Patents by Inventor Tobias Kress

Tobias Kress 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: 20230206786
    Abstract: A sealing label (1) with a carrier ply (2), an adhesive layer (4), and an intermediate ply (3) arranged between the carrier ply (2) and the adhesive layer (4) with predetermined breaking points (30) for the internal separation of the intermediate ply (3), wherein the carrier ply (2) has at least a paper layer (21). A use of the sealing label (1), the production method thereof and a use of a carrier ply (2) including or consisting of a paper layer (21) for producing the sealing label (1).
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2022
    Publication date: June 29, 2023
    Inventors: Tobias Kresse, Patrick Maskow, Bernd Terhalle, Eduard Ziegler
  • Patent number: 11498441
    Abstract: A method for positioning a vehicle, having an inductive charging coil, at a stationary inductive charging station. The method includes: recognizing an operating state of the vehicle, and/or a state of the environment of the vehicle, based on an acquired first camera image; ascertaining a suitable illumination signal for at least one illumination device of a reference element of the inductive charging station based on the recognized operating state or environmental state; emitting a control signal to the inductive charging station based on the ascertained suitable illumination signal; recognizing the reference element based on an acquired second camera image and of the ascertained suitable illumination signal; determining a relative position and/or an orientation of the vehicle based on the recognized reference element in the second camera image; and controlling the vehicle based on the determined relative position and/or of the orientation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Benedikt Schaller, Christopher Bulla, Paul Mercea, Petko Faber, Tobias Kress
  • Publication number: 20210261011
    Abstract: A method for positioning a vehicle, having an inductive charging coil, at a stationary inductive charging station. The method includes: recognizing an operating state of the vehicle, and/or a state of the environment of the vehicle, based on an acquired first camera image; ascertaining a suitable illumination signal for at least one illumination device of a reference element of the inductive charging station based on the recognized operating state or environmental state; emitting a control signal to the inductive charging station based on the ascertained suitable illumination signal; recognizing the reference element based on an acquired second camera image and of the ascertained suitable illumination signal; determining a relative position and/or an orientation of the vehicle based on the recognized reference element in the second camera image; and controlling the vehicle based on the determined relative position and/or of the orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Publication date: August 26, 2021
    Inventors: Benedikt Schaller, Christopher Bulla, Paul Mercea, Petko Faber, Tobias Kress
  • Patent number: 10024412
    Abstract: A transmission device with secondarily coupled power splitting, having hydrostatic and mechanical branches which can be summed by a summing gear system provided in the area of a central transmission shaft. At least two transmission ratio ranges, in the forward and reverse driving directions, can be obtained such that within the transmission ratio ranges the transmission ratio can, in each case, be varied continuously by a hydrostatic variator in the area of the hydrostatic branch. On the transmission input side, the central transmission shaft can directly couple a drive engine and functionally connect to both an auxiliary drive output shaft and a hydrostatic shaft of the variator, in the form of countershafts, and also to hydraulic pumps in the area of the transmission input. In the area of the transmission output, the central transmission shaft is coupled to a further hydrostatic shaft in the form of a countershaft.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2018
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Tobias Kreß, Jürgen Pohlenz, Christian Herrmann, Erwin Baur
  • Publication number: 20160097442
    Abstract: A transmission device with secondarily coupled power splitting, having hydrostatic and mechanical branches which can be summed by a summing gear system provided in the area of a central transmission shaft. At least two transmission ratio ranges, in the forward and reverse driving directions, can be obtained such that within the transmission ratio ranges the transmission ratio can, in each case, be varied continuously by a hydrostatic variator in the area of the hydrostatic branch. On the transmission input side, the central transmission shaft can directly couple a drive engine and functionally connect to both an auxiliary drive output shaft and a hydrostatic shaft of the variator, in the form of countershafts, and also to hydraulic pumps in the area of the transmission input. In the area of the transmission output, the central transmission shaft is coupled to a further hydrostatic shaft in the form of a countershaft.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2015
    Publication date: April 7, 2016
    Inventors: Tobias KREß, Jürgen POHLENZ, Christian HERRMANN, Erwin BAUR
  • Patent number: 7881858
    Abstract: A method for the diagnosis of an exhaust gas recirculation system in an internal combustion engine, including providing a pressure difference reading, which gives a pressure difference in an air supply section of the internal combustion engine or a pressure difference over the exhaust gas recirculation system; determining a pressure difference reference value as a function of one or more operating variables of the internal combustion engine; and detecting a fault in the exhaust gas recirculation system as a function of the pressure difference reading and of the pressure difference reference value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2009
