Patents by Inventor Torben Nielsen

Torben Nielsen 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: 20250035120
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of an apparatus for detecting hydraulic shock events in a fluid system, the apparatus comprising a vibration sensor operable to output a vibration sensor signal indicative of sensed vibrations of one or more components of the fluid system, and a processing unit configured to: obtain a vibration velocity signal from the vibration sensor signal, the vibration velocity signal being indicative of a vibration velocity of the one or more components of the fluid system; detect one or more peaks in the vibration velocity signal; and classify one or more of the detected peaks as a hydraulic shock event.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Publication date: January 30, 2025
    Inventors: Torben NIELSEN, Jesper Thørring DAMGAARD
  • Publication number: 20250020128
    Abstract: Disclosed herein are embodiments of an apparatus for detecting hydraulic shock events in a fluid system, the fluid system comprising a pump assembly, the pump assembly comprising a pump, in particular a centrifugal pump, and a pump motor, the apparatus comprising means for monitoring a pump speed of the pump and/or for monitoring a motor frequency; and a processing unit configured to detect a variation in the monitored pump speed and/or motor frequency; and detect a hydraulic shock event from the detected variation in the monitored pump speed and/or motor frequency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 16, 2022
    Publication date: January 16, 2025
    Inventors: Torben NIELSEN, Jesper Thørring DAMGAARD
  • Publication number: 20250014695
    Abstract: A method implemented by one or more computer device includes accessing a set of medical data associated with a patient, in which the set of medical data includes a plurality of modalities of medical data. The method includes inputting one or more one of the plurality of modalities of medical data into a first machine-learning model trained to generate a first vector representation and inputting another one of the plurality of modalities of medical data into a second machine-learning model trained to generate a second vector representation. The method includes generating a combined vector representation based on the first vector representation and the second vector representation, and storing the combined vector representation to a database associated with the one or more computing devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 17, 2024
    Publication date: January 9, 2025
    Inventors: Gunther JANSEN, Marius René GARMHAUSEN, Benjamin TORBEN-NIELSEN, Otto Eric FAJARDO BENAVIDES, Phil Pascal ARNOLD
  • Publication number: 20240397675
    Abstract: The invention refers to a heat transfer assembly for cooling an electronic power circuitry, said heat transfer assembly comprising a base member and at least one electronic power component in heat conductive contact for transferring heat to said base member, a heat transfer chamber adjoining said base member and being provided with fins extending from said base member into said heat transfer chamber for transferring heat to a flow of cooling medium extending through said heat transfer chamber and passing through spaces between said fins, said heat transfer assembly is designed such that said flow of cooling medium comprising an environment induced flow extending through said heat transfer chamber and entering said heat transfer chamber with respect to the direction of gravity in a lower section thereof and exiting from said heat transfer chamber with respect to said direction of gravity from an upper section thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 6, 2024
    Publication date: November 28, 2024
    Applicant: BITZER Electronics A/S
    Inventors: Lasse Christian Larsen, Torben Nielsen
  • Patent number: 12111800
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method for generating and maintaining at least one data center procedure is provided. The system includes a communication network, a storage device configured to store a plurality of basic unit instructions, one or more of the basic unit instructions having at least one procedure identifier, at least one processor coupled to the storage device and the communication network, and one or more components executable by the at least one processor and collectively configured to receive at least one data value associated with a data center, select at least one procedure identifier based on the at least one data value, identify a plurality of basic unit instructions associated with the at least one procedure identifier, assemble a data center procedure from the plurality of identified basic unit instructions, and provide the data center procedure to a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2024
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Torben Nielsen, Mikkel Dalgas
  • Patent number: 12089379
    Abstract: The invention refers to a heat transfer assembly for cooling an electronic power circuitry, said heat transfer assembly comprising a base member and at least one electronic power component in heat conductive contact for transferring heat to said base member, a heat transfer chamber adjoining said base member and being provided with fins extending from said base member into said heat transfer chamber for transferring heat to a flow of cooling medium extending through said heat transfer chamber and passing through spaces between said fins, said heat transfer assembly is designed such that said flow of cooling medium comprising an environment induced flow extending through said heat transfer chamber and entering said heat transfer chamber with respect to the direction of gravity in a lower section thereof and exiting from said heat transfer chamber with respect to said direction of gravity from an upper section thereof.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 10, 2024
    Assignee: BITZER Electronics A/S
    Inventors: Lasse Christian Larsen, Torben Nielsen
  • Publication number: 20230342343
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method for generating and maintaining at least one data center procedure is provided. The system includes a communication network, a storage device configured to store a plurality of basic unit instructions, one or more of the basic unit instructions having at least one procedure identifier, at least one processor coupled to the storage device and the communication network, and one or more components executable by the at least one processor and collectively configured to receive at least one data value associated with a data center, select at least one procedure identifier based on the at least one data value, identify a plurality of basic unit instructions associated with the at least one procedure identifier, assemble a data center procedure from the plurality of identified basic unit instructions, and provide the data center procedure to a user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2023
    Publication date: October 26, 2023
    Inventors: Torben Nielsen, Mikkel Dalgas
  • Patent number: 11687502
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method for generating and maintaining at least one data center procedure is provided. The system includes a communication network, a storage device configured to store a plurality of basic unit instructions, one or more of the basic unit instructions having at least one procedure identifier, at least one processor coupled to the storage device and the communication network, and one or more components executable by the at least one processor and collectively configured to receive at least one data value associated with a data center, select at least one procedure identifier based on the at least one data value, identify a plurality of basic unit instructions associated with the at least one procedure identifier, assemble a data center procedure from the plurality of identified basic unit instructions, and provide the data center procedure to a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Torben Nielsen, Mikkel Dalgas
  • Publication number: 20230112591
    Abstract: A method of verifying multi-modal medical data is proposed. The method comprises: accessing multi-modal medical data of a subject, the multi-modal medical data comprising a medical image of a specimen slide, wherein a specimen in the specimen slide was collected from the subject; generating a prediction pertaining to a biological attribute of the medical image based on the medical image; determining a degree of consistency between the biological attribute of the medical image and other modalities of the multi-modal medical data; and outputting, based on the degree of consistency, an indication of whether the multi-modal medical data contain inconsistency.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 13, 2022
    Publication date: April 13, 2023
    Applicant: Roche Molecular Systems, Inc.
