Patents by Inventor Tomas Gustafsson
Tomas Gustafsson 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: 20210352423Abstract: A method for diagnosing an audio system in a vehicle includes generating an audio signal of a particular frequency for at least one speaker in the audio system, transmitting the generated audio signal to a compare function in the audio system in response to the generating of the audio signal, outputting the generated audio signal in the at least one speaker in the audio system, receiving the outputted audio signal in at least one microphone in the audio system, transmitting the received audio signal to the compare function in the audio system in response to the receiving of the audio signal, determining by the compare function a similarity between the generated and the received audio signal, and setting a confidence level on the determined similarity based on a current operational mode of the vehicle.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 23, 2021Publication date: November 11, 2021Inventors: Tomas GUSTAFSSON, Ajay DHAKSHANA MURTHY
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Patent number: 10913357Abstract: A method for monitoring electrical insulation resistance in an electric system includes: supplying electric power from an external power supply via a first conductor and a second conductor; feeding the electric power to the electric system via a first current collector and a second current collector, each of which are configured to be electrically connected to the electric system via a first main contactor and a second main contactor, respectively; and monitoring the insulation resistance by means of an insulation resistance monitoring unit associated with a control unit and connected to each of the main contactors. The method further includes: maintaining the main contactors in a closed state when the current collectors are disconnected from the conductors, thereby allowing monitoring of the insulation resistance; opening the main contactors and subsequently connecting the current collectors to the conductors; and closing the main contactors thereby allowing monitoring of the insulation resistance.Type: GrantFiled: December 22, 2015Date of Patent: February 9, 2021Assignee: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATIONInventor: Tomas Gustafsson
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Publication number: 20200156174Abstract: A pickup mechanism for feeding of weld pins from a magazine to a welding electrode of a welding gun, where the pickup mechanism is attachable to the welding gun in connection to the welding electrode, and where the magazine is attachable to the pickup mechanism, the pickup mechanism comprises a movable pickup lever arm displaceable between a pickup position and a delivery position, where the pickup lever arm is adapted for displacing the weld pin from a pickup position in the magazine to a welding position at the welding electrode; wherein the pickup lever arm has a pickup part comprising a feeding portion for feeding the weld pins from the pickup position to the welding position, where the pickup part comprises a retrieving portion arranged with a sliding surface for displacing the pickup lever arm in a direction essentially perpendicular to the direction of the movement between the delivery position and the pickup position when the sliding surface is in contact with a first weld pin in the magazine, and wheType: ApplicationFiled: June 27, 2018Publication date: May 21, 2020Applicant: BM SVETS ABInventors: Mattias NYSTRÖM, Jan WARME, Christer BLOMBERG, Henric BLOMBERG, Tomas GUSTAFSSON
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Publication number: 20190001821Abstract: A method for monitoring electrical insulation resistance in an electric system includes: supplying electric power from an external power supply via a first conductor and a second conductor; feeding the electric power to the electric system via a first current collector and a second current collector, each of which are configured to be electrically connected to the electric system via a first main contactor and a second main contactor, respectively; and monitoring the insulation resistance by means of an insulation resistance monitoring unit associated with a control unit and connected to each of the main contactors. The method further includes: maintaining the main contactors in a closed state when the current collectors are disconnected from the conductors, thereby allowing monitoring of the insulation resistance; opening the main contactors and subsequently connecting the current collectors to the conductors; and closing the main contactors thereby allowing monitoring of the insulation resistance.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 22, 2015Publication date: January 3, 2019Applicant: VOLVO TRUCK CORPORATIONInventor: Tomas GUSTAFSSON
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Patent number: 9707041Abstract: The present invention relates to a model based positioning system that includes a positioning device having at least one transmitter configured to be in a tracking environment, e.g. inserted into a body, a receiver having a plurality of receiver elements arranged outside the tracking environment, a control unit configured to measure amplitude and/or phase information of a signal transmitted from the at least one transmitter and received at each receiving element, and a memory unit for storing a model for each receiving element. The control unit is also configured to estimate the position P of the positioning device by comparing the model for each receiving element with the measured received signal for each receiving element.Type: GrantFiled: April 21, 2015Date of Patent: July 18, 2017Assignee: Micropos Medical ABInventors: Roman Iustin, Johan Linder, Erik Isberg, Tomas Gustafsson, Bo Lennernäs
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Publication number: 20150223904Abstract: The present invention relates to a model based positioning system that includes a positioning device having at least one transmitter configured to be in a tracking environment, e.g. inserted into a body, a receiver having a plurality of receiver elements arranged outside the tracking environment, a control unit configured to measure amplitude and/or phase information of a signal transmitted from the at least one transmitter and received at each receiving element, and a memory unit for storing a model for each receiving element. The control unit is also configured to estimate the position P of the positioning device by comparing the model for each receiving element with the measured received signal for each receiving element.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2015Publication date: August 13, 2015Applicant: MICROPOS MEDICAL ABInventors: Roman IUSTIN, Johan LINDER, Erik ISBERG, Tomas GUSTAFSSON, Bo LENNERNÄS
