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20110196890 | Virtual table generator for analyzing geographic databases - A method and system for accessing database tables that contain binary large objects (BLOBs) is disclosed. The method includes encapsulating BLOB-based tables with virtual tables, which allows a user to access the content of the BLOBs via SQL. In one example, the virtual table has a generic table structure that consists of columns (e.g., class name, field name, and field value) and information regarding what level of an object hierarchy contains an element. In another example, a user can define the structure of the virtual table by identifying which object attributes to report. | 08-11-2011 |
20120036150 | Page Server for Navigation Data - A page server and method of using the page server is described. The page server stores versioned pages. The pages, which are equally sized data chunks, can be stored with identifiers and version data in a relational database, in separate files, or in a single file where pages are concatenated. The page server may be accessed via SQL, a web interface, a proprietary key/value/version interface on top of TCP/IP, or other method. The page server facilitates incremental updates. | 02-09-2012 |
20140025731 | Page Server for Navigation Data - A page server and method of using the page server is described. The page server stores versioned pages. The pages, which are equally sized data chunks, can be stored with identifiers and version data in a relational database, in separate files, or in a single file where pages are concatenated. The page server may be accessed via SQL, a web interface, a proprietary key/value/version interface on top of TCP/IP, or other method. The page server facilitates incremental updates. | 01-23-2014 |
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20110033322 | ELECTRICAL MOTOR ACTIVATION METHOD HAVING LOAD TORQUE ADAPTATION - An electrical motor activation method for an electric motor including a rotor, connected to a motor shaft, and a stator having brushes. The stator comprises multiple commutator laminations for the commutation of windings disposed on the rotor and is activated by a pulsed or linearly controllable power source. The motor shaft is connected to a radially driven load, in particular a pump, which has a nonlinear torque curve via a motor revolution. A waviness signal is obtained from a voltage potential applied to the motor and/or from the motor current and rotor position information is obtained from the curve of said waviness signal. | 02-10-2011 |
20120315132 | THIN VENTILATED SEAT FOR A VEHICLE AND ITEMS OF FURNITURE - An air conditioning unit includes a shaped body forming at least one part of a seat cushion. The shaped body has a seating surface and an opposite lower side. An air flow module is arranged at the lower side of the shaped body. The air flow module includes an air mover and has an air inlet opening and an air outlet opening. The shaped body has at least one air through-hole extending from the seating surface to the air flow module. The air flow module is in fluid communication with the at least one air through-hole in the shaped body. At least one channel extends in a radial direction adjacent the lower surface of the shaped body. The air flow module is in fluid communication with the at least one channel, and provides airflow between the seating surface of the shaped body and the at least one channel. | 12-13-2012 |
20150327330 | APPARATUS FOR HEATING SURFACES IN THE INTERNAL SPACE OF A MOTOR VEHICLE - An apparatus for heating surfaces in the internal space of a motor vehicle comprises at least one heating element, having at least one heating conductor that forms an electrical heating circuit, and at least one carrier material, wherein the heating conductor has at least two HC terminal ends and the temperature acquisition element has at least two TA terminal ends. This apparatus for heating is characterized in that at least two of the HC and TA terminal ends are electrically connected to first HC terminal areas or first TA terminal areas of a printed circuit board and in that the printed circuit board has second HC terminal areas and second TA terminal areas, wherein the first HC terminal areas and the second HC terminal areas are at least in part connected to each other via first pcb traces and the first TA terminal areas and the second TA terminal areas via second pcb traces, wherein the first and the second pcb traces are part of the printed circuit board, and wherein the printed circuit board is arranged on, under or at the at least one carrier material. | 11-12-2015 |
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20090176920 | PARTICLES WITH STRUCTURED SURFACE - Particles with a structural surface which are useful to produce abrasion resistant self-cleaning surfaces contain particulate solid particles having a superstructured overlayer of fine particles. The particles may be prepared by polymerizing a polymerizable siloxane, silane, or mixture thereof in a Pickering emulsion. | 07-09-2009 |
