Patents by Inventor Tobias Schwarz
Tobias Schwarz 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).
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Publication number: 20240119091Abstract: A method, computer system, and a computer program product for storing a graph is provided. The present invention may include providing a key-value store. The present invention may include storing a graph in the key-value store, wherein storing a specific node of the graph in the key-value store comprises: storing, as a key, identifiers of the specific node and of k-hop neighborhood of the specific node, and as value of the key, attribute values of the specific node, wherein the k-hop neighborhood of the specific node comprises a set of neighboring nodes that are reachable from the specific node within k edges.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 6, 2022Publication date: April 11, 2024Inventors: Alexander Merschel, Nehal Dudani, Dennis Butterstein, Martin Anton Oberhofer, Thomas Schwarz, Tobias Kevin Fränzel
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Publication number: 20230338125Abstract: A personal care device, such as an electric toothbrush, has a handle having a longitudinal axis and a treatment head connected to a carrier. The carrier extends within the handle and is mounted at the handle for pivoting motion around a pivot axis against a restoring spring force. A drive unit, such as a linear actuator, is mounted on the carrier, and at least one electrical connector is arranged between the handle and the carrier to convey electrical energy from an energy source fixedly mounted with respect to the handle to the drive unit. The electrical connector can be realized as an elastic metal sheet element having a spring constant for providing at least a part of the restoring spring force.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 13, 2023Publication date: October 26, 2023Inventors: Tobias SCHWARZ, Julius HOPPERT, Riccardo DESSI, Christian ELLSAESSER
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Patent number: 11793619Abstract: A personal hygiene device has a drive unit having a support, a stator fixedly mounted at the support, and an armature spring-mounted at the support for driven linear oscillating motion along a first longitudinal direction parallel to or coinciding with an x-axis of an x-y-z coordinate system. The armature has a center of gravity located in rest at a coordinate [xa, ya, za], and a drive shaft fixedly coupled with the armature and having a center of gravity located in rest at a coordinate [xd, yd, zd]. A first treatment head assembly, detachably connected to the drive shaft, has a center of gravity located in rest at a coordinate [xt1, yt1, zt1]. A secondary mass element, spring-mounted at the support for essentially linear oscillating motion along the first longitudinal direction, has a center of gravity located in rest at a coordinate [xm, ym, zm].Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2020Date of Patent: October 24, 2023Assignee: Braun GmbHInventors: Norbert Schaefer, Uwe Schober, Robert Schäfer, Matthias Paschold, Tobias Schwarz
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Patent number: 11712326Abstract: A personal care device, such as an electric toothbrush, has a handle having a longitudinal axis and a treatment head connected to a carrier. The carrier extends within the handle and is mounted at the handle for pivoting motion around a pivot axis against a restoring spring force. A drive unit, such as a linear actuator, is mounted on the carrier, and at least one electrical connector is arranged between the handle and the carrier to convey electrical energy from an energy source fixedly mounted with respect to the handle to the drive unit. The electrical connector can be realized as an elastic metal sheet element having a spring constant for providing at least a part of the restoring spring force.Type: GrantFiled: May 1, 2020Date of Patent: August 1, 2023Assignee: Braun GmbHInventors: Tobias Schwarz, Julius Hoppert, Riccardo Dessi, Christian Ellsaesser
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Publication number: 20230094611Abstract: A medical or dental, hand-held treatment instrument, comprising a single-part or multi-part outer sleeve, at least one controlling element having at least one capacitive sensor and a sensor surface provided on the outer sleeve and operatively connected to the capacitive sensor, wherein the controlling element generates an actuating signal when the sensor surface is touched or approached. The treatment instrument further comprises an indicating device, which is arranged on the treatment instrument and which indicates the sensor surface and/or the generation of an actuating signal due to a contact of the sensor surface or an approach to the sensor surface.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2019Publication date: March 30, 2023Applicant: W&H Dentalwerk Bürmoos GmbHInventors: Christian Pruckner, Tobias Schwarz
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Patent number: 10836301Abstract: A driver assistance system of a motor vehicle includes a lighting system of the motor vehicle, having an illumination unit that illuminates a scene in the surroundings of the vehicle by projecting a number of actuatable pixels, whereby the illumination unit projects a predefined pattern onto the scene. An image capture unit captures an image of at least part of the scene. A computation unit computes at least one geometric property of the scene based on the captured image and the predefined pattern.Type: GrantFiled: November 24, 2017Date of Patent: November 17, 2020Assignees: Conti Temic microelectronic GmbH, Continental Automotive GmbHInventors: Karsten Breuer, Thomas Fechner, Dieter Kroekel, Steffen Goermer, Tobias Schwarz, Bruno Nunes-Silva, Christopher Kuenzel, Maximilian Austerer
