Patents by Inventor Andreas Meier
Andreas Meier 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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Publication number: 20120285383Abstract: The present invention provides a mounting, configured for fixing a reactor, in particular a PECVD reactor, in a vacuum chamber (1), the mounting (10) comprising a framework of at least two outer beams (11) being arranged opposite to each other, and a plurality of cross beams (12), wherein the outer beams (11) and the cross beams (12) form compartments (13), in which temperature controlling elements are provided. The mounting (10) according to the invention has a reduced weight and is producible cost saving.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 12, 2011Publication date: November 15, 2012Applicant: OERLIKON SOLAR AG, TRUBBACHInventors: Eduard Ilinich, Andreas Meier
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Publication number: 20120282820Abstract: A terminal (3a . . . 3h) for the electrical connection of a plurality of electrochemical cells (2) of an accumulator, which terminal comprises a U-shaped outer rail (4a . . . 4f) and an actuating element (5a . . . 5g), is described. According to the invention, the actuating element (5a . . . 5g) is coupled to a clamping element (6a . . . 6f . . . 6h) in such a way that the clamping element (6a . . . 6f . . . 6h) is pressed against at least one limb (4a? . . . 4f?) of the outer rail (4a . . . 4f) on actuation of the actuating element (5a . . . 5g).Type: ApplicationFiled: November 22, 2010Publication date: November 8, 2012Applicant: BRUSA ELEKTRONIK AGInventors: Axel Krause, Andrea Meier
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Patent number: 8228847Abstract: A method and a system for the propagation of a message in a radio-operated communication network having a base unit and a plurality of members, wherein the base unit and the members each includes a transmitter and a receiver, the receiver being activated at cyclical switch-on times for a certain respective receiving period. A message to be sent from a member to the base unit is transmitted by the member to at least one adjacent member as a function of at least one rule, and the message is transmitted by the at least one adjacent member, according to the at least one rule, to at least one member adjacent thereto, in the direction of the base unit. The process is repeated such that the message is transmitted from at least one adjacent member receiving the message according to the at least one rule to at least one member adjacent thereto, in the direction of the base unit. The message is transmitted from the at least one member that is adjacent to the base unit to at least the base unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2008Date of Patent: July 24, 2012Assignee: Siemens AktiengesellschaftInventors: Philipp Blum, Andreas Meier, Mario Strasser
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Publication number: 20120167013Abstract: Disclosed are methods, systems and products, including a method that includes receiving, by at least one processor-based device, data relating to features of a computing system, generating, by the at least one processor-based device, a diagram including graphical data representative of, at least partly, the features of the computing system, including an order of release of at least some subsystems of the computing system and layered relationship information, and providing the generated diagram to a user interface for presentation.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 28, 2010Publication date: June 28, 2012Applicant: SAP AGInventors: Martin Kaiser, Andreas Meier
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Publication number: 20100300920Abstract: A gate valve for a vacuum chamber comprises two carriers (5a) each connected to a frame structure providing an essentially plane front by two parallel links (6) and to an actuating rod (12a) by parallel levers (14). Upward motion of the actuating rods (12a) by a piston (17) causes, via the levers (14), upward motion of the carriers (5a) which is transformed into a circular motion by the links (6) where the carriers (5a) at the same time approach the front while remaining parallel to it, moving sealing plates (9) which are fixed to the carriers (5a) to an active position where they press against the front and seal openings (3) therein. Retraction of the piston (17) effects an inverse motion, whereby the sealing plates (9) are completely removed from the openings (3) and the latter made easily accessible.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 19, 2008Publication date: December 2, 2010Applicant: OERLIKON SOLAR IP AG, TRÜBBACHInventors: Philipp Wagner, Andreas Meier, Christian Egli