    Inventors: Bejamin Torben-Nielsen, Fernando Garcia-Alcalde, Vincent Mauduit, Corentin Christophe Karim Guerendel, Phil Pascal Arnold
  • Publication number: 20230009959
    Abstract: A measuring adapter for a measuring instrument for use in connection with hip prosthesis surgery comprises a measuring head and a connector. The measuring head comprises a front end, a rear end and convex upper surface and is divided into at least two separate sections. The measuring head comprises an axially extending central through-going bore adapted to receive an actuating rod . The measuring head is expandable from a relaxed state to an expanded state by axially displacing the actuating rod in the central through-going bore. The connector is hollow and divided at one end in axial direction of the measuring head into a number of legs corresponding to the number of separate sections of the measuring head; each leg being connected to one of the sections of the measuring head. At least a part of the upper surface of the measuring head is adapted, when in the expanded state, to adopt the shape of a spherical cap or a convex shape comprising at least a spherical segment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 8, 2022
    Publication date: January 12, 2023
    Inventors: Eske Winther PETERSEN, Poul Torben NIELSEN
  • Patent number: 11439518
    Abstract: A measuring adapter (1) for a measuring instrument for use in connection with hip prosthesis surgery is provided. The measuring adapter (1) comprises a measuring head (2) and a connector (3); the measuring head (2) comprises a front end (2a), a rear end (2b) and an upper surface (4a). The upper surface (4a) is convex. The measuring head (2), along an axial direction of the measuring adapter (1), further comprises a central through-going bore (5) adapted to receive an actuating rod (8). The measuring head (2) is adapted to expand from a relaxed state to an expanded state when the actuating rod (8) is axially displaced in the central through-going bore (5); and the measuring head (2) is divided into at least two separate sections (6). The connector (3) is hollow and slotted at one end in axial direction of the measuring head (2) into a number of legs (7), the number of legs (7) corresponding to the number of the at least two separate sections (6) of the measuring head (2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: MEDICHANICAL ENGINEERING APS
    Inventors: Eske Winther Petersen, Poul Torben Nielsen
  • Patent number: 11231016
    Abstract: A method for calibrating a wind direction measurement for a wind turbine is provided. The method including: measuring plural samples of a relative wind direction representing a difference angle between a real wind direction and an orientation of a measurement equipment, in particular a direction orthogonal to a rotor blade plane, to obtain plural measured relative wind directions; deriving a measured relative wind direction change based on the measured relative wind directions; measuring plural samples of a performance parameter indicating a performance of the wind turbine; deriving a performance change based on the plural samples of the performance parameter; determining a correlation value between the measured relative wind direction change and the performance change; measuring further plural samples of the relative wind direction; and correcting the further measured relative wind directions based on the correlation value, to obtain corrected further measured relative wind directions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 25, 2022
    Inventor: Torben Nielsen
  • Publication number: 20210337698
    Abstract: The invention refers to a heat transfer assembly for cooling an electronic power circuitry, said heat transfer assembly comprising a base member and at least one electronic power component in heat conductive contact for transferring heat to said base member, a heat transfer chamber adjoining said base member and being provided with fins extending from said base member into said heat transfer chamber for transferring heat to a flow of cooling medium extending through said heat transfer chamber and passing through spaces between said fins, said heat transfer assembly is designed such that said flow of cooling medium comprising an environment induced flow extending through said heat transfer chamber and entering said heat transfer chamber with respect to the direction of gravity in a lower section thereof and exiting from said heat transfer chamber with respect to said direction of gravity from an upper section thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 9, 2021
    Publication date: October 28, 2021
    Applicant: BITZER Electronics A/S
    Inventors: Lasse Christian Larsen, Torben Nielsen
  • Publication number: 20210131403
    Abstract: A method is provided for determining calibration information for at least one wind speed sensor of a wind turbine, wherein measured wind speed information is provided by the at least one wind speed sensor, wherein free wind speed information is estimated based on wind turbine individual operational information, wherein the calibration information is determined based on the measured wind speed information and the estimated free wind speed information. Further, a wind turbine and a device as well as a computer program product and a computer readable medium are suggested for performing the method.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 24, 2017
    Publication date: May 6, 2021
    Inventor: TORBEN NIELSEN
  • Patent number: 10956841
