Patents by Inventor Martin Wichert

Martin Wichert 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).

  • Publication number: 20200230276
    Abstract: An apparatus and a method are provided for the on-site production of a sterilizing gas and sterilization of objects. In a first step of the method, an alcohol is catalytically converted to an alkene oxide. The alkene oxide is subsequently mixed with an inert gas comprising water vapor and nitrogen to produce a sterilizing gas. Finally, the objects are sterilized with the sterilizing gas. The only starting materials used throughout the entire method are at least one alcohol and a gas comprising oxygen and nitrogen. An apparatus is provided in which the method can be performed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 19, 2018
    Publication date: July 23, 2020
    Applicant: Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft zur Förderung der angewandten Forschung e.V.
    Inventors: Gunther Kolb, Stefan Neuberg, Helmut Pennemann, Richard Thiele, Peter Wernig, Martin Wichert
  • Publication number: 20130255822
    Abstract: A microfluidic component made of a metal sheet having a structure which includes a closed fluid line and which is formed of a structured surface of a first section of the metal sheet and an adjoining structured or unstructured surface of a second section of the metal sheet, wherein the metal sheet is folded such that the sections integrally connected to each other are located on top of each other in a surface-parallel manner. The metal sheet further includes at least one third section having a contoured edge and is moreover folded such that the third section is also supported in a surface-parallel manner and the contoured edge forms a first wall section and the adjoining structured or unstructured surface of the first or second section forms a second wall section of an open fluid line. A microfluidic reactor comprising a plurality of such microfluidic components and a method for producing such components.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 14, 2011
    Publication date: October 3, 2013
    Applicant: INSTITUT FUR MIKROTECHNIK MAINZ GMBH
    Inventors: Martin Wichert, Silvio Kraus