Patents by Inventor Michael Kraus
Michael Kraus 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: 20090152873Abstract: A method of generating power uses a nanoenergetic material. The nanoenergetic material comprising thermite is obtained and deposited on a substrate. An igniter is placed on the nanoenergetic material. When power is desired, the nanoenergetic material is ignited. A transducer receives thermal, sonic, magnetic, optic and/or mechanical energy from combustion of the nanoenergetic material and converts it into electrical energy. Preferably, the transducer is a thermoelectric, piezoelectric or magneto device. Preferably, multiple transducers are integrated in one power generators to maximize the power from nanoenergetic thermites.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 27, 2006Publication date: June 18, 2009Inventors: Shubhra Gangopadhyay, Steven Apperson, Keshab Gangopadhyay, Andrey Bezmelnitsyn, Rajagopalan Thiruvengadathan, Michael Kraus, Rajesh Shende, Maruf Hossain, Senthil Subramanian, Shantanu Bhattacharya, Yuangang Gao
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Publication number: 20080108041Abstract: A product display comprising a toddler locale indicium and toddler product categories are an effective means of marketing to parents with toddlers.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 20, 2006Publication date: May 8, 2008Inventors: Jason Ross Dial, Patrick Michael Kraus
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Patent number: 7275387Abstract: An ice cube-making machine that is characterized by noiseless operation at the location where ice cubes are dispensed and be lightweight packages for ease of installation. The ice cube-making machine has an evaporator package, a separate compressor package and a separate condenser package. Each of these packages has a weight that can generally by handled by one or two installers for ease of installation. The noisy compressor and condenser packages can be located remotely of the evaporator package. The maximum height distance between the evaporator package and the condenser package is greatly enhanced by the three package system. A pressure regulator operates during a harvest cycle to limit flow of refrigerant leaving the evaporator, thereby increasing pressure and temperature of the refrigerant in the evaporator and assisting in defrost thereof. The evaporator can be integrated with a beverage dispenser and an ice dispenser.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2005Date of Patent: October 2, 2007Assignees: Scotsman Ice Systems, Mile High Equipment Co.Inventors: David Brett Gist, Matthew Allison, Daniel Leo Ziolkowski, Michael Kraus, Michael J. Andresen
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Publication number: 20070209838Abstract: The invention relates to a device for charging a drilling device of an earth or rock drilling apparatus with a double rod. The device has a rotatable revolver magazine, which is designed with double receiving spaces for receiving two tube parts that are inserted into one another.Type: ApplicationFiled: March 5, 2007Publication date: September 13, 2007Inventors: Michael Kraus, Carl Hagemeyer, Albert Clemens
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Publication number: 20070150174Abstract: The present disclosure provides an on-board navigation system for a commuter vehicle that automatically saves in a database addresses corresponding to destinations to which the vehicle has traveled, along with one or more parameters relating to the addresses. The navigation system uses these parameters to predict a destination by comparing the present state of the vehicle to the saved parameters. The navigation system can present the user with a prioritized list of addresses based on the predicted and prompt the user to select a destination from list. Thus a user can conveniently inform the navigation system of an intended destination. The navigation system can automatically determine a route to the destination based on present traffic conditions, and may have the ancillary benefit of informing the user of traffic conditions, or directing the user around such traffic conditions, even if the user was not otherwise interested in receiving a route.Type: ApplicationFiled: December 8, 2005Publication date: June 28, 2007Inventors: Shafer Seymour, Ramy Ayoub, Michael Kraus
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Patent number: 7017353Abstract: An ice cube-making machine that is characterized by noiseless operation at the location where ice cubes are dispensed and be lightweight packages for ease of installation. The ice cube-making machine has an evaporator package, a separate compressor package and a separate condenser package. Each of these packages has a weight that can generally by handled by one or two installers for ease of installation. The noisy compressor and condenser packages can be located remotely of the evaporator package. The maximum height distance between the evaporator package and the condenser package is greatly enhanced by the three package system. A pressure regulator operates during a harvest cycle to limit flow of refrigerant leaving the evaporator, thereby increasing pressure and temperature of the refrigerant in the evaporator and assisting in defrost thereof. The evaporator can be integrated with a beverage dispenser and an ice dispenser.Type: GrantFiled: October 10, 2003Date of Patent: March 28, 2006Assignees: Scotsman Ice Systems, Mile High Equipment CompanyInventors: David Brett Gist, Matthew Allison, Daniel Leo Ziolkowski, Michael Kraus, Michael J. Andresen
