Patents by Inventor Ulrich Mueller

Ulrich Mueller 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: 20250135886
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a method for adjusting a screen of a vehicle, wherein the screen is provided for a front passenger of the vehicle, and wherein it is originally provided to display at least one display element. The at least one display element is analyzed to determine, whether the at least one display element is dynamic and/or is provided only for the front passenger. Based on the determination, at least one static display element that differs from the display element originally provided for display is alternatively displayed from the driver's perspective.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 5, 2022
    Publication date: May 1, 2025
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Ulrich MÜLLER, Tobias MOLL
  • Publication number: 20250129504
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for the galvanic deposition of a zinc coating having at least three zinc tiers on a steel substrate in the form of a tube, wherein the method comprises at least the following step: feeding the steel substrate into an electrolytic bath having an electrolyte which contains at least zinc ions, silicon compounds and a brightener, and applying current to the bath in order to deposit a silicon-containing zinc tier. In addition, a steel tube product is described which has a silicon-containing zinc coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 18, 2024
    Publication date: April 24, 2025
    Inventor: Ulrich Müller
  • Patent number: 12271071
    Abstract: According to a method for activating a privacy device and a motor vehicle having a display device, which may be arranged on a dashboard of the motor vehicle and may include a liquid crystal display screen which may be assigned at least to a front passenger position, the liquid crystal display screen is divided into a plurality of segments. A respective segment includes an electronically switchable privacy device, which is configured in an activated state, to block a display of a display image of the respective segments from the viewing direction of a driver position and to permit the display from the viewing direction of the passenger position, and, in a deactivated state, to permit the display from both viewing directions. The display device is configured to determine the segments on which a moving entertainment content is displayed, and to activate the privacy device for these segments.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Date of Patent: April 8, 2025
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Tobias Moll, Ulrich Müller, Roland Sager
  • Patent number: 12264076
    Abstract: A process for the production of a zeolitic material comprising one or more zeolite intergrowth phases of one or more zeolites having a CHA-type framework structure comprising SiO2 and X2O3, and one or more zeolites having an AFT-type framework tructure comprising SiO2 and X2O3, wherein X is a trivalent element, and wherein said process comprises: (1) preparing a mixture comprising one or more sources for SiO2, one or more sources for X2O3, and seed crystals comprising a zeolitic material, said zeolitic material comprising SiO2 and X2O3 in its framework structure and having a CHA-type framework structure; (2) heating the mixture prepared in (1) for obtaining a zeolitic material comprising one or more zeolite intergrowth phases; and (R) subjecting the zeolitic material obtained in (2) to a procedure for removing at least a portion of X from the framework structure of the zeolitic material.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 1, 2025
    Assignee: BASF Mobile Emissions Catalysts LLC
    Inventors: Andrei-Nicolae Parvulescu, Ulrich Mueller, Toshiyuki Yokoi, Ute Kolb, Yong Wang, Yasar Krysiak
  • Publication number: 20250076768
    Abstract: Embodiments of the disclosure relate to digital lithography system and related methods, the system including at least one light source configured to emit a light beam onto a substrate via a lens, at least one image sensor, configured to detect a reflected light beam from the substrate via the lens, at least one motor configured to move the lens to focus the light beam onto the substrate, and a controller in communication with the at least one light source, the at least one image sensor and the at least one motor, wherein the controller is to actuate the at least one motor to move the lens in response to at least one signal from the at least one image sensor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 17, 2023
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Zhongchuan Zhang, Rendong Lin, Meenaradchagan Vishnu, Tamer Coskun, Ulrich Mueller, Thomas L. Laidig, Jang Fung Chen
  • Publication number: 20250076767
    Abstract: A digital lithography system includes a stage configured to support a substrate, a bridge disposed above the stage, and a first lithographic processing unit coupled to the bridge. The first lithographic processing unit coupled to the bridge can include a scanning unit, a lithographic exposure unit, and an optical system shared by the scanning unit and the lithographic exposure unit. The scanning unit is to use the optical system to generate measurements of the substrate during a measurement operation, and the lithographic exposure unit is to use the optical system to perform digital lithographic exposure of the substrate using the optical system during an exposure operation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 13, 2023
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Inventors: Ulrich Mueller, Thomas L. Laidig, Rudolf C. Brunner
  • Publication number: 20250076753
    Abstract: Exemplary methods of packaging a substrate may include rotationally aligning a substrate to a predetermined angular position. The methods may include transferring the substrate to a metrology station. The methods may include measuring a topology of the substrate at the metrology station. The methods may include applying a first chucking force to the substrate to flatten the substrate. The methods may include generating a mapping of a die pattern on an exposed surface of the substrate. The methods may include transferring the substrate to a printing station. The methods may include applying a second chucking force to the substrate to flatten the substrate against a surface of the printing station. The methods may include adjusting a printing pattern based on the mapping of the die pattern. The methods may include printing the printing pattern on the exposed surface of the substrate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 8, 2024
    Publication date: March 6, 2025
    Applicant: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Shih-Hao Kuo, Hsiu-Jen Wang, Ulrich Mueller, Jang Fung Chen
