Patents by Inventor Thomas Baumann

Thomas Baumann 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: 9926222
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an insulation material for a conductor bar of an electric machine. An object of the invention is to provide for an alternative insulation material in the field of electric machines. The object is solved by an insulation material for a conductor bar for an electric machine comprising glass-ceramic flakes made from a heat treated silica glass precursor in the shape of flakes. Further disclosed are a corresponding method and the use of glass-ceramic flakes as an insulation material for a conductor bar of an electric machine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2018
    Assignee: General Electric Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Hillmer, Paul Howard, Iwona Szkoda-Giannaki, Thomas Baumann
  • Patent number: 9917265
    Abstract: The embodiments of the invention relate to copper(I) complexes of the formula A where X* is Cl, Br, I, CN, SCN, alkinyl and/or N3 (independently of one another), N*?E is a bidentate ligand with E being a phosphanyl/arsenyl group of the form R2E (in which R=alkyl, aryl, alkoxyl, phenoxyl, or amide), N* is an imine-function, which is a component of an N-heteroaromatic 5-membered ring that is selected from the group consisting of pyrazole, isoxazole, isothiazole, triazole, oxadiazole, thiadiazole, tetrazole, oxatriazole or thiatriazole, and “?” is at least one carbon atom, which is likewise a component of the aromatic group, the carbon atom being located directly adjacent both to the imine nitrogen atom as well as to the phosphorus or arsenic atom. The copper(I) complexes may be used in optoelectronic components, particularly in organic light emitting diodes (OLEDs).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 29, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 13, 2018
    Assignee: CYNORA GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Baumann, Tobias Grab, Daniel Zink
  • Patent number: 9843280
    Abstract: A motor control system is provided for field-oriented control of an electric motor for driving a vehicle. The motor control system includes a current setpoint creator, which is designed to receive a torque setpoint as an input signal and to output a torque-creating current setpoint and at least one field-creating current setpoint as output signals in order to control the electric motor in a field-oriented manner. An exceptional situation detection device detects a present torque setpoint, calculates a change based on the present torque setpoint and an earlier torque setpoint, and detects an exceptional situation if the magnitude of the change exceeds a specified threshold value. The motor control system is designed to adapt the torque-creating current setpoint based on the present torque setpoint when the exceptional situation is detected, thereby bypassing the current setpoint creator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 4, 2013
    Date of Patent: December 12, 2017
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventor: Thomas Baumann
  • Patent number: 9766055
    Abstract: A method for sensorless control of a separately excited synchronous machine having a rotor includes the following steps: feeding a test signal on a parameter of an electrical current driving the rotor; measuring the parameter of the electrical current driving the rotor on an axis of the coordinate system describing the synchronous machine; determining an error signal by correlating the measured parameter of the electrical current driving the rotor with a temporally delayed test signal which is determined from the fed test signal; and adjusting a rotor angle as a reaction to the error signal if the error signal has a value not equal to zero.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 27, 2013
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2017
    Assignee: CONTINENTAL AUTOMOTIVE GMBH
    Inventor: Thomas Baumann
  • Publication number: 20170250363
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a light-emitting layer B comprising a first emitter compound (a) having a non-exited state S0(a), a first excited singlet state S1(a) and a first excited triplet state T1(a); a second emitter compound (b) having a non-exited state S0(b), a first excited singlet state S1(b) and a first excited triplet state T1(b), wherein the energy level of S1(a) is higher than that of S1(b), the energy level of S1(b) is higher than that of T1(b) and wherein the rate of reverse intersystem crossing from T1(a) to S1(a) is higher than the rate of excition energy transfer from S1(a) to S1(b) and/or the rate of excition energy transfer from T1(a) to T1(b), and/or wherein the energy level of T1(b) is higher than that of T1(a). Further, the present invention also refers to an opto-electronic device comprising such light-emitting layer B and use thereof.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 7, 2015
    Publication date: August 31, 2017
    Applicant: CYNORA GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas BAUMANN, Mathias MYDLAK, Harald FLUGGE, Charlotte FLECHON, Georgios LIAPTSIS
  • Publication number: 20170198914
    Abstract: A burner head for a burner defines a burner longitudinal axis along which the burner extends. The burner head includes a base body and at least one oxidant duct defining a duct longitudinal axis. The oxidant duct is arranged in the base body at a radial spacing to the burner longitudinal axis. A fuel duct body is inserted into the oxidant duct and at least one fuel nozzle is configured on the fuel duct body so as to open into the oxidant duct.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 27, 2017
    Publication date: July 13, 2017
    Inventors: Thomas Baumann, Axel Widenhorn
  • Patent number: 9683404