    Abstract: A system and method of measuring efficiency of a datacenter is provided. The method includes the acts of identifying at least one space within a model of a datacenter, the at least one space including a first equipment group consuming at least one shared resource provided by at least one shared resource provider, determining an amount of power consumed by the first equipment group, determining an amount of the at least one shared resource consumed by the first equipment group, determining an amount of power consumed by the at least one shared resource, calculating a loss of the first equipment group, and calculating an efficiency metric based on the amount of power consumed by the first equipment group, the amount of power consumed by the at least one shared resource provider, the loss of the first equipment group, and the loss of the at least one shared resource provider.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 28, 2013
    Date of Patent: March 23, 2021
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Kristian Toustrup Langborg-Hansen, Torben Nielsen, Mikkel Dalgas
  • Publication number: 20210049136
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method for generating and maintaining at least one data center procedure is provided. The system includes a communication network, a storage device configured to store a plurality of basic unit instructions, one or more of the basic unit instructions having at least one procedure identifier, at least one processor coupled to the storage device and the communication network, and one or more components executable by the at least one processor and collectively configured to receive at least one data value associated with a data center, select at least one procedure identifier based on the at least one data value, identify a plurality of basic unit instructions associated with the at least one procedure identifier, assemble a data center procedure from the plurality of identified basic unit instructions, and provide the data center procedure to a user interface.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 21, 2020
    Publication date: February 18, 2021
    Inventors: Torben Nielsen, Mikkel Dalgas
  • Patent number: 10817485
    Abstract: A computer-implemented system and method for generating and maintaining at least one data center procedure is provided. The system includes a communication network, a storage device configured to store a plurality of basic unit instructions, one or more of the basic unit instructions having at least one procedure identifier, at least one processor coupled to the storage device and the communication network, and one or more components executable by the at least one processor and collectively configured to receive at least one data value associated with a data center, select at least one procedure identifier based on the at least one data value, identify a plurality of basic unit instructions associated with the at least one procedure identifier, assemble a data center procedure from the plurality of identified basic unit instructions, and provide the data center procedure to a user interface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 30, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 27, 2020
    Assignee: SCHNEIDER ELECTRIC IT CORPORATION
    Inventors: Torben Nielsen, Mikkel Dalgas
  • Publication number: 20200205999
    Abstract: A measuring adapter (1) for a measuring instrument for use in connection with hip prosthesis surgery is provided. The measuring adapter (1) comprises a measuring head (2) and a connector (3); the measuring head (2) comprises a front end (2a), a rear end (2b) and an upper surface (4a). The upper surface (4a) is convex. The measuring head (2), along an axial direction of the measuring adapter (1), further comprises a central through-going bore (5) adapted to receive an actuating rod (8). The measuring head (2) is adapted to expand from a relaxed state to an expanded state when the actuating rod (8) is axially displaced in the central through-going bore (5); and the measuring head (2) is divided into at least two separate sections (6). The connector (3) is hollow and slotted at one end in axial direction of the measuring head (2) into a number of legs (7), the number of legs (7) corresponding to the number of the at least two separate sections (6) of the measuring head (2).
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2018
    Publication date: July 2, 2020
    Inventors: Eske Winther PETERSEN, Poul Torben NIELSEN
  • Publication number: 20200182225
    Abstract: Provided is a method of determining a value of a wind speed, the method including: measuring a first value of the wind speed using a first wind speed sensor; measuring at least one second value of the wind speed using at least one second wind speed sensor; estimating a third value of the wind speed based on at least one operational parameter of a wind turbine having a rotating rotor at which rotor blades are connected and having a generator coupled to the rotor; determining a fourth value of the wind speed by taking into account the first value and the at least one second value weighted based on the third value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 15, 2018
    Publication date: June 11, 2020
    Inventor: Torben Nielsen
  • Publication number: 20190385303
    Abstract: A post-surgery method for evaluating the quality of an insertion of an orthopedic implant (20) after surgery is provided. The method comprises the steps of determining at least two individual quality parameters (60) derived from at least one radiologic image (40) of the area comprising the orthopedic implant (20). The method further comprises the step of computing a total score (70) based on said at least two individual quality parameters (60), wherein the total score is indicative of the quality of the insertion of the orthopedic implant, and storing the total score.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 15, 2018
    Publication date: December 19, 2019
    Inventors: Eske Winther Petersen, Poul Torben Nielsen