Patents by Inventor Ralf Muller

Ralf Muller 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).

  • Patent number: 8726479
    Abstract: A woven fabric includes warp threads or wires and includes weft wires, wherein, the woven fabric includes an offset weft wire. The offset is particularly suitable for fastening objects separate from the woven fabric. A method uses the woven fabric as a facade hanging by using the woven fabric as a base structure for bearing an object separate from the woven fabric. The object is borne on the offset separate from the woven fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: May 20, 2014
    Assignee: GKD—Gebr. Kufferath AG
    Inventors: Ingo Kufferath-Kassner, Jakob Sistig, Christoph Kronhagel, Ralf Müller
  • Publication number: 20140034557
    Abstract: An apparatus for treating a medical fluid is provided which includes a treatment machine having a coupling surface, with a cassette made of a hard part having liquid-conducting passages which are covered by a flexible film being able to be coupled to the coupling surface of the treatment machine. A corresponding medical cassette is also provided. An air-free coupling of the flexible film of the cassette to the treatment machine is ensured in that air can be sucked out areally along a plane between the flexible film and the coupling surface during the coupling process and/or with a coupled cassette. A method for coupling the cassette and a method for checking the leaktightness of the cassette via the vacuum control of the air suction is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 24, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Götz Günther, Jürgen Häcker, Markus Köhler, Martin Lauer, Ralf Müller, Hans-Peter Schneider, Tobias Weber, Manfred Weis
  • Publication number: 20140032189
    Abstract: In a method for a model-based determination of a temperature distribution of an exhaust gas post-treatment unit, a differentiation is made between steady operating states and non-steady operating states by taking into account the axial and the radial temperature distribution, and, on the basis of virtual segmentation of the post-treatment unit, in particular the radial heat transfer to the surroundings is taken into account in the model-based determination for steady operating states, and for non-steady operating states the heat transfer from the exhaust gas which flows axially through the post-treatment unit to the segments is taken into account by a heat transfer coefficient k.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 7, 2012
    Publication date: January 30, 2014
    Applicant: MTU Friedrichshafen GmbH
    Inventors: Marc Hehle, Ralf Müller, Jens Niemeyer, Jörg Remele, Guido Schäffner, Holger Sinzenich, Tim Späder
  • Patent number: 8632487
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for controlling a system for transporting blood, and a method for transporting blood in a blood line of an extracorporeal blood circuit of an extracorporeal blood treatment system. The present invention also relates to an extracorporeal blood treatment device comprising such a system for transporting blood. The method and device according to the present invention are based on the fact that a defined threshold value for the pressure in the blood line should not be exceeded. The system for transporting blood is controlled in such a way the blood in the blood line is transported in a pre-determined volume flow as long as the pressure in the blood line is below the pre-determined threshold value. When the pressure in the blood line reaches the pre-defined threshold value, however, the system for transporting blood is controlled such that a pressure value corresponding to the threshold value is set when the blood is transported in the blood line.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 31, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 21, 2014
    Assignee: Fresenius Medical Care Deutchland GmbH
    Inventors: Götz Günther, Michael Herrenbauer, Martin Lauer, Ralf Müller
  • Publication number: 20130021599
    Abstract: An optoelectronic inclination sensor determines the inclination of a reference plane relative to the horizontal. A sensor body has a liquid layer, the free surface of which represents a horizon that can be inclined relative to the reference plane, forming an optical boundary to the adjacent medium. A light source disposed below the liquid layer emits a light beam onto the boundary. An optical sensor surface below the liquid layer detects the light beam reflected by the boundary. An analysis unit determines the inclination of the reference plane as a function of the amount of light received by the sensor surface. A deflecting element for deflecting or initially totally reflecting the beam is disposed between the source and the liquid layer. The beam is inclined as a result of said deflection or initial total reflection. A second total reflection occurs at the boundary in both the inclined and non-inclined orientation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 28, 2011
    Publication date: January 24, 2013
    Applicant: SARTORIUS WEIGHING TECHNOLOGY GMBH
    Inventor: Ralf Muller
  • Publication number: 20120251998
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and a method for blood treatment in a single-needle operating mode. The blood treatment device has an extracorporeal blood circuit comprising a blood supply line leading to the inlet of a blood treatment unit and a blood return line leading away from the outlet of the blood treatment unit. Blood collecting means, for example a blood collecting container, is provided in the blood return line, said means being connected to means for storing gas, for example an air reservoir, by a flow line. The flow connection comprises two line branches, one branch being used to transfer gas from the air reservoir into the blood collecting container and the other branch being used to transfer gas from the blood collecting container into the air reservoir. The connection branch for transferring gas from the air store into the blood collecting container contains means for compressing air, for example a compressor.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2008
    Publication date: October 4, 2012
