Rolf Mueller, Thomas Schmidt, Michael Pritschow, Peter Thoma, Kai Oskar Mueller, Michael Gieser, Timo Erben