Patents by Inventor Heinz Müller

Heinz Müller 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).

  • Micro-electromechanical system devices
    Patent number: 8125046
    Abstract: Micro-electromechanical system (MEMS) devices and methods of manufacture thereof are disclosed. In one embodiment, a MEMS device includes a semiconductive layer disposed over a substrate. A trench is disposed in the semiconductive layer, the trench with a first sidewall and an opposite second sidewall. A first insulating material layer is disposed over an upper portion of the first sidewall, and a conductive material disposed within the trench. An air gap is disposed between the conductive material and the semiconductive layer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 4, 2008
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2012
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Mueller, Bernhard Winkler, Robert Gruenberger
  • Furniture storage unit
    Patent number: 8104850
    Abstract: An office furniture unit has an outer face with slotted hangers, and a removable storage unit assembly including a bottom panel positioned in a generally horizontal orientation along the office furniture unit, and a top panel disposed above and generally parallel with the bottom panel. First and second panels are disposed at opposite ends of the top and bottom panels and are connected therewith to define a rigid, box-shaped case having an open back portion. The first and second end panels have rear portions with multiple vertically spaced slots. First and second hanger brackets have a rear portion with first hooks selectively received in the slotted hangers of the office furniture units, and a forward portion with second hooks selectively received in the slots in the rear portions of the first and second end panels to detachably support the case against the outer face of the office furniture unit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 31, 2012
    Assignee: Steelcase Inc.
    Inventors: Allen C. Hager, Robert E. Jeffers, William K. Hofman, Brian L. Bultsma, Scott Michael Miller, Marvin C. Knauf, Karl Heinz Mueller, John R. Hamilton, Karl J. Mead
  • ESD and EMC optimized HV-MOS Transistor
    Publication number: 20110303948
    Abstract: Devices and circuits related to Electrostatic discharge (ESD) and Electromagnetic compatibility (EMC) are herein described. An ESD protection device is incorporated into a transistor in order to protect the gate of the transistor from excessive current loads related to ESD or EMC events. In an implementation, a device includes a first diode and a second diode that are electrically connected via their respective cathodes. The breakdown voltage of the first diode is lower than the breakdown voltage of the second diode in order to divert excessive current through the second diode.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 14, 2010
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Karl-heinz Mueller, Kai Esmark
  • FIBER STRAND AND IMPLANTABLE SUPPORTING BODY HAVING A FIBER STRAND
    Publication number: 20110293936
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fiber strand (10) for an implantable supporting body (100) comprising at least two individual fibers (12). The at least two individual fibers (12) are each shorter in their longitudinal extent than the longitudinal extent (14) of the fiber strand, and in their transverse extent they are each thinner than the transverse extent (16) of the fiber strand.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 9, 2011
    Publication date: December 1, 2011
    Applicant: BIOTRONIK VI PATENT AG
    Inventors: Torben Bertsch, Heinz Müller
  • Implant having a surface-proximal magnesium-containing diffusion layer and associated production method
    Patent number: 8057536
    Abstract: An implant comprising an implant material forming a base made of one or more metallic elements; a diffusion layer covering the base made of at least one of the metallic elements of the implant material and at least magnesium; and, optionally, a metal layer covering the diffusion layer made of magnesium or a biocorrodible magnesium alloy.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 13, 2008
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: Biotronik VI Patent AG
    Inventors: Heinz Mueller, Peter Uggowitzer, Joerg Loeffler
  • Fiber strand and implantable supporting body having a fiber strand
    Patent number: 7997054
    Abstract: The invention relates to a fiber strand (10) for an implantable supporting body (100) comprising at least two individual fibers (12). The at least two individual fibers (12) are each shorter in their longitudinal extent than the longitudinal extent (14) of the fiber strand, and in their transverse extent they are each thinner than the transverse extent (16) of the fiber strand.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: August 16, 2011
    Assignee: BIOTRONIK VI Patent AG
    Inventors: Torben Bertsch, Heinz Müller
  • ILLUMINATABLE KEYBOARD
    Publication number: 20110193784
