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Knoop, DE

Carla Knoop, Stuttgart DE

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080215189Control System For a Motor Vehicle - A control system for a motor vehicle, including a manual actuating means with a number of degrees of freedom for selecting and/or activating entries in a menu structure and a screen display with display areas for displaying the menu structure. At least two degrees of freedom of the manual actuating means move a cursor for selecting and/or activating one of the entries in an active display area. A first degree of freedom corresponds to a turning movement, and in a clockwise direction about a z-axis a second degree of freedom corresponds to a turning movement in a counterclockwise direction about a z-axis. In addition, cursor movement in the active display area is effected by the first and/or second degree of freedom, depending on the orientation of the displayed entries.09-04-2008
20080221747Control System For a Motor Vehicle - A control system for a motor vehicle having a manual actuating device with a plurality of degrees of freedom of adjustment for selecting and/or activating entries from a menu structure and a screen display (09-11-2008
20090018815Operating System for a Vehicle - An operator control system for a vehicle is provided, including an input unit, an output unit, and a speller application with which information can be input character-by-character into the operator control system. The speller application may include a plurality of language-dependent character sets from which a character set can be selected by selecting an operator control language.01-15-2009

Patent applications by Carla Knoop, Stuttgart DE

Christian Knoop, Zurich DE

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20090243964DISPLAY APPARATUS - A display apparatus which comprises an image module for generating an image, a spectacle-like frame which carries the image module, and wherein the spectacle-like frame comprises a front portion with a nose support, as well as two side arms mounted to the front portion. At least one earphone is mounted to the frame via a positioning mechanism. The earphone can be positioned in front of an ear of a user by means of the positioning mechanism, when the display apparatus is mounted on the user's head. The positioning mechanism comprises a linear guide which is mounted to the frame via a hinge joint and the earphone is positioned at the end of the linear guide, turned away from the hinge joint.10-01-2009

Cord Knoop, Haltern Am See DE

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100094058METHOD FOR PRODUCTION OF TRIMETHYLHEXAMETHYLENEDIAMINE - Process for preparing trimethylhexamethylenediamine04-15-2010
20130253226PROCESS FOR PREPARING 3-AMINOMETHYL-3,5,5-TRIMETHYLCYCLOHEXYLAMINE - The invention relates to an improved process for preparing 3-aminomethyl-3,5,5-trimethylcyclohexylamine, referred to hereinafter as isophoronediamine or, in abbreviated form, IPDA, by: I. preparation of isophorone by catalyzed aldol condensations with acetone as reactant; II. reaction of isophorone with HCN to form isophoronenitrile (IPN, 3-cyano-3,5,5-trimethylcyclohexanone); III. catalytic hydrogenation and/or catalytic reductive amination (also referred to as aminative hydrogenation) of 3-cyano-3,5,5-trimethylcyclohexanone, hereinafter called isophoronenitrile or, in abbreviated form, IPN, to give the isophoronediamine.09-26-2013

Cord Knoop, Haltern DE

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20100041921PROCESS FOR PREPARING 3-AMINOMETHYL-3,5,5-TRIMETHYLCYCLOHEXYLAMINE - The invention relates to an improved process for preparing 02-18-2010

Dietmar Knoop, Ebenhausen DE

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080271963Disc Brake for a Commercial Vehicle - A disc brake, particularly for a commercial vehicle, has a brake caliper, which overlaps a brake disc, and brake pads, which each consist of a friction lining and of a pad supporting plate and which, when in an operational position, contact the brake disc on both sides. Each pad supporting plate rests against a pressure plate, which is supported in the brake caliper, or against a brake caliper supporting surface. The disc brake is designed such that at least one of the pad supporting plates and the associated pressure plate or the supporting surface are provided for transferring loads occurring during braking to its facing contact surfaces with positive locking structures, which correspond with one another and which are provided in the manner of a coding.11-06-2008

