Inventors list

Assignees list

Classification tree browser

Top 100 Inventors

Top 100 Assignees


Niedermeier, DE

Anton Niedermeier, Offenstetten DE

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090147082METHOD FOR QUALITY CONTROL OF PLASTIC CONTAINERS - A method for quality control of a stretch-blow-molded plastic container by inspecting its base, which method is easy to execute and is not highly susceptible to faults. Such inspection of the container bases includes determining quality features such as the surface area of an unstretched and/or only slightly stretched region of the base of the plastic container.06-11-2009
20100288419METHOD AND DEVICE FOR ORIENTING THE ROTATIONAL POSITION OF CONTAINERS, IN PARTICULAR OF BOTTLES - A method and a device for orienting the rotational position of containers, in particular bottles, wherein or by means of which a feature on the container is detected and an actual rotational position of the container is calculated on the basis of the detected feature and a control signal for moving the container to a desired rotational position is calculated, while the container is being rotated. The method and device reduce the time required for the orientation of the containers.11-18-2010
20100289890Apparatus and Method for Aligning Containers, in Particular Bottles, in a Labeler - An apparatus and a method for aligning containers, in particular bottles, in a labeler, the apparatus having rotatable holders for containers to be aligned, and a camera unit for imaging the containers as well as a proximity switch for triggering an imaging function of the camera unit. This allows a precise alignment in combination with a reduced expenditure of time and reduced space requirements.11-18-2010
20110050884APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR INSPECTING LABELED CONTAINERS - An apparatus and a method for inspecting labeled containers, allowing a detection of holes in the label, with a high hit rate, even in cases where the color of the label is similar to that of the filled product, wherein the label is irradiated with visible light and invisible light and/or is imaged in incident light and transmitted light.03-03-2011
20110058156METHOD AND DEVICE FOR DETERMINING THE MASS AND/OR A MASS PROPORTION OF A WALL SECTION OF A PLASTIC BOTTLE - A method and device for the determination of the mass and/or the mass proportion of a wall section of a plastic bottle, in particular a section in the vicinity of the bottle shoulder and/or of the bottle neck, where, due to the fact that a relative mass distribution of the side wall is calculated from a distribution of the light transmission through the side wall of the bottle, the mass proportion of the wall section to be determined of the mass of the side wall can be determined with slight error based on the mass distribution even without calculation of the absolute mass values.03-10-2011
20110233410APPARATUS AND METHOD OF TESTING FILLED CONTAINERS FOR FOREIGN BODIES - An apparatus for the inspection of filled containers may include a first radiation device which directs radiation onto the liquid to be tested and present in the container, and an image-recording device which records at least part of the radiation directed from the first radiation device onto the liquid and reflected or scattered by the container. The image-recording device may be designed for recording a spatially resolved image, wherein the apparatus has at least one further radiation device or one further image-recording device. The radiation devices and the image-recording device are arranged in such a way that an observation of the liquid is carried out on at least two image-recording paths which are different from each other.09-29-2011

Patent applications by Anton Niedermeier, Offenstetten DE

Christoph Niedermeier, Munich DE

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100009246Bypass Function for a High Voltage Battery Cooling Strategy - A cooling system and method for a vehicle battery is described. A high flow rate cooling loop in heat transfer communication with the battery is provided, for removing heat from the battery with a coolant. A first cooling device may be selectively coupled to the high flow rate cooling loop, using a refrigerant fluid to transfer heat with the coolant, and a second cooling device can also be selectively coupled to the high flow rate cooling loop, using ambient air to transfer heat with the coolant. A valve for directing the coolant to at least a selected one of the first and second cooling devices is provided, and a controller is used to implement a coolant flow bypass function by commanding operation of the valve to bypass the selected one of the cooling devices to limit a temperature gradient between the coolant and the battery.01-14-2010
20110010579Method for detecting errors and supporting reconfiguration decisions in mobile radio networks comprising reconfigurable terminals, and corresponding network elements and components - A respective agent platform in network elements and producer-specific agents that are installed directly on platform or by way of agent proxies of agent providers. The agents then receive raw information on arising operating errors by way of a defined interface of the agent platform, and, together with producer-specific information on the respective terminals or types of terminal that are known only to the respective producer, from corresponding compressed decision information for evaluating cases of error and/or for optimizing reconfiguration decisions. The agents then provide the information for the network element or the network operator and/or the agent provider or the terminal producer, via the defined interface. This leads to a higher reliability of the interoperability of terminals and network elements in mobile radio networks including reconfigurable terminals.01-13-2011

