Patents by Inventor Stefan Beckmann

Stefan Beckmann 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: 20240101657
    Abstract: The present invention relates to anti-VEGF/anti-IL-1beta antibodies and methods of using the same.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 15, 2023
    Publication date: March 28, 2024
    Applicant: Hoffmann-La Roche Inc.
    Inventors: ROLAND BECKMANN, JOERG BENZ, STEFAN DENGL, CHRISTIAN GASSNER, GUIDO HARTMANN, PETER MICHAEL HUELSMANN, SABINE IMHOF-JUNG, KRISTIAN HOBOLT JENSEN, HUBERT KETTENBERGER, STEFAN LORENZ, JOERG MOELLEKEN, OLAF MUNDIGL
  • Publication number: 20190156666
    Abstract: A driver assistance system for a vehicle uses sensor data, which are provided from monitoring of the environment of the vehicle. The driver assistance system has a processing unit for processing the sensor data and a display device for displaying the processed sensor data. The environment of the vehicle is displayed as a light strip using the display device. Furthermore, an object in the environment of the vehicle is represented by a section on the light strip, wherein the section has a first light characteristic.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 23, 2019
    Inventors: Stefan BECKMANN, Daniel BETZ, Stefan BÖHLER, Joseph FAGAN, Michele Domenico JAUCH-PAGANETTI, Frederic LATINO, Christian PECHER, Marco PLEWE, Klaus ROGGE, Francesca SANGALLI, Vera SCHMIDT, Daniel Steffen SETZ
  • Patent number: 9778094
    Abstract: A dynamic scale to achieves a higher throughput, by at least one of a spring steel sheet being installed in the travel direction of the first shaft of the first transport belt, and/or the control of the motors as well as the transmission of the sensor signals taking place via ribbon cables which are arranged parallel to the transport belts, and/or an electronic evaluation of interference oscillations of the signals of the sensors of the weighing cell takes place, within at least one lowpass filter being used, and wherein at least two digital notch filters are used.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Date of Patent: October 3, 2017
    Assignee: Francotyp-Postalia GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Geserich, Stefan Beckmann, Andreas Blume, Karsten van der Waydbrink
  • Patent number: 9327508
    Abstract: A printing apparatus has a cartridge carrier and with a locking-and-ejection mechanism. The cartridge carrier has a cavity for insertion of an ink cartridge, and the locking-and-ejection mechanism is arranged on an outside of a side part of a cartridge carrier. This locking-and-ejection mechanism has a locking mechanism with a locking lever biased by a spring force produced by a first spring. The locking lever can be tilted around a rotation axis situated on the outside of the side part. The locking-and-ejection mechanism also has an ejection mechanism with a lifting plate biased by a spring force produced at least by a second spring. The lifting plate is rotatable on the outside of the side part, and the rotation axis of the lifting plate is stationary on the outside of the side part. The locking lever has a first locking mechanism and a second locking mechanism to the lock the first locking mechanism, and an actuator is operable to unlock the locking of the second locking mechanism.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2016
    Assignee: Francotyp-Postalia GmbH
    Inventors: Wolfgang Muhl, Stefan Beckmann
  • Publication number: 20160018251
    Abstract: A dynamic scale to achieves a higher throughput, by at least one of a spring steel sheet being installed in the travel direction of the first shaft of the first transport belt, and/or the control of the motors as well as the transmission of the sensor signals taking place via ribbon cables which are arranged parallel to the transport belts, and/or an electronic evaluation of interference oscillations of the signals of the sensors of the weighing cell takes place, within at least one lowpass filter being used, and wherein at least two digital notch filters are used.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 8, 2015
    Publication date: January 21, 2016
    Applicant: FRANCOTYP POSTALIA GMBH
    Inventors: Frank Geserich, Stefan Beckmann, Andreas Blume, Karsten van der Waydbrink
  • Publication number: 20150266301