20100025373 | PYROGENIC SILICA PRODUCED IN A PRODUCTION FACILITY WITH HIGH CAPACITY - A large scale process for preparing fumed silica with consistent product parameters wherein a silica precursor compound is fed to a burner at ≧100 Kg/h along with a combusting gas at ≧300 m | 02-04-2010 |
20110256030 | Pyrogenic Silicic Acid Manufactured in a Small-Scale Production Plant - Disclosed is a flame reactor characterized in that the flame reactor comprises a reactor chamber having a volume of 1 m | 10-20-2011 |
20110263751 | Highly Hydrophobic Coatings - The invention relates to a suspension comprising: fine-particulate particles in an amount of 0.01-50 wt %, wherein the particles have a fractal mass dimension D | 10-27-2011 |
20110268919 | Particles With Structured Surface - Particles with a structural surface which are useful to produce abrasion resistant self-cleaning surfaces contain particulate solid particles having a superstructured overlayer of fine particles. The particles may be prepared by polymerizing a polymerizable siloxane, silane, or mixture thereof in a Pickering emulsion. | 11-03-2011 |
20120286189 | Hydrophobic Thermal Insulation - Thermal insulation materials which have no binders in the form of liquids, which adhesively bond particles, and which are treated with low-volatility organosilanes or organosiloxanes whose boiling points are greater than 130° C. under atmospheric pressure, the k thermal conductivity being between 0.014 and 0.040 W/mK and the density being in the range from 50 to 300 kg/m | 11-15-2012 |
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20090059947 | High-availability communication system - There is described a communication system for reliable communication between communication stations, wherein there is at least one communication connection between the communication stations, wherein the communication connection features at least two channels for transmitting payload data telegrams, wherein only one channel acts as primary channel for the communication at any time, and wherein the other channels are provided as backup channels. A status indicator in the payload data telegram is provided for the indication of information concerning which channel is primary channel or backup channel at a given time point, wherein the communication stations adopt as primary channel that channel for which, during receipt of the payload data telegrams, the most recent status change from backup channel to primary channel was detected by the communication stations. | 03-05-2009 |
20090259923 | Method for fail-safe transmission, safety switching device and control unit - A method for fail-safe transmission of information between a transmitter and a receiver is disclosed. At least two telegrams relating to the information are transmitted as a first telegram via a first channel and a second telegram via a second channel from the transmitter to the receiver. To identify an error affecting the information during transmission, a first identifier is generated from a first subset of the first telegram being used at the receiver to identify the information contained in the first telegram. This method is used for communication from a safety switching device to a control unit. | 10-15-2009 |
20100250813 | Safety-oriented Automation System Having Automatic Address Recovery - An industrial automation system for controlling the operating means of a technical process. The system includes fail-safe modules for interchanging process data with the operating means, i.e., actuating and measurement signals, stations having slots for modules, which slots are inter-connected by a backplane bus, a central processing unit at least for processing process signals from the technical process, and a field bus for transmitting data between the central processing unit and the stations. In accordance with the invention, the address relationship for the addressing of a fail-safe module by the central processing unit over the field bus for data processing purposes is permanently stored in a first memory in the respective module and is additionally permanently backed-up in the associated station. As a result, it is advantageously possible to safely and automatically recover the address relationships of fail-safe modules due to address relationships which have already been recognized as valid, such as during planning, being backed-up in a permanent, power-failure-safe manner at the station level. In addition, it is possible, when a module is exchanged, for a new module to reload the correct address relationships of the old module, which is no longer present, from the back-up means in the station. | 09-30-2010 |
20120089749 | Network and Method for Operating the Network - A method for operating a network with two control devices and at least one peripheral device, wherein each of the control devices, in relation to the peripheral device, is in an active operating state in which it is sending control instructions to the peripheral device or is in an idle operating state in which it is not sending any control instructions to the peripheral device. The control device that is in the active operating state in relation to the peripheral device sends synchronization signals at regular intervals to the other control device and activity signals to the peripheral device. Upon failure of the synchronization signals, the non-active control device checks whether the peripheral device is still receiving activity signals from the active control device. If it is not, the non-active control device assumes control of the peripheral device. | 04-12-2012 |