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Publication number: 20060016206Abstract: An ice cube-making machine that is characterized by noiseless operation at the location where ice cubes are dispensed and be lightweight packages for ease of installation. The ice cube-making machine has an evaporator package, a separate compressor package and a separate condenser package. Each of these packages has a weight that can generally by handled by one or two installers for ease of installation. The noisy compressor and condenser packages can be located remotely of the evaporator package. The maximum height distance between the evaporator package and the condenser package is greatly enhanced by the three package system. A pressure regulator operates during a harvest cycle to limit flow of refrigerant leaving the evaporator, thereby increasing pressure and temperature of the refrigerant in the evaporator and assisting in defrost thereof. The evaporator can be integrated with a beverage dispenser and an ice dispenser.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 17, 2005Publication date: January 26, 2006Inventors: David Gist, Matthew Allison, Daniel Ziolkowski, Michael Kraus, Michael Andresen
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Patent number: 6893395Abstract: A method and apparatus for data transmission between an electromedical implant having a first transmitter/receiver unit, such as a cardiological implant, and an associated external apparatus having a second transmitter/receiver unit. Data transmission begins with a triggering signal which is sent by the first transmitter/receiver unit in normal operation in predeterminable first intervals. Reception readiness of the first transmitter/receiver unit is maintained after emission of the triggering signal for a second time interval which is shorter than the first time interval.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2000Date of Patent: May 17, 2005Assignee: Biotronik Mess- und Therapiegeraete GmbH & Co. Ingenieurbuero BerlinInventors: Michael Kraus, Martin Lang, Berhard Lang, Johannes Neudecker, Klemens Beetz, Axel Nagelschmidt, Jens Potschadtke
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Publication number: 20050081545Abstract: An ice cube-making machine that is characterized by noiseless operation at the location where ice cubes are dispensed and be lightweight packages for ease of installation. The ice cube-making machine has an evaporator package, a separate compressor package and a separate condenser package. Each of these packages has a weight that can generally by handled by one or two installers for ease of installation. The noisy compressor and condenser packages can be located remotely of the evaporator package. The maximum height distance between the evaporator package and the condenser package is greatly enhanced by the three package system. A pressure regulator operates during a harvest cycle to limit flow of refrigerant leaving the evaporator, thereby increasing pressure and temperature of the refrigerant in the evaporator and assisting in defrost thereof. The evaporator can be integrated with a beverage dispenser and an ice dispenser.Type: ApplicationFiled: October 10, 2003Publication date: April 21, 2005Inventors: David Gist, Matthew Allison, Daniel Ziolkowski, Michael Kraus, Michael Andresen
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Publication number: 20040242822Abstract: The present invention relates to relates to copolymers containing fluorine, aqueous compositions containing said copolymers, and the use of said copolymers and compositions for surface treatment.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 16, 2004Publication date: December 2, 2004Inventors: Wolfgang Gawrisch, Olaf Lammerschop, Christian Kirsten, Martin Moller, Michael Kraus, Uwe Beginn
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Patent number: 6804559Abstract: An electromedical implant comprising a telemetry device for the exchange of data with an external apparatus is provided. The telemetry device comprising a transmitting device and a receiving device, wherein a separate energy storage means is provided for each of the transmitting device and the receiving device. A method of using an electromedical implant comprising a telemetry device for the exchange of data is also provided.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2000Date of Patent: October 12, 2004Assignee: Biotronik Mess -und Therapiegeraete GmbH & Co. Ingenieurbuero BerlinInventors: Michael Kraus, Martin Lang, Berhard Lang, Johannes Neudecker, Klemens Beetz, Axel Nagelschmidt, Jens Potschadtke
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Patent number: 6750032Abstract: The invention relates to a method and to a diagnostic agent for detecting hemostasis disturbances, wherein, as a consequence of blood platelet aggregation, clot formation and/or clot dissolution, substances are brought to a distance from each other which permits or prevents an interaction, in particular an energy transfer, between the substances, and the extent of the interaction is measured.Type: GrantFiled: September 27, 2002Date of Patent: June 15, 2004Assignee: Dade Behring Marburg GmbHInventors: Michael Kraus, Carsten Schelp, Andreas Wiegand
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Patent number: 6659575Abstract: A cabinet cover construction for a formed sheet metal cabinet includes a front edge with two angled surfaces that are congruent with compatible angled surfaces of the top edge of the cabinet to ensure alignment of a closed cover on the cabinet and to prevent overbite of the cover upon closing thereof.Type: GrantFiled: April 11, 2002Date of Patent: December 9, 2003Assignee: Waterloo Industries, Inc.Inventors: Nathan Thomas Hellman, Kevin Michael Kraus, Greg Jon Holcomb, Daniel Lee Jackson
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Publication number: 20030207343Abstract: The application relates to a method for determining the anticoagulatory potential of a sample by adding thrombomodulin and thromboplastin in a coagulation test.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 21, 2003Publication date: November 6, 2003Applicant: Dade Behring Marburg GmbHInventor: Michael Kraus
