Patents by Inventor Franz Mueller

Franz Mueller 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).

  • Patent number: 6977048
    Abstract: A method for recycling an invert emulsion based drilling fluid, in which the invert emulsion based drilling fluid includes an oil component and an aqueous component. The method includes: mixing the invert emulsion drilling fluid with a emulsion clearing agent, wherein the emulsion clearing agent is a mixture of an anionic tensid and a non-ionic tensid; and separating the oil component of the invert emulsion drilling fluid from the aqueous component of the invert emulsion drilling fluid. The method preferably utilizes an emulsion breaking agent that is a combination of an anionic tensid, a non-ionic tensid and an alkyl polyglycoside tensid.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 2002
    Date of Patent: December 20, 2005
    Assignee: M-I LLC
    Inventors: Frank Manfred Franz Mueller, Juergen Rudolph
  • Publication number: 20050124206
    Abstract: A terminal unit with a housing and a cover is described, a cable receiving opening for a terminal module being provided in the cover. Contact members are arranged in the housing and held pivotably on the housing. The contact members have contacts which make electric contact with an electrical lead when the contact member is swivelled from an open position into a contact position. The contact members have seating surfaces which form a receiving chamber for a printed circuit board. The printed circuit board is part of the terminal module which can be slid into the aperture in the cover, conductors of the board making electric contact with the contacts of the contact members.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 12, 2004
    Publication date: June 9, 2005
    Inventors: Bert Bergner, Werner Boeck, Guenter Feldmeier, Franz Mueller
  • Patent number: 6887094
    Abstract: A shielded connection arrangement is provided for electrically connecting at least one multiple-conductor shielded electrical wire to a circuit carrier or the like, in particular for connecting an Ethernet line to an electrical device. The connection arrangement includes an electrically insulating housing 101 having a securable cover 102 and, located therein, insulation displacement contacts 103 for making contact with wire conductors 141 of the at least one electrical wire 14. Within the insulating housing 101 and/or below the cover 102 there is an electrically conductive shield plate 121 for shielding 12 the interior of the housing in a manner which is largely closed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 18, 2003
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2005
    Assignee: Tyco Electronics AMP, GmbH
    Inventors: Werner Boeck, Franz Mueller, Martin Szelag, Ralf Schmidt
  • Patent number: 6881349
    Abstract: A mobile apparatus and method for recycling an invert emulsion based drilling fluid, in which the invert emulsion based drilling fluid includes an oleaginous component and an aqueous component. The apparatus includes an emulsion breaking tank, a water treatment tank, a filter press, and hydrocarbon filters. The method includes: mixing said invert emulsion drilling fluid with a emulsion breaker, wherein the emulsion breaker is a mixture of an alkyl glucoside and an alkane sulfonate; and separating the oleaginous component of the invert emulsion drilling fluid from the aqueous component of the invert emulsion drilling fluid. The method preferably utilizes an emulsion breaker that is a combination of an anionic surfactant, a nonionic surfactant and an alkyl polyglycoside surfactant.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 15, 2002
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2005
    Assignee: M-I LLC
    Inventor: Frank Manfred Franz Mueller
  • Publication number: 20040110410
    Abstract: A shielded connection arrangement is provided for electrically connecting at least one multiple-conductor shielded electrical wire to a circuit carrier or the like, in particular for connecting an Ethernet line to an electrical device. The connection arrangement includes an electrically insulating housing 101 having a securable cover 102 and, located therein, insulation displacement contacts 103 for making contact with wire conductors 141 of the at least one electrical wire 14. Within the insulating housing 101 and/or below the cover 102 there is an electrically conductive shield plate 121 for shielding 12 the interior of the housing in a manner which is largely closed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 18, 2003
    Publication date: June 10, 2004
    Inventors: Werner Boeck, Franz Mueller, Martin Szelag, Ralf Schmidt
  • Publication number: 20040094483
    Abstract: A mobile apparatus and method for recycling an invert emulsion based drilling fluid, in which the invert emulsion based drilling fluid includes an oleaginous component and an aqueous component. The apparatus includes an emulsion breaking tank, a water treatment tank, a filter press, and hydrocarbon filters. The method includes: mixing said invert emulsion drilling fluid with a emulsion breaker, wherein the emulsion breaker is a mixture of an alkyl glucoside and an alkane sulfonate; and separating the oleaginous component of the invert emulsion drilling fluid from the aqueous component of the invert emulsion drilling fluid. The method preferably utilizes an emulsion breaker that is a combination of an anionic surfactant, a nonionic surfactant and an alkyl polyglycoside surfactant.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2002
    Publication date: May 20, 2004
    Inventor: Frank Manfred Franz Mueller
  • Publication number: 20030172675