20130173960 | Method for Checking an Installation Location of a Component and Automation Component - A method for checking an installation location of a component in a failsafe automation system, wherein the components are connected to one another in series and uniquely defined addresses are continuously assigned from a first component to successor components, wherein, after the assignment of addresses to the components, a switching device is operated in the components such that a signal transit time measurement is performed incrementally with a test signal for each successor component, and wherein the test signal is emitted and re-received and the installation location of the successor component is check based on the time difference. | 07-04-2013 |
20140372840 | Method and System for Detecting Errors in the Transfer of Data from a Transmitter to At Least One Receiver - A method for detecting errors in a transfer of data from a transmitter to at least one receiver includes coding the data together with address information identifying the receiver in a series of data packets and transferring the data and the address information using the data packets. The method also includes generating, at the transmitter, a check value for each data packet and transferring the check value with/in the data packet to the receiver. The method further includes comparing, at the receiver, the check value with an expectation value, wherein an error is detected in the event of a deviation. For each data packet to be transmitted, the method includes calculating a number sequence value from the address information using a first calculation rule, generating the check value from the sequence value using a second calculation rule and transmitting the data packet with the check value to the receiver. | 12-18-2014 |
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20100047445 | Method for Coating Water-Absorbing Polymer Particles - A process for preparing water-absorbing polymer particles by spraying a liquid onto water-absorbing polymer particles by means of at least one thermally insulated and/or trace-heated spray nozzle in a mixer. | 02-25-2010 |
20100104761 | Method for Coating Water-Absorbing Polymer Particles - A process for preparing water-absorbing polymer particles by spraying a liquid below the product bed surface by means of at least one spray nozzle in a mixer with moving mixing tools. | 04-29-2010 |
20100112200 | Method for Coating Water-Absorbing Polymer Particles - A process for preparing water-absorbing polymer particles by coating water-absorbing polymer particles with a particulate solid in a mixer, wherein the particulate solid is dispersed by means of a gas stream and the supply of the dispersed particulate solid in the mixer ends below the product bed surface. | 05-06-2010 |
20100263420 | PROCESS FOR THE CONTINUOUS GRANULATION OF FERTILIZERS - The present invention relates to a process for the preparation of fertilizer granules. The process is particularly suitable for the preparation of finely divided fertilizer granules. Furthermore, the invention relates to the granulated fertilizers obtainable by this process, and to their use for fertilizing agricultural and/or horticultural crops. | 10-21-2010 |
20100323885 | Process for Producing Re-Moisturised Surface-Crosslinked Superabsorbents - Re-moisturised, surface-crosslinked superabsorbents are produced using a process that comprises the steps of contacting a superabsorbent base polymer with an organic crosslinker and a polyvalent metal salt solution in the presence of an alcohol, heat-treating to produce a surface-crosslinked, dry superabsorbent and re-moisturising the surface-crosslinked dry superabsorbent. | 12-23-2010 |
20120058267 | Coating Process for Water-Absorbing Polymer Particles - A coating process wherein an aqueous liquid is sprayed onto surface postcrosslinked water-absorbing polymer particles in a horizontal mixer and the inner wall of the horizontal mixer which is in contact with the product is made from a stainless steel. | 03-08-2012 |
20130260032 | Process for Thermal Postcrosslinking in a Drum Heat Exchanger with an Inverse Screw Helix - A process for thermal surface postcrosslinking of water-absorbing polymer particles, wherein the polymer particles are coated with an aqueous solution, the coated polymer particles are deagglomerated and the deagglomerated polymer particles are thermally surface postcrosslinked by means of a drum heat exchanger with an inverse screw helix. | 10-03-2013 |
