Patents by Inventor Antonius Maria Bernardus van Mol
Antonius Maria Bernardus van Mol 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: 20230347381Abstract: An ultrasonic transducer is described that includes a stack of at least two membranes attached to a substrate. An electric circuit is coupled to the electrodes with a controller configured to apply a first electric signal to a first electrode on the first membrane, and a different, second electric signal to a second electrode on the second membrane. The first and second electric signals are configured to apply a varying voltage between the first electrode and the second electrode during a respective vibration cycle of the membranes. The first electrode on the first membrane is configured to interact with the second electrode on the second membrane by a varying electrostatic force during the respective vibration cycle depending on the varying voltage.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 2, 2021Publication date: November 2, 2023Inventors: Paul Louis Maria Joseph VAN NEER, Arno Willem Frederik VOLKER, Gerwin Hermanus GELINCK, Hylke Broer AKKERMAN, Antonius Maria Bernardus VAN MOL
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Publication number: 20220192633Abstract: A device (100) and method for adhering by suction to a target surface (200). The device has a substrate (20) with a contact surface (20a) for contacting the device (100) to the target surface (200). A plurality of pocket (10) are formed by respective pocket surfaces (10a) concavely extending into the contact surface (20a). The pockets (10) have an open side (10b) facing and being closed off by the target surface (200). A flexible membrane (15) forms at least part of the pocket surface (10a). An actuator (40) is configured to actuate the flexible membrane (15). A one-way valve (30) through the pocket surface (10a) is configured to direct a contents of the pocket (10) via the one-way valve (30) to an environment (300).Type: ApplicationFiled: April 6, 2020Publication date: June 23, 2022Inventors: Paul Louis Maria Joseph VAN NEER, Arno Willem Frederik VOLKER, Hylke Broer AKKERMAN, Gerwin Hermanus GELINCK, Antonius Maria Bernardus VAN MOL, Arthur Perry BERKHOFF
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Patent number: 11108031Abstract: An electrode for a Lithium battery, comprising: a multi-dyad nanolaminate stack formed of a metal oxide layer of the group TiO2, MnO2 or combinations thereof, ranging between 0.3 and 300 nm; separated by a decoupling layer.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2017Date of Patent: August 31, 2021Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventors: Paulus Willibrordus George Poodt, Sandeep Unnikrishnan, Philippe Vereecken, Sebastien Paul Norbert Moitzheim, Antonius Maria Bernardus van Mol
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Publication number: 20210234130Abstract: A barrier film laminate (1) comprising an organic layer (4) that is situated in between two inorganic layers (2,3). The organic layer comprises submicron getter particles (5) at an amount between 0.01 and 0.9% by weight. The barrier film laminate can be used for encapsulating organic electronic devices such as OLEDs. The long term homogenous transparency makes this laminate in particular suited for protecting the light emitting side of an OLED.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 12, 2021Publication date: July 29, 2021Applicant: BASF Coatings GmbHInventors: Richard Frantz, Antonius Maria Bernardus van Mol, Bernhard Sailer
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Patent number: 10959693Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for aligning an X-ray grating to an X-ray radiation source, the device (10) comprising at least two flat X-ray grating segments (11-19); at least one alignment unit (31-39) for aligning one of the at least two flat X-ray grating segments; wherein the at least two flat X-ray grating segments (11-19) are arranged in juxtaposition and are forming an X-ray grating (20); wherein the at least two flat X-ray grating segments (11-19) each comprise a grating surface (41-49) for X-ray radiation, each grating surface (41-49) comprising a geometrical center; wherein normals (21-29) to each of the grating surfaces (41-49) define a common plane (73), wherein the normals (21-29) intersect the geometrical center of the grating surface (41-49); wherein at least a first of the at least two flat X-ray grating segments (11-19) is rotatable around an axis (131-139) that is perpendicular to the common plane (73); and wherein the first of the at least two flat X-ray grating segments (11-19)Type: GrantFiled: December 10, 2018Date of Patent: March 30, 2021Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.Inventors: Christiaan Kok, Gereon Vogtmeier, Thomas Koehler, Johannes Wilhelmus Maria Jacobs, Sandeep Unnikrishnan, Dorothee Hermes, Antonius Maria Bernardus Van Mol