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Publication number: 20200345130Abstract: A personal hygiene device has a drive unit having a support, a stator fixedly mounted at the support, and an armature spring-mounted at the support for driven linear oscillating motion along a first longitudinal direction parallel to or coinciding with an x-axis of an x-y-z coordinate system. The armature has a center of gravity located in rest at a coordinate [xa, ya, za], and a drive shaft fixedly coupled with the armature and having a center of gravity located in rest at a coordinate [xd, yd, zd]. A first treatment head assembly, detachably connected to the drive shaft, has a center of gravity located in rest at a coordinate [xt1, yt1, zt1]. A secondary mass element, spring-mounted at the support for essentially linear oscillating motion along the first longitudinal direction, has a center of gravity located in rest at a coordinate [xm, ym, zm].Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2020Publication date: November 5, 2020Inventors: Norbert SCHAEFER, Uwe SCHOBER, Robert SCHÄFER, Matthias PASCHOLD, Tobias SCHWARZ
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Publication number: 20200345129Abstract: A personal care device, such as an electric toothbrush, has a handle having a longitudinal axis and a treatment head connected to a carrier. The carrier extends within the handle and is mounted at the handle for pivoting motion around a pivot axis against a restoring spring force. A drive unit, such as a linear actuator, is mounted on the carrier, and at least one electrical connector is arranged between the handle and the carrier to convey electrical energy from an energy source fixedly mounted with respect to the handle to the drive unit. The electrical connector can be realized as an elastic metal sheet element having a spring constant for providing at least a part of the restoring spring force.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 1, 2020Publication date: November 5, 2020Inventors: Tobias SCHWARZ, Julius HOPPERT, Riccardo DESSI, Christian ELLSAESSER
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Patent number: 10596714Abstract: Electric shaver provided with a handle and a shaver head including at least one cutter element, wherein the shaver head is connected to the handle by a support structure providing for a swivel and/or tilting axis about which the shaver head may swivel or tilt relative to the handle, wherein the cutter element is drivable by a drive unit in an oscillating manner along a cutter oscillation axis, the drive unit including an elongated drive transmitter coupled to the cutter element.Type: GrantFiled: September 25, 2017Date of Patent: March 24, 2020Assignee: Braun GMBHInventors: Andreas Peter, Cirilo Javier Perez Lopez, Andreas Erndt, Detlef Gleich, Sebastian Hottenrott, Tobias Schwarz
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Publication number: 20190344702Abstract: The invention relates to a driver assistance system of a motor vehicle comprising a lighting system (1) of the motor vehicle, having an illumination unit (2) configured to illuminate a scene (3) in the surroundings of the vehicle by projecting a total area (5), consisting of a total number of actuatable pixels (4), wherein the illumination unit (2) is configured to project a predefined pattern onto the scene; an image capture unit (7) configured to capture an image of at least part of the scene; and a computation unit (8) configured to compute at least one geometric property (9; 10) of the scene by means of the captured image and the predefined pattern.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 24, 2017Publication date: November 14, 2019Inventors: Karsten BREUER, Thomas FECHNER, Dieter KROEKEL, Steffen GOERMER, Tobias SCHWARZ, Bruno NUNES-SILVA, Christopher KUENZEL, Maximilian AUSTERER
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Publication number: 20190113679Abstract: A hollow body for light guide cable for ultrashort pulse laser, which is characterized by a spherical shape and a bore for the insertion of an light guide fiber. Hollow body and hollow core fiber can be evacuated prior to bonding and/or filled with a gas at a defined pressure. The two hollow bodies are gas-tightly connected to the optical fiber.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2018Publication date: April 18, 2019Inventor: Tobias Schwarz
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Publication number: 20180085938Abstract: Electric shaver provided with a handle and a shaver head including at least one cutter element, wherein said shaver head is connected to said handle by means of a support structure providing for a swivel and/or tilting axis about which said shaver head may swivel or tilt relative to said handle, wherein said cutter element is drivable by a drive unit in an oscillating manner along a cutter oscillation axis, said drive unit including an elongated drive transmitter coupled to said cutter element.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 25, 2017Publication date: March 29, 2018Inventors: Andreas Peter, Cirilo Javier Perez Lopez, Andreas Erndt, Detlef Gleich, Sebastian Hottenrott, Tobias Schwarz
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Patent number: 9888757Abstract: An attachment for an epilator or an epilator having at least a clamping unit for clamping and plucking hairs that is arranged for driven movement relative to a housing along a hair capture direction is disclosed. The clamping unit has a moveable clamping element having a clamping surface and a hair guiding surface and a fixed clamping element having a clamping surface and a hair guiding surfaced. The moveable clamping element and the fixed clamping element are arranged to be cyclically moveable between an open position in which the two clamping surfaces have a minimal distance such that a gap for receiving hairs is formed between them and a closed position in which the two clamping surfaces abut on each other. The two hair guiding surfaces form a funnel in front of the gap in the open position with respect to the hair capture direction.Type: GrantFiled: October 11, 2013Date of Patent: February 13, 2018Assignee: Braun GmbHInventors: Frieder Grieshaber, Tarik Mehaddene, Bernhard Kraus, Luis Burrell-Diez, Andreas Lennartz, Tobias Schwarz, Markus Halm