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20130277959 | Connector - A connector for a fluid medium to be conditioned, wherein an internal pipe is provided for the fluid medium to be conditioned and at least one external pipe for a fluid conditioning medium. The internal pipe is encompassed by the external pipe and runs substantially parallel to the external pipe. At least one conducting channel is arranged between the internal pipe and the external pipe for the fluid conditioning medium or for the fluid medium to be conditioned. In one form the connector is made by injection molding. | 10-24-2013 |
20140144410 | Motor Vehicle Assembly Unit and Method for the Production of the Motor Vehicle Assembly Unit - A motor vehicle assembly unit having a connector, in particular a quick connector, and having a motor vehicle fluid line, wherein the connector includes an insertion end for inserting the fluid line, wherein there is a securing spike on the insertion end, which is encompassed by an outer sleeve. An annular insertion space for the fluid line or a fluid line end of the fluid line is disposed between the securing spike and the outer sleeve. The outer sleeve is connected to the securing spike by means of at least one break-away element, that breaks when the fluid line is inserted in the annular insertion space, such that the outer sleeve can be slid onto the securing spike, or further slid onto the securing spike from, or with, the fluid line. | 05-29-2014 |
20140312614 | COUPLING - A coupling, for a fluid line, having a retainer and a coupling body defining a throughbore extending from an inlet opening at a male member reception end which functionally receives a male member. The retainer has a crossbar, with two spaced retainer legs, and at least one locking arm. The retainer is mounted in a moveable manner to the coupling body in radial direction in relation to the throughbore. In a starting position when the male member is not or not fully inserted into the coupling body, one free end of a retainer leg rests upon a blocking surface on the coupling body blocking the retainer from shifting into a locking position, whereby the crossbar is in the starting position, protruding out of the coupling body. At least one free end of a retainer leg is positioned in a receptacle slot in the coupling body when the male member is functionally received into the coupling body and the retainer is shifted into a locking position, whereby the crossbar is essentially positioned in a crossbar receptacle of the coupling body in order to indicate the mounted state. The locking arm features a locking element, which in the starting position, interacts with a complementary locking element on the coupling body securing the retainer releasably within the coupling body. | 10-23-2014 |
20140332155 | Method for Connecting a Connector Coupling to a Fluid Line - A method for connecting a connector coupling to a fluid conducting line, wherein the line consists of plastic. A line end of the line is inserted in a receiving receptacle encompassing the circumference of the connector coupling. At least one metal element is disposed in or on the receiving receptacle. The metal element is heated by means of electromagnetic induction, and, as a result of this heating, at least the plastic regions of the line end melt, such that the line end is welded to the wall, or walls, of the receiving receptacle. | 11-13-2014 |
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20120257057 | DEVICE WITH A CAMERA UNIT - The invention relates to a device, particularly for a rear area of a vehicle, and a related method for operating the device, where the device includes a camera unit serving to record an image of the exterior area of the vehicle with the camera unit being protectively arranged via a support element at the vehicle, particularly protected in a housing, and a mobile closing element being provided for closing the housing opening, which by a drive unit can be moved into at least two end positions, namely a closed position and an open position. | 10-11-2012 |
20130294758 | DEVICE COMPRISING A CAMERA UNIT AND A PROTECTION ELEMENT WHICH HAS A COMPACT DISPLACEMENT PATH - The invention relates to a device comprising a camera unit ( | 11-07-2013 |
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20140043528 | THEFT PROTECTION DEVICE FOR A CAMERA UNIT - The invention relates to a theft protection device for a camera unit (20) that is arranged on a movable protection element (11) of a motor vehicle, said camera unit (20) being used to detect images of the outer area (5). The protection element (11) can be moved between a closed position (1) and an open position (2). In the closed position (1), the camera unit (20) is in the idle position (3) and in the open position (2), the camera unit (20) is in the operational position (4). The protection element (11) comprises a receiving unit (10) for the camera unit (20) on the inner side, the side of the protection element (11) facing away from the outer area (5), a safety element (30) being arranged on the receiving element (10) which safety element reliably maintains the camera unit (20) in the receiving element (10). At least one securing means (14) secures the safety element (30) to the inner side of the protection element (11), and the securing means (14) is arranged at such a distance from the protection element (11) that the securing means (14) cannot be tampered with when the protection element (11) is in the open position (2). | 02-13-2014 |