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2011
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Tobias Kress, Stefan Michael, Wilhelm Blumendeller, Horst Mueller
  • Publication number: 20090152861
    Abstract: A security label set comprising security labels, a backing material common to the security label, wherein the at least one security label is arranged directly on the common backing material and the other security label is indirectly arranged on the common backing material by being arranged to the backing. The security labels may be releasably arranged on the backing. The security labels are individualized by including serial or random numbers o by a computer-generated hologram. The backing may be in form of a web-form liner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 14, 2008
    Publication date: June 18, 2009
    Applicant: TESA SCRIBOS GMBH
    Inventors: Tobias Kresse, Volker Hahn, Christoph Dietrich
  • Publication number: 20090091457
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a multilayer security seal comprising a carrier and an adhesive layer arranged on the entire area underneath the carrier, the following layers being arranged between carrier and adhesive layer in any case: a) a first layer—marking layer—not applied to the entire area, b) a second layer—contrast layer—applied to the entire area. It is proposed that an individual identifier, which is at least partly provided in the composite, be contained for the purpose of verification.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2008
    Publication date: April 9, 2009
    Applicant: TESA AG
    Inventors: Tobias Kresse, David Tuffe, Claus Grobe
  • Patent number: 7307767
    Abstract: A method for the calculation and storage of a computer-generated multilayer hologram with more than or equal to 2 holograms includes the following steps. Field AO of a readout beam and field AR in the reflection plane are preset as mathematical functions. Except for the hologram to be calculated, all the other holograms of the layer structure are also preset as mathematical functions. Fields A+/A? are then calculated on both sides of hologram hi, as a result of which hologram function hi, is calculated by forming a quotient from fields A+/A?.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 11, 2007
    Assignee: tesa scribos GmbH
    Inventors: Matthias Gerspach, Tobias Kresse, Stefan Borgsmūller, Steffen Noehte, Christoph Dietrich
  • Publication number: 20070172623
    Abstract: An optical data storage device has a number of storage strata (1, 2, 3) arranged one above the other, each of which has a reflection layer, preferably a metal layer (12, 22, 32), which, in a predetermined optical wavelength range, has an initial absorption of at least 5%, preferably at least 10%, and an initial transmission of at least 5%, preferably at least 10%, and the transmission or reflection of which can be varied selectively by thermal treatment. In a method for writing information to such an optical data storage device, the information is introduced into a respective storage stratum (1, 2, 3) by means of a writing laser (40) by local variation of the optical properties, to be precise preferably initially at the storage stratum (1) lying closest to the focusing optical system of the writing laser (40) and progressing from there from storage stratum to storage stratum, the transmission or reflection being set in a respective storage stratum (1, 2, 3) by thermal treatment (41).
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 4, 2004
    Publication date: July 26, 2007
    Applicant: TESA AG
    Inventors: Tobias Kresse, Christoph Jurgens, Kay Schulte-Wieking
  • Patent number: 7066138
    Abstract: A method and device for controlling an internal combustion engine in which a first variable characterizing the pressure in the combustion chamber of at least one cylinder in the internal combustion engine is detected by at least one sensor. A second variable is determined on the basis of the first variable. Features which are assigned to different partial injections are obtained by forming the difference within the second variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 7, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2006
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jens Damitz, Wolfram Gerwing, Ruediger Fehrmann, Matthias Schueler, Tobias Kress
  • Patent number: 7063071
    Abstract: A device and a method for controlling an internal combustion engine, where a first variable characterizing the pressure in the combustion chamber of at least one cylinder of the internal combustion engine is measured by at least one sensor. A second variable characterizing the energy released during the combustion is ascertained from the first variable. When a threshold value of the second variable is exceeded, a third variable characterizing the combustion process is detected.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 4, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2006
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Franz Raichle, Jens Damitz, Wolfram Gerwing, Ruediger Fehrmann, Wolfgang Fischer, Matthias Schueler, Michael Kessler, Tobias Kress
  • Patent number: 7048189
