Patents by Inventor Tobias Muller

Tobias Muller 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: 11938683
    Abstract: A shaped article, a method for making it, and its use. The shaped article is formed from flat fiber material and has a bottom (2), a body (4), and an opening, which is surrounded by a circumferential flange (6). The shaped article (1) comprises a flange stabilizer (10) attached to the second flat side (18) of the flange (6) facing the bottom (2). The flange stabilizer (10) is disc-shaped and has an inner contour (12) corresponding to the desired cross-sectional shape of the shaped article (1) in the region of the opening and can be slipped over the body (4) in the region of the bottom (2) and up to the flange (6). The flat sides (16, 18) of the flange stabilizer (10) extend essentially parallel to the flange (6), defining and stabilizing the cross-sectional shape of the body (4) in the region of the opening and the flange.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: March 26, 2024
    Assignee: Technische Universität Dresden
    Inventor: Tobias Müller
  • Publication number: 20240097528
    Abstract: A stator segment of a stator of a generator for a wind turbine has at least one stator laminated core which has at least two stator lamination stacks, wherein adjacent stator lamination stacks of the at least two stator lamination stacks are in each case spaced parallel to one another in an axial direction and forming in each case one stator cooling duct with a stator cooling duct width through which a cooling medium can be guided, in particular in a radial direction. A rotor segment of a rotor for a wind turbine has two or a plurality of magnet units are disposed spaced apart from one another in an axial direction, wherein the magnet units disposed adjacently in the axial direction define a circumferential gap with a gap width for feeding and distributing a cooling medium.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 17, 2021
    Publication date: March 21, 2024
    Inventors: Michael Müller, Wilko Gudewer, Andreas Recktenwald, Tobias Muik, Stephan Jöckel, Manuel Feith, Wojciech Giengiel
  • Patent number: 11913815
    Abstract: A metering console (100) includes a housing (110) adapted to allow flow of a liquid (F) therethrough. The housing (110) is adapted to attach with one or more gardening devices (132, 152). The metering console (100) includes a display (170) associated with the housing (110). The metering console (100) is characterized in that the display (170) is rotatably engaged with the housing (110) of the metering console (100) such that the display (170) rotates along a central axis (A-A?) of the housing (110).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 2, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 27, 2024
    Assignee: HUSQVARNA AB
    Inventors: Tobias Mack, Matthias Müller-Braun, Reinhold Steck
  • Patent number: 11859683
    Abstract: A component of a brake for a vehicle, having a metallic base body with a surface provided with a coating which includes an intermediate layer lying on the base body and a covering layer lying on the intermediate layer. The covering layer is formed from a stainless steel matrix with hard material particles embedded therein. The hard material particles embedded in the stainless steel matrix have an average grain diameter of 10-125 ?m and have a non-melted core region consisting of uninfluenced material of the hard material particles, which core region is surrounded at least in sections by a mixing zone formed from material of the stainless steel matrix and material of the respective hard material particle, via which mixing zone the hard material particles are in each case materially bonded to the stainless steel matrix. Also, a method by which a component coated in this way is produced.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: Fritz Winter Eisengiesserei GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Sven Riehl, Tobias Müller, Axel Weiser
  • Publication number: 20230339314
    Abstract: A transmission unit, a vehicle powertrain comprising the transmission unit and a vehicle are disclosed. The transmission unit comprises a first transmission shaft comprising a first gear wheel, and a second transmission shaft comprising a second gear wheel and a third gear wheel. The second gear wheel is arranged to cooperate with the first gear wheel. The transmission unit further comprises a third transmission shaft comprising a fourth gear wheel, the fourth gear wheel being arranged to cooperate with the third gear wheel. The third transmission shaft further comprises a fifth gear wheel arranged to be selectively connectable to the third transmission shaft for rotation therewith. The fifth gear wheel is arranged to cooperate with the second gear wheel. The transmission unit may be incorporated in a transmission arrangement further comprising a planetary gearbox unit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Stefan KARLSSON, Jörgen FORSBERG, Tomas LÖFWALL, Per ARNELÖF, Tobias MÜLLER
  • Publication number: 20230341027
    Abstract: A transmission unit, a vehicle powertrain and a vehicle are provided. The transmission unit comprises a first transmission shaft forming an input shaft of the transmission unit, and a second transmission shaft comprising a first shaft portion and a second shaft portion. The first shaft portion is rotatably connected to the first transmission shaft via a first gear wheel pair. The transmission unit further comprises a third transmission shaft rotatably connectable to the first shaft portion via a second gear wheel pair and rotatably connectable to the second shaft portion via a third gear wheel pair. The second and third gear wheel pairs are arranged at a distance from each other in a direction parallel to the longitudinal axis of the second transmission shaft such that, when the transmission unit is arranged in the vehicle powertrain, an electrical machine may be arranged therebetween.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 27, 2021
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Stefan KARLSSON, Jörgen FORSBERG, Tomas LÖFWALL, Per ARNELÖF, Tobias MÜLLER
