Patents by Inventor Gerhard Theis
Gerhard Theis 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: 20240091843Abstract: A manipulator for components, in particular sheet metal parts, includes a base body mountable stationarily or movable along a guide arrangement, a first pivot arm pivotally coupled to the base body via a horizontal first pivot axis, a second pivot arm pivotally coupled to the first pivot arm via a horizontal second pivot axis and a third pivot arm pivotally coupled to the second pivot arm via a horizontal third pivot axis. A first axis of rotation extending radially to the third pivot axis is formed on the third pivot arm. A gripper support arm is rotatably coupled to the third pivot arm via the first axis of rotation and extends radially to the first axis of rotation. A gripping arrangement is rotatably coupled to the gripper support arm via a second axis of rotation spaced from the first axis of rotation. A bending installation includes the manipulator.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 21, 2021Publication date: March 21, 2024Applicant: TRUMPF MASCHINEN AUSTRIA GMBH & CO. KG.Inventors: Gerhard ANGERER, Michael SCHERNHAMMER, Florian HAUSMANN, Florian MAIER, Matthias HOERL, Helmut THEIS, Nenad KOVJENIC, Verena STEININGER, Klemens FREUDENTHALER, Richard EDLBAUER, Walter KEPLINGER, Gerhard GUGLER, Alois AUSTALLER
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Patent number: 10697954Abstract: The invention relates to a sample-holding element (20) for a liquid sample for the simultaneous analysis of three or more chemico-physical parameters of the liquid by means of an analysis device. The sample-holding element (20) has a sample-holding chamber (31), which can be filled with the liquid, wherein the sample-holding element (20) has at least three measurement points (24, 25, 26, 26N, 27) arranged adjacent to each other, which are distributed over the sample-holding chamber (31), wherein two of the measurement points (24, 25) are a photonic measurement point (24) and a refractive-index measurement point (25) and wherein the at least one further measurement point is selected from the group comprising at least a pH measurement point (26), a conductivity measurement point (27) and a germ measurement point.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2017Date of Patent: June 30, 2020Assignee: Fuchs Petrolub SEInventors: Christine Fuchs, Heinz Gerhard Theis
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Publication number: 20190293622Abstract: The invention relates to a sample-holding element (20) for a liquid sample for the simultaneous analysis of three or more chemico-physical parameters of the liquid by means of an analysis device. The sample-holding element (20) has a sample-holding chamber (31), which can be filled with the liquid, wherein the sample-holding element (20) has at least three measurement points (24, 25, 26, 26N, 27) arranged adjacent to each other, which are distributed over the sample-holding chamber (31), wherein two of the measurement points (24, 25) are a photonic measurement point (24) and a refractive-index measurement point (25) and wherein the at least one further measurement point is selected from the group comprising at least a pH measurement point (26), a conductivity measurement point (27) and a germ measurement point.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2017Publication date: September 26, 2019Applicant: Fuchs Petrolub SEInventors: Christine Fuchs, Heinz Gerhard Theis
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Patent number: 10077223Abstract: Process for preparing monoethylene glycol (MEG) by metal-catalyzed reaction of a dialkyl oxalate of the formula I where R1 and R2 are each, independently of one another, methyl, ethyl, n-propyl or isopropyl, with hydrogen (H2), wherein the dialkyl oxalate (I) is used as melt or as a solution in a solvent, dialkyl oxalate (I) and H2 are used in a molar ratio of H2:dialkyl oxalate (I) in the range from 4.0 to 30 and the reaction is carried out continuously in a reactor at a cross-sectional loading of ?10 m/s, a temperature in the range from 150 to 270° C., a pressure in the range from 150 to 390 bar and in the presence of a chromium-free heterogeneous catalyst comprising copper.Type: GrantFiled: July 26, 2016Date of Patent: September 18, 2018Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Alexander Duefert, Rolf Pinkos, Michael Reiser, Philipp Brüggemann, Gerhard Theis
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Publication number: 20180222830Abstract: Process for preparing monoethylene glycol (MEG) by metal-catalyzed reaction of a dialkyl oxalate of the formula I where R1 and R2 are each, independently of one another, methyl, ethyl, n-propyl or isopropyl, with hydrogen (H2), wherein the dialkyl oxalate (I) is used as melt or as a solution in a solvent, dialkyl oxalate (I) and H2 are used in a molar ratio of H2: dialkyl oxalate (I) in the range from 4.0 to 30 and the reaction is carried out continuously in a reactor at a cross-sectional loading of 10 m/s, a temperature in the range from 150 to 270° C., a pressure in the range from 150 to 390 bar and in the presence of a chromium-free heterogeneous catalyst comprising copper.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 26, 2016Publication date: August 9, 2018Inventors: Alexander DUEFERT, Rolf PINKOS, Michael REISER, Philipp BRUEGGEMANN, Gerhard THEIS