  • Patent number: 12239965
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to a process preparating a zeolitic material having an AEI-type framework structure, wherein the framework structure comprises SiO2 and X2O3 and X is a trivalent element, and wherein the process comprises: (1) preparing a mixture comprising one or more cationic structure directing agents comprising a heterocyclic amine ring, seed crystals, and a first zeolitic material comprising SiO2 and X2O3 in its framework structure and having an FAU-type framework structure; and (2) heating the mixture to obtain a second zeolitic material comprising SiO2 and X2O3 in its framework structure and having an AEI-type framework structure.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2019
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2025
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Andrei-Nicolae Parvulescu, Yu Dai, Stefan Maurer, Ulrich Mueller, Indre Thiel
  • Patent number: 12202338
    Abstract: A display device includes a transparent display screen element, which has a front side and a rear side opposite to the front side, and a polarizing element arranged flatly on the rear side of the transparent display screen element. The polarizing element is to attenuate light output by at least one lighting element of the transparent display screen element. A motor vehicle may have such a display device, in particular where the display device may be arranged freestanding at or on an interior trim element of the motor vehicle.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2025
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Ulrich Mueller, Jacques Helot
  • Patent number: 12189839
    Abstract: A display device and an electronic control unit are included in a vehicle. A graphical user interface of the display device is configured to display a graphic display object. The electronic control unit is configured to receive an orientation signal of a vehicle element. The orientation signal includes information about at least one of a position and an orientation of the vehicle element being in at least one of a first element position and a first element orientation. The electronic control unit is configured to adjust a position of the graphical user interface as a function of, or based on, the orientation signal, such that a position of the graphical user interface relative to the vehicle element is within a predefined tolerance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 16, 2019
    Date of Patent: January 7, 2025
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Jacques Helot, Ulrich Mueller, Sewon Chun, Jieun Song, Soyoung Kim
  • Patent number: 12164102
    Abstract: A method for generating a mathematical model (MM) for positioning individual mirrors (204, 204?) of a facet mirror (200) in an optical system (500), e.g. in a lithography apparatus (100A, 100B). The method includes: a) providing (S701) target positions (SP) of the individual mirrors (204, 204?) with an adjustment unit (502), b) capturing (S702) actual measurement positions (MI) of the individual mirrors (204, 204?) with a measuring device (508), which is embodied as an interferometer, deflectometer and/or camera, and c) generating (S705) a mathematical model (MM) for positioning the individual mirrors (204, 204?) based on the captured actual measurement positions (MI) and the target positions (SP). In step c), a difference (EA) is formed (S703) between a respective actual measurement position (MI) and a respective target position (SP) and the mathematical model (MM) is generated (S705) based on the difference (EA) formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 10, 2024
    Assignee: CARL ZEISS SMT GMBH
    Inventors: Norman Kretzschmar, Ulrich Mueller, Markus Holz
  • Patent number: 12157674
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for the production of a zeolitic material having an MWW framework structure comprising YO2 and B2O3, wherein Y stands for a tetravalent element, said process comprising (i) preparing a mixture comprising one or more sources for YO2, one or more sources for B2O3, one or more organotemplates, and seed crystals, (ii) crystallizing the mixture obtained in (i) for obtaining a layered precursor of the MWW framework structure, (iii) calcining the layered precursor obtained in (ii) for obtaining the zeolitic material having an MWW framework structure, wherein the one or more organotemplates have the formula (I) R1R2R3N??(I) wherein R1 is (C5-C8)cycloalkyl, and wherein R2 and R3 are independently from each other H or alkyl, and wherein the mixture prepared in (i) and crystallized in (ii) contains 35 wt.-% or less of H2O based on 100 wt.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 21, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 3, 2024
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Andrei-Nicolae Parvulescu, Ulrich Müller, Stefan Maurer, Yu Dai, Feng-Shou Xiao, Xiangju Meng, Yeqing Wang
  • Publication number: 20240369867
    Abstract: According to a method for activating a privacy device and a motor vehicle having a display device, which may be arranged on a dashboard of the motor vehicle and may include a liquid crystal display screen which may be assigned at least to a front passenger position, the liquid crystal display screen is divided into a plurality of segments. A respective segment includes an electronically switchable privacy device, which is configured in an activated state, to block a display of a display image of the respective segments from the viewing direction of a driver position and to permit the display from the viewing direction of the passenger position, and, in a deactivated state, to permit the display from both viewing directions. The display device is configured to determine the segments on which a moving entertainment content is displayed, and to activate the privacy device for these segments.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 4, 2022
    Publication date: November 7, 2024
    Applicant: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Tobias MOLL, Ulrich MÜLLER, Roland SAGER
  • Patent number: 12128549
    Abstract: A handling device which is suitable for repositioning objects has an adhesive gripping device which includes a support structure on which at least one gripping unit is arranged. The gripping unit has an adhesive belt which extends between two holding regions and which, in a working region having a longitudinal portion functioning as a gripping portion, is wound around a release deflection element which is translationally movable relative to the support structure. The release deflection element is part of a release system, by means of which adherence of the object can be released again as required. This release system also has a release drive system, by means of which a rotational movement of the gripping portion around the release deflection element, which movement accompanies the release movement, can be caused, leading to the active removal of the adhesive belt from the gripped object.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 5, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 29, 2024