    Abstract: A printing apparatus has a cartridge carrier and with a locking-and-ejection mechanism. The cartridge carrier has a cavity for insertion of an ink cartridge, and the locking-and-ejection mechanism is arranged on an outside of a side part of a cartridge carrier. This locking-and-ejection mechanism has a locking mechanism with a locking lever biased by a spring force produced by a first spring. The locking lever can be tilted around a rotation axis situated on the outside of the side part. The locking-and-ejection mechanism also has an ejection mechanism with a lifting plate biased by a spring force produced at least by a second spring. The lifting plate is rotatable on the outside of the side part, and the rotation axis of the lifting plate is stationary on the outside of the side part. The locking lever has a first locking mechanism and a second locking mechanism to the lock the first locking mechanism, and an actuator is operable to unlock the locking of the second locking mechanism.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 24, 2015
    Publication date: September 24, 2015
    Inventors: Wolfgang Muhl, Stefan Beckmann
  • Patent number: 9102140
    Abstract: A printing apparatus has an ink printing device onto which a flat item being transported om the x-direction for printing thereon is pressed by a contact pressure device, wherein the base of the contact pressure device has a contact pressure body floor plate biased by a spring force. A notch at the edge of the contact pressure body floor plate extends further in the contact pressure body in the z-direction, up to the ink printing device. An additional contact pressure device for strip-shaped printing substrates has a contact pressure element designed so as to be movable separate from the contact pressure body, and biased with a spring force of an additional spring or resiliently elastic element. The contact pressure element is arranged so as to be movable in the notch. A sensor for print triggering is arranged at a front wall of a lower housing shell of the printing apparatus and has a sensor region that is adjacent to the separate contact pressure element in the insertion direction y of a box-shaped module.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Date of Patent: August 11, 2015
    Assignee: Francotyp-Postalia GmbH
    Inventors: Stefan Beckmann, Wolfgang Muhl
  • Publication number: 20150158290
    Abstract: A printing apparatus has an ink printing device onto which a flat item being transported om the x-direction for printing thereon is pressed by a contact pressure device, wherein the base of the contact pressure device has a contact pressure body floor plate biased by a spring force. A notch at the edge of the contact pressure body floor plate extends further in the contact pressure body in the z-direction, up to the ink printing device. An additional contact pressure device for strip-shaped printing substrates has a contact pressure element designed so as to be movable separate from the contact pressure body, and biased with a spring force of an additional spring or resiliently elastic element. The contact pressure element is arranged so as to be movable in the notch. A sensor for print triggering is arranged at a front wall of a lower housing shell of the printing apparatus and has a sensor region that is adjacent to the separate contact pressure element in the insertion direction y of a box-shaped module.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2014
    Publication date: June 11, 2015
    Inventors: Stefan Beckmann, Wolfgang Muhl
  • Patent number: 8936281
    Abstract: The press fitting for a tube, particularly for a plastic tube or a plastic/metal compound tube, comprises a fitting body (12) including a support shell (14) for mounting thereon one end of a tube (20) which is to be connected, a press shell (16) which is plastically deformable for pressing against the support shell (14) the end of a tube (20) to be connected that has been mounted on the support shell (14), an abutment element (30) arranged on the press shell (16) and having an abutment face (34) to be abutted by a pressing tool (26) for plastically deforming the press shell (16), and at least one press indication portion (40) projecting from the abutment face (34) of the abutment element (30) and extending externally on the press shell (16) into an acting region (38) within which the pressing tool (26) encloses the press shell (16) during deformation of the press shell (16), the press indication portion (40) being separable from the abutment element (30) by means of the pressing tool (26) during the deformati
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 25, 2008
    Date of Patent: January 20, 2015
    Assignee: Uponor Innovation Ab
    Inventors: Stefan Beckmann, Thomas Kern, Rainer Dittmar
  • Patent number: 8702090
