Patents by Inventor Joerg Meier
Joerg 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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Patent number: 8686382Abstract: In an opto-isolator, a nontransparent hollow tube having a smooth inner surface with mirror-like qualities is used as the optical waveguide for coupling optical signals between the transmitter module and the receiver module and for providing electrical transient isolation.Type: GrantFiled: July 12, 2010Date of Patent: April 1, 2014Assignee: Avago Technologies General IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Nikolaus W. Schunk, Joerg Meier
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Patent number: 8671936Abstract: An apparatus for supplying a respiratory gas includes a conveyor device for conveying the respiratory gas, a conduit for feeding the respiratory gas conveyed by the conveyor device to a person, and a humidification device for humidifying the respiratory gas. A sensor device is configured to generate a signal indicative of the respiratory gas humidity and a control device is configured to control the humidification device with regard to the signal which is generated by the sensor device. A method of supplying a respiratory gas to a patient, in which the respiratory gas is introduced by means of a conveyor device into the conduit leading to the patient and is humidified, includes operating the conveyor device so that a respiratory gas pressure which is above ambient pressure is provided in the conduit, and adjusting the humidity on the basis of signals indicative of the relative and/or absolute humidity of the respiratory gas generated by the sensor device.Type: GrantFiled: May 20, 2011Date of Patent: March 18, 2014Assignee: ResMed R&D Germany GmbHInventor: Jörg Meier
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Publication number: 20140000612Abstract: An apparatus for supplying a respiratory gas to a patient within the scope of the diagnosis and/or the treatment of sleep-related breathing disorders includes an electronic signal processing device for generating a pressure control signal on the basis of indicative signals relating to the breathing activity and/or the physiological state of a person. The signal processing device comprises a signal inputting device and an extraction device for generating data field entries according to predefined signal analysis procedures. A pressure signal generator is provided for generating the pressure control signal, taking into account determined data field entries which are at least selected by the extraction device.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 30, 2013Publication date: January 2, 2014Applicant: ResMed R&D Germany GmbHInventors: Hartmut SCHNEIDER, Jörg MEIER, Dieter HEIDMANN, Harald VÖGELE, Stefan MADAUS, Rainer JAKOBS, Stefan SCHÄTZL, Richard BRANDMEIER
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Publication number: 20130260391Abstract: A method for determination of the potentially available activity of cathepsin B in a biological sample, including the activity of the active form of cathepsin B, the form of cathepsin B which can be activated from the pro-form procathepsin B being present in the sample, and the form of cathepsin B which can be activated and which is inhibited in the sample in its activity by protease inhibitor, whereby the procathepsin B being present in the sample is converted into the active form of cathepsin B, the free protease inhibitor for cathepsin B being present in the sample is depleted from the sample or its inhibitor function is suppressed, and the protease inhibitor is withdrawn from the inhibited form of cathepsin B, and subsequently the activity of the active cathepsin B in the sample is determined.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 1, 2011Publication date: October 3, 2013Inventors: Hans Jörg Meier, Hanns Jörg Mauk
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Patent number: 8522781Abstract: An apparatus for supplying a respiratory gas to a patient within the scope of the diagnosis and/or the treatment of sleep-related breathing disorders includes an electronic signal processing device for generating a pressure control signal on the basis of indicative signals relating to the breathing activity and/or the physiological state of a person. The signal processing device comprises a signal inputting device and an extraction device for generating data field entries according to predefined signal analysis procedures. A pressure signal generator is provided for generating the pressure control signal, taking into account determined data field entries which are at least selected by the extraction device.Type: GrantFiled: October 12, 2011Date of Patent: September 3, 2013Assignee: ResMed R&D Germany GmbHInventors: Hartmut Schneider, Jörg Meier, Dieter Heidmann, Harald Vögele, Stefan Madaus, Rainer Jakobs, Stefan Schätzl, Richard Brandmeier
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Patent number: 8447466Abstract: A method for controlling the pressure in a compressed-air accumulator of a level-control system of a motor vehicle utilizing a pressure-control apparatus constructed and arranged to adjust the accumulator pressure according to a predetermined index pressure value. The index pressure value is automatically determined by a computing device based on the relative level and/or the load of the vehicle.Type: GrantFiled: August 5, 2004Date of Patent: May 21, 2013Assignee: WABCO GmbHInventors: Jörg Meier, Olaf Thielking
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Patent number: 8157743Abstract: A device and a method for evaluating a signal that can indicate the respiration of a person, particularly suitable for examining a patient with respect to the occurrence of sleep-related breathing disturbances. In one example, a device for evaluating a signal indicative of the temporal course of the respiration of a patient, in particular a respiratory flow signal, includes an electronic evaluation program or circuitry which is configured in such a manner that it evaluates the signal by continuously generating intermediate evaluation results for short signal periods and for longer signal periods being parallel thereto, and performs an identification of respiratory patterns in the time signal or in specific time periods on the basis of the position of the intermediate evaluation results of the short signal periods relative to the intermediate evaluation results of the longer signal periods.Type: GrantFiled: October 21, 2005Date of Patent: April 17, 2012Assignee: MAP Medizin-Technologie GmbHInventors: Stefan Schätzl, Jörg Meier, Aleksandra Dana-Mika, Thomas Betzl, Oliver Lange
