Patents by Inventor Ulrich Bruening
Ulrich Bruening 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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Patent number: 9164554Abstract: Approaches for a non-volatile, solid-state storage system that is capable of supporting high bandwidth and/or random read/write access. The storage system may include a chassis having a bus slot and a disk bay, a master card mounted in the bus slot, and a flash memory card stacked in the disk bay and cabled to the master card. The master card enables one or more flash memory cards to be communicatively coupled to a single PCI Express bus. The master card may split a multi-lane PCI Express bus into a plurality of lanes, where one or more of the flash memory cards communicate over each of the plurality of lanes. Alternately, the master card may includes active circuitry for processing, switching, routing, reformatting, and/or converting the PCI Express bus into one or more busses for a plurality of flash memory cards. The stacked flash memory card is not in an enclosure.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2011Date of Patent: October 20, 2015Assignee: SANDISK ENTERPRISE IP LLCInventors: Ulrich Bruening, Richard Jordan, Michael J. Koster, Darpan Dinker
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Patent number: 8876408Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing an active optical connection with an optoelectronic element and a light deflection means for light deflection between the optoelectronic element and an optical waveguide arranged transversely with respect to the beam direction of said element. In this case, it is provided that a carrier substrate for the optoelectronic element is arranged in a highly precisely repeatably positioning machine, in particular a flip-chip machine, the optoelectronic element is mounted on the substrate by a or the highly precisely repeatably positioning machine and a curable, moldable compound is applied over the optoelectronic element, and the moldable compound is molded by a mold for molding light deflection means, said mold being moved by a or the highly precisely repeatably positioning machine, and at the earliest thereafter the substrate is removed from the or a highly precisely repeatably positioning machine.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2011Date of Patent: November 4, 2014Assignee: Ruprecht-Karls-Universität HeidelbergInventors: Denis Wohlfeld, Karl-Heinz Brenner, Ulrich Brüning
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Patent number: 8667212Abstract: A data processing system includes one or more nodes, each node including a memory sub-system. The sub-system includes a fine-grained, memory, and a less-fine-grained (e.g., page-based) memory. The fine-grained memory optionally serves as a cache and/or as a write buffer for the page-based memory. Software executing on the system uses a node address space which enables access to the page-based memories of all nodes. Each node optionally provides ACID memory properties for at least a portion of the space. In at least a portion of the space, memory elements are mapped to locations in the page-based memory. In various embodiments, some of the elements are compressed, the compressed elements are packed into pages, the pages are written into available locations in the page-based memory, and a map maintains an association between the some of the elements and the locations.Type: GrantFiled: August 13, 2012Date of Patent: March 4, 2014Assignee: Sandisk Enterprise IP LLCInventors: Thomas M. McWilliams, Earl T. Cohen, James M. Bodwin, Ulrich Bruening
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Publication number: 20120311246Abstract: A data processing system includes one or more nodes, each node including a memory sub-system. The sub-system includes a fine-grained, memory, and a less-fine-grained (e.g., page-based) memory. The fine-grained memory optionally serves as a cache and/or as a write buffer for the page-based memory. Software executing on the system uses a node address space which enables access to the page-based memories of all nodes. Each node optionally provides ACID memory properties for at least a portion of the space. In at least a portion of the space, memory elements are mapped to locations in the page-based memory. In various embodiments, some of the elements are compressed, the compressed elements are packed into pages, the pages are written into available locations in the page-based memory, and a map maintains an association between the some of the elements and the locations.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 13, 2012Publication date: December 6, 2012Inventors: Thomas M. McWilliams, Earl T. Cohen, James M. Bodwin, Ulrich Bruening