    Abstract: A spacer for insulating glass panes has a profile body having a cross section having first and second side walls, an inner wall and an outer wall, forming a closed hollow profile, wherein first and second filamentary reinforcing elements are arranged in the inner wall, the first primary reinforcing element being arranged in a first portion of the cross section in which the inner wall adjoins the first side wall, and the second reinforcing element being arranged in a second portion of the cross section in which the inner wall adjoins the second side wall, the first and second primary reinforcing elements being arranged, as regards their cross sectional surfaces, at most approximately 50% in the first and/or in the second side wall, and such that spacing between the centroids of the cross sectional surfaces of these reinforcing elements is approximately 40% or more of spacing between the side walls.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2014
    Date of Patent: June 20, 2017
    Assignee: ENSINGER GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Baumann, Marc Rehling
  • Patent number: 9656553
    Abstract: A switching device for an electrically driven vehicle, in particular a track vehicle, has a switch unit that is provided for respectively connecting and disconnecting a vehicle drive unit to and from an electrical supply line carrying high voltage and has at least two switch contacts. A drive unit is provided for driving a relative movement of the switch contacts with respect to one another. A housing unit receives the switch unit and the drive unit. The housing unit contains a support for supporting at least the switch unit. In order to provide a generic switch device for which a compact construction can be achieved, the switch unit is arranged in a lying position relative to the support.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 5, 2012
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2017
    Assignees: Siemens Aktiengesellschaft, Richard AG
    Inventors: Thomas Baumann, Dieter Hofer
  • Publication number: 20170101337
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an insulation material for a conductor bar of an electric machine. An object of the invention is to provide for an alternative insulation material in the field of electric machines. The object is solved by an insulation material for a conductor bar for an electric machine comprising glass-ceramic flakes made from a heat treated silica glass precursor in the shape of flakes.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 10, 2015
    Publication date: April 13, 2017
    Applicant: General Electric Technology GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas HILLMER, Paul HOWARD, Iwona SZKODA-GIANNAKI, Thomas BAUMANN
  • Publication number: 20170044962
    Abstract: In order to determine the conversion efficiency of at least one component of a catalytic converter box comprising at least one SCR catalytic converter and an oxides of nitrogen storage catalytic converter for the aftertreatment of the exhaust gases of an internal combustion engine, wherein the catalytic converter box is associated at the downstream end with a NOx sensor, at least for a limited period of time the internal combustion engine is operated such that a first of the two components does not affect the signal detected by means of the NOx sensor and the conversion efficiency of the second component is determined depending on the signal of the NOx sensor that is not affected by the first component.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 15, 2016
    Publication date: February 16, 2017
    Inventors: Frank Keller, Peter Hohner, Stefanos Tzivanakis, Thomas Baumann
  • Publication number: 20170025914
    Abstract: The present disclosure relates to an insulated conductor bar, a use of a certain material for manufacturing an insulated conductor bar, and to a method for impregnating an insulated conductor bar. An object of the invention is to provide an alternative impregnation of a conductor bar for an electric machine. The invention discloses an insulated conductor bar for an electric machine having an insulation from a tape made from mica material, mica material on a glass fabric, or mica material on a polyester film, whereas a thermoplastic material is applied to the mica material or the mica material on a glass fabric.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 31, 2015
    Publication date: January 26, 2017
    Inventors: Thomas BAUMANN, Thomas HILLMER
  • Patent number: 9530974
    Abstract: The invention relates to an optoelectronic component having a copper(I) complex of the formula: wherein X is independently selected from Cl, Br and I; N*?E or E?N* is a bidentate ligand connected to a first Cu atom via an N atom and connected to a second Cu atom via an E group, or a monodentate ligand connected to a Cu atom via an E group, wherein E is R2As or R2P, wherein R is selected from alkyl, aryl, alkoxy, and phenoxy; N* is a part of an aromatic group comprising an imine functional group, wherein the aromatic group is selected from pyridyl, pyrimidyl, pyridazinyl, triazinyl, oxazolyl, thiazolyl, imidazolyl, and fused N-heteroaromatics, and wherein the imine functional group comprises the N atom double bonded to a carbon atom of the aromatic group; and ? is a carbon atom, which is likewise part of the aromatic group, connected to the N atom of said aromatic group and also connected to the E group via the As or P atom of the E group.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2014
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2016
    Assignee: CYNORA GMBH
    Inventors: Hartmut Yersin, Uwe Monkowius, Tobias Fischer, Thomas Hofbeck, Thomas Baumann, Tobias Grab
  • Patent number: 9490431