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Publication number: 20200378029Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for anodized oxidation of an anode element for a curved X-ray grating, the device (10) comprising: an anode element (12); a cathode element (14); an electrolytic medium (16); a conductor element (18); and a carrier element (20); wherein the anode element (12) comprises a first side (11) and a second side (13), wherein the second side (13) faces opposite to the first side (11); wherein the carrier element (20) comprises a curved surface section (21) that extends along a curvature around a center of curvature (30); wherein the carrier element (20) is configured to receive the second side (13) of the anode element (12) for attaching the conductor element (18) to the first side (11) of the anode element (12); wherein the curved surface section (21) is configured to receive the conductor element (18) after detaching the second side (13) of the anode element (12) from the carrier element (20); wherein the electrolytic medium (16) is configured to connect the anode element (Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2018Publication date: December 3, 2020Inventors: GEREON VOGTMEIER, CHRISTIAAN KOK, THOMAS KOEHLER, ANDRIY YAROSHENKO, JOHANNES WILHELMUS MARIA JACOBS, SANDEEP NIKRISHNAN, DOROTHEE HERMES, ANTONIUS MARIA BERNARDUS VAN MOL
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Publication number: 20200297297Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for aligning an X-ray grating to an X-ray radiation source, the device (10) comprising at least two flat X-ray grating segments (11-19); at least one alignment unit (31-39) for aligning one of the at least two flat X-ray grating segments; wherein the at least two flat X-ray grating segments (11-19) are arranged in juxtaposition and are forming an X-ray grating (20); wherein the at least two flat X-ray grating segments (11-19) each comprise a grating surface (41-49) for X-ray radiation, each grating surface (41-49) comprising a geometrical center; wherein normals (21-29) to each of the grating surfaces (41-49) define a common plane (73), wherein the normals (21-29) intersect the geometrical center of the grating surface (41-49); wherein at least a first of the at least two flat X-ray grating segments (11-19) is rotatable around an axis (131-139) that is perpendicular to the common plane (73); and wherein the first of the at least two flat X-ray grating segments (11-19)Type: ApplicationFiled: December 10, 2018Publication date: September 24, 2020Inventors: CHRISTIAAN KOK, GEREON VOGTMEIER, THOMAS KOEHLER, JOHANNES WILHELMUS MARIA JACOBS, SANDEEP UNNIKRISHNAN, DOROTHEE HERMES, ANTONIUS MARIA BERNARDUS VAN MOL
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Publication number: 20190363337Abstract: An electrode for a Lithium battery, comprising: a multi-dyad nanolaminate stack formed of a metal oxide layer of the group TiO2, MnO2 or combinations thereof, ranging between 0.3 and 300 nm; separated by a decoupling layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2017Publication date: November 28, 2019Inventors: Paulus Willibrordus George Poodt, Sandeep Unnikrishnan, Philippe Vereecken, Sebastien Paul Norbert Moitzheim, Antonius Maria Bernardus van Mol
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Publication number: 20170373275Abstract: A barrier film laminate (1) comprising an organic layer (4) that is situated in between two inorganic layers (2,3). The organic layer comprises submicron getter particles (5) at an amount between 0.01 and 0.9% by weight. The barrier film laminate can be used for encapsulating organic electronic devices such as OLEDs. The long term homogenous transparency makes this laminate in particular suited for protecting the light emitting side of an OLED.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 17, 2015Publication date: December 28, 2017Inventors: Richard Frantz, Antonius Maria Bernardus van Mol, Bernhard Sailer
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Patent number: 9539615Abstract: An apparatus is described for coating a flexible substrate with at least a first organic layer and a first inorganic layer. The apparatus comprises a first and a second chamber and an atmosphere decoupling slot between the first and the second chamber. A printing facility is arranged in the first chamber, for printing the flexible substrate with a mixture comprising at least one precursor for a polymer, oligomer or a polymer network and a polymerization initiator. A curing facility is arranged in the first chamber, for curing the deposited mixture, therewith forming the at least first organic layer. A vapor deposition facility is arranged in the second chamber, for depositing the at least first inorganic layer at the substrate provided with the at least first organic layer. The apparatus comprises a facility for guiding the flexible substrate along the printing facility, along the curing facility and via the atmosphere decoupling slot along the vapor deposition facility.Type: GrantFiled: September 6, 2010Date of Patent: January 10, 2017Assignees: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO, Huntsman Advanced Materials (Switzerland) GmbHInventors: Edward Willem Albert Young, Erik Dekempeneer, Antonius Maria Bernardus van Mol, Herbert Lifka, Peter van de Weijer, Bernhard Sailer, Emilie Galand, Richard Frantz, Dimiter Lubomirov Kotzev, Mohammed Zoubair Cherkaoui