  • Patent number: 11761848
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for determining mechanical robustness of an overhead stowage bin for an aircraft includes repeatedly effecting an impact of a test body against an impact surface of the overhead stowage bin with a predefined impact force by a robotic arm of a manipulator, and investigating damage parameters of the overhead stowage bin.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: AIRBUS OPERATIONS GmbH
    Inventors: Johann Kim, Ludger Merz, Tobias Müller, Ulrich Meier-Noe, Maik Simon, Franz Krause
  • Publication number: 20230193967
    Abstract: A component of a brake for a vehicle, having a metallic base body with a surface provided with a coating which includes an intermediate layer lying on the base body and a covering layer lying on the intermediate layer. The covering layer is formed from a stainless steel matrix with hard material particles embedded therein. The hard material particles embedded in the stainless steel matrix have an average grain diameter of 10-125 ?m and have a non-melted core region consisting of uninfluenced material of the hard material particles, which core region is surrounded at least in sections by a mixing zone formed from material of the stainless steel matrix and material of the respective hard material particle, via which mixing zone the hard material particles are in each case materially bonded to the stainless steel matrix. Also, a method by which a component coated in this way is produced.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 5, 2021
    Publication date: June 22, 2023
    Inventors: Sven Riehl, Tobias Müller, Axel Weiser
  • Publication number: 20230151814
    Abstract: An electric motor, in particular for a vacuum pump, with two magnetically coupled shafts. A correction force can be set on each shaft by means of adjusting magnet devices, whereby negative effects due to errors in the magnetic coupling can be compensated.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 16, 2021
    Publication date: May 18, 2023
    Applicant: VACUUBRAND GMBH + CO KG
    Inventors: Tobias Müller, Christian Fehn, Frank Gitmans
  • Patent number: 11420407
    Abstract: The invention relates to a die for arrangement in a press, wherein the die extends along an axial direction between two end faces and forms an inner peripheral surface between the end faces, wherein the die extends from the inner peripheral surface along a radial direction toward an outer peripheral surface and toward at least one centering surface that is disposed in the radial direction on a first diameter, wherein the die has a pressing zone that is spaced apart from the end faces and, in the vicinity of the pressing zone, the die has a greater maximum first stiffness, at least relative to zones of the die that are arranged on the end faces, compared to a pressing force acting on the inner peripheral surface in a direction of a normal vector, and wherein the maximum first stiffness is at least 10% greater than a minimum second stiffness that is present in at least one zone that is arranged on one of the end faces.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 23, 2022
    Assignee: GKN Sinter Metals Engineering GmbH
    Inventors: Rainer Schmitt, Tobias Müller, Thomas Schupp
  • Publication number: 20220243416
    Abstract: An unbalance exciter for a vibratory plate includes a rotatably mounted unbalance shaft, on which an unbalance mass is provided. The exciter includes an exciter housing for the unbalance shaft, at least two bearing devices for the rotatable mounting of the unbalance shaft, and two bearing seats for the bearing devices. The exciter housing has a central part and two end parts arranged at the ends of the central part. The central part has a hollow-cylindrical recess in which a bearing point is provided for each of the bearing devices. The the central part is designed to optionally accommodate an unbalance shaft for either a first drive type in which the unbalance exciter can be driven by a drive device provided outside the exciter housing, or a second drive type in which the unbalance exciter can be driven by a drive device provided inside the exciter housing.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2022
    Publication date: August 4, 2022
    Inventors: Florian Forstner, Tobias Müller, Walter Unverdorben, Lisa Weber
  • Patent number: 11356641
    Abstract: At least one image of an interior of a vehicle is captured by at least one camera present in the vehicle. Image data of the at least one image that are denoted in reference to the vehicle are transmitted to an external server. A user is authorized by the external server to access the image data denoted in reference to the vehicle, for display to the user via VR goggles. An object detected by numerical methods is highlighted in color in the image depicted in the VR goggles.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Tobias Müller
  • Publication number: 20210387427
    Abstract: A shaped article, a method for making it, and its use. The shaped article is formed from flat fiber material and has a bottom (2), a body (4), and an opening, which is surrounded by a circumferential flange (6). The shaped article (1) comprises a flange stabilizer (10) attached to the second flat side (18) of the flange (6) facing the bottom (2). The flange stabilizer (10) is disc-shaped and has an inner contour (12) corresponding to the desired cross-sectional shape of the shaped article (1) in the region of the opening and can be slipped over the body (4) in the region of the bottom (2) and up to the flange (6). The flat sides (16, 18) of the flange stabilizer (10) extend essentially parallel to the flange (6), defining and stabilizing the cross-sectional shape of the body (4) in the region of the opening and the flange.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Publication date: December 16, 2021
    Inventor: Tobias Müller
  • Publication number: 20210294044