    Abstract: A keyboard that can be illuminated comprises a key array and a base element. Key buttons of the key array are held in modules arranged on a side, facing away from either the base element or a printed circuit board that is provided for delivering signals. The printed circuit board is arranged above the base element in a place close to but at a distance away from the base statement and made at least partially light-transmitting. At least one light source for emitting light is arranged on the underside of the printed circuit board that faces the base element. At least one light-scattering elements, which projects from the base element toward the printed circuit board, is arranged on the side of the base element facing the printed circuit board.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 28, 2011
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: ZF FRIEDRICHSHAFEN AG
    Inventor: Karl-Heinz MÜLLER
  • Semiconductor Devices and Methods of Manufacture Thereof
    Publication number: 20110195565
    Abstract: Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacture thereof are disclosed. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a workpiece having a buried layer disposed beneath a top portion thereof. A trench is disposed in the workpiece extending at least through the buried layer. At least one sinker contact is disposed in the top portion of the workpiece. The at least one sinker contact is proximate sidewalls of at least a portion of the trench and is adjacent the buried layer. An insulating material is disposed on the sidewalls of the trench. A conductive material is disposed within the trench and is coupled to a lower portion of the workpiece.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 21, 2011
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Mueller, Holger Arnim Poehle
  • Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacture thereof
    Patent number: 7977768
    Abstract: Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacture thereof are disclosed. In one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a workpiece having a buried layer disposed beneath a top portion thereof. A trench is disposed in the workpiece extending at least through the buried layer. At least one sinker contact is disposed in the top portion of the workpiece. The at least one sinker contact is proximate sidewalls of at least a portion of the trench and is adjacent the buried layer. An insulating material is disposed on the sidewalls of the trench. A conductive material is disposed within the trench and is coupled to a lower portion of the workpiece.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 1, 2008
    Date of Patent: July 12, 2011
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Mueller, Holger Arnim Poehle
  • BIOCORRODIBLE IMPLANT HAVING A CORROSION-INHIBITING COATING
    Publication number: 20110144761
    Abstract: One embodiment of the invention relates to a biocorrodible implant based on magnesium or a biocorrodible magnesium alloy, whose surface has a corrosion-inhibiting coating. Furthermore, other invention embodiments relate to a respective manufacturing method for the coating.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 29, 2010
    Publication date: June 16, 2011
    Inventors: Alexander Rzany, Heinz Mueller
  • Lithium salts of fatty alcohol sulphates for cleaning boreholes, boring devices and borings
    Patent number: 7959743
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process of cleaning boreholes, boring equipment and borings with an aqueous cleaning of one more lithium salts of alkyl sulfates of formula (I): R—O—SO3?Li+??(I) in which R is a saturated, unsaturated, branched or linear alkyl group containing 8 to 22 carbon atoms, preferably the lithium salts of alkyl sulfates are comprised of a mixture of those in which R is a saturated, linear alkyl groups having 8 to 14 carbon atoms.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 6, 2005
    Date of Patent: June 14, 2011
    Assignee: Cognis Oleochemicals GmbH
    Inventors: Heinz Mueller, Diana Maeker, Nadja Herzog
  • Marker composite for medical implants
    Patent number: 7939146
    Abstract: An x-ray marker for medical implants made of a biocorrodible metallic material, wherein the x-ray marker composite includes 1-40 weight parts of a carrier matrix having a melting point greater than or equal to 43° C., which comprises 90 weight-percent or more at least one triglyceride; and 60-99 weight parts of a radiopaque marker component which is embedded in the carrier matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2011
    Assignee: Biotronik VI Patent AG
    Inventors: Alexander Borck, Ellen Korzuschnik, Claus Harder, Heinz Mueller
  • Device for clocked dispensing of portions of a pasty compound
    Patent number: 7926683