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Patent number: 8244969Abstract: A data processing system includes one or more nodes, each node including a memory sub-system. The sub-system includes a fine-grained, memory, and a less-fine-grained (e.g., page-based) memory. The fine-grained memory optionally serves as a cache and/or as a write buffer for the page-based memory. Software executing on the system uses a node address space which enables access to the page-based memories of all nodes. Each node optionally provides ACID memory properties for at least a portion of the space. In at least a portion of the space, memory elements are mapped to locations in the page-based memory. In various embodiments, some of the elements are compressed, the compressed elements are packed into pages, the pages are written into available locations in the page-based memory, and a map maintains an association between the some of the elements and the locations.Type: GrantFiled: May 31, 2011Date of Patent: August 14, 2012Assignee: Schooner Information Technology, Inc.Inventors: Thomas M. McWilliams, Earl T. Cohen, James M. Bodwin, Ulrich Bruening
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Publication number: 20120011302Abstract: Approaches for a non-volatile, solid-state storage system that is capable of supporting high bandwidth and/or random read/write access. The storage system may include a chassis having a bus slot and a disk bay, a master card mounted in the bus slot, and a flash memory card stacked in the disk bay and cabled to the master card. The master card enables one or more flash memory cards to be communicatively coupled to a single PCI Express bus. The master card may split a multi-lane PCI Express bus into a plurality of lanes, where one or more of the flash memory cards communicate over each of the plurality of lanes. Alternately, the master card may includes active circuitry for processing, switching, routing, reformatting, and/or converting the PCI Express bus into one or more busses for a plurality of flash memory cards. The stacked flash memory card is not in an enclosure.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2011Publication date: January 12, 2012Inventors: Ulrich Bruening, Richard Jordan, Michael J. Koster, Darpan Dinker
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Publication number: 20110289263Abstract: A data processing system includes one or more nodes, each node including a memory sub-system. The sub-system includes a fine-grained, memory, and a less-fine-grained (e.g., page-based) memory. The fine-grained memory optionally serves as a cache and/or as a write buffer for the page-based memory. Software executing on the system uses a node address space which enables access to the page-based memories of all nodes. Each node optionally provides ACID memory properties for at least a portion of the space. In at least a portion of the space, memory elements are mapped to locations in the page-based memory. In various embodiments, some of the elements are compressed, the compressed elements are packed into pages, the pages are written into available locations in the page-based memory, and a map maintains an association between the some of the elements and the locations.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 31, 2011Publication date: November 24, 2011Inventors: Thomas M. McWilliams, Earl T. Cohen, James M. Bodwin, Ulrich Bruening
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Publication number: 20110262081Abstract: The invention relates to a method for producing an active optical connection with an optoelectronic element and a light deflection means for light deflection between the optoelectronic element and an optical waveguide arranged transversely with respect to the beam direction of said element. In this case, it is provided that a carrier substrate for the optoelectronic element is arranged in a highly precisely repeatably positioning machine, in particular a flip-chip machine, the optoelectronic element is mounted on the substrate by a or the highly precisely repeatably positioning machine and a curable, moldable compound is applied over the optoelectronic element, and the moldable compound is molded by a mold for molding light deflection means, said mold being moved by a or the highly precisely repeatably positioning machine, and at the earliest thereafter the substrate is removed from the or a highly precisely repeatably positioning machine.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 11, 2011Publication date: October 27, 2011Applicant: RUPRECHT-KARLS-UNIVERSITAT HEIDELBERGInventors: Denis WOHLFELD, Karl-Heinz Brenner, Ulrich Brüning
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Patent number: 7975109Abstract: A data processing system includes one or more nodes, each node including a memory sub-system. The sub-system includes a fine-grained, memory, and a less-fine-grained (e.g., page-based) memory. The fine-grained memory optionally serves as a cache and/or as a write buffer for the page-based memory. Software executing on the system uses a node address space which enables access to the page-based memories of all nodes. Each node optionally provides ACID memory properties for at least a portion of the space. In at least a portion of the space, memory elements are mapped to locations in the page-based memory. In various embodiments, some of the elements are compressed, the compressed elements are packed into pages, the pages are written into available locations in the page-based memory, and a map maintains an association between the some of the elements and the locations.Type: GrantFiled: May 30, 2008Date of Patent: July 5, 2011Assignee: Schooner Information Technology, Inc.Inventors: Thomas M. McWilliams, Earl T. Cohen, James M. Bodwin, Ulrich Bruening