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Publication number: 20170336956Abstract: A display and operating device has a touch-sensitive display field by way of which the parameters of a parameter vector can be changed. In order to set the parameters, a structure of circular or annular elements is displayed, on the circumference of which a corresponding contact element is positioned. Using the position of a contact element on the circumference of the ring element, the value of the parameter is coded. The contact element is moved by user interaction to different radial positions about the center of the respective ring element to change the parameter value along the display field in the radial direction, and rotated in the circumferential direction of the ring element. The resolution of the parameter adjustment can be established in a simple and intuitive manner by selecting the radial position of the contact element during its rotation.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 7, 2017Publication date: November 23, 2017Inventors: SIMON BUTSCHER, JENS MUELLER, TOBIAS SCHWARZ
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Patent number: 9770835Abstract: A shaving unit for a dry shaver includes at least one outer cutter and one under cutter. Driven by a motor, the outer cutter and the under cutter are movable relative to each other in an oscillatory motion. The under cutter and the outer cutter, which are biased into relative engagement by at least one spring, slide along a common contact surface. The spring is arranged in such a way that its biasing force always acts at an angle to the direction of oscillation.Type: GrantFiled: January 5, 2009Date of Patent: September 26, 2017Assignee: Braun GmbHInventors: Reinhold Eichhorn, Detlef Gleich, Peter Junk, Christof Kleemann, Michael Odemer, Thorsten Pohl, Tobias Schwarz, Thomas Verstege, Martin Vitt, Juergen Wolf, Christoph Zegula
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Patent number: 9687907Abstract: A casting device includes a mold cavity configured to form a hollow space for a cast part, a casting chamber for a metal melt, a gating system, an annular duct for the metal melt, and at least two annular duct connections configured to connect the casting chamber to the annular duct. The annular duct is configured to be connectable with the mold cavity via the gating system.Type: GrantFiled: May 19, 2014Date of Patent: June 27, 2017Assignee: SCHULER PRESSEN GMBHInventors: Martin Gaebges, Juergen Fahrenbach, Tobias Schwarz
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Patent number: 9642768Abstract: The present invention concerns a skin treatment device for professional and private use. In particular the present invention concerns a skin treatment device comprising a drive unit and an attachment, the drive unit comprising an output element and a rotary support element rotating about an axis of rotation, the rotary support element comprising protrusions, the attachment comprising a skin treatment element and a chassis for the skin treatment element, the chassis comprising a multitude of recesses to cooperate with the protrusions of the rotary support element of the drive unit, wherein the chassis can be supported by the rotary support element and wherein the protrusions can be brought into an engagement position with the recesses, while the chassis is supported by the rotary support element, and the protrusions can be brought into a disengagement position with the recesses, while the chassis is supported by the rotary support element.Type: GrantFiled: July 20, 2012Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: Braun GmbHInventors: Christof Ungemach, Michael Maichel, Ralf Klug, Tobias Schwarz
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Patent number: 9643245Abstract: A method for a die casting with a casting device which includes a casting valve with a valve piston and a post-compression piston configured to provide a post-compression. The method includes providing a casting valve in a closed position and a mold cavity which is cleaned and prepared for a mold filling process, opening the casting valve for a casting, filling the casting valve with a melt, closing the casting valve after the filling with the melt, cooling the casting valve and the melt, and removing a cast part. A post-compression is provided to the melt during the cooling by the post-compression piston.Type: GrantFiled: January 21, 2016Date of Patent: May 9, 2017Assignee: SCHULER PRESSEN GMBHInventors: Juergen Fahrenbach, Martin Gaebges, Michael Richter, Tobias Schwarz
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Patent number: 9592613Abstract: A shaving head for an electric dry shaver includes a base element for carrying at least three cutter units. Each unit provides an outer cutter and an inner cutter arranged to be moved in sliding contact relative to each other. At least one cutter unit includes a foil-type outer cutter. The shaving head further includes a first trimmer-type cutting unit that has a plurality of slots defined by a plurality of adjacent bar elements featuring cutting edges. The shaving head also includes a second trimmer-type cutting unit having an outer cutter that includes a plurality of teeth featuring cutting edges and spaced apart from each other so as to define a plurality of slits.Type: GrantFiled: July 29, 2011Date of Patent: March 14, 2017Assignee: Braun GmbHInventors: Thorsten Pohl, Joachim Krauss, Tobias Schwarz, Peter Junk, Reinhold Eichhorn, Andreas Peter, Michael Odemer, Martin Fuellgrabe, Christoph Zegula, Alois Koeppl, Stefan Fuerst
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Patent number: D776347Type: GrantFiled: June 16, 2016Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignee: Braun GmbHInventors: Frieder Grieshaber, Bjorn Kling, Tarik Mehaddene, Markus Halm, Tobias Schwarz