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Patent number: 9587197Abstract: A processing fluid that is free of boron and secondary amines includes a petroleum-based or non-petroleum-based oil; water; and an additive composition comprising a long chain primary amine; an tertiary cycloalkylamine; and an amino acid.Type: GrantFiled: February 3, 2014Date of Patent: March 7, 2017Assignee: FUCHS PETROLUB SEInventors: Michael P. Duncan, D. James Deodhar, Gema del Olmo Tomás, Heinz Gerhard Theis, Paul Roger Littley
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Publication number: 20160201000Abstract: A processing fluid that is free of boron and secondary amines includes a petroleum-based or non-petroleum-based oil; water; and an additive composition comprising a long chain primary amine; an tertiary cycloalkylamine; and an amino acid.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 3, 2014Publication date: July 14, 2016Inventors: Michael P. Duncan, D. James Deodhar, Gema del Olmo Tomas, Heinz Gerhard Theis, Paul Roger Littley
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Patent number: 9145347Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing deodorized 1,2-propanediol, to the use of the purified propanediol and to an apparatus for performing the process.Type: GrantFiled: July 11, 2014Date of Patent: September 29, 2015Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Stephan Maurer, Roman Prochazka, Oliver Bey, Jochen Steiner, Jochem Henkelmann, Gerhard Theis, Peter Wahl, Frank Heimann
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Patent number: 9000213Abstract: A process for coproducing di- and/or polyisocyanates and glycols, comprising process stages A, B, C and E for preparing glycols and process stages A, C, D, E, F and G for preparing di- and/or polyisocyanates, which comprises accomplishing the material coupling via the separation of the reaction mixture obtained in process stage A into process stages B and C, by in process stage A, reacting an aqueous alkylene oxide with carbon dioxide to give a reaction mixture comprising alkylene carbonate, hydrolyzing a portion of the alkylene carbonate-comprising reaction mixture obtained in process stage A to glycol in process stage B, dewatering the remaining alkylene carbonate-comprising stream of the reaction mixture from process stage A in process stage C, in process stage D, synthesizing amine by hydrogenating an aromatic nitro compound or a nitrile, in process stage E, transesterifying the dewatered alkylene carbonate-comprising mixture from process stage C with a monohydroxy alcohol to give the corresponding diaType: GrantFiled: October 27, 2010Date of Patent: April 7, 2015Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Michael Bock, Robert Baumann, Axel Franzke, Eckhard Stroefer, Gerhard Theis
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Patent number: 8933254Abstract: This invention relates to a process, comprising reacting ethylene and oxygen or a source of oxygen in the presence of a catalyst in a reactor to form a product comprising ethylene oxide, wherein the catalyst contains silver or silver compound and a support and the catalyst is in the form of particulate solids having a mean particle diameter from 1 to 1000 ?m and wherein the molar ratio of oxygen to ethylene is from 1:4 to 10:1.Type: GrantFiled: July 13, 2009Date of Patent: January 13, 2015Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Radwan Abdallah, Torsten Mäurer, Tobias Rosendahl, Frank Rosowski, Gerhard Theis, Terry Mazanec, Soumitra Deshmukh, Laura J. Silva
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Publication number: 20140343329Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing deodorized 1,2-propanediol, to the use of the purified propanediol and to an apparatus for performing the process.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 11, 2014Publication date: November 20, 2014Inventors: Stephan Maurer, Roman Prochazka, Oliver Bey, Jochen Steiner, Jochem Henkelmann, Gerhard Theis, Peter Wahl, Frank Heimann
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Patent number: 8814989Abstract: A process for removing carbon dioxide (CO2) by means of an absorption medium from a cycle gas system, wherein the CO2 occurs within a process in which, in the gas phase, ethylene is oxidized by oxygen (O2) to ethylene oxide (EO) in the presence of a catalyst, in which, as by product, CO2 is generated, by using as absorption medium an aqueous solution of one or more amines, wherein, for further purification of the cycle gas stream obtained downstream of the CO2 absorption step, this cycle gas stream is brought into intimate contact with water to which no mineral acid and no higher glycol was added.Type: GrantFiled: May 17, 2011Date of Patent: August 26, 2014Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Robin Thiele, Gerhard Theis
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Patent number: 8809596Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing deodorized 1,2-propanediol, to the use of the purified propanediol and to an apparatus for performing the process.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2010Date of Patent: August 19, 2014Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Stephan Maurer, Roman Prochazka, Oliver Bey, Jochen Steiner, Jochem Henkelmann, Gerhard Theis, Peter Wahl, Frank Heimann