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Publication number: 20080301256Abstract: A data processing system includes one or more nodes, each node including a memory sub-system. The sub-system includes a fine-grained, memory, and a less-fine-grained (e.g., page-based) memory. The fine-grained memory optionally serves as a cache and/or as a write buffer for the page-based memory. Software executing on the system uses n node address space which enables access to the page-based memories of all nodes. Each node optionally provides ACID memory properties for at least a portion of the space. In at least a portion of the space, memory elements are mapped to locations in the page-based memory. In various embodiments, some of the elements are compressed, the compressed elements are packed into pages, the pages are written into available locations in the page-based memory, and a map maintains an association between the some of the elements and the locations.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 30, 2008Publication date: December 4, 2008Inventors: Thomas M. McWilliams, Earl T. Cohen, James M. Bodwin, Ulrich Bruening
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Patent number: 7222478Abstract: A crop harvesting header includes a compact arrangement of side-by-side mounted intake and mowing units, cross conveyors and deflection coveyors, which operate to efficiently deliver cut crop to a central outlet at the rear side of the header. Some of the compactness is attributable to a drive arrangement which makes it possible to mount the axes of rotation of certain cross conveyors respectively within the cylindrical envelopes described by the peripheries of the vertically spaced intake disks of the intake and mowing devices.Type: GrantFiled: June 25, 2004Date of Patent: May 29, 2007Assignee: Deere & CompanyInventors: Ulrich Bruening, Klemens Weitenberg, Martin Huening, Leo Schulze Hockenbeck
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Patent number: 7218804Abstract: A method for establishing an optical connection between at least one optoelectronic component arranged in a first substrate and emitting or receiving optical radiation substantially perpendicular to a substrate surface of the first substrate, and at least one optical waveguide aligned with a first end substantially parallel to the substrate surface. The method comprises providing a second substrate that is transparent for at least one wavelength range of the optical radiation, and applying a layer of material on the second substrate. The layer is transparent, at least after structuring, for the wavelength range.Type: GrantFiled: August 8, 2005Date of Patent: May 15, 2007Assignee: Universität MannheimInventors: Karl-Heinz Brenner, Ulrich Brüning
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Patent number: 7086660Abstract: The invention refers to a forced steering device of a vehicle, with a master cylinder, which extends between the vehicle-stationary point and a point following the steering movement and is connected to a slave cylinder coupled for the forced steering of a wheel. It is proposed to have a force-limiting element absorb the movement between the vehicle-stationary point and the point following the steering movement, as soon as the pressure in a chamber of the master cylinder exceeds a predetermined threshold value.Type: GrantFiled: May 13, 2003Date of Patent: August 8, 2006Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Kemper GmbH & CO KGInventors: Ulrich Bruening, Klemens Weitenberg
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Patent number: 7051502Abstract: A machine for mowing crop is equipped several intake and mowing arrangements disposed in side-by-side relationship to each other for the cutting of standing crop and for the conveying of the harvested crop. At the rear side of the intake and mowing arrangements, a transverse conveying channel is provided through which the harvested crop can be transported at least approximately transverse to the direction of operation. The downstream end of the transverse conveying channel communicates with an intake channel through which the harvested crop can be delivered to a chopper arrangement. A conveying arrangement, that can be driven, is arranged outside the transverse conveying channel in order to remove a jam, if necessary, that was caused by harvested crop emerging from the transverse conveying channel. The conveying arrangement is mounted for rotation about an approximately vertical axis.Type: GrantFiled: March 30, 2004Date of Patent: May 30, 2006Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Kemper GmbH & Co KGInventors: Ulrich Bruening, Frank Kemper
