Patents by Inventor Tobias Paul

Tobias Paul 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: 11963076
    Abstract: Disclosed is a field device adapter for wireless data transfer for connection to a field-device-internal interface provided for a display, comprising: an interface for connection to the field-device-internal interface; a radio module configured to wirelessly transmit a data packet on a low-power wide-area network, wherein the radio module is further configured to only transmit the data packet and not to receive any data packets; adapter electronics configured to limit an energy provided via the field-device-internal interface to a predefined value and to charge a stored energy source with the limited energy. The adapter electronics are further configured to monitor a state of charge of the stored energy source and, based on the state of charge, to provide the radio module with an energy originating from the stored energy source for transmitting the data packet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 16, 2024
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser SE+Co. KG
    Inventors: Harald Schäuble, Tobias Paul, Patrick Geib, Max Jehle
  • Publication number: 20240082765
    Abstract: The present invention provides a method for treating a used particulate filter, comprising: removing particulates from the particulate filter; and introducing simulated ash into inlet channels of the particulate filter after removing the particulates.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 1, 2021
    Publication date: March 14, 2024
    Inventors: Jia Di Zhang, Teng Shen, Jian Li, Wen Ji Song, Tobias Paul, Martin Kalwei, Edgar Viktor Huennekes, Weiyong Tang
  • Publication number: 20240035407
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an exhaust gas treatment system for treating an exhaust gas stream exiting a diesel engine, wherein said exhaust gas treatment system comprises a first catalyst having an inlet end and an outlet end and comprising a coating disposed on a substrate, wherein the coating comprises palladium supported on an oxidic material comprising zirconium and further comprises one or more of a vanadium oxide and a zeolitic material comprising one or more of copper and iron; a second catalyst having an inlet end and an outlet end and comprising a coating disposed on a substrate, wherein the coating comprises one or more of a vanadium oxide and a zeolitic material comprising one or more of copper and iron, wherein at most 0.0001 weight-% of the coating of the second catalyst consists of platinum group metal.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 8, 2021
    Publication date: February 1, 2024
    Inventors: Robert Dorner, Tobias Paul, Edgar Viktor Huennekes, Jan Martin Becker, Kevin Beard
  • Publication number: 20230219039
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an exhaust gas treatment system for treating exhaust gas from a lean burn combustion engine, wherein said exhaust gas comprises hydrocarbons and NOx, the exhaust gas treatment system comprising: (i) a means for injecting hydrocarbons into an exhaust gas stream; (ii) a diesel oxidation catalyst (DOC) comprising a substrate and a catalyst coating provided on the substrate, wherein the catalyst coating comprises one or more platinum group metals, wherein the one or more platinum group metals comprise platinum; (iii) a means for injecting a nitrogenous reducing agent into an exhaust gas stream; and (iv) a multifunctional catalyst (MFC) comprising an oxidation catalyst, and a selective catalytic reduction (SCR) catalyst for the selective catalytic reduction of NOx, wherein the MFC comprises a substrate and a catalyst coating provided on the substrate, wherein the catalyst coating comprises the oxidation catalyst and the SCR catalyst, wherein the oxidation catalyst comprises one or
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 11, 2021
    Publication date: July 13, 2023
    Inventors: Robert DORNER, Ansgar WILLE, Tobias PAUL
  • Publication number: 20230092222
    Abstract: A method for wirelessly transmitting data packets within a measuring system from multiple field devices to a superordinate unit via a wireless interface of the each device includes distributing the data packet to the field devices; synchronizing the wireless interfaces of the field devices such that the wireless interfaces transmit with a defined phase shift relative to one another in each particular case; and transmitting the data packet to the superordinate unit via the wireless interfaces of the at least two field devices in synchronized fashion. This allows the data packet to be received by the superordinate unit with increased transmission reliability according to the invention. This ensures the data transmission between one of the field devices and the superordinate unit without a repeater or other added complexity even when there are individual obstacles.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2021
    Publication date: March 23, 2023
    Inventor: Tobias Paul
  • Patent number: 11496003
    Abstract: A field device for automation, comprising: a housing; arranged within the housing, a field device electronics, to which a maximum power is made available via a two-wire line; a memory element for storing of data, wherein the memory element, for exchange of data and/or for energy supply, is electrically connected with the field device electronics and, at least in the case of storing the data, requires a power, which at least at times is higher than the maximum power available via the two-wire line; a first, NFC antenna, which is adapted wirelessly to receive an auxiliary energy and to provide the auxiliary energy to the field device electronics; a second antenna, which is adapted to communicate the data wirelessly and to exchange such with the field device electronics; wherein the field device electronics is adapted to supply the memory element with the auxiliary energy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: ENDRESS+HAUSER SE+CO. KG
    Inventors: Harald Schäuble, Simon Gerwig, Tobias Paul, Patrick Geib
  • Patent number: 11456621