    Abstract: A modular placement device for a feed station of a mail processing apparatus, wherein the feed station includes an ejection roller, has a housing that is separate for the modular placement device located upstream, in terms of the mail flow, of the feed station. The housing has a cavity therein to receive a stack of mail items, and a pressure element mounted so as to be pivotable and so as to be plugged into the cavity. The pressure element exerts a pressure force on the stack of mail items in the cavity, with a bottommost item of mail being pressed against the ejection roller so that the bottommost item of mail is propelled in the mail flow direction. The weight loss of the stack due to removal of the bottommost item of mail therefrom is counteracted by the pressure element.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Date of Patent: April 22, 2014
    Assignee: Francotyp-Postalia GmbH
    Inventors: Frank Geserich, Stefan Beckmann
  • Publication number: 20130106048
    Abstract: A modular placement device for a feed station of a mail processing apparatus, wherein the feed station includes an ejection roller, has a housing that is separate for the modular placement device located upstream, in terms of the mail flow, of the feed station. The housing has a cavity therein to receive a stack of mail items, and a pressure element mounted so as to be pivotable and so as to be plugged into the cavity. The pressure element exerts a pressure force on the stack of mail items in the cavity, with a bottommost item of mail being pressed against the ejection roller so that the bottommost item of mail is propelled in the mail flow direction. The weight loss of the stack due to removal of the bottommost item of mail therefrom is counteracted by the pressure element.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 22, 2012
    Publication date: May 2, 2013
    Inventors: Frank Geserich, Stefan Beckmann
  • Publication number: 20090026764
    Abstract: The press fitting for a tube, particularly for a plastic tube or a plastic/metal compound tube, comprises a fitting body (12) including a support shell (14) for mounting thereon one end of a tube (20) which is to be connected, a press shell (16) which is plastically deformable for pressing against the support shell (14) the end of a tube (20) to be connected that has been mounted on the support shell (14), an abutment element (30) arranged on the press shell (16) and having an abutment face (34) to be abutted by a pressing tool (26) for plastically deforming the press shell (16), and at least one press indication portion (40) projecting from the abutment face (34) of the abutment element (30) and extending externally on the press shell (16) into an acting region (38) within which the pressing tool (26) encloses the press shell (16) during deformation of the press shell (16), said press indication portion (40) being separable from the abutment element (30) by means of the pressing tool (26) during the deformat
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 25, 2008
    Publication date: January 29, 2009
    Inventors: Stefan Beckmann, Thomas Kern, Rainer Dittmar
  • Patent number: 6617470
    Abstract: In a process for esterifying (meth)acrylic acid with an alkanol in the presence of an esterification catalyst, in which unconverted starting compounds and (meth)acrylic ester to be formed are separated off by distillation and an oxyester-containing bottom product is formed, the bottom product is first separated off and then the oxyesters contained in it are cleaved in the presence of a relatively long-chain alkylbenzenesulfonic acid at elevated temperatures.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 11, 2001
    Date of Patent: September 9, 2003
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Heinrich Aichinger, Holger Herbst, Gerhard Nestler, Jürgen Schröder, Stefan Beckmann
  • Patent number: 6086637
    Abstract: Indoleninemethine dyes of the formula ##STR1## where the ring A is substituted or unsubstituted, R.sup.1 is hydrogen, substituted or unsubstituted C.sub.1 -C.sub.13 -alkyl, C.sub.3 -C.sub.4 -alkenyl, C.sub.5 -C.sub.7 -cycloalkyl or substituted or unsubstituted phenyl, andR.sup.2 is substituted or unsubstituted C.sub.1 -C.sub.13 -alkyl, C.sub.3 -C.sub.4 -alkenyl, substituted or unsubstituted phenyl or substituted or unsubstituted amino,are useful for dyeing or printing synthetic materials and can be thermally transferred.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 19, 1999
    Date of Patent: July 11, 2000
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Clemens Grund, Helmut Reichelt, Andreas Johann Schmidt, Frank Wurthner, Rudiger Sens, Stefan Beckmann