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Patent number: 9450205Abstract: An opto-electric device includes an opto-electric layer structure having an anode and a cathode layer and an opto-electric layer arranged between the anode and cathode layers, and having a light-transmission side. A dual electrically conductive layer structure is arranged at a side of the opto-electric layer structure opposite the light-transmission side, the dual electrically conductive layer structure having a first and a second electrically conductive layer mutually insulated by a first electrically insulating layer. A second electrically insulating layer is arranged between the light emitting layer structure and the dual electrically conductive layer structure, wherein the first electrically conductive layer is electrically connected by at least a first transverse electrical conductor with the anode layer and the second electrically conductive layer is electrically connected by at least a second transverse electrical conductor with the cathode layer.Type: GrantFiled: February 15, 2013Date of Patent: September 20, 2016Assignee: NEDERLANDSE ORGANISATIE VOOR TOEGEPAST-NATUURWETENSCHAPPELIJK ONDERZOEK TNOInventors: Jeroen van den Brand, Joanne Sarah Wilson, Antonius Maria Bernardus van Mol, Dorothee Christine Hermes, Edward Willem Albert Young
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Patent number: 9379356Abstract: The invention relates to a sealed thin-film device, to a method of repairing a sealing layer applied to a thin-film device to produce the sealed thin-film device, to a system for repairing the sealing layer applied to the thin-film device to generate the sealed thin-film device and to a computer program product. The sealed thin-film device comprises a thin-film device and a sealing layer applied on the thin-film device for protecting the thin-film device from environmental influence. The sealing layer comprises at least a first and a second barrier layer and a getter layer arranged between the first and the second barrier layer. The sealed thin-film device further comprises locally applied mending material for sealing a local breach in an outer one of said barrier layers.Type: GrantFiled: November 27, 2012Date of Patent: June 28, 2016Assignees: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO, Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Coen Verschuren, Antonius Maria Bernardus van Mol, Peter van de Weijer
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Patent number: 9333531Abstract: A thin-film optoelectric device is disclosed comprising a functional layer structure (30) enclosed between a first barrier layer structure (20) and a second barrier layer structure (40), the device having an open, electrically interconnected conductive structure (10) that is embedded within the first barrier layer structure (20), that comprises at least one elongated element (12a, 12b, 12c) of a metal that laterally extends within the barrier layer structure (20), and that is arranged against the functional layer structure (30), the electrically interconnected conductive structure (10) having a laterally facing, processed surface embedded in the first barrier layer (20).Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2010Date of Patent: May 10, 2016Assignee: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNOInventors: Chia-Chen Fan, Joanne Sarah Wilson, Antonius Maria Bernardus Van Mol, Stephan Harkema
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Patent number: 9263700Abstract: An opto-electric device is presented that comprises an opto-electric element enclosed by a barrier structure for inhibiting a transmission of moisture from an environment towards the opto-electric element. The barrier structure includes a stack of layers comprising at least an inorganic layer and a moisture getter material in a layer arranged between the inorganic layer and the opto-electric element. The stack includes a lateral diffusion layer, wherein the getter material is present in a separate getter layer arranged between the opto-electric element and the lateral diffusion layer and/or the getter material is present in the lateral diffusion layer.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2011Date of Patent: February 16, 2016Assignees: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk onderzoek TNO, Huntsman Advanced Materials (Switzerland) GmbH, Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Antonius Maria Bernardus van Mol, Peter van de Weijer, Dimiter Lubomirov Kotzev
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Patent number: 9093666Abstract: A light-emitting device is disclosed comprising an organic light-emitting diode structure and an encapsulation comprising a light-transmitting window with at least a first inorganic layer, an organic layer and a second inorganic layer, the organic layer comprising domains of a dispersed first organic component embedded by a second component, the first and the second component having a mutually different refractive index, the organic layer being sandwiched between the first and the second inorganic layer.Type: GrantFiled: April 29, 2011Date of Patent: July 28, 2015Assignees: Nederlandse Organisatie voor toegepast-natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO, Huntsman Advanced Materials (Switzerland) GmbHInventors: Edward Willem Albert Young, Joanne Sarah Wilson, Stephan Harkema, Dorothee Christine Hermes, Jasper Joost Michels, Antonius Maria Bernardus van Mol, Emilie Galand, Richard Frantz, Dimiter Lubomirov Kotzev