Patent applications by Dietmar Knoop, Ebenhausen DE

Frank Knoop, Aurich DE

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110140446WIND ENERGY SYSTEM HAVING BUSBARS - A wind power installation is provided having a pylon made up of a plurality of pylon segments, a generator arranged in the region of the head of the pylon, a power module arranged in the region of the pylon base or separate from the pylon, busbar elements which are installed segmented in the associated pylon segments for current transfer from the generator to the power module, and connecting elements for connecting busbar elements which are installed in adjacent pylon segments. Clamping holders may be mounted to the inside wall in the end region, that is the lower end region in the erected condition, of the pylon segments with end portions of the busbar elements clamped or inserted into the clamping holders.06-16-2011
20110232071WIND POWER PLANT HAVING MULTIPLE CONSTRUCTION SECTIONS - A wind turbine is proposed which has a plurality of construction sections each having at least one connection region for connecting at least two construction sections to one another, a plurality of fasteners to fasten at least two connection regions of two construction sections to one another, and an identifier for each fastener to distinguish it from other fasteners. A testing device to test the fasteners of a construction section of a wind turbine having a tool section for tightening and/or retightening the fasteners to obtain a desired tightness and/or to test the fasteners with regard to tightness, and a detection unit for detecting an identifier of each fastener.09-29-2011
20140110949WIND TURBINE - There is provided a wind power installation comprising a rotor to which rotor blades can be fitted, an electric generator having a generator stator and a generator rotor, and a plurality of displacement units. The first end of the displacement unit is fastened to the generator stator and the second end of the displacement unit is releasably fastened to the generator rotor. The displacement units each have a respective hydraulic cylinder, the deflection of which is controllable so that by actuation of the displacement unit the generator rotor is displaced relative to the generator stator.04-24-2014
20140245580METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MOUNTING A ROTOR OF A WIND ENERGY PLANT - The invention relates to a lifting beam for lifting and handling a rotor blade of a wind energy plant, comprising a fastening means for fastening the lifting beam to a crane, at least one fastening means for fastening the lifting beam to the rotor blade a longitudinal pivoting means for pivoting the rotor blade which is supported by the lifting beam about a longitudinal axis of the rotor blade, and/or a transverse pivoting means for pivoting the rotor blade which is supported by the lifting beam about a transverse axis perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. The invention further relates to a method for mounting rotor blades of a wind energy plant using a lifting beam according to the invention.09-04-2014
20140341742METHOD AND DEVICE FOR MOUNTING A ROTOR HUB ON A WIND TURBINE - The invention concerns a rotor hub of a wind power installation comprising a handling apparatus for lifting the rotor hub by means of a crane for mounting the rotor hub to a pod arranged on a wind power installation pylon, wherein the handling apparatus is so adapted that upon being lifted at a fixing portion of the handling apparatus the rotor hub rotates from a perpendicular orientation with a substantially perpendicular hub axis into a horizontal orientation with a substantially horizontal hub axis.11-20-2014

Franz Martin Knoop, Vienenburg DE

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20120261387METHOD FOR PRODUCING WELDED HELICAL- SEAM TUBES HAVING OPTIMIZED TUBE GEOMETRY - In a method for producing welded helical seam tubes having optimized tube geometry a metal strip is helically formed into an open seam tube by means of a forming unit and the converging strip edges are welded together, wherein an actual diameter determined on the welded tube is compared with a specific target diameter and a possible deviation lying outside a tolerance threshold is used to correct the actual tube diameter, wherein the strip edges are completely welded in a two stage step, including tack welding as a first step immediately after the shaping to form an open seam tube and thereafter final welding as a second step. The tube diameter is measured after the complete shaping to form an open seam tube and before the final welding. For this purpose, the diameter measuring device is arranged in such a way that either the completely shaped open seam tube or the only tack-welded tube is measured.10-18-2012
20150048146METHOD FOR PRODUCING WELDED TUBES FROM STEEL - In a method for producing welded pipes from steel, in which strips or metal sheets are formed into a pipe provided with a longitudinal or helical slot and the abutting edges of the slotted pipe are welded together, the process parameters for production of the pipes are specified on the basis of previously ascertained material properties and geometry of the strips or metal sheets. Before the forming process, the strip or metal sheet is subjected to an nondestructive, continuous or discontinuous test for inhomogeneities over the length and width, an integral characteristic value for the material property of the strip or metal sheet is formed from the measured values, a measure of the homogeneity of the material properties relating to the length and width of the strip or metal sheet is derived from the variance in the measured values for the various measurement points and, in the event of deviations in the measured values exceeding previously specified limit values, the process parameters are reset and/or the strip or metal sheet is subjected to a homogenisation process prior to the forming process.02-19-2015