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Publication number: 20120024288Abstract: An apparatus for supplying a respiratory gas to a patient within the scope of the diagnosis and/or the treatment of sleep-related breathing disorders includes an electronic signal processing device for generating a pressure control signal on the basis of indicative signals relating to the breathing activity and/or the physiological state of a person. The signal processing device comprises a signal inputting device and an extraction device for generating data field entries according to predefined signal analysis procedures. A pressure signal generator is provided for generating the pressure control signal, taking into account determined data field entries which are at least selected by the extraction device.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 12, 2011Publication date: February 2, 2012Applicant: MAP Medizin-Technologie GmbHInventors: Hartmut Schneider, Jörg Meier, Dieter Heidmann, Harald Vogele, Stefan Madaus, Rainer Jakobs, Stefan Schatzl, Richard Brandmeier
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Publication number: 20120015389Abstract: The present invention relates to a method for measuring the activity of enzymes in a sample which contains at least one enzyme and at least one enzyme inhibitor corresponding to said enzyme, whereby after de-inhibition the activity of the released enzyme is measured in such a way that a substrate is added to the sample and the time course of the concentration of at least one reaction product (cleavage product) is recorded and the enzyme specific substrate has a fluorogenic part which is cleaved in the enzymatic reaction and the fluorescence (measuring parameter) of which can be detected in a wavelength range where the measuring parameter can be assigned unambiguously to the enzyme activity to be measured, whereby the de-inhibition is carried out by immersing a rigid carrier, to which the inhibitor binding substance is bound, into the sample. The present invention relates also to a corresponding device for measuring the activity on enzymes in a sample.Type: ApplicationFiled: January 8, 2010Publication date: January 19, 2012Inventors: Hans Jörg Meier, Hans Werner Hofer
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Publication number: 20120007005Abstract: In an opto-isolator, a nontransparent hollow tube having a smooth inner surface with mirror-like qualities is used as the optical waveguide for coupling optical signals between the transmitter module and the receiver module and for providing electrical transient isolation.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 12, 2010Publication date: January 12, 2012Applicant: Avago Technologies Fiber IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Nikolaus W. Schunk, Joerg Meier
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Patent number: 8062404Abstract: A filter insert insertable seal-tightly into a filter housing has a filter element having end faces. At least one of the end faces of the filter element is engaged by a reinforcement clamp provided with a sealing element. The reinforcement clamp and the sealing element together form a single integral component. The sealing element has an outer sealing section that is connected to the reinforcement clamp so as to be movable relative to the reinforcement clamp.Type: GrantFiled: November 29, 2007Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: Mann+Hummel GmbHInventors: Daniel Volkmer, Jörg Meier, Maximilian Grad, Johann Rackerseder, Markus Weindl, Micha Ammersdörfer, Fritz Brenneis
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Patent number: 8061354Abstract: An apparatus for supplying a respiratory gas to a patient within the scope of the diagnosis and/or the treatment of sleep-related breathing disorders includes an electronic signal processing device for generating a pressure control signal on the basis of indicative signals relating to the breathing activity and/or the physiological state of a person. The signal processing device includes a signal inputting device and an extraction device for generating data field entries according to predefined signal analysis procedures. A pressure signal generator is provided for generating the pressure control signal, taking into account determined data field entries which are at least selected by the extraction device.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2010Date of Patent: November 22, 2011Assignee: MAP Medizin-Technologie GmbHInventors: Hartmut Schneider, Jörg Meier, Dieter Heidmann, Harald Vögele, Stefan Madaus, Rainer Jakobs, Stefan Schätzl, Richard Brandmeier
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Publication number: 20110220105Abstract: An apparatus for supplying a respiratory gas includes a conveyor device for conveying the respiratory gas, a conduit for feeding the respiratory gas conveyed by the conveyor device to a person, and a humidification device for humidifying the respiratory gas. A sensor device is configured to generate a signal indicative of the respiratory gas humidity and a control device is configured to control the humidification device with regard to the signal which is generated by the sensor device. A method of supplying a respiratory gas to a patient, in which the respiratory gas is introduced by means of a conveyor device into the conduit leading to the patient and is humidified, includes operating the conveyor device so that a respiratory gas pressure which is above ambient pressure is provided in the conduit, and adjusting the humidity on the basis of signals indicative of the relative and/or absolute humidity of the respiratory gas generated by the sensor device.Type: ApplicationFiled: May 20, 2011Publication date: September 15, 2011Applicant: MAP Medizin-Technologie GmbHInventor: Jörg Meier