    Abstract: A field device of automation technology includes a field device housing and a field device electronics arranged in the field device housing. The field device also includes a first rechargeable battery arranged in the field device housing for energy supply of the field device electronics and a receiving unit with a receiving coil for receiving wirelessly inductively transmitted energy. The receiving unit is connected with the rechargeable battery so that the received, wirelessly inductively transmitted energy is storable, and is stored, in the rechargeable battery. The field device electronics is adapted in such a manner that energy supply occurs exclusively or at least partially from the first rechargeable battery and wherein the receiving unit and the receiving coil are adapted to receive wirelessly inductively transmitted energy as defined in a Qi standard 1.2.4 or a standard derived therefrom and to store such in the first rechargeable battery.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: ENDRESS+HAUSER SE+CO. KG
    Inventors: Tobias Paul, Ralph Stib, Harald Schäuble, Patrick Geib, Simon Gerwig, Mike Frank
  • Patent number: 11436174
    Abstract: Configuration switch-for setting a specific configuration from a plurality of settable configurations, wherein the configuration switch-has at least one plurality of selectable, mutually differing RC combinations, wherein each RC combination has at least one specific, characteristic variable, which is associated with a settable configuration and wherein to set the specific configuration a specific RC combination is selected/selectable, so that via an output signal-on an output-of the configuration switch, which output signal-comprises the specific, characteristic variable of the selected RC combination, the specific configuration to be set is established based on the specific, characteristic variable.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2022
    Assignee: ENDRESS+HAUSER SE+CO. KG
    Inventors: Harald Schäuble, Tobias Paul, Simon Gerwig, Max Bauer
  • Publication number: 20220150826
    Abstract: A method for operating a wireless field-device network, comprising: wirelessly transmitting a process variable and an expected remaining running time from each field device to the other field devices within a field-device network so that in each field device the process variable and the expected remaining running time of the other field devices of the field-device network are stored; activating a second radio module of that field device which has the highest expected remaining running time, and deactivating the second radio modules of the other field devices within the field-device network; wirelessly transmitting the process variables of all field devices of the field-device network stored in the active field device, or at least a subset of the stored process variables, to the superordinate unit, which is not part of the field-device network, by means of the second radio module of the active field device.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2020
    Publication date: May 12, 2022
    Inventors: Tobias Paul, Ralph Stib, Harald Schäuble, Patrick Geib, Simon Gerwig, Mike Frank
  • Publication number: 20220014883
    Abstract: Disclosed is a field device adapter for wireless data transfer for connection to a field-device-internal interface provided for a display, comprising: an interface for connection to the field-device-internal interface; a radio module configured to wirelessly transmit a data packet on a low-power wide-area network, wherein the radio module is further configured to only transmit the data packet and not to receive any data packets; adapter electronics configured to limit an energy provided via the field-device-internal interface to a predefined value and to charge a stored energy source with the limited energy. The adapter electronics are further configured to monitor a state of charge of the stored energy source and, based on the state of charge, to provide the radio module with an energy originating from the stored energy source for transmitting the data packet.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Publication date: January 13, 2022
    Inventors: Harald Schäuble, Tobias Paul, Patrick Geib, Max Jehle
  • Publication number: 20210133137
    Abstract: Configuration switch-for setting a specific configuration from a plurality of settable configurations, wherein the configuration switch-has at least one plurality of selectable, mutually differing RC combinations, wherein each RC combination has at least one specific, characteristic variable, which is associated with a settable configuration and wherein to set the specific configuration a specific RC combination is selected/selectable, so that via an output signal-on an output-of the configuration switch, which output signal-comprises the specific, characteristic variable of the selected RC combination, the specific configuration to be set is established based on the specific, characteristic variable.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 15, 2018
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventors: Harald Schäuble, Tobias Paul, Simon Gerwig, Max Bauer
  • Publication number: 20200393815
    Abstract: A field device for automation, comprising: a housing; arranged within the housing, a field device electronics, to which a maximum power is made available via a two-wire line; a memory element for storing of data, wherein the memory element, for exchange of data and/or for energy supply, is electrically connected with the field device electronics and, at least in the case of storing the data, requires a power, which at least at times is higher than the maximum power available via the two-wire line; a first, NFC antenna, which is adapted wirelessly to receive an auxiliary energy and to provide the auxiliary energy to the field device electronics; a second antenna, which is adapted to communicate the data wirelessly and to exchange such with the field device electronics; wherein the field device electronics is adapted to supply the memory element with the auxiliary energy.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 8, 2018
    Publication date: December 17, 2020
    Inventors: Harald Schäuble, Simon Gerwig, Tobias Paul, Patrick Geib
  • Publication number: 20200244103
    Abstract: A field device of automation technology includes a field device housing and a field device electronics arranged in the field device housing. The field device also includes a first rechargeable battery arranged in the field device housing for energy supply of the field device electronics and a receiving unit with a receiving coil for receiving wirelessly inductively transmitted energy. The receiving unit is connected with the rechargeable battery so that the received, wirelessly inductively transmitted energy is storable, and is stored, in the rechargeable battery. The field device electronics is adapted in such a manner that energy supply occurs exclusively or at least partially from the first rechargeable battery and wherein the receiving unit and the receiving coil are adapted to receive wirelessly inductively transmitted energy as defined in a Qi standard 1.2.4 or a standard derived therefrom and to store such in the first rechargeable battery.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 21, 2020