    Abstract: The invention relates to a manufacturing apparatus for simultaneously making different hollow glass products having different gob sizes comprising at least one feed apparatus (12), that has at least one glass reservoir (14), at least one plunger (18a, b), and at least one appurtenant cutting device (24a, b) in the discharge from the reservoir, at least one conveying means (28) to successively transport at least one of the gobs discharged from the feed apparatus (12) into a plurality of shape-imparting units (32a-c) disposed next to each other for variously sized gobs, at least one controller (22) to control the plunger (18a, b) and the cutting device (24a, b) of the feed apparatus (12), the conveying means (28), and the shape-imparting units (32a-c), and said controller (22) controls the activity of the shape-imparting units (32a-c), the feed apparatus (12), and the conveying means (28) in coordination with the gob-size-specific processing time of the products in the shape-imparting units (32a-c) or their cyc
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 23, 2003
    Publication date: September 18, 2003
    Inventors: Franz Mueller, Alfred Krischke, Wilfried Jungkunz
  • Publication number: 20030100452
    Abstract: A method for recycling an invert emulsion based drilling fluid, in which the invert emulsion based drilling fluid includes an oil component and an aqueous component. The method includes: mixing the invert emulsion drilling fluid with a emulsion clearing agent, wherein the emulsion clearing agent is a mixture of an anionic tensid and a non-ionic tensid; and separating the oil component of the invert emulsion drilling fluid from the aqueous component of the invert emulsion drilling fluid. The method preferably utilizes an emulsion breaking agent that is a combination of an anionic tensid, a non-ionic tensid and an alkyl polyglycoside tensid.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 24, 2002
    Publication date: May 29, 2003
    Inventors: Frank Manfred Franz Mueller, Juergen Rudolph
  • Patent number: 6293361
    Abstract: A process for braking a vehicle senses changes of the bodily reactions pointing to an emergency or stress situation by way of sensors which sense bodily reactions and are preferably arranged on the driver's wrists or on the steering wheel rim. As a function of these sensors and their signals, an automatic braking operation is initiated.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 1999
    Date of Patent: September 25, 2001
    Assignee: DaimlerChrysler AG
    Inventor: Franz Mueller
  • Patent number: 6210298
    Abstract: The invention relates to a continuously variable transmission with two driving modes designed as split power transmission comprising a power branch in the form of a variator with a continuously adjustable rotational speed and a mechanical power branch. The mechanical power branch and the variator are coupled in the first driving mode with a compound gear. The mechanical power branch is opened in the second driving mode and the total power is directly transmitted by the variator. Both driving modes can be switched by clutches K1 and K2 and can be optionally connected to the transmission input shaft (1) by means of a clutch Kv for forward drive and via a clutch Kr for reverse drive. The clutches Kv and Kr are designed as a twin clutch which acts as a start clutch and as a reverse unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 8, 1999
    Date of Patent: April 3, 2001
    Assignee: ZF Friedrichshafen AG
    Inventors: Erwin Baur, Franz Müller, Helmut Konrad
  • Patent number: 6038130
    Abstract: An electrical interconnection system for electronic modules that are mountable on a support and stackable against other similar modules where the interconnection system allows for pivotable attachment of the modules to the support and electrical contacting with adjacent modules, such that power and data transmissions can occur therebetween, through an interconnection that protects the contacts during pivoting attachment of the module to the support and assures a reliable and easily established interconnection therebetween.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: March 14, 2000
    Assignee: The Whitaker Corporation
    Inventors: Werner Boeck, Franz Mueller
  • Patent number: D444737
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 10, 2001
    Assignee: International Truck and Engine Corporation
    Inventors: L. David Allendorph, Santiago C. Abalos, Franz Mueller, Robert M. Zimmerman, Larry N. Reynard
  • Patent number: D445073
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 17, 2001
    Assignee: International Truck and Engine Corporation
    Inventors: Robert S. Tirey, Franz Mueller
  • Patent number: D445361
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Assignee: International Truck and Engine Corporation
    Inventors: Robert S. Tirey, L. David Allendorph, Santiago C. Abalos, Franz Mueller, Robert M. Zimmerman, Larry N. Reynard
  • Patent number: D445384
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: July 24, 2001
    Assignee: International Truck and Engine Corporation
    Inventors: Robert S. Tirey, Franz Mueller, Robert M. Zimmerman, L. David Allendorph
  • Patent number: D447099
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 5, 2000
    Date of Patent: August 28, 2001
    Assignee: Navistar International Transportation Corp
    Inventors: Robert S. Tirey, L. David Allendorph, Donald DeFossett, Franz Mueller, Robert M. Zimmerman
  • Patent number: D403285
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: December 29, 1998
    Assignee: Navistar International Transportation Corp.
    Inventors: Santiago C. Abalos, Franz Mueller
  • Patent number: D403620
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1999
    Assignee: Navistar International Transportation Corp.
    Inventors: Santiago C. Abalos, Franz Mueller
  • Patent number: D403637
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: January 5, 1999
    Assignee: Navistar International Transportation Corp.
    Inventors: Santiago C. Abalos, Franz Mueller
  • Patent number: D409965
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 10, 1997
    Date of Patent: May 18, 1999
    Assignee: Navistar International Transportation Corp
    Inventors: Franz Mueller, Richard A. Schumann, Robert S. Tirey, Robert M. Zimmerman