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Publication number: 20150200370Abstract: A method and system are provided for dividing a continuous barrier foil into a barrier foil segment that may be cut without exposing an organic layer in the barrier foil segment. A groove is formed alongside a perimeter of the barrier foil segment. The groove extends through the organic layer and is sealed by a sealing material to form a sealed groove. The sealed groove may prevent moisture and/or oxygen from reaching organic material in the barrier foil segment when it is cut. A sealed barrier foil segment is thus provided.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2013Publication date: July 16, 2015Inventors: Sandeep Unnikrishnan, Antonius Maria Bernardus Van Mol
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Patent number: 8994044Abstract: The present invention relates to an electro-optical device provided with an electrode (10). The electrode comprising an electrically conductive structure extending in a plane. The structure comprises a grid of elongated elements (12) with length L and a width dimension D in said plane. The electrically conductive structure further comprises one or more contactfields (14) having an inscribed circle with a radius of at least 2D and a circumscribed circle with a radius of at most three times L. The area occupied by the contactfields (14) is at most 20% of the area occupied by the grid of elongated elements (12).Type: GrantFiled: November 30, 2010Date of Patent: March 31, 2015Assignees: Nederlandse Organisatie voor Toegepast—Natuurwetenschappelijk Onderzoek TNO, Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V.Inventors: Herbert Lifka, Antonius Maria Bernardus van Mol
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Patent number: 8987019Abstract: A method of manufacturing an opto-electric device is disclosed, comprising the steps of providing a substrate (10), overlying a first main side of the substrate with an electrically interconnected open shunting structure (20), embedding the electrically interconnected open shunting structure in a transparent layer (30), removing the substrate from the embedded electrically interconnected open shunting structure, depositing a functional layer structure (40) over a free surface (31) formed after removal of the substrate.Type: GrantFiled: August 6, 2010Date of Patent: March 24, 2015Assignee: Koninklijke Philips N.V.Inventors: Antonius Maria Bernardus van Mol, Joanne Sarah Wilson, Chia-Chen Fan, Herbert Lifka, Edward Willem Albert Young, Hieronymus A.J.M. Andriessen
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Publication number: 20150008474Abstract: An opto-electric device includes an opto-electric layer structure having an anode and a cathode layer and an opto-electric layer arranged between the anode and cathode layers, and having a light-transmission side. A dual electrically conductive layer structure is arranged at a side of the opto-electric layer structure opposite the light-transmission side, the dual electrically conductive layer structure having a first and a second electrically conductive layer mutually insulated by a first electrically insulating layer. A second electrically insulating layer is arranged between the light emitting layer structure and the dual electrically conductive layer structure, wherein the first electrically conductive layer is electrically connected by at least a first transverse electrical conductor with the anode layer and the second electrically conductive layer is electrically connected by at least a second transverse electrical conductor with the cathode layer.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 15, 2013Publication date: January 8, 2015Inventors: Jeroen van den Brand, Joanne Sarah Wilson, Antonius Maria Bernardus van Mol, Dorothee Christine Hermes, Edward Willem Albert Young
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Publication number: 20140346555Abstract: The invention relates to a sealed thin-film device, to a method of repairing a sealing layer applied to a thin-film device to produce the sealed thin-film device, to a system for repairing the sealing layer applied to the thin-film device to generate the sealed thin-film device and to a computer program product. The sealed thin-film device comprises a thin-film device and a sealing layer applied on the thin-film device for protecting the thin-film device from environmental influence. The sealing layer comprises at least a first and a second barrier layer and a getter layer arranged between the first and the second barrier layer. The sealed thin-film device further comprises locally applied mending material for sealing a local breach in an outer one of said barrier layers.Type: ApplicationFiled: November 27, 2012Publication date: November 27, 2014Inventors: Coen Verschuren, Antonius Maria Bernardus van Mol, Peter van der Weijer