Christoph Niedermeier, Munchen DE

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080307531Method for Optimizing Reconfiguration Processes in Mobile Radio Network Having Reconfigurable Terminals - Access-protected memory zones in network elements are localized in an operator's network that supporting the reconfiguration of SDR terminals in combination with protected data transmission methods which include methods for authenticating and authorizing the communication partners and for communicating in a protected manner, especially to protect integrity and confidentiality. Such access-protected data is provided by the terminal and is transmitted to the radio access network in the framework of negotiations and is temporarily stored therein or is generated directly in the RAN in the framework of processes related to the terminal. The generation and management of access-protected memory zones by the network operator result in a massive relief of the load to which the air interface is subject while also significantly alleviating the network infrastructure with regard to signaling.12-11-2008
20110064026METHOD FOR OPERATING A WIRELESS SENSOR NETWORK AND SENSOR NODE - In a method for operating a wireless sensor network (03-17-2011
20110276353SYSTEM AND METHOD TO IMPLEMENT A BUSINESS MODEL FOR DETERMINING A RELIABLE ECOLOGICAL BALANCE OF A SPECIFIC PRODUCT - A system and a method implements a business model for determining a reliable eco-balance of a specific product. An eco-balance typically has consumption of resources, e.g. water consumption, energy consumption and waste products, e.g. CO2 production. Incoming products and outgoing products having a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag for storing their own ecological balance. A calculation unit for each link of a whole product chain of the specific product, is calculating an aggregated ecological balance from parameters of the process of the actual link and from ecologic balances of incoming products, if there are any, and storing it to the Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) tag of the outgoing product of the actual link.11-10-2011

Patent applications by Christoph Niedermeier, Munchen DE

Herbert Niedermeier, Poppenhausen DE

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100021098Rolling-Bearing Cage - The present invention relates to a cage for a rolling bearing, in particular for a ball bearing, to a rolling bearing with a cage and to the use of a cage in a high-speed rolling bearing with a characteristic speed value n×dm>1,000,000 mm/min, in particular for industrial spindle-bearing applications and in the medical sector, in particular in dental technology.01-28-2010

Markus Niedermeier, Bad Aibling DE

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090306409MULTI-LAYER CATALYST FOR PRODUCING PHTHALIC ANHYDRIDE - The present invention relates to a catalyst for preparing phthalic anhydride by gas phase oxidation of o-xylene and/or naphthalene, comprising at least three catalyst zones which have different compositions and, from the gas inlet side toward the gas outlet side, are referred to as first, second and third catalyst zone, the catalyst zones having in each case an active composition comprising TiO12-10-2009

Peter Niedermeier, Munich DE

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080224618DISCHARGE LAMP HAVING A VISUAL-CHANGE TIMER - A discharge lamp having a visual-change timer is described. The visual-change timer is comprised of a ceramic material that provides an indication of the cumulative operating time of the lamp. The visual-change timer is expected be a help to consumers in avoiding unnecessary, premature, and costly lamp replacement and a help to lamp manufacturers in verifying the validity of warranty claims for replacement lamps.09-18-2008
20090122535Configuration and Method for the Manufacture of a Failsafe LED or OLED Chain - A structural configuration of a failsafe OLED chain with multiple OLED lighting components in series connection is described. During the manufacture of the lighting component a weak spot is specifically installed at an appropriate location of the structure in the form of a break-through layer, which in the event of a failure of the lighting component breaks down and bypasses the component with a bypass layer.05-14-2009