    Inventors: Götz Günther, Andrea Günther, Michael Herrenbauer, Martin Lauer, Ralf Müller
  • Publication number: 20120023729
    Abstract: The invention relates to a woven fabric comprising warp threads or wires and comprising weft wires, wherein the woven fabric comprises an offset weft wire. The offset is particularly suitable for fastening objects separate from the woven fabric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Publication date: February 2, 2012
    Applicant: GKD - GEBR. KUFFERATH AG
    Inventors: Ingo Kufferath-Kassner, Jakob Sistig, Christoph Kronhagel, Ralf Müller
  • Publication number: 20110303597
    Abstract: An apparatus for treating a medical liquid is provided which includes a treatment machine having a coupling surface, with a cassette made of a hard part having liquid-conducting passages which are covered by a flexible film being able to be coupled to the coupling surface of the treatment machine. A corresponding medical cassette is also provided. An air-free coupling of the flexible film of the cassette to the treatment machine is ensured in that air can be sucked out areally along a plane between the flexible film and the coupling surface during the coupling process and/or with a coupled cassette. A method for coupling the cassette and a method for checking the leaktightness of the cassette via the vacuum control of the air suction is also provided.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2008
    Publication date: December 15, 2011
    Applicant: Fresenius Medical Care Deutschland GmbH
    Inventors: Götz GÜNTHER, Jürgen HÄCKER, Markus KÖHLER, Martin LAUER, Ralf MÜLLER, Hans-Peter SCHNEIDER, Tobias WEBER, Manfred WEIS
  • Patent number: 8056586
    Abstract: The invention relates to a woven fabric comprising warp threads or wires and comprising weft wires, wherein the woven fabric comprises an offset weft wire. The offset is particularly suitable for fastening objects separate from the woven fabric.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 3, 2006
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2011
    Assignee: GKD-Gebr. Kufferath AG
    Inventors: Ingo Kufferath-Kassner, Jakob Sistig, Christoph Kronhagel, Ralf Müller
  • Publication number: 20110239742
    Abstract: The invention relates to an apparatus for treating a medical liquid which includes a treatment machine having a coupling surface and a flexible mat arranged on the coupling surface, with a cassette made of a hard part having liquid-conducting passages which are covered by a flexible film being able to be coupled to the coupling surface of the treatment machine via the flexible mat. In accordance with the invention, the apparatus for making possible the monitoring of a fault-free coupling to the cassette at the coupling surface is made such that a pressure difference of the pressure can be determined between the cassette and the flexible mat and of the pressure between the mat and coupling surface. The invention furthermore relates to a method for the checking of the leak tightness of the aforesaid apparatus.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2009
    Publication date: October 6, 2011
    Inventors: Ralf Müller, Peter Scheunert, Daniel Gerlach
  • Publication number: 20110192904
    Abstract: There is provided a method for detecting a machine-readable code that has been applied onto a mailpiece. An exemplary method comprises checking in at least one area of a surface of the mailpiece whether at least two parallel lines are present in the at least one area of the surface, at least two of the parallel lines being at a distance from each other that corresponds to a module width, at least one of the lines having a width that equals the module width. The exemplary method also comprises detecting modules of a data matrix code, in at least one partial area of the surface that is adjacent to one of the lines, taking into account the detection of the at least two parallel lines, the data matrix code having modules of the module width.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 12, 2008
    Publication date: August 11, 2011
    Applicant: Deutsche Post AG
    Inventors: Bernd Meyer, Jürgen Lang, Gunther Meier, Ralf Müller
  • Publication number: 20110069301
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method and a device for sintering objects by means of time-resolved detection of two- or three-dimensional surface profiles and, optionally, by means of temperature measurement in a high temperature furnace on the basis of optical measurement methods. During sintering, each surface point on an object can be measured for its position and, optionally, its temperature, and a change can be determined by successive measurements. The measured change additionally permits control of the sintering regime. The method comprises the steps of: placing an object 4 into a high temperature furnace 5; heating the furnace 5; generating a two- or three-dimensional surface profile at least of a subregion of the object 4 by: irradiating the object 4 with light from a light source 2a; detecting the light scattered by the object 4 with the aid of a detector 2b; determining the geometric surface profile from the detected light.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 19, 2009
    Publication date: March 24, 2011
    Inventors: Ulrich Marzok, Ralf Müller, Reinhard Schadrack, Michael Krauhausen
  • Patent number: 7845701
    Abstract: The invention concerns a storage compartment for a motor vehicle with a container (110) and a container lid (112), arranged on the container in a pivotal fashion, a pivoted lever (116), arranged on the container lid, a first elastic element (120), whose first end (122) is connected with the container and whose second end (118) is connected with the pivoted lever, so that the first elastic element acts upon the container lid with a closing force and/or a closing torque, a locking element (126), which is mounted in a pivotal fashion, so that, in case of an impact of the motor vehicle, said locking element, due to its mass inertia, will be brought into a locking position for locking the pivoted lever into position, whereby the locking element is mounted in such a way that it is pivotal around the first end of the first elastic element, whereby the first elastic element is a dead center spring, and whereby the dead center spring is embodied in such a way that it exerts the closing force and/or closing torque a