    Abstract: In a method for aligning a polarization-maintaining optical fiber, in which the optical fiber (7a, 7b, 7c) is held in clamping fashion by means of a clamping device (12, 19, 23), a given rotational position of the optical fiber (7a, 7b, 7c) about the fiber longitudinal axis is detected, and the optical fiber (7a, 7b, 7c) is rotated about the fiber longitudinal axis by means of the clamping device (12, 19, 23), it is proposed that at least one clamping element (13, 14, 20-22, 24-27) of the clamping device (12, 19, 23), said clamping element abutting against the optical fiber (7a, 7b, 7c), is moved relative to at least one further clamping element (13, 14, 20-22, 24-27) of the clamping device (12, 13, 17), said at least one further clamping element likewise abutting against the optical fiber (7a, 7b, 7c), for the purposes of rotating the optical fiber (7a, 7b, 7c). Moreover, a correspondingly configured apparatus is presented.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Publication date: September 23, 2021
    Inventors: Sebastian Haag, Andrea Alippi, Tobias Müller, Daniel Zontar, Ronald Dekker
  • Publication number: 20210163357
    Abstract: A composition contains at least one microorganism which can form a phosphate or carbonate precipitate in an alkaline medium, and at least one calcium source. The composition has at least one silicon compound having at least one Si-atom, at least one C-atom, and at least one H-atom. The composition can be used in a method for producing a construction product.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2019
    Publication date: June 3, 2021
    Applicant: Evonik Operations GmbH
    Inventors: Tobias Müller, Sarah Hintermayer, Jan Hellriegel, Susanne Christine Martens-Kruck, Isabelle Haas, Lukas Falke, Stella Molck, Lorena Stannek-Göbel, Anke Reinschmidt, Magnus Kloster
  • Publication number: 20210156618
    Abstract: A plate heat exchanger includes a stack of plate pairs arranged within a housing. Comb-like baffles extend into flow gaps between the plate pairs to direct a fluid flow in a sinusoidal pattern within the flow gaps. The flow gaps are divided into two sub-sets of flow gaps, preferably alternatingly arranged along the height of the stack. Legs of some baffles extend into a first sub-set but not into the second sub-set, while legs of some baffles extend into the second sub-set but not into the first sub-set. The baffles are arranged so that the sinusoidal pattern in the second sub-set is phase-shifted form the sinusoidal pattern in the first sub-set.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2020
    Publication date: May 27, 2021
    Inventors: Michael Steffen, Alexander Riebel, Tobias Muller
  • Publication number: 20200278271
    Abstract: A method is disclosed for determining mechanical robustness of an overhead stowage bin for an aircraft includes repeatedly effecting an impact of a test body against an impact surface of the overhead stowage bin with a predefined impact force by a robotic arm of a manipulator, and investigating damage parameters of the overhead stowage bin.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 27, 2020
    Publication date: September 3, 2020
    Inventors: Johann KIM, Ludger MERZ, Tobias MÜLLER, Ulrich MEIER-NOE, Maik SIMON, Franz KRAUSE
  • Publication number: 20200151472
    Abstract: At least one image of an interior of a vehicle is captured by at least one camera present in the vehicle. Image data of the at least one image that are denoted in reference to the vehicle are transmitted to an external server. A user is authorized by the external server to access the image data denoted in reference to the vehicle, for display to the user via VR goggles. An object detected by numerical methods is highlighted in color in the image depicted in the VR goggles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 18, 2018
    Publication date: May 14, 2020
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventor: Tobias MÜLLER
  • Publication number: 20190358925
    Abstract: The invention relates to a die for arrangement in a press, wherein the die extends along an axial direction between two end faces and forms an inner peripheral surface between the end faces, wherein the die extends from the inner peripheral surface along a radial direction toward an outer peripheral surface and toward at least one centering surface that is disposed in the radial direction on a first diameter, wherein the die has a pressing zone that is spaced apart from the end faces and, in the vicinity of the pressing zone, the die has a greater maximum first stiffness, at least relative to zones of the die that are arranged on the end faces, compared to a pressing force acting on the inner peripheral surface in a direction of a normal vector, and wherein the maximum first stiffness is at least 10% greater than a minimum second stiffness that is present in at least one zone that is arranged on one of the end faces.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2017
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Rainer Schmitt, Tobias Müller, Thomas Schupp
  • Publication number: 20170057678
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for producing three-dimensional molded parts from a continuous sheet of a flat, plastically malleable fiber material via deep drawing with a stamp and an associated die, wherein the fiber material between the stamp and the die can be reshaped via a relative movement. The object of the instant invention is to offer a method and a device for producing three-dimensional molded parts in which the reshaping is done via deep drawing from a cut-to-size section in the continuous sheet and which leads to a high reshaping ratio. The problem is solved by connecting the round, rectangular, oval or irregular cut-to-size section for the molded part during the deep-drawing process to the continuous sheet of fiber material via at least one web and otherwise separating it from the continuous sheet via at least one stress-easing cut; a reshaping ratio, as the ratio of the diameter and the depth, of greater than 0.2 can be realized.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 30, 2015
    Publication date: March 2, 2017
    Inventors: Marek Hauptmann, Tobias Müller