Peter Niedermeier, München DE

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090251065Circuit Arrangement and Method for Operating at Least One LED - A method and a circuit arrangement for operating at least one LED, includes: a first and a second mains connection for connecting a mains voltage; a first rectifier, whose rectifier input is coupled to the mains connections and at whose rectifier output the rectified mains voltage can be provided; an electronic pump switch coupled to the rectifier output, defining a pump node; a main energy store coupled to that side of the electronic pump switch which faces away from the rectifier output; an inverter coupled to the main energy store supplied with energy therefrom. The inverter provides an inverter voltage at its inverter output which has an inverter frequency; a pump network coupling the inverter output to the pump node; a matching network, via which coupling the inverter output to the connection terminals for at least one LED, wherein the matching network has a resonant circuit having a natural frequency.10-08-2009
20090273291Circuit Apparatus With a High-Side Buck Transistor - The invention provides a cost-effective driver circuit for an LED background lighting unit (BLU). For this purpose, a buck circuit with an upper transistor (T11-05-2009

Ulrich Niedermeier, Munich DE

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090060371Method for reducing image artifacts - A method for reducing image artifacts in an image that includes a number of pixels each of which includes at least one video information value, includes generating a plurality of filter coefficients for at least some of the pixels of the image, on the basis of which the video information values of the pixels can be reconstructed. Artifact detection is performed to detect artifact regions within the image. At least some filter coefficients of those pixels that lie within the artifact regions are modified to generate modified filter coefficients. The video information values are synthesized using the filter coefficients, the modified filter coefficients being employed for the synthesis for pixels lying within the artifact regions.03-05-2009
20110222780METHOD FOR DETECTING A BLOCK RASTER - The present invention describes a method for the detection of a block raster in an image that has a plurality of pixels, to each of which at least one pixel value is assigned and which are situated one next to another along horizontal and vertical pixel boundaries (x09-15-2011

Patent applications by Ulrich Niedermeier, Munich DE

Ulrich Niedermeier, Leiblfing DE

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110291080Electronic Device - An electronic device comprising a substrate, a first electrode, at least one organic functional layer, and a second electrode is indicated. The organic functional layer comprises a first, a second, and a third matrix material, wherein the first matrix material has a larger band gap than the second and the third matrix materials.12-01-2011

Werner Niedermeier, Bruehl DE

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110021801PRECIPITATED SILICAS AS A REINFORCING FILLER FOR ELASTOMER MIXTURES - The present invention relates to precipitated silicic acids, which have a particularly narrow particle size distribution in combination with a special pore size distribution, to a method for the production thereof, and to the use thereof as a filler for rubber mixtures.01-27-2011

Werner Niedermeier, Bruhl DE

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100010116Process for Preparation of Rubber Mixtures Containing Silicon Dioxide - Rubber mixtures are prepared by using, alongside the other constituents, pyrogenically prepared silicon dioxide in the form of crusts whose tamped bulk density (to DIN EN ISO 787-11) is from 185 to 700 g/l.01-14-2010
20110034611BLACK, METHOD FOR THE PRODUCTION THEREOF, AND USE THEREOF - The invention relates to black having a CTAB surface area of 100 to 160 m?/g, a quartile ratio of more than 1.60, and an FP index of >0. Said black is produced in a furnace reactor. Sixty to 90 percent by weight of the raw black material are injected into the reactor in the first third of the reaction zone, while the remaining amount of the raw black material is injected into the reactor upstream at least in one other point. In addition, the combustible is conducted such that 90 to 100 percent by weight of the combustible are evaporated when first hitting the raw black material and 80 to 99 percent by weight of the combustible are evaporated 5ms before hitting the raw black material. Said blacks can be used in rubber mixtures.02-10-2011

Patent applications by Werner Niedermeier, Bruhl DE