Gerhard Knoop, Meppen DE

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20080307714Hygiene Building - Hygiene building with an outer wall which has a polygonal or circular circumferential contour, surrounds an inner area and has at least one access. A plurality of hygiene areas which are provided in the inner area, are delimited by side walls and are arranged against the outer wall along the circumferential contour. The hygiene areas have at least one fluid inlet and at least one fluid outlet A central area is provided in the inner area is accessible via the access and through which the hygiene areas are accessible At least one sanitary installation is connected to one of the fluid inlets and arranged in one of the hygiene areas. A fluid catchment device is connected to the fluid outlets to receive fluid can be conducted through the fluid outlets. The hygiene building is constructed from a plurality of modules such that it can be dismantled, modules at least the outer wall, the side walls, the sanitary installation and the fluid catchment device. The fluid catchment device has a plurality of fluid catchment containers which are separable from one another and are arranged below the hygiene areas.12-18-2008

Hayo Knoop, Forchheim DE

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110202176Method for Operating a Multi-Axis Robot - A method for operating a multi-axis, preferably six-axis, robot with axes that can be driven by drive means is proposed. The axes are possible to be moved separately and their movement is controlled by a control facility. Before the movement of the robot is executed, a control data record is created for controlling the movement of the robot as a function of initial and target information for the robot input by a user. The control facility performs a verification of the control data record in respect of at least one predefined basic condition relating to the operation of the robot stored in a memory. The control data record is adjusted based on the at least one basic condition whilst retaining the target information as a function of the result of the check.08-18-2011
20130261431PAE TREATMENT FOR BPH - A method of guiding a catheter during an embolization operation includes receiving volume data of a patient volume, the patient volume including a lesion and a feeding vessel for the lesion, detecting the feeding vessel in the volume data, define a vessel connection path for the feeding vessel, the vessel connection path connecting first and second points in the volume data, the second point being disposed along the feeding vessel, receiving fluoroscopic projection data of the patient volume, and rendering the fluoroscopic projection data with an overlay during the embolization operation, the overlay including the vessel connection path for the feeding vessel.10-03-2013
20140294155RADIOGRAPHY DEVICE AND METHOD FOR EXAMINATIONS IN THE FIELD OF PEDIATRIC RADIOLOGY - A radiography device and a radiography method are specifically adapted for examinations in the field of pediatric radiology. The radiography device examines a diagnosis-relevant region of a patient. The device has a radiation source, which emits radiological rays in an irradiation direction. An irradiation surface is selectable in dependence of a specified examination region of the patient. The radiography device also has a measurement field. The size of the measurement field is changeable such that the size of the measurement field and the size of the irradiation surface correlate.10-02-2014