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Publication number: 20100160569Abstract: The in-line repair operations in the automotive industry require high-temperature masking tapes which satisfy a particular profile of requirements. Hence such masking tapes must be temperature-stable and must have a high crosslinking potential. Masking tapes employed are tapes coated with thermally crosslinking natural rubber (NR) adhesives which have a crosslinker resin/phenolic resin component.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2009Publication date: June 24, 2010Applicant: TESA SEInventors: Andreas MEIER, Matthias SEIBERT, Sabine THORMEIER, Karsten SEITZ
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Publication number: 20100110924Abstract: A method and a system for the propagation of a message in a radio-operated communication network having a base unit and a plurality of members, wherein the base unit and the members each includes a transmitter and a receiver, the receiver being activated at cyclical switch-on times for a certain respective receiving period. A message to be sent from a member to the base unit is transmitted by the member to at least one adjacent member as a function of at least one rule, and the message is transmitted by the at least one adjacent member, according to the at least one rule, to at least one member adjacent thereto, in the direction of the base unit. The process is repeated such that the message is transmitted from at least one adjacent member receiving the message according to the at least one rule to at least one member adjacent thereto, in the direction of the base unit. The message is transmitted from the at least one member that is adjacent to the base unit to at least the base unit.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 3, 2008Publication date: May 6, 2010Applicant: SIEMENS AKTIENGESELLSCHAFTInventors: Philipp Blum, Andreas Meier, Mario Strasser
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Publication number: 20090288566Abstract: A method for producing printing stencils, especially for screen printing methods, and particularly those for use in filling at least one contact hole formed in a printed-circuit board, a pattern artwork being reproduced on the stencil, which corresponds to an arrangement of contact holes on the printed-circuit board. It is provided that the pattern artwork reproduced on the stencil be produced in the same working process, especially a punching process, using a cluster punching tool, as the at least one contact hole on the printed-circuit board. Also, a stencil device is provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 2, 2007Publication date: November 26, 2009Applicant: ROBERT BOSCH GMBHInventors: Bernd Maihoefer, Andreas Meier, Mark Leverkoehne, Ulrich Speh, Gunther Lieb, Alexandra Dirscherl, Joerg Schaefer
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Publication number: 20080113166Abstract: A stamped product for permanently obturating holes, especially in metal sheets or plastic parts of automobile bodies, having an at least partly single-sidedly self-adhesively treated base layer comprising a heat-resistant backing whose area is greater than the area of the hole to be obturated and which is provided, in particular centrally, on the adhesively treated side with a first section of a heat-activable adhesive sheet whose area is greater than the area of the hole to be obturated and less than the area of the base layer, the stamped product being applied over the hole to be obturated, in such a way that the hole is substantially covered by the first section.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 1, 2005Publication date: May 15, 2008Applicant: TESA AGInventors: Frank Kolmorgen, Torben Quednau, Andreas Meier, Patrick Gehringer, Audrey Bohmer
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Patent number: 6191857Abstract: A method of measuring selected values of a specimen having at least one edge is performed with an apparatus which positions the specimen in the path of a light beam such that the specimen at least partially interrupts the light beam and the edge borders a shadow cast by the specimen. Further, the apparatus rotates the specimen about a rotary axis through at least one predetermined angle; monitors, by an observing apparatus, a boundary of the shadow cast by the edge; generates, by the observing apparatus, signals representing positions of the boundary; and evaluates the signals for determining the selected values.Type: GrantFiled: January 24, 2000Date of Patent: February 20, 2001Assignee: Walter AGInventor: Andreas Meier
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Patent number: 5997293Abstract: The furnace for firing ceramic materials has a working surface including a firing area and a storage area. A hood is provided which is moveable motorically relative to the working surface and positioned above the firing area to define the firing chamber. A robot arm for moving the ceramic material into and out of the firing area is provided.Type: GrantFiled: May 6, 1998Date of Patent: December 7, 1999Assignee: Ivoclar AGInventors: Robert Grunenfelder, Andreas Meier, Jurgen Seger