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Patent number: 8745995Abstract: A process for heat integration in engineering processes is provided in which, in a heat carrier circuit, a heat carrier medium takes up heat from a first process stream in a first heat exchanger and releases it to a refrigeration system. In a refrigerant circuit, a refrigerant is cooled in the refrigeration system and the refrigerant takes up heat from a second process stream in a second heat exchanger or a second process stream is cooled in the refrigeration system. The first process stream is a vapor stream from a thermal separation apparatus, and the temperature of the heat carrier medium is increased by heat supply between egress from the first heat exchanger and ingress into the refrigeration system.Type: GrantFiled: October 7, 2011Date of Patent: June 10, 2014Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Gerhard Theis, Thomas Borren, Jörg Schlecht, Frans Vansant
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Patent number: 8580982Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing ethylene oxide by reaction of ethylene with oxygen in the presence of at least one silver-comprising catalyst, wherein the reaction takes place in a reactor which has a catalyst packed bed having at least two zones (i) and (ii) and the silver content of the catalyst in zone (i) is lower than the silver content of the catalyst in zone (ii). The catalyst packed bed preferably has a further zone (a) with which the reaction mixture comes into contact before the zones (i) and (ii). According to the invention, the silver content of the catalyst in the zone (a) is higher than the silver content of the catalyst in zone (i).Type: GrantFiled: June 9, 2010Date of Patent: November 12, 2013Inventors: Georg Seeber, Torsten Mäurer, Gerhard Theis, Dieter Köffer, Frank Rosowski
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Patent number: 8293951Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing 1,2-propanediol, in which a glycerol-containing stream, especially a stream obtained on the industrial scale in the production of biodiesel, is subjected to a hydrogenation in an at least three-stage reactor cascade.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2008Date of Patent: October 23, 2012Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Jochem Henkelmann, Roman Prochazka, Oliver Bey, Stephan Maurer, Jochen Steiner, Heiko Urtel, Gerhard Theis, Peter Wahl
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Patent number: 8273924Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing 1,2-propanediol, in which a glycerol-containing stream, especially a stream obtained on the industrial scale in the production of biodiesel, is subjected to a low pressure hydrogenation.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2008Date of Patent: September 25, 2012Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Jochem Henkelmann, Roman Prochazka, Oliver Bey, Stephan Maurer, Jochen Steiner, Heiko Urtel, Gerhard Theis, Peter Wahl, Michael Becker
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Patent number: 8252962Abstract: The present invention relates to a process for preparing 1,2-propanediol, in which a glycerol-containing stream, especially a stream obtained on the industrial scale in the production of biodiesel, is subjected to a hydrogenation in a two-stage reactor cascade.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2008Date of Patent: August 28, 2012Assignee: BASF SEInventors: Jochem Henkelmann, Roman Prochazka, Oliver Bey, Stephan Maurer, Jochen Steiner, Heiko Urtel, Gerhard Theis, Peter Wahl, Petra Maier, Georg Mehrl
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Publication number: 20120209024Abstract: A process for coproducing di- and/or polyisocyanates and glycols, comprising process stages A, B, C and E for preparing glycols and process stages A, C, D, E, F and G for preparing di- and/or polyisocyanates, which comprises accomplishing the material coupling via the separation of the reaction mixture obtained in process stage A into process stages B and C, by in process stage A, reacting an aqueous alkylene oxide with carbon dioxide to give a reaction mixture comprising alkylene carbonate, hydrolyzing a portion of the alkylene carbonate-comprising reaction mixture obtained in process stage A to glycol in process stage B, dewatering the remaining alkylene carbonate-comprising stream of the reaction mixture from process stage A in process stage C, in process stage D, synthesizing amine by hydrogenating an aromatic nitro compound or a nitrile, in process stage E, transesterifying the dewatered alkylene carbonate-comprising mixture from process stage C with a monohydroxy alcohol to give the corresponding diType: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2010Publication date: August 16, 2012Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Michael Bock, Robert Baumann, Axel Franzke, Eckhard Stroefer, Gerhard Theis
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Publication number: 20120085106Abstract: A process for heat integration in engineering processes in which, in a heat carrier circuit (10), a heat carrier medium takes up heat from a first process stream (14) in a first heat exchanger (12) and releases it to a refrigeration system (30), in addition in a refrigerant circuit (20) a refrigerant is cooled in the refrigeration system (30) and the refrigerant takes up heat from a second process stream (24) in a second heat exchanger (22) or a second process stream (24) is cooled in the refrigeration system (30), wherein the first process stream (14) is a vapor stream from a thermal separation apparatus, and the temperature of the heat carrier medium is increased by heat supply between egress from the first heat exchanger (12) and ingress into the refrigeration system (30).Type: ApplicationFiled: October 7, 2011Publication date: April 12, 2012Applicant: BASF SEInventors: Gerhard Theis, Thomas Borren, Jörg Schlecht, Frans Vansant