    Assignee: Festo SE & Co. KG
    Inventors: Leif Pudewills, Markus Singer, Tobias Waibel, Manuel Schön, Ulrich Müller-Boysen
  • Publication number: 20240301572
    Abstract: This disclosure relates to a bipolar plate electrode assembly of a fuel cell or of an electrolysis device comprising a stack of expanded metal layers arranged layerwise that form a gas diffusion electrode and a bipolar plate, wherein the stack is limited in the direction of the stack at least at one end by an outer expanded metal layer, wherein the outer expanded metal layer is areally materially bonded to the bipolar plate, characterized in that the outer expanded metal layer is made of two parts and comprises an expanded metal element as well as a metal insert inserted into the expanded metal element and materially bonded to the expanded metal element, wherein the outer expanded metal layer is materially bonded to the bipolar plate solely in the region of the metal insert.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 7, 2024
    Publication date: September 12, 2024
    Inventor: Ulrich MÜLLER
  • Patent number: 12082456
    Abstract: A display device includes a pixel matrix configured to emit light, a first display screen which faces in a first direction, a second display screen which faces in a second direction, and a controller. The controller is configured to control the pixel matrix to emit light which passes through the first display screen and passes into surroundings of the display device in the first direction so that graphical content is displayed on the first display screen, based on image data that define the graphical content. The controller is also configured to operate in a first display mode in which graphical content as defined by image data is only displayed on the first display screen and the second display screen is deactivated, and a second display mode in which identical graphical content is displayed on both the first display screen and the second display screen.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 3, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Ulrich Mueller, Jacques Helot, Seung Mo Kang, Sung Jun Park, Jiwon Oh
  • Patent number: 12030831
    Abstract: Disclosed is a process for the alkylation of an aliphatic organic compound comprising: (a) providing a catalyst comprising one or more zeolitic materials having a BEA framework structure, wherein the BEA framework structure comprises YO2 and optionally comprises X2O3, wherein Y is a tetravalent element, and X is a trivalent element, (b) contacting the catalyst with one or more aliphatic organic compounds in the presence of one or more alkylating agents in one or more reactors for obtaining one or more alkylated organic compounds, wherein the one or more zeolitic materials are obtainable from a synthetic process which does not employ an organotemplate as structure directing agent.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 20, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: BASF SE
    Inventors: Robert McGuire, Andrei-Nicolae Parvulescu, Ulrich Mueller, Dirk De Vos, Patrick Tomkins
  • Patent number: 12032284
    Abstract: Exemplary methods of packaging a substrate may include rotationally aligning a substrate to a predetermined angular position. The methods may include transferring the substrate to a metrology station. The methods may include measuring a topology of the substrate at the metrology station. The methods may include applying a first chucking force to the substrate to flatten the substrate. The methods may include generating a mapping of a die pattern on an exposed surface of the substrate. The methods may include transferring the substrate to a printing station. The methods may include applying a second chucking force to the substrate to flatten the substrate against a surface of the printing station. The methods may include adjusting a printing pattern based on the mapping of the die pattern. The methods may include printing the printing pattern on the exposed surface of the substrate.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2022
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2024
    Assignee: Applied Materials, Inc.
    Inventors: Shih-Hao Kuo, Hsiu-Jen Wang, Ulrich Mueller, Jang Fung Chen
  • Patent number: 12027891
    Abstract: A display having at least two display surfaces, a controller and a communication interface for receiving charge state signals are provided in a display device. Each charge state signal describes the respective charge state of one of multiple electrical consumer devices. The control device determines the charge state of each electrical consumer device based on the charge state signals received. Then the control device generates image signals, each defining an image representing one of the detected charge states and transmits the image signals to the display. The image of each detected charge state is displayed on a display surface assigned to the respective electrical consumer device. The display device may be part of a household appliance, or an item of furniture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 2, 2024
    Assignee: AUDI AG
    Inventors: Ulrich Mueller, Jacques Helot
  • Publication number: 20240201605
    Abstract: Aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to a digital lithography system and methods for alignment resolution with the digital lithography system. The digital lithography system includes a metrology system configured to improve overlay alignment for different layers of the lithography process. The metrology system includes an inline metrology system (IMS) in combination with an on tool metrology system (OTM), which enable substrate overlay alignment and die placement correction. The inline metrology system may be positioned on an inline metrology tool and the on tool metrology system is positioned on a digital lithography tool. The inline metrology system facilitates measurement of high-throughput measurement inline metrology data for marks such as die marks and global alignment marks for verification of process stability and die placement data for digital data correction. This inline metrology data can be compared with a design file to determine offsets for the digital data correction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 15, 2022
    Publication date: June 20, 2024
    Inventor: Ulrich MUELLER