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Patent number: 7028458Abstract: A machine is provided for mowing of stalk-like crops, having cutting and intake mechanisms arranged side by side, for cutting and conveying of the crop material, wherewith at least one such cutting and intake mechanism is disposed on each side of the longitudinal mid-plane of the machine. The machine further includes a guide element disposed in the center of the machine above, and at the forward side of, a conveying channel through which plants being harvested are conveyed actively to an intake channel of a field chopper. The guide element includes surfaces which are disposed at a distance from the conveying channel and are disposed relative to the course of the conveying channel so that the surfaces open upward from the conveying channel in a funnel-like manner.Type: GrantFiled: October 5, 2004Date of Patent: April 18, 2006Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Kemper GmbH & Co KGInventors: Ulrich Bruening, Klemens Weitenberg, Leo Schulze Hockenbeck, Martin Huening
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Patent number: 7024846Abstract: A header is equipped with a plurality of mowing and take-in devices for cutting and conveying plants. Associated with each of mowing and take-in device is a conveyor for receiving and conveying plant parts, especially corn ears, possibly separated from the plants, and return devices for returning the plant parts into the plant stream conveyed in the header. Each conveyor includes a chute mounted at an edge of the associated mowing and take-in device for receiving plant parts separated from harvested plants. The return device has a section extending into the chute for deflecting the plant parts back into the plant stream conveyed in the header.Type: GrantFiled: November 12, 2004Date of Patent: April 11, 2006Assignee: Maschinenfabrik Kemper GmbH & CO KGInventor: Ulrich Bruening
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Patent number: 7010903Abstract: A machine for mowing crops includes a plurality of intake and mowing arrangements which each include a cutting disk and a plurality of conveying disks spaced vertically from each other along an upright axis of rotation. A plurality of strippers are mounted in the vicinity of the intake and mowing arrangements and define slots through which driver elements of the conveying disks pass during operation. Crop pieces accumulate in these slots and provided on the drivers of the disks for sweeping these crop pieces out of the slots are removers. These removers are in the form of elongate bars and are connected to the disks so as to be easily removable so that they may be easily replaced when worn to the extent they are no longer effective in cleaning the crop pieces from the stripper slots.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2003Date of Patent: March 14, 2006Assignee: Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co KGInventor: Ulrich Bruening
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Publication number: 20050132687Abstract: A header is equipped with a plurality of mowing and take-in devices for cutting and conveying plants. Associated with each of mowing and take-in device is a conveyor for receiving and conveying plant parts, especially corn ears, possibly separated from the plants, and return devices for returning the plant parts into the plant stream conveyed in the header. Each conveyor includes a chute mounted at an edge of the associated mowing and take-in device for receiving plant parts separated from harvested plants. The return device has a section extending into the chute for deflecting the plant parts back into the plant stream conveyed in the header.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 12, 2004Publication date: June 23, 2005Inventor: Ulrich Bruening
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Publication number: 20050097876Abstract: The invention relates to a machine for mowing of stalk-like crops, having cutting and intake mechanisms arranged side by side, for cutting and conveying of the crop material, wherewith at least one such cutting and intake mechanism is disposed on each side of the longitudinal mid-plane of the machine. The machine further includes a guide element disposed in the center of the machine above, and at the forward side of, a conveying channel through which plants being harvested are conveyed actively to an intake channel of a field chopper. The guide element includes surfaces which are disposed at a distance from the conveying channel and are disposed relative to the course of the conveying channel so that the surfaces open upward from the conveying channel in a funnel-like manner.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 5, 2004Publication date: May 12, 2005Inventors: Ulrich Bruening, Klemens Weitenberg, Leo Hockenbeck, Martin Huening
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Publication number: 20050005589Abstract: The entire right, title and interest in and to this application and all subject matter disclosed and/or claimed therein, including any and all divisions, continuations, reissues, etc., thereof are, effective as of the date of execution of this application, assigned, transferred, sold and set over by the applicant(s) named herein to Deere & Company, a Delaware corporation having offices at Moline, Ill. 61265, U.S.A., together with all rights to file, and to claim priorities in connection with, corresponding patent applications in any and all foreign countries in the name of Deere & Company or otherwise.Type: ApplicationFiled: June 25, 2004Publication date: January 13, 2005Inventors: Ulrich Bruening, Klemens Weitenberg, Martin Huening, Leo Hockenbeck