  • Patent number: 5892046
    Abstract: The present invention relates to trifluoromethylpyridone-based methine and azamethine dyes of the formula I ##STR1## a process for their thermal transfer, a process for dyeing or printing synthetic materials and their use.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 24, 1997
    Date of Patent: April 6, 1999
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Clemens Grund, Helmut Reichelt, Andreas Johann Schmidt, Stefan Beckmann
  • Patent number: 5811370
    Abstract: Azamethine dyes of the formula ##STR1## where W is oxygen, sulfur or a radical of the formula --NH--CO--, --NH--COO-- oder --NH--SO.sub.2 --,Z.sup.1 is C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl with or without substitution, phenyl or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkoxy,Z.sup.2 and Z.sup.3 are each hydrogen or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl with or without substitution, provided --CZ.sup.1 Z.sup.2 Z.sup.3 is not linear and is not isopropyl,Z.sup.4 is hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkoxy,Z.sup.5 and Z.sup.6 are each C.sub.1 -C.sub.10 -alkyl with or without substitution, C.sub.3 -C.sub.4 -alkenyl, C.sub.5 -C.sub.7 -cycloalkyl, phenyl or tolyl, or together with the nitrogen atom joining them together a heterocyclic radical or Z.sup.4 and Z.sup.5 are together a bridge member, andT is a radical of a cyclic acidic--CH compound H.sub.2 T,are useful for thermal transfer.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 1997
    Date of Patent: September 22, 1998
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Rudiger Sens, Andreas Johann Schmidt, Stefan Beckmann, Karl-Heinz Etzbach
  • Patent number: 5783649
    Abstract: Polymerizable azo dyes I ##STR1## in which R.sup.1 is an aryl group,R.sup.2 is cyano, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkoxycarbonyl or nitro,R.sup.3 and R.sup.4 are hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 -alkyl or C.sub.1 -C.sub.6 -alkoxy,R.sup.5 is hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.12 -alkyl, C.sub.5 -C.sub.7 -cycloalkyl or C.sub.3 -C.sub.4 -alkenyl,R.sup.6 is hydrogen or methyl,Y is C.sub.2 -C.sub.10 -alkylene which can be interrupted by 1 to 3 nonadjacent oxygen atoms or imino or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkylimino groups, andW is oxygen, imino or C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyliminoare used to prepare copolymers which show nonlinear-optical properties.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 10, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 21, 1998
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stefan Beckmann, Karl-Heinz Etzbach, Rudiger Sens
  • Patent number: 5777089
    Abstract: Phenol derivatives of the general formula I ##STR1## where R.sup.1, R.sup.2, R.sup.3, X, Y and Z have the meanings stated in the description, are used in particular in nonlinear optics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 1996
    Date of Patent: July 7, 1998
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stefan Beckmann, Karl-Heinz Etzbach, Rudiger Sens
  • Patent number: 5756753
    Abstract: Naphthalene derivatives of the formula ##STR1## where the rings A and B may be benzofused,X is nitrogen or a radical of the formula CH or CH.dbd.CH--CH,Z is a heterocyclic radical or additionally, when x is CH.dbd.CH--CH, a 5- or 6-membered aromatic carbocyclic radical, andR.sup.1, R.sup.2 and R.sup.3 are hydrogen, C.sub.1 -C.sub.4 -alkyl or C.sub.5 -C.sub.7 -cycloalkyl, are useful in nonlinear optics.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 24, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1998
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Stefan Beckmann, Karl-Heinz Etzbach, Rudiger Sens
  • Patent number: 5756807
    Abstract: A process for preparing alkyl cyanoacetates of the general formula I ##STR1## where R is an n-valent aliphatic radical which has 6 to 20 carbon atoms and whose carbon framework can be interrupted by one to three oxygen atoms in ether functionality, and n is a number from 1 to 6, by reacting cyanoacetic acid in aqueous medium with an alcohol R(OH).sub.n, where the esterification is carried out in the presence of an inert entrainer and, during the reaction, water and entrainer are distilled out.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 21, 1996
    Date of Patent: May 26, 1998
    Assignee: BASF Aktiengesellschaft
    Inventors: Clemens Grund, Martin Holderbaum, Helmut Reichelt, Stefan Beckmann