20140085467 | CAMERA ARRANGEMENT FOR A VEHICLE AND AN INSTALLATION METHOD - The invention relates to a device ( | 03-27-2014 |
20150360619 | ASSEMBLY FOR A VEHICLE - A solution that offers increased comfort for the user and increases the value of the vehicle is obtained with an assembly for a vehicle, having a carrier housing, which has a through-hole, a drive unit, which is attached to the carrier housing, a camera unit, which can move between a standby position and an active position and a protective lid, which can move between an open position and a closed position. An actuating element is movably coupled to the drive unit and forces the protective lid into its open position when the vehicle is driven in reverse and the camera unit is in the active position. The camera unit assumes a collision monitoring position when the vehicle is being driven forwards, in which position the protective lid is disposed in its closed position, and in which the camera unit is disposed at a monitoring opening formed in the protective lid, for filming the following or preceding traffic. | 12-17-2015 |
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20130272552 | METHOD FOR OPERATING A HEARING APPARATUS - A method operates a hearing apparatus in which an operating parameter of the hearing apparatus is determined and smoothed by a filter. The smoothing includes, for each input value, to classify the input value in accordance with its association with a plurality of predetermined classes and increase a counter assigned to the respective class which is associated with the input value. The counter with the greatest counter value is determined and the operating parameter value assigned to the counter with the greatest counter value is output as an output variable of the filter. | 10-17-2013 |
20140294212 | METHOD FOR AUTOMATICALLY SETTING A PIECE OF EQUIPMENT AND CLASSIFIER - A classification and, in particular, a time stability thereof are intended to be improved. To this end, a method automatically sets a piece of equipment, in which a classifying is performed with an aid of movable clusters and fixed clusters. This allows the classification to be trained, but also allows a certain basic property of the system to be ensured. This is advantageous in particular for hearing aids and transformers in smart grids. | 10-02-2014 |
20140369510 | Adaptation of a classification of an audio signal in a hearing aid - A method determines the classification of an audio signal in dependence on a comparison of two difference sums of audio features over time periods of different length. Thus, an adequately exact yet quickly reacting adaptation of the classification in changing hearing situations is ensured. The method is advantageously used in a hearing aid. The audio signal is processed in different ways on the basis of the classification. | 12-18-2014 |
20150036850 | METHOD FOR FOLLOWING A SOUND SOURCE, AND HEARING AID DEVICE - A method of following a sound source with a hearing aid device. The hearing aid device has a plurality of microphones, a monitoring device, a locating device, a directional device, an energy source, a controller and an electro-mechanical transducer. The directional device generates a signal with a variable directional characteristic from the microphone signals. The directional signal is monitored for an incipient acoustic signal from a sound source from a predetermined direction range. The locating device determines the direction of origin of the sound source. A predetermined directional characteristic with an orientation toward the first sound source is also set in the directional device. The locating device then determines a change in the direction of origin of the first sound source and the orientation of the directional characteristic is set based on the changed direction of origin in the directional device. | 02-05-2015 |
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20080212814 | Differential directional microphone system and hearing aid device with such a differential directional microphone system - A differential direction microphone system for a hearing aid device is described, comprising: a first directional microphone stage with a first differential directional microphone, and a second directional microphone stage with a further differential directional microphone, with the second directional microphone stage being connected downstream from the first directional microphone stage, where the directivity of the first directional microphone stage is essentially oriented in the opposite direction to the directivity of the second directional microphone stage, with the differential direction microphone system having a directional characteristic, of which the directivity is essentially orthogonal to an axis predetermined by the directivities of the first and the second directional microphone stage. | 09-04-2008 |