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 4, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2010
    Assignee: Faurecia Innenraum Systeme GmbH
    Inventor: Ralf Müller
  • Publication number: 20100290911
    Abstract: A turbine rotor (1) for a gas turbine with a one-piece compressor housing (11) or a compressor housing (11) which is divided in a first plane, a one-piece turbine housing (12) connected to the compressor housing (11) or a turbine housing (12) which is divided in a second plane different from the first plane comprises a compressor area which includes at least two compressor disks (2.1-2.5) and a turbine area which includes at least one turbine disk (13.1, 13.2). The compressor disks and turbine disks are clamped together by a tie rod arrangement which includes at least one tie rod (6) which has a first fastening area, a second fastening area for clamping at least two compressor disks between the first fastening area and the second fastening area, and a third fastening area for clamping at least one turbine disk.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 3, 2008
    Publication date: November 18, 2010
    Applicant: Man Diesel & Turbo SE
    Inventors: Emil Aschenbruck, Ralf Müller, Michael Blaswich
  • Patent number: 7804267
    Abstract: In a correction method for a microprocessor-controlled digital regulation of a drive motor, wherein the measurement arrangement used for the regulation of the motor is simplified. recognizing that the real value surveying cannot always be implemented periodically by the microprocessor at the requested point in time, making sporadic measurement errors of a simplified measurement arrangement ineffectual, in accordance with the method individual measurement values with a sudden change are read out and correction values are used instead of these for the regulation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 15, 2008
    Date of Patent: September 28, 2010
    Assignee: Francotyp-Postalia GmbH
    Inventor: Ralf Müller
  • Publication number: 20100200486
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an apparatus for treating a medical liquid which includes a treatment machine having a coupling surface, with a cassette made of a hard part having liquid-conducting passages which are covered by a flexible film being able to be coupled to the coupling surface of the treatment machine. The invention furthermore relates to a corresponding medical cassette. In accordance with the invention, an air-free coupling of the flexible film of the cassette to the treatment machine is ensured in that air can be sucked out areally along a plane between the flexible film and the coupling surface during the coupling process and/or with a coupled cassette. The invention equally includes a method for coupling the cassette and a method for checking the leaktightness of the cassette via the vacuum control of the air suction.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 16, 2008
    Publication date: August 12, 2010
    Inventors: Götz Günther, Jürgen Häcker, Markus Köhler, Martin Lauer, Ralf Müller, Han-Peter Schneider, Tobias Weber, Manfred Weis
  • Publication number: 20100179467
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for controlling a system for transporting blood, and a method for transporting blood in a blood line of an extracorporeal blood circuit of an extracorporeal blood treatment system. The present invention also relates to an extracorporeal blood treatment device comprising such a system for transporting blood. The method and device according to the present invention are based on the fact that a defined threshold value for the pressure in the blood line should not be exceeded. The system for transporting blood is controlled in such a way the blood in the blood line is transported in a pre-determined volume flow as long as the pressure in the blood line is below the pre-determined threshold value. When the pressure in the blood line reaches the pre-defined threshold value, however, the system for transporting blood is controlled such that a pressure value corresponding to the threshold value is set when the blood is transported in the blood line.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 31, 2008
    Publication date: July 15, 2010
    Inventors: Götz Günther, Michael Herrenbauer, Martin Lauer, Ralf Müller
  • Patent number: 7744676
    Abstract: In a TSA process of an at least two-component raw gas, to adjust for fluctuation in load, the cycle time of at least one method step is extended in the event of falling below the design load value.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 8, 2007
    Date of Patent: June 29, 2010
    Assignee: Linde Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Werner Leitmayr, Ralf Müller
  • Publication number: 20100133341
    Abstract: There is provided a method for detecting a machine-readable code that has been applied onto a mailpiece in a selected area of a surface of the mailpiece, whereby the selected area is at least 1 cm away from at least one nearby edge area of the mailpiece. An exemplary method comprises checking for the presence of at least two parallel lines in the selected area. The exemplary method also comprises beginning a detection of modules of the machine-readable code comprising a data-matrix code at a predefinable distance from one of the lines.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 14, 2008
    Publication date: June 3, 2010
    Applicant: Deutsche Post AG
    Inventors: Bernd Meyer, Jürgen Lang, Gunther Meier, Ralf Müller
  • Publication number: 20100032069
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a puncture-proof tyre assembly in which a sealant of a rubber or another rubber-like material is pressed against the tread of the tyre assembly such that there is a higher pressure in this sealant chamber than in the air chamber, and the sealant comprising at least one filler, as well as to a method for producing this tyre assembly and to the use of aqueous gels in producing these puncture-proof tyre assemblies.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2006
    Publication date: February 11, 2010
    Inventor: Ralf Müller