    Abstract: The invention relates to a commonplace object with an outer surface (4) that encircles the commonplace object (2) and with at least one cylindrical section (6) of the surface (4), in which the technical problem of specifying a commonplace object to whose surface a relatively large amount of information can be applied is solved in that the cylindrical section (4) of the surface (6) consists of a material which can be changed optically, and in that a data bit sequence is written along at least one track (8) on the cylindrical section (4).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2006
    Assignee: Tesa Scribos GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Borgsmueller, Christoph Dietrich, Matthias Gerspach, Tobias Kresse, Jörn Leiber, Robert Thomann, Michael Mayer, Steffen Noehte, Steffen Scheibenstock, Kay Schulte-Wieking, Stefan Stadler
  • Patent number: 6964257
    Abstract: A method and device for controlling an internal combustion engine. A first variable is predefined on the basis of a signal of a combustion chamber pressure sensor or a structure-borne noise sensor. This first variable characterizes the combustion process in the combustion chamber of at least one cylinder of the engine. A second variable is read from a characteristics map; a manipulated variable for influencing the combustion process is predefinable from this second variable. The characteristics map and/or the second variable read from the characteristics map are adapted as a function of at least one feature which is determined on the basis of the first variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 21, 2004
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2005
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Jens Damitz, Ruediger Fehrmann, Matthias Schueler, Michael Kessler, Mohamed Youssef, Tobias Kress
  • Publication number: 20050145214
    Abstract: A method and device for controlling an internal combustion engine. A first variable is predefined on the basis of a signal of a combustion chamber pressure sensor or a structure-borne noise sensor. This first variable characterizes the combustion process in the combustion chamber of at least one cylinder of the engine. A second variable is read from a characteristics map; a manipulated variable for influencing the combustion process is predefinable from this second variable. The characteristics map and/or the second variable read from the characteristics map are adapted as a function of at least one feature which is determined on the basis of the first variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 21, 2004
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Inventors: Jens Damitz, Ruediger Fehrmann, Matthias Schueler, Michael Kessler, Mohamed Youssef, Tobias Kress
  • Publication number: 20050145220
    Abstract: A method and device for controlling an internal combustion engine in which a first variable characterizing the pressure in the combustion chamber of at least one cylinder in the internal combustion engine is detected by at least one sensor. A second variable is determined on the basis of the first variable. Features which are assigned to different partial injections are obtained by forming the difference within the second variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 7, 2005
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Inventors: Jens Damitz, Wolfram Gerwing, Ruediger Fehrmann, Matthias Schueler, Tobias Kress
  • Publication number: 20050145219
    Abstract: A device and a method for controlling an internal combustion engine, where a first variable characterizing the pressure in the combustion chamber of at least one cylinder of the internal combustion engine is measured by at least one sensor. A second variable characterizing the energy released during the combustion is ascertained from the first variable. When a threshold value of the second variable is exceeded, a third variable characterizing the combustion process is detected.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 4, 2005
    Publication date: July 7, 2005
    Inventors: Franz Raichle, Jens Damitz, Wolfram Gerwing, Ruediger Fehrmann, Wolfgang Fischer, Matthias Schueler, Michael Kessler, Tobias Kress
  • Publication number: 20050116046
    Abstract: The invention relates to a commonplace object with an outer surface (4) that encircles the commonplace object (2) and with at least one cylindrical section (6) of the surface (4), in which the technical problem of specifying a commonplace object to whose surface a relatively large amount of information can be applied is solved in that the cylindrical section (4) of the surface (6) consists of a material which can be changed optically, and in that a data bit sequence is written along at least one track (8) on the cylindrical section (4).
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 30, 2002
    Publication date: June 2, 2005
    Inventors: Stefan Borgsmueller, Christoph Dietrich, Matthias Gerspach, Tobias Kresse, Jorn Leiber, Robert Thomann, Michael Mayer, Steffen Noehte, Steffen Scheibenstock, Kay Schulte-Wieking, Stefan Stadler
  • Publication number: 20040030732
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the calculation of a computer-generated multilayer hologram with more than or equal to 2 holograms. Field A0 of a readout beam and field AR in the reflection plane are preset as mathematical functions. Except for the hologram to be calculated, all the other holograms of the layer structure are also preset as mathematical functions. Fields Ai+/Ai− are then calculated on both sides of hologram hi, as a result of which hologram function hi is calculated by forming a quotient from fields Ai+/Ai−.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 26, 2002
    Publication date: February 12, 2004
    Inventors: Matthias Gerspach, Tobias Kresse, Stefan Borgsmuller, Steffen Noehte, Christoph Dietrich