20080226105 | Method for the time-controlled adjustment of a hearing apparatus and corresponding hearing apparatus - The training of a hearing apparatus in respect of an individual adjustment is to be developed in a more user-friendly manner. To this end, provision is firstly made to automatically classify a hearing situation, to adjust a parameter of the signal processing facility of the hearing apparatus and to automatically learn the adjusted parameters for the current hearing situation. A temporal monitoring of the steps “classifying” and “adjusting” is however carried out here and the automatic learning is only triggered if the classified hearing situation and the adjustment of the parameters have not changed over a predetermined time period. This not only simplifies the training, but also enables a more rapid training by means of automatically triggered training events. | 09-18-2008 |
20090274327 | CIRCUIT FOR OPERATING A HEARING DEVICE AND HEARING DEVICE - A circuit for operating a hearing device with a variable operating parameter is disclosed. A storage device for storing operating parameter settings in a starting situation as well as in a target situation and a control unit, which implements a matching of the operating parameter according to a setting of the starting situation to the operating parameter settings of the target situation, is provided. Further, a connection device for connection to a control element and a data processing device for influencing the operating parameter by a user of the hearing device, is provided. The control unit performs the matching of the operating parameter with a minimal matching rate in time segments in which the operating parameter is often influenced by the control element or data processing device, and with a higher matching rate in time segments, in which the operating parameter is rarely influenced or not influenced at all by the control element or data processing device. | 11-05-2009 |
20100195839 | METHOD AND HEARING DEVICE FOR TUNING A HEARING AID FROM RECORDED DATA - A hearing device and an associated method for tuning a hearing aid include at least one hearing aid and at least one external unit. The device includes the following: a memory unit in the hearing aid which stores the times and the listening situations for which at least one predefinable algorithm for signal processing is activated; an output unit in the hearing aid and/or in the external unit which outputs and/or displays the stored times, listening situations and the activated algorithm; an input unit in the hearing aid or in the external unit for inputting an assessment rating which expresses the hearing aid wearer's satisfaction with the algorithm activated, and a change unit in the hearing aid for changing at least one parameter of the algorithm as a function of the assessment rating. Even algorithms of very short duration, such as an MPO, for example, are trainable. | 08-05-2010 |
20100254552 | METHOD AND HEARING APPARATUS FOR ADJUSTING A HEARING AID WITH DATA RECORDED IN AN EXTERNAL UNIT - A hearing apparatus for adjusting a hearing aid and an associated method. The apparatus includes at least one hearing aid and at least one external unit which can exchange data with the hearing aid. It further includes a first memory unit in the external unit which stores a point in time and a hearing situation at which at least one predeterminable algorithm for signal processing is activated, an output unit in the external unit which outputs the stored points in time and hearing situations, an input unit in the external unit for entering a measure of evaluation which expresses the satisfaction of a hearing aid wearer with the activated algorithm, and a modification unit in the hearing aid for changing at least one parameter of the algorithm as a function of the measure of evaluation. The hearing aid user is able to evaluate and change the setting of their hearing aid retrospectively for specific hearing situations. | 10-07-2010 |
20110051963 | METHOD FOR FINE-TUNING A HEARING AID AND HEARING AID - The fine-tuning of the signal processing in a hearing aid or hearing aid system to the individual user should be simplified and improved. For this, the current hearing situation is recognized automatically and the user is automatically presented with a selection of questions from a comprehensive list of questions as a function of the hearing situation. A user input as a reaction of the user to the selected questions leads to the tuning of at least one parameter relating to the signal processing in the hearing aid. | 03-03-2011 |
20110238419 | BINAURAL METHOD AND BINAURAL CONFIGURATION FOR VOICE CONTROL OF HEARING DEVICES - A binaural configuration and an associated method have/utilize first and second hearing devices for the voice control of the hearing devices by voice commands. The configuration contains a first voice recognition module in the first hearing device and a second voice recognition module in the second hearing device. The second voice recognition module uses information data from the first voice recognition module for recognition of the voice commands. It is here advantageous that the rate of erroneously recognized voice commands (“false alarms”) is reduced. | 09-29-2011 |