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Publication number: 20030193278Abstract: A cabinet cover construction for a formed sheet metal cabinet includes a front edge with two angled surfaces that are congruent with compatible angled surfaces of the top edge of the cabinet to ensure alignment of a closed cover on the cabinet and to prevent overbite of the cover upon closing thereof.Type: ApplicationFiled: April 11, 2002Publication date: October 16, 2003Applicant: Waterloo Industries, Inc.Inventors: Nathan Thomas Hellman, Kevin Michael Kraus, Greg Jon Holcomb, Daniel Lee Jackson
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Patent number: 6632599Abstract: The present invention relates to procedures for the detection or for the determination of solid phase-associated factors, which are multiply associated with the same solid phase. According to the invention, the sample is brought into contact with a transmitter particle, on which at least one ligand having binding affinity for a solid phase-associated factor and a transmitter are immobilized, and a receiver particle, on which at least one ligand having binding affinity for said solid phase-associated factor and a receiver is immobilized, and then the signal is determined which results when transmitter and receiver are brought sufficiently close to one another. In particular, the invention relates to the detection of cell surface receptors which can be used for the typing of cells or for the determination of cell activation states. It is thus possible to replace the hitherto widely customary flow cytometry by a more simple procedure.Type: GrantFiled: December 18, 1998Date of Patent: October 14, 2003Assignee: Dade Behring Marburg GmbHInventors: Michael Kraus, Carsten Schelp, Wilhelm Schuy
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Patent number: 6622043Abstract: A method of after-care in relation to patients with at least one electromedical implant. Data is transmitted from the implant to an external apparatus providing information for an examining clinician on the occasion of an after-care examination of the patient in an after-care arrangement. In an after-care interrogation up-to-date available data of the implant are interrogated and sent for output to corresponding output means, the data interrogation operation being effected prior to the after-care examination automatically after the patient enters an interrogation region of the after-care arrangement.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2000Date of Patent: September 16, 2003Assignee: Biotronik Mess- und Therapiegeraete GmbH & Co. Ingenieurbuero BerlinInventors: Michael Kraus, Martin Lang, Berhard Lang, Johannes Neudecker, Klemens Beetz, Axel Nagelschmidt, Jens Potschadtke
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Patent number: 6574509Abstract: Apparatus for the transmission of at least first data from an electronic device (1; 1′), in particular an electromedical implant such as a cardiac pacemaker, to a monitoring arrangement (38), including at least a first interface device (6; 6′), with at least one input unit for the first data, a control device (5) connected to the first interface device (6; 6′) and a mobile radio device (7) connected to the control device at least for the transmission of the first data to the monitoring arrangement (38) by way of a telecommunication network which is at least in part in the form of a mobile radio network, wherein there is provided at least one second interface device (8) connected to the control device (5) for connecting the control device to a fixed-line telecommunication network.Type: GrantFiled: June 26, 2000Date of Patent: June 3, 2003Assignee: Biotronik Mass- und Therapiegerate GmbH & Co. Ingenieurbuero BerlinInventors: Michael Kraus, Martin Lang, Berhard Lang, Johannes Neudecker, Klemens Beetz, Axel Nagelschmidt, Jens Potschadtke
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Patent number: 6544171Abstract: A patient monitoring system (1) is provided with at least one body sensor (2a) for measuring a physiological parameter, as well as with a body signal processing unit (3) connected downstream from the former and/or a therapy device (2) designed to act on the patient (P), and a mobile radiotelephone end unit (7) operable in a cellular mobile radiotelephone network (1B) for transmitting data from the body signal processing unit or the therapy device to a central monitoring station (1C) and/or from the central monitoring station to the therapy device. A base station coordinate memory unit (13; 13′) and a locator unit (12; 12.1′ through 12.3′) connected to the former serves for the rough determination of the location of the patient based on location information obtained from the current base station connection of the mobile radiotelephone end unit in the mobile radiotelephone network.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2001Date of Patent: April 8, 2003Assignee: Biotronik Mess- und Therapiegerate GmbH & Co. Ingenieurburo BerlinInventors: Klemens Beetz, Michael Kraus, Bernhard Lang, Martin Lang, Axel Nagelschmidt, Johannes Neudecker, Jens Potschadtke
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Publication number: 20030027235Abstract: The invention relates to a method and to a diagnostic agent for detecting hemostasis disturbances, wherein, as a consequence of blood platelet aggregation, clot formation and/or clot dissolution, substances are brought to a distance from each other which permits or prevents an interaction, in particular an energy transfer, between the substances, and the extent of the interaction is measured.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 27, 2002Publication date: February 6, 2003Applicant: Dade Behring Marburg GmbHInventors: Michael Kraus, Carsten Schelp, Andreas Wiegand