    Publication date: July 30, 2020
    Inventors: Tobias Paul, Ralph Stib, Harald Schäuble, Patrick Geib, Simon Gerwig, Mike Frank
  • Patent number: 10726685
    Abstract: Field device of automation technology, comprising: a housing; arranged in or on the housing a first light emitting means, which serves as visual status display and which is arranged in such a manner that it is visible externally of the housing; arranged in the housing a second light emitting means, which is adapted to activate the first light emitting means such that the first light emitting means emits light; located in the housing a field device electronics, which is adapted to activate the second light emitting means via a signal with a predetermined frequency such that the second light emitting means emits light, such that the second light emitting means activates the first light emitting means such that the first light emitting means emits light.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Endress+Hauser SE+Co. KG
    Inventors: Harald Schäuble, Tobias Paul, Benjamin Monse, Kaj Uppenkamp
  • Publication number: 20200186388
    Abstract: The application discloses a power-over-Ethernet-based field device comprising a field device housing, an Ethernet connection so that the field device is suppliable with energy and can exchange data with the network, a voltage converter electronics for converting a voltage applied to the Ethernet connection to an operating voltage, and a field device electronics, which is supplied the operating voltage, and which serves for registering a process variable and communicating the registered process variable in the form of process data via the Ethernet connection, wherein the voltage converter electronics has a first means to heat the interior of the field device housing to a first threshold temperature and which contributes to converting the voltage applied to the Ethernet connection into the operating voltage so that the field device electronics can register the process variable and communicate the registered process variable in the form of process data via the Ethernet connection.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 22, 2017
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventors: Tobias Paul, Ralph Stib, Patrick Geib
  • Patent number: 10379509
    Abstract: An automation technology field device with at least two connection terminals to which a two-wire line or a four-wire line can be connected, such that a loop current can be supplied to the field device via the connection terminals. A safety device is provided which is used to ensure the electromagnetic compatibility and/or the explosion proofing of the field device, wherein the safety device is connected to each connection terminal via one line each, and wherein at least one current converter arranged around the line is provided, which reads back the loop current in at least one of the two lines between the safety device or parts of the safety device and the connection terminals in a galvanically isolated manner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Date of Patent: August 13, 2019
    Assignee: ENDRESS+HAUSER SE+CO.KG
    Inventors: Tobias Paul, Ralph Stib
  • Publication number: 20190114879
    Abstract: Field device of automation technology, comprising: a housing; arranged in or on the housing a first light emitting means, which serves as visual status display and which is arranged in such a manner that it is visible externally of the housing; arranged in the housing a second light emitting means, which is adapted to activate the first light emitting means such that the first light emitting means emits light; located in the housing a field device electronics, which is adapted to activate the second light emitting means via a signal with a predetermined frequency such that the second light emitting means emits light, such that the second light emitting means activates the first light emitting means such that the first light emitting means emits light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2017
    Publication date: April 18, 2019
    Inventors: Harald Schäuble, Tobias Paul, Benjamin Monse, Kaj Uppenkamp
  • Patent number: 9692318
    Abstract: A synchronous rectifier, which rectifies an alternating voltage signal as an input signal and/or forwards a dc voltage signal as an input signal for use as an output signal. Included is a rectifying unit composed of at least one controllable switch element; a smoothing unit, which is connected to the rectifying unit and smooths the signal rectified or forwarded by the rectifying unit, in order to provide a smoothed signal for use as output signal; a control logic, which controls the rectifying unit based on the input signal and the output signal coming from the smoothing unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2017
    Assignee: Endress + Hauser GmbH + Co. KG
    Inventors: Tobias Paul, Niels Donkers, Juan Angel Alonso-Schonlau, Klaus Ruf
  • Publication number: 20160349713
    Abstract: An automation technology field device with at least two connection terminals to which a two-wire line or a four-wire line can be connected, such that a loop current can be supplied to the field device via the connection terminals. A safety device is provided which is used to ensure the electromagnetic compatibility and/or the explosion proofing of the field device, wherein the safety device is connected to each connection terminal via one line each, and wherein at least one current converter arranged around the line is provided, which reads back the loop current in at least one of the two lines between the safety device or parts of the safety device and the connection terminals in a galvanically isolated manner.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 30, 2015
    Publication date: December 1, 2016
    Inventors: Tobias PAUL, Ralph STIB
  • Patent number: 9436573
    Abstract: Multifunctional I/O apparatus having one connection terminal with two connections and an electronic circuit, which with the assistance of a plurality of settable operating states detects an active input signal or passive input signal applied on the two connections of the connection terminal or controls/switches an externally driven load.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 6, 2016
    Assignee: Endress + Hauser GmbH & Co. KG
    Inventors: Tobias Paul, Ralph Stib, Armend Zenuni