Patent applications by Hayo Knoop, Forchheim DE

Michael Knoop, Ludwigsburg DE

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110001617METHOD FOR WARNING THE DRIVER OF A MOTOR VEHICLE OF INCREASED RISK OF AN ACCIDENT - In a method for warning the driver of a motor vehicle, the yaw rate is altered in the event of an increased risk of an accident, and the change in the yaw rate serves to warn the driver of the increased risk state.01-06-2011
20120055745Method for Chassis Control of a Motor Vehicle, and Device for the Performance Thereof - In a method for chassis control of a motor vehicle which has at least one wheel suspension, a vehicle body, and a shock absorber having a rebound stage, whose stiffness is adjustable, and a compression stage, whose stiffness is adjustable, the stiffness of the compression stage is changed for a compressive load of the shock absorber generated by a specific vehicle body movement, and the stiffness of the rebound stage is additionally changed for a subsequently following tensile load of the shock absorber generated by the specific vehicle body movement, or the stiffness of the rebound stage is changed for a tensile load of the shock absorber generated by a specific vehicle body movement, and the stiffness of the compression stage is additionally changed for a subsequently following compressive load of the shock absorber generated by the specific vehicle body movement.03-08-2012
20130218400DIAGNOSTIC METHOD AND DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE FOR A VEHICLE COMPONENT OF A VEHICLE - A diagnostic method for a vehicle component of a vehicle, an operating parameter of the vehicle component being detected during an operation of the vehicle and a status message corresponding to a status of the vehicle component being transmitted to a vehicle-external server as a function of the detected operating parameter for an analysis of the status message, a message based on the analysis of the status message being transmitted to a receiving device. The invention furthermore relates to a corresponding diagnostic device, a corresponding diagnostic system, as well as a computer program is also described.08-22-2013
20130226391DIAGNOSTIC METHOD AND DIAGNOSTIC DEVICE FOR A VEHICLE COMPONENT OF A VEHICLE - A diagnostic method for a vehicle component of a vehicle, a plurality of vehicles each having the same vehicle component being provided; during the operation of the vehicles, an operating parameter of the respective vehicle component being recorded and, as a function of the recorded operating parameter, a status message corresponding to the status of the respective vehicle component being sent to a server for an evaluation of the status message. A corresponding diagnostic device, a corresponding diagnostic system and a computer program are also described.08-29-2013
20140067252METHOD FOR DETERMINING AN EVASION TRAJECTORY FOR A MOTOR VEHICLE, AND SAFETY DEVICE OR SAFETY SYSTEM - A method for determination of an optimized evasion trajectory by a safety device or a safety system, in particular a lane change assistance system and/or evasion assistance system, of a motor vehicle, the optimized evasion trajectory being outputted to a vehicle driver, and/or a trajectory of the motor vehicle being optionally partially adapted to the optimized evasion trajectory, by way of the method, the optimized evasion trajectory being determined by optimization of a transverse-dynamic quality factor (J), for which a transverse acceleration (a) and/or a transverse jerk (a) of the motor vehicle is/are utilized. Also described is a safety device or a safety system, in particular to a lane change assistance system and/or an evasion assistance system for a motor vehicle, a method being executable and/or being executed by the safety device or the safety system. The method further relates to a use of a method, of a safety device, or of a safety system in a driver assistance system in order to enhance active and/or passive safety in road traffic.03-06-2014
20140161650LINEAR DRIVE AND PISTON PUMP ARRANGEMENT - A linear drive, in particular for a piston pump, includes a first electromagnetic drive device, a second electromagnetic drive device, and a drive piston configured to be moved in an axial direction by the drive devices. The first drive device and the second drive device are each in the form of a reluctance drive device. The reluctance drive devices each have a stator with a stator coil that engages around the drive piston in a circumferential direction. The reluctance drive devices each also have a coil core with a coil receptacle, open in a radial direction toward the drive piston, for the coil winding. A piston pump arrangement includes the linear drive.06-12-2014
20150019042Device and Method for Operating a Vehicle - A device for operating a vehicle includes: a vehicle movement module for forming control signals for a control unit of an actuating system of the vehicle; an energy management module for managing energy which is available for a vehicle operation, the energy management module being configured to form further control signals for the control unit as a function of the available energy, and a prioritizer for prioritizing the control signals over the further control signals as a function of a vehicle position and/or a vehicle movement state for stabilizing the vehicle.01-15-2015

Patent applications by Michael Knoop, Ludwigsburg DE

Steffen Knoop, Niefern-Oeschelbronn DE

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20130124041METHOD FOR ASSISTING A DRIVER OF A VEHICLE DURING A DRIVING MANEUVER - In a method for assisting a driver of a vehicle in a driving maneuver, at least the surrounding area in front of the vehicle in the direction of travel is monitored, in order to detect objects with which the vehicle would collide if the vehicle maintained its direction of travel; in the event of an imminent collision with an object, a necessary steering action and/or a necessary braking action being indicated to the driver, and/or an automatic steering action and/or an automatic braking action being taken, in order to prevent a collision with the object. The contour of the body of the vehicle is taken into account for ascertaining if a collision with the object is imminent.05-16-2013

Sven Knoop, Hamburg DE

Patent application numberDescriptionPublished
20110043369TESTER FOR TESTING SIGNAL LINES OF A FLIGHT CONTROL SYSTEM FOR A THS MOTOR OF AN AIRCRAFT - The present invention relates to a tester, its use and a method for testing signal lines of a flight control system for a trimmable horizontal stabilizer (THS) motor of an aircraft. The tester comprises at least one test-relay (02-24-2011
20110050244METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR TESTING AIRCRAFT ELECTRICAL SYSTEMS - The present invention provides a method and apparatus for testing an aircraft control system. The method comprises the steps of: coupling a test device (03-03-2011
20110203391APPARATUS AND METHOD FOR TESTING AN AIRCRAFT PEDAL SYSTEM - An apparatus (08-25-2011
20110205089AIRCRAFT POWER FAILURE SIMULATION APPARATUS AND METHOD - Disclosed is a flight management means verification apparatus (08-25-2011
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