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Patent number: 9042962Abstract: The present invention relates to a model based positioning system that includes a positioning device having at least one transmitter configured to be in a tracking environment, e.g. inserted into a body, a receiver having a plurality of receiver elements arranged outside the tracking environment, a control unit configured to measure amplitude and/or phase information of a signal transmitted from the at least one transmitter and received at each receiving element, and a memory unit M for storing a model for each receiving element. The control unit is also configured to estimate the position P of the positioning device by comparing the model for each receiving element with the measured received signal for each receiving element.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2007Date of Patent: May 26, 2015Assignee: MICROPOS MEDICAL ABInventors: Roman Iustin, Johan Linder, Erik Isberg, Tomas Gustafsson, Bo Lennernäs
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Publication number: 20090234224Abstract: The present invention relates to a positioning device 10, 20, 30, 40, 50 arranged in relation to a target area inside a body. The device comprises at least one transmitter 11, 21-22, 32, 41, 51, and each transmitter is arranged to emit an electromagnetic signal. The electromagnetic signal is adapted to propagate with a wavelength in the body so that a phase difference and/or an amplitude difference of said electromagnetic signal in at least three positions 18 is detectable by a receiver 19 for tracking variations of a position of the positioning device relative to the receiver. The wavelength is selected so that a distance from the transmitter to each of the three positions is within the same integer number of wavelengths of the electromagnetic signal. Each transmitter is connectable to an externally arranged control unit 15, where said electromagnetic signal of each transmitter is generated before transmission. Each transmitter and receiver preferably operates in a near field region.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2006Publication date: September 17, 2009Applicant: MICROPOS MEDICAL ABInventors: Roman Iustin, Tomas Gustafsson, Bo Lennernas, Bengt Rosengren
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Publication number: 20080292054Abstract: The present invention relates to a radiation monitoring device 2; 20; 30; 40; 50; 60; 79, such as an implant or plaster, fixable relative to a target area 1; 73; 84 within a living body 10; 74. The radiation monitoring device is provided with at least one internal element Tx; Tx/Rx; 61, 62 for tracking variations of a position of the device relative to a radiation source 76, 82 arranged outside said target area 1, 73, 84. The radiation monitoring device is further provided with a dose measuring device to detect an administrated dose from the radiation source.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 2, 2006Publication date: November 27, 2008Applicant: Micropos Medical ABInventors: Bengt Rosengren, Bo Lennernas, Roman Iustin, Tomas Gustafsson
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Publication number: 20080154124Abstract: The present invention relates to a model based positioning system 10; 90 that comprises a positioning device 11; 31 having at least one transmitter configured to be in a tracking environment, e.g. inserted into a body 1, a receiver 13 having a plurality of receiver elements 14 arranged outside the tracking environment, a control unit 18; 93 configured to measure amplitude and/or phase information of a signal transmitted from the at least one transmitter and received at each receiving element, and a memory unit M; 15 for storing a model for each receiving element. The control unit is also configured to estimate the position P of the positioning device by comparing the model for each receiving element with the measured received signal for each receiving element.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 6, 2007Publication date: June 26, 2008Applicant: Micropos Medical ABInventors: Roman IUSTIN, Johan LINDER, Erik ISBERG, Tomas GUSTAFSSON, Bo LENNERNAS
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Publication number: 20080125647Abstract: The present invention relates to an antenna system (1, 101, 201, 301, 401, 501) for tracking of a position of a target area (33, 133, 233, 333, 433, 533) within a body (5, 105, 205, 305, 405, 505), comprising a first antenna device (3, 103, 203, 303, 403, 503) and a second antenna device (9, 109, 209, 309, 409, 509), at least said second antenna device (9, 109, 209, 309, 409, 509) is to be located outside said body (5, 105, 205, 305, 405, 505), wherein an interface region (13, 113, 213, 313, 413, 513) between said body (5, 105, 205, 305, 405, 505) and at least said second antenna device (9, 109, 209, 309, 409, 509) at least partially consist of a dielectric medium having a relative permittivity closer to the permittivity of material within the body (5, 105, 205, 305, 405, 505) than the permittivity of air.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 17, 2006Publication date: May 29, 2008Applicant: Micropos Medical ABInventors: Bengt Rosengren, Bo Lennernas, Roman Iustin, Tomas Gustafsson
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Publication number: 20070225596Abstract: The present invention relates to an implant (115) fixable relative to a target area (117) within a living body (105), comprising a transmitter (7; 107; 207; 307) arranged to emit an electromagnetic signal, wherein said electromagnetic signal is adapted to propagate with a wavelength 2 in said living body (105) so that a phase difference of said electromagnetic signal in at least three positions, preferably four, separated by a known distance (b) is detectable by a receiver (9; 109; 209; 309) for tracking variations of a position (p) of the implant (115) relative to said receiver (9; 109; 209; 309). Further, the present invention relates to an apparatus (1; 101; 201; 301), a system and a method for tracking a position (p) of a transmitter (7; 107; 207; 307). Additionally, the invention relates to the use of such a method for treatment of a target area (117) in a living body (105) by means of a radiation therapy treatment arrangement (100).Type: ApplicationFiled: May 3, 2005Publication date: September 27, 2007Applicant: Micropos Medical ABInventors: Roman Iustin, Sten Nilsson, Bengt Rosengren, Johan Linder, Erik Isberg, Tomas Gustafsson, Bo Lennernas, Seymour Levitt
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Patent number: D686730Type: GrantFiled: September 9, 2011Date of Patent: July 23, 2013Assignee: Micropos Medical ABInventors: Roman Iustin, Hanna Syrén, Tomas Gustafsson, Lennart Carlsson