    Abstract: A device for clocked dispensing of portions of a pasty compound, having a nozzle body, which has a vertical main channel terminated on top and a feed channel for feeding the pasty compound. The nozzle body comprises a multiplicity of distribution channels running transversely to the main channel, each having an entry cross-section on the main channel and each having an exit cross-section, and a dispensing area, into which the exit cross-sections of the distribution channels open out. The distribution channels have a distribution channel area rising in the flow direction of the pasty compound.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2008
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: Robatech AG
    Inventor: Heinz Müller
  • Sterile freezing, drying, storing, assaying and filling process
    Patent number: 7836606
    Abstract: Process for producing containers of a freeze-dried product wherein droplets of the product are frozen to form pellets, the pellets are freeze-dried, assayed and loaded into the containers.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2005
    Date of Patent: November 23, 2010
    Assignee: Bayer Technology Services GmbH
    Inventors: Dietrich Gehrmann, Ariane Firus, Thomas Daun, Heinz Müller, DeQian Wang
  • Drug eluting medical implant with porous surface
    Publication number: 20100249900
    Abstract: An implant is proposed, in particular made from a base material including a biodegradable metal and/or a biodegradable metal alloy, wherein the implant includes a coating made of crystalline calcium phosphate and/or amorphous calcium phosphate.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2010
    Publication date: September 30, 2010
    Applicant: BIOTRONIK VI Patent AG
    Inventors: Laura Sager, Bjoern Klocke, Heinz Mueller, Nina Adden, Gerhard Kappelt
  • METHOD OF SIMULATING DEFORMABLE OBJECT USING GEOMETRICALLY MOTIVATED MODEL
    Publication number: 20100161297
    Abstract: A method of stimulating a deformable object comprises modeling deformable elasticity for the object by defining an actual shape and a goal shape and pulling points in the goal shape towards corresponding points in the goal shape.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2009
    Publication date: June 24, 2010
    Applicant: NVIDIA Corporation
    Inventors: Matthais Heinz Müller-Fischer, Bruno Heinz Heidelberger, Matthias Teschner, Markus Gross
  • Borehole treating substance containing ether carboxylic acids
    Patent number: 7741248
    Abstract: A well servicing composition containing an aqueous phase and an oil phase and an ether carboxylic acid of the formula: RO(CH2CH2O)x(CH2CHR1O)yCH2—COOX wherein, R is a saturated or unsaturated, branched or unbranched alkyl or alkenyl group containing 6 to 22 carbon atoms, x is a number from 1 to 20 and y is 0 or a number from 1 to 20, provided that the sum of x and y is at least 1 and at most 25, R1 is an alkyl group containing 1 to 4 carbon atoms and X comprises at least one member selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, monovalent cations and polyvalent cations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2004
    Date of Patent: June 22, 2010
    Assignee: Emery Oleochemicals GmbH
    Inventors: Heinz Mueller, Nadja Herzog, Ansgar Behler, Jens Hartmann
  • Method for the production of an anti-reflecting surface on optical integrated circuits
    Patent number: 7736927
    Abstract: A photodetector is formed in a semiconductor body. A hard mask grating is photolithographically formed on a surface of the semiconductor body. The semiconductor body is etched using the hard mask grating as a mask. The etching is performed down to a predetermined depth. An implantation is performed such that an anode or cathode of the photodetector that has been interrupted during the etching is re-formed.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2010
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Holger Wille, Gernot Langguth, Karl-Heinz Mueller
  • APPARATUS INCORPORATING AN ELECTRONIC DISPLAY
    Publication number: 20100123644
    Abstract: Apparatus comprises an electronic display, a processor coupled to the electronic display and configured by software to divide the electronic display into first and second display portions, a frame member including at least two surround members and a divider member. The frame member is secured adjacent the electronic display so that the surround members provide a surround to at least two opposite edges of the electronic display and such that the first display portion of the electronic display is on an opposite side of the divider member to the second display portion of the electronic display, and wherein the processor is configured by software to control the display to provide a first image in the first display portion and a second image in the second display portion, the second image being independent of the first image.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 3, 2008
    Publication date: May 20, 2010
    Applicant: Binatone Electronics International Ltd.
    Inventors: Karl-Heinz Mueller, Kitty Lo, Dino Lalvani
  • Furniture unit
    Patent number: D620289
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2009
    Date of Patent: July 27, 2010
    Assignee: Steelcase Inc.
    Inventors: Donald P. Gravel, Jian Hong, John R. Hamilton, Karl J. Mead, Karl Heinz Müeller, Andre K. Dettler