    Abstract: The invention relates to copper(I) complexes of the formula A, in which X*?Cl, Br, I, CN and/or SCN (i.e. independently of one another); N*?E=a bidentate ligand where E=phosphanyl/arsenyl group of the R2E form (where R=alkyl, aryl, alkoxyl, phenoxyl, or amide); N*=imine function, which is part of a N-heteroaromatic 5- or 6-membered ring, which is chosen from the group consisting of oxazole, imidazole, thiazole, isoxazole, isothiazole, pyrazole, 1,2,3-triazole, 1,2,3-oxadiazole, 1,2,5-oxadiazole, 1,2,3-thiadiazole and 1,2,5-thiadiazole, pyridine, pyrimidine, triazine, pyrazine and pyridazine; and “?”=at least one carbon atom, which is likewise part of the aromatic group, wherein the carbon atom is directly adjacent to both the imine nitrogen atom and to the phosphorous or arsenic atom.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 14, 2012
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2016
    Assignee: CYNORA GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Baumann, Tobias Grab, Daniel Zink
  • Patent number: 9447245
    Abstract: The invention relates to the preparation of an organic transition metal complex cross-linked into a multi-dimensional network, comprising the performance of a first reaction, which comprises a first reactant in the form of an organic metal complex and a second reactant for the formation of a multi-dimensional network, where the organic metal complex is cross-linked to form the multi-dimensional-network during the reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: CYNORA GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Baumann, Tobias Grab, Michael Bächle, Daniel Volz
  • Patent number: 9447246
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for covalently bonding an organic metal complex to a polymeric matrix. The method comprises the performance of a first reaction, which comprises a first reactant in the form of an organic metal complex and a second reactant in the form of a polymer, where during the reaction the metal complex is covalently bound to the polymer. According to the invention, the metal complex catalyzes the reaction.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2016
    Assignee: CYNORA GMBH
    Inventors: Daniel Volz, Tobias Grab, Thomas Baumann, Michael Bächle
  • Patent number: 9376976
    Abstract: The invention relates to a method for operating a drive device (1), which for the purpose of providing a driving torque comprises an internal combustion engine having a plurality of cylinders (10, 11, 12, 13) that, during normal operation, supply a respective torque contribution, and at least one electric motor (3) operatively connected to said engine. To this end, in a diagnostic mode a cylinder-selective measurement of at least one characteristic operating variable is carried out, for which purpose in the diagnostic mode only the cylinder (10, 11, 12, 13) to be measured is operated and the torque contributions of the remaining cylinders (10, 11, 12, 13) are simulated by the electric motor (3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 16, 2012
    Date of Patent: June 28, 2016
    Assignee: Robert Bosch GmbH
    Inventors: Thomas Baumann, Udo Schulz
  • Publication number: 20160160354
    Abstract: A method and a turbine part having a coating with a matrix layer that includes a high temperature resistant hydrophobic polysiloxane filler, wherein the coating has superior mechanical strength and temperature resistance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 18, 2016
    Publication date: June 9, 2016
    Applicant: ALSTOM Technology Ltd
    Inventors: Thomas WIDMER, Sven OLLIGES, Alexander STANKOWSKI, Piero-Daniele GRASSO, Mauro MELAS, Thomas BAUMANN
  • Patent number: 9266906
    Abstract: Copper(I) complexes for the emission of light with a structure according to formula A: wherein: M is Cu(I); L-B-L: a neutral, bidentate ligand, Z4-Z7: includes N or the fragment CR, with R=organic group, selected from the group consisting of: hydrogen, halogen or deuterium or groups which are bound via oxygen (—OR??), nitrogen (—NR??2), or phosphorous atoms (PR??2) as well as alkyl, aryl, heteroaryl, alkenyl, alkinyl, trialkylsilyl and triarylsilyl groups or substituted alkyl, aryl, heteroaryl and alkenyl groups with substituents such as halogens or deuterium or lower alkyl groups; X is either CR??2 or NR??; Y is either O, S or NR??; Z8 includes the fragment CR?, with R?=O*R??, N*R??2 or P*R??2, wherein the bond to the Cu atom is carried out via these groups; R? is a sterically demanding substituent, which inhibits a change in geometry in direction to planarization of the complex in excited state, R??=organic group which is selected from the group consisting of: hydrogen, halogen or deuterium, as well
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 9, 2012
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2016
    Assignee: CYNORA GMBH
    Inventors: Thomas Baumann, Tobias Grab, Larissa Bergmann
  • Patent number: 9257878
    Abstract: An arrangement includes conducting bar ends connected together and a cap) covering them filled with a putty. The cap is made of a resin containing a high thermal conductivity filler. The putty is a silicone elastomer containing a high thermal conductivity filler.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 14, 2011
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2016
    Assignee: ALSTOM TECHNOLOGY LTD.
    Inventors: Alexander Anderton, Thomas Baumann, Massimiliano Vezzoli, Thomas Hillmer, Stephan Mueller, Konstantinos Ballos, Mostafa Sadeghi, Dieter Stoll, Hossein Safari Zadeh
  • Patent number: 9246374
    Abstract: A method is for impregnating a high voltage insulation of a winding bar (10), the winding bar (10) having a conductive bar (1) around which layers of insulating mica tape defining said high voltage insulation are wrapped. The method includes enclosing the winding bar (10) in a flexible sleeve (3), applying a vacuum in the flexible sleeve (3) to extract the gases contained in the insulating mica tape, supplying an impregnating resin into the flexible sleeve (3) to impregnate the mica tape (2), and curing the resin. The impregnating resin is supplied into the flexible sleeve (3) at a pressure less than 1.5 bar.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 17, 2010
    Date of Patent: January 26, 2016
    Assignee: ALSTOM RENEWABLE TECHNOLOGIES
    Inventors: Thomas Baumann, Massimiliano Vezzoli