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Patent number: 7997270Abstract: An apparatus for supplying a respiratory gas includes a conveyor device for conveying the respiratory gas, a conduit for feeding the respiratory gas conveyed by the conveyor device to a person, and a humidification device for humidifying the respiratory gas. A sensor device is configured to generate a signal indicative of the respiratory gas humidity and a control device is configured to control the humidification device with regard to the signal which is generated by the sensor device. A method of supplying a respiratory gas to a patient, in which the respiratory gas is introduced by means of a conveyor device into the conduit leading to the patient and is humidified, includes operating the conveyor device so that a respiratory gas pressure which is above ambient pressure is provided in the conduit, and adjusting the humidity on the basis of signals indicative of the relative and/or absolute humidity of the respiratory gas generated by the sensor device.Type: GrantFiled: February 27, 2009Date of Patent: August 16, 2011Assignee: MAP Medizin-Technologie GmbHInventor: Jörg Meier
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Publication number: 20100180898Abstract: An apparatus for supplying a respiratory gas to a patient within the scope of the diagnosis and/or the treatment of sleep-related breathing disorders includes an electronic signal processing device for generating a pressure control signal on the basis of indicative signals relating to the breathing activity and/or the physiological state of a person. The signal processing device comprises a signal inputting device and an extraction device for generating data field entries according to predefined signal analysis procedures. A pressure signal generator is provided for generating the pressure control signal, taking into account determined data field entries which are at least selected by the extraction device.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 31, 2010Publication date: July 22, 2010Applicant: MAP Medizin-Technologie GmbHInventors: Hartmut SCHNEIDER, Jörg Meier, Dieter Heidmann, Harald Vogele, Stefan Madaus, Rainer Jackobs, Stefan Schatzl, Richard Brandmeier
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Patent number: 7717111Abstract: The invention relates to a device for supplying a respiratory gas to a patient within the scope of the diagnosis and/or the treatment of sleep-related breathing disorders. The invention especially relates to a CPAP appliance comprising self-optimising dual level pressure regulation. According to the invention, the device for supplying a respiratory gas comprises an electronic signal processing device for generating a pressure control signal (p) on the basis of indicative signals (5) relating to the breathing activity and/or the physiological state of a person. The signal processing device (1) comprises a signal inputting device and an extraction device (2) for generating data field entries (3) according to predefined signal analysis procedures. A pressure signal generator (4) is provided for generating the pressure control signal (p), taking into account determined data field entries (3) which are at least selected by the extraction device (2).Type: GrantFiled: January 29, 2002Date of Patent: May 18, 2010Assignee: MAP Medizin-Technologie GmbHInventors: Hartmut Schneider, Jörg Meier, Dieter Heidmann, Harald Vogele, Stefan Madaus, Rainer Jakobs, Stefan Schatzl, Richard Brandmeier
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Patent number: 7668461Abstract: The invention relates to a method for optimizing the optical power in an optical network that has a plurality of network nodes each having a transmitter and a receiver. The method comprising generating an optical signal at a first network node, receiving the optical signal at a second network node, detecting the optical power of the optical signal at the second network node, determining whether the optical power detected is outside a defined range, and in this case, generating, for the first network node, a control signal for increasing or decreasing the optical power, sending the control signal to the first network node, and increasing or decreasing the optical power of the optical signal emitted at the first network node. The invention further relates to an optical network having network nodes which are operable to implement this method.Type: GrantFiled: September 21, 2005Date of Patent: February 23, 2010Assignee: Avago Technologies Fiber IP (Singapore) Pte. Ltd.Inventors: Hans Hurt, Thomas Lichtenegger, Jörg Meier, Markus Wirsing
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Patent number: 7552932Abstract: A vehicle air-suspension system, especially an air-suspension system designed as a partly closed system, and a method for operating the system are provided. The air-suspension system includes at least one compressed-air delivery device, a plurality of air-suspension bellows and valves constructed and arranged for control of the filling of one, several or all air-suspension bellows with compressed air discharged by the compressed-air delivery device. The method avoids an undesirably large pressure rise on the pressure-outlet side of the compressed-air delivery device as the effective delivery capacity of the compressed-air delivery device is automatically controlled as a function of the state defined by the arrangement of the valves.Type: GrantFiled: January 27, 2004Date of Patent: June 30, 2009Assignee: WABCO GmbHInventors: Daniel Matern, Jörg Meier, Marc Bodet
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Patent number: 7516740Abstract: The invention concerns an apparatus for supplying a respiratory gas and a method of controlling the apparatus. In accordance with the invention there is provided an apparatus for supplying a respiratory gas comprising a conveyor device for conveying the respiratory gas, a conduit means for feeding the respiratory gas conveyed by the conveyor device to a person, and a humidification device for humidifying the respiratory gas, which is distinguished by a sensor device for generating a signal indicative in respect of the respiratory gas humidity and a control device for controlling the humidification device having regard to the signal which is generated by the sensor device and which is indicative in respect of the respiratory gas humidity.Type: GrantFiled: August 15, 2002Date of Patent: April 14, 2009Assignee: MAP Medizin-Technologie GmbHInventor: Jörg Meier
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Patent number: 7404549Abstract: A transporting mechanism includes a link chain and clamps which are attached to a chain link of the link chain and which are capable of gripping at least one printed product. At least two clamps are attached to each chain link of the link chain, wherein the clamps in the link chain are spaced apart from one another by equal spacings.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2006Date of Patent: July 29, 2008Assignee: Müller Martini Holding AGInventors: Jörg Meier, Jean-Claude Oppliger