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Patent number: 5378506Abstract: This invention relates to a source material for vapor deposition, which is useful for forming a magnesium oxide thin film by vacuum vapor deposition process, and to a method of forming a transparent barrier film by using the magnesium oxide source material. The source material is composed of a magnesium oxide having a bulk density of 2.5 g/ml or more. This magnesium oxide can be obtained by sintering or fusing magnesium oxide material. For producing a transparent barrier film having a gas barrier property, this magnesium oxide is vapor-deposited on a surface of a transparent plastic base film by means of vacuum vapor deposition. The volume shrinkage or cracking of the evaporation source material can be avoided, thereby stabilizing the evaporation and prolonging duration of the evaporation. Further, it is possible to utilize a high power of electron beam.Type: GrantFiled: May 10, 1993Date of Patent: January 3, 1995Assignees: Toppan Printing Co., Ltd., Leybold AktiengesellschaftInventors: Nobuhiko Imai, Mamoru Sekiguchi, Mitsuru Kano, Thomas Krug, Gerhard Steiniger, Andreas Meier
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Patent number: 5302208Abstract: The invention relates to a vacuum coating installation comprising a container (9) in which is disposed the material (10) to be vaporized, for example SiO. The vaporization of the material (10) herein takes place by means of an electron beam gun (11) or by means of a vaporization oven. Opposing the surface of the material to be vaporized (10) is provided a synthetic film (5) to be coated which is transported further by means of a transport arrangement (4, 6, 22 to 27). Into the space between the material (10) to be vaporized and the material (5) to be coated a microwave is irradiated from an horn antenna (13).Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 1992Date of Patent: April 12, 1994Assignees: Leybold Aktiengesellschaft, Toppan Printing Co., LtdInventors: Helmut Grimm, Thomas Krug, Andreas Meier, Klemens Ruebsam, Gerhard Steiniger, Mika Gamo, Mamoru Sekiguchi, Mitsuru Kano, Hiroyuki Yasujima, Takashi Miyamoto, Noboru Sasaki
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Patent number: 5286285Abstract: A finely powdery magnesium hydroxide especially suitable as a flame-retardant filler for plastic compounds, in which the particles are provided optionally with a thin coating of a surfactant. The grain size of the magnesium hydroxide, measured by laser diffraction, is below 10 .mu.m. The median value of the grain size is greater than 0.8 .mu.m, and the maximum of the median value of the grain size is 3 .mu.m. The contents of water-soluble ionic impurities, viz. Ca.sup.++, Na.sup.+, K.sup.+, SO.sub.4 --, Cl.sup.-, of the magnesium hydroxide are below the following limits (in parts by weight): Ca.sup.++ <1000 ppm, Na.sup.+ <20 ppm, K.sup.+ <20 ppm, SO.sub.4 --<1500 ppm, Cl.sup.- <1000 ppm. The contents of Mn, Cu and Ni are below the following limits (in parts by weight): MnO<100 ppm, NiO<100 ppm, CuO<10 ppm.Type: GrantFiled: June 4, 1993Date of Patent: February 15, 1994Assignee: Veitscher Magnesitwerke-Actien-GesellschaftInventors: Andreas Meier, Michael Grill
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Patent number: 5286531Abstract: The invention relates to a method for the aftertreatment of an oxide coating, and specifically an SiO.sub.x coating on a synthetic film. In this aftertreatment the oxide coating is exposed to a plasma whose particles effect positive changes of the oxide coating.Type: GrantFiled: August 3, 1992Date of Patent: February 15, 1994Assignees: Leybold Aktiengesellschaft, Toppan Printing Company, Ltd.Inventors: Thomas Krug, Klemens Ruebsam, Andreas Meier, Gerhard Steiniger, Mitsuru Kano, Noboru Sasaki, Takashi Miyamoto, Mamoru Sekiguchi
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Patent number: 5089492Abstract: Acylamino carboxylic acid derivatives corresponding to the formula I ##STR1## in which the groups R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, Z.sup.1 and Z.sup.2 represent functional groups specified in the claims. The acylamino carboxylic acid derivatives have valuable pharmacological properties which, in particular, favorably influence nitrogen metabolism. The compounds are useful as active ingredients in pharmaceutical and/or dietetic compositions for treatment or prevention of nitrogen metabolism disturbances in large mammals caused, for example, by liver or kidney damage.Type: GrantFiled: May 24, 1990Date of Patent: February 18, 1992Assignees: Kali-Chemie AG, Pfrimmer Kabi GmbH & Co. KGInventors: Klaus Gerling, Henning Heinemanmn, Andreas Meier, Klaus Langer
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Patent number: 3968376Abstract: The invention concerns a method of producing intense beams of polarized free electrons in which a semiconductor with a spin orbit split valence band and negative electron affinity is used as a photocathode and irradiated with circularly polarized light.Type: GrantFiled: June 3, 1975Date of Patent: July 6, 1976Inventors: Daniel Thornton Pierce, Felix Andrea Meier, Hans-Christoph Siegmann